he is talking about let s make peace with everybody else and go after these guys. let s attack the apaches and end these raids on new mexico and other spanish settlements. what makes it so difficult to defend new mexico and other spanish settlements? what is the strategic difficulty? sam? it is a big place. it is a large colony. it is thinly settled, so it is not densely populated. you have a large area with a lot of outlying ranches and small villages. what is the great danger for a spanish ranch in the 1750 s? yeah. go ahead. the apaches could burn your house, do a little dance, and leave before anyone realized what was happening. exactly. the spanish cannot keep a military force at every ranch in new mexico. they have all these dispersed settlements. all of these are highly vulnerable. the apaches are mobile. they can attack in outlying settlement and the spanish cannot do much about it. on page 308, he talks about the people of new mexico. because of extreme poverty
they were a love story if one ever was and absolutely devoted to each other. elizabeth monroe had a very well-developed sense of style and image, and her jewelry is a reflection of that. this is a woman who knew how to carry herself with great elegance. she always warranted your respect. it was one of the most splendid white houses that ever existed. it was called the era of good feeling. this is a woman who spoke french, and my goodness, what she could talk about. elizabeth was a very great beauty, described in one letter as a rose petal beauty, but mrs. monroe received very seldom anything at the white house. she was a recluse, absolutely hated it. hospitality, decorum, dignity, civility those are the civility, those are the words that come to mind. elizabeth monroe served as first lady for her husband james monroe from 1817 to 1825, during a time known as the era of good feelings. coming up, we ll explore her life and what were not always happy times in
with what crime and policing is like in your community. if you live in an urban area, dial in at host: you can also join the conversation via twitter, facebook or sent us an email. phone lines are open. we want to know what crime and policing is like in your community and what sort of reforms, if any, you want to see. here s the baltimore sun this morning front page courtesy of them. mayor stephanie rawlings blake asked ooh full-scale civil rights investigation into the practices of the baltimore police department it would exam excessive force discriminatory harassment and false arrests and unlayoffal unlawful actions. justice department said they received it. this is after loretta lynch the attorney general went to baltimore and met with the mayor and other officials in that community and now the mayor asking for a full probe of the city s police. this after a jack young and 10 members of the city county critical asked for a full-scale investigation. all are democrats.
robert caro has appeared on q&a and is also appeared through the national book festival in september. house of stone, you remembered that anthony shadid died in syria while covering syria for the washington post. his wife will be here representing him and that is not a lottery. katherine boo has been nominated in the nonfiction category, behind a beautiful forevers about a slum in mumbai india and finally anne applebaum has been nominated for iron curtain. that book is just out and she is scheduled to appear under q&a and show in december, so you will be able to see her as well and robert caro will be interviewing those others as we go and we will be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their pictures taken that right now we want to talk to the chairman of the national book foundation and this is david steinberger. david steinberger is the head of the perseus book group. if you would, tell us for those who don t know what is the national book award? th
wallflowers. people that are going to get run over. in order to be successful, conventional wisdom says you have to be assertive, bold, even putting yourself out there, self-promoting. i think humility countermand that. it councils a different disposition and attitude. define it. utility is an honest examination of oneself. you can admit you are imperfect, your imperfections, and think about how one might put others first in thought, word and deed. it is the opposite of self-aggrandizement. what if you examine yourself and conclude you are terrific? muhamed ali said it is hard to be humble when you are as great as i am. i think there is a lot of that kind of mentality. it can t be a real self-examination. if anybody is honest with themselves, they know they make mistakes. they are imperfect. the tendency is to gloss over those things, to think that one can just get by, that one s mistakes don t have to be admitted. that you don t have to change your ways. i think the