Jihadists to safety about 6 miles away. The book was a bestseller and josh is someone with a knife or some truly Great Stories and he has done it again with his new book falcon sees which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure this one about wildlife smuggling. Josh is a journalist by trading and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined it newsweek in the late 1980s as a business and media writer but within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world. And back here in the us in los angeles. For the past decade and a half he has continued to report and travel widely writing for a range of publications. Four years ago he 10 National Magazine award in reporting. That was a prizewinning story that told the story of aor physician who would lead the effort to control the ebola outbreak. In addition to the timbuktu josh wrote three other previous works were on about his younger brother who became a relig
Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. Did your reading help you in your work as a congressman . It does. History in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but youre really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of intere
The New York Times review where he noticed it was price there will be a book signing for your friends and family outside this room. Without further ado thank you for joining us. Please take it away. [applause]. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here. Happy that you are here instead i just want to say to my cohost and for the host tonight. The Carnegie Corporation of new york. In the new world foundation. Maybe would actually support the work going into the book. You will hear from simon greer. He is a pri board member and helped us organize the event tonight. And a seam the same with him i will be speaking with in a little bit. This is one of the burning questions of this election cycle. It gives you an overview of what we will do this evening. I want to spend a few minutes and you a little bit of the taste of the data behind to the book. I do want to say this is a datadriven book but not data dominated. It tells a story that i think it uses numbers to tell a story. We will do mor
And international affairs. And from 2008 to 2009 was president of the association, has won several awards for his work including two awards, at st. Our Journalism Award and american library. Joining an onstage is chris hedges who has spent two decades as Foreign Correspondent in the middle east, africa and the baltics. And has worked for the Christian Science monitor, National Public radio, Dallas Morning News and the new york times. And a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for global terrorism. He is author of several bestselling books including wars of force which gives this meeting and his new book wages of rebellion, the moral imperative. We are here tonight to celebrate the release of teds newest book snowden. Without further ado please welcome ted rall and chris hedges. [applause] thanks for coming. And i will talk about my book. And we will talk about whatever he is going to talk about and we will have a little discussion and throw it out to the audience for q a. If you have any questions o
If the egos are getting in them way. Juddson and john seem to have dalliances with groupies and theyre married at the time. There are ways in which they mirror our ideal of rock musicians of the 1960s and 1970s and these internal struggles richmond the group apart. By and large, after the civil war, the hutchinson family singers, asa moves out west. The brothers founded hutchinson, minnesota, and then asa moves to colorado and john remains centered in lynn, massachusetts. Abby will remain in new york and in orange, new jersey, and new york city, and travel the world. Shell be in egypt and other places. She has married again ludlow patton, extraordinarily wealthy to whom she wed. And the hutchinsons wont be that social voice they were in the 1840s and 1850s and by and large theyll be what a lot of singer from the 1960s are today. They make money off of what they once were. Theyre hadbusinessessed. Theyre repeating old music. Going on stage as a relic that people want to remember the old