Graham. The coowner and with my wife and behalf of the entire staff i would like to wem you. A few notes it would be a good time to turn off your cellphone or anything that might go beep. When we get to the q and a part of the session try to make your way to the microphones. We are recording for our Youtube Channel and cspan tv is here. Finally, when we get to the end of the program, before you come up to have your books signed our staff would appreciate it if you fold up the chairs you are sitting in and lean them against something that will not topple over. I am delighted to be detrointroducing evan thomas. He is a wonderfully fluid writer and engaging and someone who has enjoyed two remarkable careers. One living in the presence as an accomplished journalist and the other living in the past as a firstrate historian. In journalism he spent ten years with Time Magazine moving to news week staying for 20 years. He was Washington Bureau chief and assisting managing editor and editor at
Years of research. Its the unofficial sequel to his book which new orleans a lot of slaves who were brought in from the kind of from haiti and cuba and also from africa. So that is one that were very excited for. Its an october title. Host and are you going to send the author on tour one that booktv would look at covering. Guest absolutely. The authors will be going along the mid Atlantic Coast to various locations that are talked about in the book Chesapeake Bay area. Host what other books do you have that you think booktv would be interested, booktv viewers would be interested in . Guest 17 [inaudible] i dont know if you can see the cover, it is one of the first modern sub b marine rescues submarine rescues. The it was a training accident with, i believe, the uss spaulding. Six of the members of the 4 were in the to torpedo area, and they were still alive when the submarine sank. People could hear morse code is their hope. And so a rescue effort, there was a sixday winter storm, so i
I was trained as a phd in economics first at the university of chicago under Milton Friedman. Many people took the class several times not because they failed but they wanted to hear him again and again so i became a free marketer and you cant help but hear friedman. Then i go to mit and i get two additional nobel prize winners. And of course they are keynesians and i am convinced now its not going to be easily persuaded, but the economy has to be saved in every session with more stimulus spending. So you might ask why did i get into marketing . Because ive written 50 or more books on marketing. Marketing is the engine of capitalism im convinced. Namely capitalism is a great Economic System in producing millions of goods and services that could sit on the shelf and unless people are there to buy it. Marketing is the connection. Its the engine that says to people wouldnt like this, wouldnt you like an apple watch, or whatever. So weve got to recognize that marketing is an economic disci
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Blockade with impunity. So negroponte [inaudible] thousand were friends with vietnam now were friends with vietnam, but theres no question that the development of the country is well behind those of the other Southeast Asian countries as a result of 20 years of communism. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, for coming. We have copies of the last american diplomat for sale at the table, and mr. Liebmann had been happy to sign your book up at the table here. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 every weekend. 48 hours of people and event bs that help document the american story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. Book tv is on location in new york city at the publishers annual trade show called bookexpo america, and one of the things we like to do is talk to the publishers about some of the books they have coming out in the fall. Cynthia sherry is the publisher of a group called Chicago Review