Question of knowledge of what happened. Today we are seeing something remarkable. I wish this legislation would have happened 10 or 20 years ago, but the fact is its happened, its going to have a major effect on the future. And many, many works of art that i use the expression the last prisoners of world war ii will finally find the Rightful Owners. I thank the senate and congress for what they are doing. Thank you, ambassador. Let me ask you do you believe the United States has lived up to our commitment as set forth in the declaration to make certain that claims to nazilooted art are resolved expeditiously and based on the facts and merits of the claim . The answer is yes and no. Yes, we have in many cases, no we havent in certain cases. There have been organizations and art thats been returned correctly, and theres been other art thats been, lets say, found a way to make either the statute of limitations or other factors stopping it. Very often its very difficult for a museum when t
, who has ay lando that he isof deceit here to talk about. Billed by his publisher on the jacket of his book as being an investigative, producer for 60 minutes for over 25 years. When i read that, i thought, this does not sound as glamorous to call somebody a Research Reporter as it does an investigative journalist. But i thought, he did not give the respect that was really needed in a book that shows such as scholarship and so much research. We will say that barry lando was an investee investigative producer and a reporter. I was pulled over by the extent pages in the 50 back of footnotes and photography. He has done his homework in putting together the scholarly study of what happened in iraq over the last 50 years or longer. And together he has put this into documenting how the nations that have now denounced Saddam Hussein, secretly backed the dictator and his rise to power. The duplicity in dealing with iraq did not start with an iraqi invasion. We had broken iraq, as he demonstra
He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2. And today we are live on the campus of the university of Southern California home of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. Today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies Publishing Industry, biographies of World Leaders and science, and well also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your calls. You can get sched
In a nonfiction book, this is the place to be. We have four really different books, but theyre all really amazing. We have two finalists for the l. A. Times book prize and i want to point this one out to you now and this one out to you now here. Thats why i like to bring the books, so you can actually see them. We also have two finalists for the penn literary awards one in biography here, jeff hobbs book with, and one in science writing, joshua horowitzs book. And i think its worth noting that this book here is actually on two of those lists, and hes our youngest participant. This is not his first book but its his first book as far as i know of nonfiction, so its quite an achievement. We also have books that are going to take us to places that really, in my mind as i read them can change how we look at the world. Books are going to take us underwater, going to take us hundreds of feet underground, theyre going to take us into the amazon and to pittsburgh and to birmingham, england, whi
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