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Are there other questions . [applause] please line up along the back wall. And we will definitely go ahead and answer some questions. For more information, visit david kertzer. Com. Heres the primetime lineup for tonight. His book is my country, tisza beat. And his book is mother of invention, robert field. How the government created freemarket health care. Battle happens tonight on booktv. This is about an hour and a half its a great pleasure to welcome you here and to welcome the author with his stunning new books. Weve done deep research and that is a key event and has a real history and there is an element of a memoir and its also known that he is a professor of the United States. And we will have the senator with us who will be producing responses to a we have talked about. And i am told that he is studying for his phd. The british experience in iraq is worth the americans variance in iraq. And we are really pleased to have bo ....
Right strategy . Thereve been many approaches but essentially they come down to what i would call what is known today as populationcentric counterinsurgency or hearts and minds. There was kind of a controlled experiment run by to the great nations of europe, britain and france in the 1950s to show which of these approaches is more successful because britain and france were each fighting counterinsurgency is an different colonies on different sides of the world. The french were fighting in algeria from 1954 to 1962. The british were fighting in malaya from 1948 to 1960s and they adopted very different methods of fighting with the french exemplifying the approach in the british applying the british if you want to find out one good way of doing it is by simply renting this wonderful movie the battle of algiers which i would recommend to anybody interested in what happened in algeria because its actually pretty accurate in what it depicts is what happened in 1957 when the french try to bre ....
Closer than it does now. What is now washington as you walk that end, that was the neck as you come and from now the south bend into boston. This was an island and one of dozens of islands that occupy gigantic boston harbor. They had ships scattered throughout the harbor in strategic areas and cap the entrance opens so that they could get revisions whether they be from england or from canada. This meant even though they were completely surrounded by land boston as it british occupy a garrison is going to starve. So it became a stalemate that then erupted into violence in the battle of bunker hill in june 1775. And this was a battle like none other. It was a terrifying cater for those not only living in boston but in towns around because all of the roofs of boston were filled with people watching as more than 2000 british regulars made their way across the harbor into the Charles River to the charles town financial and began the ass ....
Understandings, different experiences, and somewhat different outcomes, and some absolutely understood that, and the reason they wanted to be voluntary negroes was effort on their part based on fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase, was to dispel the one drop myth, was as ad race radical way of saying that any reliance on blood or biology to determine race is ridiculous. Race is a social construction that works politically. Some of them were very canny in using it that way. What they didnt understand is that at the time, the phrase voluntary negro with a lot of currency in the day, it felt to the one preferable. Those who were volunteering negroes were blacks who looked so white they could have passed for white, but chose not to, and the most famous and celebrated voluntary negro was walter white behooves so white he was almost translucent. You cant get whiter. Blond hair, blue eyes. He refused to be identified as white. He encysted on his black identity, which he could claim beca ....