As many of you know, I was a frequent caller to Bill
Bennet’s Morning in America and he and I had a number of conversations
on air. When he gave up that show, and many of us still miss it, he
began a podcast, The Bill Bennet show, which I listen to. He has some
great guests, many who were previous guests on his radio show.
And once a month he hosts Victor Davis Hanson and Lord Conrad Black. Very
informed conversations.
Conrad Black has just authored another book, and I got an
opportunity to talk to him about it.
The Political and Strategic History of the World: From the Origins of
Government to the Present
Volume I From Antiquity to the Death of the Emperor
Augustus Caesar Earliest Times to 14 A.D.
The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D. covers great swathes of time beginning with the earliest written records of the Hebrews, Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, and the ancient East, through the rise of the Greeks and Persians, the conquests of Alexander the Great, and then the rise of Rome, culminating in the Augustan Empire. The great men and women of the ancient world are portrayed with admiration (or opprobrium) and always with a dash of humor and the perspective that only someone as widely read and deeply learned as Lord Black can deliver. This is a landmark history which will stand together with Gibbon, Mommsen, Prescott, and Churchill among the greatest histories of the world ever written.
I interviewed Conrad about his book and we also discussed some current events, not to the degree I hoped so I'll be having him back again.
Conrad and I have a few things thing in common. One is that we are both former newspaper publishers.
He did it on a slightly larger scale than I did. 😁
You might enjoy the conversation. We did.
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