Or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. And now from the 2015 roosevelt reading festival, Molly Guptill manning discusses her book, when books went to war the stories that helped us win world war ii. And now it is my pleasure to introduce our author for this session, Molly Manning. She will be discussing her new book, when books went to war the stories that helped us win world war ii. Molly manning grew up in new york north of albany, so welcome back to the Hudson River Valley to you. She graduatedfy bay a that capita from if fy beta cap kappa. A graduate of the Cardozo School of law in new york city, shes an attorney for the United States court of appeals for the Second Circuit in new york city. In 2012 she published her first book. It tells the true story of one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in american history. Her latest book, when books went to war, tells the amazing and inspiring story of how the United States government and americas librarians and p
The way their drones operated on a regular battlefield they were carrying out assassinations but the british argued that was within the laws of war and he would rather have a targeted strike on the battlefield. They described in the British Press release following suspects for seven hours in filming them and choosing the moment of killing, that makes a lot of people uncomfortable that regular warfare is as much fascination today. I dont know whether the public realizes it is shifted in direction but the reality is thats what youre going to get. I spoke to quite a few commanders who said thats what we want. We want targeted killings. We want to kill the one guy on the battlefield not the 60 we have to kill to get to him. There was a moral case for droughts. Drones. You are outlining the moral case for drones here. What is it lack. I would say within the laws of war on the regular battlefield there are issues with drones what they call they are very bad in dynamic situations and they kil
All of our projects are tragedy because we no tragedy is a tool. But im sure, is a tool, too. Talk to us in 20 years. Thank you so much. Hello. How are you . First of all, just thank you for the wonderful, wild, cosmic, strange, fantastic reading. I think everybody feels the same about it. We are very touched and involved emotionally with what you were saying. And about account i just related posted to the part about dying in hospital. My father recently passed away, and he was not a soldier but he was a high priest in judaism. So i was listening very carefully when youre talking about the studying of hebrew. And also i think there was a point we mentioned w. H. I wouldnt in dover beach, the poem. Its a very wonderful thing a last stand about a good armies clashing by night, might want to do that in sometime. And thats alas, theres counseling nothing inappropriate for south florida. So when you go to the bar, go crazy. We will take that to heart when they go out tonight. Thank you. Tha
American and unamerican. He tells us that the American Dream is worth reaching for and also tells us it is a con. When the book opens of course im not ruining anything that is on page number one. What kind of a novel is this a. He is a member everything in this novel. What do you do with shall we read on . I appreciate and talk about how fitzgerald came to write it and how it disappeared shortly after it came out in 1925 in the contemporary review they mostly talked about as a crime novel and fitzgerald died in 1940 there were a remainder of copies in the warehouse. His last royalty check was for 14. 14 and it was was world war ii that brought him back in a big way. The program called of the Armed Services editions distributed at the novels and the nonfiction to the soldiers and sailors overseas. He was chosen with 155,000 copies that get distributed through the armed forces overseas and after it is the paperback revolution and the gatsby is on its way. How many copies . How many copie
This is about an hour. Good evening. Welcome to the library of congress. Were here e, and for an historical occasion to reintroduce after a lapse of 55 years, the Armed Services editions and especially idea of distributing free books to our servicemen and veterans. To our in other words, on the initiative of Andrew Carroll a m i will introduce in moment, we are launching a great big book giveaway. Original Armed Services as they are ses called, were part of a cooperative venture between the Publishing Industry and the u. S. Government that took place between 1943 and 1947. In these years, the government istributed to american servicemen and women nearly 123 1,322 n copies of the popular titles that were published in the series. Included bestselling iction, classics, mysteries, history, poetry, westerns, and even reference books. Of these see many books in the small exhibit as hall ave the electric tonight. The exhibit is located just outside of the door. What i will understand mean whe