Let me put it thats right. I will give you little commercial here all week finish up the last details and production here. Were glad youre here today. The Detroit Historical society is pleased to host this very special event. After todays presentation, if, you are welcome i to stay as log as my credit there a lot of new things and will find very interesting. In fact on first floor, i think you will see some of the stories and some of the recollections were here today. Come to life through some videos and some artwork and photographs prince of the motown music venture we will be reference is also featured upstairs. So please dont miss that before you leave. The format today, we will have a discussion and our guest today were very pleased to have an david, of prizewinning off author of a new book called once a great city. [laughter]. Question on that. And it is a great book. But of course, it is for sale in a bookstore. So after the presentation if youre interested in purchasing the book
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
And this bay was so stunningly gorgeous. And id feel a little guilty. And the question was, well, why is this place so special . How come it missed all those problems that almost every other place in the ocean has . And the answer as we dug into it, me and my coauthor, it turns out that monterey bay had all those problems. It didnt miss them, it had them all. And 80 years ago this was a place you wouldnt want to be standing, right on this beach, doing anything because the water was polluted, the air was foul. The seals were gone, the whales were gone, the otters were gone, the abalone were gone, fishing was bad. Sardines eventually were all taken as well. So all of that was happening 80 years ago, and the difference is that monterey bay got better. And the story of the revival of the bay from that 80 years ago is really the story in the book. 250 years ago we had a very different Business Model for how we used the ocean. Hes the Business Model heres the Business Model. It was find some
Embassy, got over the fence, set fire to vehicles and did a lot of damage. My analysts believe the guys in benghazi, bad guys come absolute bad guys terrorists, saw what happened in cairo and said lets go do the same thing for the sake of our facility. And they did the assault on the state Department Facility and then they followed the state department guys come the state Department Facility to the cia facility conducted an attack immediately in the cias facility and were pulled by my security guys. They came back four hours later with much heavier works. One of the questions you have to ask yourself is people have pointed to these borders as this is evidence of preplanning. This is evidence and the effectiveness of the mortar fire. One of the questions you have to ask yourself is if there was a lot of preplanning why didnt they bring those borders to the first attack against the state Department Facility for the first attack against the cia facility. Why did they wait until almost nin