America is in the war. And why did that touch you so much. Because we knew that it was going to lose it. What did that mean for you and hungry. I was 18 yes. But with that interview with the late author john lewis. It was born 20 years ago. Over 230 of the leading nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared on in depth. Just to name a few. Over the next three hours our goals 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 gas what book are you reading now and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author. And thats what will be talking about. We will be showing you some video from the last 20 years as well. Heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth. For those of you in the east and central time zones if you live in the mountain and Pacific Pacific time zones. And you can text him what your thoughts are as well. 7488903. Please include your first name in your city if you would. On social media at book tv for facebook, twitter and instagram we will begin taking those calls in just a minute. John lucas was the first guest and that was february 6th of 2000. That same year in 2000 richard rhodes. He was one of the gas. The heart of the aristocracy. It is interesting. To use the example of your daughter. Have i not chosen army instead. The schools are but control the opinion of the rich and allpowerful. Adhave a stepbrother who was going to inherit a lot of money. And he was sent to groton. For those who will be rich. But then to go to certain values. This is how the opinion is formed. With political training. I belong to the ruling class. A misstep brother. Im not going to inherit any money. We will become judges editors of the New York Times. And those are open to us. Bankers. Into not properly speaking by birth. A member of the ultimate class. There has always been a move in england where as you point out they know about the upperclassman were not told. We are the most incredible class. They own the newspapers and the newspapers are not going to give the game away. Who controls the opinion. To be there and never be named. But they dont really get through to the people at large. They go on and on. In the maverick appears among them. By and large it is a closed corporation. He passed away in 2012 his books include the united states, were taking the calls on these topics. Who is your favorite Nonfiction Author. It includes the first name and city. It was in 2001 that the fiction author Toni Morrison appears and she is the winner of beloved here is a little bit of her. How do you get inside the psyches of these people. You try to make it specific. You want to be in that persons had if youre on stage to wear the clothes wear the shoes. Behave that way the person would. You enter a project. Where they part their hair. Whether or not it appears in the book you try to imagine all of those things. That works for me. I dont judge my characters that way. Nietzsche love them need to love them for the moment of their portrayal. Whether they are old or young. The two they develop as you write. Its what they are supposed to answer. What i must feel like were in paradise to hear about those people they were not welcome there. I know what the story isou about a sort of know the journey. Now had to find out whos in a work that out for me. I did not want to know too much about her or what she looks like et cetera. I just needed a few strokes to start. And then i put them together. They are never fully realized immediately. Personal introductions and anything i can do to get them to speak and trust me. She in 2001. We started the show. But the war in afghanistan started that day. We have to cut it short. We brought it back for a later date. He is one of the few that have ever appeared appeared on the program twice. Which of those three questions that you want to answer. My favorite author is mary roach. Did you watch her when she was on indepth. I have also replayed on the website a couple of times. Youre very entertaining. I like how a lot of her books just had the one word title. She is email me back. Thank you for calling in. Lets talk to david in louisville kentucky. David, good afternoon. I want to answer the question about one of my reading. I am reading a book called twilight of the gods by ian w toll. And talks about the conclusion of the effort against the japanese in world war ii. We recently have the 75th anniversary we had covered him on book tv. I was anxiously awaiting the third volume of his trilogy. Is it world war ii that attracts you . In specifically the theater. Because of the notoriety of the pearl harbor attack. The surprise that it garnered. In just the story how it was a difficult task the japanese have all of their advantages there early on. It took quite an effort for us for us to become victorious. Thank you for calling in. Sometimes we take it on the road. We went to hillsdale college. Its right before the president ial election at that point. Dennis was on the program. Here is part of his presentation. Is there anyway we can come the socialism is a utopia that the left is promoting. You and i both know they are disestablished in the america that we love. K that is exactly what is happening. Its not opinion. They are undoing what the founders meant to do. There is one simple answer. Aside from all of the arguments that i gave. Frankly i have no pity for you. Your generation votes democrats. I had zero pity for when they have the tab. I will be gone. Or i will find my at retirement account. It really has no effect on me. It will go bankrupt just like greece and portugal. Just like italy. Just like venezuela. W we will also. We will be a borderless country because the left wants a borderless country. They dont believe in it. They dont believe in national identity. It will not be any different from canada or mexico. So this will all happy happened to you. A once great country. That existed. Thanks to the indoctrination you got in high school voted for. That is my message to millenials. That was dennis prager. All of these programs are available to watch in their entirety lets talk to carol in Prince George virginia. Which of those three questions do you you want to answer. The one i want to answer is about my favorite interview on indepth and it was the year that they did the fiction. I am a super fan of his. It was such an engaging really involved interview. Every time i get a little lonely. I go on the archives. And i watch the interview again. Follow him wherever i can. Whether it is fiction or reporting. Is it the topic of National Security that interests you i am particularly interested in intelligence and the work you cia. I dont have any professional background in it. I think he does a job of dispassionately. With the work of cia and other intelligence agencies are. In terms of protecting us nationally. We will look at some of those fiction authors that we did. I believe it was in 2018. You cant get through on the phone lines and want to text your message please include your first name and your city. At book tv is our handle for facebook and twitter. Shelby was one of the authors who appeared in 2001. We visited his home in memphis. That is the kind that used to be in post offices. Its an absolute nightmare. I dont worry about that. I was lucky i found a whole bunch of points in the and dusty old stationary shop. I brought myself a lifetime supply. That is a big problem. And doesnt take anything the way it used to. The rest of the manuscript. At the end of each day that i put on the stack. And then i type it up for the printer. Is this the original are the copy. As the final days copy each day. I would and the day by making the final copy. How many other of your originals are there. They are not up here. Any idea how valuable those are. There it is. It was an open federal sky. I read that. He was one of the favorites. Who was it. He was an irish immigrant. He became a lawyer. With the military because he have a hitch in the british army. With the franklin and the last year of the war. We were really good close up there on the board. Not from such a distance. You mentioned him even earlier. He was born four years into the century. They have a tremendous influence. On the variety. They were trying to figure out all of those things. And they passed away four years after that interview in 2005. From dubuque iowa i am currently reading cass. I highly recommend it. They have now appeared on the q a program on sunday night. Just type her name in the search function at the top of the page. Good afternoon. Welcome to book tv. Thank you so much for taking my call. There was a woman who called the agencies like the cia. I had had quite a bizarre life. I am changing the world for my dining room table. From the heartbeat of america. I am also a whistleblower. The things that i discovered. We will still reach out to that. And empower the people with the freedoms that we have. It is titled the cave e. G. Kb g the eyes of russia. Thank you sir. John in huntington kansas. Hutchinson kansas. Good afternoon. Have a question i have a question maybe you or someone could answer. Untrue tv i watch in the newspaper about russia interfering in our elections. And this goes on and on. Nobody says a word all foreign governments should not interfere with our election in any way shape or form. We are talking about books today. And our 20th anniversary of in depth. Thank you sir. Brent good afternoon. I cant remember the authors name. Is that the new one he has a new one out on dewey defeats truman. Pretty interesting book. Does it have to be nonfiction. It would be thomas berger. He has written about 18 or 20 novels. He is known for one book. It was a little big man. Some people say hes not so well known. And also they wrote a take off on the king arthur legend. He is known for the english language. Nobody let rights like the guy. Where do you get your books. Online it at the library. It is stranger than truth. There is no one like him. I got on a site that if you like this author youll like this. I entered his name. I got a book by time. White noise. In and a couple other books. Is it a specific genre. I dont know. No one writes like thomas berger. In 2002. Our guests included cornell west. Tom clancy. Bell hooks, our first guest of 2003 was phyllis. Your member kennedy was assassinated in late november at that time i was the63 president of the Illinois Federation of women. At a whole series of republican speech as scheduled. I worked up a new speech. How political conventions are stolen starting the first week in december of 1963. They told the story of how the rockefeller establishment. And they have given the domination to lead to ours. And by march i realized i can put it in the book. It was a world when year i wrote it on my my little standard typewriter at night at home. We needed it and 64. That is the little publisher i set up. I sent it off to the printer in march 25,000 copies arrived at my garage. I typed out a one page letter that said dear friends please read this book today and then buy enough copies to send to your delegates in the Republican National convention. I typed typed a stencil in those days. I put the stencil on the round thing. I had 100 letters out. One of them was read by a friend in the california. Who called up and said im going to an convention this weekend. I loaded them up in my station megan. And set them out there. We had state wide distribution in california and the primary was the first week in june. And we sold over a half million copies. Before that first of may and the first of june. They used the title. The minute i heard it i knew that was it. Gas is calling in from chicago. Gus, what are you reading, who is your favorite author or your favorite inDepth Program in the past 20 years. I am technically reading two books. I am reading a fiction novel. Basically the life and time of the orphan. My favorite author regarding that. A nice gentleman. They have a narrative that is similar if you read fiction or anything like that. That kind of nice case. Probably the best authors regarding criticism. And my favorite indepth gas. Its like asking your favorite child. My favorite is chris hedges. Theyre both great men with a lot of knowledge. I had worked in campaigns. I was studied engineering. I have dealt with a lot of advocacy. With the members of chicago. Moms arising. Im also a member of a couple of individual chapters. When im not doing that im walking my dog about 50 miles a day. Thats why im hundred pounds lighter. Give her your type. It was in 2002 that one of our fiction authors appeared and this is tom clancy. See mike how author does as offer author come out with his first book and have a best seller. Your neck and i hear that thing. The book came out. In october. Of 1984. In november of that year. A gal at the post and the times was a murder retired marine colonel. He wanted to get a copy of the book for his friend in argentina. Her name was nancy clark reynolds. She really does know everybody. Ak they would take the book down there. Its a long flight from turkey to buenos aires. She comes home. She buys a whole case of books. He would read two or three books a week when he was president. With alexander staley. Heard the talk. And decided to do a book about me a book and the president. He worked for present reagan. That was tom clancy who passed away in 2013 in 2003 he was a guest on indepth. We have already looked at here. Bernard lewis. Carlos deste. They were all our guests that year. Mike is in lakeside california. Mike, you are on book tv. I was just calling to recommend for our fellow citizens couple book there the first one they are both shared books. The first one is imperial america. It is dreaming more. I like the author and his writing style because its sort of a political family. He can has this old world stoicism. And he tells us the truth about a lot of the present things with that stoicism. Its a nice way to relay that information. You are on book tv. Good morning. I will start from the top. With a book i am completing now which is very well written. As is a biography of churchill. In my favorite Nonfiction Books. As the rise in evan thomas. Now i will get to the two authors both of these gentlemen and i know each of them a little bit has written eclectic books over the years since he wrote the wisemen. The wisemen i talk about all the time with people. The subjects of the book have a huge in fluence on foreign policy. How do you know what is isaac send or evan thomas. Our sister is bedell smith. She is an author as well. And she has written about Queen Elizabeth. I do with their Nonfiction Book. Sally of course has been there. Sally vidal smith has written several books on the english monarchy and other topics is wellknown to as well known to the book tv audience as well. You for calling in. The prosecutor in the 1960 manson murder cases. It is a very famous book. He appeared on our program in 2007. And here is a little bit. Absolutely. You missed at the end of this book. All of the conspiracy people who thinks its a conspiracy. All of the groups that could possibly be involved. The whole world would have had to inspire to kill president kennedy. With my president ialmi illustration you cannot believe this. It was one continuous lie we set it all. He have the correct date. Correct it was a murder. They got together on this one. Who did it. W like i did for Time Magazine a couple months ago to give me a page and then if you are interested with the conspiracy. I actually know what well likely i at your cry dances are not any evidence at all why the nature of life the whole ability now and so the point the point toward your guilt and an extremely unusual rare situation maybe well read pieces of strong point toward your guilt will your case here peter can meet points towards Lee Harvey Oswald guilt three separate pieces of evidence pointing toward the old guilt it would not be humanly possible for him to live in the world like we live now. Only in a fantasy world can you had 53 pieces of evidence plane towards your guilt and still be president. In 2004 here is our list of guests thomas fleming. And then on september 5 that year we went to the strand bookstore and we did a profile of the strand. And then the late tom wilson december about 30 of those authors are still active and writing. My favorite author interview. It was special to hear about his career. Best wishes for another 20 years of depth. We appreciate that. In 2007 it was Newt Gingrich who was our author. He was quite a prolific author. He wrote several books. The section working to show were to show you hear from 2007 is a little bit different. We will explain it afterwards. Le we start over here with a sound bite. In the continuum. We are in one of those fascinated periods of dramatic change where we could have an enormous dialogue in the country i think you have something from second light. Let me give you an example of how i see this stuff over the next five or ten years. It will be a new one. Lets watch and we can explain how this works. Let me just say these are some of the teething pains of new s technology. The beginning of a very different kind of system. People from all over the world can come together and can share ideas. I think its very important to look at how this technology is going to evolve. The First Successful manifestation. N. It is a Virtual World inhabited by real people was pioneered in Science Fiction novels. With the 1992 snow crash. A came in the form. Real worlds. I am delighted to teach a workshop here in a second life but im not the first to do so. Harvard Law School Professor taught a class last c year inside second life about law and the court of women. More people engaged in study groups and workgroups. In this kind of second a life and other kind of metal verse environments. Meadow verse environments. They are so effective. It was kind of an early version of an avatar. You can see how far technology has come in the last 13 years. Hi sarah. I am calling from vicksburg mississippi. I look forward to watching cspan to every weekend and especially the first sunday of the month to see who the latest author will be. I will tell you can hit you hit the mute on the tv. My Favorite Book of nonfiction is coming of age in mississippi by enmity i think she wrote her memoir in 1968. It is the only book that i have read twice. My Favorite Book of fiction is song of solomon by Toni Morrison. 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