Light was on. She america is in the war. Why did that such you so much . It had gone lucid. What did that mean for you and hungary . I didnt cry then. How old are you . I was 18. That interview with the late author john lucas. In depth was formed 20 years ago. Since 2000, 230 leading nonfiction and fiction authors have appeared on in depth. Alice walker, bob woodward, Neil Degrasse tyson, george will, just to name a few. Over the next 3 hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of in depth and to ask you a couple questions. Who was your favorite in depth the guest, what book are you reading now, and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author . We will be showing you video from the past 20 years but here is how you can dial in on the twentieth anniversary of in depth. 2027488200 for those in the east and central time zones, 2027488201 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones and you can text him what your thoughts are as well, 2027488903. Text number only, 2027488903. Your first name and your city if you would. Social media, booktv, facebook, twitter, instagram, you can make a comment on those platforms. We will begin, john lucas was the first guest on february 6th, 2000, the same year in 2000, William F Buckley junior, joan gideon, milton friedman, gore but all, Stephen Ambrose and arthur is less danger junior, heres a portion. The heart of an aristocracy are the schools. Interesting you use the example of your daughter, bush went to yale. I went to harvard had i not chosen the army instead. The schools control the opinion of the children of the rich and or powerful. I had a stepbrother who was going to inherit a lot of money, he was sent to groton st. Marks. For those who will be rich. Who make them into gentlemen and scholars and certain values. This is how opinion is formed by the ruling class. How to get political training but their view, i belong to the ruling class. I was sent to ecuador which was for the bright boys of the ruling class who worked for the rich boys, and we will become judges, senators, editors of the New York Times, those doors are open to us, bankers, but we are not properly speaking members. That is how it is done and how they continue it. There has always been a move in england where they know about the upper classes and we are not told, the most intelligent upperclass i have ever seen or overall, nobody knows they are there. They own the newspapers, the newspapers get the game on who controls opinion. And to be there and never be named, they have done marvelous work, nothing gets through to people at large and so they go on and on. Occasionally a maverick appears, and others. By and large it is a close operation. Host gore for doll passed away in 2012. His books include the United States and lincoln. The next three as were taking your calls on these topics. What are you reading, who is your favorite in depth guest and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author . 2027488200, those in the east and central time zones, 2027488201 in the mountain and pacific time zones. You can text in your answer, include your first name and city, 2027488903. It was in 2001 that fiction author Toni Morrison appeared, Pulitzer Prize winning author of beloved. Here is a little bit of Toni Morrison. How do you get inside the psyches of these people . It is difficult, maybe actors or actresses use, you have a vague character. You want to be in that persons head if you are on stage, where the clothes, where the shoes, behave the way that person would. So you have to intern or project and know where they part their hair and what kind of soap they would wear, what food they would like, try to imagine those things. That works for me. I dont judge my characters that way, whether i want to have lunch with them or not but you have to love them for the moment of their portrayal, whether they are men, women, old, young children, what have you. They come from your pen fully formed or they develop as you write . As you sit down and the book comes out the story is supposed to answer or provoked as i was, what must that feel like . Or in paradise to hear about the people, turned away black people, they are not welcome there. I know what the story is about. I dont want to know what she looked etc. I wanted to invent her so i only need a few strokes. They are never fully realized immediately. They take coddling and stroking and personal introductions, doing what they can do to speak and trust me. Host along with Toni Morrison in 2001, she was on in february, james mcpherson, selby foot, Richard Brooke kaiser, david hauber stand and David Mccullough appeared in 2001. When it came to Richard Brooke kaiser who 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, one of the few ever appeared on the program twice. Mark in kansas city, which of those questions that you want to answer . Favorite author, what are you reading or favorite in depth guest . Caller my favorite author is mary roach. I have most of her books. Host did you watch her when she was on in depth . Caller yes and i have replayed it on your website a couple times because she is very entertaining. I like the way a lot of her books have the one word title, i have emailed her and she has emailed me back. She was a very good guest. Host thanks for calling in. Lets talk to david in louisville, kentucky. Good afternoon. Caller thank you for in depth. I want to answer the question about what am i reading, i am reading a book called 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 had the 70 fifth anniversary of vj day and it is an excellent book. Host did you see that . Guest anxiously awaiting the third volume of the trilogy. Host is it world war ii that attracts you . Guest specifically Pacific Theater because of the notoriety of the pearl harbor attack, and the story of a difficult task. And it took an effort for us to become victorious. Sometimes we take in depth on the road and it was in september of 2016 that we went to hillsdale college. D in fronting i in front of n 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 hea nice things here from a millennial thats, thats exactlyha what is happening. Thats functional. Thats not opinion. They are im doing what the founders meant t to do. But this one simple answer aside from all the other arguments that i gave. Socialism bankrupt countries. This country will be bankrupt the bill will hold you and frank that no pity for you because your generation votes democrat. So, therefore, since im a big believer in consequences, thats what children should learn, i have zero pity for millennials the vote democrat for when the tab for the debt that they believe in by voting democrat comes to their generation. I will perhaps be gone or i will have my fine retirement account so has no effect on me but it local bankrupt just like greece, just like portugal, just like italy, just like spain, just like venezuela and we will, too. We will be a borderless country because the left wants borderless countries just like with the schengen rules and the european union. They dont believe in borders because they dont believe a national identity. There would be a country called the United States between canada and mexico but it will not be any different from canada or mexico. That is the left dream. This will all happen to you. You will read about the once great country that existed but that you helped dismantle because you, thanks to the indoctrination you got in high school and in college, voted for. For. Thats my message too millennials. A nonpitting message. Host that was Dennis Prager in september 2016 on in depth. 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 want to answer . Caller what i want to answer is about my favorite interview on in depth, and it was a year that in depth did the year of fiction and it was david ignatius. Im a super fan of this thought it was such an engaging, really involve interview and it just appreciate it so much. Intelligence and the work of the cia. I dont have any professional background in it. 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 as nationally. And saving our foreign policy. Host thank you for calling in and look at some of those fiction authors that we did i believe in 2018 that we did a full year of fiction authors and we will look at some of those as we go. If you cant get through on the phone lines and what to text in your message or social media your message, text number 2027488903. Please include your first name and your city and just remember at booktv is our handle for facebook, twitter and instagram. Shelby foote was one of the authors who appeared in 2001. In fact, we visited his home in memphis. On that desk there you also use the dip pen we talked about before. Show was thats the pin that used to be in post offices. Its an absolute nightmare. Its an odd thing to do and i dont know when i dont worry about that. I was lucky, i found a whole bunch of points at a dusty old stationery shop the used to be on 44th street. I bought myself a lifetime supply. What kind of paper you right on . That is a big problem. It doesnt taking the way it used to anymore so i have a problem with paper. What is this i have in my hand . Thats a manuscript of shiloh and at the end of each today i do the final corrected draft and put on the stack and then type it up on the printer. Is this the original or the copy . Thats the final days copy. Each day i would do what i done that day. I would in the day by making that final copy. You got up on the shelf there. How many other of your original last season shiloh, jordan county is not appear. September, my six novel. Any idea how valuable those are . No. What a going to do withit th . It into my son. What are some the things you have there on the back of your desk . Favorites of mine. Birthday party when i was about 11 years old in greenville with all my friends. Forest, robert e. Lee, u. S. Grant. Some of these one of your favorites. Absolutely. He from arkansas, and i was immigrant. He became a lawyer and was interested in a military because he had done a hitch in the military army as a corporal. Hes a marvelous gentleman. He was killed in franklin the last year of the war. Can legitimately close up on that board just so folks can see it not from such a distance . Why checkoff . He was born four years into the century but he was as modern today as when he was writing. He has a tremendous influence on the writing of the short story, all shortlu story writers influence for the good by checkoff. He had, he had a talent that you cant explain it. Walker and i used to try to forget how we does these things. We could never figure how he did it, he so good. Host and shelby foote passed away four years after that interview in 2005. Dale tweets in or a text from dubuque, iowa, i am currently reading cast the origins of our discontent by Isabel Wilkerson. I highly recommend she writes. Isabel wilkerson has now appeared on our q a program on sunday nights and on booktv as well. All available at booktv. Org or just type her in the search function at the top of the page. Ashland virginia, good afternoon. Welcome to booktv. Caller good afternoon, thank you so much for taking my call. I was prompted to call in by the earlier call from the woman who was looking at the Government Agencies like the cia. Ive had quite a bizarre life and i would love to share my name if i can because i am a vietnam era veteran changing the world from my dining room table come selfproclaimed to the heartbeat of america and im also a whistleblower. Theres a frontpage wall street journal that can be seen on the internet that i was written up and it triggered an investigation that eventually led to the resignation of jim wright from speaker of the house. I also have some interaction with a high level cia operative who offered a book, kgb, the eyes of russia, and has some very interesting synchronicity is that i discovered with him and a lot of other things. I even share common background with the president , will support any president in the office ignite people and culture properly but im not going on ego trip that the president is on and will still reach out until his last day 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 turned what was the name of the book again you wanted to recommend . Caller the title, they kgb, the eyes of russia, offered by harry. Host thank you. John in hutchinson kansas good afternoon tragic, yes, i have a question that you or somebody can answer. On tv i watch and the newspapers everywhere they talk about russian anything in our elections. Chinese industry with our elections, and this goes on and on and on but nobody says a word that they all say Foreign Government should not interfere with our election in any way, shape, or form. I go to channel eight which is our local , im going to interrupt you. We are talking about books today at her 20 anniversary of in depth. Anything along in the book world you want to comment on traffic no, no. I listen to television and read the newspaper. Host thank you. I appreciate your call. Brent in astoria new york good afternoon. What are you reading . Who was your favorite author and you have a favorite in Depth Program over the last 20 years transfer ive been reading this book by i i cant member the authors name but its dewey defeats truman. Host is that the new one, vha bayne . Caller yeah thats the one. Host he has a new one out on dewey defeats truman. Caller heard interesting book. Truman didnt have a good second term after he won i guess. This question about the favorite author have to be nonfiction . , 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 he has written about 18 or 20 novels. He died, he was 89 indicted 2014. He is only known willie for one book. It was Little Big Man but hes written, some people say hes not so well known because he has worked in different genres, its all fiction but he said like detective novels and contemporary stuff, and also he wrote a takeoff on king arthur legend. Hes known for his grasp of the english language. Nobody writes like the guy. Host where do you get your books, library, online, bookstore . Caller online and the library. But Thomas Berger is somebody come somebody said his stuff proves that fiction is stranger than truth. Hes just really, theres nobody like the guy, writes like him. I got on a site onetime visit if you like this author you will like so i said Thomas Berger, i entered his name. Tom delay of came up i think is his name. I got a book by tom, im not sure if im pronouncing the name right but its like white noise, couple of the books. Host is it a specific genre . Caller you mean host is it intelligence, national security, suspense . Caller i dont even know. I started to read it and it is like unreadable. The point is nobody writes like this guy, like Thomas Berger. Host thanks for calling in. In 2002 our guests included cornel west, tom clancy, peggy noonan, robert caro, david hundred donald, howard zinn, george will and bob woodward and a first guest of 2003 was phyllis schlafly, and heres a portion of her talk. Well, you remember kennedy was assassinated in late november of 63, and i was at the time the the president of the Illinois Federation of republican women and i had a whole series republican speeches scheduled beginning in december, and it just seemed inappropriate to give the standard at the Democratic Party speech so i worked up a new speech called how political conventions are stolen, starting the first week in december of 1963 and then i gave that speech january and february and it told a story of how the rockefeller establishment had outmaneuvered the conservatives and given the domination tempt ten me too ise thomas dewey. By march i realize to put in a book and influence the convention. So was a whirlwind year. I wrote it on my typewriter at night t at home and then of coue i self published it. If you go to publish its going to take themm two years to get act together. We needed it in 64. Thats the low publisher i set up to produce this book. I sent it off to the printers in march and 25,000 copies arrived at my garage on april 30. And and i typed out a onepage letter that said dear friend, please readag this book today ad then buy enough copies to send to your delegates to the 1964 Republican National convention. I typed it on, type in stencil in the states and had a mcgrath machine in the basement and it went down in the basement and put the stencil on the round think and ground 100 letters. One of the letters was read by a friend in california who called up and said i read them, im going to convention this week in united republicans in california with 5000 copies and i loaded them up at my Station Wagon and took them to the airport and set them out there and that we can reinstate wide distribution in california and the california primary was the first week in june and we sold over a half million copies between the first of may and the first of june in california. Where did the title come im reading also a fiction novel at a snails pace called raptor from gary jennings. Its basically the life and times of an orphan during the sort of early viking midbarbarian period. Its a historic fiction pretty good. My favorite author regarding nonfiction is max blumenthal.