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  • Steve Coll: 2018 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Steve Coll discusses "Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Event Date

  • September 01, 2018

Notes

  • -  Steve Coll was appointed Dean of Columbia Journalism School in 2013 after serving as president of New America Foundation (2007-2012). He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 2005 and continues to write for the publication on politics, national security and the media. Coll is also the author of eight nonfiction books, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a former reporter, foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post (1985- 2005). His latest book, "Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan" (Penguin), is the sequel to his 2004 "Ghost Wars."Steve Coll was appointed Dean of Columbia Journalism School in 2013 after serving as president of New America Foundation (2007-2012). He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 2005 and continues to write for the publication on politics, national security and the media. Coll is also the author of eight nonfiction books, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a former reporter, foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post (1985- 2005). His latest book, "Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan" (Penguin), is the sequel to his 2004 "Ghost Wars."

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  • 48 minutes 24 seconds

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