[silence bracket seven good morning. Thanks for coming to the 29th southern festival of books it is my a pleasure to have the opportunity and in another i have admired his works now talking about his blue brooke ali this is only the third stops a this is great for us here in in national. First the book festival is free but if you like to contribute to the cause and to relieve you after his three marks to go over to the site intent citing ted to side over there. A fantastic other for the best selling books including those that i read on Jackie Robinson in a blue gary glading for the your career carabineer times, esquire and Washington Post in the biography of mohammad ali is of the most anticipated books of the fall. Part probably the most highly rated. There is always a national connection. Bennett his widow lonnie the vendor built graduated you ever to read the legendary coach at vanderbilt used to tell the story in the 1960 olympics in the summer where cassius clay was with the Wilma
Look for these titles in bookstores is coming week and watch for the authors in the near future book tv and this is book tv live coverage of the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Over the next seven hours you will hear from several authors including eric larson, Kenneth C Davis and brian burrow. We began todays coverage with a discussion on politics featuring former pres. Obama adviser David Axelrod, author of axelrod, author of believer, and nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page, author of culture, lawyer. This is live coverage from chicago on book tv. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome to the 31st annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. My name is tom for scholars. Before we get started i would like to send a special thank you to our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2 book tv. At this time there will be a q a session and we ask that you line up in front of the microphone so that the home viewing audience can hear your question
Look for these titles in bookstores is coming week and watch for the authors in the near future book tv and this is book tv live coverage of the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Over the next seven hours you will hear from several authors including eric larson, Kenneth C Davis and brian burrow. We began todays coverage with a discussion on politics featuring former pres. Obama adviser David Axelrod, author of axelrod, author of believer, and nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page, author of culture, lawyer. This is live coverage from chicago on book tv. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome to the 31st annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. My name is tom for scholars. Before we get started i would like to send a special thank you to our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2 book tv. At this time there will be a q a session and we ask that you line up in front of the microphone so that the home viewing audience can hear your question
It is hosted by the Woodrow Wilson center in washington dc. Welcome to the panel exchanging intelligence, exchanging data. Todaye three panelists who will give a paper. We start to my left with john fox. This paper will examine the role of the fbi and the formative years of the Transatlantic Partnership and focusing on the first decade of the cold war. That will try to give a Historical Perspective on recent discussions around the. Sa post9 11 activities , a paper that would look at the partnership or conversation within the context of intelligence organizations and organizational degree and look at it within the idea of intelligent studies and what it tells us about cooperation of the nsa and its partners. I and the curator of the International Spy museum here in washington dc. John, and right to fbi historian. His articles have appeared everywhere. He has a lot of pieces on the fbis website. Contributed chapters in several books and you can see him on the news, and he was a key playe
This was recorded at the National Archives in washington in 2007. It is about one hour. I have the pleasure of introducing him to years ago, when he was discussing luckiest man, the life and death of lou gehrig. As he be introducing him discusses his book, opening day, the story of Jackie Robinsons i was thinking about the similarities in the two men that he has chronicled inir baseball and beyond, some respects, other aspects of their lives. Both men share these qualities,. Ourage, commitment, that commitment was not too plain excellence, but to , and a contribution to the larger society. The other quality they both had indeed was character. They both died young. Remembered as sports , and in both cases as spectacular as their baseball statistics were, there was a lot more to each man. Represented fabled new york teams, i guess mortal enemies and such is the transition in life that i started out the fan of one and later made the crossing to the other. Had an appreciation for the outst