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December i went to a prom i was the equivalent of a freshman oft the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night and the light was on interested americas and the war. And why did i get you so much. Because i knew we were going to lose it. What did that mean for you. I did not cry them. How old were you, i was 17,. With the late author john lucas indepth was born 20 years ago since 2000 over 200 of the nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth alice, bob woodward, tyson, george will, just to name a few over the next three hours our goal is to review the last years of indepth and ask a couple of questions, here they are, who is your favorite indepth guest, what book are you reading now and he was your favorite Nonfiction Author, thats what will be talking about and showing a video from the past 20 years as well and heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth to 027488200 and for those of you in the mountain in Eastern Central time zone 202 7488201 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zone and you can text what your thoughts are as well 202 7488903. Again text number only 202 7488903. Please include your first name and youre sitting if you would. Also on social media booktv for facebook, twitter an instagram you can also make a comment on those platforms. We begin taking those calls in just a minute. John lucas was the first guest but not february 6, 2000, that same year in 2000 richard rowe, William S Buckley junior, milton freedman, Stephen Ambrose and arthur enter junior all appear appeared, corbett was one of the guests, heres a portion. The heart of an aristocracy are the school and its interesting to use an example of your daughter and bush went to you and i wouldve gone to harvard if i would have not chosen the army instead. The schools are what control the opinion oft the children of the rich and or powerful, either step of the who is going to inherit a lot of money and he went to ground st. Marks, it is one of the schools in those to make them not only into gentlemen scholars but certainn values, i come back to david and how an opinion is formed in thee ruling class, they know what you sent with political training with their view of the world, i belong to the ruling class as a stepbrother but im not going to inherit any money so im sent to the bright royc boys who will eventually work for the rich boys and who will become judges, senators, editors of the new york times, and if youre open to it, banker. Where the apparatchiks and not properly speaking but a member of the ultimate class, thats how they continue, there has always been a move h in englands you point out they know about the upper classes and we are not told we are the most intelligent upper class i have ever seen or at least overall they are, nobody knows who they are, they own the newspapers, who really owns what, who really controls what, who controls opinion and to be there, they have done marvelous work but nothing really gets through to the people at large and so they go on and on occasionally and others but by and large it is a close corporation. He passed away in 2012, his books include the United States and lincoln for the next three hours we are taking your calls on these topics. What are you reading, who is your favorite indepth guest and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author 202 7488200 for those of you on the east and central time zone, 202 7008201 if you live in the mountain or specific time zone and you can text in your answer as well include your first name intercity 202 7488903, when it was in 2001 the author Toni Morrison appeared and she is a Pulitzer Prize winner author of beloved, here is a little bit from Toni Morrison. How do you get inside these people. It is difficult to use the actors and actresses use, you try to make it specific and you wanted be in that persons head if youre on stage, where the shoes, behave the way the person would so you have to enter or project and no where they and whether it appears in the book, you try to imagine all of those things and that works for me i cannot suspend, i dont judge my characters that way weathering going to have lunch with them or not is something quite different but you have to love them for their portrayal whether they are men, women, old, young, children, what have you. Are they formed or do they develop as you write . As you sit down in the book comes out, do you already know the story that you are going to tell . I think we know the questions that weree supposed to answer unprovoked as i was by Margaret Gardner what does that feel like or in paradise to hear about those people who walk the distance to three black towns that were turned away by black deople who had also been slaves like them and they were not welcomee there, i thought my god what would that feel like, i know what the story is about and i further know the journey and i have to find out whos gonna work that out for me i didnt want to know too much about her what she looks like were et cetera i wanted to invent her and then i put them together so they are never fully realized immediately there we stay coddling and stroking personal introductions and anything i can do to get them to speak and trust me. Host along with Toni Morrison in 2001 norman appeared in Toni Morrison was on february make fierce and, shelby foote, richard, david and david macola all appeared in 2001, one note when it came to Richard Brooke kaiser who started the show that the war in afghanistan started that day so we had to cut it short so we brought him back for a later date hes one of the few that ever appeared on the program twice park in Kansas City Missouri which of those three did you want to answer, faber author, what are you reading your favorite indepth guest. Caller my favorite author is mary roach i have most of her books. Host did you watch her when she was on indepth . Caller yes, i also replayed it on your website a couple of times because shes very entertaining and i like the way her books have the oneword title but i emailed her in shes email me back, she was a very good guest in a very good author. Host thank you for calling in, lets talk to david in louisville kentucky. David, good afternoon. Caller good afternoon, thank you for indepth, i went to answer the question about one of my reading. Host all right. Caller im reading twilight of the gods by ian w toll it talks about the conclusion of the american effort against the japanese in world war ii, we recently had the 75th anniversary of vj day and i find it to be an excellent book. Host we have covered him on book tv, did you see when he appeared . Caller yes i have and was anxiously awaiting the third volume of his or trilogy. Host is it world war ii that attraction . Caller yes and specifically this specific theater. Host why . Caller because of the notoriety of the pearl harbor attack, the surprise that it garnered just the story how it was a difficult task the japanese had all the advantages early on and it took quite an effort for us to become victorious. Host thank you for calling in david from louisville kentucky. Sometimes you take indepth on the road and it was september 2016 that we went to Hillsdale College and author right before the president ial election at that point and Dennis Prager was on the program and in front of an audience of students, here is part of his presentation. Is there anyway we can come back this socialism is a utopia but the left is promoting and people of my generation because you and i both know their systematically disestablishing the america that weou love. Thank you and such a niceea thing to hear from a millennial but thats exactly what is happening, that is factual, that is not opinion, their undoing what the founders meant to do but there is one simple answer aside from all the other arguments that i gave, socialism bankrupts countries this country will be bankrupt and the bill will fall on you and frankly im no pity for you because your generation both democrat, therefore i become a big believer in consequences, thats what the children should learn i have 0 pity for millennials a alvote democrat for the debt tht they believe in by voting democrat comes to the generation i will perhaps be gone or i will have my fine retirement account so has no effect on me but it will go big drop lunch, just like italy, just like spain, just like venezuela and because the left wants borderless countries like the European Union they dont believe in borders because they dont believe in National Identity will be a country called the United States between canada and mexico but it will not be from canada or mexico, that is theo, left dream and if this will all happen to you, yos will read about a once great country that existed that you help dismantle because you thanks to the indoctrination that you got in high school and college voted for, that is my message to millennials, nonpity message. Host that was Dennis Prager in september 2016 on indepth, all of these programs are available to watch in their entirety, lets talk to carol in Prince George virginia, carol good afternoon, which of those three questions do you want to answer. Caller the one i want to answer is about my favorite interview on indepth and it was the year the indepth did the year of fiction and it was david, i am a super fan of his and i thought it was an engaging, really involved interview and i just appreciated it so much. Host you still read him in the Washington Post . Caller i do, every time i get a little lonely i go on the archive and watch the interview of indepth again and i read all but one of his books and i follow him wherever i can i think he is an amazing careful person ice off whether its fiction or recording. Host is this the topic of National Security that interests you . Caller yes, im particular interested in intelligence and the work of the cia, i dont have any professional background, i am a retired lawyer but ive always been fascinated by it and i think he does a job of dispassionately but respectfully relating what the work of the cia and other intelligence agencies are in terms of protecting this nationally and saving our foreign policy. Host thank you for calling in, we will look at the fiction authors that we did i believe in 2018 that we did a full year of fiction authors and we will look at those as we go, if you cant do on the phone lines anyone to texan your message or social media your message, text number 202 7488903 please include your first name and your city and just remember booktv is our handle for facebook, twitter an instagram. Shelby foote was one of the authors who appeared in 2001 and in fact we visited his home in memphis. On that desk we talked about that before, show us. That used to be in post offices and it was a nightmare finding brothers was absolute thing to do i was lucky i found a whole bunch at a dusty old stationary shop that used to be on 45th street and i bought myself a lifetime supply. What kind of paper did you read on . Thats a problem i dont type a lot of paper it doesnt draw inc. Like it used to. What do i have in my hand. That the manuscript of shiloh and that the individual day i do a final corrected draft and put it on the stack and then type it up withit a printer. s is the original or the copy. That is the final days copy, each day i would do what i didid that day and i would in the day by making the final copy. You have on the shelf how many other of your originals . Last season shiloh, jordan county is not up yet, that was my six novel. You have any idea how valuable those are. Notes. What are you going to do them . Leave them to my son. What are some of the things that you have on the back of your desk . Those are favorites of mine Frederick Scott i was about 11 years old with my friends he was when your favorite. Absolutely. Hes from arkansas and he is an irish immigrant, he became a lawyer and helena and was interested to note because he was in the british army as a cortical and he was a marvelous general and a shielded franklin in the last year of the war. You have a really good closeup on the board not from such a distance, you mentioned him earlier. He was born four years into the century, he had a tremendous influence on the writing of thee short story, they are all writers in the influenced. He had, you cant explain, we try to figure these things and we could never figure out how he did it, he was so good. Host shelby foote passed away four years after that interview in 2005, gail tweets and or text in from dubuque iowa, i am currently reading cast the origins of her discontent for Isabel Wilkerson, i highly recommend it, Isabel Wilkerson has appeared on our q a program on sunday night and on book tv as well, all available at booktv. Org, type your name in the search function at the top of the page, ashland virginia, good afternoon, welcome to book tv. Good afternoon, thank you so much for taking my calls, from the earlier call from the woman who was looking at the Government Agencies like the cia, i had quite a bizarre life and i would love to share my name if i am changing the world from my dining room table to the heartbeat of america and also whistleblower, with the front page wall street journal, it can be seen on the internet but it triggered an investigation that eventually led to the resignation of jim wright, i also had some interaction at high level cia operative who offered about behind russia and has some very interesting synchronicitys that i discovered with him and other things, i even share, background with the president and any president in office that unite the people of the country but im not going on the ego trip that the president is on and we will still reach out to all of those to unite the people of this country properly, the secret Government Agencies have to be more transparent and empower the people with the freedoms that we have. Host what was the name of the book that you wanted to recommend. Caller the kgb, the eyes of russia offered by hairy rosinski. Host thank you, sir, john and hutchinson kansas, good afternoon. Yes, i have a question they be you or someone you can answer, on tv i watch in in the newspapers everywhere they talk about russia interfering our elections, china interfering with our elections and this goes on and on and on but nobody says a word, theyre all safe Foreign Government should not interfere in any way shape or form i go to channel eight. Host im going to interrupt you were talking about books in our 20th anniversary of indepth, anything in the book world that you want to comment on . No i listened to television and read the newspaper. Thank you sure we appreciate your call. Brent in new york, good afternoon, what are you reading hoosier favorite author and you have a favorite indepth program of the past 20 years. I have been reading this book, i cant remember the authors name but it is dewey truman. Host is that the new one without be the author . Host he has a new one on dewey defeats truman. Caller thats a pretty interesting book, this question about the fame famous author hao be nonfiction . If you have a famous fiction author you want to bring up go ahead. It would be thomas berger, hes not real well known but he wrote 18 or 20 novels and he was 89 and died in 2014 anyway hes only known for one book, Little Big Man but some people say hes not so wellknown because hes worked in different genres, its all fiction but he said detective novels and contemporary stop and also he wrote a takeoff on king arthur and you hes known for the english language, nobody writes like the guy. Host where you get your books, the library, online, the bookstore . Online and at the library because thomas berger, somebody said his stuff proves that fiction is stranger than truth, there is nobody that writes like the guy, i got on the site when time and its like this author, i said thomas berger, i entered his name, tom go leo came up, i think thats his name so i got a book by tom and its called like white noise and he wrote a couple of other books. Host is a specific genre . Host intelligence, National Security . Suspense . Caller i dont even know, nobody writes like this guy. Host thank you for calling in, in 2000 to our guest included cornell west, tom clancy, peggy noonan, robert carol, dale hooks, David Herbert donald, edmund morris, george will and bob woodward in our first guest is 2003 was phyllis and here is a portion of her talk. You remember kennedy was assassinated in late november of 63 and at that time i was the president im of the Illinois Federation of republican women and 90 series scheduled in chbeginning in december and it seemed inappropriate to give the standard any democratic speech so i worked up a new speech called how political conventions onare stolen starting the first week in december of 1963 and i gave that speech january and february and it told a story of how the rockefeller asked talisman had delivered the conservatives and given the domination to thomas and by march, i realized to put in a book and influence the convention so it was a horror when year. I wrote it on my typewriter at night home and then of course i wanted to publish if you go to them it will take them two years and we needed it and i 64th care marquette, that is a little publisher to produce this book, i sent it off to the printer in march and 25000 copies arrived at my garage on april the 30th and i typed out a onepage letter that said dear fran, please read this book today and then buy enough copies to say send to your delegates in 1964 Republican National convention and i typed a stencil in those days and i had a machine in the basement and i went down to the basement and put the stencil on the round thing and got out a hundred letters, i sent 100 letters out thats only advertising i ever did, one was those by a friend in california who called upia and said im gog to a convention this weekend of the united republicans of california and i have 5000 copies so i loaded them up at my Station Wagon and took them down to the airport, set them s out there and we had statewide distribution in california and the california primary was the first week in june and we sold over a halfne million copies between the firstll of may and e first of june in california. Where did the title come from, the minute i heard it i knew that was it. Host we have a guest calling in from chicago, good afternoon, what are you reading, hoosier favorite author, your favorite indepth program of the past 20 years . Caller its great to be on the program, a longtime viewer, first time caller, i am technically reading two books, i am reading an illustrated guide to the Mueller Report from publishing Shannon Wheeler and steve are the authors and illustrators i am reading a fiction novel at a snails pace called raptor from Gary Jennings that is the life of an orphan during the early viking mid barbarian, it is pretty good. My favorite author regarding nonfiction was max blumenthal, i met him personally, his books have a narrative that is similar if you read fiction or read anything, that nice taste its not boring and hes probably one of the best authors regarding criticism of government insiders in the middle east and i highly recommend to anybody, my favorite indepth guest is like asking your favorite child but i would say my favorite is chris hedges, a great journalist, great author, i love his show, i forgot the name right now but a close second is tom hartman, both are great men with a lot of knowledge and no spin. Host what do you do in chicago . Caller i work as an election judge, i working campaigns, long story short i was in engineering before trump got elected and that happen and i decided to do everything in my power to make him a one term president of the United States, i worked out the campaign and the chairman with the current tax assessor with the county hed be the income net and of chicago and a member of moms rising and im also a member of indivisible chapters and groups ive gotten involved in and when im not doing that im walking my dog about 50 miles a day which is why 100 pounds lighter. Host thank you for your time, it was in 2002 that one of her fiction authors appeared. Host how often does he come on have a bestseller . I dont really know, im not the only person to tap into, i suppose its probably rare ill be the first person to tell your got extremely lucky if you want to hear the whole story how h it happened, the bookk came out in october of 1984, in november of that year a gal in the Washington Times at the post was a tired marine colonel and she is since deceased and he wanted to get a copy of the book for his friend in argentina, he was too cheap to buy one, the lady was heading down to argentina his name was Nancy Cartwright of which is in Affairs People who and he would take the book down to argentina, this is down to miami from buenos aires and she shared the book on the flight. Anyways it was christmas season, she comes home and she buys a whole case of books, 20 copies to get to her friends for christmas, one wasre president reagan, president reagan would read two or three books aid week when he was president andnd he liked the book and started talking to her in the white house. A reporter with Time Magazine heard the talk and did a book about me and the president. Host that was tom clancy who passed away in 2013. In 2003 here with the guest indepth, martin gilbert, susan, leonard lewis, phil bloom, carlo, jeff, john keegan and Doug Brinkley were aghast that your, mike is in lakeside california, you are on book tv. Caller how are you doing. Host pretty good. Host i was calling to recommend for our fellow citizens a couple of books and infuriates formats, it is twoforone, imperial america and the second one is streaming more. Host go ahead. Caller i like the author in his writing style because he comes from a political family and has a stoicism with humor and he tells us the truth about a lot of unpleasant things without stoicism and humor and its a nice way to relay the information. Host rb, new york city, you are on book tv. Caller good morning i will start from the top with the book that is very well written and that is the biography of churchill by Andrew Roberts in my favorite Nonfiction Book related to the two authors is a wise man by evan thomas and isaacson, now go to the two authors, both of these gentlemen, i know each of them a little bit have written interesting books over the years since they wrote the wisemen, the wiseman i talk about all the time with people because the six subjects of the book hadnt huge influence on American Foreign policy and only one was april. Host how do you know Walter Isaacson, professionally, personally . Caller personally, my sister is an author as well. Host she wrote about Queen Elizabeth. Caller yap and the athletic club, i do the nonfiction, sally headquarters has been there. Host sally has written several books on the english monarchy and other topics and is well known to the book tv audience as well, thank you for calling in, the prosecutor in the 1960s the nine manson murder cases in his very famous book crime book was helterskelter, he appeared on her program in 2007 and heres a little bit. Whodunit, Lee Harvey Oswald did it. , absolutely. You listed at the end of the book the conspiracy people who think its a conspiracy, you listed all the groups that could possibly be involved saying that the whole world would have to conspire to kill president kennedy. If you listen to the conspiracy theorist every president ial administration has been trying to cover up, you cannotno believe all of our for instance, he was one continuous lie, he had the correct date november 22, 1963, correct city but other than that one continuous lie, he had the thinking cap turned tightly to the opposition he came over ten groups that were involved and he had them all involved, bitter enemies but they got together on this one, let me try to summarize like i did for Time Magazine a couple of months ago, they gave me a page on oswalds guilt, and then i can summarize why you there is no conspiracy, if you get into the conspiracy theories and you ask me about the kgbon and night answer and they say what about the right wing, ill try to summarize it all, i learned as a prosecutor, you dont have to be a prosecutor, common sense that if you are innocent of a crime, chances are there is not going to be any evidence at all pointing toward your guilt, why, because youre innocent but because of the nature of life, the out unaccountability of certain things now and then a piece of evidence will point toward your guilt even though youre innocent in an unusual tc rare situation maybe two or three pieces of strong evidence point toward your guilt even though you are innocent but in this case because you asked me whodunit, everything points towards lee harvey august walt, in the book 53 separate pieces of evidence pointing towards cause walts guilt, under the circumstances it would not be humanly possible for him to be innocent at least on the world in which we live, im talking you can hear me, only in a fantasy world can you have 53 pieces of evidence pointing toward your guilt and be innocent. Host that was vince from 2007, he passed away in 2015 and in 2004 heres a list of guest, thomas fleming, victor, margaret, neil, harold, forrest, simon then on september 5 we went to the bookstore and did a profile of the stream Benjamin Davis was our guest, david in november and then the late tom wilson in december, 40 of those authors that we just showed you are still active and writing, mike and marilyn text in my favorite indepth Author Interview was david macola as a former pittsburgh native it was special to hear about his career and learn how he writes in subjects and best which wishes for another 20 years, mike, we appreciate that, in 2007 what was Newt Gingrich who was our author who is a prolific author, he has written several books, this program in this section were gonna show you hear from 2007 is a little different, we will explain after words. We start over here with a soundbite and you and appear with over the book, the dvd andt continuum were in one of those fascinating periods of dramatic change where we could have in an warmest dialogue in the country and i think you have something that we did, just to give you an example of how i see the stuff will evolve over the next five or ten years. Avatar will be a new one but lets watch and we can explain. Let me just say these are the teething things of learning a new technology, this is a second life in the beginning of a very different kind of system but thats exactly what you see happening in front of us from people all over the world that come together and be together and share ideas and i think its very important to look at how this technology is going to evolve. The First Successful manifestation was a meta verse, the meta verse that is a Virtual World inhabited by real people was pioneered in Science Fiction novels in 1984 in the 1992 snow crash, the intellectual treatment was in the form of the 1992 book as a trade and a workshop but im actually not the first to do so, Charles Nesson taught a class inside second night about law and the court ofli public opinin and i think you will find more people engaged in study groups and workgroups in this second life and other kind of environments because theyre so effective. Host that was 13 years ago, an early version of an avatar you can see how far technology has come in the last 13 years, sarah and mississippi. Caller hi, i am calling from pittsburgh mississippi. Host yes, maam. Host. Caller i look forward to watching cspan2 every weekend and especially the first sunday of the month to see who the latest author will be, ill tell you, right now i am reading. Host before we go any further can you hit mute on your tv. Caller i am sorry here we go. All right my Favorite Book of nonfiction is comingofage in mississippi by ian moody, i think she wrote her memoir and 1968 and its the only book that i read twice, my Favorite Book of fiction of solomon by Toni Morrison, i know you had tony on several times but i dont recall you ever having and moody on do you recall if she was ever on. Host her book came out in 1968, chances are book tv started in 1998 and perhaps she had passed by that point or was not active as a writer. I think she passed maybe two years ago i thought maybe you had her on one of your shows. Host the producer is looking it up but i dont think and moody rings a bell, we are kind of limited over the years, we have stayed with nonfiction, that wouldve been a very appropriate book given the title. Caller this required reading in mississippi for Junior High School students it is a great book. Host are you a teacher. Caller no, sir im just a book person. Host what book is sitting on your table. Caller i have a lot of books sitting on my table, i just finished reading claudias book, just us and im currently reading her other book citizen and american lyric and im also reading right now wandering in strange lands a daughter of the great migration reclaimed her roots by morgan jerkins, i have seen her on your program. Host claudia has been on as well recently. Host i think she was on last week. Host did you pick up those prior to book tv or because a book tv. Host i was a bookseller years ago but i still get the new york books and also when i see new authors on your program and it sounds interesting i will order, i believe in patronizing independent bookstores and the one that i usually order my books from his square books and mississippi im sure youre familiar with that. Host yes, maam. Caller okay. But that is it for now. Host a lot of history, do you read any books, Historical Books about the civil war especially the attack on pittsburgh in the bottle that happen there. Caller im trying to think of the authors name, i cannot think about right now, he did do a book on vicksburg, is a hoffman, the gentleman that wrote mississippi and africa. Host there is another guy who just passed away he also wrote for scrum, he did a book on this and i apologize i am blinking on his name but he just passed away recently. He wrote a book on vicksburg as well. Thank you for your time this afternoon, we really appreciate and thank you for watching. Host janet and delaware, hi. We have to hit the volume on your tv, turn it off. Host i turned it down. Host what are you reading and what your favorite author and who have you enjoyed reading. Caller the book that im presently reading is not the book im calling about i am presently reading isabel Isabel Wilkersons but she does not address in this book, she did and the other one the subject that im really reading about and three other books, that is the ghetto and i wanted to mention my Favorite Books i am africanamerican and i was born, im 80 years old and i lived in the ghetto until i was able to escape because you have to escape the ghetto but the first book that i read that was like a bible to me and explaining to me the construction and persistence of the ghetto and that was a book that was written in 1993, the segregation in the making of the underclass and i will never forget one of the sentences, one of the statements that they made in the book and it was about when black people moved in to predominantly white communities, they said when that happens white people must have somewhere that they can go where they cannot follow, after that happens and i experienced it the powers will make a community that you moved into, they will make that a ghetto but the other two books that i wanted to mention, the second one was written in 2009 by a professor at princeton university, she wrote a book called Family Properties and what really struck me in that book was the idea when the fda would not give the fha blacks mortgages we had to buy houses on contract and the contract was held by the owner of the house and the stipulations of the contract was such that you never could pay off the contract so you lost the house and then they sold it to another black under the same circumstances and then the third book is one written in 2016, ghetto, the invention of a place in the history of an idea another princeton professor i come im particular interested in the subject is the ghetto because i see as a pillar of race in america, a pillar of race of the idea that the ghetto is where blacks belong and they can only get out of the ghetto if we manage to escape what opportunities that we might be able to access, those are the books. Host if youre reading cast, what is your comparison. Caller in the warmth above her sons, Isabel Wilkerson talked a lot about the ghetto and in ca cast, i just started reading it, i dont believe she talks about the ghetto so much in this book, the word ghetto for instance is not in the index, she talked a lot about the ghetto, the people who had that great migration like my parents when they left the sharecropping in the former plantation of the south even though initially blacks did not live in whats called the ghetto certainly by the 1940s they did. Host where do your parents begin their life and where did they end up . Host where did your parents begin their life and where did they end up. Host. Caller i was born in pennsylvania lived in the projects which are no longer there they were torn down 20 years ago but the ghetto is where i lived until i was 16 years old when my parents managed to buy a house, my mother and father came from North Carolina and virginia they had a fourth and eighth grade education the ghetto was the place where it was designated that we should live and even to this day, that pillar persist. Host janet and delaware, we appreciate your time. Brian in michigan. Caller good afternoon. I was reading woodwards book, he is using, the thing about woodward, we know the history but he does the same thing that is going on a lot over the past decade or two with all the socalled sources and they really dont have sources so i wonder how we allowed this to happen continually. Host have you read any other of Bob Woodwards 20 or so other books . Caller this is the first one ive seen him around for decades and all the history going all the way back but the thing of it is getting back to it, how do we keep allowing this to go on and how do guys like woodward and any others benefit when they really dont have sources or this anonymous, he certainly was not a high level source but yet we allow that to go on and they profit from a and you see it in the news all the time, im wondering when we will get back to real journalism instead of petcalling people journalist, shouldnt they have training in journalism and understand the theory of journalism. Host brian, what made you pick up this book . Caller i just seen it so much and i had to go in take a look at it, it is the same thing that goes on and i dont want this to be about me but i worked in Naval Intelligence and when i see things like this so blatantly going on, i feel like i am back in europe where they have blatant propaganda, it is in america, thats what were dealing with now, thats what were fighting all the time with each other because were not making these riders whether its woodward or any others without having sources that they can verify and they can prove that they have verified them, that they should not be able to cite these people, it is hurting our country. Host we are going to leave it there, and 2005 in depth was in its fifth year, here were the authors, historian, helen, robert, richard, h. W. Branson, william, Harvey Mansfield from harvard, sherwood, Doris Kearns Goodwin and fiction writer john was also our guest, it was in 2013 when a caller reference this author a little bit earlier that mary roach who often is very humorous in her writing appeared on the program, here is a portion of that. I did notot really care if somebody didnt in space, i just wondered had anybody done in 0 gravity so i thought theres all this commercial 0 cavity corporation and i called them and the guy is a contractor and if. We would lose a lot of money, he said no but of course hes going to say no. Im guessing one of the staff at the 0 gravity mightve done that after hours one of the early flights that they were working out the kinks, it seems to me but nobody is owning up to. The research on that topic included locating a porn star. Sylvia saint, okay, there was supposedly in a trilogy called the uranus experiment and what i heard, there was a scene shot in 0 gravity, not instate but on the 0 gravity stimulator of playing with the flight and had 20 seconds of 0 gravity, conceivably you could and i tracked down the producer of the uranus experiment who lived in spain and we had a conversation about this and he said we did, we had that shot, ill send you a link to the movie and you can check it out and he said he said i have a timeshare and we got the pilot to do that and i said really you got a pilot to do is 0 gravity flight, that is extreme and he said we had to check the planes thoroughly and make sure they were okay and he had a lot of detail and then i downloaded the uranus experiment and i fastforward im the only person that fastforward through the porn, i got to the scene in 0 gravity and right away if you know anything about 0 gravity, you can tell that this is fake because her ponytail is hanging down, her ponytail, it would normally be floating and it is hanging down and other parts of her anatomy are similarly not buoyed by 0 gravity but there should be no hanging down by 0 gravity, there would be no hanging down in the uranus experiment, their legs were hidden so they were standing behind u the sofa trying to look like they were in the money shot they flipped it sideways so it looked like they were floating, it was fake. That was mary roach in 2013, tom is in florida, hi tom. Caller hi. Host what are you reading, whos your favorite author and indepth guest. Caller my favorite historian is howard zinn, i read all of his books, peoples history, the United States, just obedience and democracy and the nonviolent gcoordinating committee. Thesis on governor la guardia in new york. Certain lay runner up for great history books your recent guest, gel la port, ive rate jill la pore. I think these truths is a fantastic book and right now im reading a book and i dont know if he has been on, his name is larry tye. Its called demagogue. He has written many books. Ive read another of his books ive read another of his books about a philip randolph. This book is about senator mccarthy. Its a fantastic book. Host i think it just came out in the last month or two, didnt it, so i think we have either recovered it or hes going to be on shortly but, yes, i think we have covered that. Hes also been interviewed on pbs news by judy woodward. A. If you go to booktv. Org you can look at the front page there isme a search option. Thanks for watching and for calling in. Curtis in vancouver washington. Caller i wanted to remind you the name you are overlooking was forest gump author forest grove i would recommend about the history of a lot of behind the scenes things going on. I had a chance to meet him once at the southern festival of books and nashville. A very delightful person to meet, so that was a lot of fun. I enjoyed the clips of the interview. [inaudible] he is one of my favorite historians. Host what is it about doctor hansen thatn attracts yo . Caller his insight bringing his classical education and history from the greek and roman era, what the impact was longterm of particular battles like the battle where socrates managed to survive which had a big influence or the battle of okinawa where the americans learned, or the battle of shiloh where they had a backtrack back and forth that made up for it. Host hes still he is stily active author and columnist. I look forward to seeing him on tv, tomac. Host he was on our program a couple of months ago and the book is in support of president trump, so i dont know what that does to your opinion. Caller i concur. I had a couple of books im currently reading. One is a biography that has a lot of nice insight into his original career as a copy boy, the newspaper in new york and then onto his career as a documentary filmmaker. He was very good and another to recommend is the trilogy about the war in the pacific. Host you are the second caller to recommend that. Caller a superb trilogy. Host still my favorite but they passed past a long time ad for the books to recommend, i got some books from reading murder mysteries and the way that he kept his place in the book iff he used a special bookmark thats when i went and looked up and read and it covers the treasure of our tongue by lincoln burnett. African genesis about the development of humanity from primitive, pre civilization by robert audrey, who retired from writing scripts from movies, he wrote the book scripts for a cartoon but then decided he would specialize in researching anthropology. Ng host curtis, you seem to spend a lot of time with books. Do you have a lot of free time or is it your hobby . Guest its what i enjoy doing more than anything else. I had a little room dedicated to a library i had to tear out because our daughter moved in for a while so the books are boxed up in the garage. I have a few on hand reading like the first phase and twilight of the gods. I also wanted to recommend for the civil war buffs the trilogy about u. S. Grant, starting with captain grant lewis who passed away after taking the notes and writing that book and he passed them all onto his subsequent riographer, who everybody in the civil war knows him. There was one great anecdote when grant came back from vancouver. He had a time at the post where he wasnt very happy. He came back to galena, illinois, and one day he came into the store in the middle of a rainstorm and one of the guys sitting arounde the stove was a prominent local lawyer who said you look like hell and grant said i sure feel like it. The guy at the stove says whats it like and he says the same as here, the lawyer is closest to the fire. Host are you a lawyer by profession . [laughter] caller no, im an Aerospace Engineer who kind of transitioned intoti education, t now im a substitute schoolteacher, semiretired. Host carolyn and . City iowa is reading a couple, Robert Oppenheimer and the irregular rollout all and the spicer goal has appeared on booktv several times and you can watch online. Glenda is in humble texas. Caller hi. I wanted to call attention to the book grant by ron sure now as well as his book on alexander hamilton. A lot d of people today dont le books that are that long, but i find his books hard to put down once you start. They are so well done and well documented. I really appreciate that in the current climate of people playing fast and loose with information. The other side or that i enjoy and would recommend to anybody as richard rukeyser. His most recent book give me liberty, is excellent for people to read right now. It goes back to a time period that has been under attack and followed the real origins of the founders early beliefs, and its justst its not a long book. But it is so worth your time. Host thanks for calling in. Mr. Brooke heise rukeyser has ad several times in fact a year or so back we did an interview with the historian, richard rukeyser, who also writes for national reviewnationalreview, and his wa psychotherapist. Shed written a book called basically how to get along with your friends and neighbors politically iff you dont agree onol politics. We interviewed them in their apartment in new york and you can watch that online on booktv. Well, it was in 2002 on one of his many appearances on booktv and cspan that this gentleman appeared on in depth. Heres a portion. As i matured it was anton check off and john coltrane. They seem to be here and here. How did the intersect . Syou listen to the supreme that brings together the genuine phrase and the spirituality of the genuine giving and serving. Its that questioning and profound love compassion and lovingkindness you get out of the tradition and christian tradition. He takes it to such a high level in terms of the musical genius. With coltrane, you simply do not have a poet in prose of such profound compassion wrestling witht, death, disappointment, ad wrestling with the steady ache of misery, the heartbreak of daily life, but trying to convince usnc to keep on. It isnt in our business to the affiliates. And his ability how to keep keeping on. Thats why i keep keeping on. They say late at night but still im steady and un accusing, pushing no matter what. With a level of compassion and love you dont find in many other. You would have to go to Toni Morrison to get that fusion of sweetness of wine and toughness of temper in one figure. I first read him when i was 17 andwa it blew my mind. Host 18 years later, joining us now is doctor cornell west. Or doctor west, listening to that is there anything you would like to add . O guest i first want to congratulate you. What a force for good you have been, 20 years in the midst of a grandma and bleak time. You all have been a light and so kind to me and so many others as well, my dear brother. I hope your loved ones are strong and safe but im blessed to be breathing. Each breath is a breakthrough. Each day is a blessing, my brother. Almost 20 years later but im still tied to them and revolutionary christian guide to a name jesus. Host so, cornell west, how many books are you up to now . Guest i dont even count. I guess maybe 20, 21 or Something Like that. But as you know, it isnt a matter of the quantity, it is a matter of the quality of the words on p the page and you help they can help somebody and try to heal some hearts in the best way that we can and finite lives that we live. Are you working on a book now . Guest ive got these different lectures and is on the catastrophe. They made their way through the various monasteries with the common life and became the first great public intellectual in modern europe and goes all the way from this to Toni Morrison, myni brother. A lot of towering figures in between, the Matthew Arnold and rabbi and breath abraham and mary rukeysers and culminating with Toni Morrison and cole train. In the making. Oive got about two years to wok on these lectures and thats going to be the next big book that at the moment as we try to get through and see what democracy is going to be left. Ive been reading ag hopkins, global empire American History, the professor the university ofy of cambridge. Stilley treatment of american empire in decline, the corruption of the elite and then the feeling among everyday people that they dont have the kind of power required. I think that is where we are now. But thank god the life of the mind is still at work. We have to have courageous citizens and loving human beings but its indispensable because we are laboring under certain frameworks and that comes from thee poets just leaders. On apprehended inspirations, the mirrors cast on the present. He understood we have to be connected through our ideas and notions and stories and narratives. Intervene on the president and e hope to focus on the least of these all around the world of all colors and genders and orientations. That is the covenant god makes with israel and jews and it set the standard for everybody including israel. What are you doing to those that are dominated and occupied. It is a standard greater than all of us and know one of us ever possess that kind of truth. And trying to bring together different people who were at each others throats with some kind of peace. Host three years ago you were on indepth again. Absolutely, that is the truth. He had the truth seeking and we put out another one just recently but we had a magnificent timeo on your show o hold up to the best of our ability. Racial identity, gender identity, whatever identity you have its got to be rooted in the integrity and in a solidarity with those across the various nations and colors, so the moral and the spiritual scandal that we fall short of but it must always be highlighted where you will end up with massive spiritual dk and thatde is part of what we are dealing with now. Host to tell the audience if they are not as familiar Robert George is a professor at princeton and an author and one of cornell wests best friends and he happens to fall on the conservative side of the political spectrum. Is that a Fair Assessment . Absolutely, he is my dear conservative brother. We wrestle and engage in each other its also an understanding of the difference between deep love and narrow justice. If it isnt grounded in something more profound. But you can love somebody and have deep political disagreements but if it is only about a justice, you end up with a a selfrighteousness and livig in yourve own silo unable to mae the humane contact that you have disagreements with. Thanksgiving dinner you sit around the table and even moms and dads and brothers and sisters but you still take a bullet for them. I dont want to lose sight oft his humanity and if he didnt consent to his activity and change in life and acted with integrity he had that capacity but he chooses not to as long as it is tha the choice we have toe different engaging human beings and i learned this in the Baptist Church you can still try to stay in contact with the humanities and if in fact as i also learned in the Baptist Church the kingdom t of god is within you in every way you go and thell question becomes our relations with others. They are concerned with those in somalia, ethiopia, nigeria, thailand, japan. Its got to be global and international. That is a part of the legacy of jerusalem that ought to be under the cross every flag under that god of justice. If we lose sight of that we end up losing the planet and american democracy and we end up losing the best of ourselves. The great play what does it profit the nation to gain the world and lose its sole. Its a party to seeing you pleasure to see you virtually. Thank you for your time and take care. Congratulations brother, stay strong. This message from leslie in pittsburgh, favorite guest was on our first year infection which was in 2018 we did the fiction authors and colson was one of our guests. It was in 2006. Shelby steele, robert, marc, joyce appleby, gary gallagher, tammy bruce, John Hope Franklin, rayy cruz weil and president jimmy carter. It was in march that Francis Fukuyama was on. I gave it up for maybe 15 or 20 years, but then the digital age hit and ive been doing it now for i think ten. I travel at lot, so i always tae a camera wherever i go. I do a portrait of them every new years so we have a record of what they look like at the yearly intervals i like to take pictures of all of my friends because i know some pretty interesting people but i have been a little bit too busy to do that. Is this where you do your portrait work right here . I can set it up with all of my life to do portraits. What kind of camera is this . I love this camera. It is a medium format that produces a six by 7centimeter. It produces a 500megabyte file when you are done with it. It isnt an easy camera to use but it is flexible and produces beautiful pictures. I have another medium format and a collection of nikons and other things. Im afraid the digital revolution is going to make these cameras obsolete because the resolution that you can get now on a row digital slr is getting up to this level, but im going to be very sad because the film they make for medium format cameras are just beautiful at the moment that they perfected it all of that is going to end. How does the processing work, you get a negative and manipulate the digital . I have a medium format scannerr so i scanned it into te computer and then it is photoshop from there. I did blackandwhite and colored but the computer makes it so much easier these days. You feel kind of bad all the skills these people develop like ansell adams. Theres one print ansell adams printed repeatedly and it took him 25 years to finally get the print that he felt happy with and unfortunately its easier, all that effort and craftsmanship you lose when you move to computers and digital. One of thend best known books is the end of history and the last man. Hes stillti in the virginia ara and writing. That was a visit we took to his house, richard hall of cspan went out there with him and did that for many years for booktv, traveled to the authors homes. We will show you a couple more of those. To wreak in tucson, what are you reading and have you had a favorite guest . Caller my Favorite Book of all time is the autobiography of malcolm x because i read that when i was a kid about nine or 10yearsold my First Library book that inspired me to continue too read but with cspn and the wonderful authors you have across the board i have a bdiverse reading. Ive been an education this is my 40th year, assistant principal for 22 years and it moved me when you were talking up there in delaware because im originally from wilmington delaware, graduated, played college the university thats how i ended up at tucson but one of the books, im also reading a book called the color of the law by richard rothstein. It is an interesting book that was talking about the same thing shes talking about. I had the pleasure of meeting doctor cornell west back in the 90s when i was working to save our School District in the africanamerican studies department, selected to asking m a question. I was reading the book at the time democracy matters, one of my Favorite Books. Doctor cornell west tried to get me inspired to go to princeton to finish my doctorate and im reading a book beginning again by eddie card, hes a princeton guy. One of my favorite historians as a president ial historian. Ive got a kind of crosssection of things. One of the things i like about cornell west is how he talks about some of the news today as a form of entertainment. You just have to read between the lines and know whats what. But all the people you had on, i admired everyone you had on that are deep readers and i think one thing about cspan, im so glad you have this program because it gives us the chance to broaden our horizons intellectually. One of the people you had on before was michelle sullivan. Ive read her book that im reading another book in search of the voices of redefining identity. I kind of just go back and forth. Another favorite was michael dyson. I have several of his books so i enjoy that kind of reading, tomac. With cornell west, what you see i is what you get with him. Hes always been consistent over the years. We missed going down to tucson for the wonderful book festival put on by the university of arizona. Have you been to that in the past . I go every year. Weve covered it for the past ten years or so and of course this year it didnt happen but we look forward to going back down. March is a nice time to go down after being through the winter. Thank you for your time. We sure appreciate it. He mentioned a couple of historians. Another that appeared and is still working today, this is from 2001 and this is best selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner david mcauliffe. We have some video of your home and your writing shed. First, it isnt a shed, that is the headquarters. [laughter] its in massachusetts a village in the center of the island of Marthas Vineyard. The house is part 18th century, part 19, part of 20t 20th centu. Thats the back porch looking at the acre that we own where we have gardens and a nice reach backwe to a neighboring farm whh has been in the same family since the island was first settled. My walk to work that is where i work right there. That measures 12 by 8 feet and it has windows on all four sides. I love it it has about 80000 bos in their and my faithful typewriter upon which i have worked since about 1965. Every book ive written on that typewriter and theres nothing wrong with it. Its an example of a beautifully madee an american machine. Its probably got 750,000 miles on it. Have you written everything on john adams in this room . Part in charlottesville when we lived there the better part ofu the year when i was doing research at the library at the university of virginia. But essentially all of it was written here in the room. I work all day every day. I am not writing all day. I am reading or correcting from the day before or going over notes. There is no telephone. No books, no music. Theres a nice view but i had my back to the view so i wont be tested by it. Its far enough from the house ofu see washington and some of them soldiers marching on. I hope they show the end of it because hes the one thats always aer little slow catching up. Hes not quite. I look at him and hes my example. Hhes always a little behind. Published by simon and schuster and president and ceo on youre screen now. What has david meant . He is the franchise. First, happy anniversary. Hearing his voice he fills me with such admiration. If hes watching, we revere you and we will be reading you forever. Hes been with us for over 50 years and one of the great writers at work today. Every time ive had the privilege of reading his manuscripts there isnt a wasted word. He is such a careful writer and also the way hes able to find the inspiration in American History i dont think theres anybody quite like him. Can you tell us is he writing a new book now . You would have to asksk his editor. Have you been to. His shed . No and he is hard to reach on the telephone because as you said he doesnt answer the phone. Ey host 20 years weve been on the air. Doris kearns goodwin, david marinus, all simon and schuster offers that have appeared on the program. How has the world of publishing in the last 20 years changed and you only have two minutes to answer that question. First a lot of those authors are still around writing bestsellers and books like bob woodward has had a tremendous impact. The short answer is theres more books being sold online. The case of publishing has accelerated andra the third thig i would say maybe the nonfiction culture has taken a little bit of attention away so those are the big points. When you planned the most recent book and talked about the timing, what went into the decision . We thought that is when the attention would be focused the most on how the administration has conducted itself but also depends on the reporting and his own timing and schedule. He kept be saying that it could be earlier or later. The reporting is what really determined the schedule so we hoped it would be september but nothing was certain untilhe hes done. What has been the effect of the pandemic on the Publishing Industry specifically simon and schuster . Its been unusual because for several months we didnt publish that many books when it began in march we postponed many titles coming out in april, may and june andwe then we started to publish more going into july and ultimately then the book sales were up. People were home and had time to read so its turned out to be through the hardship and suffering its been alright. Host well known in the public industry Publishing Industry have passed away. Its been a tragic year for people in the industry. They are not the only ones that died. Just the other day it seems as if there are a lot of major people that passed away this year. Carolyn was our ceo who worked for Simon Schuster for decades. Alice was one of the greatest editors at our time and leading editors of nonfiction and was Walter Isaacson and Doris Kearns Goodwins editor working right up to her final days. She called me about a week before she died and wanted to signhe up for two more books. Her work was her life and she loved her authors and made an immense contribution to publishing. Host did alice leave a manuscript behind because that is when everybody would like to liread. She was a deeply private person but we did publish a book about her. We asked a bunch of her authors to contribute memories of her and we published that and i think that its available for free to the public. It is a wonderful book of memories and was reviewed quite favorably. What books are coming out this christmasut season we shoud be alerted to . I have one thats out right now its w an account of his yes of working with john mccain and i was in tearsar by the end of e f book. He was the chief of staff for many years and worked on the president ial campaigns and coauthored several books with him so you see mccain from the most intimate politician or political leader can be seen from and its a story even if you do not agree with his politics, he was an honorable man who cared deeply about the country and i think it is a story regardless of your political ideology you can appreciate, so thats one. Other books we have for the holidays, the biography of jimmy carter which is a terrific account of president carters life and it took about six years to write. We have a book about kevin also knows that one the National Book award. Hes a new yorker staff writer and hes been covering biden for many years. We hope this will be the book everybody comes to to understand joers biden. Host president and ceo of Simon Schuster. A couple of years ago booktv went into the headquarters and did a tour. If you would like to watch that you can type in Jonathan Karp in the search function at the top of booktv. Org. Thanks for spending a few minutes with us. Thank you. In 2007 on booktv in depth, pj orourke, the political humorist, Dinesh Desousa, alexander colburn, michael varona, edward wilson, Christopher Hitchens, David Horowitz and Newt Gingrich. Dan in massachusetts good afternoon. Who is your favorite guest and author you would like to recommend . I want to complement you on the wonderful job i find it very interesting and educational. Ive beenar promoting it and im talking about fine educated people. I have a couple of buddies my one fellow the Boston Public Library and t i told him these authors say they couldnt have achieved these without the assistance of some of you the librarians and another from rutgers i had to explain the situation also. I dont want to take much of your time but i want to answer the question also. Have a number of authors ive lestened to. I enjoyed the replay that you had of william f buckley. That one was a i phenomenal interview. He wrote so many books i think 41. How can you beat that. Also enjoyed listening to the fractured republic and the great debate. I thought that was interesting. Most people who do they think about, lincoln and douglas but you cant forget thomas paine and edmund burke. I also want to mention doctor ross who was on a few minutes ago. Hes a very welleducated man and i enjoyed his presentation. Charlotte simmons i thought that book was fascinating. Tom is an interesting guy i think that you enjoyed him. He brought up an interesting subject to kind of observe the behavior of whats going on on College Campuses today and it was back in the 70s things have changed and it was interesting hearingnc the view f tom wolfe he is fascinating and a wonderful writer. Host what do you do in massachusetts . Guest i would be sure glad to answer that question. After college, i ended up getting a degree in sociology and i worked for the commonwealth of massachusetts for years and i also got involved my family has a Small Business and i did some retail work with them. I lectured at a College Campus and the house of corrections. Ive been involved in some Community Service andn, thats y some of this information gives me great background when i talk to other people. One question i want to ask you if you dont mind trying to answer and i hope your listeners will get something out of this, i would like to hear did you find a central theme that comes through these various authors and id like to say a number of yourur authors emphasize the pot that theres been t a decline in our morality in the country and that is back to the fractured republic. Part of the problem is if the country would improve its morality it would cause less of a pluralism some of the authors refer to as a problem that we may have to face in the future. Called from detroit checks in that indepth should go back to three hours. This last year now i think we have marked it down to two hours. 202 7488200 in the east and central time zones, 7488201 for those in the mountain and pacific and if you want to text a thought include your first name and city 7488903 is the number for you. Mike is in Needham Heights massachusetts you are on booktv please go ahead. Caller good afternoon. I would just like to mention probably the greatest Nonfiction Book ever written. The author is long gone but its the history of the peloponnesian war. Probably the first Nonfiction Book and greatest nonfiction. The most important i ever read was 1984 you can read that and see whats going on today. Its the most important book i ever read. You had to John Paul Johnson on who was very influential with me, and finally, thomas soul. I dont know if you ever had him on, but he is fantastic and has written like 40 bucks. He joined us from london i remember that interview and we appreciate you calling in. It was in 2009 that a woman named Temple Grandin appeared. Shshes somebody with autism who designs livestock holder and bestselling author. Here is a portion of what she had to say. What do you mean when you say you think in pictures . It sorits sort of like googe images. Instead of asking an abstract question like the cover of my book, give me a keyword. Dont give me house or car because most people can visualize that and not something i see in the tv studio like the control room or Something Like that. Just give mee a noun and i will tell you how i search the database. Ha cspan. Im seeing my hotel room, ive got the tv on this morning and i was watching cspan. But the tv wouldnt turn off and i had some work i had to do so now im seeing the Remote Control and im pushing all the buttons and thats how i got to cspan and i had to call the desk to get the Remote Control to work. Now im in the hotel house will file. Corral. Many of the facilities that ive designed. They start coming up like slides. Branch facilities. You asked me feed to spot facilities, if you said me to planplants i start seeing facils i designed. Im going to tend to see my own stuff. Why dont you ask me something that isnt in my business. Book. You are not being very creative in what youre asking. The only c way i can explain ths to show you and it kind of gets out off of the subject the same way a search does on the internet. Even if you do a Google Search may be the first hit is on the subject and then it gradually gets off but its associated. How many think like this . Other people are visual thinkers that are not necessarily autistic, just graphic art design people but one thing when im extreme i sign a piece of equipment and i can test run it in my head like a Virtual Reality computer system. I thought any designer can do that. When ire wrote thinking in pictures i interviewed people about how they think and i was shocked to find out they didnt that i did. Y other people were getting this general image and i dont have any generalized images. Specific ones. That was in 2009 on booktv. This is lisa in new jersey. I just finished reading the parable by octavia butler. The book was recommended in the facebook alumni group and its very well written and i recommend it. Next call benjamin in huntsville alabama. Good afternoon. What is on your list and who is your favorite indepth author . [inaudible] i dont know if youve heard of him or host what has he written . Guest my Favorite Book of his is the first and last freedom. Hes been written about by huxley and his statement about his writing is that the reader will find a clear and contemporary statement about the fundamental human problem together with an invitation to solve it in the only way that it can be solved by himself. He looks at the fundamental problems as basically agreed, fear and search for security. Host spell his last name. K ris h and a. Host okay. Thank you. Ames iowa, please go ahead. Caller yes im from ames and i read a book not long ago as a result of watching cspan i dont think it was booktv. I think it was a qanda called clandestine relationships a black mans odyssey and the ku klux klan. It was a very illuminating book written i think in 1998 so im not so sure youve interviewed him but its a very interesting book. There are two kinds of men those that are ignorant and those that are stupid and he goes on to relate people who are ignorant tend to do stupid things. But it was a very illuminating book and it was amazing how a black man was able to become very Close Friends with members of the ku klux klan to the point where they not only trusted each other but they became very Close Friends at which point at the end of the book he realizes his best friends in the ku klux klan has a daughter and he wants davis to become his daughters godfather. Host in georgia, and he go o ahead, please. Caller yes on my favorite authors, mcauliffe was one of the first to put you there. Im in my 60s, so i remember Walter Cronkite tv show called you are there and i remember he talked about what it was like and trying to get home after the war and exactly what kind of care would you get. I used that so far to tell my readingg list is the first i could solve to make that interesting and i read a war like no other and n i first head that on the replay i wouldnt call myself a cspan group b. I dont sit about 3 30 watching but all of my friends are tired of me telling them they should switch over to cspan every now and then. I downloaded all of the mp3, communicators, after words, things like that. Im going to go out on a limb and say that you are a groupie. I will say this, you made me feel better about this years election. From the contenders and landmark cases i consider myself steady in history even though in the defense department, but basically there was always some issue for every year, every election al smith back in the 1920s and every year theres always been some big deal and if you were to only listen to the propaganda thats out there today on other channels, you wouldnt get that picture. So, im kind of thinking that even though this is a big election, trump and biden, whoever wins and loses, i believe that the machinery stays in place and we will be okay. And i have cspan to thank for that. Thank you for calling in and watching. Over the years, from the publisher, regnery, several authors have appeared including Dinesh Desousa, David Horowitz, Newt Gingrich, michelle mulligan, marc stein. What do they have in common . I think that its fair to say they are all conservatives and including this gentl gentleman,o was in our first year. Is. It since this is what, 49yearsold . I had calculated for it to come out on the 250th anniversary. The picture on the back, do you remember those days . No. Host what is in the books . Guest the book wasof life at yale with special attention given to the impulses to which he was exposed having to do with government. The enthusiasm for the government or the enthusiasm for lesserb government and also respect of religion. One was encouraged in those courses for faith and skepticism. In those days it is the collective and diagnostic. And to acknowledge what went on. Published by gregory and thomas is a new president and publisher of very strong to have been a publisher since january of this year. I just completed teneg months. Prior to that i was an editor for grief from 2012 thisis year. Andd with the Senior Editors he and lead editors who take the raw manuscript and then we have copy editors who took it from there and i was a Senior Editor at rotary lisa napoli i picked up a god of man and yale. What has he meant to the company . Berkeley . Ay . Lot go him and gregory started the company 1947 and is registered in the interview clip that book was published in 1851 and another important part in the conservative intellectual tradition that henry regularlyy published the conservative mind by russell kirk appeared a the same time. And those two books that will re on the map and really established the tradition we try to carry on to this day. Host who are some of the authors that have been published this year . Authors to publish a binary . It is quite a variety. We usually have some big name conservative figures. You mentioned Dinesh Desousa and and quarter Dinesh Desousa was a classmate of mine at dartmouth. We have politicians. And it was one vote away by senator ted cruz with the legal scholar at the catoat institute. In the conservative intellectual. And another bookok by another academic with youtube and a podcast celebrity and with that response to the pandemic. Statistician and a biologist and then to cover the spectrum. Host from your perspective that wagner he is a better to have a Republican Administration or Democratic Administration when it comes to book sales . [laughter] that is a good question though joke at regular he what is bad for america is good for me. From a conservative point of view. The clinton years with a good for wagner he one regularly when a conservative in the white house and the market for a little less worked up about things so when generally to see the opposition has been good for regnery the trump use everything about donald trump may have doneld pretty well because he still the path theres plenty to read about and talk about but in general, the opposition years are good for our business. Host the new ceo publisher that regnery thank you for spending a few minutes of us today with and up. Congratulations on 20 years. Host 50 minutes left in the program you are on the air go ahead and tell us your favorite author of the program and what you are reading. Thank you im a big fan of tv that might be my favorite program. My favorite Nonfiction Author in favor booktv guest. First place the call a few minutes ago i mustve been a moody but another important author is still living i think he has been on tv yet i would like to see him is ken weber he writes about the spectrum of Consciousness Development intragroup theory and paradigms developmental paradigms. He has been called americas greatest living philosopher hes been talked about with the likes the bill clinton. Host thank you for calling. 2000 for a couple of papers have brought up tall here is a portion. I decide to do the white suitit and hats with the publicity . It happen by accident that i realized i was on to a good thing. I finally have gotten a job in new york as a reporter finally got this job june 1962 i had to wear a jacket and a tie i only had two jackets to my names i went to a store and i bought a white suit the summer where i grew up that wasnt an odd thing but it was made of heavy material like to read and i can wear in the summer so i started wearing it about this time of year and it annoyed people to know and. I dont know that it made getting dressed in the morning a lot more fun than it had been and thenmo finally i published a collection and magazine pieces i had done. I discovered im not used to being interviewed i was interviewing somebody else i was speechless asking my opinions i say very much for the articles would say what an interesting man he wears white suits. Nt it took the place of a personality for many years. Host how many do you have . I used to have a lot that i have 22 now. I can get by with that. Host helmet on how long can you get away wearing them without getting them cleaned . About six hours. On a trip people think of one but you have to have a. I have three suits i brought along to come here. All made of the same material. You cant really tell the difference. It really doesnt hurt to have a trademark. Host and mr. Wolf passed away 2018. In 2008 he was a guest and talking about the election that year Steven Pinker and Kevin Phillips and maybe tv went to alice walkers home and the Berkeley Hills and did the program from their. About bob marley, i never met him while he was alive and is feel i have met his spirit every year since i discovered him. He has meant a great deal to me. T i think he is given to us. Artists skiers energy and in to. E of what we need is not like a commercial saying it can at some point but part of what we do is just get of this energy when you are a part of the culture that is a past its a big gift so i feel that he has kept us going and when you see him dancing is a xiamen so he does the shame on nick dance when he is singing but you can just see the purity of his giving and i think millions of people around the world have connected with that. People that is why he was so loved to be completely free and deep caring about each other. Host that was alice walker at her house in Berkeley Hills , go ahead and make your commentt. Caller this is a difficult question on who was my favorite just onn indepth. John mcwhorter and you just mentionedon him, nicholas bass pains and then finally lynn cheney i will always remember because i got to talk to her. I ordered the program and got all of the booksororok. Host you know she has a new wine out. I know. I will get it. I just love her and it so unique this time with her husband interviewing her. I thought that was neat. I love you all so much. Host we appreciate you watching lets hear from eric and washington what is the name of where you are . Caller i know Christopher Hitchens is no longer with us. And amateur genius i really love your show. And my favorite indepth author Christopher Hitchens although ironically i am not worthy of his lawn what his books and finishing his book now america the farewell tour sorry about that laramie wyoming. Caller thank you for your service was cspan have they been on. Indepth . I think sebastian and publish one possibly has been on. John me term not yet we had been trying for sebastian, yes we did couple years ago from new york he owns the bar up there. Was the name of the bar . Host i was a couple of years ago. And james webb the fields of fire. And i dont think he had been on and imi apologize i am not as familiar. Caller you have a lot on your plate. Host we just interviewed john me term at the National Book festival. Caller he is a great sense off humor she said it is you and it is really you and she gave him a book to sign and it was john grisham novel. [laughter] host we have also interviewed john grisham a couple times which is always entertaining to say the least. We like our local authors. Heads secretary doctor carson is the author of several books and appeared on this program in 2013. Was extraordinarily selfish youngn person the more rights you thank you have the more likely somebody will infringe upon your y rights. And i will go after people and once i even tried to stab another youngster with a knife. That is where the printed in the movie the gifted hands whichh can one cuba gooding junior plays my part. But after that i locked my self in the bathroom and contemplating my life killing myself over nothing then i prayed and i picked up a bible in the bathroom and there was a passage about roles and i said that sounds like me. Also a lot of verses about anger. 1632 and verse after verse chapterb after chapter and while i remained to come to that understanding it was not a sign of strength to kick down the door picture somebody that was weakness that you could be controlled the other people and the environment. I did not want to be controlled. But i also came to understand that it was my selfishnessss. Somebody was taking things and was always about me and my and i it can be about somebody else. Maybe that will change things. And i never had another angry outburst since that time. Several callers have brought up mr. Kitchens and in 2007. And to see those symptoms of philosophical but is a fairly good reasonable business man. And the canadian and billy graham and James Templeton who wrote a memoir that he himself said it was complete nonsense meant to say here is what happened to me. Women its too late to stop now. So dont want to sound voelker about it to me everything are a very great deal so i did reduce it to racket but some actually are brackets like scientology for example like a successful car on job. And then to be entirely reduced by that here is the problem they dont know any more than you do in the city to fade if somebody wants me to believe that and that is an injustice to the program is evil . Yes. But that is the unfailing sign that there are some kinds of prejudice it is an intellectual mean spirited and eventually lethal. And that the its enough to make you sick. Passing away four years after that interview in 2011 now 2010 our guest. We are living in an age where material advances are very comforting and considerable and we must be grateful for that. Know whetheres your email correspondent is the truth is the moral condition of the world there havent been improvements there. We have expanded enormously in the material sense that appears to be no better than ever in the past and if they go back to history to the time of the George Washington or Queen Elizabeth and the armada are back there still we have to admit public morals on the whole have not substantially improved. There are still a large number of dreadful things that occurred anybody to the middle decades ofof the 20th century as i did must take a certain pessimistic view of the world to improve the moral standards. I am not without hope this can be done and i still take the view and its getting to be a better place we all must work our hardest to improve the moral standard because that is what is required. Host from South Padre Island texas your favorite guest and what are you reading . Are you with us . Caller did you ever have oliver sacks . Host i dont think so. Caller is british but was part of the movie awakenings. Right now good question i read whats left of magazines and i still enjoyzi your program its rare to see someone reading a book some have a book in hand soar i feel the countries for the young people by not being exposed to the great literature. That is my comment i just love tv. Host whats on the table right now . Caller actually a table full of stuff staying at a vacation condo sometimes books are layingso around. Maybe the author of the Bourne Identity . Host you are on vacation or because of the pandemic . Its a long story but my parents retired here so why they came back and forth we still have the house but its being worked on so im lucky to stay on the beach but its the beautiful place and its the best beach in texas and not as crowded. They left the beach open you can have and am probably only two people. If you look on a map you almost in mexico we have a gorgeous day today you still find people that read much anymore. The tv is active in social media and the Instagram Page you can also go online at tv. Org everything we have been talking about today are listed there there is a tab at the top ofof the page and you can watch any of the programs we are talking about. In 2018 but in 2018 to make a concerted effort to have only fiction authors and here is the list we had on. Those with that we had on and also a bestselling author here she is the program in 2018. I do love the concept of the novel to educate about social justice. With reproductive rights people dont sit down and do that they might pick up a novel and you thank you are picking up a book that will whisk you away for a few hours but by the end of the but now you may be thinking very hard about a topic you might not otherwise have approached and in that way i thinky action on fiction is so sneaky because it gets peoples minds to crack wide open. Host calliope from pennsylvania. Caller hello. I just want to say my favorite Nonfiction Author was Christopher Hitchens. I alsoo love sebastian younger. Host thats quite a range of people. Caller i have a very eclectic taste. Host was there a connecting fiber to those were . Caller just a different topic that they covered especially Christopher Hitchens. I know anybody else that compares. Host what do you do . Caller im on disability right now for an injury but i was in radio. Host thank you for calling we appreciate it. Carolinarom southo. Good afternoon. Caller hello. How are you . Host what would you like to say . Caller the concept of this before you went into the fiction only year that robert caro was on cspan over the years he has been my favorite. Brian lamb have talked to him you have. That we are all on tender hooks waiting for him to complete the final installment of the lbj biography. Over a year ago i think that conan obrien was a big fan of robert caro got him out to california to interview him and with as high a celebrity level as conan obrien and brian lamb is loath to ask you when he would finish it. Host i dont have any hands. Maybe we should email directly and find out. Thats a great idea. Its worth the wait. Host along with history and politics talking about science and tech writers and in 2006 the futurist and inventor was on the program. We will send blood cells from insider bodies and inside ourry brains to keep us healthy to destroy pathogens, remove debris i point out in the first generation of that already a scientist mit that destroy cancer cells and releasing toxins and destroying the cells so take this magnification that i talked about in the capabilities of Information Technology and apply that to what we can already do and in 25e years these nano bots will be very sophisticated leaving keeping us healthy from inside interacting directly to expand human intelligence. How small are nano bots . A blood cell size nano means the key feature are measured in a modest number of nanometers nano is than five carbon atoms to the nano but is 1 nanometer means the features is a modest number the device is and microns which is the size of our blood cell is basically a nano but it was an intelligent be watching my own biology is actually sluggish so to destroy this bacteria operating at full speed hopefully the nano robots can do that in seconds they can Download Software from the internet and then they put them inside the body like parkinsons patients so as the devices get smaller so these devices would be 100,000 times smaller in terms of the key features and they are already pretty impressive. Host maryland baltimorewashington area to go ahead. It is so wonderful to talk to, peter. As i have been watching you the last little while, i was thinking about the last interview i think brian landed with Christopher Hitchens while he was getting chemotherapy and it was so powerful and movingir it just weird a few weeks ago buckley and pj work and Heather Mcdonald im just reading now intellectuals and magically when i just turned on the show , there was a clipip from johnson i do wonder why you stopped to go visit authors and their workspaces cracks maybe that got too expensive . I enjoyed that feature when you are doing that. Host you are one of the many people who have chastised that decision that we cut back a little bit. It was timeconsuming, they were important, you are right though and probably something to reconsider. I appreciate that. Jane from washington dc. Caller an Excellent Program this afternoon. I and a big tv fan. Host i think we cover that on the tv . I have so many books here and your program is so rich i would like to make one comment with jody, i her books because she is a fascinating author and she is so rich and her dialogue and perspectives thank you so much thank you for watching in 2011 when our guest were on one were on. Journalist who allowed to interview and for a second time about seven names they will find them but here it is here john cloud of Time Magazine, the guardian, jamie from the bridge magazine, taylor, jonathan from the baltimore sun, and fishbowl dc why are those allowed to interview you quick. Originally only three specifically because they ran aid to recorder when i talked and apparently played a back pay for typing what i said i machine that is shockingly rare. Host you misquoted aa lot . [laughter] so i say we need to reduce Capital Gains rate comes s out all the works. It is insane. Often the malice in my statement is they but with leftdoublequote and that is always gone so originally by the way whether or not you agree with my politics but yet they quoted me accurately i dont care what they say about meme just quote me accurately. You did than if you got added who quoted me accurately but then it was a special request thing to say i want to be on that t list so that is the incentive for them. Host i was nine years ago. Rosanne who are you reading right now and who is your favorite author . I am a first time caller in my eighties and one of the things they want to say all my books are political i pay for price the ones i like to buy them at the library so i can support the library. Host tom friedman and up and down and my husband is one political pain can i the other with a primary 57 years we buy what we havent and we have extra copies. Host rosanne from california we appreciate you calling in. Speaking of politics in different political events i love you but i hear politics. Good afternoon. How are you . I want to thank you for my education and happy 20th anniversary. I is going through a divorce and a buyout of my husband and at Marthas Vineyard and i got an attorney from cape cod. I didnt understand what was going on with the money market and he recommended i read the colossal failure of common sense. And Lawrence Mcdonald and the inside story of the collapse of lehman brothers. And it was fascinating to me. Host did the cover that on tv . I know we covered one book on the collapse of lehman brothers. Caller it was so informative i have been a Real Estate Broker i wish there was more. I did come across a great book and i found out about it you are Television Shows on cspan cant a wont pay. The coalition of the sum of the parts toto leverage. And how mortgaging and lending and those taking advantage of the collapse and how you buy property. Host i was a pretty recent book . Yes. It is free onlined and i stayed up and read fors. About six hours. Host thank you for calling in. 2006 Award Winning historian from Duke University John Hope Franklin was our guest in his nineties at the time but this is one where we had gone to visit him at his home and around the head of the program. John hope franklins backyard and he has a greenhouse. Tell us what you do back here. I have been growing orchids for almost 50 years i got hooked on them because i was teaching one summer at the university of hawaii. And i came back after teaching in brooklyn i brought a few orchids they probably died because i didnt know what to do with them and thats how i got started. These have just opened these are just beginning to open up here. Host is a difficult or Specialized Task to keep your kidsds healthy . Yes. Takes some doing you have to keep the greenhouse fairly clean of fungus to be a deterrent to their successful growth for the work it is the most important as they say. Host doctor franklin died about three years after that intervie interview. In 2012 chris hedges with on the program along with mark stein and Randall Kennedy and kaiser. Tom brokaw. And former senator the late tom rightparenthesis. Expo expos says. Aim in good moan, melfully phillips, Rick Atkinson who is working on a trilogy of the early days of the u. S. Mary roach, pen carson, ben shapiro, john lewis, debtee kelly and kristina hoff sumperses and in 2009 a few callers brought him up and 2009 if you college brought him up that Christopher Buckley was on the program and author in his own right with the satirical action here is a little bit of his program. I got the idea thank you for smoking one day watching the liberal news our. They had someone on who is to present the latest evidence smoking was bad for he had at least two phds after his name. To balance it out they had someone on from the Tobacco Institute and she was a gorgeous attractive woman. [laughter] every time the scientist from the National Institutes of not smoking whatever said something and percent of the evidence which was at least seven words were incomprehensible like the inhibitors viaduct or whatever she would say please. [laughter] and make it sound as if he was being the most preposterous only in the world. I said that has to be an interesting jobge you get up in the morning you brush your teeth and say goodbye to your kids and u i said i have to come out and hang out with you close a little bleak when i was up to. I got to hang out with her progress at one point after a couple of daysso i said theres something im dying to ask you but i feel a little awkward about it. Shes a beautiful smoker in her office like laurenik call. She said i know with misquoted me doing in a place like this . Im just paying the mortgage. [laughter] host Christopher Buckley in 2009 now a text from dearborn michigan interview was with Geraldine Brooks also the year of wonders and in her next Nonfiction Book by Isabel Wilkerson in. Writing the multi volume set on Lyndon Johnson and the johnson years here he o is talking about one of those volumes. To find out exactly what differences it made in the life of black people in the south and the voting rights. Host you know you look at . T no. We have a book tour that we spent two months in fans. Host. And then you talk about vietnam. You remember everything. Two things i want to do. I try to read about political power. That the effect ons the people who massive good and Lyndon Johnson to the great Civil Rights Act of his presidency and voting rightsrm act , transform the political power by people in america what does that mean cracks and now that you can vote . Of the schools better . And what your childrens life would be better than yours on the other side those vietnam and one of the things i intend to do to show what it means when a modern industrialized nation with the world president t nation. But the b52 flow so high that only and visible from the ground you cannot hear them see what even known to the palms actuallyit hit. I was asked by the new yorkf times the they just thought they would have fun and has people at solutions they have to fix things and the way they areur still was if you are president what word do you do . So i will back if i were president i would it be president. [laughter] if i were president , just google that it will take you to the new york timesar but i duplicated that in my website the cut out a w paragraph so responses there with the expectation that if you run for office somehow you can change everything. Im not convinced of that. Its the little opposite of a lobbyist. And the lobbyist and who they represent. To me kenny any elected official representsuthe the put them into office so as t an educator the official but the state of enlightenment of was doing theg voting they are recognize the value and why it works they would never even dream of voting for someone who doesnt know that because in that person would not represent their full interest so i would rather educate and electorate to put them in office to make scientifically informed decisions better thing they do rather than install myselfeo into office and lead people who dont yet have this knowledge or insight. And to do 80 percent of Congress Stands for reelection every two years see you can convince one congressman or another but then you have to start all over again. You educate the electorate, we are good. I go to promise to letpe people who kick this country into the future instead of back. Host unfortunately maybe another time we had a video to show youch. Unfortunately we were unable to get to the video there on the website thank you for being with us the past 20 years. Is so good to talk to. How do you think of yourself these days . I think i very much see myself as a book critic. This

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