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Center for the humanities. Event occurred in dallas. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. He is also the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard and wesleyan, and got his ma and phd from a good friend of ours at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on i would say the early parts of the 20th century. That is what his previous work was on. He is expanding out and he and i, before we came on, we were chatting about new work on ideologies in u. S. Foreign policy, which is that book itself was a seminal book in the field in 1987 and im glad someone has
Mississippi in the 18th century. Enjoy book tv this week and every weekend on cspan2. My name is karen greenberg. Thank you so much for joining us here at the center on National Security at fordham law. Were delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is chris whipple, Award Winning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spy masters. Can you see it . How the cia director shaped history and the future. And well talk a lot about this book today. First, i just want to say, thank you, chris, thank you for joining us. A pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. This is actually a wonderful read. When i started it, i was sort of like, oh, no, this is going to be too much information, i wont be able to take it in. Its fantastic. Its based on, in addition to your own knowledge and research, its based on over 70 interviews and youve interviewed, among those, the leading directors of the cia. Living directors of the cia. Except for the current on
My name is karen. Thank you for joining us here at the center on National Security. We are delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is awardwinning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spymasters how the cia director shaped the future and we are going to talk about this book today but first i want to say welcome and thank you for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here thanks for having me. So this is a wonderful read. When i started it i was like this is going to be too much information i wont be able to take it in but its fantastic. Its based on your own knowledge and research over 70 interviews and among those the directors of the cia except for the current ones and its not so much about the cia directors of their relationshitherelationship to te and the president would you agree with that . Thanks for the kind words about the book because what i try to do may be above all else is humanize these directors. I was lucky because as a