One cia director, george h. W. Bush, later became president himself. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this program. Good evening, everyone. My name is ruth robbins. Its a pleasure to welcome you here tonight for our program. A couple of quick things first. One is, if you could, please put away your cell phones, turn them off, silence them, any electronic devices, we would appreciate it. If youre wondering why bright lights in here, because youre all going to be on tv. Cspan is taping tonight. Im kidding, youre not going to be on cspan, the speaker will be on cspan. When we get to the q a, they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. So if you have a question, just try to wait until they bring the mic to you so we dont have to repeat it. The speaker will repeat the questions so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it or however they work it. Our speaker tonight is david robarge, received a phd at columbia university. After teaching at columbia, working for banker
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Lights in here, because youre all going to be on tv. Cspan is taping tonight. Im kidding, youre not going to be on cspan, the speaker will be on cspan. When we get to the q a, they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. So if you have a question, just try to wait until they bring the mic to you so we dont have to repeat it. The speaker will repeat the questions so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it or however they work it. Our speaker tonight is david robarge, received a phd at columbia university. After teaching at columbia, banker david rockefeller, media studies at columbia, he joined the cia in 1989 and later became a political and leadership analyst on the middle east. Dr. Robarge moved to the cia history staff in 1996 and was appointed chief historian of the cia in 2005. Hes published several classified works as well as unclassified mono graphs on supersonic Reconnaissance Aircraft and intelligence the American Revolution and biography as director of C
Talk to the author and get it signed into the end of this exchange you can ask at the end of the program. Also cspan book tv is presenting this as well. The book is republic of lies. This book has come out at the right time and i wonder whats behind that. But talk about conspiracy theories to dismiss them as a joke or make fun of them or hold them up to ridicule. It is a reasonable response to events that are complex and people try to make sense of the world that we live in. So why do we have conspiracy theories are we in that golden age and how do they impact the real world that we live in of policies that impact our lives . Ill introduce our author. [applause] so that me respond are we in a golden age of conspiracy theories . I write we have golden age of conspiracies with social unrest so we have monetization people are making money off of them and we have those in the white house using those to consolidate power and to identify a common enemy. So we see this moment when they can ge
Hello everyone and welcome to this session of the san antonio book festival of the Foundation Thanks to the Central Library for hosting us on this amazing day we encourage all of you who following us on social media so at the end of the session there will be a book signing at the barnes noble tent talk to the author and get it signed into the end of this exchange you can ask at the end of the program. Also cspan book tv is presenting this as well. The book is republic of lies. This book has come out at the right time and i wonder whats behind that. But talk about conspiracy theories to dismiss them as a joke or make fun of them or hold them up to ridicule. It is a reasonable response to events that are complex and people try to make sense of the world that we live in. So why do we have conspiracy theories are we in that golden age and how do they impact the real world that we live in of policies that impact our lives . Ill introduce our author. [applause] so that me respond are we in a