Plus since its a threeday holiday weekend, book tv is onon for three days we will re air the entire festival, 8 30 a. M. On monday labor day. That is whats coming up. Now we have one more author speaking tonight and we will go back up into the history and biography room here at the Convention Center and this will be John Aloysius farrell talking about Richard Nixon. Book tv, live coverage. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome to the main event, the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. My name is ron, i am an editor corresponded at npr and also aha fulltime faculty member at American University of school of public affairs. It is my great pleasure to be here this evening with John Aloysius, jack farrell to his friends. He has written his third book. His first book was called clarence, attorney for the damned. I think you should buy that book just for the title. The second book was the democratic century and then he turned to Richard Nixon, the life. Is such just b
Your a hospitality. With the first goal deal i represent china so that is a natural connection one of the things we have learned is there are multiple cultural issues coming up in the chinese American Economy i cannot imagine how to address these issues. Thank you very much. And to be on the National Committee board end of your contributions i am a senior director for Education Programs at the National Committee in rehab period of all decided to take time this evening to join us for what i am sure will be an interesting and thought provoking discussion. Wheel of us discussion among the three of us then open it up to questions and comments from the audience. If people are in the overflow room and you have questions come over and we will accommodate your question as well. Congratulations on your book the official publication date is tomorrow. So we are absolutely thrilled you are here to talk with us. Tell us how the book came to be. Sure. Look at china with that creativity i wanted to d
[crowd noise] we are going to get started here. Thank you all, for joining us. Director of the project on military and diplomatic history here. We formed this to understand how history can help us understand current issues. With historians and that includes our speaker today, and we also like to promote interaction between historians and policy experts. And we have one of our own csi s csis policyts experts here with us. October 10 we are going to have carter talk about his book. On october 18 we will have Lawrence Friedman on the future of his book to talk about his and we will also talk about the history of foreign interference in our elections. You can sign up on our mailing signup to our mailing list, on our website. One of the virtues of history is that it provides us with rich, contextual understanding. If you country if you study a country for years and years as historians do, you learn how institutions interact in a way that you otherwise would not understand. Viewearn also, ho
In washington dc, this is one hour. October 10 we will have the victory. Illusions of coat the future of war, a history. The historye have of the foreign interference in elections. If you are not on our mailing list, it can sign up for it on our website. History isvirtues of that it provides us with rich contextual understanding. If you study a country for years as historians do, you learn how individuals and groups interact you way that otherwise would not understand fully. You would understand how peoples views of their own history shapes their worldview. You find out how these countries are different from others. Problems withding our recent interventions is we did not pay enough attention to history. With the iraq war, people talked about how we could democratize iraq because we democratized indonesia. He studied the history of those countries, you would know they are quite different. We need to be careful. We saw similar problems but we went into libya in 2011. There was not the f
Entitled the Iran Nuclear Deal assessing the impact of decertification. First, if youre watching via cspan2 or our live stream, wed love to hear from you. Please tweet us at catofp as in Foreign Policy. Further, we will be accepting questions from facebook live, so you may post there as well. This bring the Cato Institute released the eighth edition of the handbook for policymakers, copies were available on the table as you came in, and there are well over a dozen chapters covering a libertarian approach to various aspects of Foreign Policy. If youd like more copies, please contact me after the program. And meanwhile, the entire 80chapter volume are available at cato. Org. Also on your chairs is unforced error the risk of confrontation with iran. As many are aware, by sunday, october 15th, the president will have an opportunity to certify or not the joint comprehensive plan of action otherwise known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, and the white house has announced a press conference for thur