John the program is entitled the origins of the militaryindustrial complex and features dr. Daniel ellis, who is this years staff fellow, a prestigious position. He has been using items to investigate the origins of the militaryindustrial complex through wartime and immediate postwar, meaning postworld war ii, evolution between Scientific Research, industry and National Defense. Dan has advised congress on defense issues. I was a colleague of his at crs for several years. Dan did things in connection with things i knew, a whole range of things, defense production act, appropriations, military construction, and he does many more things at crs. He holds a phd in Political Science from George Washington university. And at crs, as many of you know, he is the author of many reports on defense, trade and security. , this project is the latest example of the work undertaken by staff fellows showcasing their knowledge and passion of their areas of expertise. This is funded by a gift left by th
Good afternoon, im the director of the program, operating here on the west side for adults with flexible schedules and the time for leisure learning, today we welcome you to the 92nd Street Series in partnership with time stocks. Featuring noted New York Times journalist and authors. Our tuesday with the time series as well as with all of our daytime lectures provide a forum for discussion and debate on issues that affect us all. Todays discussion focuses on a topic that still remains greatly in our consciousness. We welcome journalist james dwyer and kevin flynn for discussing their recently published book 102 minutes the untold story of the fight to survive inside the twin towers. Jim dwyer and kevin flynn are native new yorkers and winners of many awards together and separately. James dwyer joined the New York Times in 2001 as a reporter for the metropolitan section, prior to joining the times he was a columnist for the New York Daily News and before that he was a columnist for new
Director of the program, operating here on the west side for adults with flexible schedules and a time for leisure learning, today we welcome you to the 92nd Street Series in partnership with time stocks. Featuring noted New York Times journalist and authors. Of our as with all daytime lectures provide a forum for discussion and debate on issues that affect us all. Todays discussion focuses on a topic that still remains greatly in our consciousness. We welcome journalist james dwyer and kevin flynn for discussing the recently published book 102 minutes, the untold story of the fight to survive inside the twin towers. Jim dwyer and kevin flynn are native new yorkers and winners of many awards together and separately. James dwyer joined the New York Times in 2001 as a reporter for the metropolitan section, prior to joining the times he was a columnist for the New York Daily News and before that he was a columnist for new york newsday and previously a reporter for burkink and record recor
Host we want to introduce you to jennifer sey. Her book is called levis unbuttoned the woke mob took my job but gave me my voice. Jennifer, what was your career path at levis . Slow and steady but almost all the way to the top, i started as a Marketing Assistant entrylevel, lowest of the low but worked my way up to chief marketing officer by 2013, held that post for 8 years which is a long time, those people averaged 18, 20 months tenure and get fired but i did a good job, helped the company go public, became the grant president but then i was very outspoken about the need to open Public Schools during covid and after a two your conflict internally i was told there was no place in the company for me anymore. Host what is the job of a chief marketing officer . You are responsible for the brands image, responsible for generating demand, revenue, profitable revenue, ideally, but really all the communications that goes into establishing what the brand stands for, what the products are from
Director of the John W Kluge Center of library of congress. Its my pleasure to introduce you to todays speakers. We are one of this part of this yourself to compress to bring americas most beloved writers to this room. The clue the center works to bring scholars and residents to. Work in the collections of the Worlds Largest library and to do work of the sort you were hitting about at todays National Book festival. I want to upgrade what is joining us live on cspan today as well. Proud to partner with cspan. Our next band is records of survival, escaping genocide and human trafficking. It features two saket soni, Tahir Hamut Izgil and Jason Rezaian. To hear one of the most foremost poet writing in the weaker language. His new book is waiting to be arrested at night. Saket soni as human rights strategist and the founder and director of resilience forced from his first book is titled the great escape a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in america. Josh was a postdoctoral fe