Colonnade signing books, so as soon as the session ends, well head right over there, and you can get your book signed at that point. It is a thrill for me, my names andy brennan, im with par nasties books, and when i got an advance copy of spain in our heart, i thought it was a fantastic and important book, and i told adam a little while ago that that wasnt the case with King Leopolds ghost. In that case his writing and the subject matter was so powerful that i found myself having to put it down regularly and take a breath before i could come back to it. But spain many our hearts in our hearts is an incredible book, and were very, very excited to have adam here. Without further ado, adam hochschild. Okay. Thank you, andy. [applause] and its good to see all of you here in nashville and to know that more of you are watching this on cspan. So my book is about the spanish civil war, and i want to set the context for it by rolling back the clock to the 1930s which was a grim time. As you kn
At issue was simply the difficulty in identifying it. Many would believe that innocents had died in 1692, but most also believed that guilty witches had escaped. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And now booktvs live coverage of the southern festival of books continues with historian adam hoax child and the hopings child and hoax child and the hocks child and the spanish civil war. A couple of quick announcements before he get started. As most of you know, the southern festival of books is free, and we are very thankful to our sponsors for that, but we also encourage all the participants to, please, donate to humanities tennessee, and you can do that at our web site or on our facebook page. The other thing i want you to know is that after the session, adam will be over in the colonnade signing books, so as soon as the session ends, well head right over there, and you can get your book signed at that point. It is a thrill for me, my names andy brennan, im with
Like, i definitely dont mean to offend anybody, and if you want to talk more deeply, but if youre going to be so thinskinned we cant have a conversation, thats your voice, but im going to keep talking. So thank you. Thank you. Yes, sir. So, eric, youve touched on the theme of education and the role in promotion of virtue. So my wife and i, believing that the purpose of education is wisdom and virtue, chose a classical christian school. Right. Some would argue youre abandoning the Public Schools where the reality is the majority of our citizens will be educated well, i mean yeah. Just touch on some specifics around how we can, regardless of where our children go to school, engage in the Public School system. Well, it depends. Everybodys called to do different things. Im not going to send my daughter to a school so i can, you know, make a political statement while her brain is ruined, you know what im saying . I think, first, we have to take care of our own, and if it means sending your
The one positive development ive seen so far and it is not a breakthrough yet is the fact that china is now involved. China has much more interest and stability in afghanistan than it ever did before partly for economic reasons because they want to develop minerals there and so on. But also because theyre worried about islamic extremism coming across the border into western china. China is one power that has influence over the pakistanis. That more influence over the pakistanis and we do. They are the ones leaning on the pakistanis to try to being the taliban and to the peace table. Theyve offered host talks. Its going to be a long long process but they sustain that pressure, we coordinate with them and its important to remember their tension between the u. S. And china in the South China Sea over trade another issues. Its important important to remember the big picture too. We need their help on north korea and on afghanistan. So even as we compete with them in some areas we have to w
They would create special seeds for muslims to run for legislature and only muslim could vote for those particular people. So then you had parties who were breaking along religious lines. They did this this to divide and weaken the opposition and so on. But i was earlier on. During world war ii there is a moment at which fdr in the u. S. Pressured the british very heavily in 1942 to give up india and granted so that they would join the fight against the nazis and the japanese. Churchill, singlehandedly resisted. The rest the rest of the government was ready to do this. But churchill was not. He threatened to resign if fdr kept pressing him. So they backed up. If they had intentions then i think there is no real momentum for pakistan in 1942 at all. You couldve handed power to unify government. The british wouldve stay. Nobody wanted to kick them on the middle of the on the middle the work. You would had a longer transition. And in addition to leaving too fast, they underestimated the t