Thai im Judy Woodruff im thrilled to be joining these three amazing others today. You see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book our man Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American Century and Susan Glasser and peter baker his book is out this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of james a. Baker to third. Two brilliant books about too complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer holbrooke a democrat a Foreign Service officer a student of foreign policy. Their lives took very different trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Picking up on that this is a man with great vision and it was there before he came to washington. It was. He was a family feud aristocracy. He was expected to great things. He had a very dominating father who imparted on him the legacy of his family or the bakers
Louisiana got lasted this past week via hurricane and i pray for everyone in lake charles and that whole area. We were speaking earlier saying they are probably going to have many weeks of not months of no power and trouble with their water system. And even people as far north as shreveport and monroe are still without power. Our thoughts go out to them. So anyway we are here today with jack davis in conversation with the author. Jack is a professor of history specializing in them for mental history and sustainability studies. Also the author of Pulitzer Prizewinning the gulf, the making of an american city. Nil in addition to the Pulitzer Prize the gulf was the news york times noted book of 2017 and made several other bestseller list that year including the Washington Post and pr in jack, welcome. Its great to have you here with us today. See my pleasure being here. Will turn to jack and eric and let them start the conversation. People have questions they can go to the chat room and w
My name is Katie Willard and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, i would like to go over a few quick announcements. First, please silence your cellphones and other noise making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight. So you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly, during our question and answer portion, in the interest of our video and audio recording, if you could come up to the microphone right here by the white pillar. That wave, we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. And lastly, once everything is done, if you could please pull up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight, i am pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. Cohen is the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet ink as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. He has written sever
Can tell we probably have, i know leonard has readers from all over the world. In fact he has readers from the United States and canada and mexico, hades, jamaica guatemala bolivia and brazil. And probably even pasadena. [laughter] thank you rob. My pleasure. Select thank you everyone for joining us for this evenings event. My name is kim sutton. Im the host at tonights event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to encourage you to check out our lineup of upcoming virtual events. One of our many Upcoming Events very looking forward to is tiffani d croft in conversation about cross us to book, say it louder. Black voters, white narratives and saving our democracy. Thats next friday the 18th. As well, please determine to follow us on twitter, facebook an instagram. Tonight, we are honored to welcome leonard saari, and rob paulson. Leonard received his phd and theoretical civics of the university of california at berkeley. Was an alexander fellow at the max planck institute. It wa
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