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Washington post columnist and thriller writer and then the Pulitzer Prize winner last month and this month we are joined by jeff shaara military historical fiction author. Ranging from the American Revolution to the korean war and we will talk about all those in just a minute but we will start with a facebook comment that a viewer has posted on our facebook page. What exactly is historical fiction . Guest i have had this conversation with other authors it is an accurate historical setting but the people are totally made up thats a little different from what i do because i take you to these places with a lot of the real people with historical figures with names that you know like George Washington or Dwight Eisenhower were robert e. Lee it is fiction by de ....
Good evening everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin, director of constitutional studies at ai and it is my great pleasure to commute to a discussion of the land of hope, the new one volume history of our country by the Great American story and Wilfrid Mcclay area is a book that comes a time when questions of who we are as a people, whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither some shorts our National Greatness north white washes our national sins, are really live questions in our politics and what may be on unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment though there could be a better time to hear from bill about his s ....
Tell the story of our country in a way that sells short our natural greatness nor whitewash is our national sins, live questions in our politics, in may be an unusual way and this book is intended to speak to that moment. Never a better time to hear from bill about his sense of how to approach these questions. Wilfred mcclay is a national treasure, he is a teacher, holds the blankenship chair in oklahoma and admired and beloved by students past and present and one of the writers of American History. His book the masterless self in society in modern america was judged the best book in American Intellectual history the year was published by the organization of american historians. And students guide to us history, figures in the carpet, finding the human person in the american past and why place matters, geography, identity and civic life in modern america. He has been ....
Great american historian wilford mcclay. Its a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as a people, of whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither sells short our National Greatness nor whitewashes our National Sins are really live questions in our politics, and what may be in what may be an unusual way. This book is clearly intended to speak to that moment. The couldnt be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of how to approach these questions. Mcclay is a national treasure. Hes first and foremost a teacher, holds the blankenship chair at the university of oklahoma. Hes admired and beloved by students past and present. Hes also one of the great writers of American History. His book the masterless self and soci ....