Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster talked about his new book, Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam. He outlined his arguments about why America lost…
1,608 viewsH.R. McMaster talked about his new book, Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam. He outlined his arguments about why America lost…
1,608 viewsJames Carroll talked about his new book, An American Requiem: God, My Father and the War that Came between Us. It focuses on his relationship with his father, an Air Force general, and how t…
320 viewsJournalist and author Claude Salhani discussed his book Black September to Desert Storm: A Journalist in the Middle East which details the hardships of life in a war zone.
55 viewsAuthor Robert Kanigel talked about his new book “Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury, A Personal Tour of Some of the World’s Best Books.” The book is a collection of essays.
136 viewsMr. Lukacs discussed his book Thread of Years which focused on twentieth century America through the eyes of a fictional character.
320 viewsMr. Masters talked about his book, Striking Back: A Jewish Commando’s War Against the Nazis. It chronicles his experiences as a Jewish emigre from Austria who enlisted in the British Army an…
215 viewsAuthor Wayne Miller talked about his new book, Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie and the Companies that Make Them. The book chronicles the competition between Hasbro and …
137 viewsLou Cannon talked about his new book, “Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the L.A.P.D..” In the book, he concluded that political, police and judicial…
224 viewsPaul Levinson talked about his book, The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution. It examines the role of information technology in decisive events throughout h…
1,542 viewsForeign Correspondent Geraldine Brooks talked about her new book “Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal’s Journey from Down Under to All Over” at a Border’s bookstore in Bailey’s Crossroads, Vir…
217 viewsAuthor, Martin Gross, gave a book talk at Borders Book Store in Stamford, CT. Mr. Gross spoke about his book, "The End of Sanity: Social and Cultural Madness in America". The book criticizes…
176 viewsProfessor Christine Kinealy spoke about her two books, “This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-1852” and "A Death-Dealing Famine". The books examine the local and international effects o…
416 viewsMembers of a monthly book club met to discuss Desert Queen, by Janet Wallach. The book focuses on the life of Gertrude Bell, a contemporary of Lawrence of Arabia who helped to draw the bound…
775 viewsAuthor Kurt Vonnegut talked to fans and signed copies of some of his works at an appearance to announce that his book, "Mother Night", will be made into a motion picture.
218 viewsColonel David Hackworth talked about his new book, Hazardous Duty: America’s Most Decorated Living Soldier Reports from the Front and Tells It the Way It Is. He criticized the military for p…
304 viewsAuthor/Journalist Ken Silverstein talked about his new book, “Washington Babylon,” which he co-authored with Alexander Cockburn. The book critically examines the ethics of Congress, the pres…
309 viewsWilliam Lutz, Author, spoke about his new book, The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone’s Saying Any More. In it he argues that there is a communications crisis in the U.S. He read…
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