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Questions or comments, simply writing those to speaker heritage. Org. Our guest today, doctor Larry Schweikart is a native arizonan turkey on this bachelor and masters degree at Arizona State university and received his doctorate from university of california, santa barbara. Throughout his high school and college, however, he spent most of his time playing drums in a variety of dance. As a rock, he was part of several groups, one of which opened for steppenwolf, among other performers for those old enough to remember them. His first film, rocking the wall, about rock musics art in bringing down communism begin airing on pbs this week and will continue throughout this year. Doctor schweiker serves on the faculty at the university of dayton where he has taught business, economic history as well as military history. Is the author of more than a dozen books, including his first, ....
It was sold and parts of it have been sold. Portions of it exist. Host author larry schweiker, why do use the word teacisry host of 39 white you use the term patriots history in your book . Guest it was as direct play of peoples history. If he can say this is the if he history of the people it is the history for all the patriots. And who host who are theho are t patriots . Ies . They love america even with the faults to see her went t improved r improve, to iand beside er but fe . Shes getting beat up in the parking lot. She probably deserves it. That is not a patriot. Host in her most recent book, a pastries history of the modern world from americas exceptional dissent to the atomic, if you write its democratic processes or selfconfidence. America remains the worlds sole exceptional nation, which is to say it aloud is a self written narrative that explains why the u. S. Should, not just good influence others. Why is america exceptional . Guest we get into this with four factors that w ....
The people. Host what about the question of money supply in the government . Guest that is interesting. Take it back a little ways. In 199091 i was invited to a meeting in europe, only time i have been to europe to a meeting. There were a lot of big brains there. Going down the danube with five nobel Prize Winners and i wasnt one of them and it was Milton Friedman, and headed debate with Milton Friedman, mr. Freemarket about free and competitive money and he was arguing the government should control the money supply. Competitive money, reliable economy with fewer panic. Religion, what would the founders say . The founders were unanimous the government should not establish a religion nor should it prevent the worship of any sport. Every state constitution has the words god and half of them have a word jesus christ in the ....
Save the world. This is 45 minutes. Im delighted to be atlanta. What a great book festival thiss is. I think the book i wrote is relevant. I wrote a biography of dwightthe eisenhower who is a warrior, was determined to keep us out of asd war. But before i talk about my book they asked me to talk a little bit about the writing life and my own expenses as a writer, so i will. I got out of college and i tried to write the Great American novel, and i wrote about 80d pages of it and i brought it tor my father to read. My father is a book editor, and they came down for breakfast in the morning and he looked up at me and he said, its awful. Hoolt that was our entire conversation. I applied to law school that e ternoon. Pe [laughter] this was before parents believed in selfesteem and all that. Ill. It was awful. It was a mercy killing. It wa [laughter] i went to law school, which was good most of becauser i marriedo my better, to spot the ....
And now on booktv, Peter Andreas talks about the long history of smuggling in the u. S. Which, prior to the revolutionary war, was driven by a desire to grow Domestic Industries and bypass paying import taxes to the british. Its about an hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome, everyone, to the Watson Institute for International Studies for the discussion of Peter Andreas new book, smuggler nation. Housekeeping, i have to mention some things. The way were going to run this is as follows, peter is going to get up and talk briefly about the book because, obviously, if he doesnt say anything, this will become a stunningly oneway conversation. After this, i will invite katherine, richard and james t ....