it is difficult to raise funds for a viable campaign. jim webb, this sunday, on a road to the white house 2016. history bookshelf features popular writers and heirs on american history tv every weekend. author joe jackson recounts attempts in 1927 of charles lindbergh and other aviators to complete a transatlantic flight and it went $25,000 prize. he talks about how this contributed to lindbergh flight. this is sponsored by westbury memorial public library in 2012. joe jackson: thank you for having me. i spoke in manhattan today and this and the time in manhattan was the first time i have given a talk with powerpoint, so i will try not to blow anything up. they showed me how to push the buttons, so it should move forward easily. this is my seventh book and whenever i start a new book it is usually from an idea. when i started thinking about this book, it was 2008, the year of the beijing summit olympics and the presidential election. there was a lot of talk in the press a
legacy of transatlantic flight contributed to the legacy of transatlantic flight. joe jackson: thank you for having me. i spoke in manhattan today and this and the time in manhattan was the first time i have given a talk with powerpoint, so i will try not to blow anything up. they showed me how to push the buttons, so it should move forward easily. this is my seventh book and whenever i start a new book it is usually from an idea. when i started thinking about this book, it was 2008, the year of the beijing summit olympics and the presidential election. there was a lot of talk in the press and in the magazines and on to the on tv about whether or not the united states was the most competitive culture on earth. i was interested and that and i thought about the 20th century s biggest race. i look at the story, this turned into a story of celebrity. or those who will business, as orifice through business otr this euro business, as richard byrd one of the rivals in the ra
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i m named after my father, but everybody calls me dwayne. aisle get into why they called me that in prison. i was incarcerated far carjacking. i did eight and a half years in prison. and your question was, what motivated me to write my book. what makes your book different from any other books out there about prison and inmates. the interesting thing i was i had been arrested when i was 16. never committed a crime. i had a gun, it was my first time ever having a done. you know how you hear the stories in the first time somebody did x for the first time and you don t believe it. i didn t believe my own story. i knew i could have committed a crime of this nature. it was the only crime i ever committed. then i thought how do you explain it to yourself but how would i go about explaining it to my mom and the rest of my family. and particularly, in light of the fact that i had been a reader before i had been incarcerated. i had read books about prison and people like i ve never h
the only freshman to try to come across from paris to new york, a harder route. he was very romantic and he was thought of as the glamorous night of the air. he also had flown in a couple of hollywood movies, one of which would not be released until after his death. their were no complications in this. it was easy to understand these people as they were presented. the storylines were very simple. because of that they became infested with the hopes and dreams of millions and their victories and finished became our own. you ve got to remember that at this time lindbergh was not ordained to win, not at all. he showed up during the last come he showed up a week before took off. the other flyers have been covered to death, so he was new which made him news, so there was a lot of coverage about lindbergh, and he was young and this was a young age, the jazz age. reporters went absolutely nuts about him, but everyone other flyers, at one time or another had been declar