He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book has received is that tolstoy intentionally distort historical facts for his own purposes so for instance he creates in the character could to save us a far more salt of the earth kind of character than he actually was. He was apparently much more widely, much more questionable in terms of his morals so historians have accused the full story of using history and distorting it for his own ends. I do
This month. Three or four books that i think particularly good. I wish i could take credit. And the Brilliant Communications director came up with this. No one is going to be interested in what i am reading. Surprisingly has become quite a bit. They like it. Interestingly, the kind of like to know what your thinking about. It is kind of refreshing. It actually reads a little class action. Thank you. It was fun. What are you reading this summer . Tell us what is on your Summer Reading list. Postage your Facebook Page or send us a name of. Her. You can watch panels and multicultural Book Publishing, the black Arts Movement, and more first, founder Max Rodriguez kicks off the festival the talk of the state of africanamerican literature. There is always that conversation of home for us. And we have an answer from. The theme of this years book fair is global. As we all are. And the book fair from this point forward will reflect that. We started with an event yesterday that Columbia Universi
Up next on booktv a panel on impact and influence of the black Arts Movement from the 2014 harlem book festival. [inaudible conversations] scheme welcome back to the harlem book fair. My name is Marc Anthony Neil professor of africanamerican studies at Duke University and the moderator for the next panel. The panel is a new urban aesthetics of black Arts Movement in which we will have a conversation to talk about the connections between the black Arts Movement and what we see now as new forms of urban aesthetics. I am joined to my right my colleague who is doing double duty today. Professor terry from princeton university. To her right we have Melissa Castille garceau who is the author of pure bronx a book that she wrote with historian mark mason. To her right we have mr. June archer who wrote the book yes, everything can be a good thing. Next to him we have mr. Tramp daly, the adventures of the untouchables illustrator and at the far end we have mr. Anthony whyte who published the boo
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