Prom and i was the equivalent of a freshman at the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night and the light was on americas and the war. Why did i touch you so much. What did that mean for you. I did not cry then. How old were you. I was 18. The late author john lucas, indepth was born 20 years ago, since 2000 over 230 nonfiction and fiction authors over time have appeared on indepth, Freedman Alice walke walker, bob woodward, george will, just to name a few. Over the next three hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of indepth but also to ask you a couple of questions, here they are, who was your favorite indepth guest, what book are you reading now and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author, that is what we will be talking about and showing the video from the past 20 years as well but here is how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth, 202 7488200 for those of you in the mountain in the Eastern Central time zone 202 7488201 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zone and you can text in what your thoughts are as well 202 7488903. Again text number only 202 7488903, please include your first name and your city if you would, also on social media booktv for facebook, twitter an instagram you can also make a comment on those platforms. We will begin taking those calls in just a minute, john lucas was the first guest in the house every six of 2000, the same year in 2000 richard rhodes, William F Buckley junior, milton freedman, Stephen Ambrose and arthur enter junior, all appeared, he was one of the guests, heres a portion. The heart of aristocracy is the school, this is an interesting example, use the example of bush, i wouldve gone to harvard had i not chose the army instead. The schools are what control the opinion of the children of the rich or powerful i had a stepbrother who is going to inherit my money and he was sent to groton, its one of the schools and for those who would be rich to make them not only to gentlemen scholars but to serve values hoping in a comeback to david this is how its formed in the ruling class, they know what theyre going to get in political training but their view of the world would be, i belong to the ruling class but im not going to inherit any money so the bright boys of the ruling class who eventually work for the rich boys and who will become judges, senators, editors, the New York Times and if they are open to it. But we are not properly speaking a member of the ultimate class, thats how its done and thats how they continued. There has always been a move in england where as you point out they know about the upper classes and were not told where the most intelligent upper class of ever seen or least overall they are, nobody knows they are there, then the newspaper in the newspaper doesnt give the game away who really controls what opinion and to be there and never been named they have done marvelous work but nothing is through to the people at large, so they go on and on america appears among them, there are others but by and large its a close corporation. He passed away in 2012, his book includes the United States and lincoln for the next three hours we are taking your calls on these topics, what are you reading, whos your favorite indepth guest and whos your favorite Nonfiction Author 202 7488200 for those of you in the eastern and central time zone 202 7488201 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones and you can text in your answer as well include your first name and city 202 7488903. It was in 2001 that fiction author Toni Morrison appeared and shes the poet surprise winner author of beloved, heres a little bit from Toni Morrison. How do you get inside these people. It is difficult but i use actors and actresses use you try to make it specific so you realize and you want to be in that persons head if youre on stage where the close, where the shoes, behave the way that person would so you have to enter and project and where they parked their hair and what kind of soap they would wear, what food they dont like, whether or not 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 whether i want to have lunch with them or not its something quite different but you have to love them for the moment of their portrayal whether they are men, women, old, children, what have you. Are they sprung or do they develop. As you sit down and this book comes out to you already know the story youre going to tell. I frequently know the questions of the story its the answer but im provoked as i was five what my stay feel like were paradise to hear about those people who walked all that distance to get to the three black towns that were turned away by black people who had also been enslaved like them and they are not welcome there, i thought my god what would that feel like, i know what the story is about i sort of know the journey now i have to find out whos going to work that out for me. Margaret garner i did not want to know too much, what she look like et cetera i wanted to invent her which only means a few strokes to start and then i put them together so they are never fully realized immediate immediately, they always take currying in codling and stroking a personal introduction in anything i can do to get them to speak and trust me. Along with Toni Morrison in 2001 norman also appeared, Toni Morrison was on in february, james mcpherson, shelby, Richard Burke kaiser, David Halberstam and david macola all appeared in 2001, just one note when it came to richard he started the show but the war in afghanistan started that day so we had to cut it short, we brought him back for a later date hes one of the few that ever appeared on the program twice, mark in kansas city missouri, which of those three questions did you want to answer, favorite author, what are you reading or 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 and ive also replayed it on your website a couple of times because youre very entertaining, i like the way her books have the oneword title but ive emailed her and shes email me back, she was a very good guest, very good author. Host thank you for calling in, lets talk to david in louisville kentucky, david good afternoon. Caller good afternoon and thank you for indepth, i want to answer the question about one of my reading, im reading a book called twilight of the gods by ian w toal, it talks about the conclusion of the american effort against the japanese in world war ii, we recently had the 75th anniversary 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, i was anxiously awaiting the third volume of his a trilogy. Host is it world war ii that attraction . Caller yes and specifically the specific theater, because of the notoriety of the pearl harbor attack, the surprise that it garnered in the story how it was a difficult task the japanese had all the advantages early on and it took quite an effort to become victorious. Host thank you for calling and david in louisville kentucky. Sometimes we 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 fronting i in front of an audience. Is it anyway we can come back the socialism is a utopia that the left is promoting and people of my generation because you and i both know they are systematically disestablishing the america that we love. Thank you and such a nice thing to hear from a millennial but thats exactly what is happening, that is factual that is not opinion, they are undoing what the founders meant to do but there is one simple answer aside from all the other arguments that i gave, socialism bankrupt the country, this country will be bankrupt and the bill will fall on you and frankly have no pity for you because your generation both democrat, therefore since im a big believer in consequences that is what children should learn i have 0 pity for millennials who vote democrat for when the tab that the debt that they believe in by voting democrat comes to the generation, i will perhaps be gone or i will have my fine retirement account, has no effect on me but it will go bankrupt just like greece, just like portugal, just like italy, just like spain, just like venezuela and we will to and we will be a borderless country because the left wants borderless countries just like with the schengen rolls in the European Union they do believe importers because they dont believe in national identity, itll be a country called the United States between canada and mexico but itll not be any different from canada or mexico, that is the last drink so this will all happen to you, you will read about a once great country that existed but you helped dismantle because you, thin thao the indoctrination in high school and college voted for, that is my message to millennials, nonpity message. Host that was Dennis Prager in september of 2016 on indepth, all these programs are available to watch in their entirety, lets talk to carol and Prince George virginia, carol good afternoon, which of those three questions do you want to enter. The one i want to answer about my favorite interview on indepth, it was the year the indepth did the year of ficti fiction, i am a super fan of davids and i thought it was an engaging, really involved interview and i just appreciate it so much. Host you still read him in the Washington Post. Caller i do and every time i get a little lonely i go on the archives and watch the interview on indepth again and i speak all but one of his books and i follow him wherever i can, i think hes an amazing careful purse ice, thorough author whether its fiction or reporting. Host is at the topic of National Security that interest you . Yes in particular interested in intelligence in the work of the cia, i dont have any professional background, im a retired lawyer but ive always been fascinated by it and i think he does a job dispassionately but respectfully relating what the work of the cia and other intelligence agencies are in terms of protecting us nationally. Inner foreign policy. Thank you for calling and we will look at those fiction authors that we did i believe in 2018 that we dutifully are fiction authors and we will look at some of those as we go if you cannot get through on the phone line and you want to text your message or social media your message 202 7488903, please include your first name and your city and just remember booktv is or handle for facebook, twitter an instagram. Shelby foote was one of the authors that appeared in 2001 and in fact we visited his home in memphis. On that deck we talked about that before. Thats the kind that was in post offices and its an absolute nightmare, its an odd thing to do i was lucky i found a whole bunch of points a shop that used to be on 44th street and i bought myself a lifetime supply. What kind of paper would you write on. That is a big problem i dont type on a lot of paper and is not the way used to be. I have a problem with paper. With this i have in mind. Misdemeanor scripture shiloh and at the end of each day i read the final corrected draft and put it on the stack and type it up on the printer. Host is its original or the copy. That the final days copy each day i would do what ive done that day. You got up on the shelf how many of your original. Last season shiloh, jordan county is not up it goes up in september. You have any idea how valuable those are. Notes. What are you going to do with them. Leave them to my son. What are some of the things that you have on the back of your desk. Some favorites of mine. [inaudible] a Birthday Party when i was 11 years old. I thought it was one of your favorites. Absolutely. Use an irish immigrant, he became a lawyer in helena and was interested because he was a corporal and hes a marvelous gentleman and he was killed in the last year the work. Can we get a closeup on the board, you mentioned him even earlier. He was born four years into the century buddies is modern today as he was riding, we had a tremendous influence, all short story writers influence for the good. Walker and i tried to figure out how he does these things, we could never figure how he did it. Shelby foote passed away four years after the interview in 2005, guilt tweets and from dubuque iowa, im currently reading cast the origins of her discontent by Isabel Wilkerson, i highly recommended she writes, Isabel Wilkerson now appears in a q a program on sunday night and on booktv as well, all available at booktv. Org, just type your name in the search function at the top of the page, ashland virginia, good afternoon welcome to book tv. Caller good afternoon, thank you so much for taking my call i was time to do by 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 can because she is a veteran changing my world from the dining room table with the heartbeat of america and im also a whistleblower as a frontpage wall street journal article it can be seen on the internet but i was written up and it triggered an investigation that eventually led to the resignation and i also had some interaction with highlevel cia operative with the kgb of russia and has some very interesting that i have discovered with him and a lot of other things, i even share common background with the president in office to unite the people of the country properly but im not going on the ego trip that the president is on and we will still reach out to unite the people of this country properly and the secret Government Agencies have to be more transparent and empower the people of the freedoms that we had. What was the name of the bo book. Caller the kgb the eyes of russia offered by harry. Host thank you, sir, john and hutchinson kansas, good afternoon. Caller yes, of a question, maybe you are so many can answ answer, on tv i watch and 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, they all say foreign governments should not interfere with our election in any way shape or form, i go to channel late. Host john im going to interrupt you, were talking about books today in our 20th anniversary of indepth, anything in the book world that you want to comment on. No i listened to television and recent newspaper. Thank you, sir i appreciate your call. Brent in new york, good afternoon, what are you reading whos your favorite author and you have a favorite indepth program of the past 20 years. Caller ive been reading this book, i cannot remember the authors name but its truman. Host is that the new one without be the author. He has a new one out on dewey defeats truman. Caller pretty interesting book, truman did have a second term after he won, is this question about the favorite author nonfiction. Host if you have a favorite fiction author you want to bring up, go ahead. Caller it would be Thomas Berger, hes not real well known but is written about 18 or 20 novels, use 89 died in 2014 and anyways hes only known for one book, it was Little Big Man and some people say hes not so wellknown because these work to different donya, its all fiction but he said detective novels contemporary stuff and he also wrote a takeoff on king author and hes known for the english language, nobody writes like that guy. Host where you get your books, the library, online, the bookstore. Caller online and the library, Thomas Berger somebody said his stuff proves fiction is stranger than true, there is nobody like the guy, i got on the site one time and says if you like this author youll like so i said Thomas Berger and i entered his name, tom dileo came up so ive a book by tom and it was like white noise. Host is in a specific genre, intelligence, National Security, suspense. Caller i dont even know, i started to read and it was unreadable, the point is nobody writes like this guy. Host thank you for calling in, and 2002 our guests included cornell west, tom clancy, peggy noonan, robert, David Herbert donald, howard sims, edward orris, george will and bob woodward in our first guest of 2003 was phyllis and heres a portion of her thought. Remember kennedy was assassinated in late november of 63 and i was that time the president of an Illinois Federation republic of women and i had a whole series of republican speeches scheduled beginning in december and it seemed inappropriate to give the standard antidemocratic speech so i worked up a new speech called how political conventions are stolen starting with the first week in december of 1963 and they gave up january and february of the story how the wrong establishment had offered to conservatives and the domination like thomas dewey and by march i realize i put in a book and influence the convention, it was a whirlwind year, i wrote on my typewriter at night at home and they published if you go to a publisher it will take them two years to get their act together and we needed it in 64, that is a little publisher i set up to produce his book so i sent it off to the printers in march and 25000 copies arrived at my garage on april the 30th and i typed out a one page letter that said dear fran, please read this book today and by enough copies to send to your delegates to the 1964 Republican National convention. In the type to stencil in those days and in the basement i went down and put the stencil on the round thing and i sent out 100 letters the only advertising i ever did in one of the letters was read by a friend in california who called up and said i read them, im going to convention