Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end
Of seven books. Madison transformed the field more than anyone else. Its all constitutions everywhere. I thought, i was about to turn 40 and i thought i want something to really sink my teeth into federal spend my middle 40s on and win lose or draw, ive written something fat, and thats edited down considerably. The bottom line is, i wanted to do something i thought would be hard and long and maybe good and it was deathly hard and definitely long and now its up to you whether you think its good. I wanted to really dive in to the essential question of where did it all come from. Who were the key people behind it. Who made the world that we now live in. One of the fascinating things is that it turns out that although writing the constitution is the thing is most famous for, it was not the only thing of huge fundamental importance that he did and thats why called it the three lives of James Madison. The first life is the creation of the constitution and the other half to do with playing ou
Discuss those experiences and much more all chronicled in her new more of the story, a reporters journey. The book covers the full span of judys long accomplished career in journalism nearly three decades of which are with the New York Times. She joined the papers Washington Bureau in 1977 as and spent the mid 1980s abroad and Carolyn Parrish returned to washington to serve as an editor. Stories about Osama Bin Laden and al qaeda that she and a small team of others did in 2,001 four command immediately after the 911 attacks one of Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. Going right up to the iraq war in the months after the 2,003 invasion judy wrote a number of highprofile articles about an audible that later turned out to be based on information. She came under fire by many critics outside and inside the times reporting. In 2004 and five she ended up embroiled in further controversy this time over the plane case which children nearly three months the defending reporters right to pr
Ameranroud of us this day rejecthe amement adopted in the dead of nig several spending bills have been taken off the agenda after last weeks derailment because of objections over the rural flag amendment. The house returns tomorrow at noon eastern for general speeches, 2 00 for legislative business. Those considered include disaster loans for those affected by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Members could consider california draft relief or a trade enforcement measure. The senate back tomorrow at 3 00 here in they work on changes to the no caps off kind act. Votes on amendments scheduled for 5 30 in the afternoon. Later in the week, possible to see work on highway funding. You can watch the house live on cspan and the senate live on cspan 2. Book tv is television for serious readers. Join us next saturday, starting at 11 00 a. M. Eastern, four hour all day live coverage of the harlem book fair, the flagship africanamerican literary event with author talks and Panel Discussion featuring a his
Deals also among the tradition of american leadership. Its now more than 15 years since president kennedy said let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate. He was speaking to the need for discussion between united dates in the soviet union which could last for to restrict the Nuclear Weapons feared in those days the risk was a Catastrophic Nuclear war between two superpowers. The risk is Nuclear Weapons will spread to more and more countries particularly in the middle east, the most volatile region in our world. Today, because america negotiated from a position of strength in principle, they stop the spread of the weapons in the region. Because of this deal the International Community will be able to verify the Islamic Republic of iran will not develop a new air weapon. This deal midfebruary out of line when we achieve a framework earlier this spring. Every pathway to Nuclear Weapon is cut off an inspection and transparency regime necessary to verify the objec