now from london booktv interviewed charles emmerson author of two books 1913 in search of the world before the great war and the future history of the -- this is about half an hour. let's go booktv from london this week is pleased to have with us charles emmerson who has written a couple of bucks his most recent 1913 in, in search of the world before the great war just coming out this year. mr. emerson what was the world like in 1913? i know that's a really generic question. >> i think the short answer to that question is the world was a lot more like today than we tend to think. it was very highly globalized, very modern in many respects. we tend to think of the world certainly in europe to look at the prison -- prism of the war or a look at in black-and-white. so what i'm trying to do with the book is very much bring back the color if you would like and look at it as it appeared to the people alive at that time. >> host: how do you approach 1913 in your book lacks. >> guest: well the way i do it is essentially a traveling around the world which is what people could do if horse in 1913 so

now from london booktv interviewed charles emmerson author of two books 1913 in search of the world beforethe great war and the future history of the -- this is about half an hour. let's go booktv from london this week is pleased to have with us charles emmerson who has written a couple of bucks his most recent 1913 in, in search of the world before the great war just coming out this year.

in 1996 steve emmerson did a documentary called jihad in america.wept inside the mosque -- he went inside the mosques from lawrence, kansas to texas and brooklyn, new york where they were talking about jihad, jihad, jihad, jihad, raise money, islam and his book "shade of the cor cor -- koran and there is one and it is called islam because they don't separate politics from religion. these mosques -- if they say people in new york and around the world, we have terrorist training camps in new york and in seattle, washington in the woods. there are places they don't tell us all about. but i think if you have to protect the populous you will have to do that. there has been enough italian restaurants because of the mofia. >> that was going to be my point. cops have been bugging the mofia hangouts for years. and italian cops have to do it. there are muslim cops in new york that are actually part of this. i think they do a brave job of doing that. kennedy, you probably disagree. nypd efficients argue that mosques can be used to shield the work of terrorists

harriet beecher stow, emmerson was still alive, and writing until long after the period. long fellow, you have emily dickinson, william sherman. who people i would have loved to see meet one another. [laughter] swells victoria. the first woman who ran for president in the united. and not victoria woodrow there was a man -- i won't bother you with his name. a man who invented the word scientology which is rather strange, interesting, unusual and. maison bedford. i could spend the whole time a lotted here just listing names. i'm not going to do that. i'm going to give you a little bit of how i got in the book. so. things important to me in the writing of it. i'm going read very briefly and be very delighted to take and answer your questions if i possibly can. so to go back to the book i.t. i named some names. now i want you to think for a moment about the tremendous innovations particularly technological but not exclusively technological innovation during the particular period. think, for example, the first that comes to mind is of course photography. we have many of us who

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