Military Intelligence Agency that was responsibling for the Worlds Largest cyber attack. Hi, everybody. Thank you for coming. My names allison bane bridge, and im the host for this evening. I want to welcome you all tonight as well as cspan. In case youre wondering who that is, it is cspan recording this event. Its my honor to host this incredible, crucial and terrifying conversation that were going to bear witness to tonight. Were so fortunate to have book passage. We consider it more than a bookstore. For 43 years we have served as a Community Center where we host nationally acclaimed authors like we have tonight, local authors, weve had Panel Discussions recently about race and immigration. We do lots of classes and so much more, conferences. So if you havent received our latest newsletter to see whats coming up for the next month and a half, please make sure you grab one when you go up to purchase the book at the end of the night. Itll tell you whats coming up for the next six week
In the time since we graduated many walkways and buildings had been retrofitted to better accommodate people in wheelchairs. Back in 1990 student protesters had shut the school down for days making demands for such things like hiring a rabbi, offering kosher meals, establishing an intercultural center. Thosedemands at the time had seemed so radical. Today they seemed so reasonable as to be a matter of course. Oh, the irrelevance. The obsolescence. The creeping amount of aging before you even get old. The phantom of time haunted me as i drove back to the city in my station wagon. It followed me back to my apartment where i poured myself a glass of wine and was in bed by 10. In theensuing year the feeling of irrelevance became a near constant companion. It clouded my vision like the membrane on an eye of a lizard , shielding me from what i couldnt comprehend, staring me the mortification of my own cluelessness and it had me staring at myself in mirrors and avoiding mirrors. It had myself
Obama finds no easy answers and plenty of contradictions and the problems of our time. But his other books include the breakthrough essay collection, my misspent youth and the unspeakable, which won the penn center usa award for creative nonfiction. Shes also received fellowships from the guggenheim and National Endowment for the arts fellowships and she teaches in the mfa writing program at columbia university. Thank you all for coming out. Im always really relieved when people show up. I love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that really, actually earlier i was on a book tour i was in minneapolis, in st. Paul and it turned out to be the same night that David Sedaris was doing a reading at the university in minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. Anybody who was anybody who cared about this went to see david who did errors except for one young woman who showed up at my event and she had driven 100 miles from her parents farm to come see me
Everybody for joining us. Thank you for the council on Global Affairs. We will be Live Streaming this evening. For those of you that cannot stay off of twitter. During the discussion, we have a few hashtags that we can use tonight. Also, hashtag at 70. With that i would like to welcome my panel. Lets just jump right into her. We have with this the last close to two decade experience covering and handling some of the biggest issues in world affairs. I am sitting with for the people that i would reach out to all the time for insights and thoughts. I cannot say that about many of them. Really, there is no one better to speak about in the milestone of the Nato Alliance. Im going to ask each of the ambassadors to start off. How it was brought home to them by their unique issues. And a little bit of the reflections of what it meant to them. Want to start. Good evening everybody. I want to thank them. They have done such a great job. It really is an internationally known present. Because of h
Host Rachel Louise martin the story you tell in your new book, a most tolerant little town, centers around clinton tennessee in the 1950s. Where is that and describe what it was like . Guest clinton is right on the edge of the mountains that make upppalhia. It is about anof knoxville and it is right on the gateway to coal mining country. Host if you and i were there in the 1950s what kind of a community would we find . Guest it was an interesting place in the 50s. It was very mixed up about itself. On one hand it was a small rural southern appalachian town full of coal miners and farmers and local business people. But it was also 7 miles from oak ridge, which was a secret city built as part of the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb and it was also about seven miles from nora stamm. Norris dam. So while it was isolated and small it was also very connected. In 1956 it was the sort of place that oak president ial candidates felt like they had to go and Campaign Even though t