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Thomas jefferson to steve jobs. People with character disorders that had difficulty butting to other people were amazing movers and shakers. I wrote a chapter on jefferson. Jefferson, of course, is americas most articulate proponent of freedom and most articulate enemy of tyranny. With his own daughters, he was a control freak. He told them what to do, what to wear. Jefferson also was an amazing politician. We all know how brilliant he was. Election ofut in 1804 he was jefferson was a great visionary thinker and a great leader, but as a dad, soso. He also neglected his daughters a little bit. ...

This week on q a, journalist and author Joshua Kendall. He discusses his book first dads. Brian Joshua Kendall. Author of first dads. What is this book about and where did you get the idea . Mr. Kendall my last book was obsessives, and i did profiles of seven american icons were control freaks, from icons who were control freaks, from Thomas Jefferson to steve jobs. These were people with character disorders that had difficulty relating to other people but were amazing movers and shakers. I wrote a chapter on jefferson. Jefferson, of course, is americas most articulate proponent of freedom and...

Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things th...

Marty, i, i am the executive editor of the Washington Post. The Washington Post is a charter sponsor the National Book festival since the beginning and we are happy to do it again this year. The Library Library of congress has been the festival toast since the festival began 16 years ago. We want to thank the chairman of the festival and the many National Book festival sponsors who made the event possible this year. You can make a donation to the festival by checking the information in your program, there is to be time for question afterward and this is being filmed as well. You should know th...

You leave a pistol on a drawer for me and that made him anxious that he wanted to kill himself. How much of these are cries for help in the reassurance or whether it indicates true suicidal ideation. The fact he didnt kill himself and yes this is one thing one thing about him he would get knocked down and come back again and again. He was finished off in 62 and he said he wont have nixon to kick around anymore. Even after he is with him from office, he moves back and he had this beautiful house. He moves back to new york and is a block away from Arthur Schlessinger in the belly of the beast. H...