To the evenings event with robert ross bottom presenting his new book sudden courage we are pleased to have cspan book tv today here abplease know you will be recorded and please wait a moment for the microphone to come to you before asking a question. We have a great lineup over the next couple of months which includes National Book Award Finalist alan lightman, Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power and New York Times bestselling novelist alice hoffman. For more details and information on these and many Upcoming Events please visit the Events Calendar harvard. Com events and sign up for weekly email newsletter. After tonights q a will have a book signing at this table. The client will form toward the left and book around the corner because theres a lot of you. We have a couple copies of his previous book for sale to register and a lot of copies of his new book which she will have to fight for the register as well. I like to take a moment to say thanks for buying books here at the harva
legislation injapan but why are men still dominating the argument? mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he made it his mission to push for perestroika political and economic reforms to kick start the russian economy, and set the goal for glasnost more openness and transparency in the policies of the state and judicial system. he oversaw enormous changes, namely the breakup of the soviet union in 1991, and the end of the cold war. president biden said he was a man of remarkable vision. russian president vladimir putin, who had a sharply divergent view of how things should be done, has expressed his deep sympathies . our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at an historic life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was relaxed. in the west, he acquired almost pop star status for helping to end the cold war. but at home, it was a different story. born in the days of dictat
opens in venice later today but are what are the films exciting the critics this year? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he made it his mission to push for perestroika political and economic reforms to kickstart the russian economy and set the goal for glasnost more openness and transparency in the policies of the state and judicial system. he oversaw enormous changes, namely the break up of the soviet union in 1991, and the end of the cold war. president macron said he was a man of peace. russian president vladimir putin, who had a sharply divergent view of how things should be done, has expressed his deep sympathies . our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at an historic life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was relaxed. in the west, he acquired almost pop star status for helping to end the cold
Schematic way just a moment let some of our folks get themselves seated. I have some minor chores to attend to, so i will do that while they are getting a seated, which may help us. First of all, as you will mail please turn off your phones. Thats chore number one. Number two, went to remind you that no flash photography is permitted during either of the presentations. As is usual, after the presentation there will be a book signing in the lobby and you are invited to bring your books and have them autographs by our distinguished authors and finally, tell your friends and if you want to hear it again you can listen to this and all of the program at the library on the library podcasting you can find that at free library. Org. So, having disposed of a couple of chores that me welcome you to the free library and introduce myself. I am at murray live in and in a way im kind of a library junkie i live not far from here for many years and spent many long hours and as i look across the audien
Graham wilson discuss the relationships between president reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as the relationship between george h. W. Bush and mr. Gorbachev. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. We have a great panel. And so Philip Zelikow is going to chair the panel. I think Everybody Knows philip. He has written a terrific book on the end of the cold war, principal author of 9 11 Commission Report and many other books. And he is now in the midst of writing a terrific book on sort of decisions for war. And in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions like going to war in 1898 or wilsons decision for war in world war i. Hes sort of brilliantly reassessing these decisions. Were all looking forward to philips next book. At the same time, hes doing about a dozen other things that none of us can keep track of. Sometimes we dont know about. Philip, thank you. Thank you. I actually am sorry to say, we need to wait for james wilson to show up. So he is probably out there somewhere