Welcome back to miami and date to a booktvs live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. Charlie sykes, van jones gumshoe atkinson are some of the authors you will hear from today and have the opportunity to talk with. The full schedule for the day is available booktv. Org. If you dont already follow us on social media, on twitter, facebook and instagram. Faster behind the scenes videos and photos booktv is her handle. Well, how the right lost its mind is a type of charlies new book indicates of the fair today from the campus of Miamidade College. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] and, unfortunately, we are experiencing [inaudible conversations] good morning, miami. Good morning. It is the 34th annual book fair. Lets give the book fair a round of applause. [applause] i am the dean of the Honors College at Miami Dade College and is an absolute pleasure to have the chance to share today with you if we are so fortunate in our community to have this extorted it but it w
Really the founding personalitys the cia. One of most powerful men in the cia from the founding in 1947 until his forced retirement in 1974. So, really a founding father of u. S. Counterintelligence use what type of issues and areas did he work on . Guest angleton used his position as chief of counterintelligence staff to really create a kind of cia within the cia, and so he dabbled everywhere. He was very influential in u. S. Policy toward israel. Created programs of mass surveillance, opening the mail of americans. Involved in the domestic surveillance schemes of the nixon white house, for example. Involved in the early dives the mk up to mind experiment mck up to mind expert. Very involved in u. S. Policy toward cuba. So, this position a lot of cia officers rise through a geographical directorat. A Division Within the cia. Angleton had his fingers in many things. Was hey wellknown personality during the years he was active. Guest he was not. In fact there are stories that pun story
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end
And on monday watch the Democratic National Convention Live from philadelphia. Saturday night at 8 00 eastern well take a look back at past Democratic National conventions starting with the 1960 convention in los angeles with the Democratic Party selecting john f. Kennedy as their nominee. The day our concern must be with our future, for the world is changing, the old era is ending, the old ways will not do. He went on to become the youngest person elected president. Well also feature notable female speakers, including u. S. Representative barbara jordan, who spoke in new york city and became the first africanamerican woman to be a keynote speaker. Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in beliefs firmly etched in the National Conscience of all of us. Then the 1984 convention in San Francisco with former new york congresswoman geraldine ferraro, and ann richards, who in 1988 was the state treasurer for texas. She spoke at the conventi