without even knowing it, you have seen hundreds of joseph sohm images. i can say this with confidence although there are no specific official statistics to support this joe is the most accomplished photographer of american iconography in the history of america and his catalog is distributed worldwide and images shown everywhere. joe will open a magazine and his images will be there with his shot there, his agency is to read them so they turn up everywhere. it is great to sit and a receiver the latest check comes from. some of the things have changed technologically have actually changed the business dramatically but his images are published over 10,000 times a year. websites, newspapers, periodicals, a tv film, you name it are some of the places, and some of them more high-profile, in al gore's film inconvenient truth and official scorecard of at the olympic team, and khosa publications of for all we know he has generously contributed his library of charge to close up over the years and is a match made in heaven based on the things he photographs. when i

you can call him the original chromosomes with the last name joseph sohm. he traveled around in a mobile home and he called it the chromahoma. he traveled through the united states every icahn has been seen through his viewfinder and now put on his digital film now shot in panorama expect without knowing if you have seen his images reconcile with -- said with confidence although there is no official statistics it he has the most icons in america. he will be on an airplane and open a magazine and see one of his shots because he is different agents around the world working for him distributing these shots and they turn up everywhere. he will go to the zero mailbox and see the latest check came from. we will see the latest changes have been changed dramatically but he has been published over 10,000 times per year website, newspapers periodicals tv, film, some of the places that are more high profile in the inconvenient truth, the official credit card of the u.s. olympic team, close-up publications, and maybe that capitol hill brochure for all we know he is gen

>> joseph sohm explores themes of democracy through his photography collection, visions of america. the collection spans 30 years of his career and was shot in all 50 states, this talk from the national press club in washington, d.c., was hosted by the close-up foundation. >> hi, everybody, i got to see when rose asked the question who has been here before and so i want to say to those of you who are veterans of the close-up program welcome back and those of you who are new, welcome aboard, i'm sure all of you know or wouldn't be here, that close-up remains the gold standard for civic education programs in washington, d.c., so, congratulations for participating. i'm going to introduce you to a gentleman who, like me has been associated with close-up for many, many years and joe sohm has been called many things, some of which are repeatable here, though we have a camera in the room and a photographer is this thing that he is referred to the most and begins to tell the story. but doesn't really tell the story and the story may be this operative word, i think if you were trying to real

. >> joseph sohm's photos have been published over 50,000 times in "national geographic," "time," "the new york times," the "washington post," and others. for more information, visit visionsofamerica.com. from politics and propose bookstore in -- prose, thomas ricks talks about his book "the gamble" which looks at the change in military strategy in iraq since 2006 and the people who were responsible for it. the event is 50 minutes. >> good evening. i am barbara meade, one of this owners here at policy licks and prose and this evening i want to welcome tom rick, who was last here three years ago to talk about his then best-seller, "fiasco" which at that time was praised as an interim report on the war in iraq. tom is currently a special military correspondent for the "washington post," having accepted one of those "washington post" bailouts that keep going on until there will be no people left there to work, but, when he was at the post, he was there for nine years, as their senior pentagon correspondent and before that 17 years at the "wall street journal" on the same beat. he has been

[applause] >> joseph sohm's voters have been published over 50000 times in national geographic time, "the new york times," the washington post and others. for more information visit visions of america.com. >> with the birth of a continental army in 1775 local militias were organized under the leadership of george washington that begin an eight year engagement that would be known as the american revolutionary war. despite the outcome, it was not by all historical accounts a model of tactical brilliance in superior court nation. in fact, as you'll soon learn that was quite the contrary. if not for significant he wrote actions overcoming inept decisions and a fair amount of good old fashioned luck, the result of the war and the future of our nation could have been three different. our program is coming to you from the pritzker military library in downtown chicago. about halfway through we will be taking questions from our studio audience and from those of you is joining us on the internet. a special thanks to our present sponsor along with our individual and program sponsors and associa