studied media on the continent and grew up in hyde park new york and now lives in philadelphia with his wife and two children the eagles is his first book is warm savanna welcome. [applause] thank you so much for that nice intro and for coming today it means a o lot to me. this book originally came out in january 2021. this is the first in person book event i can do in the 13 months that this bookk has been out my debut book and it means a lot to me to sit in front of people as opposed to tiny camera on my laptop in my kitchen or in my basement or a small corner in the living room. with a five -year-old and the two -year-olds of finding space to doe book events ande one at the japanese-american museum in l.a. with a four -year-old ran in and sat on my lap and said you are you talking to and then said this is one of your and another one of your boring book events? [laughter] who stands on the bie and then the last question i got from one of the kids if someone else wrote thi
dwight eisenhower called them soldiers without a uniform and yet, over the last couple of decades, the reputation of the secret service has taken a beating. i m hoping that evan and carol can get down to what happened to the service and what can be done to fix it. so now, please join me in welcoming, carol leonnig and evan smith. carol, good to be with you and congratulations on the book. thank you, i m so glad to be with us evan. thank you, it s my pleasure. look, the book is great. not only a great read, but i learned a lot. honestly i m embarrassed as a political history buff i should have known more. let me off the hook, how much did you know before researching the book? i looked at something in 2012, a terrible scandal. i was really shocked, almost every time, he delved into another presidency and something new to learn. steams it was heroism, sometimes it was, you know, a security debacle. yeah, now, as you say, this was an outgrowth of your reporting on the p
health,ma and philadelphia magazines among many other publications. he is a recipient of the german marshall fund of the united states marshall memorial fellowship which took him to europe to study media on the continent. he grew up in hyde park, new york, and now lives in philadelphia with his wife and two children. the the eagles of heart moun and his first book. please give a warm savannah welcome to bradford pearson. [applause] thank you so much fore intro and and thank you all for for coming today. it really means a lot to me. this book originally came out in january of 2021. so this is actually the first in-person book event that i ve been able to do in the year and 13 months. excuse me, the 13 months that this book has been out this this is my debut book and it means a lot to me to actually be able to sit in front of people as opposed to just a very tiny camera on my laptop in my kitchen or in my basement or in a small corner of my living room wherever my two childre
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two children. the eagles of heart mountain is his first book. please give a warm savannah. welcome to bradford pearson. thank you so much for that nice intro and and thank you all for for coming today. it really means a lot to me. this book originally came out in january of 2021. so this is actually the first in-person book event that i ve been able to do in the year and 13 months. excuse me, the 13 months that this book has been out this this is my debut book and it means a lot to me to actually be able to sit in front of people as opposed to just a very tiny camera on my laptop in my kitchen or in my basement or in a small corner of my living room wherever my two children aren t are the five year old and a two year old so finding space to do book events where i had one at the japanese-am national museum in la where our four year old at the time actually ran in and sat on my lap and said, who are you talking to and then said is this another one of your boring book events? so