Maestro is now nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and

seven BAFTAS including Best Actor Bradley Cooper and

Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper gives the performance of me too.

I might.

Carrie Mulligan is pure perfection and Bradley Cooper gives the performance of a lifetime.

The Times Hales Maestro as an astonishingly Cooper gives the performance of a lifetime.

The Times hails Maestro as an astonishingly beautiful film.

Maestro, watch now in select cinemas and on Netflix.

This is John Batcheler. From a conversation with Ronald White, his new book is On Great Fields, the life and unlikely heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

Chamberlain is famous on the Gettysburg battlefield for 90 minutes, as Ron says, holding

off the Confederate surge up Little Round Top, with the 20th Main and the rest of Strong Vincent's brigade.

Strong Vincent is killed.

He's the overall commander.

He's killed that day.

Many lived through it and they celebrate their lives and their camaraderie the rest of the century.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, however, goes on to a career that is spectacular afterward in public service. He becomes the

governor of Maine, four years, servants. He becomes the president of Bowden College, his

alma mater, where he was a student, a professor,

and then president, raising money, expanding the educational possibilities in Maine and nationally.

It was one of the founding colleges of the 19th century for science

and medicine, not only just the classical languages.

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