Live Breaking News & Updates on Erik Larson|Page 14
Stay updated with breaking news from Erik larson. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Would love to have you come over st. Paul minnesota. [applause] you cant believe how excited people are to see you. I am not kidding. They came for you when no other author could have done this. Tell that to my daughters. [laughter] i want to talk about this idea of why we are so intrigued by the idea and here is my theory. You tell me whether this fits. Is it something about the adventure and the optimism of the voyage polite in with this tragedy that passengers dont know they are ceiling into is it like thethat like the collision of those ideas . No. [laughter] i often wondered about that myself because its kind of drew me to the lusitania was the fact that i have this maritime thing as i think we all do in the titanic. I think what happens is having something bad happen to you with no help available. Its the isolation and also the idea of the glamour of the crossing and suddenly the interrupting of the catastrophe. But its also because of my scandinavian roots i should point out in ....
Kid books. I got into the dr. Doolittle search. Back in my youth nobody was reading. Nobody ever heard of them until after the movie came out the dr. Doolittle, most people discovered who he was and what it was about. I think it was a british set of books. For some reason i got a kick out of the fact they were talking animals. Our military. Of course the hardy boys and all the others that followed. Thats kind of part of who we were. My mom was an immigrant to this country, eighth grade education. She was really selftaught. She taught herself everything under the sun. Cooking, shorthand, reading, art. All this. I think that probably inspired me. From with each immigrant and how did she end up in east st. Louis . She was born in lithuania, brighter at the age of two. The lithuania population came from germany to baltimore. She didnt land at ellis island in new york. The baltimore and ohio reverend at two destinations, chicago and st. Louis. Had to go to chicago she wouldve been part of t ....
With this question that plagued nixon his whole career, who was the real nixon . Nixon as some of you may recall was always being trotted out in a new version. There was always talk of the new nixon, the old hatchet man being left behind for the statesman, then it was nixon the man of the people. There was always a new image been brought out, sometimes by nixon but sometimes torched in fabricated by his audiences. This led me to think about image making in National Politics generally, and this became a central critique of nixon certainly, were our politicians only, manufactured drugs politicians tony politics in the 20th century in our age of media where it seems so possible for politicians along with the consultants, spin doctors, handlers to present images and messages designed to give us what we want rather than perhaps what they really were, a concern with authenticity you might say. A theme we have been hearing a lot on th ....
Reporter, one of the biggest. How does it feel . How does what feel . What you have done has never been done before. You are an outsider. U. K. Men and they call it the summer of trump. I hear that. [applause] and this is the top guy. He said its never been done. How does it feel . I said ill be honest, to me it doesnt feel anything because unless we win i have wasted my time. And he said, now you havent. What you have done is incredible by the way that was a while ago. I think is afraid to write the story but he said what you have done is incredible and i said i understand what you are saying but im telling you unless i win , meaning unless we win in the primaries, and we cant have these politicians and they longer. We just cant do it. We cant do it. We cant do it. All talk, no action, no ability. They have got one ability. They have an ability to get reelected. Thats their only ability. Thats what they have to do. They have to get reelected so i said, and i told him if i dont win i c ....
Have great instability and unrest. The tears are in control and they have their hands on deadlier weapons. Lets talk about hillary. [laughter] secretary clinton had a very adjusting approach to emails. [laughter] as secretary of state. I would like to get your thoughts both on her decision that she conduct oliver business including sending topsecret emails on a private server that resided in a bathroom in denver and what you think that says about her being commanderinchief backs its not a trick question. [laughter] i dont think shes qualified to be commanderinchief to i think the question of the private server anybody whos been there and gone through the process whether secretary of defense or part of the cabinet dealing with highly classified information all the time there some reason why she did it and i assume we are going to find out what it is as they are now aggressively pursuing what was on the server and in the last couple of days they found there were more topsecret papers on ....