To speech or not its the people you dont have to be here. There will be no tests. I say this sincerely. im very flattered you took the time in your evening to come listen to me. I think that my students by and large are interested in the subject, but i know perfectly well that if they did not test, academic papers or rather, the seats would be empty. None of you have to be here, but she did, and i find that very flattering. I could i supposed to be a test at the end. The title of my talk on the title of my book is called the heartbreak of aaron burr. I cant tell you the whole story without giving away the ending. I dont want to give away the ending because its not just that i want you to buy the book and read the book and enjoy it and hang around till the end, but it has to do with the reason i wrote the book in the first place. This goes back to my experience of writing, my experience of reading and in particular, my experience of listening to a question that my mother has been puttin
That all roads lead to rome. If that is true, the United States army had taken the longest and toughest road. Arriving on the fourth of june, 1944, two years and six months after pearl harbor americas entrance into the war. Two days after general mark pratss fifth army captured the eternal city, dwight d. Eisenhowers envision forces hit the normandie beaches in a massive am amphibious assault. Despite bitter german resistance, we built up an enormous beachhead and finally broke through. Our seventh army commanded by general Alexander Patch landed in Southern France and pushed northward along the roanne river valley. Ten days later, paris is liberated. The army clipped on. In the pacific. General macarthurs forces invaded the island in a giant amphibious lead that put them within 300 miles of the philippines. The general was making progress in berma with his mixed command of hand picked american infantrymen and british and chinese units. The tide of war was turning against the aggressor
Flattered that you took the time, took your evening to come listen to me. I try to i think that my students by and large are interested in the subject but i know perfectly well that if they didnt have tests, didnt have papers, if they werent held accountable then most of the seats would be empty. None of you had to be here but you did. Come. I find that to be very flattering. I could, i suppose, give you a test at the end. The title of my talk, which i had forgotten until jamie just mentioned it is the unknown aaron burr. I am going to tell you about aaron burr and tell you why i wrote about a back about aaron burr. The title is the heartbreak of aaron burr. I will tell you about the heart break but i cant tell you the whole story without giving away the ending. I dont want to give away the ending because i will tell you why. It is not just that i want you to buy the book and read the book and enjoy it and hang around until the ends. But it has to do with the reason i wrote the book in
Supposed to be a test at the end. The title of my talk on which i forgot until jamie just mentioned is the unknown aaron burr. Im going to tell you what i read a book about aaron burr. The title of my book is called the heartbreak of aaron burr. I cant tell you the whole story without giving away the ending. I dont want to give away the ending because its not just that i want you to buy the book and read the book and enjoy it and hang around till the end, but it has to do with the reason i wrote the book in the first place. This goes back to my experience of writing, my experience of reading and in particular, my experience of listening to a question that my mother has een put into me for the last 23 or 24 years. And the question i would get to in a moment. But it goes to the heart of why people wait and why people read. I teach history at the university of texas. I also teach writing. I teach writing to graduate students bear the graduate students in my writing seminar also completed
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