About this change. Good afternoon. I am very excited to introduce the next speaker. Im going to share a personal to exemplify his passion for Theodore Roosevelt. I entered jerrys orbit when we serve together as instructors in jacksonville, florida. Career i was in my negotiating orders for a followon to her. For background, this tour is unique for officers. Areandbased aviators, we sent to seek to learn real knowledge in the navy. For example, officer on the deck in the airconditioned bridge sounds good. Sunny san diego or florida or the deployment schedule. A nice med cruise would suffice. As a lieutenant commander, jerry had already completed his tour. For teddyere his zeal roosevelt became apparent. When asked about his carrier assignment he said, Theodore Roosevelt, no question. I wouldve taken any job to deploy on tr. If you needed a working party to scrape barnacles, you could count jerry in. Not understanding his rationale, i requested further explanation. Jerry went on to descr
Minute event. Well, thank you for coming out what i want to try to do is look at the cold war it is worth baring in mind that there were actually periods of time that caused your fore bearers more anxiety and in some cases with much greater reason to do so. And won the 1952 and 1956 election. And these are the years that represent a high point. Thinking about the cold war and the United States its worth bear in mind that the legacy and the history of the cold war was one of much of americas 20th century. And the forces in the soviet union was not during the period that you tend to think is the cold war which is from 19464748 and and much of eisenhowers much of the people in the army who served with him are being framed by the fact that america is one of the coalition of powers that went to war with the communists in the russian civil war. The idea that russia represented an ideological challenge to the United States begins there. The cold war is at its hottest between the United States
Will be a book signing. Ellior ackerman, they have brought their new books for us and elliott is a marine war veteran, published many books. He is a National Book finalist award winner and also wrote for the new york times, the atlantic, the new yorker. Clay is a native nashville he and who has published many works as well. Mostly historical and also Deputy Editor in chief or up in chief for the new york times. We are going to let them talk about their books individually and after a few minutes you can you and a on points of the books that they enjoy. Great. Thank you very much and thank you for coming out. It is always a pleasure to be back here in nashville. When they told me we would be sitting together on a panel i was elated because im a great admirer of your work. One of my good friends at work is one of elliotts editors and over the years i have come to admire his work and maybe we could get into it at some point but despite the fact my book is about the spanishamerican war and
Has published many works as well. Many historical so we will let them talk about their books and then q a that you enjoy. It is always a real pleasure to be back here. When we would be sitting together i was as elated first was a great admirer of your work one is elliotts editors. And over the years ive come to admire his work with that overlaps with the spanishamerican war and is personal experience and things to finding common and outside we wrestled for who would go first. I will let you all guess how that all worked out. So i will talk about my book so how did i come to this one is cute and nostalgic entry 92. That superficial version of the roughriders story was part of the narrative. And with the spanishamerican war. And then part of a history writer to go explore those things you find interesting. At a certain point to decide more about that in history and to help define through the 20th century who we are today. Ii felt like this was one of those. And going through old obituari
Festival of books. Here in downtown nashville. Today we are at the National Public library and i like to thank them for hosting this if it and monday other sessions. Theyve been a great partner to this if it for several years and we just want to say thank you. Southern festival of books is an annual if it produced each year by humanities tennessee, i would like to take those moment to thank humanities tennessee and all who contribute to the organization for their continued support of the written word and the writers, the young writers, Community History and civil discourse in all things humidity here in tennessee. And humanities in tennessee like to say, our story and our state and i like to think humanities for helping us tell and preserver stories. So a pit of housekeeping before we began, in a moment ill introduce our other and share some stories, and some insight from the book, no surrender. The conclusion of his presentation, we will open the floor up to questions and if you have