Year marathon the book by Michael Pillsbury who is now a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy here at the out son institute. He is a distinguished defense policy adviser, former highranking Government Official and author of numerous books and reports on china. He served under the reagan and george h. W. Bush administrations. The book which i commend to everyone in the audience, preferably properly bought in hard cover, paid for, thats the way one helps fellow authors. Actually how the peoples republic of china since its founding has been pursuing a long areterm goal to reestablish chinese global reeminence michael thinks it has outwitted the ute in the process. Not long ago i wrote a become on pakistanu. S. Relations after having servedded a adam boars and i make a similar argument. It seems everybody manages to outwit washington, dc and heres my take as a foreigner who admires the United States and loves american. The reason is the americans always assume that the others ba
States . We hear from civil rights veteran Jesse Jackson. We must grow together. We have learned to survive apart, we must now learn to live together. Held old. Iran says it backs a truce in generally. This is significant because the saudis have asked for a ceasefire to begin this evening in yemen around 20 gmt. The eye Iranian Foreign minister called for the downing of arms and an immediate resumption of talks between pro Government Forces and houthi rebels. Translator any ceasefire and any halt of the military operation is his supporter by iran to help the victims of this war which are innocent children and women. This ceasefire must turn in to a permanent ceasefire and talks to form an inclusive government should immediately be resumed. Meanwhile an iranian ship so the way way to generally packed with surprise and news people. More than 1400 people have died in yemen since the saudiled air strikes began in march. Thousands of others are suffering because of a shortage of food, water
Andrew marshall, a pentagon legend who served from president s nixon to obama. He just retired this past january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work foreman undersecretary of defense douglas [inaudible] called him the hidden hand behind American Foreign policy. Whats significant is that president nixon first tapped marshall to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries, at the time namely the soviet union. The concept is called net assessment. His former aides Andrew Krepinevich and barry watts are here to discuss the achievement. S of their mentor tonight and sign copies of their biography about him called the last warrior Andrew Marshall and the shaping of modern defense strategy. Mr. Krepinevich is president of the center for strategic and budgetary assessments and is the author of several books on military history and strategy including the very influential the army and vietnam. Hes a west point graduate and a retired army officer. And h
Dana perino recalls her experiences as White House Press secretary and her life thereafter, and Gernot Wagner looks at Climate Change and more. Visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. First up this weekend on booktv geoff dyer talks about his experiences while living aboard the uss george h. W. Bush. [inaudible conversations] hi, everybody. My names clay smith. I am the Program Director of this festival so thank you for being here. Con fronting the confronting the drizzle or the mist or the rain or whatever we want to call it. Youre not here to hear from me, youre obviously here to listen to geoff dyer. Let me tell you a little bit about geoff and he and i will be in conversation for a while and then well open it up to questions from you all. Geoff dyer is the author of four novels two collections of essays and seven genredefying titles and they are but beautiful, the missing of the thome, out of sheer rage, yoga for people w
Claudia rankin discusses her book, citizen an american lyric, a finalist for the National Book award. Hi, everyone welcome. Im Bridget Mullins a professor here at usc in the master of professional writing program and im so thrilled to be here with Claudia Rankin today. An and i want to thank the l. A. Times festival of books curators for asking me to be the moderator and the interviewer today because there are so many amazingly qualified people on this campus at the moment, and im just sitting in the catbird seat. Couple of announcements before we start. Please silence your cell phones. And theres a book signing following this session. The book signing is located at signing area one and its noted on the festival map in the center of the event program. And that personal recording is not allowed. So i as i just mentioned i am so delighted to be here with Claudia Rankin. Just by way of introduction, how many of you have read citizen . Oh, great. [laughter] this will be a conversation. Oka