Will be sent said along to ther who answer them at the end of the presentation. Also we encourage you to support todays featured author by purchasing her book from independent book seller, politics and prose. Finally i big thank you goes out to the featured sponsors. The blair family foundation, downtown crowne, and montgomery college. Lets get started. Tonight we have got author casey cep to talk about her bestselling book furious hours murder, fraud, and the last trial of harper lee. She tells the true story of murder, revenge and courtroom drama. Beloved writer harper lee spent years working on telling this story. Now casey cep brings the story to life from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama. Casey cep is a staff writer at the new yorker. After graduating from harvard with a degree in english she earned a master philosophy in theology at the university of oxford as a rhodes scholar. In interviewing case tonight is eugene, an awardwinning veteran journalist who has an eclect
These are your manuscripts of kid books. Are all in process, yes. And theres another nonfiction thing im doing now, a friend of mine matt everson, matt, you remember the movie black hawk down . He was the actual sergeant portrayed in the movie and he went on to become a First Sergeant in the ranger training school, etc. And were doing book right now, walk in my combat books which is an interview with all these people whove gone through combat and ill take the interviews and third turn 30page interviews into five, six, seven pages and our mission is if you went to combat , that youll go these guys got it right and if you didnt and youre one of those people that think they know what soldiers are all about youll read it and say i had no idea and one of the thingswe all say again and again with our fathers and we see it with our loved ones , people will come back and they dont want to talk about it and in this book they talk about it host how manyinterviews will you do for that . Guest its
The conservative movement on the other, so this is a natural kind of looking at that area. Natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work looking at that area. Heather has watched maybe not watched every single one of 33 years of firing line episodes but pretty close. She is probably the reigning expert now on all things related to firing line. Please help me welcome Heather Hendershot to the podium. [applause] she is probably the reigning sother hendershot thanks much. It is really great to be here, particularly here at the Hoover Institution because hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. I was out at stanford where all the papers are, and the preserved all the episodes in the papers and transcripts, i really could not have done it without the Hoover Institution, so it is great to be here. The first thing that people ask me about this book is why did you write it . The short, quick answer in part is this guy. Book been working on the since 2011, and about a year an
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Wrote one of our newsletters and it suddenly occurred to me that for people ,ow who are our age then vietnam is to them, chronologically, what world war i was for us. But not know about you, world war i did not weigh heavily on my imagination at all. The question is, why is vietnam still weighing on our imaginations . It is not so hard to understand. Faults of the ken did touch on it the fact that it is an unresolved question in this society. Hopefully when we have that discussion later this afternoon ,e will talk about the ways intentionally or not, it has opened the door for far more discussion. First, the editor of the vietnam 1967 series. [applause] thank you so much and thanks to i believe there are a few people who contributed here in the audience to our project. In a truncated version in the paper tomorrow, and oral history of the march on the pentagon. Obviously i was not there. Maybe it is obvious. [laughter] my job is to give the blueprint so that for those of you who were no