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Hello, my name is kai bird, from cuny, City University of new york. And were from the foundation to do events like this to promote the arts and crafts of biographies. And weve been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some yea years. Were here on a session off the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. Were going to be talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals. Harold holzer is one of the leading lincoln scholars. Currentl...

Hello. My name is kai bird. And executive director of the leon leavy center for biography at City University of new york, and we are sponsored by the Leavy Foundation when we do events like this to promote the arts and crafts a biography among other things. We had been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years, and were here on a session with of the 20th anniversary i chose of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonigh...

On the executive director of the center for biography at the university of new york and we are sponsored from the leave the foundation to do events like this to arts and crafts of biography and a sponsor of the National Book festival and we are here with the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals Harold Voelker the leading lincoln scholar and the director of the roosevelt house Public Policy of Hunter College today we will be discussi...

Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican ...

Hello im the executive director of the leon center for biography. University of new york. And where sponsored by the foundation. Events like this and promote the arts and crafts the biographies. And even the sponsor of the book festival for a number of years. We are here on the session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival right in the theme this years american ingenuity. Going to be talking tonight with two intellectuals. Harold is one of the countries leading scholar...

Thank you so much Nathan Alfred tate again. Thank you all so much for tuning in and please catch us at the next program and also, come to the museum come visit. To watch online, anytime a cspan. Org history. This date of history explores why and how things happen and sometimes it seems these familiars are revealed and his new book liberty, he seeks out the Hidden History of American Revolution. He is more than a thousand eyewitness accounts to constructive history and many of those are freely Av...

Jim risen, author of pay any price greed, power and endless war. Damien carr said he carsetti . Interrogator sent to afghanistan to be an interrogator at the collection point which was the name for the Detention Center that the u. S. Was running at the air force base and later he was an interrogator at abu ghraib for the army. Have i tell a story in my book about how he came back from iraq and afghanistan after being involved in harsh interrogations with ptsd based conducted a lot of interrogati...

This week on q a, our guest is New York Times reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author james risen, out with his newest book, pay any price greed, power, and endless war, which exposes some of our hidden costs on the war on terror since 9 11, both around the world and here at home. James risen is an Investigative Reporter with the New York Times. He has been pursued by the bush and Obama Administrations as part of a sixyearold leak investiation related to his previous book,state of war. The g...

That is one of the stories i think nobody wants to hear which is torture in the american torture program, we now call it torture. They came home tortured by what they had done. The people who had to go into the cells to conduct what the Bush Administration and cia and army and military all created, this infrastructure for enhanced interrogation, the people who had to lay their hands and do it physically themselves. I came home deeply warped and flawed by the experience. Where is he now . He is l...

I would also like to thank a few people. From the u. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum whos the reason this program is here today, she arranged the speakers and had the idea for the program. Roberta schafer, associate librarian of congress. Beecher wiggins, our aba director, Audrey Fisher and the staff of the Public Affairs office, suvita who let us have the wonderful pavilion, and galena of the ij section. Also, of course, marvin kalb and our panelists, Martin Goldsmith and Diane Afoumado. I will be...