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>> most history books portray north vietnam's decision to go to war in the late 1950s and early 1960s solely at the response of the situation in south vietnam. basically during this period south vietnamese congress forces were being eradicated by saigon troops and said that called upon the party for help. according to this interpretation, "hanoi's war" was a defensive protective measure. although i agree the southern cries for help were important to north vietnamese leaders, what i found was party leaders in hanoi might've als...

technologies available to us. it was just making the point that if you ask about -- look at history through aviation, you would say history has not changed much in the last 60 years. we still fly at exactly the same speed. on airliners that, if anything, are less comfortable than they were then. if you look at the speed of communication, and the declining cost of communication, that is a totally different world. from the world when the first jetliners were developed. and in that sense, yes, it looks like history has speeded up. but i'm going to be flying to england next week, and i t...

>> now, if people want to come down, what is the best way to get down here? >> well, the subway is, frankly, the best or to get here. mattress system. all the smithsonian is the closest you can also use federal triangle and archives which are closely within walking distance. >> well, thank you for hosting this year at the national book festival. project manager of the national book festival of denounce -- library of congress. now is beginning editor of the washington post will be introducing eugene robinson after he is done talking he will be here for college show. >> please be mindf...

>> coming up next on booktv encore booknotes. gertrude himmelfarb as a guest on booknotes in 1995 to talk about her book, "the de-moralization of society." shia search the victorian virtues of hard work and the deferral of gratification are at the tools to fix current social problems in the country. this is about an hour. c-span: gertrude himmelfarb, author of the de-moralization of society, deep in your book you suggest that the bicycle had more to do with liberating women in the victorian age, or some age, than the feminist movement. is that true? >> guest: i think that is true. i ...

there is didn't actually have an incredibly difficult moment in particular composition whatever it was some artists who lived their lives in a moment of input temporal serenity from beginning to end but not many of those you look at the early as agonized moments of violence and cruelty and all sorts of weird things you get to the much more arena. so i thought i wanted to really reinstate the notion of a kind of her a rick narrative of the artist. as i did with rembrandt i did feel documentation and everyone knows about him from those around him many quite clear he was far more than s...