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You use the microphone provided to that the viewers at home can hear you. Before we begin todays program, please silence your phones. Welcome our interviewer, kolen mcmahan. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming to prisones row lit fest and im thrilled to be here today with tom ricks who as written several books. His brief books, the generals, and fiasco, which is a New York Times number one best seller. This one is also on the bestseller list, charting near i think last week for the first time. Congratulations on that. First question is bat previous book, actually. Fiasco...

Im reading a book called the generals by thomas ricks who was a professor at the war college. Im a general in the Army National guard, and i try to read one military book and one sort of congressional book at the same time. That book has a premise about whats happened to personnel policy with general officers since the time of world war ii with general marshall as chief of staff through today where we used to fire general officers for incompetence. We really havent done that in the last 15 or 20 years, really since vietnam, even further back. And so it talks about what that means for the milit...

And they can be purchased downstairs he will sign the following the event if we run out of copies there is a place they can sign never even order a book for you. So find me if you could not get a book also sees bin is here this evening please silence your cellphone also there are some pamphlets and fires in the back and if you take out your phone into the picture of me, please dont a yellow box will appear we were worried about the batteries die in. Dying. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] the way that we use these technologies but john cheneylippold points out we are data we are what compu...

His own writings. Well hear from Matthew Mason, auth are on of John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery. This is just over an hour. A remarkable historical figure and central to almost any academic study of the late 19th to mid excuse me, late 18th to mid19th century and based on the diary that John Quincy Adams had to Matthew Mason are here to talk about their book selections from their diary. This book was recently hailed by the Washington Times as a great read and an informative excuse me, an informative reality check on issues that vex us even now. Matthew mason is a professor at Brig...

His own writings. Well hear from Matthew Mason, auth are on of John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery. This is just over an hour. A remarkable historical figure and central to almost any academic study of the late 19th to mid excuse me, late 18th to mid19th century and based on the diary that John Quincy Adams had to Matthew Mason are here to talk about their book selections from their diary. This book was recently hailed by the Washington Times as a great read and an informative excuse me, an informative reality check on issues that vex us even now. Matthew mason is a professor at Brig...