Terrific. He started over 50 years with admiral arley burk and to years we were at 18th and k, and less opulent surroundings to sale the least. Thats putting it mildly. We would have doing this book talk in basement with no windows and would never heat gotten here with pture an and to have the james James Kitfield here whos wherein another remarkable book. You know his bio. One of the best, best military reporters to ever work in this town. He is one of the best authors. He has the respect of the people that he interviews and writes about, and the respect of his readers and the respect of fellow journalists. Thank you for saying that. And certainly of the policy community, who consider him to be someone of just impeccable talent and character, and we have all learned quite a lot from James Kitfield over the years. The book is terrific, and i know that all of you, the holiday are coming up so dont buy one, buy two. For those of you at home who are watching on the webcast or cspan, theyr
Men. Didnt teach the students, didnt have detailed responsibility anymore. The administrative board, joint administrative board, had responsibility for the progress and wellbeing of the students, the Extracurricular Activities were merged. The dorms were coresidential. So, the notion that there was a college there was frankly part of the same, like the thing that for decades, and engaged in some important endeavors for alumni and also that they a difference to students, older women who could serve as mentors, but college i think what finally happened when neil was president of harvard, linda will son president wilson, president of radcliffe, they engaged in two years of pretty quiet negotiations to try to establish as a fact what had been reality for many, many years. There wasnt a college left that never had a faculty. It had there just wasnt anything left as a real college to preserve. So the the amazing thing is that radcliffe survived survived 1,999th, not that it ended as a colleg
If no one is making money off of the content, the Technology Companies and Service Providers are making huge amounts of money off of content. The two apple, amazon, they are profiting from content now. And the creator is losing their shirt and its not fair, but its also very shortsighted. If writers cant afford to keep creating, they wont. Mary, executive director of the authors guild, thank you for joining us on book tv. Thank you. Book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading the summer. Well, i have a bigger bigger stack than i have time. Right now i am reading the Wright Brothers which is the book, wonderful, american story of ingenuity at a creativity. The library of congress does a great series for members of congress where they bring in authors and they interview and talk about their most recent books. I had the opportunity to see David Mccullough talk about this book. Then they give us a copy of the book for those of us who come to the e
Tuesday night for the new york state primary. Join us at 9 00 eastern. Taking you on the road for the white house on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. President obama delivers his last speech at the end of the month and this coming weekend they take a look back at the previous dinner routines. Heres a poerth of what you will see. No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald. He can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter like did we make the moon landing. What heal happened and where are big e and tupac. All kidding aside. We know your credentials and breath of experience. For example, just recently in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice at the steak house, the Mens Cooking Team did not impress d andy recognized that the problem was lack of leadership and you didnt blame lil john or meat loaf. You fired gary busey and these decisions would keep me up at night. See the speech saturday night at 10 00 eastern on cspan. The program also incl
Next up five talks about the special Operations Commands Cultural Support Teams. Its a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct culturally Sensitive Missions in afghanistan that require contact with women and children despite women being officially banned from combat. Hello. Good evening. Welcome to book passage in san franciscos historic ferry building. I want to thank you all for coming out tonight to support independent bookstores and independent thinking. I also want to thank our future cspan viewers. We have cspan here with us tonight so know that you are on camera. So when we go out for the q a we will have a mic around to capture your questions for cspan. But we are very honored tonight to welcome author and journalist Gayle Tzemach lemmon a senior fellow at the council of Foreign Relations as well as a contributor to the atlantic defense fund where she reports regularly on issues of National Security and foreign policy. She is also the best selling author of the dr