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And were back now live from Jones College Prep High School in chicago and the Chicago Tribunes annual lit fest. Starting now mark bowden talks about his recent book, americas involvement in the vietnam war. Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Id like to give a shout out to our sponsors. This program is being broadcast live on cspan 2s book tv. At this time id like to throw it over to our interview, Chicago Tribune film critic michael phillips. [applaus [applause]. Thank you, thanks for coming out today and its my pleasure to talk with mark bowden about his new book hue 1968. For those of you who dont know his resume, hes a National Correspondent for the atlantic, contributing editor vanity fair, a writer, and author of many books on subjects all over the literally all over the world, from colombia and pablo escobar, an account to dday, to the killing of usama bin laden, many subjects. Probably best known for blackhawk dow
Look for these events to air in the near future on booktv, on cspan2. Margie ross the head of regular nory publishing. We have a busy fall planned. Our first big book of the fall will be a become called the big lie. Now, you know danesh is a multiple time number one New York Times best selling author with regular nary publishing and its about how the left call is accusing conservatives, our major, our reads, or being fascist. The new accusation. Were not racist anymore. Were fascist, and he says if you look at the way the left conducts itself, theyre the fascists. Theyre the people who want to shut down free speech, who want to have a bigger government and want the government to have more control over our lives, and who are bullying and rioting and disrupting when they dont like the results of an election. Just like a fascist would do. Who else . We also have second book by Sebastian Gorka why we fight. Last year we did a great book with Sebastian Gorka called defeating jihad and he is