Welcome Catherine Olmstead here to the library. She is no stranger to the fdr library, and then were so glad to have her just a little by way of background. Shes a professor of history at the university of california davis. She specializes in political and cultural history of the 20 20th and 21st century with a particular interest in the influence of anticommunism. Its very interesting and conspiracy theories on national politics. It was just saying to her that seems like an absurd field to me, but what do i know . Im just you know here up at the fdr library. Shes the author of five books including the book. Shes going to speak of today the newspaper access express barons who enabled hitler i strongly encourage you to read this book if you havent already its excellent, and shes also written ill you a couple examples, right . Fornia, the 1930s and the big business roots of modern conservatism. A real enemies conspiracy theories in american democracy world war one to 911 youve got an upd
Illegitimate son or two or three so i kind of to began to take all the al capone slip here stories with a grain of salt and thats why i can tell you i can only verify two for sure. Okay. Well, thank you so much for your attention. Welcome Catherine Olmstead here to the library. She is no stranger to the fdr library, and then were so glad to have her just a little by way of background. Shes a professor of history at the university of california davis. She specializes in political and cultural history of the 20 20th and 21st century with a particular interest in the influence of anticommunism. Its very interesting and conspiracy theories on national politics. It was just saying to her that seems like an absurd field to me, but what do i know . Im just you know here up at the fdr library. Shes the author of five books including the book. Shes going to speak of today the newspaper access express barons who enabled hitler i strongly encourage you to read this book if you havent already its
so thank you very, very much for coming. my name is marie arana, i am a writer-at-large for he washingtost . i am a writer at though books vy editor for many, many years thad i am now a very hot number of the board or is that thisd to ba festival. charter sponsor of the festival for so many years. .. there s something for for you here. at the book festival. first, in our lineup of great authors today is trained to come a veteran magazine correspondent and the author of numerous books about the american military as well as american intelligence operations. in almost two decades out tot, g journalists, he is cover the pentagon,c congress, and, whiteo house and the cia? or nightstand at 422,007 at hed served zine sa inn bureau. first as a correspondent, then as a senior correspondent. he has also served as diplomatic correspondent traveling throughout europe, asia and the middle east as well as the persian gulf. in pursuit of stories. he has carried out extensive coverage of the
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thinking person s amusement park. whether you are for 4 or 24 or 54104 there is something for you here at the book festival. first in our lineup of great authors today is douglas waller, veteran magazine correspondent and author of numerous books about the american military as well as american intelligence operations. in almost two decades of the washington journalists, douglas waller has covered the pentagon, congress, state department, the white house and the cia. from 1994 to 2007 he served in time magazine s washington bureau first as a correspondent, then a senior correspondent. he has also served diplomatic correspondent travelling throughout europe, asia and the middle east as well as the persian gulf in pursuit of stories. he has carried out extensive coverage of the middle east peace negotiations and the wars in iraq. before coming to time magazine he was a correspondent for newsweek reported on major military conflict from the gulf war to somalia to haiti. he was