Twitter and instagram for behindthescenes pictures and videos at booktvs or handle. We kick off this year savannah book festival with retired air force Major General robertbo latiff on future war. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. Good morning. My name is nancy lieb and im delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savannah book festival. Isto presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, the gm family and mark metcalf. Many thanks to jack and Mary Raimondo our sponsors for this glorious venue the Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to wire litter rowdy members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival of them possible. 90 of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have savannah book festival this year for your phone. Please look in your program for information on downloading it. It just takes two seconds and it will be very helpful to you today. Before we get star
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Have steve coll with us to talk about his new book directorate s which is just out this week. In fact this is the first time steve has had an opportunity to do his kind of standup talk about the book. Steve is a legend in journalism for this prodigiousness, the clarity and incisesiveness of this process. His ability to perceive the big picture and his skill at presenting grand narrative of something. He spent 20 years at the washington post, including stints as a financial reporter, foreign correspondent, a head of the sunday magazine, and for six years, he was managing editor of the paper. After leaving the post a decade ago, he served as president of the new america foundation, then took over as dean of columbia universitys journal jim school. He also continues to work as a journalist on the staff of the the new yorker magazine, and along the wail he was written revealing books about very big, important subjects, including americas involvement in afghanistan, the bin laden family, an
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