Tonighting we have m. J. Hegar with her book, shoot like a girl that details her time in afghanistan [cheers and applause] and her fight to eliminate the militarys Ground Combat exclusion policy which kept female Armed Service members from officially serving in combat roles. Shelys in austin with her lives in austin with her family and gives back to herral that matter by mentoring cadets. She continues to speak about her fight for increased military effectively through equality. We are so pleased to have her tonight, so without further ado, m. J. Hegar. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. And thank you to book people. You guys have been so wonderful and warm. I keep telling everybody, wherever you bought your book, return it and buy it from book people. Thank you all so much to. Be i am so nervous right now because im speaking to a wunsch of people who bunch of people who i know and love and respect, many of whom who are toastmasters. So i would ask you to not evaluate this speech
And training feature leaders of the army. As a proud army brat, it is my honor to introduce fourstar army general David Perkins. As the commanding general of the u. S. Army training and doctrine command, general David Perkins is it possible for selecting and recruiting every u. S. Army soldier, training and educating professionals, and designing the future u. S. Army to support National Security. A graduate of the u. S. Military academy at west point in 1980, general perkins has had numerous Senior Leadership positions over his career. These include special assistant to the speaker of the house, 104th u. S. Congress, Battalion Commander beating over 1000 personnel during operation able sentry, reggae commander leading over 3000 personnel during the invasion of iraq in 2003, executive assistant to the vicechairman of the joint chiefs of staff and Division Commander leading over 10,000 personnel during the transition of u. S. Forces from iraq in 2010 32011. Through 2011. On november 2011
As a proud army brat, it is my honor to introduce fourstar army general David Perkins. As the commanding general of the u. S. Army training and doctrine command, general David Perkins is it possible for selecting and recruiting every u. S. Army soldier, training and educating professionals, and designing the future u. S. Army to support National Security. A graduate of the u. S. Military academy at west point in 1980, general perkins has had numerous Senior Leadership positions over his career. These include special assistant to the speaker of the house, 104th u. S. Congress, Battalion Commander beating over 1000 personnel during operation able sentry, Brigade Commander leading over 3000 personnel during the invasion of iraq in 2003, executive assistant to the vicechairman of the joint chiefs of staff and Division Commander leading over 10,000 personnel during the transition of u. S. Forces from iraq 2003 2011. Q from 2010 through on november 2011 through february 2014, general perkins
And were back now live from Jones College Prep High School in chicago and the Chicago Tribunes annual lit fest. Starting now mark bowden talks about his recent book, americas involvement in the vietnam war. Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Id like to give a shout out to our sponsors. 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 subjects. Probably best known for blackhawk dow
Look for these events to air in the near future on booktv, on cspan2. Margie ross the head of regular nory publishing. We have a busy fall planned. Our first big book of the fall will be a become called the big lie. Now, you know danesh is a multiple time number one New York Times best selling author with regular nary publishing and its about how the left call is accusing conservatives, our major, our reads, or being fascist. The new accusation. Were not racist anymore. Were fascist, and he says if you look at the way the left conducts itself, theyre the fascists. Theyre the people who want to shut down free speech, who want to have a bigger government and want the government to have more control over our lives, and who are bullying and rioting and disrupting when they dont like the results of an election. Just like a fascist would do. Who else . We also have second book by Sebastian Gorka why we fight. Last year we did a great book with Sebastian Gorka called defeating jihad and he is