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Stephen Flynn served as director for Global Issues on the National Security Council staff during the Clinton administration, and served in the White House Military Office during the George H. W. Bush administration. He warns that America has failed to take adequate steps to protect itself against terrorist threats since 9/11 in his new book, America the Vulnerable. Then Gary Hart, former U.S. senator and longtime member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, argues that America needs a large scale, coherent foreign policy strategy to replace the containment policy of the Cold War era. His book, The Fourth Power, outlines Hart’s grand strategy—a foreign policy founded on the universal appeal of American ideals. Linda Greenlaw, one of the few women captains in the commercial fishing industry, is perhaps best known as one of the characters in Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm. Apart from being a seasoned fisherwoman, she’s also a best-selling author. She joins us today to discuss All Fishermen Are Liars, a compendium of true stories from commercial fisherman. And Lan Samantha Chang, author of Hunger, shares her new novel Inheritance.