It has been 41 years. Since you and bernstein came out with all the president s men that chronicle the watergate scandal. And then your new book the last of the president s men it brings us back to that period. Looking at the Nixon White House with the chief of staff especially after he acknowledged today you think youre doesnt reporting on watergate . This isnt watergate but nixon and writing so many books on him. I thought i was done. It is a better one than you and i. The next time youre in washington with get together some have a few interesting stories that the Washington Post gives me on limited time. To say i will stop by the you have any documents . They said yes i have a few and there are 20 boxes. I thought there was a box but not 20. 70s that were original and we did not know about. So i went for more interviews. And then go out tla jolla for a fun weekend. To sit in this dark apartment. With the Nixon White House sitting in 50 months to keep this file on onionskin paper and
Help them to interrogate the world and i dont know there is a sad attack involving reading closely and differently than one might read in a literature class. In my classroom looking at choices writers make and say using this metaphor, what possibilities are being opened up and how does the writer do that and what is yielded and what is recognized as a results . I think the writers which is to come into a visceral impact and because of the nature of the time it is either material that happened in the past, trying to return to, war material that happened the we might not have liberal access the we are curious about. That might be a poem that takes you to another geographic location or another persons experience that is remote from new. There are whole regions of imagination that writing gives access to, about things that were not real that havent happened that our minds invent and might be important to excavate and question and i want to give my students as many tools that might help the
The Royal United Services Institute Westminster metal. In fact, if you look at all of his books on world war ii, paris after the liberation or the fall of berlin, all of them have garnered awards because of the work he has done. His latest book, 1944, hitlers last gamble was published in may. It went straight to number one in the sunday times bestsellers list and it stayed there for about five weeks. His former chairman of the society of authors, he is received honorary doctorates from the university, he is a visiting professor at the university of kent. Please try me in welcoming him. [applause]. Thank you. After the liberation of paris at the end of august 1944, the allies indulged and to create euphoria as they raced towards the german frontier. Spoken formations were falling back in holland and entered germany be behind the line. Americans, british and canadian generals were convinced that this was just like the german army collapse in the late summer of 1918. Then, in midseptember
That was after words, booktvs Signature Program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed. Watch past after words programs online at booktv. Org. Host university of wisconsin professor jennifer ratnerrosenhagen, who was Frederick Nietzsche . Guest he was a 19th century german philosopher who wrote many, many, many, many books on philosophy and all sorts of different forms. And all of them some after riskic, some essayistic, some longer formally teaks, and all of them critiques, and all of them had something to do with the challenge of universal truth. So he took as his enemy the notion of universal truth, and pretty much all of his work has something to do with his effort to tear it down, excavate it, look at the history of that idea and to show that anything that we take to be universals like, oh, god [laughter] are human creations. But theyre not rooted in nature or necessity, theyre not mirrors of reality. Host he wrote at one time god is dead guest and he wrot
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