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Andrew krepinevich and barry watts talk about their book at the pentagons office and the pentagons think tank from 1973 to 2015. The coauthors are former members of marshalls staff. This event was held at the nixon president ial library and museum in yorba linda california. [applause] tonights discussion is that Andrew Marshall who served from nixon to obama. He retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and behind American Foreign policy. His two former aides, let me back up for a second. What is significant is nixon tapped marshall ...

Going to go to ray charles and talk them into let me do and authorized biography of him because i wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize and the nobel prize and i didnt know anything about ghostwriting. So i had a hard time introducing myself to him and getting to him but i was able to do it through my tenacity. And when i did this agent said the u. You want to do his autobiography and i said no i dont. And he said e you do. I said i dont know how to do that. I dont know what a ghostwriter does. He said you will earn a lot more money if you do a ghostwritten book because its a much larger market for...

Im enjoying this graphic book that im doing. Im enjoying pouring with this novel, but the idea as a lyricist to sit down and write with musicians and to be in the room when these courts are being created and melodies are being created, i find most enjoyable of all the activities. Host david ritz, we appreciate you sitting down with booktv. Guest my pleasure. You are watching 40,000 nonfiction authors and books on c. And twos booktv television for serious readers. Up next Brent Schlender who covered steve jobs for the wall street journal and fortune for 25 years and in to executive editor of Fa...

Host what do you do for a living . Guest i am a ghost writer. Host what is a ghost writer . Guest a ghost writer is an author who writes in the first person of another person. Host how did you get into that business . Guest its a long story. The short end of the story is i was an advertising guy after college and after graduate school and i made up my mind i was going to go meet ray charles and talking into letting me do an authorized biography of the because wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize and nobel prize advantage of a think about ghostwriting. So i had hard time introducing myself to him, ...

Claudia rankin discusses her book, citizen an american lyric, a finalist for the National Book award. Hi, everyone welcome. Im Bridget Mullins a professor here at usc in the master of professional writing program and im so thrilled to be here with Claudia Rankin today. An and i want to thank the l. A. Times festival of books curators for asking me to be the moderator and the interviewer today because there are so many amazingly qualified people on this campus at the moment, and im just sitting in the catbird seat. Couple of announcements before we start. Please silence your cell phones. And th...