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Continues. Host joining us now is bryan mcgrath, a former Commanding Office of the uss bulkeley destroyer, and he is here to talk about the recent incident involving the colliding of u. S. Navy ships and the overall readiness of the navy. Thank you. We have seen four incidents in the pacific in the last that were two collisions off the coast of japan and off the coast of singapore. Do you think this is a problem with leadership . What do you think is at the heart of these repeated incidents . Guest umm, i have not reached any conclusions, what i have done is formulate a lot of hype pot this ea...

Out was roosevelt . [laughter] i realize with this crowd you probably were her neighbor. [laughter] so nonetheless i will try to set the context for the reading that my coauthor coauthor, marc peyser will do. I may be going over the familiar territory but for the sake of the crowd of one to take a minute to make sure i cover up the details. You will see behind me a family tree that appears in the book that is the expanded version and it is actually simplified. The actual line because we start with the american founder of the family neck and was quite literally has tens of thousands of descenda...

And booktvs live coverage of the savannah book festival now continues. Heres author and former cia agent William Daugherty talking about in the shadow of the ayatollah. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We have a few more people coming in, but were going to go ahead and get started. How are you enjoying the book festival so far . [applause] great, great. My name is diane thompson, and were delighted to have you join us at the tenth annual anniversary of the saw van a that book festival presented by Georgia Power and the Sheehan Family foundation. We are blessed to have such celebrated ...

Family foundation. We are blessed to have such celebrated authors in Trinity United Methodist church today which has been made possible by the generosity of kurt and leba anderson. Wed also like to extend special thanks to our literati members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. Before we get started, i have a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, William Daugherty will be signing festivalpurchased copies his book in the square. He does have an interview directly with cspan after this, so he may be j...

Eight years in the u. S. Pa marine corps before joining the Central Intelligence agency where he served as an Operations Officer for 17 years. Dr. Daugherty is Professor Emeritus of government at the university of californiairvine. He is the author of executive secrets covert action and the presidency and in the shadow of the ayatollah a cia hostage in iran. And he also lives here in savannah. Please give a warm, hometown welcome to william daugherty. Ms. Thank you all for coming. What an amazing crowd. Shouldnt you all be out playing tennis or walking your dog or something [laughter] i do wan...