U. S. Maybe moral sport, but thats a real threat, domestic threat to regime, to regime in moscow, to regime in belarus. Again, kazakhs are in a different group. So its the its a possible, potential adversary. One reason for that politics, and another one is to preclude successful, mostly orthodox country the become democratic. So democracy and ukraine, sometimes for good reasons but sometimes not for good reason at all, is portrayed just as the case. And thats the message that is sent to the domestic audience. Over here. [inaudible] yes. Thank you. William. I was going to ask a question about gorbachevs legacy, but the gentleman before already did. Now i want to talk about putins legacy. Beginning of the next decade, where do you see his policies, where do you see him . And especially recently an economic coup with china in terms of gas and oil and, i guess, commodities going both ways. Thank you. Okay. Well, you ask me to predict future [laughter] and i was so many times wrong predict
The biographer, the narrative and the documentation and the researchers, but with the thing that the biographer needs above all, and that is empathy. I felt great empathy for her and she was so difficult in some ways. But i congratulate you. Thank you all for being here that means a lot. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] upstairs and by both of these books and find out what really happened. [inaudible conversations] interested in American History . Watch American History int television on cspan3 every weekend. 48 hours of people and events that help document the american story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. Charles johnson is up next on booktv. He spoke about his book, why coolidge matters. At the Eagle Forum Collegians Leadership Summit here in washington d. C. This is about half an hour. Charles e. Johnson and his new book is called why coolidge matters leadership lessons from americas most underrated president. Charles is an investigative journalist an
That anything that i want to do in this lifetime is possible for me to do. Its cut and dried with me. You know one of the things, i grew up in trinidad in the tropics where we had a lot of baths. My father would say to us, you are not a bad. When you fall you dont fall on your head and get knocked out because thats what the bats would do. He said you are not a bat. You dont fall in your head and get knocked out. You fall on your feet and jump off. So the piece i think a lot of people that we need to tell a lot of young people and hear him as a teacher. Its hard work and persistence. You miss the idea of the hard work. People say to me elizabeth how come every time i look around you have written another book . Well, this morning at 5 30 a. M. In the morning i was on my computer. I knew i had to get here but from 5 30 to 9 30, how many hours is that . I got four hours of writing and i had just started. It is hard work. It is persistence in doing the work. When students come to me and tel
Hans von spakovsky spoke about his book, obamas enforcer Eric Holders Justice Department at the Eagle Forum Collegians Leadership Summit in washington, d. C. This is about 30 minutes. Our next speaker is Hans Von Spakovsky who is the author of obamas enforcer Eric Holders Justice Department. Hans von spakovsky is an attorney and former of the board of advisors for the federal election commission. Hes an expert on voter fraud and cowrote with john fund the recent book, whos counting . Gives a staff member at the heritage foundation, particularly speaking and writing on elections. Please welcome Hans Von Spakovsky. [applause] i hope youre enjoying your stay here at the heritage foundation. Well, two years ago john fund and i is our National Affairs correspondent where im also a country but. We wrote a book on Election Integrity in voter fraud. In june we came out with a second book called obamas enforcer Eric Holders Justice Department. And its basically about how eric holder has run the
Igniting hearts and minds. And thats what we like to think were doing with our publishing program. Well, some very well known people are publishing this fall with beacon. Tell us about some of your books. Well, were very proud to have back with us cornel west whose first book, race matters, was published by beacon 20 years ago and who has become a rather famous leader in the field of black prophetic fire and whos writing this book about this very important part of our culture. And hes looking at many of the great figures in the black prophetic tradition in america. And one of them is Martin Luther king jr. , of course. So hes also edited a book for us called the radical king. Because we are the exclusive trade publishers of all of kings work and have been for the last phi years. Five years. So all of kings work for the trade, for general readers, general bookstores is published by beacon press which im very proud of. And this new edition which was curated entirely by cornell west is lo