Hello, everyone. Good evening and welcome to politics and prose. My name is codel be introducing tonight guest speaker. Before we get started i have a few notes to cover. First it would be great if everyone could silence any cell phones and other Electronic Devices they may have on them we will be recording audio for two nights event and you can see our friends from cspan here are recording. Great. Love to have you. We will be doing a q a following the presentation so we ask any questions you may have, use the microphone provided so you can pick up the audio and the whole world would be able to see. I know, right, the future. One final thing of course with plenty of copies of trend that at the front register it like a purchase a copy after the event. Adam minter is a columnist from the Bloomberg Opinion has been covering the Global Recycling interest for over two tickets. His new book, secondhand travels in the new global garage sale is everything investigation of whats happened to all
Session. Catherine has been involved with our museum for over a ecade and just two months ago, she helped organize a program where we had scholars from around the continent come for a daylong program. Catherines information is in your program. I point out that in addition to being a professor at Mississippi State university she is the author of two fine books, one entitled, the battle of kursk and the other, strategy and tactics. Ladies and jump in, dr. Catherine barbeeand liza mundy. [applause] good morning. Happy to see all of these nice faces outfront. This is a fantastic event and im excited about being part of it. I would like to introduce liza mundy, a journalist and author of four books and you can read her bio the program. She is going to talk to us about an amazing book, code girls the untold story of the american women code breakers of world war ii which i recently read and highly recommend. So im looking for to her presentation. [applause] liza thank you so much, dr. Barbier
U. S. Navy women code breakers remarks were hosted by the National World were to museum in new orleans. The next session is when i can mention earlier. Haspanelists liza munday agreed to expand on her original talk. Session and leave the conversation and q a after the presentation, we have asked our friend catherine barb e. A. , professor at the city state university, to lead the session. Catherine has been involved with our museum for over a decade and just to mess ago she helped just two months ago, she upped organize a program where we had scholars from around the continent come for a daylong program. Catherines information is in your program. I point out that in addition to being a professor at Mississippi State university she is the author of two fine books, one entitled, the battle of kursk and the other, strategy and tactics. Ladies and jump in, dr. Mundy. Ne barbeeand liza [applause] good morning. Happy to see all of these nice faces outfront. This is a fantastic event and im e
Will be introducing tonights guest speaker but before we get started first please silence any cell phones or any other Electronic Devices we will be recording audio cspan is here recording. We will be doing a q a following the presentation we have plenty of copies at the register if you like to purchase after the event. A columnist from the Bloomberg Opinion covering industry over two decades his new book secondhand is a revealing investigation of what has happened to those billions of items we clean out our home they could end up to a thrift store flea markets in Southeast Asia or in ghana to examine all facets of the multibilliondollar Global Industry including the marketing practices to load up after the purge of Household Items please give him a warm welcome. [applause] thanks to everyone for being here including the man who commissioned my first article so thats quite a thrill to have him here at this reading. When you finish a book you get to questions typically the first is very
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