Hello . Can you hear me. Good evening everyone. Just a bit of housekeeping. Please silence all of your cell phones. We dont want them to ring while david king is talking. Also we have cspan filming us so later during the questionandanswer portion if you would please go to the mic on this side so you can be heard i will also ask after the event before the signing if he would please take your chairs and leaned them against something solid just to help us make this door orderly looking again. Okay so at the time when there is a growing sense of unease among sensible people under fascism its important for us to look to the past and analyze the conditions that made fascism possible. Naturally we would turn to our historians as our guide into the murky realm of the past. One such historian david king is here with us today. He said albright scholar that earned his masters from cambridge and a professor who once thought to european History History talked who once taught european history. He is
Lecture series. Before we begin todays program, i would like to remind you of a few other programs coming up in the near future. Thursday, march 16th at 7 00 p. M. , damion shields will present a lecture on the forgot irish. Irish immigrant experiences in america. This will be the u. S. Book launch of the book and a book signing following. On wednesday march 22nd at 7 00 p. M. Will present a Film Screening following these switches in partnership with the d. C. Environmental own festival. Find out more at the center of their programs, please take one of our events which shall find on the racks in the theater lobby or visit our website at www. Archives. Gov calendar. Our topic for today is agent 110 an american spymaster and the german resistance in wwii by scott miller. Scott miller is an author and former Foreign Correspondent with the wall street journal. His first book, the president and the assassin, Mckinley Mckinley commentary in the empire to dine the American Century was a must
Were in their height, the number of private security contractors outnumbered the us troops. How did that come to be . Again, i think we are like that one of the unintended consequences of relying on the all volunteer force and allowing the country to slide into a condition of permanent war. We ended up with too much work, too few warriors and so policymakers and the pentagon turned to the notion of defense contractors to try to fill the gap. At a very high cost. At a very high cost and i would argue with little evidence that they that they were worth the money. I know youre going to stay around and sign some books i want to thank you, colonel, professor,. You know, we barely scratched the surface of this book, so i really encourage you to pick up a copy and you will have a very indepth although somewhat pessimistic understanding of the wars of the middle east. Thanks again. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this is book tv on cspan 2, television for serious readers. H
Thanks for this amazingly but. [inaudible conversations] will come. Clearly universities the virginia then i am delighted to be moderating this panel today. With two outstanding journalists and authors to both currently living in baltimore and share their stories with us. We will be on a tight schedule which i am responsible for keeping the will look forward to about 15 or 20 minute presentations from each author than ample time for questions please silence your cellphone i would also like to since i am so excited about this panel to remind everyone that virginia festival of the book is keeping most events free. Please consider a donation and my third request as the festival is always looking to improve offerings and then we have books for sale here in local bookstores throughout the of festival so now i would like to introduce our speaker to my far left. Sonya has written the book under discussion today as well as others a prizewinning author and a science journalist. Per work has app
But. [inaudible conversations] will come. Clearly universities the virginia then i am delighted to be moderating this panel today. With two outstanding journalists and authors to both currently living in baltimore and share their stories with us. We will be on a tight schedule which i am responsible for keeping the will look forward to about 15 or 20 minute presentations from each author than ample time for questions please silence your cellphone i would also like to since i am so excited about this panel to remind everyone that virginia festival of the book is keeping most events free. Please consider a donation and my third request as the festival is always looking to improve offerings and then we have books for sale here in local bookstores throughout the of festival so now i would like to introduce our speaker to my far left. Sonya has written the book under discussion today as well as others a prizewinning author and a science journalist. Per work has appeared in the new york time