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clays. check point charlie. on october 22nd, when alane lightener was trying to go to easter be lin to watch the opera he was stopped demanding additional identification which he wouldnt show. clay was notified. he sent a squad of soldiers. they escorted him in and out. american soldiers could go through that check point and east germans had no authority to stop them. in fact, within 24 hours the east germans were no longer at the check point. there were just soviets there manning it. ...

so what comes to mind is an extraordinary individual capable of great good and -- and who created -- helped create the vietnam tragedy. its a very interesting pairing of success and failure in this man. c-span: why did you want to do this? >> guest: oh, i dont know. i had done a lot of defense writing as a reporter for science magazine and as a free-lance writer. and i had done a lot of reporting on arms control. and i came at it, in a sense, through the mathematics analytic side. i al...

one was mac bundy. one was dean rusk. secretary of state. he said to clay, you shouldnt react to everything that the soviets and east germans do. you should only react when they affect our vital interest. nobody who exactly what that meant. in any case, clay did not listen to him. the british prime minister, harold mcmillan who wanted us out of berlin and told kennedy that, called clay a senile and bitter old ass, which was not exactly a term of endearment. but which reflected the brit...

you can see there, west berlin is pail white. east berlin is matching the contours of east germany and the checkpoint charlie which ill talk about and then, of course, the other checkpoint bravo with which we use only one time in this particular exercise. the berlin crisis began in 1958, when krusef said sign a peace treaty for berlin and germany and 5u8 the rights that the allies have enjoyed will pass to the gdr, the german democratic republic because theyre the ones who are sufferin...

voices, so many books. >> is she the only child that you have? >> in a way the only way. in another way i have thousands of children all over the world. >> she came a little late in life for you, didnt she? >> not for me. im just beginning to live. when im 100 years old, come visit me and ill tell you more storie stories. >> and are you going to stay here you think for the rest of your life? >> i couldnt say at the moment. but i would love to. i love paris. i love the bookshop and its ...

>> derek leebaert, author of "magic and mayhem," where did you get that title? >> because i approached the problem, the delusions of american foreign policy, with the perspective that it results from magical thinking and results in a lot of chaos. >> when did you start thinking about the need for this kind of a book? >> ive been in this field for a long time, really since a young academic in the mid 1970s in harvard. and a lot of the illusions have percolated over the decades, the way ...

have we done any right? >> of course weve done a lot right. we unambiguously won the cold war, albeit with a lot of fits and starts along the way. we created and shaped the post world war ii economic order. we have performed well in the gulf war in 1991, in the balkans later in the decade. but by and large, if one looks back over the last lifetime of foreign policymaking, its been a pretty dismal record. id argue even that we have lost three, if not four wars in a row -- the korean war...

i think it is one of the biggest issues in the country today so i will be continuing to write about this. >> agreed. weve been speaking with paul cuadros, author of quote coach had a home championship team provide hope for another tom." >> thank you book tv. did you know you can view booktv programs online? go to booktv.org. titanium of the author, book or subjected to the left-hand cornf the page. select the watch link. now you can view the entire program. you might also explore the...

what he finds is that all these individuals had such mammoth curiosity it consumed their imagination and brigade abilities, and that is what the special gifts they had brought to the world, so here is walter isaacson to talk about his book. [applause] >> thank you. >> henry lewis, was said to indulge in personality journalism. he said time magazine did not invent personality journalism. the bible did. thats how we tell stories and convey the moral lesson of our times. so as bash a bra ...

death. but then before he went off to be a rhodes scholar, the summer before, he was still on his great writer mission and he was offered a job as a summer intern by the "washington post." and he turned it down. he turned it down to become a stevedore on a derrick barge on the mississippi. and the reason this was still part of his great writer quest he felt that in doing so that he coded in the mueller that he was that he could encounter so many crews of so many different colorful char...