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Todd boyer and the rest of the Kansas City Public Library staff for inviting me here and setting up this wonderful venue. Appropriates very its an appropriate time and place to talk about George Kennan and his diaries. First of all, George Kennan was a midwesterner, very proud of being a midwesterner. He grew up in milwaukee and was conscious of the fact milwaukee was not california. Its also appropriate, this place is appropriate to talk about kennan because kennans most productive years in the government was as a member of the truman administration, and of course, harry truman grew up about ...

Policy adviser, former high ranking Government Official and author of numerous books and reports on china. I know dish can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the u. S. Militarys thinking back a number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writeings and was the First American official who reveal what the chinese were telling themselves behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public but how they wanted to be friend with the world, and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militarys view of the peoples republic o...

Talk. If you want to support the authors, click the green button down there to purchase the book but i will let you take the screen. Thanks. Welcome. Its my pleasure to moderate tonight book talk with my two friends jordan and chris. Its a book liberal and conservative and across the country. The question at the heart of this book, union, democrat, republican and search for Common Ground. Jordan is a businessman and coworker, conservative and former marine in california. Chris is democratic speech writer and journalist from berkeley, california. We met at law school and quickly became friends....

My grandfather had 500 invested in the stock market. He lost it. This is when people were jumping out the window and so forth. And my grandparents were teachers. I think he taught languages in music. I dont know what my grandmother taught. But they moved from virginia to philadelphia. And that started the family, split the family because my grandparents couldnt get a job. They said they didnt hire black teachers in philly. They had black children going to integrated schools, but no black teachers. So my grandparent took in washing and my grandfather refused to do that type of work. And the fam...

There. Id like to first introduce our panelists including myself. Doctor Michael Pillsbury is one of the foremost china experts in the world. Hes currently senior fellow and director of the chinese strategy at the hudson institution. Its an incentive rate hes distinguished defense and policy advisor highranking official in numerous books and reports on china. I know, i can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the u. S. Militarys thinking. Back a number of years ago he sent to china to collect Chinese Military writings. He was the First American official who revealed that what the...