Will be a book signing. Ellior ackerman, they have brought their new books for us and elliott is a marine war veteran, published many books. He is a National Book finalist award winner and also wrote for the new york times, the atlantic, the new yorker. Clay is a native nashville he and who has published many works as well. Mostly historical and also Deputy Editor in chief or up in chief for the new york times. We are going to let them talk about their books individually and after a few minutes you can you and a on points of the books that they enjoy. Great. Thank you very much and thank you for coming out. It is always a pleasure to be back here in nashville. When they told me we would be sitting together on a panel i was elated because im a great admirer of your work. One of my good friends at work is one of elliotts editors and over the years i have come to admire his work and maybe we could get into it at some point but despite the fact my book is about the spanishamerican war and
Rough ridered. Theodore roosevelt his cowboy regiment and the immortal charge up San Juan Hill. The authorrer is mark lee gardner. Mr. Gardner, how did Teddy Roosevelt get to San Juan Hill in 1898 . Guest well, it was a lot of hard trying, a lot of really putting well, Theodore Roosevelt said, i put myself in the way of things happening and they happen, and he tried his best to form a military regiment and to get his troops to cuba and it was just force of will to get him to that spot where he created that iconic moment in 1898. Host he was not regular army. Guest he was. No. A u. S. Volunteer. Host and dead hi operate independently . Guest yeah. I think to the chagrin of Commanding Officers, yes, he certainly had an independent expert his own way of doing things, but he did have a Commanding Officer and he was part of the fifth corps, so they did have their marching orders as to what their role was going to be, but he took on additional roles and that charge up San Juan Hill, a lot of
Has published many works as well. Many historical so we will let them talk about their books and then q a that you enjoy. It is always a real pleasure to be back here. When we would be sitting together i was as elated first was a great admirer of your work one is elliotts editors. And over the years ive come to admire his work with that overlaps with the spanishamerican war and is personal experience and things to finding common and outside we wrestled for who would go first. I will let you all guess how that all worked out. So i will talk about my book so how did i come to this one is cute and nostalgic entry 92. That superficial version of the roughriders story was part of the narrative. And with the spanishamerican war. And then part of a history writer to go explore those things you find interesting. At a certain point to decide more about that in history and to help define through the 20th century who we are today. Ii felt like this was one of those. And going through old obituari
Festival of books. Here in downtown nashville. Today we are at the National Public library and i like to thank them for hosting this if it and monday other sessions. Theyve been a great partner to this if it for several years and we just want to say thank you. Southern festival of books is an annual if it produced each year by humanities tennessee, i would like to take those moment to thank humanities tennessee and all who contribute to the organization for their continued support of the written word and the writers, the young writers, Community History and civil discourse in all things humidity here in tennessee. And humanities in tennessee like to say, our story and our state and i like to think humanities for helping us tell and preserver stories. So a pit of housekeeping before we began, in a moment ill introduce our other and share some stories, and some insight from the book, no surrender. The conclusion of his presentation, we will open the floor up to questions and if you have
Military regimen and get his troops to cuba and it was his force of will to get him to that spot where he created the iconic moment in 1888. He was not a regular army. He was not. Did he operate independently . Yes, he certainly had an independent spirit in his own way of doing things but didnt have a Commanding Officer interest part of the core, they did have their marching orders as to what their role would be but he took on additional roles and a lot of credit for that, to roosevelt. Where is that phil . Its in cuba just outside of the east side. Why was it significant . One of the spanish fleet was held up in the harbor and the u. S. Navy wanted to force that fleet out of there and destroy it, make combat and they thought the best way to do that was to send a plan forced. Once he was taken, the fleet would be honorable. It was destroyed by the u. S. Navy. Why was the u. S. Military in cuba in 1898 . It can be complicated. And at times not so complicated but there was a lot of sympa