A fantastic book and i enjoyed it thoroughly. Its a pageturner a thrilling adventure permanently accessible. Congratulations on it. Guest thank you, coming from you that is praise indeed. Host talk about the subtitle of your book if i may quote henry folgers obsessive hunt for shakespeares first folio but i think it might be helpful originally to talk about those two men in the context of their times. Of course if i made they were two men look alike in dignity quoting from shakespeare and yet separated by 400 years and the Atlantic Ocean very different that but they share one thing, a passion for in one case writing and the other collecting but put them in the context of their lives if you would please. Guest sure. Shakespeare was writing around the 1600s. His life was 20 years before, 20 years after the 1600. During the rain of elizabeth and james the first. He was a wellknown playwright poet. He wrote sonnets and he was also a businessman. Here is a shareholder in the globes Theater
Witness to the enormity of history, the power of people and events to shape our world and capture our attention as the calendar closed out on july, we relive, remember and relate to the accomplishments, the controversies, the iconic debuts and morethat all happened through the decades we begin with the weekend road trip. Its been an American Institution since henry ford first started cranking out model ts. But on a summer saturday in 1971, two americans went for a joyride of a different kind. Dale scott and jim irwin hopped behind the wheel of the first lunar rover and drove on the surface of the moon on july 31. 1098 ignition sequence on engines on. 54321. All engines running. Liftoff. We have liftoff at 9 34 am, Eastern Daylight Time when nasa launched apollo 15 into the morning sky, it was on its way to becoming the fifth moonlanding mission in barely over two years. But if blasting rockets towards another planet had started to become old hat, what apollo 15 was carrying with it awa
Day after day here we play witness to the enormity of history, the power of people and events to shape our world and capture our attention as the calendar closed out on july, we relive, remember and the controversies, the iconic debuts and morethat decades we begin with the weekend road trip. Its been an American Institution since henry ford first started cranking out model ts. But on a summer saturday in 1971, two americans went for a joyride of a different kind. Dale scott and jim irwin hopped behind the wheel of the first lunar rover and drove on the surface of the moon on july 31. 1098 ignition sequence on engines on. 54321. All engines running. Liftoff. We have liftoff at 9 34 am, Eastern Daylight Time when nasa launched apollo 15 into the morning sky, it was on its way to becoming the fifth moonlanding mission in barely over two years. But if blasting rockets towards another planet had started to become old hat, what apollo 15 was carrying with it away from earth would help creat
] unfire events hasosion of given me ring of an anachronism. U. S. Soldiers fighting on vietnams front lawns lines. They are giving their lives, they are not just giving their advice. To a degree never foreseen by candidates, we hold the destiny of vietnam in our hands, and it holds hours. Hours. And it holds ours. 500,000 american troops, 14,000 american dead, 50 billion american dollars later, their war is not for them to win or lose, it is ours as well. It has become the most divisive and 100 years of American History. Is it a war we are winning . Efforts . Can progress be measured . Do the results match the efforts . These are the subjects of these broadcasts tonight. This special report where we stand in vietnam, is brought to you by western electric, the manufacturing and supply unit of the bell system as their continuing coverage of important events. Where we stand in vietnam is reported by the Saigon Bureau of cbs news, and by chief correspondent charles collingwood. Charles th
Vietnam, against the communists. [explosions] charles the explosion of events has given the ring of anachronism and agent history to those words four years ago of john f. Kennedy. These are u. S. Soldiers, fighting on vietnams front lines. They are giving their lives, they are not just giving their advice. Doing to a degree never foreseen by kennedy, we hold the destiny of vietnam in our hands, and it holds hours. 500,000 american troops, 14,000 american dead, 50 billion american dollars later, their war is not for them to win or lose, it is ours as well. It has become the most divisive in 100 years of American History. Is it a war we are winning . Can progress be measured . Do the results match the effort . These are the subjects of this broadcasts tonight. This cbs news special report where we stand in vietnam, is brought to you by western electric, the manufacturing and supply unit of the bell system as part of their continuing coverage of important events. Where we stand in vietnam