When we open the floor for questions, please hold questions until you were given the microphone. Also please turn off your cellphone ringers i appreciate that. Tonight we are here to celebrate the release of Kevin Peraino new book, a force so swift mao, truman, and the birth of modern china, 1949 release today. A veteran correspondent around the world spent a decade as a Senior Writer and bureau chief as a finalist for the livingston award for Foreign Affairs reporting and as part of the team that won the National Magazine award in 2004. His first book titled lincoln and though world the making of a statesman and the dawn of American Power one of the daily beast best books of president lincoln is also written for the wall street journal and politico magazine. Kevin peraino is a visiting scholar of International Relations at new york university. Our other guest is scott anderson. Contributing writer for the New York Times magazine his most recent book is lawrence in arabia. It was sure
Andreas fault destroyed records at San Francisco city hall, earth and death records. Here is an opportunity for chinese in the bay area, San Francisco and oakland, to say our birth and death records are no longer existent. Maybe we can come up with some ideas and some plans and some steam to tell the government that we were born in San Francisco. Paper son the entire scheme that allowed chinese living in the United States to say that they were born here in the United States, and that they had children in china and they would like to sponsor those children in china and family in china to come to the United States. So a number of chinese came during the post1906 earthquake period, including my father. This weekend, watch cspan cities tour through oakland. And sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History on cspan3. Tour, workingies with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Now, several awardwinning war correspondents discuss the dangers of reporting from the middle
Talking about the entertainment in the street and American Values. While he was in california, president obama told members of the industry there that they play a part in transferring culture and values and giving us a sense of what america is like for the world. We want to know if you agree or disagree with that statement. Here is how you can call in this morning about 25 of you posting on our facebook page. Some of you, especially on the twitter pages, you may remember it was all in california for several days that mr. Obama spoke at the dreamworks studio, talking to members of the Entertainment Industry and talking about the culture and of the Entertainment Industry. The headline again, we are kind of using that question, what he spoke about in the industry, that is the larger question about the Entertainment Industry. You may agree or disagree but here is how you can reach out to us this morning. Feel free to tell us yes or no and feel free to tell us why. At theesident spoke dream
Is hard to underestimate the Human Capacity for selfdelusion. For example there is a wonderful film made in japan in 1942 they came out in december 1942 commissioned by the Japanese Navy to celebrate pearl harbor. They recreated the attack so well, it was one of the first films where they use special effects so skillfully that they still sometimes use it in documentaries because theres very little actual documentary footage of it. It shows pilots and aircraft carriers on their way to pearl harbor and they listen to the american radio and they hear jazz music. Somebody conduct in you dance. They all giggle and say what this is the americans, the decadent weakkneed americans. All i can do is dance and listen to this absurd sort of music. Once they get a taste of the real japanese martial spirit they will cave in. Its a very common misperception of democracy held and not purchased by the japanese at the time but authoritarian regimes and there were more idiotic misperceptions too on both
Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff israel has launched new air strikes into syria. U. S. Security Officials Say the attack came after nightfall, in the syrian port city of latakia after nightfall. The target was said to be russianmade, surfacetoair missiles. Its at least the third time this year that israel has carried out air strikes inside syria. Syria has met a deadline to destroy all of its declared chemical weapons making equipment. The or