December i went to a prom i was the equivalent of a freshman oft the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night and the light was on interested americas and the war. And why did i get you so much. Because i knew we were going to lose it. What did that mean for you. I did not cry them. How old were you, i was 17,. With the late author john lucas indepth was born 20 years ago since 2000 over 200 of the nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth alice, bob woodward, tyson, george will, just to name a few over the next three hours our goal is to review the last years of indepth and ask a couple of questions, here they are, who is your favorite indepth guest, what book are you reading now and he was your favorite Nonfiction Author, thats what will be talking about and showing a video from the past 20 years as well and heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth to 027488200 and for those of you in the mountain in Eastern Central time zone 202 7488201 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zone and you can text what your thoughts are as well 202 7488903. Again text number only 202 7488903. Please include your first name and youre sitting if you would. Also on social media booktv for facebook, twitter an instagram you can also make a comment on those platforms. We begin taking those calls in just a minute. John lucas was the first guest but not february 6, 2000, that same year in 2000 richard rowe, William S Buckley junior, milton freedman, Stephen Ambrose and arthur enter junior all appear appeared, corbett was one of the guests, heres a portion. The heart of an aristocracy are the school and its interesting to use an example of your daughter and bush went to you and i wouldve gone to harvard if i would have not chosen the army instead. The schools are what control the opinion oft the children of the rich and or powerful, either step of the who is going to inherit a lot of money and he went to ground st. Marks, it is one of the schools in those to make them not only into gentlemen scholars but certainn values, i come back to david and how an opinion is formed in thee ruling class, they know what you sent with political training with their view of the world, i belong to the ruling class as a stepbrother but im not going to inherit any money so im sent to the bright royc boys who will eventually work for the rich boys and who will become judges, senators, editors of the new york times, and if youre open to it, banker. Where the apparatchiks and not properly speaking but a member of the ultimate class, thats how they continue, there has always been a move h in englands you point out they know about the upper classes and we are not told we are the most intelligent upper class i have ever seen or at least overall they are, nobody knows who they are, they own the newspapers, who really owns what, who really controls what, who controls opinion and to be there, they have done marvelous work but nothing really gets through to the people at large and so they go on and on occasionally and others but by and large it is a close corporation. He passed away in 2012, his books include the United States and lincoln for the next three hours we are taking your calls on these topics. What are you reading, who is your favorite indepth guest and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author 202 7488200 for those of you on the east and central time zone, 202 7008201 if you live in the mountain or specific time zone and you can text in your answer as well include your first name intercity 202 7488903, when it was in 2001 the author Toni Morrison appeared and she is a Pulitzer Prize winner author of beloved, here is a little bit from Toni Morrison. How do you get inside these people. It is difficult to use the actors and actresses use, you try to make it specific and you wanted be in that persons head if youre on stage, where the shoes, behave the way the person would so you have to enter or project and no where they and whether 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 weathering going to have lunch with them or not is something quite different but you have to love them for their portrayal whether they are men, women, old, young, children, what have you. Are they formed or do they develop as you write . As you sit down in the book comes out, do you already know the story that you are going to tell . I think we know the questions that weree supposed to answer unprovoked as i was by Margaret Gardner what does that feel like or in paradise to hear about those people who walk the distance to three black towns that were turned away by black deople who had also been slaves like them and they were not welcomee there, i thought my god what would that feel like, i know what the story is about and i further know the journey and i have to find out whos gonna work that out for me i didnt want to know too much about her what she looks like were et cetera i wanted to invent her and then i put them together so they are never fully realized immediately there we stay coddling and stroking personal introductions and anything i can do to get them to speak and trust me. Host along with Toni Morrison in 2001 norman appeared in Toni Morrison was on february make fierce and, shelby foote, richard, david and david macola all appeared in 2001, one note when it came to Richard Brooke kaiser who started the show that the war in afghanistan started that day so we had to cut it short so we brought him back for a later date hes one of the few that ever appeared on the program twice park in Kansas City Missouri which of those three did you want to answer, faber author, what are you reading your 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, i also replayed it on your website a couple of times because shes very entertaining and i like the way her books have the oneword title but i emailed her in shes email me back, she was a very good guest in a very good author. Host thank you for calling in, lets talk to david in louisville kentucky. David, good afternoon. Caller good afternoon, thank you for indepth, i went to answer the question about one of my reading. Host all right. Caller im reading twilight of the gods by ian w toll it talks about the conclusion of the american effort against the japanese in world war ii, we recently had the 75th anniversary of vj day 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 and was anxiously awaiting the third volume of his or trilogy. Host is it world war ii that attraction . Caller yes and specifically this specific theater. Host why . Caller because of the notoriety of the pearl harbor attack, the surprise that it garnered just the story how it was a difficult task the japanese had all the advantages early on and it took quite an effort for us to become victorious. Host thank you for calling in david from louisville kentucky. Sometimes you 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 front of an audience of students, here is part of his presentation. Is there anyway we can come back this socialism is a utopia but the left is promoting and people of my generation because you and i both know their systematically disestablishing the america that weou love. Thank you and such a niceea thing to hear from a millennial but thats exactly what is happening, that is factual, that is not opinion, their undoing what the founders meant to do but there is one simple answer aside from all the other arguments that i gave, socialism bankrupts countries this country will be bankrupt and the bill will fall on you and frankly im no pity for you because your generation both democrat, therefore i become a big believer in consequences, thats what the children should learn i have 0 pity for millennials a alvote democrat for the debt tht they believe in by voting democrat comes to the generation i will perhaps be gone or i will have my fine retirement account so has no effect on me but it will go big drop lunch, just like italy, just like spain, just like venezuela and because the left wants borderless countries like the European Union they dont believe in borders because they dont believe in National Identity will be a country called the United States between canada and mexico but it will not be from canada or mexico, that is theo, left dream and if this will all happen to you, yos will read about a once great country that existed that you help dismantle because you thanks to the indoctrination that you got in high school and college voted for, that is my message to millennials, nonpity message. Host that was Dennis Prager in september 2016 on indepth, all of these programs are available to watch in their entirety, lets talk to carol in Prince George virginia, carol good afternoon, which of those three questions do you want to answer. Caller the one i want to answer is about my favorite interview on indepth and it was the year the indepth did the year of fiction and it was david, i am a super fan of his and i thought it was an engaging, really involved interview and i just appreciated it so much. Host you still read him in the Washington Post . Caller i do, every time i get a little lonely i go on the archive and watch the interview of indepth again and i read all but one of his books and i follow him wherever i can i think he is an amazing careful person ice off whether its fiction or recording. Host is this the topic of National Security that interests you . Caller yes, im particular interested in intelligence and the work of the cia, i dont have any professional background, i am a retired lawyer but ive always been fascinated by it and i think he does a job of dispassionately but respectfully relating what the work of the cia and other intelligence agencies are in terms of protecting this nationally and saving our foreign policy. Host thank you for calling in, we will look at the fiction authors that we did i believe in 2018 that we did a full year of fiction authors and we will look at those as we go, if you cant do on the phone lines anyone to texan your message or social media your message, text number 202 7488903 please include your first name and your city and just remember booktv is our handle for facebook, twitter an instagram. Shelby foote was one of the authors who appeared in 2001 and in fact we visited his home in memphis. On that desk we talked about that before, show us. That used to be in post offices and it was a nightmare finding brothers was absolute thing to do i was lucky i found a whole bunch at a dusty old stationary shop that used to be on 45th street and i bought myself a lifetime supply. What kind of paper did you read on . Thats a problem i dont type a lot of paper it doesnt draw inc. Like it used to. What do i have in my hand. That the manuscript of shiloh and that the individual day i do a final corrected draft and put it on the stack and then type it up withit a printer. s is the original or the copy. That is the final days copy, each day i would do what i didid that day and i would in the day by making the final copy. You have on the shelf how many other of your originals . Last season shiloh, jordan county is not up yet, that was my six novel. You have any idea how valuable those are. Notes. What are you going to do them . Leave them to my son. What are some of the things that you have on the back of your desk . Those are favorites of mine Frederick Scott i was about 11 years old with my friends he was when your favorite. Absolutely. Hes from arkansas and he is an irish immigrant, he became a lawyer and helena and was interested to note because he was in the british army as a cortical and he was a marvelous general and a shielded franklin in the last year of the war. You have a really good closeup on the board not from such a distance, you mentioned him earlier. He was born four years into the century, he had a tremendous influence on the writing of thee short story, they are all writers in the influenced. He had, you cant explain, we try to figure these things and we could never figure out how he did it, he was so good. Host shelby foote passed away four years after that interview in 2005, gail tweets and or text in from dubuque iowa, i am currently reading cast the origins of her discontent for Isabel Wilkerson, i highly recommend it, Isabel Wilkerson has appeared on our q a program on sunday night and on book tv as well, all available at booktv. Org, type your name in the search function at the top of the page, ashland virginia, good afternoon, welcome to book tv. Good afternoon, thank you so much for taking my calls, from 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 am changing the world from my dining room table to the heartbeat of america and also whistleblower, with the front page wall street journal, it can be seen on the internet but it triggered an investigation that eventually led to the resignation of jim wright, i also had some interaction at high level cia operative who offered about behind russia and has some very interesting synchronicitys that i discovered with him and other things, i even share, background with the president and any president in office that unite the people of the country but im not going on the ego trip that the president is on and we will still reach out to all of those to unite the people of this country properly, the secret Government Agencies have to be more transparent and empower the people with the freedoms that we have. Host what was the name of the book that you wanted to recommend. Caller the kgb, the eyes of russia offered by hairy rosinski. Host thank you, sir, john and hutchinson kansas, good afternoon. Yes, i have a question they be you or someone you can answer, on tv i watch in 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, theyre all safe Foreign Government should not interfere in any way shape or form i go to channel eight. Host im going to interrupt you were talking about books in our 20th anniversary of indepth, anything in the book world that you want to comment on . No i listened to television and read the newspaper. Thank you sure we appreciate your call. Brent in new york, good afternoon, what are you reading hoosier favorite author and you have a favorite indepth program of the past 20 years. I have been reading this book, i cant remember the authors name but it is dewey truman. Host is that the new one without be the author . Host he has a new one on dewey defeats truman. Caller thats a pretty interesting book, this question about the fame famous author hao be nonfiction . If you have a famous fiction author you want to bring up go ahead. It would be thomas berger, hes not real well known but he wrote 18 or 20 novels and he was 89 and died in 2014 anyway hes only known for one book, Little Big Man but some people say hes not so wellknown because hes worked in different genres, its all fiction but he said detective novels and contemporary stop and also he wrote a takeoff on king arthur and you hes known for the english language, nobody writes like the guy. Host where you get your books, the library, online, the bookstore . Online and at the library because thomas berger, somebody said his stuff proves that fiction is stranger than truth, there is nobody that writes like the guy, i got on the site when time and its like this author, i said thomas berger, i entered his name, tom go leo came up, i think thats his name so i got a book by tom and its called like white noise and he wrote a couple of other books. Host is a specific genre . Host intelligence, National Security . Suspense . Caller i dont even know, nobody writes like this guy. Host thank you for calling in, in 2000 to our guest included cornell west, tom clancy, peggy noonan, robert carol, dale hooks, David Herbert donald, edmund morris, george will and bob woodward in our first guest is 2003 was phyllis and here is a portion of her talk. You remember kennedy was assassinated in late november of 63 and at that time i was the president im of the Illinois Federation of republican women and 90 series scheduled in chbeginning in december and it seemed inappropriate to give the standard any democratic speech so i worked up a new speech called how political conventions onare stolen starting the first week in december of 1963 and i gave that speech january and february and it told a story of how the rockefeller asked talisman had delivered the conservatives and given the domination to thomas and by march, i realized to put in a book and influence the convention so it was a horror when year. I wrote it on my typewriter at night home and then of course i wanted to publish if you go to them it will take them two years and we needed it and i 64th care marquette, that is a little publisher to produce this book, i sent it off to the printer in march and 25000 copies arrived at my garage on april the 30th and i typed out a onepage letter that said dear fran, please read this book today and then buy enough copies to say send to your delegates in 1964 Republican National convention and i typed a stencil in those days and i had a machine in the basement and i went down to the basement and put the stencil on the round thing and got out a hundred letters, i sent 100 letters out thats only advertising i ever did, one was those by a friend in california who called upia and said im gog to a convention this weekend of th