Is there a connection to the 1998 company with 900 movie titles . We started 22 years ago and then competing with blockbuster and competing with video stores and then in 2007 we came out about the same time as youtube. Host how did you get involved in this project . I first came across with the netflix culture way at the beginning and with adequate performance. And at that time and to promote innovation but instead getting rid of people that with the fact they had no vacation policy or travel policy getting to think about how a culture like that could work in an organization. So the culture map connected to youtube . I was fortunate enough to be recommended and i read the first book with the International Culture of the corporate situation with the mexicans and the americans and with those challenges that we had with fantastic insight and then the speaker and then i realize she would be the perfect one of the astute observer and the point of having a coauthor and then i wonder what it
International, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century, in particular the era of the world wars and the cold war and in addition of the age eisenhower, hes author of the bitter road to freedom, a lib history of the liberation of europe which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and also a bestseller in the united kingdom. Following d. Hitchcocks remarks, ann compton will join d. Hitchcock for a conversation on this great biography and the 34th path of the United States. Anne is a pioneer of journalism in america. She was the first woman to cover the white house for Network Television and was on the air for 41 years with abc news. Her on geoffty and impact are unparalleled. Anns career at abc news spanned seven president s of the United States, 10 president ial campaigns. She anchored from the white house, from capitol hill and president ial travel that took her to all 50 states and six continue innocents and ann, and this is a very significant part of american and white house hist
Good morning. Good morning and welcome to nashville and the southern festival of the books. Behind the curtain, money, politics and imperiled republic. We are fortunate today to have two authors who are really addressing some issues we deal with today. Weed to live in many ways in imperiled times and dealing with the concentration of economic power and political power, so again we are fortunate to have two very renowned speakers today after the session is over we will have a signing session that will take place on the war memorial section between the capital and library. We will go there and also have questions and answers, a q a session after the presentation this morning to your right there is a set of microphones and if you would like to ask questions of the authors to your right there is a set of microphones. Each speaker will speak about 15 or so minutes dealing with their books and then we will open it up to questions. If you could, you may want to take a moment to silence your c
Commemorating the fifth anniversary of super storm sandy which obviously affected a large part of the eastern seaboard. And i was reporting as it struck in my research became my third book super storm. I was looking at how it was we had gotten super storm sandy so wrong that new york had failed to the issue evacuation orders and so many buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded and destroyed. To spend time at the National Hurricane center those who are incredibly talented told me the same thing over and over we are just not very good at this still at forecasting storms. And we saw that in 2017 with Hurricane Maria and hurricane hugo. And to respond to disaster for all that is powerful so if you think of that sheer explosive power earthquakes are exponentially smaller so how do we prepare for those as a nation are we prepared for that . When you think about a hurricane we have a lot of technology we can use so the International Guard that are directly into a storm to drop
Tns administration followed a different course. That is not the fault of the Congressional Republicans were the fault of the democrats. It is on the president. For my essay for the first year project as bill mentioned i wrote about the new johnsons role in the passage of medication in medicaid inmate 65 from which i draw six general universal guidelines for a new president can advance a legislative agenda. You can find them on the crucible volume in the lobby. [laughter] the specifics though if johnsons particular tactics are less than important than the overall point of the essay which is the political scale, policy and message discipline and overall vision of the president can be a crucial and critical fact or in how Congress Reacts to a firstyear legislative agenda. The legislative contracts between johnsons firstyear record, we gave him a pass on not and it reflects a lot about trumps limitations and also those of his administration, specifically an inability to develop a coherent