Approximately twothirds survived, and approximately half of them ultimately emigrated to the united states. Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached [applause] id like to thank all of you for being here this evening. Weve thanked professor breitman. You can see how much work there is being done and can be done on that oddsounding pairing, america and the holocaust. I hope youll continue to come to our programs. Good evening. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook and twitter. Like and follow us for book industry news, booktv schedule updates, behind the scenes looks at author events. Here are a few of booktvs posts from this past week. We tweeted an article about authors including solomon rushdie. We also tweeted information about this months booktv book club selection, Bonnie Morris womens history for beginners. The biggest challenge for me, lets say as an american educator, is that womens history and womens studies frighten people because th
Had to do the fighting and we need the moses generation this weekend working with the joshua generation and dont let them divide us, old versus young. Some of this language clarence that we have heard before. The tea party is nothing but dixiecrat tenet was lee atwater who made that point. Lee atwater the southern strategy architect he said and ive got it on tape. You cant say it like you did in 1950 and 64. You have got to save us sing. You have got to use terms in the abstract and that is how he was able to capture the southern folk and they became republicans from dixiecrat to republicans. Its the same thing. Its just that they speak in abstract. America is getting smart. Everybody up here is absolutely right. It is no longer them saying its them, them, them. Its now us and these folks who are against medicare and social security, they are kicking their grandma under the bus. They are kicking their own people under the bus and i think mr. Turner is absolutely right. We are going to
Of the more reprehensible acts that are committed during times of war, the use of child soldiers is rightfully considered one of the single most horrific