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>> derek leebaert, author of "magic and mayhem," where did you get that title? >> because i approached the problem, the delusions of american foreign policy, with the perspective that it results from magical thinking and results in a lot of chaos. >> when did you start thinking about the need for this kind of a book? >> i've been in this field for a long time, really since a young academic in the mid 1970's in harvard. and a lot of the illusions have percolated over the decades, the way that american academics, political appointees, many of us keep winging it when we influence, try t...

have we done any right? >> of course we've done a lot right. we unambiguously won the cold war, albeit with a lot of fits and starts along the way. we created and shaped the post world war ii economic order. we have performed well in the gulf war in 1991, in the balkans later in the decade. but by and large, if one looks back over the last lifetime of foreign policymaking, it's been a pretty dismal record. i'd argue even that we have lost three, if not four wars in a row -- the korean war in that fight with china, vietnam to be sure, iraq, which is exceedingly difficult to define as ...

i think it is one of the biggest issues in the country today so i will be continuing to write about this. >> agreed. we've been speaking with paul cuadros, author of quote coach had a home championship team provide hope for another tom." >> thank you book tv. did you know you can view booktv programs online? go to booktv.org. titanium of the author, book or subjected to the left-hand cornf the page. select the watch link. now you can view the entire program. you might also explore the recently on booktv boxaturedgrad and a few recent and featured programs. next, walter metzl dee ...

what he finds is that all these individuals had such mammoth curiosity it consumed their imagination and brigade abilities, and that is what the special gifts they had brought to the world, so here is walter isaacson to talk about his book. [applause] >> thank you. >> henry lewis, was said to indulge in personality journalism. he said time magazine did not invent personality journalism. the bible did. that's how we tell stories and convey the moral lesson of our times. so as bash a bra said, i have always tried to be interested in creative people. in this town you know a whole lot of...

death. but then before he went off to be a rhodes scholar, the summer before, he was still on his great writer mission and he was offered a job as a summer intern by the "washington post." and he turned it down. he turned it down to become a stevedore on a derrick barge on the mississippi. and the reason this was still part of his great writer quest he felt that in doing so that he coded in the mueller that he was that he could encounter so many crews of so many different colorful characters that you could write a novel that would be a serious contender to huckleberry finn. mark twai...