Environment and a huge Cultural Community and worldwide Cultural Community. The benefit was called next week. Nicely dropped a blanket, find out more about that. Our guest sponsor will be interviewed by garrett graff, a bestselling historian who covers politics. He is a contributor to wired and cnn. Including the national bestseller, the only plane in the sky, and oral history of 9 11. Inside Robert Muellers fbi, governments also at the north shire bookstore, and they do things like that and will do that again. I am so pleased to welcome tim weiner. And the last four books. And the wonderful Richard Nixon biography. I remember it very fondly. And National Security and intelligence, he covered the cia, war in afghanistan, 14 nations for the New York Times, at princeton and columbia, to talk about his brandnew book the folly and the glory america, russia, and Political Warfare 19452020. Please join me in welcoming tim weiner and garrett pratt. America, russia, and warfare, the history of
So delighted to be with a retreat for artists on a 400acre estate in new york by providing an opportunity for artists in a supportive environment and its a huge part of the local Cultural Community and worldwide through Cultural Community. For those of you who dont know this the fall benefit is coming up next week so theres a link in the chat box so you can find out more about that. Tonight our guest author is going to be interviewed by Garrett Graff a distinguished magazine journalist and bestselling historian covering politics and is a contributor to wired and the author of multiple books including the Number One National bestseller the only plane in the sky and oral history of 9 11 as well as inside Robert Muellers fbi about the governments cold war escape plan. Hes at memorably did a great interview in february in the manchester when we could do things like that are hopefully will do that again. Im so pleased to welcome tim weiner into the virtual setting. He has got events in verm
Find out more about that. Tonight our guest author is going to be interviewed by gawrt, a distinguished magazine journalist. He covers politics, technology and [inaudible] contributes to wired and the author of multiple books including the Number One National best seller the only plane in the sky an oral history of 9 11. Inside Robert Muellers fbi and often rock about the governments [inaudible] hes also and memorably did a great interview there back in february in the manchester north sure we could do things like that. And hopefully, well do that again when we can. And i am so pleased to welcome tim wiener back to northshire. He was saying hes done events in vermont for his last four books, and we are lucky enough to host him in our store back in 2016 when his wonderful Richard Nixon boy owe came out bio came out. I remember it very, very fondly. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book awar for his reporting and writing on National Security and intelligence. He covered the
James bond novels written by ian fleming. I have pictured him with his brother, robert kennedy, because the brothers together had great influence on u. S. Intelligence. Theres a lot to say about u. S. Intelligence under kennedy, even though he serves less than a full term because, of course, he was assassinated by a procuban american leftist, a disturbed former marine named lee harvey oswald. At the end, ill have some reflections about the assassination. Before we get to the main intelligence events of this administration, i want to mention a couple of other developments that are not as spectacular but still they deserve to be remembered as important milestones in u. S. Intelligence history, and they leave a legacy to this day. One of them is the president s daily brief. Which was created for kennedy as the president s intelligence checklist. When i first came to cia in 1990, i was i learned that one of the nicknames that insiders used was the pickle factory. They never used the compan
One of them because and in my script but im going to call her out is megan came some of you may not know her but she runs a Science Technology and Innovation Program and is responsible for the schools we have on friday to teach the staff about cyber and Artificial Intelligence and todays genius would be ben buchanan is our go to guy when we teach those and been trying to teach me for a while. I think that ive been a repeater at all times. I am getting i getting is that n analog brain and i thank them for his patience. He is a global fellow and he will discuss his latest books right now called the hacker and the state. Spoiler alert, theyve changed the world. He says of cyber obligation thee now indelibly part of the operations and the gap between the United States and other countries has narrowednd abconsiderably. To hack a Million Dollars worth against the bank to the maligned activities from the disinformation to electric in ukraine. As a former member of congress, that would be me,