These are not normal times. Is it justice [applause] thank you, justice, for keeping hope and justice alive. A few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones and when we get to the q a part of the session we encourage you to come to this question as you might have noticed we do have cspan here this evening and we are also vidviding for our own company. And at the end our staff would appreciate it if you would fold up your chair at the end and lean it against something. We are really delighted to have david with us this evening. David has moved through the walls of Public Service and private business. David shifted into government during the Clinton Administration where he served was deputy under secretary of commerce and returned to the public and founded his own advisory firm. Today he is ceo and editor of the ft group which publishes Foreign Policy magazine and website and visiting scholar at carnegie university. He has also written several insi
There and obviously there are a lot of Unanswered Questions to this day about his personal life is personal finances. What was interesting is that people who were close to him did agree to talk and i had to assume that was with his permission, so im surprised a little bit disappointed i spent time called invading the kremlin spokesman and pressed him over and over to try to make this happen and finally he said, you dont need to meet the president to interview him. You know everything there is to know about him. He has said it all. Look on our website. There is some truth to that. He is somewhat he is very open. He talks a lot in the key is to read it all and balance what you can with other sources. Host Steven Lee Myers is the author and heres the book the new czar, the rising rate of vladimir putin. Mr. Myers, thank you for being with us on book tv here in miami. Book tvs live coverage of the miami book festival now continues at the chamber of commerce here in miami. Its gorgeous and
Decision and he might very well do what he did the first time, groom a successor who will officially become president and he will remain on as, you know, Prime Minister again or at that point a more informal role, but he is definitely not going away soon. Host did he sit down with you for this book . Guest he refused for this book and i tried very hard. I have interviewed him before the couple of settings and thought it would be great to talk to him about the things that i dont know, frankly, and that i could not learn. I would love to talk to him more about the war and the rest of his Family Experience there and obviously there are a lot of Unanswered Questions to this day about his personal life is personal finances. What was interesting is that people who were close to him did agree to talk and i had to assume that was wi his permission, so im surprised a little bit disappointed i spent time called invading the kremlin spokesman and pressed him over and over to try to make this happ
Actual universe. Books that my parents brought me for my birthday. That by age 11 i have an answer to that annoying question that adults always ask the kids. What do you want to be when you grow up. I said i want to be an astrophysicist. That pretty much shut them up. If you say that. That was it. They just walk away at that point. To this day i am a little bit scarred for having not known a night sky until i saw one in the hayden planetarium. From those mountaintops in chile into the stay when i go to commune with the cosmos in these singularly majestic sites and i look up at the night sky it reminds me of that. Ladies addendum and thank and gentlemen thank you all for coming. We will see you at the year in review in january. Have a great night. [applause]. Book tv is on twitter and facebook and we wont hear want hear from you. Post post a comment on her facebook page. Facebook. Com book tv. [inaudible] am a friend of the book fair in the chair of the literary society. Have you turned
Little conversation with the reader and you address the reader directly in your work. Is that something you think about . Totally conscious. Another big influence on me are my dads side of the family. Every holiday, it would end up that we would be down in the cellar at my great uncles house , at the bar, and everybody would be spinning these funny stories. So the context is, this guy is telling you these stories in a bar, and you are not sure whether to believe him or not. So ill is have that in mind when i am telling a story, even when i tell now i work my stories out on my twoyearold and my sevenyearold. I cant trick them as easily as i can trick everybody else. [laughter] david s. all right, jen, do you want to advance the thing every time . Jen sure. David s. this is a piece from jens where it is a series of panels and she is going to go one panel at a time. Jen this is hillary clinton, pro versus con. On the pro side, we will Keep Health Care reform, saving countless lives, on th