He was political most of his life and part of the greatest generation. He saw action during world war ii off the coast of alaska. He was one of several mission trained as a radio man and enlisted after pearl harbor. It took about a year to call him up and just before he left, he married his wife and they were married for the next 65 years. They were about to invade japan for the final big push into the estimate is that it would move to a million men. So, when th bombs were dropped n hiroshima and nagasaki, he was overjoyed and even though there was a very controversial move more so as the years went by, that kind of cemented the political point of view for the greatest generation of men and women, there was a very clear delineation between right and wrong and between good and bad. All of those wit this with axiss were the bad guys. All of that kind of blackandwhite definition, all of that fed into the acting career. It was part of a hero mission. When the war ended, he was a huge suppo
You want to do better when you see the planet from that vantage point. Now joining us on booktv is biographer mar mark elliot whos written a biography about the hollywood icon. We are talking to him on booktv about politics. When did he become political . He was political for most of his life for the better part of the generation he saw action in world war ii off the coast of alaska he was on several missions because he was trained as a radio man and enlisted after pearl harbor. It took about a year to get him called him just before he left he married his wife, they were married for the next 65 years so he was in the illusion that they were about to invade japan for the final push and then the estimate was the army would lose up to a million men. So when the bombs were dropped on nagasaki, he was overjoyed, and even though that was a controversial move more so as the years went by, that kind of cemented the political point of view for the world war ii soldiers in the greatest generatio
He enlisted after pearl harbor. He was in school, and took about a year to get him, to call them up. Just before he left, he married his wife, married for the next 65 years. So when he was in the illusion, they were about the soldiers, they were about to invade japan, the final big push. The estimate was that the army would lose up to 1 million men. So when the bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki, Charlton Heston was overjoyed. Even though that was a very controversial move, marshall as the years went by, that kind of cemented his political point of view. For the world war ii is over, the greatest generation men and women, there was a very clear delineation between right and wrong. And between good and bad. They all felt that they were the good guys, the whole generation, and all felt quite clearly that the japanese, the germans, all the axis powers, where the bad guys. All of that kind of black and white definition of war, good, evil, all of that fell into his acting career.
Day. We will be having signing directly after the session, if you like to get a copy at the Barnes Noble Book ten and visit with lidia reeder and get her signature, will do that immediately following that. Well have a discussion, show you pictures, and open it up to questions. I hope you have them on ten things to say and i want to introduce you to lidia reeder who is author of this great book, dust bowl girls the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory. Is called the inspiring. What we call dustbowl girl. Liddy. She comes to us from denver but she comes from us from oklahoma, the true story where this takes place, this is her first book and a little bit to note issued the grand niece of the coach who is one of the main figures in the story. Well talk a little bit about how she came to the story and how she got this amazing book that we can read today and have a lot of things to say about what going on in todays world. How did you bring these girls to l
I would like to welcome you to the san antonio book festival. The signature event of the library foundation. I we want to thank the library and the Southwest School of arts and craft for opening up their spaces for us today. Of and for helping us present this amazing day of literary events, which i hope you all have lots of time to enjoy for the rest of the day. We will be having a signing directly after the session if you would like to get a copy at the Barnes Noble Book tent and visit with lelia and get her signature. Ge we will do that immediately following this. We will have a little discussion and show you some pictures about the book and open it up for questions. I hope you are have some things to say and i want to introduce you to lidia who is the author of this great book. I will let her read the rest to make sure i get it. Its called the inspiringnspi story of the teen that barnes stormed its way to basketball glory, but we call it dustbowl girls. She grew up in oklahoma where