of people using ivf to trying get around the policy. many were trying to get multiples. there trying to get multiples because they were only going to get one shot at it? yes. if you get twins it s counted as a single birth. i met a woman who was a teacher and if she had children she would lose her job. there were some places where they had fake twins. people would register their second child as a twin if there born very close together. then there was an area where they had a huge percentage of fake twins. they were trying to get a round the policy. so the interesting part in this was basically when technology allows you something that policy does not, then people begin to improvise. having that in beijing gave you access to a world that most people would never see. i was hesitant about writing all of this because rewinding about policy and miscarriages and all this, it s messy. i m not sure we want to hear this. it s to oprah. at the same time you can t be writing
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about the book. host: i have to disagree. as someone who love this man , i read the book and was delighted to think i would be able to read and talk to you about ronald reagan. millions of americans have appreciation for his true greatness. he continues to inspire. i got the sense that you are undermining and demeaning his true greatness by throwing his stuff that is irrelevant to the and suggesting he was not really with it. he tells us all of the things he did. guest: i standi stand behind the book, no you are emotionally attached. i am not. i am an historian who writes in on this book. nothing i say will be challenged because we can back it all up. the selection of what we have is debatable,, but i did not set out to write saint ronald reagan. i set out to write here is a great president, here is what made him great. here is what he overcame. an assassin s bullet that almost took his life. it is a compelling dramatic story and we did a good job and i m happy to talk to
very much in high positions and demanding positions when they need those positions if they don t keep very busy mentally he leaves the office and he still very vibrant. he goes to mexico the fall from the horse that have the concussion. talk about that a little bit. do you think nancy may have hit something here? guest: i think so. all of those traumas accelerate whatever you have inside you in a hereditary kind of way. again, was in our intent to be medical people? it was our attempt to show what happened.happened. and to take you from a very historical point of you to tell people who lived during a reagan era like him and don t like him, i want everybody to read the book it was not a guy who did not care. he did not care about poor people of the little people as minorities. not true. his embrace of the free market system and that he believed if you allow american capitalism the freedom to prosper everyone will work who wants to come and that is exactly what happened. we s
protecting america,, it said a great deal about the man. guest: we cover that with his interactions with margaret t from margaret thatcher, gorbachev, the ultimate success of his policy toward the soviet union. we made that quite clear that the way he structured his administration, very successful and foreign-policy. host: relationship with margaret thatcher you have some great stuff in here. they both were strong individuals. guest: we got that transcript of the reagan thatcher phone call they did not tell his best pal it was hanging out to dry peas he was telling her parliament the united states is not going to do this. and she lets him up on the phone call and we have the transcript. we lay out the whole thing which is why these books are so successful because people get the big picture. now who was at reagan s funeral into using the given him? even though there was this detachment over granada they came back together again because they were both essentially of like
to less than a dozen. chief of staff karl rove discusses his book the triumph of william mckinley and looks at the 1896 presidential campaign interviewed by the senior editor for the national review magazine host: we are here with karl rove the author of the triumph of william mckinley wife the election of 1896 still matters. he was a senior advisor for president george w. bush and the architect of the reelection in 2000 at 2004. karl rove shows how william mckinley used his watershed election to change his party, the political process and the nation. it s all here. the big things, the maneuvers, the personality. a great read for historians, political junkies and in our own while the cycle americans. who is william mckinley and what does he want? esko he s the governor in the state of ohio and throughout his career in congress from 1876 through 1890 he is become the lead voice in the republican party for the policy of protective tariffs. and that is at the surface. it s bet
so it s a very blissful moment to the asserted incandescent. because we all know what is to become of the people. next up, farmer karl rove discusses his book. he looks at william mckinley s 1896 presidential campaign. he s interviewed by richard berke keizer commencing editor for national review magazine. we are here with karl rove, author of triumph of william mckinley. mr. rove was a senior advisor for president george w. bush and the architect of his election and reelection in 2,002,004. his publisher asked me if i would read his book and blurb it and i did. i just want to begin with what i said. karl rove shows how william mckinley used his watershed election to change his party for the political process in the nation. it s all here. the big themes, backstage maneuvers, personalities, hoopla. a great read for historians, political junkies and in our own wild elections michael america. i will pay you for that. it was awfully generous. let s introduce the man as
it is my privilege to introduce professor elizabeth barron from the university of virginia who will speak on the election of 1864 in confederate eyes. i think this is a really important topic to address early on in this symposium so that we don t forget that there is a whole other conversation going on in other parts of the country. professor baron got her bachelor s degree from swathmore college. and then went on to teach at wellesley and temple before coming to university of virginia where she s the langborn williams professor of american history. and her first two books were from a woman s point of view about women s opinions and activities in the south and in antibellum virginia. then the biography of a spy in richmond, both of which were extremely well received and the biography won many awards. then her next book was on disunion which was about the whole debate about the discussion of strategizing about possible breakup of the union dating from 1789 onwards. most recent
to join the conversation, like us on facebook @c-span history. next on american history tv, we continue our look at the 1864 presidential election between abraham lincoln and general george mcclellan, lincoln s former commander the battle of potomac. elizabeth varon examines the point of view from the confederates. this is hosted by the lincoln group of d.c. my name is katherine lincoln. i m a loyal member of the lincoln group of d.c. and it s my pleasure and privilege to introduce professor elizabeth varon from the university of virginia who will speak on the election of 1864 in confederate eyes. i think this is a really important topic to address early on in this symposium so that we don t forget that there is a whole other conversation going on in other parts of the country. professor varon has got her bachelor s degree from swathmore college and then went on to teach at wellsly yan temple before coming to the university of virginia where she is a professor of american
in richmond. both were well received. and the biography won many awards. then her next book was on disunion which was about the whole debate about the discussion of strategizing about possible breakup of the union dating from 1789 onwards. most recently her book is on victory and defeat and freedom at the end of the civil war. that has already won a number of prizes, including the library of virginia eye ward. professor baron also has been speaking widely, including the lincoln bicentennial in springfield and the gettysburg civil war institute and also on c-span, book tv. so now it is my great pleasure to introduce elizabeth varon. she will speak on catastrophe or setback. the election of 1864 in confederate eyes. thank you. good morning, everyone. and thanks so much for attending the event. it is a pleasure to speak in such a beautiful venue. this morning i ll address the theme of confederate interpretations of the election of 1864, but also southern unionist and border so