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Trying to be the father not only of the nation but of individuals and as the father he had not been able to be all those years and he leans into me and says that of course you have to be at your sons graduation and you can interview me anytime, which was true. Anytime i needed to interview him, i was able to and i was there when president clinton went to south africa and that was a time when he was having some personal issues around his actual behavior and Nelson Mandela was very he was advising him in a very positive way and did it very publicly. At the same time, and i think that sean will p...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the early sunday morning to the brooklyn book festival being hosted here at Brooklyn Law School. Our dean nick allard is here to welcome you. That dean has been a really wonder for bridge between the law school in brooklyn and the brooklyn book festival. Its on like to introduce nick allard to you all. [applause] thank you, professor. Well, welcome to all of you. Were so proud to be able to host part of the largest free letter very festival in new york city in one of the largest in the United States. It certainly is the hippest and most diverse book festival. So wev...

Start. You can watch this and other programs on line at booktv. Org. Spent up next, author and lecturer Steven Johnson, best selling Science Writer talks about the cyberworld, Popular Culture and computer networking as a political tool. Mr. Johnson is the author of eight nonfiction books including everything bad is good for you, where good ideas come from, and his 2012 release future perfect. Host Steven Johnson, in your newest book, future futura perfect the case of progress in a networked age use the tere pure progressive. What iss that . Guest is my attempt to come up with a term for this n...

Part of the country during the war. Can you comment a little bit more on davis relationship with bragg, why he would have kept bragg in command as long as he did, and also, do you have an opinion about who davis might have turned to to command the army of tennessee . Well, first on the bragg question, when i began the research for this book, i shared the negative consensus about bragg as a commander. But the more i got into the material, the more i got into the research, the more i began to doubt that stereotype. Bragg was not a likeable guy. No question about that. He was a stern discipline a...

And can you get a sense of who handled it better . We can, had very limited military experience versus Jefferson Davis and then they dont have any military experience and it seems to make the job. What do you think . I think that most people would not do this in tennessee. Most would think that lincoln was a better commander in chief than davis. Of course, he had virtually no military experience and davis had a great deal of military experience. Whether that was the reason is another matter. And lincoln got rid of other commanders pretty quickly and davis was a little bit more luck than and li...