He published a series about three years after 911. The series was specifically on the fire department. It thought to talk about the decisions that happen that day and why folks went into the building. The firefighters had a level of casualties beyond the police department. He was a kid. People that loved him. We were the people that hated him. I came to regard the structure of individual life and the tragedy. It does not matter how other people commemorate that. How they observe that has nothing to do whether i have some level of empathy. Those are two simple things. I can talk about hypocrisy up one side and down the other. It does not improve me. So many good questions and hear. People are asking about your sources of information and how you write. This question brings this full circle to where you started. Which comes first, when you sit down to write, political intention or artistic intention . Or are they one and the same . Artistic intention, always. Okay, i think we will leave i
The way that bush and cheney were able to exploit the horrors of 9 11 have not been totally investigated. The kinds of crimes that were justified of 9 11 which continue. Drone bombing in yemen is still linked to 9 11. 60 words in the authorization for the use of military force is justification for bombing people who were toddlers when 9 11 happened. We do live, its a cliche but we live in an existence in terms of how all of these things are justified. I want to thank anthony very much for writing this book, for the work that he does, Smart Questions from audience and most of all to books for publishing the book and buy the books. Thank you all very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] and now on book tv after words, former Federal Reserve ben bernanke discussing his book the courage to act. 2008 financial chris sis and explains the steps taken to revive the u. S. Economy. Hes interviewed by sherro brown, Ranking Member of the senate banking, housing and urban affairs committee. P
Right away as you point out. I left the fed on saturday. And on monday i was at brookings what other blogger i lots of vitriol. The Federal Reserve let me see my emails. Because i manage by email at dozens and dozens of emails everyday and it was are you so because you could go back and third seed in realtime which we think and what was happening. I else i daily news clippings, other types of materials. So i had a wealth of material so i just sat down and bang out a draft. I should also say i have some help from David Skidmore who was a Public Affairs person at the fed who took a year off to edits this and helping with the process, helping with research. T i got a quick start and i wouldve done in about 14 months. Host a decade or less in so those are dramatic economic times, shortly in our lifetime, if not in our nations history. C you didnt probably have time to reflect much on your life during that decade. If not on our nations history, you probably have time to reflect much on your