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Morning, Gloria and Erica Bonjour, hi Canada, I'm Hugh Hewitt, Dr. Larry Ernest, my guest

he is president of Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale are at hillsdale.edu.

We are back into the world crisis and I gotta say Dr. Ernst, every time I pick this up

and get ready for one of our conversations and we're doing a chapter a week, I'm amazed

that I've never read this book closely.

This is a great book.

Oh yeah.

He's the greatest, I want to say a word about why to read this book.

I'm noticing rereading volume one of this book and it's a big effort to, you know, to

work your way through it, but it's kind of, it's first of all, it's a tremendous political

education.

Yes.

This is a master statesman who's reflecting on these critical times, on the traumas of

the world are vastly compounded by World War One and the steps leading up to it and

Churchill dates those steps to 15 years before the First World War and and he deceives

that he early in the second chapter he talks about a great old man named Sir William

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