To be in the cia. I grew up during the 50s and 60s. It never once crossed my mind to eventually join the cia. I wasnt even a fan of the ian fleming books as a kid which most of my generation was. It just never occurred to me. I graduated from law school in 1972 and went to work. I had seen enough of private practice turing summer clerkships and decided i didnt want to do that and probably wouldnt be very good at it so i went into federal Government Service upon the graduation of law school which i did and i joined a Treasury Department as a lawyer which is fine for first job. After couple of years you know how it is when you are in your 20s. For me i was in Washington Young and ambitious wanting to make some sort of mark and i knew i would never make it in treasury. Around that time the that first revelations about the cia were really hitting the media bigtime for a series of exposes by sy hurst and the New York Times followed by, and im looking at the audience and i think most of your
[videotape] its hard to imagine what an impact those 40 seconds head. We are going to come back to that will be talked to masha gessen. Thank you for coming tonight. Thank you for having me. This book is going to be available afterwards. Words will break cement comes from a poem. Actually it comes from a closing statement in court. Thank you. The publication of the book was accelerated to coast just before the sochi games, putin gave amnesty to masha. Masha and maria. Thank you. After they served 650 days in jail and his punishment for essentially that 40 seconds of a performance that really was truncated we are going to talk a lot about what their influences were and everything else. Maybe we should start with what caused the pussy riot to form . Earlier we were going to look at a clip and decided not to, showing president medvedev announcing with putin that they were going to essentially swap jobs and putin would then become president. For the third time. For the third time. What hap
Watch videos and get uptodate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. Next on booktv, moscowbased journalist masha gessen is criticism of russian president Vladimir Putin result in the arrest and imprisonment of three of the right members in 2012. This is about one hour 15 minutes. Good evening. No applause necessary. [applause] welcome to cloud at the Central Library which is produced by the Library Foundation of los angeles. I and the culture programs director for the Libra Foundation. Im delighted to see you all here tonight to hear masha gessen and Suzi Weissman in conversation but if youre not already a member of the Libra Foundation supporting the Los Angeles Public library, please talk to one of our Staff Members afterwards and we will tell you about the great work of the Libra Foundations supportinsupportin g the mission of the l. A. Public library for access to ideas and information. If youre interested becoming a member tonight we can give you a book by and about author.
Information. Tonight we welcome masha gessen and as i said, Suzi Weissman. Masha has bravely chronicled her countrys tradition and dissidents for the Russian Revolution into the present is that. Doesnt she was even in the Russian Revolution, but her work covers that have time. She was born oscar and came to the United States when she was 14 and 10 years later she returned to russia where she became a prominent journalist covering the war in chechnya as well as becoming an outspoken advocate for lgbt rates. Writing in russian and in others, she is covered every Major Development in russian politics and culture of the past two decades receiving numerous awards and fellowships in the process. She bought weekly for the New York Times creatures with numerous publications and also edited several russian magazine. Recently shes relocated back to the United States. Shes the author of any books. Among the bestseller, perfect ricker, a genius and mathematical breakthrough. She knows her mass. A
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