What are you reading . Civic i am reading to books gets into the leadership styles of four of our president s, roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and lyndon johnson, very interesting. And im also reading the order by daniel silva. Select what books are you planning to read in the future and why . I do tend to move towards more historical types of books on leadership and political books. With historical perspectives. I dont have any titles in mind right now. But i would like to read nonfiction. That is probably what i will stick with. How do you pick the books they read . I did a couple of ways. Sometimes i get suggestions from friends. I used to be in a book club back in the day. I will get there reading selections and pick from that. And then i will just i read book review sections of the newspapers to see what is good and what is considered page turning. Fuchsia brexit colleagues and friends roy blunts good friend of mine i asked and the other day what he was reading and he mentioned the boo
Your questions, your audience questions. To ask a question as a q a box at the bottom of your screen. You click on that and typing your question will try to get to as many of those as possible. There is a chat for you guys but if you could keep all of your questions in the q a, just make things a little bit easier. With all that out of the way, it is my honor to introduce jean guerrero. She is an Investigative Reporter contributing to npr, the pbs news hour and other public media. She is the author of, shes also the recipient of an emmy of the k pbs americas. That should be discussing her new book, hatemonger, steven muller, donald trump and the White Nationals agenda. Its from a spiteful teenage troll to one of Donald Trumps chief advisers. Muller who has outlasted many others in the trump forces has encourages his bosses worse impulses and helped him. From the muslim ban, the family separation policy at the border, millers finger prints have been all over the cruelest and most decisi
Policy adviser, former high ranking Government Official and author of numerous books and reports on china. I know dish can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the u. S. Militarys thinking back a number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writeings and was the First American official who reveal what the chinese were telling themselves behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public but how they wanted to be friend with the world, and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militarys view of the peoples republic of china. His book is a landmark book, most recent book is the hundred year marathon chinas secret strategy to replace america as global super power. This book is really a fascinating look and is probably one of the only places in public where youll find information about chinese defectors, people from within the Chinese Communist party system who reveal what is going on there. Before mike speak is
Half it or so ago for his last book and this time we have him here virtually from his home and were going to talk about his new book about the 1948 election so were going back 72 years to another Election Year and youre going to be amazed at how similar it sounds in some ways, in other ways its different but in some ways, the politicians were all younger than they were today so thats one big difference but aj, take it away and tell us about the overview of the book. Just a very good read by the way. I want to say a couple of things first. Thank you so much for having me. The Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be and a lot of people are going through a lot of pain and suffering. For myself, im reminded why i fell in love with reading when i was six years old because bookscan transport you to another time and place and during all of this thats been a blessing. Regarding my last time i was with you i had already started this book. It was to that 2017 when i was with you, you talked
Events for politicians and authors, members of media, business and military leaders and more. The march 2020 closures of many businesses across our great country Dragon Foundation is bringing events online to ensure we are still delivering worldclass content even if you cant get to our hilltop to watch it in person. In this weeks center for Public Affairs Virtual Event we bring you Chris Wallace, anchor of fox news sunday. 2014 marked his 50th year in the broadcasting industry, hes participated in coverage of nearly every Major Political event and also secured highprofile interviews with dignitaries and u. S. Leaders. For the past three years Chris Wallace has broadcast a sunday morning show live from the Reagan Library air force one pavilion abChris Wallace is with us today to speak about his new book countdown 1945 the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb in the hundred 16 days change the world. An unforgettable account of the lives of the ordinary american and japanese civilians i