About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and its an untold story actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a
Feats that are now a comic symbols of new york city. This event was hosted by the new york public library, and last about 90 minutes. Thank you, lois. I want to thank the library for organizing this event. Can you guys hear me in the back . Can you hear me now . No . Yes . I will speak loudly. It is great to be in the city, lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Luddite, im im a just a technological idiot. Not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Cute, itrying to be too took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an
Lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Its not that im a luddite, im just a technological idiot. This is not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Without trying to be too cute, i took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an untold story, actually. It has been told in bits and pieces. But it has never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. That sudden and spectacular rise of midtown manhattan in the 1920s. It was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a single skies group are above 42nd s
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Rebecca frankel is the author of war dogs. Ms. Frankel, whats on the cover of your book . So this is a handler and his dog, and theyre doing a Training Exercise for a mission that they might have to do in afghanistan or iraq which does include a drop from a helicopter. What sparked you to write about war dogs . My job in foreign policy, weve been writing about the iraq war for as long as its been going on and i really love dogs. So as i was looking at photos coming in off the wire, i saw this one photo that sort of stood out as different in afghanistan, and it was because there were these marines and their bombsniffing dogs, and they were just hanging out, and everyone looked very happy. Theres a very strong contrast to the unfortunate photos that are more gritty and more gory. So tom suggested that we partner in [inaudible] and i did that for about four years an