Later, a book about the federal government forced migration of native americans in the territories west of the mississippi in the mid 19th century. Applicants 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Enjoy book tv this weekend every weekend on cspan2. My name is karen, thank you for joining us here at the National Security. We are delighted to bring you, closer. With me today, chris, awardwinning author, documentary maker, his new book is the spy masters. Can you see it . Shaping history of the teacher were going to talk a lot about this today but first, what is welcome, chris. Thank you for joining us. Thanks so much for having me be back this is a wonderful read. I started it, i was like zero no, this is going to be too much information, i wont be able to take an but its fantastic. In addition to your own knowledge and research, it is based on over 70 interviews and you interviewed among those, the directors of the cia, except for the current one and just going to say it, it is not so much about the cia
Announcer stephen welcomes joy reid and yahya abdulmateen, ii, featuring jon batiste and stay homin now live on tape from the ed sullivan theaters Office Building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody welcome to a late show im your host Stephen Colbert. Let me just key up here. Mmm oooh, tepid i thought that was going to be hotter than it was. Hello. So nice to see you. Speaking of hot have you lost weight . You look amazing. We havent been together for a week, and ive missed so much has happened. So much has happened today. So much has happened in the last few hours. Honest to god, you guys back me up, im not entirely sure what were going to read even though weve read all of it because we had to change the order of everything minutes ago. The president ial election is only 15 days away. I cant wait for this to just be over. Its like an upcoming surgery, in that im planning on being anesthetized for the event. You know who could use some painkillers . Donald trum
This is a wonderful read. When i started it i was sort of like this is going be too much information. I will be able to take it in. Its fantastic. Its based on an addition to your own knowledge and research its based on over 70 interviews and youve interviewed among those the leading director of the living directors of the caa except for the current one. Its really not going to say it, its not so much about the cia directors as about the cia directors and the relationship to the white house and the president. Would you agree with that . Thanks for the kind words about the book, because one of the things i really tried to do, maybe above all, was to humanize these directors. I was lucky because it is a cast of characters never couldve dreamt up, from dick helms act in the 60s was the quintessential cia director bob gates described to me as a james bond type character. Cigarette in one hand, dry martini in the other who could walk into the oval office and tell lbj that the domino theory
What america should be. The northerners who won had an idea of what america should be. The indians and the chinese at out west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic affect on what it eventually became. Today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of the north, south, and the west into a new nation in the wake of the civil war. The story of women is more crucial to that story than most people realize. Most people when they think about womens rights in america start here and you probably know about this from high school, the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 when a number of women came tog
We have gone through that with the africanamerican men who had fought for the union had some ideas for what the union should be, and certainly white southerners had in idea about what america should be. The northerners who won had an idea, the indians and the chinese at west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic affect on what it eventually became. Today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of the north, south, and the west into a new nation in the wake of the civil war. The story of women is more crucial to that story than most people realize. Most people when they think about women