Watch booktv every weekend on cspan2. Good evening. Good evening. Im steve we bert with the like librarys Public Affairs staff and i want to welcome you and thank you for being with us tonight. And thanks to rainy day books, our frequent and favorite collaborator and of course one over the nations great independent book stores. We operated ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and the relevance of our signature programming, whether were holding forums on local issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporter calls, wrote a coup of oped pieces for the New York Times and for cnn business. After the death of david koch. Chris spent aye eight years ee. Americaed in kochland, the place and title of his book, pulling back the curtain on the extraordinary Business Empire and the very potent Politic
Good evening. Good evening. Im steve we bert with the like librarys Public Affairs staff and i want to welcome you and thank you for being with us tonight. And thanks to rainy day books, our frequent and favorite collaborator and of course one over the nations great independent book stores. We operated ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and the relevance of our signature programming, whether were holding forums on local issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporter calls, wrote a coup of oped pieces for the New York Times and for cnn business. After the death of david koch. Chris spent aye eight years ee. Americaed in kochland, the place and title of his book, pulling back the curtain on the extraordinary Business Empire and the very potent Political Network that was put together by da
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With tensions very high in an already very tense region of the world, indias Prime Minister is about to address the nation from red fort in delhi. India is celebrating its 73rd Independence Day, and this is Narendra Modis first Independence Day address since he was returned to power with a massive election mandate. He is all but certain to address his governments massively controversial decision to scrap article 370, which granted special status to jammu and kashmir. Rahul tandon is in delhi for us. Rahul, in case people are new to this and wondering why were paying so this and wondering why were paying so much attention, this is an area and region over which india and pakistan have fought two wars, both are Nuclear Armed powers, and they came close recently to another war. It matters. It does. Bill clinton, when he was the president of the us, described it as the most dangerous place on earth because it does cause so much tension between these two nuclear powers. Not just the tension
Person to walk the length of chinas Yangtze River , the longest river in asia. Its one oclock in the morning in london and 8 00am in singapore and in hong kong, where the International Airport has been the scene of further, violent confrontations between demonstrators and police. Officers tried to storm the terminal building only to withdraw after facing heavy resistance. At one point, a suspected chinese official was held hostage by protesters. The trouble has done nothing to quell fears of chinese intervention. President trump has claimed Us Intelligence told him that beijing is moving troops to its border with hong kong. Jonathan head reports. This was the day a self styled Democracy Movement came close to mob violence. Fearful of infiltrators, the protesters seized individuals they believed were undercover chinese officers. With emotions so raw it was hard to restrain them. For a second day they had occupied the airport and shut it down. Luggage trolleys rammed together to make eff