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women in afghanistan, help fight in afghanistan. these women were taking on responsibilities nobody expected them to. it was about them going beyond the call of duty to help women in afghanistan and further the mission. brian: your dedication to betsy coleman, willa brown, and all the other groundbreaking female past and present those stories are too rarely told. what is behind that? eileen: there are so many women i would have loved to have gone more in depth in this book on their story. there are so many women who have served in the military since the beginning of the foundations of country. a lot of people don t know about deborah during the revolutionary war. betsy coleman and willa brown never get talked about. they were african-american women who could fly planes and were not given the opportunity. even when caucasian women were allowed to fly, there were so many african-american women who weren t. i didn t get to tell about a lot of their stories. they really rep ....
this week on q&a, eileen rivers discusses her book the end the call. brian: why did you call your book beyond the call? ms. rivers: thank you so much for having me. i enjoy being here. i really wanted to emphasize these women, i featured three women, they really went beyond the call as their regular duties to help women in afghanistan, help fight in afghanistan. these women were taking on responsibilities nobody expected them to at the beginning of this war. it was about them going beyond the call of duty to help women in afghanistan and further the mission. brian: your dedication to betsy coleman, willa brown, and all the other groundbreaking female s past and present those stories are too rarely told. what is behind that? ms. rivers: there are so many women i would have loved to have gone more in depth in this book on their story. there are so many women who have served in the military since the beginning of the foundations of country. i featured deborah sampson ....
book beyond the call? ms. rivers: thank you so much for having me. i really appreciate being here. i really wanted to emphasize these women, i featured three women, they really went beyond the call as their regular duties to help women in afghanistan, help fight in afghanistan. these women were taking on responsibilities nobody expected them to at the beginning of this war. it was about them going beyond the call of duty to help women in afghanistan and further the mission. brian: your dedication to betsy coleman, willa brown, and all the other groundbreaking females past and present those stories are too rarely told. what is behind that? ms. rivers: there are so many women i would have loved to have gone more in depth in this book on their story. there are so many women who have served in the military since the beginning of the foundations of country. i featured deborah sampson during the revolutionary war. a lot of people don t know about her. betsy coleman and will ....
. i want to welcome you all back to a wonderful saturday afternoon here. to let you know that this is our first signing of the month of october, the first of about 10 or 15 of them. if you look up on uc tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next week we have signing. the following week we have signings. even more coming. if you are not on the email list and you would like to get on the email list we would be more than happy to put you on there. but today we are very very happy to have doctor gerald horne with us today. c-span is also with us and i think you will talk about when they come up to the microphone this will all be filmed and broadcast. gerald is here to talk about to have his new books. storming the heavens. the book asserted that he just saw it today. [laughter] is published by our friends at black classic press and we are happy to see them to get into the book and the story the associated negro press is the other book you will be discussing. hopefully we ....
that s a little later. how fun to go through it together. grandparents always say their greatest joy is their grandchildren. today on our everyone has a story, we are almost up to 100 whoa! we are going to honor a very special grandmother who still is taking care of her 5-year-old grandson while both of his parents served overseas. yeah. it s a beautiful story. we should appreciate our military all the time, but this month it s especially military appreciation month. you re right. every day should be that. yesterday was fun. haven t been to a lot of broadway lately. went to see cagney yesterday. off-broadway musical. robert creighton is a brilliant, brilliant performer. he looks like james cagney and channels james cagney. he tap dances like a dream. what i was so impressed with, small theater, there they are. there we are. that s five people in the company who i m not that much taller than he is. we are on stairs. but they play like 50 characters between ....