Distinguishing characteristics famously that authors would take fantastic works known to new york publishers and publish them and they would become bestsellers, one of which, my favorite of that was leo damores senatorial privilege about senator kennedy and the truth about leo damore. He was kicked off ticked off. Could you say you are driving. So years later all on the record , no new york publisher would publish this, regnery publishes it. More recently there was a patriotic vote, flags of our fathers which is not flags of our mothers. 27 near publishers turned it down. 44 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. So the way things are going in the trump era, i dont know if any of you are still reading the freedom times, but every day somehow on the Facebook Page they aint russia was behind [inaudible] if you visited america in 2016 come he would notice outside of the major cities you couldnt drive a mile without seeing a sixfoot 12 trump signed. In any event, they really have to
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After the september 11th attacks, and initially he was involved with u. S. Efforts at the u. N. Security council to freeze and block assets linked to alqaeda. But after the invasion of ric in 2003 of iraq in 2003, he ended up in baghdad among the First American diplomats sent to the iraqi capital. And then he went on to spend seven years in either iraq or afghanistan advising u. S. Forces and working with local authorities and others. Kaels service, for which he received the secretary of states medal for heroism, was uncommon not only for the amount of time he was posted in iraq or afghanistan, but also for the range of his contacts and the depth of his involvement with american troops and local civilians. His new book, the mirror test, recounts his personal journey, and it also provides a closeup, gritty, emotional portrait of the, of the wars that america has been engaged in now for well over a decade. Kaels very critical of americas failures in both conflicts and makes a point of hi
Landscapes. I wanted to write a little pamphlety kind of book that took eight issues that i care about and, incidentally, where i think im in the majority of public opinion. I dont think im a barricaded minority with some weird, outlier ideas. I think im in the majority on issues like war and peace, issues like mass incarceration. So what i wanted to do was take it out of the frame thats been given to us and make it kind of in the form of a manifesto, this is what were fighting for. I wanted to say that, you know, lets just take one example, health care. So the debate is obamacare or the way its always been. I reject that. I want with Free Health Care for all. And i wanted to break the kind of, you know, duality that we sometimes get trapped in. And the kind of framing of issues that i think is wrong. Schools is something, as you know, that im passionate about. So the framing of the debate is those who want to privatize and crush the unions and measure education by a single metric and