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Andrew krepinevich and barry watts talk about their book at the pentagons office and the pentagons think tank from 1973 to 2015. The coauthors are former members of marshalls staff. This event was held at the nixon president ial library and museum in yorba linda california. [applause] tonights discussion is that Andrew Marshall who served from nixon to obama. He retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and behind American Foreign poli...

Going to go to ray charles and talk them into let me do and authorized biography of him because i wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize and the nobel prize and i didnt know anything about ghostwriting. So i had a hard time introducing myself to him and getting to him but i was able to do it through my tenacity. And when i did this agent said the u. You want to do his autobiography and i said no i dont. And he said e you do. I said i dont know how to do that. I dont know what a ghostwriter does. He sa...

Im enjoying this graphic book that im doing. Im enjoying pouring with this novel, but the idea as a lyricist to sit down and write with musicians and to be in the room when these courts are being created and melodies are being created, i find most enjoyable of all the activities. Host david ritz, we appreciate you sitting down with booktv. Guest my pleasure. You are watching 40,000 nonfiction authors and books on c. And twos booktv television for serious readers. Up next Brent Schlender who cove...

Host what do you do for a living . Guest i am a ghost writer. Host what is a ghost writer . Guest a ghost writer is an author who writes in the first person of another person. Host how did you get into that business . Guest its a long story. The short end of the story is i was an advertising guy after college and after graduate school and i made up my mind i was going to go meet ray charles and talking into letting me do an authorized biography of the because wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize and...

Claudia rankin discusses her book, citizen an american lyric, a finalist for the National Book award. Hi, everyone welcome. Im Bridget Mullins a professor here at usc in the master of professional writing program and im so thrilled to be here with Claudia Rankin today. An and i want to thank the l. A. Times festival of books curators for asking me to be the moderator and the interviewer today because there are so many amazingly qualified people on this campus at the moment, and im just sitting i...

Police officer is charged with firstdegree murder after a cell phone video showed him shooting eight times into the back of a 50yearold africanamerican man named walter scott who was running away. The officer then handcuff scott as he was lessft face down, and the officer then shows the officer planting a taser. Then to ferguson missouri, which hold its first municipal election since the shooting of Michael Brown. For the first time in fergusons 20year history, the sixmember city council will ha...

And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. David ritz has been called the ultra reader emperor of collaborations in the astoldto world. Hes written more than 53 book including biographies, novels, and what he calls collaborative autobiographies. Hes written with some of musics greatest artists including ray charles, smokey robinson, etta james, b. B. King, buddy guy. The list goes on and. On this year alone he has four collaborations out working with the now new y...

And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. David ritz has been called the ultra reader emperor of collaborations in the astoldto world. Hes written more than 53 book including biographies, novels, and what he calls collaborative autobiographies. Hes written with some of musics greatest artists including ray charles, smokey robinson, etta james, b. B. King, buddy guy. The list goes on and. On this year alone he has four collaborations out working with the now new y...

Underway within the next hour. We will take you there live momentarily. Were also monitoring another great in america, the life and legacy of Aretha Franklin and her ceremony. A fivehour long ceremony is getting under way in chicago. Thats where we have fredricka whitfield. You can hear the activity overhead and see the sea of people filing into the Greater Grace Temple church where the Funeral Service for Aretha Franklin, the worlds beloved queen of soul, will begin in just moments from now. Wh...

[ cheers and applause ] my, my, my, my, my. Bringing people to their feet at the Greater Grace Temple there, nashvilles faith hill. All in celebration of Aretha Franklin. Before faith hill, starting out her song saying this is for you, aretha. Hello, everyone. Im Fredricka Whitfield in detroit here, as we continue to watch this ceremony, just now getting under way. People on their feet, fired up, celebrating the life of the queen of soul. During this ceremony today, during this service today, it...