Step up to the microphone appear so that the audience can here the question. Keep the spirit going all year long with a subscription to the tribunes premium book section. Also, feel free to download the trip books out for more information as well as access to our digital bookstore. Finally the lit fest love social media. Feel free to take pictures, post messages and upload them to twitter histogram or facebook using the hashtag puerto rico lf 15. Please silence your phones caught in the flashes off your cameras. I will introduce our moderator. [applause] i like a short but sweet introduction. I will give a short one for brian. For the indefatigable research a joke that we should call him brian burrows. Thank you. I am here all week. I asked him how he wanted to be introduced. He said he writes for vanity fair and write books. The book for which it is best known as barbarians at the gate which came out in 1990. The merger of rjr reynolds and the biscoe, food services. But his latest boo
Facebook. Com booktv. Heres a look at the books president obama is reading this summer. The list includes three nonfiction titles. One of the things ive learned over a quartercentury researching one Little Corner of American History while covering as a Foreign Correspondent a succession of American Military actions abroad, most of which have been forgotten. Is that the one war that never ends for many people in the United States is the war between the states. One of the most important lessons i learned about that war is how badly we failed to understand its most obvious lessons. It needs to be remembered that the history of wars is largely a history of delusions of those dreams of rapid victories they some simple strategies that lead to long nightmares of slaughter. The french right of what they call by which they mean the pathologist takes over politics and the press and eventually the whole people discouraging all debate and dissension. Costs are not calculated, benefits are fabricat
Loafers about i am an avid reader. Ive had a love of books since i was a child. My mom and so the love of reading for me and i always look forward to Summer Reading. Its exciting to share my Summer Reading lists. I had the privilege of representing new yorks 25th district in my district is deep in history related to the revolutionary war. I am always interested in history. Three of the books on my list this summer are champagne strain. I live on Lake Champlain and it talks about saying no dechamplains exploration of new york and some of the canadian province is. It talks about where i represent in congress. This is a great read highly recommended and it is by David Hackett fischer. The second book also related to my district is Benedict Arnolds navy which of course is a famous person from the revolutionary war. It specifically talks about the untold story at the naval battles that have been on Lake Champlain that led to the u. S. Have in arabic at the battle of saratoga. Those of you i
Loafers about i am an avid reader. Ive had a love of books since i was a child. My mom and so the love of reading for me and i always look forward to Summer Reading. Its exciting to share my Summer Reading lists. I had the privilege of representing new yorks 25th district in my district is deep in history related to the revolutionary war. I am always interested in history. Three of the books on my list this summer are champagne strain. I live on Lake Champlain and it talks about saying no dechamplains exploration of new york and some of the canadian province is. It talks about where i represent in congress. This is a great read highly recommended and it is by David Hackett fischer. The second book also related to my district is Benedict Arnolds navy which of course is a famous person from the revolutionary war. It specifically talks about the untold story at the naval battles that have been on Lake Champlain that led to the u. S. Have in arabic at the battle of saratoga. Those of you i
Loafers about i am an avid reader. Ive had a love of books since i was a child. My mom and so the love of reading for me and i always look forward to Summer Reading. Its exciting to share my Summer Reading lists. I had the privilege of representing new yorks 25th district in my district is deep in history related to the revolutionary war. I am always interested in history. Three of the books on my list this summer are champagne strain. I live on Lake Champlain and it talks about saying no dechamplains exploration of new york and some of the canadian province is. It talks about where i represent in congress. This is a great read highly recommended and it is by David Hackett fischer. The second book also related to my district is Benedict Arnolds navy which of course is a famous person from the revolutionary war. It specifically talks about the untold story at the naval battles that have been on Lake Champlain that led to the u. S. Have in arabic at the battle of saratoga. Those of you i