Jon Parrish Peede is a a bd member for the mississippi book festival, the visiting writer in residence at Mississippi Valley state university, and the former chairman of the National Endowment for humanities. Where he was awarded, what he wanted 500 million in grants to cultural organizations, universities and scholars. For seven years he directed the nea operation homecoming riding the wartime experience programs and taught therapeutic writing workshops for u. S. Troops during the deployment on domestic bases and in military hospitals. He has published in humanities inside of Higher Education and also the wall street journal and other applets. Outlets. He has coedited an essay collection of flannery oconnor. Hello. So glad you are here. It isti my distinct honor to introduce and to interview jeff shaara, his new book which i will note the sign is at 3 00 and i i think you want to be the after you hear this. And jeff is well known to us. Hes signed many of his books here in the state.
Until. All of a sudden they really dont. That point is a little bit too late, so while its a terrific book and i just want to remind everybody, ben and jonathan are going to be signing copies of their book at 1215. So we hope you will out and join them for that. And appreciate everyone being here of applause for a moderator, wasnt she really. Jon Parrish Peede is a board member for the mississippi book festival. The visiting writer in residence at Mississippi Valley State University and the former chairman of the National Endowment for the humanities, where he was awarded. Where he awarded 500 million in grants to cultural universities. Scholars for seven years. He directed the nea operation homecoming, writing the wartime experience program, taught therapeutic writing workshops for u. S. Troops during their deployment on domestic bases and in military. He has published in humanities inside of Higher Education and the wall street journal and other. He has coedited an essay on flannery
At the signing tents. Thank you for coming to this session today. Thank. Thank you. Jack davis. Dean king patrick dean ryan patel. Thank youbetsy Fisher Martin isy Award Winning journalist and former tv news executive. She spent 23 years at nbc where she produced Network Political coverage and served as the longtime executive of meet the press with tim russert. She also was the managing editor of nbc news political program. Currently, she is executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University and a faculty member in their School Public affairs. She also has provided on air analysis to several television networks, including cbs news, msnbc, nbc news and cnn. And shes been included in washingtons best and most influential journalist sites. And gq is powerful people in washington. Thank you all. Its so nice to be in jackson, mississippi. Not too far from my hometown in new orleans, i see an lsu shirt here. Go, tigers, go tigers. And i feel since were the Supreme C
Award winning journalist and former tv news executive. She spent 23 years at nbc where she produced Network Political coverage and served as the longtime executive of meet the press with tim russert. She also was the managing editor of nbc news political program. Currently, she is executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University and a faculty member in their School Public affairs. She also has provided on air analysis to several television networks, including cbs news, msnbc, nbc news and cnn. And shes been included in washingtons best and most influential journalist sites. And gq is powerful people in washington. Thank you all. Its so nice to be in jackson, mississippi. Not too far from my hometown in new orleans, i see an lsu shirt here. Go, tigers, go tigers. And i feel since were the Supreme Court, i feel like these guys are under oath now. So be ready for a really interesting discussion with our. I have no recollection of that. We were here to talk insi
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