this is a great book, almost the minute by minute description of what happened to the lusitania. it is very dramatic and goes back and forth between what is happening in europe and what is happening in washington and what is happening to the passengers on the ship. their stories. it is really a great read, well written and i think really brings that piece of history in 1915 back to life and makes it very cumin. it is not cold history, these are real human beings we can relate to who often lost their lives at the on the lusitania. great story. the illustrious dead, all about how typhus actually really was responsible for destroying napoleon's army in the invasion of russia. the russian army didn't help but the real deterrence, sanitary conditions of the day didn't allow them to protect themselves against this bacteria and it was devastating. really devastating. napoleon lost more than 90% of his army in the invasion of russia. a lesson by the way that obviously a century later, a century and half later adolf hitler did not attempt to his regret. a historian at the university of vi

this is a great book, almost a minute by minute description of what happens to the lusitania. it's very dramatic and is back and forward between what happens in europe and washington with president wilson on what is happening to the passengers on the ship. their stories. it is a great read, well written and i think really brings back piece of history 1915.the life. and makes it very human. these are real human beings we can relate to who often lost their life sadly. great story. the illustrious dead is all about how tight this really was responsible for destroying napoleon's army and the invasion -- [inaudible] the real killer with a sanitary conditions of the day simply didn't allow them to protect themselves against this back. and it was devastating, really to have his dating. napoleon lost more than 90% of his army and the invasion of russia and a lesson by the way that obviously essentially later adolf hitler did not attend to his regret. elizabeth baird growth across the street from me. she's in his store and at the university of virginia. she read a great book on appomat

these are real human beings we can relate to who often lost their lives stand on the lusitania.tory. "the illustrious dead" by stephan talty is all about how tight this -- typhus actually read was responsible for destroying napoleon's army in the nation of russia. the real killer was typhus. the sanitary conditions of the day did nothing to protect themselves against this bacterium and it was devastating. really devastating. napoleon lost more than 90% of his army in the invasion of russia. and a lesson by the way that obviously a century later, a century and a half later adolf hitler did not learn from his regret. a friend of mine elizabeth bear barrett actually grew up across the street from me. she's a historian now and she wrote a great book on appomattox and it sort of a revisionist history and i may get a correct one about what really the outcome of the matter, how robert e. lee and the south used and misused the agreement at appomattox to foster sort of resegregation, we suppression of black americans after the union one of the civil war and slavery was supposed to be ove

declaring war on germany after the sinking of the lusitania, after the war woodrow wilson winning theobel peace prize. also during his presidency the 18th amendment bringing prohibition and the 19th amendment we talked about that calling finally for women's suffrage in this country. what was edith's role in this important period of time legislatively, public affairs-wise. how involved was she in the substance of what he was doing? kristie miller: i would say very little. she really did not have ellen's acumen, i think, for understanding these things. he liked to show her the papers but mostly what she would do is kind of get all fired and say well, i think you should put this note to germany more strongly or you should put this note to the secretary of state william jennings bryan more strongly. and he liked her to be fiery like that. he encouraged that but she didn't really have any understanding. it was funny because a lot of people thought that she had influenced him to lobby as he finally did for women's suffrage but that was not the case at all. she really didn't approve of women

start off boys in the but what to recommend and then went to bed wake, about the sinking of the lusitania. then kingdom of ice which harry reid recommended. i just wrapping up a trip it novel, anthony, the narrow road to the deep north which is another novel and the sixth extinction. so those are the last two i'm reading right now. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading this summer. tweet us your answer @booktv or post on a facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week.

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