The Brookings Institution's president Strobe Talbott discusses his book The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation.
Bio
Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham is the editor of Newsweek and the author of Franklin and Winston and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Strobe Talbott
Strobe Talbott is President of the Brookings Institution, Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton Administration, former Washington bureau chief of Time magazine, and author of The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy.