He spent 15 years immersed in Brent Cummings his world to create an intimate acutely observed and beautifully written portrait of his life, community, thoughts and feelings as as america became more and more divided, his book is an American Dreamer. This is the new book. And people like geraldine writes in a lovely atlanta suburb to neighbors both decent yet damaged men find themselves on opposite sides of the line in a fracturing david finkel account is poetic, profound and irresistible ably page turning its white album for a new decade of division and dissolution. David finkel is an editor and writer at the Washington Post he won a pulitzer. Also, hes a macarthur fellow recipient. His author, the author of two really, really great books, which i think theyll talk about tonight as well. Thank you for your service and the good soldiers now. Now, Dave Lawrence to all of us here needs. No introduction at all. But since this is on cspan, i think ill let some of the others out there get to
Better to be inaugural speaker with dave in conversation than our guest tonight david frankel. Hes known for his unique indepth. He spent 15 years immersed in Brent Cummings his world to create an intimate acutely observed and beautifully written portrait of his life, community, thoughts and feelings as as america became more and more divided, his book is an American Dreamer. This is the new book. And people like geraldine writes in a lovely atlanta suburb to neighbors both decent yet damaged men find themselves on opposite sides of the line in a fracturing david finkel account is poetic, profound and irresistible ably page turning its white album for a new decade of division and dissolution. David finkel is an editor and writer at the Washington Post he won a pulitzer. Also, hes a macarthur fellow recipient. His author, the author of two really, really great books, which i think theyll talk about tonight as well. Thank you for your service and the good soldiers now. Now, Dave Lawrence
Our guest tonight david frankel. Hes known for his unique indepth. He spent 15 years immersed in Brent Cummings his world to create an intimate acutely observed and beautifully written portrait of his life, community, thoughts and feelings as as america became more and more divided, his book is an American Dreamer. This is the new book. And people like geraldine writes in a lovely atlanta suburb to neighbors both decent yet damaged men find themselves on opposite sides of the line in a fracturing david finkel account is poetic, profound and irresistible ably page turning its white album for a new decade of division and dissolution. David finkel is an editor and writer at the Washington Post he won a pulitzer. Also, hes a macarthur fellow recipient. His author, the author of two really, really great books, which i think theyll talk about tonight as well. Thank you for your service and the good soldiers now. Now, Dave Lawrence to all of us here needs. No introduction at all. But since th
Better to be inaugural speaker with dave in conversation than our guest tonight david frankel. Hes known for his unique indepth. He spent 15 years immersed in Brent Cummings his world to create an intimate acutely observed and beautifully written portrait of his life, community, thoughts and feelings as as america became more and more divided, his book is an American Dreamer. This is the new book. And people like geraldine writes in a lovely atlanta suburb to neighbors both decent yet damaged men find themselves on opposite sides of the line in a fracturing david finkel account is poetic, profound and irresistible ably page turning its white album for a new decade of division and dissolution. David finkel is an editor and writer at the Washington Post he won a pulitzer. Also, hes a macarthur fellow recipient. His author, the author of two really, really great books, which i think theyll talk about tonight as well. Thank you for your service and the good soldiers now. Now, Dave Lawrence
Disney, of course, as you heard by now, buying various assets of 21st century fox in a deal worth dl more than 66 billion when you include the debt david faber broke the story weeks ago that the two companies were in talks and lo and behold, its soup now. Congratulati congratulations. Thanks. We were reminiscing about the various deals youve broken over the years. Yes, you and i go back to my first big one, British Telecom and mci. 2 22 billion deal in inflation . Exactly that got to the finish line on this one, bill a lot of talking going on between disney and fox and also our Parent Company, comcast and fox. Thats sort of where we want to begin today as we head toward the later parts of the day comcast did compete vigorously for these assets people close to the company indicate, or people close to all the companies involved, that being the people who were advising and so forth, indicate that the bid from comcast, in fact, did have a higher value than what fox accepted from disney we