To thank you for joining us this afternoon. I will introduce david and he will introduce the other panelists. Im not afraid to say i consider columnistseminent affairs in the country. Also, i commend if you want to get a understanding of the middle east, read the novels. They are very understanding of the subtle and byzantine trends. Oing on in the middle east david will go ahead and. Ntroduce the other panelists thank you all for coming back after your coffee break. This is kind of the conspiracy of old friends. College orgo back to we begin as journalists together at the hartford crimson in addition to being outstanding journalists with time and newsweek. It is annow inside theort to get extraordinary difficult personality and evan is going to the coldn historian of issuesnking about the the book being nix on. Is absolutely extraordinary. Evan will discuss a historian of the cold war. Thinking about the issues that underlie the reading list would begin i will save more discussion abo
To thank you for joining us this afternoon. I will introduce david and he will introduce the other panelists. Im not afraid to say i consider columnistseminent affairs in the country. Also, i commend if you want to get a understanding of the middle east, read the novels. They are very understanding of the subtle and byzantine trends. Oing on in the middle east david will go ahead and. Ntroduce the other panelists thank you all for coming back after your coffee break. This is kind of the conspiracy of old friends. College orgo back to we begin as journalists together at the hartford crimson in addition to being outstanding journalists with time and newsweek. It is annow inside theort to get extraordinary difficult personality and evan is going to the coldn historian of issuesnking about the the book being nix on. Is absolutely extraordinary. Evan will discuss a historian of the cold war. Thinking about the issues that underlie the reading list would begin i will save more discussion abo
Mr. Wortman is an awardwinning journalist and the former editor at yale alumni magazine. His book the millionaires unit is about a generation of privileged young men prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in france. Driven by the belief their membership in the american elite required certain sacrifice, they led the way before america declared formally to join the war. The bulk of this group, the Yale Aero Club, became the first squadron in the u. S. Navy air reserve. The press dubbed them the millionaires unit. Without further ado please join me in welcoming mr. Marc wortman. [applause] well, thank you for coming out this evening. Thank you to barnes noble for having me. This is as many of you know a home coming of sorts. Having grown up in bethesda, it is wonderful to see so many old friends here. Especially today on the 39th day out of the 40 days and 40 nights of rain. Its been an extraordinary deluge here. Now, please pardon me if i refer to notes occasionally. Im much more
His experience in world war i. Good evening. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to barnes noble bethesda. We are delighted to have marc wortman with us this evening. Mr. Wortman is an awardwinning journalist and the former editor at yale alumni magazine. His book the millionaires unit is about a generation of privileged young men prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in france. Driven by the belief their membership in the american elite required certain sacrifice, they led the way before america declared formally to join the war. The bulk of this group, the Yale Aero Club, became the first squadron in the u. S. Navy air reserve. The press dubbed them the millionaires unit. Without further ado please join me in welcoming mr. Marc wortman. [applause] well, thank you for coming out this evening. Thank you to barnes noble for having me. This is as many of you know a home coming of sorts. Having grown up in bethesda, it is wonderful to see so many old friends here. Especia
The answer was there is no plan. I blew up, not for the first or last time, and said, how can it be the head of the soviet union dies, and we have no contingency plan. It was criminal, said the president. The truth was the United States and the other western nations had very little idea of what was happening behind the iron curtain. Two years later at the first summit meeting of the cold war era at geneva in 1955, the United States still did not know who was running the soviet union. They sent four leaders, one tall white man in a white suit with a white goatee who looked like Colonel Sanders from kentucky fried chicken, clearly, a figure head. The head of the red army, ikes ally in defeating the nazis in world war ii. Eisenhower spent his son, john, to do some spying. Subdued and shaken, just whispered, things are not as they seem. President ize president eisenhower found out who was in charge on the fifth day of the conference. The big pier of the nuclear age was a surprise attack. P