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This program is being broadcast live on cspan 2s book tv. At this time id like to throw it over to our interview, Chicago Tribune film critic michael phillips. [applaus [applause]. Thank you, thanks for coming out today and its my pleasure to talk with mark bowden about his new book hue 1968. For those of you who dont know his resume, hes a National Correspondent for the atlantic, contributing editor vanity fair, a writer, and author of many books on subjects all over the literally all over the world, from colombia and pablo escobar, an account to dday, to the killing of usama bin laden, many ...

Okay. Good morning everybody, im particularly excited to introduce this event. When we first began discussing the programming, this is the first panel that we thought of and weve been looking forward to it ever since. People have been writing about warfare ever since we had the book. And all our panelists write brilliantly on the topic but each brings a very different perspective. We have a slight change to our published program in their moderator will be sky montgomery from the Camden Institute of the university of missouri. Im grateful to her for stepping in on short notice so join me in wel...

Well, good morning, and welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Id like to start by giving a special thank you to all of our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. Were going to have a few minutes for questions at the end of the presentation. The audience will have to line up at the microphone to your right, and well let you know when the time comes. Before we begin todays program, please make sure to silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes. And with that, id like to introduce our moderator, a Acclaimed Television documen...

I shouldve gone on a little longer perhaps. Would you mind if i came in again . Its about to say how special this night is, but you wont beat me to it, which is great. Welcome. My name is steve rothstein, executive director of the john f. Kennedy Library Foundation and on behalf of other colleagues in the foundation and jamie roth and all the colleagues in the library, we are pleased you can be here. All of our forums are great, but tonight is a treat because the speaker here is also the beginning of the john f. Kennedy centennial weekend and we plan this month ago when we had data entry liter...

We are people who are real. We have dealt with this and written about it. Again, i want to thank politics and prose and cspan for thinking enough of this series to continue to cover it. You dont get these kinds of people in this kind of room without this kind of coverage but i want to thank you all for being here tonight for our fifth installment. I want you to feel free, feel welcome, feel at home. Come to the microphone, ask a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer. Without further ado i want to introduce this great panel. We will get into bullet points on their career and into the...