Environment and a huge Cultural Community and worldwide Cultural Community. The benefit was called next week. Nicely dropped a blanket, find out more about that. Our guest sponsor will be interviewed by garrett graff, a bestselling historian who covers politics. He is a contributor to wired and cnn. Including the national bestseller, the only plane in the sky, and oral history of 9 11. Inside Robert Muellers fbi, governments also at the north shire bookstore, and they do things like that and will do that again. I am so pleased to welcome tim weiner. And the last four books. And the wonderful Richard Nixon biography. I remember it very fondly. And National Security and intelligence, he covered the cia, war in afghanistan, 14 nations for the New York Times, at princeton and columbia, to talk about his brandnew book the folly and the glory america, russia, and Political Warfare 19452020. Please join me in welcoming tim weiner and garrett pratt. America, russia, and warfare, the history of
So delighted to be with a retreat for artists on a 400acre estate in new york by providing an opportunity for artists in a supportive environment and its a huge part of the local Cultural Community and worldwide through Cultural Community. For those of you who dont know this the fall benefit is coming up next week so theres a link in the chat box so you can find out more about that. Tonight our guest author is going to be interviewed by Garrett Graff a distinguished magazine journalist and bestselling historian covering politics and is a contributor to wired and the author of multiple books including the Number One National bestseller the only plane in the sky and oral history of 9 11 as well as inside Robert Muellers fbi about the governments cold war escape plan. Hes at memorably did a great interview in february in the manchester when we could do things like that are hopefully will do that again. Im so pleased to welcome tim weiner into the virtual setting. He has got events in verm
Guest netflix is a world leading entertainment service. We produce and distribute amazing Television Series and movies. Weve been around about 20 years and have about 200 million families around the world who are our members. Host is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles, 30 employees . Guest theres a little connection to that. We started 22 years ago doing dvds in the United States, competing with blockbuster. That was a whole decade really that we were competing with video stores just in the u. S. , and thats 2007 when we started streaming, roughly the same time that youtube did. Host erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project . Guest i study cultural differences in the workplace, and. A professor, a Business School professor, and i first came across the netflix Business Culture definitely on the internet way at the beginning, and it was quite shocking when i read it. [laughter] so it said things like adequate performance gets a generous
Program. Good evening everyone. Its a pleasure to welcome you for our program. If you could put away our cell phones, we would appreciate it. If you are wondering why there are bright lights in here, you are going to be on tv. Im kidding, the speaker is going to be on cspan. When we get to the q a, wait until we bring the mic to you. The speaker will repeat the question so you can hear it. Our speaker is teaching at columbia and working for David Rockefeller he joined the cia in 1980 nine and became a Political Leadership analyst on the middle east. He moved to the history staff in 1996 and was appointed chief historian of the cia in 2005. And his biography as director of Central Intelligence was recently declassified. His articles and book reviews and technical collections have appeared on studies in intelligence and intelligence in National Security and the oxford handbook of intelligent security. He has taught intelligence history at George Mason University and georgetown university
Of the relationship between president and cia director and how it is influenced by the president s needs and interests. One cia director george w. H. Bush later became president himself. Good evening, everyone. My name is ruth robins and its a pleasure to welcome you here tonight for our program. A couple quick things first, one is, if you could please put away your cellphones, turn them off, silence them, any electronic devices, wed appreciate it. If you wonder why theres such bright lights in here, youre all going to be on tv, cspan is taking, kidding, youre not going to be on tv, the speaker is going to be on cspan. When we get to the q a they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. If you have a question try to wait until they bring the mic to you, the speaker will repeat the question so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it, however they work it. Our speaker tonight is David Robarge who received phd in American History from columbia university. After teachi