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Please welcome ben mezrich. Hello everybody, thank you for coming out on a friday night. Its getting getting a little chilly but its still nice out and i appreciate everyone coming on a friday night. I will get to once upon a time in russia in just a few minutes but i know whenever i go see a band i always hate it when they never play the hits. I want to do a little bit of the hits first and how i got to the story. I never set out to be a nonfiction writer or a journalist. As a kid i always hate...

Others. But you are doing a great job sitting here tonight. On that note, thank you for taking the time to come out tonight. [applause] would you be willing to stay and sign some books . We would be happy to sign. Thank you very much. Ben has written the most exciting stories of our times. From the founding of facebook to grow and mit card counting his books have taken the reader to different heights of wealth and power once upon a time in russia time in russia this is most extraordinary story y...

Revenue of 1 million per day. In the eventual scrutiny received from the department of justice which shut it down in 2011. This program is about 40 minutes. Good afternoon, thank you all for joining us and thank you all watching on booktv on cspan2, you are joining billions around the world. When they asked me to come here and interview ben mezrich had jumped at the chance. He is one of my favorite people in the literary world. A lot of you know the film based on his books as well as his books, ...

Good afternoon. Thank you, all, for joining us, and thank you all watching on booktv on cspan, you teaming throngs of billions around the world. When they asked me to come here and interview ben mezrich, i jumped at the chance. Hes one of my favorites in the literary world. You know the films based on his book, as well as his book, disattal billionaire, the social network, bringing down the house became 21, and you titled the book sex on the moon because you knew they wouldnt change the title fo...

This hour. For five years he was a captive. At this hour, he is a client. He has lawyered up Bergdahl Eugene fie dell is a military justice expert. He didnt talk much about his clients situation, but cnn did ask why bergdahl is back on active duty just six weeks after he was freed. Obviously the army has concluded that he is fit for duty. I dont anticipate that they are going to deploy him anywhere. You know, theres some business that has to be conducted. Chiefly this investigation. And if the a...

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Phoenix was probably 100 fold what it would have been had the m.i.t. kids had won. so i think the outcome was just right. >> we may have had the technically superior vehicle but we werent selling it perhaps as well as carl hayden did. >> i thought it was really awesome to see this high school team really do a good job and beat out top colleges that were there. >> they definitely earned it. >> it was brilliant. >> their enclosure was leaking and they had to solve it. great idea. >> thats awesome....

To be. it was a little different for us. >> and that next move and many of those moves have been difficult. you finished second overall at high school ask started at arizona state with financial assistance, but this was all revoked. there were big changes along the way. >> yeah. one year into my attempt to get a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering at asu, my presidential scholarship was row -- revoked. >> you went back and you showed this documentary many places, youve shown it to college...