the ruins of war the historical context for this remarkable story of a puppet chast that. easily transportable and included everything you needed this project rose out of those ruins. first. was initially a makeshift solution the hopes the endings diety of post-war german society were reflected in figures like that. or the little prince but thomas has himself delved into the realm of fairy tales in this new book which i'm interested in the magic of puppets and the magic of fairy tales that's why i wanted to tell a fairy tale myself with puppets i think pulling the strings and bringing them to life is what makes the magical when you stop pulling the strings lying on the ground is really just a dead piece of wood. brings together past and present childhood in adulthood puppet and human and shows how they're all tied to each other by invisible strings . and it's puppets document decades of german history. lets us embark on a journey to explore the legendary marionette theater and to rediscover the magical worlds of our imagination. strong contenders for the gem and price the

desperate republicans cast about a bout for other candidates they drempt running general ss grant perhaps chasteust about anybody but lincoln would do. disgruntle member of the gop gathered in cleveland at a protest and vacillating policy the administration in conduct of the war. so they nominated john c. fremont to run against own party president. meanwhile republicans gathered in baltimore to nominate him. their platform called for a constitutional amendment producting slavery any cause for celebration was dampened by news of 7,000 union casualties in one day. only a few days earlier at the battle of coal harbor and lincoln reminded supporters it was best not to swap horse when is crossing streams northern pessimism deepened and loings was losing in 1864 running against general. the general he had fired. the general from new jersey. and he was expected to lose until they moved into the summer and summer moved into early fall and the battle of atlanta led by general sherman burned to ground and march through george into ocean that is what is said to have saved the lincoln presidency. and then s

though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight. i mean, the harlot, slavery. oh, boy. so charles sumner has just issued two major insults against two u.s. senators, two men of the opposite party. now, what this scene that actually took place shows us is that the violence in the u.s. senate was starting to escalate. the foot-benton dispute was broken up but it was two days later on the afternoon of may 22nd th 22 22nd preston brooks, a congressman, not a senator, not mentioned in the speech, but was a cousin, in fact a second cousin of andrew butler from the same town, hometown, edgefield, south carolina. he along with two of his come padres, lawrence kett, also south carolina, also a democrat, and henry edmondson of virginia, a democrat. the three of them. they caballed. they conspired. they made a plan. and brooks had a prepared speech. he probably had a piece of paper in front of him. he may have memorized it. here's what he said, he said, but you tell me if he actually said this. he walked up to sumner who was sitting at his desk in the senate, the senate w

he was cavalier about it, joked about continuing to shake hands and afterwards was quite chaste and but i don't see that happening with trump. not like he didn't make those remarks which i thought were a bit odd and then within hours he went out in a van with the secret service in a very dangerous environment to his secret service agents to wait at the crowd and i think that is to me, i mean, that's a pretty significant episode because it shows how irresponsible he's been internationally andnationally on this . it's no different and how irresponsible he is in his own health is at risk and so this is just blank in terms of his approach to its and i think to me it makes it pretty worried. i don't think, i think you may use it as a talking points i'll be very surprised . i think most people like the prime minister, you could have had changed the i'm not sure with him but bill, i know baculovirus but maybe a little bit of that also, looking ahead to a second term , what you think that trumps term would look like on foreign policy and is it sort of a real moment? people have described as the