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Up next on booktv after words with guest host bob woodward of the Washington Post. This week former white House Counsel john dean and his latest book the nixon defense what he knew and when he knew it. In the book the man his congressional testimony led to president nixons resignation presents a more indepth look at the watergate scandal based on newlyreleased audio tapes. This program is about an hour. Host hello. Its great to be here with john dean. I was recalling coming in here today at the ...

Thank you for reading it. I am glad i wrote it. A little different than past books, but i am excited is finally done. Host so, tell me, how do you define a savior general . Guest the word savior is not is kind of ambiguous. Has to be kind of lost to begin with. Save year as a title means that it should be saved. So great generals, we are not sure that they should have saved the things they did. Trying to do two things, described generals who were put in a position where things did not look too g...

Common and i always liked him very much as a human being. So, i talked to the family and the archives or in process but they were let me willing to let me in, and i did that for a couple of years. I think the real surprise in terms of the archives is that he seemed to be very open man and had in fact vetted his archives quite considerably committing much of his correspondence and also anything that diluted to his personal life. I didnt expect that. That was the first for me and all of the biogra...

Host well, martin, im very pleased to be with you to talk to you about your new book. Guest thank you. Host now, youve written a number of biographies other the course of your career, and i wanted to ask if you felt this was a different sort of project than the other ones or whether you approached it differently . What were the reasons that you decided to write this book . Guest i knew howard somewhat. We were never close friends, but i did know him. And when he died, i had the thought that i mi...

How do you make a number of cases in this book but one of the central arguments to make is that men have basically fallen off the cliff. Guest sorry. Host i read the book and its hard to argue the case to muster that men are in trouble. Give us the parameters of disasters. Guest it starts as an economic argument. Men are having a harder time adapting to the economy and women are adapting more easily. I cant tell you why there are different periods had men at devotees year, but then its education...

The economy is fast changing, who knows what it throws at us. Women are getting those skills and credentials at a faster rate than men are being more nimble filtering into the society. In the book i talk about how that changes marriage and our notions of fatherhood and what men can and cant do in families, young people have sex, make decisions influencing our culture. Host give me some of the numbers. We heard for years theres a crisis with girls, they learn differently, not as strong in math an...

Conversation is accurate. My background in this is, there are two influences, i suppose. So i grew up in rural gun culture which was black gun culture. So everyone that i knew, all of the, you know, the good people of the community, my grandfather and father were both ministers, both owned guns and so did everybody else in the community really unapologetically. And when i got to law school, i found that there was a quite different impression about something that i took as being sort of one of th...

After you decided in late 2011 that he wanted to get a gun and the District Of Columbia where the handguns had been forbidden until the Supreme Court decided in the District Of Columbia versus heller case and 2008 that a handgun ban was unconstitutional and. According to justice antonin scalias opinion, quote, surely elevates about all wall of lighting responsible citizens to use arms in defense of home. You think it would have been straightforward in 2011 for you to describe by a gun but it was...

Lubber rating of the heroic spirit of business. And yet he argues that capitalism doesnt have to be a zero sum game in which some when at the expense of others. He highlights the practices of Companies Like whole foods and southwest that seek to increase their shareholders by creating value for their customers and employees as well. It is about an hour. Host it is a delight to see you again. Lets set the stage for this. Some people are going to take up this book and see the title and they are go...

38 soldiers took their own lives. More casualties than in the battlefield. More than one a day. This is precisely the topic you take on in the, the the invisible wounds of war. Talk about it. Guest first of all, only 1 of our population over 18 is in the army. It is a volume steer army. Which volunteer army. Which means they dont have enough soldiers. Theyre stretched thin. They have too many deployments. Usually you need two years between deployments. Some of them get a year, nine months. At th...