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transition to their base initially was difficult. >> host: what is a half kick? >> guest: a bar in new york city the bill with some friends in 2000. we just had our tenth anniversary. we have author readings there. we have photojournalism exhibits. there is a lot of journalism, people publishing and books who go there. >> host: where is it located? >> guest: tenth ave. >> host: often are you there? very fair amount. >> you can read him in vanity fair the post presidential life of dwight eisenhower. the co-authors discuss with president eisenhower did during his retirement in gettysbu...

1933. the tour begins at the little-known temperance fountain near pennsylvania avenue. >> the favor sending on right now is seventh in pennsylvania avenue, halfway between the white house in the capital, where the temperance fountain once stood. they moved in the 1980s about 100 feet north of the theater. it is very strategic here in washington d.c. because it's halfway between the white house and the capitol. right across from a very what once was a very bad neighborhood called murder row. the statue itself once stood right in front of this building right here, at the base of it wa...

brad meltzer, why a nonfiction? >> well, the truth was -- is, it's for my son. eight years ago, on the night my son was born, i said i'm going to write a book that lasts his whole life. i was coming back from the hospital. it's that great moment when you can dream anything for your child. he can be the president, nice person, generous person, all realism, i'm going to write a book that lasts my whole life. i came home and started writing rules for him to live by. there you go. pictures of it. what i wanted was...

in some sense of our a shelter from society. they protect christian students from what is the influence of mainstream institutions. one of the dangers however is when you insulate young people from mainstream insulin -- institutions you cut them off. button reason is king's college is in an new york city is we don't protect you but we prepare you. our goal is to take young students, mostly christian and the quips them to extend their faith in a secular society and also to go on to successful and transforming careers at goldman sachs, and cbs news, capitol hill we want them to flouris...

chernow. his latest book is about george washington. following that in about one hour and 45 minutes or so we will be joined by war correspondent david axe, his book "war is boring," chronicals his wars in somalia and other countries. david axe works in iraq and afghanistan. we then return for a talk by simon winchester who published a book about the thraptic ocean -- atlantic ocean. he was on our program in 2004 and in 1998 to discuss the professor and the madman about the oxford english dictionary. after that, we'll interview authors about the book "sea gull one," an organization f...