I want my audience members to know, i want to bring this to you from head or high water. Hopefully just had. We have interruptions, i want to apologize before him for technical difficulties with the pending storm but its my pleasure to get this program started by passing it on to the museums stone historian and executive director of our institute for the study of war and democracy. Thanks and welcome to everyone from louisiana. Quite literally in the path of the storm, a few hours from the eye of the hurricane. The world is getting a lot of the ladder and we hope we dont get any today. We are really excited about todays program. Every now and then, you get to interview and author in the case of this particular author, this might be difficult but hes a writer, best selling author of numerous spy among friends great the trail, a great hes written and presented these documentaries of his work. He is a star in the field. Ben mcintyre welcome to the National World war ii about. Thank you so
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After the american dream. You can also watch all of our past programs any time at booktv. Org. Good evening everyone, i have been working with our coauthors to maximize the visual presence. Theyve written a very engaging book thats attracted many review since it came out a few months ago. The basic premise of the book is that the most important thing that the athletes get is a quality education. The book is structured into four sections, the history of the scholar athlete, profiles of high achieving athletes and how scholar athletes when and how to reform the system. The book makes the case that varsity athletics and Academic Excellence are not mutually exclusive. Both play an Important Role in the development of personal bonds and core values that lead to a happy and productive life. To add to the voice today the current pandemic is causing athletes, universities and the public to question the status quo. We will be using an interview format today there will be plenty of time for audi
Welcome back to booktv on cspan2. Live coverage of the 2017 National Book festival. Condoleeza rice interviewed by one of the major sponsors of the festival, david reubenstein. Over in the history and biography room, ben mcintyre has started his talk. Well bring that to you live in progress. It is about special forces during world war ii. Rogue heroes is the name of the book. Then effectively run away back into the desert. It sound like a simple idea and indeed it was, but in many ways it was completely revolutionary because many of the middleranking officers at that point had a very static idea hom war is fought. This came from the first world war. The idea two large armies will meet in a large space and fight it out until one of them wins. What sterling was recommending completely different and completely revolutionary. He got permission to start recruiting and he set about doing this in very particular way. He was looking for people who were unconventional. He was looking for people
Quote, the execution of the laws is more important than the making them. If you think of leadership as three tasks like getting the answer right, the policy right, communicating that, and then implementing it, the argument i make this book that president s spend so much time on communication that it leaves little time to think about how they are going to implement the policies they want to implement and that involves understanding something that the, in the Business Schools we call organizational capacity. In other words, in the federal government, is the piece of the federal government that youre giving this job to, is it capable, is it up to the job that youre asking, you, the president are asking it to do. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Here is a look at some of the staff picks from powells bookstore in portland, oregon. The undoing project, Michael Lewis analyzes the findings of two israeli psychologists whose work shows humans are predisposed to irrat