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is critical. it really is. look, you know, to the survivors and families, jill and i, my wife jill is not here today with me. she is in delaware right now. she had to go back up. jill and i have gotten to know many of you over the years. some of us have become friends for a long time. we ve kept in touch. mark, it s good to see you again and your family, and the losses may be different, circumstances, but we ve shared before us something that s helped our family. when my wife and daughter were killed in a tractor-trailer struck them, just after i got elected, my two boys weren t expected to live, and then later when my son beau, who was the attorney general and volunteered to spend a year in iraq died, stage 4, glioblastoma. my daughter ashley taped a message to the mirror, the way everything gets to me through my wife and daughter now is they know i have to shave in the morning, so they ll tape on the mirror, for real. so i see it when i m shaving. one day she left me a quot
Adam. Im sure if you ask most people to write a book on their place of work, they would rather do just about anything else. So what induced you to want to write a book about the times . Good question. First, thanks for having me on the show. You know, i have always admired and wanted to work for the New York Times since i was a student in college and one of the books i read is as a college student, i think pretty early on was gay talese, his book at the times, and its something i always thought about the important you raise a really good point in your question. Im writing a history. So basically this book goes from 1977 through 2016. There are a bunch of advantages of that. For one thing, im not, for the most part, writing about people who are there, or to put it more directly. Writing for people i work with or about a few exceptions. But generally thats really the case. But more than that, in terms of approaching a project like this, there was a level of candor from the people that i
I have always admired and wanted to work New York Times since i was a student in college, and one of the bookses i read as a college student, i think, or pretty early on was a book on the times. Its something i always thought about. You raise a really good point, your question. Basically, this book goes from 19772016. There are a bunch of advantages of that. For one thing, im not writingwr about people who are there, or more directly, writing about people i work with or about. More than that,at in terms of approaching a project like this, there was a level of candor and also access to documents that i hoped i would have if i was writing about the present. If i was writing a contemporaneous book about the times, i dont see a way to do it while i was still working there, and i dont think i would want too do it e, actually. Ing as much as i expected and maybe more so the benefit of time has really been critical in terms of assessing what is important, what matters, what doesnt but also ge
Adam. Im sure if you ask most people to write a book on their place of work, they would rather do just about anything else. So what induced you to want to write a book about the times . Good question. First, thanks for having me on the show. You know, i have always admired and wanted to work for the New York Times since i was a student in college and one of the books i read is as a college student, i think pretty early on was gay talese, his book at the times, and its something i always thought about the important you raise a really good point in your question. Im writing a history. So basically this book goes from 1977 through 2016. There are a bunch of advantages of that. For one thing, im not, for the most part, writing about people who are there, or to put it more directly. Writing for people i work with or about a few exceptions. But generally thats really the case. But more than that, in terms of approaching a project like this, there was a level of candor from the people that i