Posted on 09/30/2005 5:25:08 PM PDT by Nicholas Conradin
On Sunday, October 2 at 10:45 pm A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War Victor Davis Hanson
Description: Author and military historian Victor Davis Hanson speaks about his new book, "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War." It chronicles the 27-year battle fought around 400 B.C. between Athens and Sparta. Mr. Hanson draws some parallels between the Greek war and the wars of today, including the present war in Iraq. The book classifies the Peloponnesian War as one consisting of enormous battles (on land and at sea) between large armies as well as small skirmishes between handfuls of soldiers. The author also chronicles the events that led up to the war as well as the war's aftermath.
Author Bio: Victor Davis Hanson is the author or editor of many books, including "Ripples of Battle," "Mexifornia," and "The Western Way of War." He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, and a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. He is currently director emeritus of the classics program at California State University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
On Sunday, October 2 at 9:45 am and at 7:00 pm The Weekly Standard: A Reader: 1995-2005 William Kristol, Fred Barnes, Martha Bayles, P.J. O'Rourke, Jeanne Shaheen
Description: From Harvard University, Weekly Standard editors and contributors talk about the magazine's influence since its founding in 1995. They also comment on topics such as the war in Iraq, the political fallout from Hurricain Katrina, and the magazine's relationship with Republican politicians in Washington. The panelists are: Weekly Standard editors William Kristol and Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard contributor Martha Bayles, and Weekly Standard contributing editor P.J. O'Rourke. Harvard University Institute of Politics director and former New Hampshire governor Jeanne Shaheen moderates the discussion. Includes Q&A.
Author Bio: William Kristol, former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, is co-author of "The War Over Iraq: America's Mission and Saddam's Tyranny." Fred Barnes is co-host of the Fox News Channel's "Beltway Boys" and is a former senior editor at the New Republic. Martha Bayles teaches humanities at Boston College and is the author of "Hole Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music." P.J. O'Rourke, formerly with National Lampoon and Rolling Stone, is most recently the author of "Peace Kills." For more information on the Weekly Standard, visit www.weeklystandard.com.
Publisher: HarperCollins 10 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022
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I will definitely watch Hanson and will probably read his book. One of my most memorable experiences was reading Thucydides, unforgettable in itself, while travelling across the Peloponese from Athens to Olympia and finishing at Delphi.
VDH Bump!
Read all of his books, my friend. The man is a freakin' genius!
and his website aint bad either:
http://victorhanson.com/
BTW: Why is it that Fresno is at the heart of such common sense such as VDH and FR??? (Spoken by a CSUF grad, once laughed at by USC and Berkeley friends, but now laughing at them as they jealously look at me)
Stanford, for me, and I could never understand it either.
In Hanson's case, I think it had more to do with his farm upbringing and his epiphany as a college student in the 60's that he had very little in common with the hippie crowd.
I dont think he was one of the 60's wacked out boomer loser crowd. He was born in '53 which would make his college career start as maybe '71 or so. Sure it was screwed up in the early '70's but I think the wacked out leftists (per se Clinton et all) were all gone by then and it was just the free love and sex crowd that remained by then. I think Fresno (and the area Hanson grew up within) was pretty conservative, and CSU was just a smaller State college back then. So the leftist socialism of the Gay Area and LALA land was still quite afar, though the college probably had elements of it. Overall, Hanson was not a child of the '60's in my opinion, rather of the conservative Christian environment of the Central Valley of the '50s and '60s.
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His latest article on a view of the world today if Saddam was still in power gives us all the talking points we need when talking to squishy "we shouldn't have gone there" folks.
SADDAM in 2005!
Uday and Qusai do Brussels.
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200509300811.asp
Let me know if you want in or out.
Links: FR Index of his articles: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
His website: http://victorhanson.com/ NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
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