Well put it that way. I dont consider myself a journalist. Life of being an interviewer. How do you define readership . Leadership . Thank you for coming. Good to be with you. You have served the country. Equity, aw in private higher calling. How do you compare the military to private equity. I would not agree wholeheartedly, but i feel privileged to be in the private i think itness and privilegestop the and have a famous exercise. So, living in new york, you run around central park and how hard was that . You wear sunglasses and a hat and you go unrecognized. Ask if veterans would please stand up to be recognized so that we could thank you for what you have done in a uniform . I have often said that those all take an oath that they would the in a combat zone. I have often described them as americas new greatest generation. Something tom brokaw shouted in my ears after he heard our soldiers in the first year in iraq in the first year in mosul. And he saw all that they were doing, myria
Okay. Good morning everybody, im particularly excited to introduce this event. When we first began discussing the programming, this is the first panel that we thought of and weve been looking forward to it ever since. People have been writing about warfare ever since we had the book. And all our panelists write brilliantly on the topic but each brings a very different perspective. We have a slight change to our published program in their moderator will be sky montgomery from the Camden Institute of the university of missouri. Im grateful to her for stepping in on short notice so join me in welcoming sky, ishmael beah, Gregory Fontenot, Candice Millard and Whitney Terrell. [applause] thank you very much for that warm introduction. As long as human beings have been waging war, they been selling bad stories. Whether its to celebrate the heroic or merely make sense out of the chaos of combat, we can conclude something of the universality of war to the Human Experience from the fact that pl
Hi. Welcome to the boston book festival and todays session. My name is christine, and i am a board member of the boston book festival, and i am just one of dozens which feels like hundreds who work behind the scenes and truly believe that the festival is a wonderful source of inspiration and eyedsharing. Idsharing ideasharing. We have been gifted a beautiful new vespa, its under the welcome tent, and all donations will go towards keeping the festival free for you all. Donations are just 10, and i would love to see one of you riding around the city in that beautiful thing. So thank you so much. One other administrative thing is we will have a book signing right across the hall where you can ask the presenters any additional questions. So please enjoy todays session. Thank you. [applause] hello. Im Alexander Danner of the writers room of boston. I will be your moderator for tonights presentation with hillary chute and Sarah Glidden. I myself am an author, im also a writer of comics with
This morning by asking you our viewers are you confident in the u. S. Strategy to combat isis . The numbers are on your screen. Good morning. Before we get to your calls about how confident you are in the u. S. Strategy to combat iraq, lets take a look at what president obama said yesterday at his press conference at the pentagon. I do think that because of our extraordinary efforts the homeland is significantly safer than it otherwise would be. Now, in some ways this is arguing the counter factuals, but the attacks we prevent i take great satisfaction in and i am grateful for the extraordinary work that our teams do. I dont think theres any doubt that had we not destroyed al qaeda in the fata, that more americans would have been killed. And we might have seen more attacks like we saw on 9 11, and we have maintained vigilance, recognizing that those threats still remain, those aspirations in the minds of these folks still remain. But it is much harder for them to carry out largescale a
Crimes against humanity. Violence erupt it six years ago that left more than 3000 dead. Also coming up this hour, when angola was booming when investors poured in. With the collapse in oil prices, many are struggling. Of aay be just side shy of 74, the Paul Mccartney still knows how to put on a show. First, our top story, live from paris. There are more headaches for travelers here in france today, and what could be several days to come. Most of the train and plane strikes are linked to the controversial labor reform the french government is trying to push through, and the timing could not be worse. Football hosting the tournament in 10 days time. Our correspondent has more a war of wills between the french Prime Minister and the head of the french labor union. Both are vowing they will not back down. The governments vowing to put in place what looks like a strategy it has been negotiating when in one oneonone with different sectors. On tuesday, the countrys petition minister described