Welcome back to miami and date to a booktvs live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. Charlie sykes, van jones gumshoe atkinson are some of the authors you will hear from today and have the opportunity to talk with. The full schedule for the day is available booktv. Org. If you dont already follow us on social media, on twitter, facebook and instagram. Faster behind the scenes videos and photos booktv is her handle. Well, how the right lost its mind is a type of charlies new book indicates of the fair today from the campus of Miamidade College. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] and, unfortunately, we are experiencing [inaudible conversations] good morning, miami. Good morning. It is the 34th annual book fair. Lets give the book fair a round of applause. [applause] i am the dean of the Honors College at Miami Dade College and is an absolute pleasure to have the chance to share today with you if we are so fortunate in our community to have this extorted it but it w
Be born in 1917, he beyond her years old. He was a gale educated spy. And one of really the founding personalities of the cia, one of the most powerful man in the cia from its founding in 1947 until his forced retirement in 1974 really a founding father of us counterintelligence. What type of issues and areas that he work in . Singleton use his position as chief of counterintelligence to create a kind of eia within the cia. Go eat out everywhere. It very influential in us policy toward israel. Created programs of surveillance, opening the mail of americans. Involved in the domestic surveillance schemes of the Nixon White House for example. Involved in the early days of mk ultra mind experiment program. A story i tell him, this was a man who made his influence felt everywhere. Very involved in us politics toward cuba. Disposition, a lot of ca officers right through a geographical Directory Division within the cia. Angleton had his fingers in many things. Was he a wellknown personality d
Michael swanson is the founder and editor of the website wall street window. Com where he writes about the financial market. That site, heded commands the hedge fund from 2003 two 2006. He has written works of 20 century American History, including danville virginia and the coming of the moderate south. One of the greatest books that you will ever read, the cold war origins of the militaryindustrial complex in the power elite. He is working on the book covering the u. S. Involvement in the vietnam war from 1945 to 1963. Just a personal anecdote we get a lot of books that people send us to look at and review. When i got to mike swanson, i did not know who he was. I thought it was another one of those books. I was stunned. I start really looking through it and i take it home at night and i was just overwhelmed with the power of this book. I contacted him and we met at a conference on the Jfk Assassination and we have become good friends. I cannot recommend this book to highly. He donated