Thing to 12 are sponsors. [applause] before we begin we ask you silence your cell phones turned off your camera flashes and please welcome miles harvey and ann dwyer. Thank you so much it is a delight to be here. My name is ann dwyer and the editor of crane chicago business. Today my more important credential as i happen to be good friends with miles harvey. In fact weve known each other, thought about this yesterday, for more than 30 years did you know that . [laughter] yes i guess i did. Went miles asked me too come with him today to talk about his latest work and celebrate its publication in paperback i was of course thrilled to do it. Because over the 30 years ive known miles ive watched him with astonishment and amazement transform himself from a journalist, to a writer and thinker, to teacher. And no one works harder than miles. He has worked so very hard on this latest volume, king of confidence. It is meticulously researched. It is beautifully written. also rippling through the
As well to please silence your phones. Our panelist is carolynning of the Washington Post. Were thrilled to have her here today. And i wanted to read you a very brief, bio mislenic has worked at the Washington Post since 2000. And she previously reported at the Philadelphia Inquirer the Charlotte Observer and last but not least the bryn mawr haverford by college news. As a as a former College Newspaper person myself. I wanted to pay tribute to that. But she won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize among many other accolades. For her work on misconduct inside the secret service, which will be discussing today. And in addition to this book zero fail the rise and fall of the secret service will be discussing. Today she is also written to other books a very stable genius donald j. Trumps testing of america with her colleague philip rucker. And also i alone can fix it. Donald j. Trumps catastrophic final year about the pandemic that weve been living through for the past two years. So, please give her a
And last but not least as a former College Newspaper wanted to pay tribute to that. [applause] she won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize among many other accolades for her work on misconduct, which we will be discussing today and in addition to this book the rise and fall of the secret service, we will be discussing shes also written two other books and also i alone canum fix it, the catastrophic final year of the pandemic weve been living through for theso past two years so please give her a warm welcome. [applause] thank you for being here today. Your book captures the issues inside the secret service asge well as the individual heroism of agents when lives are on the line. Its a rich topic for discussion and i wanted to start by asking having covered the secret Service Since 2012, when did you think this would be such a rich topic of discussion for a book . I am so delighted im being questioned by a lawyer that used to be a journalist. Nli grew up in a family of lawys and im the only one that
What in the past brought you to one of the wellknown commentators in the wall street journal and why the influencers were getting their. I joined the College Newspaper back in the early 90s when i was in school and thats where i got the political bug. I discovered riders, thinkers, intellectuals and they had a huge impact on my intellectual development and thinking about race in particular as well as economics and politics and some other issues. So thats where i got my start. I interned at usa today during college and then about six months after graduation i joined the wall street journal. I think we were impressed with of the journal editorial page separatingg the issues of some people talking about trumps personality from the issues of the trump policies. Can you give us a little bit before we get into the substance of the book in terms of analyzing the policies what he set out to do it whether he accomplished it and what kind of impact. The journals did do plenty of criticizing Pres
Conservative commentator as wall street journal sort of what you influencers were getting there. Well, i i joined the College Newspaper back in the early 1990s when i was in school and that sort of where i got the political the political bug. I i discovered writers thinkers intellectuals like thomas sole and Shelby Steele and glenn lowry and they had a huge impact on my my intellectual development and on my thinking about race in particular as well as economics and politics and and some other issues. So so thats where i got my start. I i interned at usa today during college and then about six months after graduation. I joined the wall street journal and and ive been writing for that newspaper ever since so jason, i think many viewers and readers of the wall street journal were kind of impressed with the journal editorial page separating the issues of some people talking about trumps personality from the issues of a trump policies. Can you kind of give us a little bit before we get into