Our speakers are wellknown journalists. Al hunt, former Washington Bureau chief, the wall street journal and host of the podcast 2022 politics war room, and the author. The book Mary Llewellyn mcneil. More them later, though. Since the book has not been released before tonight, the presenters asked that i give you a very brief bit of. Who was wallace and why should we care about him . Wallace carroll although largely unknown, today was of the most respected and influential journalists, editors and publishers of the 20th century. A reporter. The united press in europe during, the 1930s and early 1940, carol covered of the most significant events leading to and during World War Two. Then went on to work for the u. S. Office of war information, undertook two stints as editor and later publisher of the Winston Salem journal and served as number two to james reston in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times. Again more details to come, but was much more than a globetrotting journalist g
Bureau chief, the wall street journal and host of the podcast 2022 politics war room, and the author. The book Mary Llewellyn mcneil. More them later, though. Since the book has not been released before tonight, the presenters asked that i give you a very brief bit of. Who was wallace and why should we care about him . Wallace carroll although largely unknown, today was of the most respected and influential journalists, editors and publishers of the 20th century. A reporter. The united press in europe during, the 1930s and early 1940, carol covered of the most significant events leading to and during World War Two. Then went on to work for the u. S. Office of war information, undertook two stints as editor and later publisher of the Winston Salem journal and served as number two to james reston in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times. Again more details to come, but was much more than a globetrotting journalist giving us eyewitness accounts of events, or even just your run of th
Us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i kept thinking about other works and other works that sort of but maybe as a kid and as an adult sort of moved me into writing about war the way that i did and so i thought i took a little take a little time to do that. And i i guess first off i want to start by ta
Alexander has written for esquire Rolling Stone the nation narrative. I knew id get this one now narratively. And elsewhere he holds an mfa in literary reportage from the New York University Arthur L Carter school of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i ke
Narratively. And elsewhere he holds an mfa in literary reportage from the New York University Arthur L Carter school of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deploying to the mediterranean. East africa in iraq, he grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States to japan. He currently lives in new york city, but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savannah. Welcome to jared alexander. Good morning. Wow, give me one sec here. Okay . First thanks for having me. I its been a hard year for facetoface interactions with books and her two years i suppose and just being here is a real honor. Actually, im was really happy to be invited and speak to you guys about my book and about some of the stuff that sort of influenced it. And thats kind of what i want to talk about actually is i i just when i thought about what i was going to come up here and talk about i kept thinking about other works and other works that sort of but maybe as a kid and as an adult sor