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Welcome. Thank for making the effort to get here on this snow day. Not really but that qualifies her in washington. Needless to say i dont think any of us expected here in the first week of 2018 the iran story we are focusing on is the story of protest and the mystic unrest with the biggest demonstrations we have seen since 2009 on the contrary was the question of sanctions and waivers of the jcp away and efforts of congress to amend that legislation. That is in play but now cast in a different light. So now we have our experts for the implications for u. S. Policy from different angles. I will introduce folks the order i will call them. Patrick is the morningstar senior fellow director of research at the institute and will look at the background of these protests. What is happening inside iran economically to his the unrest. Then return to our colleague that is one of the most skillful interpreters where they might be going in the future. Then return to my guys instead as the director
Good evening. Im the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of the entire staff, welcome and thank you for coming. Its quite a treat to have speed with us to talk about his new book. This is the first time steve has had an opportunity to do standup talking about the book. Steve of course is a legend in journalism. To proceed the big picture and his skill at presenting the narrative of something he spent 20 years at the Washington Post including a stint as a financial reporter as the correspondent ahead of the sunday magazine after six years he was the managing editor of vapor. After leaving the post a decade ago, he served as the president of the new America Foundation that took over as the dean of Columbia University journalism school. He also continues to work as a journalist on the staff of the new yorker magazine and along the way hes written revealing books about some important subjects of the involvement in afghanistan and the bin laden family and exxon mobil. He is one of two
Have steve coll with us to talk about his new book directorate s which is just out this week. In fact this is the first time steve has had an opportunity to do his kind of standup talk about the book. Steve is a legend in journalism for this prodigiousness, the clarity and incisesiveness of this process. His ability to perceive the big picture and his skill at presenting grand narrative of something. He spent 20 years at the washington post, including stints as a financial reporter, foreign correspondent, a head of the sunday magazine, and for six years, he was managing editor of the paper. After leaving the post a decade ago, he served as president of the new america foundation, then took over as dean of columbia universitys journal jim school. He also continues to work as a journalist on the staff of the the new yorker magazine, and along the wail he was written revealing books about very big, important subjects, including americas involvement in afghanistan, the bin laden family, an
Todays lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war in the north and south. Next week, when we have our guest speaker she will be talking about the western campaigns in more detail. There are other aspects of the war, financing the war, womens participation that we will not get to today that we will be leaving for future classes. I wanted to start by talking about one of the best recent books on the American Revolution called the men who lost america. He argues that british generals are described as incompetent, in decisive, but he argues that these were competitive men in the midst accomplished professionals, and the reason why they failed was not due to a character flaw, but because they faced insurmountable obstacles fighting a war in america. I will lay out some of those obstacles. The first thing is diplomacy. In the seven years war britain had allies. During the war for american independence they found themselves relatively alone, fighting france in 1778. S