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good evening. i m so glad to be here at politics and prose with my wife this evening. thank you so much to the entire staff for coming out on this damp august evening. now is the time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might be during the presentation. when we get to the q&a in the program, there is a microphone over there and we would appreciate it if you would make your way to it if you would like to ask a question, especially with the cameras going here this evening. finally, at the end, please help our staff by enfolding of the chairs and placing them in something solid. thank you for joining us. hampton sides has several best-selling works to his name and among them are those soldiers about the daring world war ii games to rescue more than 2000 pows. that has sold more than a million copies since its release in 2002 and another of his book, blood and thunder, the life and times of kit carson made the best book list in 2006 when it came out very an ....
you very much for coming out on the somewhat damp august evening. just a few quick administrative notes. now would be the time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might be put during the presentation. when they get to the q&a a little later in the program there is a microphone over there. we would appreciate it if you would make your way to it if you would like to ask a question, especially because we have the cameras here going this evening. finally at the end, please help our staff by folding up the chairs that you are seated and then placing them against something solid. we are delighted to have with us this evening a very talented writer of a narrative history. hampton sides has several best-selling works to his name. among them ghost soldiers, about the during world war ii raid on a hellish prison camp in the philippines to rescue more than 500 p.o.w.s. that book sold and has sold more than 1 billion copies since its release in 2002. another of hampt ....
be appreciated. respect joining us now. they familiar face in david s mr. sides you ride a lot about different topics. how do you pick that? historical a dd. it is all about american history but i n dunn was rolled for to do end his head and and now spread first mohammad did you find this? in insert in his esurient of the hon innovative in then they did down. i found this story but to but this it perfectly is speenine who was george washington? vedette commander in san new the young naval the officer very ambitious who had then the in the day with his self could have another explanation but we went seven days to convince the playboy in the bush publisher of the greatest trivium per barrel said new york herald later becomes james the decision was not there, have refunded some dimly. of it has been enormous success. so they decided to fund it for the officers of the u.s. navy. to one of the first official attends on the north pole. we are talking about the early day ....
mo. a minibike meltdown. a great way to ditch your date. then the whacked out top five. we ve got earth wind, and a fiery guy who s the toast of the town on whacked out sports. [ music ] today on whacked out sports, we salute those moronic will you loveable whack jobs to go toe-to-toe with nature s forces, earth, wind, and fire. the demeanted daredevils who aren t afraid to hit the ground limping if it s the last thing they do. the thrill seekers who s half baked ideas turn them into flaming freaks, whether it s on the land, in the air or just plain in fa washington owe we ve got it and you re going to go it. let s kick the tires light the fires and turn this mother out. all right. nothing wrong with a little innocent skin but i m in the mood for something really dirty some freaky, wet and filthy, something like the mud bug jamboree in black water mississippi. this annual event draws about 300 good ol boys who hall in their ladies and seven teeth between them a ....
where s the end everyone seemed to believe it. this idea that there was a warmonger basin up there. if he could just get to it it s smooth sailing to the north pole. that is what the expedition was seeking to find with the open polar sea. it doesn t exist. it might exist and because of climate change but it did exist in the 1880s. host: what was the fascination with the boat at that time? guest: people were just obsessed with this idea that there were certain places left and just a few places i d i ve never been touched by man and you know one of the people back in the book talks about how a man will become obsessed with the idea that there is a room perhaps in his attic and he can t get to it. it drives you mad and now we know that there is really not much out there. it s just a shifting slab of ice and back then there were theories that there was a lost civilization up there. there were more taxes and various polls that led to subterranean cavities of the earth. ....