We are here to talk about his book, one of the most stories about our time and hasnt been well told until now. We will talk about that today. I got to know carter page professionally and i was blown away by the facts as the case when you cover stories where powerful interests are trying to shape them and youre not getting the true picture. He will talk about all of that today, carter, ask we start with you giving a brief background of your education, where you went to school and very briefly your job experience in career . Yes, sheryl, thank you so much for doing this today, great to be with you. I grew up in duchess county, new york and i received a nomination to the u. S. Naval academy which i started a week after graduating high school in 1989, and i so i completed anapolis and then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served with the u. S. Navy, first as arms control action officer doing International Arms control negotiations in the pentagon and then i moved into i served on a coupl
You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
Weschler. We will give her the word. But Lawrence Weschler as often his books have always had Something Interesting going on. I say this, he sort of in the singular way writes about, has written about unique people or sometimes theres some extra situations is welcome often at the heart of his books are these unique and unusual and distinct people. And this is a time with often it feels like a lot of the force of our work to try to make assaulting exactly alike and something conformed and conventional. Hes done this, the last time he was here in seattle was just a couple of years ago with a man most of what well known in the world of film, walter murch who but they kept in touch and for all this work is done as a film editor, one of the foremost, i mean, oscars and everything, is also an astrophysicist by heart. With sort of rogue theories in the book calls ways passing in the night was a dialogue about what he was doing. Hes done this in various ways and various times. Tonight he is he
Leading eye with the intellectuals and colonists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is tonight. How may people have read this book . How many people are goingan to read it after this is over . How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today . So david, thanks for doing th. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which have read and its a very good book, will go through it id like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . Lower side of new york. About, hippies would go just to be. And one of the things they did was they threw their they put the garage can garbage can on fire, i saw 5dollar bill in garbage can and i reached in the fire and grabbed money and ran away. That was my first step to the right. At age 8i read a book calling paddington the bear and decided that i wanted to become a writer and ive been writing pretty much every day since and in high school i wanted to date a woman named bernice and she wanted to da
Service, and brought to you today by your television provider. [background sounds]. Host good evening everyone and we are ready to get started and thank you all for being here here. On behalf of townhall, and technical books, set up in cafe over here in a special guest tonight, i hope everyone in the room will get a chance to visit. And so excited to welcome you tonight are very special doubleheader giving you with you gina chang. And Amir Alexander. I am hoping many of you may be returning to our building the first time after a a few years. We have been remodeling the space and for many more of you, maybe this is the First Time Ever to townhall. Welcome, this is exactly the type of thing that we want to do. Im so pleased that we have these two fantastic authors to present to you tonight. We love all of our lecture programs. All of the political talks, arts programming that we do here. But i am especially happy about this mathematical approach to thinking about the world. Im a reformed