U. S. Government opposite action so that every person who cared about any kind of injustice would email me, see me on the streets and demand you release documents, then of course we have them. If every single let me say this about the question you asked. Every single document in the archives that reveals abusive or improper surveillance for surveillance done for political ends or surveillance that is that a way that is different from how the u. S. Government has been claiming it is done will be published, whether it is published by me or somebody else. Are you talking to Martin Gelman . He talked about more information coming . Theres a good, healthy competition that fuels each of us. I am not talking to Martin Gelman but i hope and expect he will continue to do the reporting he has been doing. Thank you, everybody, so much. I appreciate it. [applause] thank you for joining us and for your thoughtful questions. We now have the book signing. If the number on your ticket is between 1, an
Great pleasure to introduce her moderator for the conversation, doug foster. Thank you and thank you for coming. Its great to meet you and have a chance to talk about the wonderful book. I wanted to start with the wonderful essay from the great kenyan satirist denyer banca pena who wrote that nine bloodedly good essay, how to read about africa by which he meant of course all of us who write about the continent should stop representing that. Hes down with the following. Broad brush strokes throughout are good. Avoid having the african carrot tears laugh or struggle to educate their kids or just make good mundane circumstances. How could the women except in about europe or america and africa. African characters should be colorful, exotic, larger than life, but empty inside with no dialogue, no complex resolutions in their stories come in no kirks to confuse the cause. Perhaps we could start there since it seems to me that your book is precisely what hes advocating in his essay and that i
In terms of generating these this analytical thinking is qualify them. You can make a lot of money. De question from both of you. And and his, it seemed that both of you have missed the fact that when you raise the minimum wage are many businesses that will not be able to be created that the causes too high. These businesses would have hired not only people who work below minimum wage, but the theory of the people all the way up the wage letter. This is even a bigger loss. I can tell in not going to resolve the questions. One minute marry can have it if she wants. Here we have time for one more question. Of the tnc first. Chrysler job creation. You make a good point. The money, the thing is, the minimum wage is almost like it sets a standard in cant create jobs were workers to of least 10. 10 an hour worth of work. Then maybe in a modern economy there are not jobs that need to be created. Dont know. If i could address, you are exactly right. That is what we mean. Businesses are destroy
Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005
To all wealthy authors who publish. I should mention the same breath where publishing james webb, who is a terrific United States senator and his focus right now. So i dont want to favor one author over another. When we acquired that book, Jonathan Karp knocked down here and now sits there was anything we could do for the ebook specifically to brainstorm some ideas and talked about when the right time to act on those ideas might be. We been thinking about also as a Digital Product from the very beginning. Of my rule is the National Media and the communications team. What is an effective Media Campaign . Verdugo . Depends on what the book is and it depends on what the potential for a book is. There is what i like to think of as topdown campaigns, campaigns like Hillary Clinton, which begin with National Media and breakout from there. A few big hit generate a number of things that sort of create themselves. My role at the clinton title has been to work on the marketing side of that, whic