And im sure most of you know georges byline very wellin the atlantic now and new yorker before that for a decade or two. Fifteen years. You probably know his most recent book the assassins is the most important chronicle of the early years of the iraq war, the unwinding which won the National Book award in 2014 2030. And now his new book, our man we were thrilled to have an expert in Foreign Affairs in this issue and focusing on two pieces of the book of enoch and afghanistan which we will talk about in the course of this conversation but i recommend the piece heartily not as a substitute for the book but as a teaser. Im confident if you read the 8000 words in Foreign Affairs will go on to read the entire 500 or so pages in the hardcover edition. It is a really extraordinary fascinating book. Both as a chronicle of an infection on American Foreign policy and diplomacy and war over the half century or so in which Richard Holbrook was a central player but also in its portrait of this ind
Globe. He served on the spotlight team. In his capacity as a journalist he has covered congress, the Supreme Court and every president ial campaign from 1980 through 2012. In addition he served as a senior politicals correspondent for the center for public integrity, a Nonprofit Center for Investigative Journalism in dc. In 1996 he received the prize and award from the White House Correspondent association for coverage of the presidency, the first time anyone had captured the first in a single year. Hes a frequent guest including at harvard, the us military academy, university of chicago and other institutions abroad. Hes the author of three books. Tonight his talk focuses on his third book about Richard Nixon, a biography of the 37th president of the United States. This book has won the award for best biography of the year, the New York Historical society and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. After the program please join us in the atrium where his book is for sale for signing. P
Who kept the road open coming out of the chosen, 189 marines held 10,000 chinese to allow the First Marine Division to get out, and there were certainly Marine Security guards alive to interview who have been mistakenly left on the roof of the Saigon Embassy in 1975. Obviously, there was no one left from the 19th century, but what we did find was our forebearers were such literate people. We went into this expecting maybe wed get after action reports from the army. When the soldiers move west, maybe an officer wife kept a journal. As it turns out, every wife kept a diary, and we found them and letters, and tom, excuse me, tom, hell explain to you, at some of the libraries and historical centers, they brought out a journal in a case, and they had to turn the pages with tongs, because the oil from the fingers and there were letters from 12yearold girls who passed the train, tom was killed last by the indians, first train this year said they dug up his graves, maybe it was wolves, but we