Sunday, October 08, 2006
The first post -- The UMW Book Club goes online!
A number of alums of Mary Washington's History and American Studies Program have been meeting to discuss books we've read and picked together. This blog will be a place to continue those conversations and to allow other alums to participate in these discussions, even if they're far away from Fredericksburg.
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I just saw a 20-minute or so spot on Eaton's mission in an hour-long show called "The Sahara" on the History Channel that was essentially a summary of both The Pirate Coast and our discussion of it at the Book Club meeting. The narrator called it "America's first war on terror," which I thought was interesting after our discussion of Richard Zacks's political paragraph in the epilogue of his book. Zacks was actually the primary talking head in the piece, and he called it "America's first covert op" like I believe he did in that same paragraph. There was another author whose name I missed, but who looked almost exactly like Ben Kingsley, and he said that the wording of the Marine Corps Hymn was somewhat inaccurate. Instead of "the shores of Tripoli," he said, it should really be "the shores of Derna." So whoever said that same thing at the meeting, congratulations, you can be on the History Channel.
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