Book Talk To Be Broadcasted July 7 and July 8
This Saturday, July 7 at 4:55 PM EDT C-SPAN2 Book TV will broa
dcast their video-recording of my talk during the June 16 “Roosevelt Reading Festival” at the FDR Library and Museum. I was one of 14 authors giving book talks. Being where key events in the book happened, I focused on the period of July-August 1943 and highlighted events and discussions between Roosevelt and Churchill that took place then at the Roosevelt Estate and Eleanor Roosevelt’s idyllic cottage, Val-Kill. Their meetings, August 13-15, were a key milestone on the way to agreement a week later in Quebec on Allied strategy and cooperation on the atomic bomb. The beautiful day helped to give a sense of what it must have been like when, 75 years ago in the course of swimming and picnicking, two great men discussed momentous decisions. . The talk will be broadcasted again by C-SPAN2 on Sunday, July 8 at 3:55 AM EDT. Yes, that will be “oh-dark-thirty” on the U.S. East Coast, but not a bad time at all for friends in Europe and the Pacific. After being broadcasted, the recording of the talk will go into Book TV’s library. That can be accessed at: https://www.c-span.org/about/videoLibrary/
Philip Padgett examines history by applying skills developed during 40 years of national security and preparedness research and analysis in the military, government, and the private sector. As Deputy Intelligence Adviser at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, he supported from Washington teams negotiating five international treaties and agreements. Read more >>