Michael korda, former editorinchief of simon shuster. His latest book is called alone britain, churchill, and dunkirk defeat into victory. Thats where the title comes from, its necessary for years, its necessary alone. And alone is precisely the point. The british got the army off but as churchill said, we got the men but they have to leave their luggage. They got off, most without their rifles because they were ordered to throw them overboard by the naval officers and most without the boots, but we got off 2,000 men of the british core of the army without which we could defend ourselves. We could not have resisted the germans had they invaded without them. Rose continue with nancy koehn, historian at the Harvard Business school, her latest book is called forged in crisis the power of courageous leadership in turbulent times. I was in the midst of a great crises when i started on lincoln. I got ill, had cancer a couple of times, my husband walked out on me, my father dropped dead, so p
Hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a question . Do you have a question, sir . Thank you. Just a question about the Montgomery County Library System which is really important here. Since one out of three people here were born in another country, here in gaithersburg and a few others called the english conversation club, ive been with it for about ten years where we teach immigrants english, we help them learn the culture, help them, you know, get a drivers license, help many of them become citizens. And recently were talking about technology, i started broadcasting our meetings live on facebook live, and weve had thousands of people around the world watching the meetings from the Montgomery County library. Thank you. Gentleman in the back. I just wanted to say one of the best things about living in Montgomery County is the great Library System and the great Staff Members they have there. How with libraries offering an everexpanding variety
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How much you want them to ensure that we can continue to get Library Services and please, when we put out a call that we need your support, please do so. We dont have money for pacs, we dont have a lot of money, we are not wealthy people. So we depend on what you call grassroots and that is normal people picking up the phone or emailing their member of congress or their senator or their governor and saying we want you to support libraries. The mayor, the governor, the United States Congress Needs to know that and respect that and make sure that that happens going forward. And that a takes hundreds and thousands of calls from people like you. I couldnt have said it better. What a great point. We have, i think, time for maybe a question or two. Does anybody in the audience have a question . If not, i will go on. Its not a question, but i wanted to thank you very much for your comment about dr. Carla hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a ques
Wondered what would happen, was a very positive experience. What about boston at that sometime. Yes. Boston was mixed. By and large, going to boston i had read about paul revere and his ride some lexington and the concord battles and the Boston Tea Party and also crispus attus was the first black to die in the revolutionary war. So i went to see the memorial for hem on the boston common. So i soaked up the hoyt the history of boston, so very positive. So my experience in boston really was very positive, but later in the late 50s the year i entered medical school was the year brown versus board of occasion, the Supreme Court decision, and so as this was implemented around the country, problems of not only in the south but in the north as well. And boston was one of those areas. So, my experience in boston was somewhat different from blacks who went to boston in the late 50s. They found with the political shenanigans of hicks i still remember him from south boston, running to be mayor, b