Doctor wright is going to be interviewed by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg, the National Book festival cochair and a very generous supporter of mr. David rubenstein. Please welcome both of them. [applause] and thank you and enjoy. Thank you to everybody and thanks for being here. [applause] you have been out of the government for nine years. To tell us what youve been doing other than writing three best selling doughnuts but other than that you are teaching at stanford. It is what i consider to be my profession i started as an assistant professor and returned to stanford and my appointment is in the Business School that i teach both business and undergraduates and a course in American Foreign policy. Ive been able to do a little bit of work in the private sector and i am spending a lot more time practicing piano because that is a great love and im trying to improve my golf handicap. Speaking of the golf handicap you are one of the first few women
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Good family. Host wow, i left my phone on the set and came back down before i went any further work here is the book thank you for being late, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times is the author. Book tvs live coverage of the 2017th National Book festival continues. Next up is former secretary of state and author condoleezza rice. Her burke book is called democracy, stories from the long road to freedom. Book tv on cspan2, live coverage. Doctor rice is going to be interviewed for as by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg, our National Book festival cochairna and generous supporter mr. David rubenstein. Please welcome both of. Them. Thanks and enjoy. Nk you thank you very much for coming. Thank you for havingnd me here and welcome to everyone. Thank you for being here great event. [applause]. Hard to believe that you been out of government for nine years, so before we get into your new book on democracy which i highly recommend, tell us what you have be
Mister david rubenstein. Please welcome both of them. And thanks enjoy. Th thanks for being here. Out of you have now been and of the on of the government for about nine years before we get into your new book on democracy tell us what you had been doing since you left government. Your teaching at stanford and what else. I have the digression into washington. I have actually been doing this since i was 25 years old. I had turn to sanford. Ign po they curse i cursed i teach a course at american policy. Ive been able to do a little bit of work at the private sector. Ive been practicing a lot more in the private sector. That is really a great love and im trying to include my golf handicap. You are one of the first two women to be elected to the Augusta National golf club. Was an honor that you were expecting to get. A good friend who was a member of augustine held told me that i was being invited to join augusta i was just there dumbfounded. I was completely taken by surprise. Cap . What i
Now four former national. Ecurity advisers susan rice and Tom Donnellan and Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley talk about threats posed by russia, china, and north korea. Welcome, everybody, and this is pretty much what the essence of the Aspen Institute has been and should always be about, and what our nation should be about, a notion of very dedicated people of both parties coming together and trying to find common ground. It is under the auspices of the Aspen Strategy Group. I want to thank joe nye, who is cochair with secretary Condoleezza Rice, with her first year on the job. [applause] isaacson we also have Stephen Hadley and tom donlon, the first time four national have beendvisers together. It shows what aspen can do. You notice that susan rice is missing. She will be here in seven minutes. She is just on her way from the airport. Just like bob gates last year, always a buddy who wants to make a dramatic enters. Let me turn it over to a person everybody knows, nick burns, the