Louise barnett appeared on booknotes but the military and private life of general george custer. In her book professor barnett depicts a man had never adjusted to life after his success at leading volunteers in the civil war. It examines how the battle of the little bighorn depicted him as a mythic hero and a villain. Heres a look at encore booknotes. Cspan Louise Barnett, author of touched by fire, whats that title mean . Guest it comes from a speech that Oliver Wendell holmes made about the civil war, and it seemed to me very appropriate. He said, to our great good fortune and our youth, our hearts were touched by fire. And we learned at an early age that life was a passionate and serious thing. I havent exactly quoted that, but the point is that people who were young during the civil war were inspired and matured in a way that perhaps hasnt happened to every generation. Cspan but the subtitle on your book is the life, death and mythic afterlife of George Armstrong custer. Who was ge
Substantive, it doesnt have a lot of nutritional content to it and we are going to be right back in again and again. Markets will lose confidence. We will gradually lose our global credibility as an economic leader. We might see our Credit Rating damaged more over time. And it is the slow defense of the United States that is the real risk. The fiscal cliff is something that can be fixed fairly easily. Host finally, i would like to go back, David Rothkopf come to your comments about government. National government being neanderthal it. There was a throwaway line of sight while we are still organized as nation states economically. Again, where we going in the future. I think we will see the future. Because we live in geographic proximity to one another, we also have city governments, state governments in the United States, we have a federal government in the United States and its only natural that another layer of government that deals with issues of loss. But over the course of the next
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