Hello, everyone. Thank you for coming thanks for supporting your authors, your favorite authors and your local independent bookstore and thank you tonight to cspan for being here. This is a first for me. Maybe you guys are used to this. Im going to cover just a few basic things before we get started. Copies of the book are available downstairs. I think at the register you can purchase them there and bring them up here to get signed after the events. If you could take a moment, silence your phones come i think we would all appreciate that. You are welcome to take photographs and you can post them on social media if they are good. After the author has finished speaking there will be a q a and if you could please wait for microphone, so we can all hear your questions. That would be great. All right, lets get started. James is a writer, literary agent and former book editor. Hes the author of the New York Times bestseller neptune inferno the last stand he is widely sorry, hes widely acclai
And thank you tonight for cspan for being here. This is a first for me. Maybe you guys are used to this. Im going to cover just a few basic things before we get started. Copies of the book are available downstairs. I think they are at the register. You can purchase them there and then bring them up here to get signed after the event. If you could take a moment silence your phones, i think we would all appreciate that. Youre welcome to take photographs. You can post them on social media, if theyre good. And then after the event, or after the author has finished speaking it will be a q a. Then if you could please wait for a mic, come by with a a microphone so we can all hear your question, that would be great. All right, lets get started. James hornfischer, hes a writer, a literary agent and a former book editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller neptune inferno, the last and other 10 can sailors and the ship of goes. Hes widely acclaimed historical accounts of the u. S.
Shakespeare theatre company. Thank you for joining us. [applause] thank you for joining us for tonights Barn Association discussion. Tonights discussion is shakespeare and the rules of war from athens to aleppo. Now, at this point i would like to remind everyone to silence their Electronic Devices and video and photography of this to start. At this point it is my honor to introduce tonight moderate steven and ryan. Hes a member of our board of trustees as well as the Bar Association and has led our annual fundraiser for many years. Hes the head of Government Strategy at mcdermitt and previously served as the general counsel to the u. S. Senate committee on Governmental Affairs alongside the honorable. In addition, he has served as Deputy Council of the president s commission on organized crime, and directing investigations and other criminals during the reagan administration. As part of his deep commitment to pro bono work, he he has representative operation hope, a Financial Literacy
Just above freezing in walnut creek. 38 livermore and around the bay now, 37 hayward, 44 for San Francisco. 39 halfmoon bay. The inner east bay, a few more numbers to look at, 39 antioch, 41 pittsburg. San ramon, low to upper 30s. 33 lafayette. These cold temperatures are going to stick around for the next few days. In fact tomorrow morning some of us are likely to wake one a freeze warning. Well track that. Temperatures are actually up in napa, partly cloudy skies helping in that direction. But in and around the bay by 4, 5 degrees in areas around hayward, oakland by 3. We begin to thaw out by 9 00, 10 00. Feels a little better, 40s by 10 00. And in the afternoon notice we dont warm a lot. Most of us are going to be in the 50s today. Ill put the numbers on the screen. 53 antioch. 58 oakland. 54 redwood city. 55 San Francisco. Upper 50s in the forecast for santa rosa. We hold on to this pattern all the way through the Holiday Weekend. In the forecast there is a possibility of rain. Ill
Weekends on cspan two are an intellectual feast. Every saturday, American History tv documents america story, and on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan 2 comes from these Television Companies and more, including charter communications. Broadband is a force for empowerment. That is why charter has invested billns building infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity, and in communities big and small. Charter is connecting us. Charter communications, along with these Television Companies, support cspan 2 as a public service. It is my pleasure tonight to bring up from our bureau in richmond, virginia my friend doug crenshaw. Both of them have worked at the battlefield down there. Doug is a volunteer. Bird is one of the historians for many years. Both of them are well familiar with 1862 and 1864. Both of them have several books in a back. Their most recent is called embattled capital, a guy to richmond during the civil