David bos see next is bill killing england and wrapping up our best look at the nonfiction books according to new york city times is new yorker staff writer and National Book Award Finalist david grant with killers of the flower moon about a string of murders in oklahoma during the 1920s that target ad members of the osage Indian Nation they have or will be appearing on booktv you can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Take moax he is in the floor. Thank you all for coming this evening so pleased to be hosting this special panel on how to publish with the University Press. Sponsored by Columbia University press for University Press week 2017. Incase you couldnt tell we really like University Press this year. [laughter] so show of hands if this is your first tile at book culture. Well welcome, were so happy you found us. [laughter] so over 20 years proud to be part of the community and so happy to carry onefelt widest selections of academic titles many the university and klum use p
He will be talking to you about his book and about some of the that il in his book think you find most interesting and compelling. This tells the story of the elf waited uss pueblo. Few people know any greater detail than an outline. Significanta achievement for a number of reasons. First, it goes right to the heart of the events and their aftermath from the point of view of those who have experienced it. Second, it casts thegovernment pursues some of its goals during the cold war. That is not a pretty story as we review today. The book expresses the quiet heroism of the pueblos crew and is captain. This provides recognition for these men that is far too long overdue. Finally, the story told in professor lerner possible book as a variance for san diego and is nearly 300,000 veterans. They were imported here and many of the crew including the commander still live in san diego county. It is a compelling read, you will be glad you took the time to look at it carefully and without another
Why . Consider it overvalued. They may have the overvalued stocks that people cant live without. And, third, there are the stocks that actually represent living, breathing companies, not companies hostage to the overall gloom. They all combine. On todays like today, the bulls went out. Nasdaq climbing 1 . Lets start with the living breathing companies because thats all people were talking about today, namely the merger between at t and time warner. I right now i want to raise a larger point. The terrific ceo of time warner has been arguing with wall street for years claiming his company is worth substantially more than what its stock was selling for. While the stocks been a good one, i thought time warner traded at discount to what it was worth. The antinetwork bias has to do with time shifted programming and the endless talk about cord cutting. The Younger Generation just doesnt watch tv the way the older one does, and with a bunch of programming that wall street deems less relevant,
Group. It is clearly a major regional threat. It has also created an enormous safe haven in syria and iraq and attracted numerous foreign fighters which give it key assets for plotting terrorist acts abroad. While they hay want to carry out attacks in the west, to date, it has not carried out or even attempted a covert terrorist organization outside its theater. Indeed, i think we have to ask a question, is it focused on us . I would submit that right now its focus is not principally on us. Despite the appalling executions of the last two weeks they are consumed by their efforts to tear apart iraq in a sectarian conflict. And to quote the direct i dont have director of nctc from his speech yesterday, at this point in time we have no credible information that isil is planning to attack the United States he added in our view, any threat this is from the sympathizers and foreign fighters, any threat to the u. S. Homeland is likely to be limited in scope and scale. We as a nation have made
Government interests too quick to tax. Long ago nader passed beyond single concerns with seatbelts. He is built a National Network of citizen groups that have had a major impact in tax reform, nuclear energy, and health and safety programs. In his latest book, he warns the United States is at a pivotal moment. Americans are more disillusioned with their political leaders than never, and large majorities save a corporations have too much political power. Norquist established americans for tax reform in 1985. That group works to limit the size of government and opposes higher taxes at all levels of government. He is best known for his antitax pledge to which he says 260 lawmakers of the 113th congress swore to uphold. He recently advocated for the government to stay out of the proposed comcasttime warner merger, saying the marketplace is adjusting to consumer demand and the government should not meddle in a free market transaction. Today we will hear our guest discuss where the left and