And now heres cohen on growth and influence of Silicon Valley. Hello. Were going to get started here tonight my name is seth im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start, these are held three times semester six times year if you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over there put your name and email and only send news about our six events a year. We have pretty good ones, we had it earlier this year john last semester. These three we have some great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights forum is being filmed by cspan so the question part of the tore rum, if you would go to one of the microphones and a also hopefully state your name and your question another reason we ask you to sate your name is because we then do a writeup of all of the forum afterwards, which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event. On our website, which is come forum. Edu and the last announcement is tha
Hi, thank you so much for being out here today. Onthis beautiful saturday. My name is emily, im a manager at politics and prose and on behalf of the staff, welcome. Of view boring housekeeping notes, if you can silence your cell phones so we dont get her interrupted with feeding it would be great. Usually we have about 30 minutes of talking and we take questions. We are filming so i hope you all have questions that you use the microphones and get up and asked them as opposed to shouting them from the audience because that we dont want to ask the question in the recording so if you could think of questions and asked him there that would be great. Lastly we have a few more events today so sometimes the few of you who are familiar know we fold up the chairs. Dont fold up chairs today, thank you. And if you enjoy this event we do about 500 other author events a year so sign up my email, check out the events calendar. We have november and december out and we just opened a store at the worst
Party in billionaire at the barricades. Those most of these authors have appeared on booktv. You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] as we were downstairs getting ready to start the ceremony, captain yellin was asking me, do i stand for the army . Or do i stand for the air force . Because he was in the Army Air Forces. [laughter] i said, sir, youre 93 years old, you can stand for anybody you want to. [laughter] [applause] captain jerry yellin is an Army Air Forces veteran who served in world war ii between 1941 and 1945. He enlisted on his 18th birthday just two months after the bombing of pearl harbor. After graduating from Luke Army Airfield as a Fighter Pilot in august of 1943 at the ripe old age of 19, he spent the remainder of the war flying p40, p47 and p51 combat missions in the pacific with the 78th fighter squadron. He participated in the first landbased fighter mission over japan on 7, april, 1945. And
Dont forget to go to our website if you dont want to go do that you can give us the email address. Pick up the copy of the newsletter on the counter. Secrecy world offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises critical questions about financial and legal institutions we may once had trusted. The investigative Journalist Team that broke that story. They are written for the washington post. Pro public advice. Nbc the editor of the texas observer. Mister jake bernstein. It is great to be here great to see so many old friends thank you so much to books in the books to mitchell kaplan. I dont know if you all know. But he now makes movies in addition to selling books in his latest is currently in theaters my wife and i saw the other day. Our review is that it is delightful. I encourage everybody to see it. They encompass an entire shadow economy. In jersey. Its also places that offer secret Bank Accounts like switzerland in singapore. And also the intermediar
January historically is a busy month especially relative to fever taste of sales during the Holiday Season but thanks to michael wolf the last few weeks have seemed well, like a second christmas for many book sellers. Given the surgent demanding for mikes book one frequent question is whether theres any presence dense for this sort of frenzy, of course, weve had best sellers before, and seen people standing in long lines for them. And normally were able to anticipate at least roughly how many books to order. But the velocity and volume of request for fire and fury seem to take everyone by surprise. Our our event team did have the fore sight weeks ago before the books release to schedule michael for an author talk. But it was at our new smaller store at the warf could have accommodated only about a fourth of the crowd here this evening. So lets all give a giant round of applause to the terrific staff here at 6 tonight. Who [applause] they they made this spacious venue available and enab