Annie Jacobsen, "Operation Paperclip"

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http://politics-prose.com Author Annie Jacobsen presents a fascinating topic from her new book, Operation Paperclip, and takes questions from the audience. This event was recorded February 26, 2014 at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics & Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the web at http://www.politics-prose.com/

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Book Talk: Philip Taubman — McNamara at War: A New History - with Bob Woodward

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,Watch authors Philip Taubman's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. Robert S. McNamara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. He was an invaluable ally of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as U.S. secretary of defense, and he had a deeply moving relationship with Jackie Kennedy. But to the country, McNamara was the leading advocate for American escalation in Vietnam. He strongly advised Johnson to deploy hundreds of thousands of American ground troops, just weeks before concluding that the war was unwinnable, and for the next two and a half years, McNamara failed to urge Johnson to cut his losses and withdraw. McNamara at War examines McNamara's life of intense personal contradictions, following his childhood, his career as a young faculty member at Harvard Business School, and his World War II service, to his leadership of the Ford Motor Company and the World Bank. Philip and William Taubman had access to materials previously unavailable to McNamara biographers, including Jacqueline Kennedy's warm letters to McNamara during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and beyond; family correspondence dating back to McNamara's service in World War II; and a secret diary maintained by McNamara's top Vietnam policy aide. What emerges is the comprehensive story of the infamous former leader of the Pentagon: riven by melancholy, guilt, zealous loyalty, and a profound inability to admit his flawed thinking about Vietnam before it was too late. McNamara at War is a portrait of a man at war with himself--with a grave influence on the history of the United States and the world. William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. His book, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of McNamara at War: A New History and Gorbachev: His Life and Times. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Philip Taubman, a former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, is affiliated with Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is the author of In the Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz. Phillip Taubman is in conversation with Bob Woodward, the author of three consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers on President Trump-- Fear (2018), Rage (2020), and Peril (2021) with Robert Costa--and an audiobook of 20 interviews with Trump. He has authored 22 bestselling books, 15 of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, covering every president from Nixon to Biden. PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781324007166?ic_referral=ov8Y_7yH2v2DlQevegSxOZ4IgM3n8f3RO_7F5qwn6lgwMzVq5p2x_UjAsOM7TW75g1cHkJ5oPH__o546MXzxgERc87vZ1UXY2vcg5bAReUEyejvlWxXT85VZF44T98TWKxO4tE4 Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1 @politicsprose Visit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoliticsProse Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsprose Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/politicsandprose/ Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsprose Follow Us On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: https://politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooter Become a store member and save: https://www.politics-prose.com/membership Audio Archive: https://archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstore Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. #books #booktube

01:05:45

Book Talk: Jane Leavy — Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It

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,Watch author Jane Leavy's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. Jane Leavy has always loved baseball. Her grandmother lived one long, loud foul ball away from Yankee Stadium--the same grandmother who took young Jane to Saks Fifth Avenue and bought her her first baseball glove. It's no coincidence that Leavy was covering the game she loved for the Washington Post by the late 1970s. As a pioneering female sportswriter, she eventually turned her talent to books, penning three of the all-time best baseball biographies about three of the all-time best players: Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth. But when she went searching for a fourth biographical subject, she realized that baseball had faltered. The Moneyball era of the last two decades obsessed over data and slowed the game down to a crawl, often at the expense of thrills, skills, and surprise. Major League Baseball has begun to address issues too long ignored, yet the questions linger: how much have these efforts helped to improve the game and reassert its place in American culture? Leavy takes a whirlwind tour of the country seeking answers to these questions, talking with luminaries like Joe Torre, Dave Roberts, Jim Palmer, Dusty Baker, and more. What Leavy uncovers is not only what's wrong with baseball--and how to fix it--but also what's right with baseball, and how it illuminates characters, tells stories, and fires up the imagination of those who love it and everyone who could discover it anew. Jane Leavy is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, and the comic novel Squeeze Play, which Entertainment Weekly called "the best novel ever written about baseball." She was a staff writer at The Washington Post from 1979 to 1988, first in the Sports section, then writing for the Style section. She covered baseball, tennis, and the Olympics. She has written for many publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, and The Los Angeles Times, and was anthologized in The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns. PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9780306834660?ic_referral=jsR1NPjdUYL9IE1xKVrTsGJH_jclQzuVtsjmKmeT0TcwM5D_nprgzreJugtySXxOuBLFazIolUIRXWXOriotgVdPlhB7l4TWESuD3m5Pf9XGwM4FL-vZELyXXNfo1RICaLw4Msc Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1 @politicsprose Visit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoliticsProse Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsprose Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/politicsandprose/ Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsprose Follow Us On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: https://politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooter Become a store member and save: https://www.politics-prose.com/membership Audio Archive: https://archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstore Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. #books #booktube

01:00:57

Book Talk: Reality Winner — I Am Not Your Enemy - with Dina Temple-Raston

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,Watch author Reality Winner's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. Reality Winner was a twenty-five-year-old translator for the NSA when she saw a document that she assumed would make headlines: After public silence by the NSA and blatant lies by the Trump administration, the 2016 US election was far from secure. She impulsively printed the document--a breach of NSA protocol--stuffed it into her stockings, left the building, and mailed it to The Intercept, which promptly informed the NSA. Now, for the first time--after two films and a Broadway play about her--Winner tells her own story: her unusual childhood, which led her to want to serve her country; her reasons for leaking the document; and her torturous years in prison, where she served the longest prison sentence ever for a government-affiliated employee convicted on a single count of leaking classified information to an American news outlet. This is a bold, brave book about the risk one woman took to protect her country and the price she paid for it. A brilliant linguist, devout patriot, voracious reader, and fitness and yoga enthusiast, Reality Winner was a US Air Force veteran working at the NSA when she leaked a classified document containing revelations about the 2016 US presidential election. Today she is a CrossFit coach living in South Texas and studying to become a licensed veterinary technologist. Winner is in conversation with Dina Temple-Raston, the Host and Managing Editor of the Click Here podcast as well as a senior correspondent at Recorded Future News. She previously served on NPR’s Investigations team focusing on breaking news stories and national security, technology, and social justice and hosted and created the award-winning Audible Podcast “What Were You Thinking.” She is also the author of four works of non-fiction including A Death in Texas, about the James Byrd murder in Jasper, Texas and The Jihad Next Door, about six Yemeni-Americans and their brush with al-Qaeda. PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781954118843?ic_referral=hm6c6vCNdH_g8F_EiwSiXgSVW6YtP4ORL1EMKID6gpwwMywYZPhlHFpIh72J-0F6hICNTp68eT_W2thmYGZ0Vj19euZSE_tnzr-xRiCnNggDRz8gPMpGWtMqBHlc5l07Ru1X_fY Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1 @politicsprose Visit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoliticsProse Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsprose Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/politicsandprose/ Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsprose Follow Us On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: https://politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooter Become a store member and save: https://www.politics-prose.com/membership Audio Archive: https://archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstore Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. #books #booktube

01:05:31

Book Talk: David J. Lynch — The World's Worst Bet - with David Ignatius

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,Watch authors David J. Lynch's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. The triumphant globalization that began in the 1990s has given way to a world riven by conflict, populism, and economic nationalism. In The World's Worst Bet, David J. Lynch offers a trenchant, fast-paced narrative of the rise and fall of the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known. Lynch explains what went right, what went wrong, and what needs to change to preserve the benefits of global integration and to build prosperity for all Americans. Lynch brings a deep understanding of the forces affecting Americans' lives to his portrayal of a fascinating cast of characters: presidents and policymakers; factory workers whose anger over lost jobs reshaped a nation's politics; and the anti-globalization warriors of the right and left. Their stories show how the United States made a bad bet on globalization, gambling that it could enjoy its benefits while ignoring its costs: dislocated workers, vulnerable supply chains, and the rise of a powerful rival. With trillions of dollars now at stake, The World's Worst Bet explains the failings of the past and offers an insightful guide to the opportunities of the future. David J. Lynch is the global economics correspondent of the Washington Post. The recipient of the National Press Foundation's Hinrich Award for Distinguished Reporting on Trade in 2021, Lynch has reported from more than sixty countries for the Post and earlier in his career with the Financial Times of London, Bloomberg News, and USA Today. He lives in Vienna, Virginia. Lynch is in conversation with David Ignatius. Ignatius is a prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post and has been covering the Middle East and the CIA for four decades. He has written several New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Washington, DC. PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781541704060?ic_referral=LL1A5GcD108lrBQjdsFKBkNrpE9KJ6c-cQNJTzTGxcMwM7b4FJCIAsPlHoCDZnZ-_PtNnj28lRAvihzymB1Kp_fG61T-57ZJm_lwFhkr0bWICfEQycwXfFC0Sbk5GlufciAscpw Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1 @politicsprose Visit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoliticsProse Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsprose Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/politicsandprose/ Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsprose Follow Us On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: https://politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooter Become a store member and save: https://www.politics-prose.com/membership Audio Archive: https://archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstore Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. #books #booktube

00:52:28

Book Talk: Susan Coll — The Literati - with Louis Bayard

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,Watch author Susan Coll's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. Aspirant, bookish, and close to broke, 26-year-old Clemi steps into her dream job at a prestigious literary nonprofit and finds herself in the bull's eye of a financial, legal, and existential calamity. The executive director has disappeared, leaving behind an inscrutable cat to which she is highly allergic. Meanwhile, the bank accounts have been overdrawn, the FBI is asking questions, and she has three days to pull off the annual fundraising gala, a glamorous affair filled with famous writers and local literati. On the upside, she will get to meet her all-time favorite writer, who has won the award. Clemi has read and reread her novels, pouring over her every word. But her interactions with the author and her eight-year-old son, as well as with the nonprofit's Board Members, leave her wondering whether certain writers are better on the page than in person. All the while, Clemi is trying to sort out her own life: her current boyfriend is, like every boyfriend before him, a pompous poseur, and the clock is running on her apartment-sitting gig. She finds herself wondering what all the goings-on in this dysfunctional, scandal-plagued nonprofit have to do with literature. And if it's time to let go of her literary aspirations and apply to law school. Susan Coll is the author of seven novels, including Bookish People and Real Life and Other Fictions, a USA TODAY bestseller. Her third novel, Acceptance, was made into a television movie starring the hilarious Joan Cusack. Susan's work has appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, Washingtonian magazine, Moment Magazine, NPR.org, and Atlantic.com. She is the events advisor at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, and was the president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation for five years. Visit Susan online at susancoll.com; Instagram: @susan_keselenko_coll; X: @Susan_Coll; Pinterest: @susancollauthor. Coll is in conversation with Louis Bayard, the critically acclaimed bestselling author of nine historical novels, including Jackie & Me and The Pale Blue Eye, which was adapted into the global #1 Netflix release starring Christian Bale. His articles, reviews, and recaps have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon, and the Paris Review. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT83IOUtKdPUL9hOzYjxbcQ?sub_confirmation=1 PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781400346653?ic_referral=erurSiFZ2hrQlHP8qkCCevKgX7BlV1GcPLPiAQZhTggwM0pqDXLLJT1DGqfEWwk8zAaLLDORFbp3wf3fbIpHtiTcysq_Y-xsVqhRwB3BccpWK3Ftfek-yXNov-MSasvplWieu3M @politicsprose Visit us online at: http://www.politics-prose.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoliticsProse Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsprose Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/politicsandprose/ Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsprose Follow Us On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsprose?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter: https://politics-prose.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=804c700632a508a8e792e69cf&id=6a0dbf1855&SIGNUP=HomepageFooter Become a store member and save: https://www.politics-prose.com/membership Audio Archive: https://archive.org/details/@politics_prose_bookstore Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. #books #booktube

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