Trouble tonight at eight eastern on cspan q a. You can listen to q a and all of our podcasts on our free cspan. Now app. Daniel ellsberg has passed away at the age of 92. He is best known for leaking sensitive documents on the vietnam war, known as the pentagon papers, which many believe helped to end the longest u. S. Conflict of the 20th century. The disclosures would also lead to a Landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press. In 2019, the university of massachusetts amherst acquired the papers of Daniel Ellsberg and next from the school he talks about his career and his fight against the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is just over 2 hours. All right. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good evening. Were going to get started. So greetings and welcome to the 21st annual friends of the umass librarys fall reception. Im simon nehme, dean of libraries here at Umass Amherst. And today i have the honor of welcoming you to a very, very special program planned to celebrate the
The Sheehan Family foundation and mark and pat suen. Many thanks to jack and mary romanos, our sponsors for this gloriouss venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. Wed like to extend special thanks to our literary members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our venue of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have a savannah book festival app for your phonene available this yea. Its very easy to get it from the app store, and there are directions in your programs. Please try to download it. Itll help you today. Before we get started, i have a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, brian curtis will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his books in Telfair Square right across the way. If you are planning to stay for the next author presentation, pleasese move forward to seats n the front so that we can accurately count how many i spas are availa
Delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savannah book festival, presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, the family foundation, and mark and pat. Many thanks to jack and mary romano, our sponsors for this glorious venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to our literary members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our venue, of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have a savannah book festival app for your phone available this year. Its very easy to get it from the app store and there are directions in your programs. Please try to download it. It will help you today. Before we get started i had a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, brian curtis will be signing festival purchase copies of his books right across the way. If you are planning to stay for the next author presentation, please
Is behind the scenes pictures and videos. booktv is our handle. We kick off the savanna book festival with retired air force Major General Robert Latiff on the future of technology and war. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. Good morning. My name is nancy leads. Im delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savanna book festival presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, that she and family, many thanks to jack and mary, the glorious venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. And members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturdays events possible. 90 of revenues come from donors just like you. And and it would be very helpful today. Following this presentation, Robert Latiff will sign festival purchased across the way. And as it empties so ushers can count available seats. Please take a moment to turn off your cell phone. And we ask you to not use flash photography. During the questionandanswer portions. I will call on you and one of the ushers will b
Kagans article and in the new republic of hes a wellknown intellectual. Maybe thats why he got it in the new republic. Other people can write a counter view. If were unhappy with the exceptional view of triumphalism, thats what we historians should try to do without getting caught in our own ideological biases, i would suggest. Im going to make half the panel feel old. I was in high school, i was a freshman when the wall fell. Sorry. At least you werent there when the wall went up. I dont know where my parents were. Let me play the role of splitter you suggested there was a contrast. You can say on the whop happened those that tried to stand against the crowds with violence, then sort of succeeded, but those who acceded to the crowd, kind of their regions went away. Where do we put romania in that . I think the roamanians like to be different. I think we have to put them in a third category because we should raoul that ceausescu did not have the opportunity to act as he wanted. He was