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[background sounds]. [background sounds]. Host hello and welcome to the 24th annual book festival. My name is katie and im an executive editor. Here today to talk to amaryllis fox author of the book life undercover comingofage in the cia. It is a wonderful book and i encourage everyone to pick up one down here at the stand. She is going to be signing copies. I will give a quick introduction then i will ask a few questions and leave the last ten to 15 minutes for audience questions. Will have a microphone set up right here in the front and another one in the back. Please silence your cell phones before weplpl start. We dont want any surprises. So even before she finished, studying at oxford, before 911. And before her writing mentor daniel was captured and killed. Amaryllis fox was already invested in the international affairs. She took great risks, a message out of burma when she was just one year out of high school. She eventually got a masters in conflict and terrorism and georgetown
They all seem haunted by masculinity and sexuality. When casey wrote that a young man was critical of the classic markers of masculinity but he aspired to them. It felt like there was a ghost of masculinity and sexuality following these young men around and i was wondering if you could talk about that. Is almost as if theyd layered these new expectations on top of the old ones that are really challenging or eliminating the conflict in on one hand you a guy see women as deserving of their place in the classroom and deserving of their praise on the Playing Field and deserving of being cleared as they are and thats all in the public arena and in their private lives they are still being encouraged to be the marker of manhood, the man being a sexual conquest had hooking up as i say without feeling with as many partners as possible and not treating those partners very well and thats what presented to them as a status and has fun. When you are in the locker room talking they say, when they ar
If there are any veterans or activeduty service men please rise so we can acknowledge your service, thank you. [applause] today is a day that marked the transition of america from an isolationist nation to a global superpower. There are few days like september 7th because of what it meant for the world we live in today. We are fortunate to be able to honor a wonderful program, a new book that has just come out. How many, if you remember, look at that, that is great, thank you, your support makes these programs possible. Because members and trustees like you that we can do these programs. Last year clint lobby was our program manager, we put on 58 programs at the library which is very impressive. [applause] because of your support we can have these programs for free, it is a way to give back to the community because we feel so strongly, fdr loved this area and wanted it used in is a and we are honoring citizen so our speaker today, lew paper, is a journalist, he taught at harvard and wa
Society, driven eco block chain and cryptocurrency across industries and for social impact, active in primarily technology and currently represent more than 1. 5 trillion in investment capital. The motto is fund revolution. I love that. So were celebrating a book tonight thats very compelling story, very important story, kind of lesserknown in the annals of history. And people have been working toward justice inside the technology industry. Black software, Racial Justice to the net and black lives matter by charlton mcillwain, and published. Welcome. [applause]. Thank you. Thank you for that introduction and thanks for all of you that have come out and maybe a few others will trickle in along the way. So this is a great, its a great place to be. Im wrapping up whats been about a month and a half long tour promoting this book and i can think of no better place to end up this part of the tour in this historic moment. I was just telling these gentlemen before we started that when i got ou