good evening and welcome, i m cnn correspondent holly firfer and i m honored to be part of this whole book best in your living room so on behalf of the mj tca here in atlanta and the national jcc literary consortium welcome. we are in for such a fascinating evening tonight. with international best-selling author walter isaacson. are going to talk about his latest book the code breaker: jennifer doudna,gene editing, and the future of the human race . this is an unbelievably fascinating book. i promise you this is a book where you re going to set and read and go look at the time because you can t put it down and if you haven t gotten a copy yet check your website to find your local bookseller or you can go to the official bookseller of the jcc national literary consortium which is a cappella books and i promise you won t have 1 million questions. i have 1 million questions and you re going to have some to you look at the bottom of the screen you ll see there s a q&a section
literary consortium welcome. we are in for such a fascinating evening tonight. with international best-selling author walter isaacson. are going to talk about his latest book the code breaker: jennifer doudna,gene editing, and the future of the human race . this is an unbelievably fascinating book. i promise you this is a book where you re going to set and read and go look at the time because you can t put it down and if you haven t gotten a copy yet check your website to find your local bookseller or you can go to the official bookseller of the jcc national literary consortium which is a cappella books and i promise you won t have 1 million questions. i have 1 million questions and you re going to have some to you look at the bottom of the screen you ll see there s a q&a section. put all your questions for walter there and towards the end we willtry to get to all of them . let s get on with the main event and a little about our honored guest. walter isaacson is a professor
i promise you this is a book where you re going to set and read and go look at the time because you can t put it down and if you haven t gotten a copy yet check your website to find your local bookseller or you can go to the official bookseller of the jcc national literary consortium which is a cappella books and i promise you won t have 1 million questions. i have 1 million questions and you re going to have some to you look at the bottom of the screen you ll see there s a q&a section. put all your questions for walter there and towards the end we willtry to get to all of them . let s get on with the main event and a little about our honored guest. walter isaacson is a professor of history at tulane and he s been seeing ceo of the aspen institute and editor of time. he s authored many incredible books including leonardo da vinci, innovator, steve jobs, einstein s life and universe, benjamin franklin and american life and kissinger, i am biography and he s co-author of six fr
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