[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> this week, our guest is john f. burns, london bureau chief of "the new york times." he joins us from the studios of westminster live, located across the thames river from the house of parliament. >> john burns, the last time we chanted, i asked you about a book -- we chatted, i ask you about a book, would you write your memoirs? >> i thought about it. there are a few agents in new york who can tell you that i am remiss. i came back from iraq after quite a few years a couple of

years ago. i really did not relish the idea of the solitude of writing the book. i would have told you that when i was in iraq and afghanistan that i was relishing the assignment. i hated leaving. i had not anticipated was the difficulty of readjustment. coming off of a very big story, partly, it is because of the camaraderie, the exhilaration. but part of it, too, it is being in a place which is beyond, in some respects, the consciousness or imaginings of people, notwithstanding television and everything else. and i think, probably, i am talking now about how the season

has receded by this assignment here, which turned out to be something against the odds, one of the more important assignments that "the *" has. we generate an enormous amount of news in london. when you come back from an external race parents like that to a period of recession, that is what i had when i came back. not a day goes back without agents or publishers come to me without saying, "redbook." -- "write a book." the book about your own experiences. i think i do have a story to tell. i think i have to tell it. if i want to be able to belong to a golf club in my retirement,

i will have to. [laughter] >> where will you start? >> where would i start? i think there are no the subtitle. it would be something that the iraqi information minister under saddam is known here. he is a fellow with coke bottles backs. he says of thing to me which i think would be the title of my book. when american troops arrived in baghdad. on the seventh of april, 2003, we saw baghdad bob at a news

conference on the mezzanine roof of the baghdad hotel. it gives us a view to like what we have here of the palace of westminster. he stood with his back to the palace, which was about one dozen yards behind, across the river. he told us that the american army had been defeated at the gates of baghdad and was in retreat and that tens of thousands of american soldiers had been killed. at that moment, over his shoulder, there were trips of the third infantry of the division of the united states army who were dangling their feed off of a peer, cooling their feet. i said, if you look over your shoulder, you will see that the united states army is far from defeated.

they have captured the heart of saddam hussein's power. he looked at me and he said, mr. fisher, i'm here to tell you that you are too far from reality. i think my book would be about living beyond the bounds the common western experience. the soviet union at the deaths of the cold war, north korea, afghanistan, who are the extraordinary people that you meet, the extraordinary evil that you encounter, but also of the inspiriting goodness in the human soul, which is rather the largest thing for me. i'm not particularly religious. i hope i'm not particularly self

righteous. but that would be a very major thing for me. how in the midst of darkness there is always liked? >> for some of those who have never heard us talk before, white year is it -- what year is it in china? >> from 1971 to 1975, that was the last five years of melting 's life.- mao tse-tung i went back to china when they opened to the world in the 1980's, an assignment that ended with my imprisonment for spying, which i hated to say of which i was not guilty and the chinese ultimately themselves

acknowledged two years or three years later. i was in the soviet union between those two. alastair the time of brezhnev, but i felt that i had season tickets to funerals. i was in south africa in the depths of apartheid. i certainly did not set out to have these assignments. i had a kind of angel on my shoulder that carried me to these places and at times of particular interest. and there was somebody there prepared to pay me for it. for me, it is true, if i were a working man, which i am not, i would have done with my professional life exactly what i have done. >> we were talking in 2007.

you were between iraq -- action, london.ing to hea how does iraq look to you from here? >> i have to say, i am apprehensive. i have a particular penchant for bensoapprehension. i have a personal interest of wood becomes in iraq. i have always felt and -- i have a personal interest in what happens in iraq. it is now at or below 50,000 and is set to go to zero or some negotiated number, much lower than 50,000 within the next 13 months.

we would see a resurgence of violence and possibly even a naissance of civil war there because none of the fundamental problems have been solved. the problems that occasioned all the troubles that have enveloped the united states and europe and iraq and the iraqi people since 2003, all those problems remain. there has been no fundamental political reconciliation in iraq. i have fought for a very long time, from the time that i was there, ever since then, that the keeper of the peace, to the extent that there has been peace, and there has been a lot when the last two years or three years than most of my time there, has been the united states, for which there are reasons that are not to for to see. but i do not think that what the united states will leave behind in iraq will likely to grow

stable. i think we have to open our minds to the possibility that much of it will be washed away, that there could be an onset of something like a civil war, perhaps not emulate. it might -- perhaps not immediately. it might take a year or two years or three years. if i had to put my money on a likely outcome, it would be that peace in iraq, and it might be a very harsh peace, is likely, ultimately, to be imposed once by it an autopsy. we just have to hope that, if that does happen, the new ruler, the new dictator, will be a lot more benign than saddam st.. >> canada, this morning, by the time this airs, it will not be quite the same number, but, in

2000 and one, -- in 2008, many lives were lost. in afghanistan coming 2007, we lost 232. the united kingdom has lost 344 in afghanistan and we have lost 1393 the whole time. it is disproportionate to what it has been in iraq. >> it is not much noted outside these precincts, especially the house of commons on 10 downing

street. it is not much noted that copper partially to the population, the armed forces, the size of deployment, 10,000 british troops in iraq compared to several hundred thousand americans, britain has taken heavier casualties than the united states. over 649 americans killed. >> so far in 2010. if you think about it, that is close to the number of americans who died in iraq in the first year in iraq. this is pretty discouraging. much of my family lives in canada and i started my journalistic career in canada. every time i write about the high incidence of british

casualties in afghanistan, i get quite a few e-mails from canada , from people saying, "why you never mentioned canada in this?" canada has lost between 150 soldiers to 200 solar'soldiers n afghanistan. a their trips will and other combat mission at the end of 2011. the -- their troops will ende their combat mission at the end of 2008 -- at 2011. they have not had their troops in combat in any serious

conflict since korea. >> you once referenced, when your father was in the royal air force, he was born in south africa. >> he was. >> did he once command 60,000? >> used to say when he retired, referring to the time in germany, he said, "i went from earning 60,000 men to running a lot more -- i went from running 60,000 men to running a lawn mower." i understand now that i am well past their rage, what a tremendous transition and it must be it for people to make. i am fortunate in being able to carry on. i crossed my 50th birthday 10

years before assigned to the war in iraq. i feel tremendously lucky to have been able to carry on a career in our business well past the point at which many people in public service certainly retire. there was some satisfaction in iraq when the united states congress increase to the retirement age for american general's. i forgot what it is, but senior generals, four stars, something on the nature of 64. it was a bit of a jarring thing to realize, in my time in iraq, to realize that i was older than all the success of american commanders there. i think the oldest of them in my time there was general casey who would have been at the end of his assignment about 58. he is now chief staff of the

army. general petraeus is about 57 or 58. they can well do without a lecture from me about this. but it seems to me that, if we set aside the kind of things you commonly hear, who knows what the the biologist would say about that. it seems to me that many people my age would say, you put the churlish to me and see if i can perform as you want. i think that we see lots of evidence that people in their ofe 50's and 60's are able performing just as high-level -- just as high a level.

>> the reason i mention your father is i wanted to know how long he spent in the service. >> 40. >> what kind of impact that have on you, being in a military family, as you began to be a reporter? >> i'm sure my harshest critics would say, as i see it, my time to see both the best and the worst in american military performance in these wars, he would not say that it was because his father was a senior officer in the british armed forces. he was a one-star general. that was prior to the cold war. it is that it gave me my first

encounter with americans, as it happens. i was playing golf with him in germany. we passed this dome surrounded by concentric rings of razor wire and attended by these curious looking characters in army camouflage. he said, "do you know who they are? those are americans." something for which he probably could've been court-martialed. he said, "that is where we keep the nuclear weapons that we would carry two or in british aircraft if there was a war with the soviet union." at that time, i don't know if that installation still exists.

there was a joint key shed operation where weapons released to britain by the united states at the point of imminence of war and the british prime minister had his decision to make whether to deploy them. i was 14 years old. for reasons i pondered ever since, since my father has been gone now for 20 years, he said to me, "those are the people they keep the peace in the world." i am thinking now, from what i have learned about some of the conflicts in which he was engaged, the internal conflicts, the reason he said that was that, in the aftermath of the second world war and still this digitally at least to

some extent, a certain amount of unease in britain and the british military remained about with some people regarded as the use of power in the united states, which was the imperial power of the late 19th century and early 20th-century. it would to be the way david cameron said -- the relationship changed substantially. the 1950's were a time of the money unease. on d-day, britain and its partners landed as many troops on the beaches of normandy as the united states. that was probably the last moment in the second world war

at which there was that kind of a coincidence. after general patton, britain became a much smaller component. he recognized a slight discomfort with the monies that some british officers had about american power. thatth the cunease some british officers had about american power. there were maneuvers. they lost their way. he was in a jeep with an american driver.

the cam across some tanks across this open plain. the driver said, general, sir, somebody would like to meet you. he got out of the jeep and walked and this gi saluted him. he said, "sgt, elvis presley." he had an american identification card. he said thank you. it was a great pleasure to meet you. when my father had an opportunity to pull this out of his pocket, he had been a fighter pilot in the world war and commanded the army in germany, but that was the more magical moment out of anything he had done. out of all this, i came to america and i came to my encounters with american

military with a basically positive this position. i still do believe in what my father said that day in that golf course in germany. in a turbulent world, it is america, more than a bitter power, overwhelmingly, that keeps the peace in the world -- more than any other power, overwhelmingly, that keeps the peace in the world. >> you mentioned that your wife is still in afghanistan. in 2007, she was the bureau chief. how long will she be there? >> we will see. she is in a position similar to me. she does not go to war. but she is living in and working in very dangerous places. now that i have been back from those places for some time, i and stand much better what is --

i understand much better when it is for those thousands of families who have their loved ones at war. you keep your fingers crossed. i think she will continue to do it. it is very unusual. as my wife, she accompanied me for 30 years ago to far-flung assignments. she had her job, not just the raising of their children, but helping to run the operations of "the new york times." that became formalized with these wars. she left for pakistan and later to afghanistan within three weeks of 9/11. she never really came back. she comes back on leave. she is, too, now in her 60's. to say she loves it, how can anybody love war? she finds it exhilarating.

like any woman of her age, she very in gauging to be needed, to be able to do something useful -- very engaging to be needed, to be able to do something useful. once we deployed lots of people to these wars, we have been fortunate in one sense that we have not lost to this moment any of our expatriate, our new york- based reporters, photographers, or others. we have lost an afghan and two iraqis. two weeks or three weeks ago, this change for us when one of our photographers, one of the great war photographers of our time and one of the nicest men you'll ever meet, rob silver, stepped on a taliban mine, ied,

on an inbed with the united states military outside of kandahar. he was grievously wounded, i am afraid to say. he survived. he is now in the army hospital in washington. he has lost both his legs. he is a remarkable character, a truly remarkable. the first conscious words he spoke were "i am good." born in portugal, raised in south africa. we have been experiencing this and a tragic incident like this at a very close hand. we have seen it a thousand times occurring to others. now it has happened to us. and it is a very educated experience. we must say that we're all extremely >delighted that he has

the generosity of the united states military and has been taken to walter reed where he is and will be amongst many soldiers and others who had similar experiences. it is without question the greatest orthopedic rehabilitation center in the world. he will have the comfort to call it that along with others who say the same thing and fight their way back to health. i think we will see rob silver -- no braver man or more popular ever carried a camera into battle. i will put my money on him being back there, carrying a camera back to battle before anybody can imagine it. >> there were about 100 people

involved in the baghdad bureau. how big is it now? >> if as much of a great deal. -- it has not shrunk a great deal. i think that our ambition -- our hope had been to do the same thing. there is a critical mass that you need because we have to provide air of security. -- provide our own security. this is another kind of bravery on the part of "the new york times" and the people that make the decisions. as you know, foreign coverage by american newspapers and american television has shrunk considerably. it was already shrinking before the recession. it has shrunk further. "the new york times" has had financial battles to fight, as

have all newspapers, because of the recession, but because also the internet. but it would have been understandable if the people who make these decisions had decided that we could no longer spend that kind of money. they did not. they committed themselves to continue to giving full spectrum covers to these wars. this war, i think, is a long way from over even if the american troops are drawn down. there will be a huge american interests there for some time. we will continue to be there as long as there is an american interest. >> let's go back over some of the places you were. did you ever think, when you were back in china, that they would own a trillion dollars of american debt to? >> they put me into a pet

in 1986 and drove me to the airport in shackles -- they put me in a paddy wagon in 1986 and drove it to the airport in shackles over a spying incident. they have invited me back many times. it just has not worked out. i am not avoiding them. i have some apprehension because it is a bit to glib. when the people of china, it is no doubt that this extraordinary creation of wealth and power to reject the have had an extraordinary capability in reserve -- of willpower -- they an extraordinary capability and resilience.

if there is a threat of apprehension, it is because the china that i saw 40 years ago was a china that communism had changed very little in the previous 50 years. i could get into a -- onto a bicycle and cycle into central china. it was an enchanting kingdom. i loved it. during my second assignment in the 1980's, when they say that the door was open for foreign investment, the china that loved mao tse-tung was a far more agreeable place than the china that were shipped the dollar. the chinese people are fairly better off than they were with the fact that they can afford to buy $1 trillion in american debt. that is very good for the people

of china. it will present us with a whole manner of problems, certainly. but i am speaking only of the experience as a visitor. i think i will have a strong nostalgia for the china of my youth. >> what kind of grade would you give mao tse-tung as a leader? >> as a guerrilla leader? >> why did they adore him, if they did? >> mao tse-tung wrote his own epitaph on the first of october 1949. this was the moment when the communists took control of all of mainland china. and he ascended to the gates of heavenly peace on tenements where -- on tianemen square.

he said, "after centuries of oppression and humiliation, the chinese people have stood up." that had an enormously motivating power for the people of china. of course, in their enthusiasm, they allowed to be invested in mao tse-tung absolute power. and that power was corrupted. by some estimates, 10 million people died.

an awful lot of people in china died as a result of the dictatorship imposed by mao tse- tung. it will be history and history measured probably a long time for from now before social opinion can be reached about mao tse-tung. from what i have seen and experience from talking with chinese people, not only chinese officials, china is in a very conflicted state about mao tse- tung. they speak openly about the disasters that were brought upon the country, but they also recognized the 1949 marked a historic turning point of enormous importance. i find him fascinating a figure. in my home, i have a wonderful

porcelain bust of mao tse-tung. underneath it, on a little wooden stand, his little red book. the little red book is actually quite a valuable little document, partly because it is a kind of boiled down synopsized version of chinese philosophy through the ages, confucius, sensitive, the military strategist -- and i have found many elements useful. in getting out of or avoiding getting into trouble, his doctrine on guerrilla warfare -- i told my children about this.

dr. number one, do not think it -- doctrine number one, do not engage the enemy of less victory is certain. no. 2, do not engage the enemy of less victory is essential to your cause. if you apply those two provisos too many incidents and live where there is a potential for conflict, it turns out that you can avoid about 80% of them. first of all, if you look realistically at it, in many such conflicts, potential conflicts with people who employ you, with a difficult officials in faraway countries, it is safe to assume that you will not win. if you will not win, do not engage. some people would say that this is a formula for ducking problems. i think it is a formula for

success in life. >> you mentioned kids. we talked about your son last time. that figure is about 28 now. >> yes. >> you mentioned he was born a pound. >> he was only 1.1 pounds. there are three of us in our family. we are the beneficiaries of high-technology in american medicine. i don't to be melodramatic about it, but all three of us would not be walking around now if it were not for that. >> we talked about you spending a year in hospital. >> they wanted to turn near added push me back down in the street. the relevance of that -- they wanted to turn me around and pushed me back into the street. the relevance of that, the 700

billion pounds in england, something like 105 billion pounds is spent on the national health service. that figure has more or less tripled in the last 10 years or 13 years. it has become a huge financial burden. mr. cameron, the prime minister, is in the process of bringing in government expenditures. he will cut all other departments by an average of 20%. the health budget will not be cut. >> we call that grandfathering. >> same thing. >> why does he do that? >> he did that because, in 1947 or 1948, a labor government, a reformist labor government after the second world war introduced to the international --

introduced the national health service with fierce opposition. it is now the jewel in the crown of his kingdom. no political party that came to be seen as likely to destroy or undermine the national health service could possibly survive. that reflects the live experience of the national health service if you live in this country. there are many things wrong with it. including long waiting lists, including occasional denial of life-saving drugs, and so forth, on the basis of cost. but there are many things right. principally, is what they call medical care free at the point of delivery. when you go to a clinic or hospital, nobody asks about your ability to pay. you may get varying levels of treatment.

if you get cancer somewhere else in this kingdom or more remote places, your chances of survival will be proportionally reduced. that is also true under the american system of medical practice. i ended up conflicted. on the one hand, i and my son, who was born 12 weeks premature, and my wife have all been beneficiaries of high- technology american medicine. in medicine, had we been in the u.k., we would have been unlikely to get. i had said once to joellyn liliveld, whoe was hopeful when i had cancer

and helped navigated through that difficult time, and for whom i shall be eternally grateful, i said to him at the end of the experience that i sat at patient meetings and saw a new york police officer weeping at patient meetings over the bills to is getting. he mortgaged his house, second mortgage his house, borrowed money from his brother-in-law. he thought was going to die. he did die. i think that is the dramatic version of what can happen. i know now that there are many things in the american medical system and even before president obama's reforms that mitigate that. i come to america to the high- technology system of medicine which has saved my life and i see a new york city police officer weeping at patients meetings because of the cost, and then my native country that could not give me that kind of

cancer care. nobody is going to ruin his family as he descends to the end of life through cancer or any other chronic disease. and joe said, and i have pondered this ever since, he said, "i do not think you need to ponder too hard over that. the way i see it is the only medical care system and one from my country, the united states -- the u.k. has the only medical care system i want in my country and the united states has the medical care i want for my family." the national health service would be a the top and the bbc would be not far behind it. >> you have written that the united states has 11 active aircraft carriers.

this country has one. >> has a 0. >> there are two that are supposedly to be built. america looks over here and sees an 8% cut in four years and that these aircraft carriers will go away. >> it really expresses very sharply the dilemma that the cameron government face. they were the most indebted country in europe. there was a sears threat of a solvent that -- there was a very serious threat of in solid the debt crisis. there was something in the nature of 80 billion pounds over four years from the 700 billion pounds per year budget. they grandfathered the national health service. the united kingdom eight

overseas. all departments had to take this hit, including the defense apartment, probably the most controversial of all the cuts they made. it was not a 20% cut, but an 8% cut. they decided to scrap immediately britain's only aircraft carrier capable of carrying a fixed wing jets. a 25-year-old ship was scrapped. all the aircraft flown from that carrier were scrapped immediately. two aircraft carriers are being built in scotland, i believe. it cost about something in the nature of $8 billion, $4 billion

each. it is much more than an american aircraft carrier. they decided it would be more expensive to scrap them than to build them. we will build them, but one of those two would be put in service for three years before selling it. they are building them only knowing it will do three years' service. the other one will be put into operation, queen elizabeth it will be called, and we will get a new generation of the most expensive aircraft ever built. they will not get those aircraft. there will not be deployable for another 10 years. -- they will not be deployable for another 10 years. so britain will be without

aircraft carriers or aircraft that can fly from carriers. americans are taking a big risk, the falklands, for example, in 1982. they say that we had a much better air field in the falkland islands. the island itself is our aircraft carrier. the argentines would not again brave the fury of the united nations by invading the falkland islands. >> cynics would say that this is a gimmick. because they will build these two aircraft carriers, if the economy comes back, the money will come back, and they will keep them deployed. >> that is true.

mr. cameron is an optimist. he made a speech to nights or three nights ago, a foreign- policy speech, which is extraordinarily optimistic about britain's ability to climb out of this economic mess in terms of austerity now and in terms of britain's innate ability to get back up on its feet and punch its weight around the world. he was sick, we might be able to do that, be able to keep the second carrier -- he might say, we might be able to say that, be able to keep the second carrier. i think they said, economically,

military perverse. this is only one of thousands of really tough assertiondecisionse has made. it is a big gamble. who knows? it could be that the british public will not be able to stomach the types of austerity measures that mr. cameron is administering. in the last week or so, there were student demonstrations against rising college fees. americans would smile widely it does. but students have gone to state colleges, 99% of them, and paying fees in the region of 3,000 pounds a year. that is about $4,500 a year. the cameron durrance says that that will now rise to as high as 9,000 pounds, -- the cameron government says that that will now rise to as high as 9,000 pounds, which is about $14,000 a

year. that put into the streets 50,000 students who marched along the embankment in the government district. as so often happens, there was a troublemaking element within those students, an anarchist group. many of them were from cambridge university who attended and somebody threw a fire extinguisher off the roof. it was a jarring incident because many can remember when mrs. thatcher was in power and impose a much less severe regime of austerity and there was serious turbulence in the streets. we do not know if the cameron government can avoid it. so far, polls show that 60% of the british public, many more

than who voted for mr. kamen and his partners in government -- mr. cameron and his partners in government, support it. that is a good sign. but then, the medicine has not been administered. it has been announced, but it has not been taken. we will have to see. just as likely, it will get through this. people will look at what is happening in ireland, in greece, spain, portugal, and italy, and say that it was not a -- that was it not our good fortune that we got a government just-in-time to steer us away from a sovereign debt crisis? and the liberal democrats can march on for another 10 years or 15 years in power. >> you went to school if mcgill university in china. >> i did. you were born here and now

you're back here in great britain. is your kit american? >> he was born in the united states. >> i want you to define the difference between a canadian, a brit, and an american. >> the easiest way to address it is to say what it is that i admire most about the united states. tremendous optimism, a tremendous kind of get up and go, something that we have seen in both of the two wars, of fundamental importance, a tremendous ability to learn lessons, to say "this is not working" and to go back to first principles and start again. david petraeus, in his two years in fort leavenworth,

putting that into effect in iraq with the effects that we have seen and now in afghanistan, he opened -- open the doors, open minds. britain has eroded resilience. we have seen this year -- britain has a rugged resilience. we have seen this year -- we saw speeches.how make there is a tremendous resilience in this country, a tremendous base common sense, and a tremendous instincts for fairness, which, i must say, i find very engaging. canada, a country having to live

alongside and on top of a country vastly more powerful than themselves, with remarkable success, they have constructed a kind of alternate society there. it is a society which has bridged the distance between europe and america. they have, for example, a system of medical care which is a hybrid between the american system and the british system. they fought with extraordinary valor in the two wars, the first and second world wars, and again in afghanistan. as anyone in the 49th parallel knows, canada it is an extraordinarily pleasant place. i did not choose it to be so. i it, in some ways, have experienced the best in all three countries. >> i want to make sure that we have something to talk about in

the future. what has to be done in order to get you to remember your life? >> i have to sit down, series a consider my financial -- seriously consider my financial well-being, have a little bit more many say that i have. like many in my colleagues, i invested in the future, in the news system. i am optimistic about that. i think we will make it through. i think "the new york times" could very well have one of its most profitable times in its history. i will have to listen to the publishers and the agents. i will just have to get used to getting up at 5:00 a.m. or 6:00 a.m. and doing the work. the first editor that employed

me at "the new york times" was a controversial and brilliant man. i was a correspondent in australia. he asked me why i had not done a magazine article that i had pledged to do. he cut me off in midsentence pin he said, " you know what i have discovered in 40 years to 50 years in this business? when things do not get done, they do not get done because they do not get done." in other words, you can excuse anything. i can excuse why i have not written the book. the truth of the matter is that writing the book as an act of courage. i simply have to summon up the courage to do it. >> of all the assignments you got, which one was the most exhilarating? >> exhilarating were the wars.

these wars impose the quintessential questions of life in their darkest form because they bore so heavily on the interest of the united states and of my newspaper, an american newspaper. in terms of sheer fun, and exhilaration, i would say china during revolution. but do you know something? i used to say to colleagues of mine who were moving from very desirable assignments, some of that -- from very desirable assignments to those that were less desirable that there is no such thing as a bad for an assignment. all i know is that i worked very little in the united states. people would say, well, he would say that, would he not? "thee a correspondent in th

new york's times" is to have a front-row seat. i have had an enormous amount of fun in my life. i have had an ongoing paid education. honestly, had i won the lottery when i was 25, i would have wished to do exactly what i have done. i cannot think of anything else that i would have been well suited for. my father persuaded me not to go to forces. many times on the golf course, he said, when i persuaded you not to do that, i was not thinking so much of your welfare. i said, what were you thinking about? i said, i came to the conclusion by the time you're 13 or 14, you would have made the worst officer the royal air force ever had. i was sitting myself from embarrassment. that was a turn well taken. i fell backwards into this

business. i would not change a day of it. >> john fisher burns, "the new york times" here in london. >> thank you. >> for a dvd copy of this program call. 4 feet for free -- q&a programs are also available as c-span broadcasts. >> the reason dined well site now features 800 notable nonfiction authors. you can view all the programs,

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