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Up next on booktv after words with guest host bob woodward of the Washington Post. This week former white House Counsel john dean and his latest book the nixon defense what he knew and when he knew it. In the book the man his congressional testimony led to president nixons resignation presents a more indepth look at the watergate scandal based on newlyreleased audio tapes. This program is about an hour. Host hello. Its great to be here with john dean. I was recalling coming in here today at the studios which are on capitol hill. It was 39 summers ago when you it held the country and the world ...

Thank you for reading it. I am glad i wrote it. A little different than past books, but i am excited is finally done. Host so, tell me, how do you define a savior general . Guest the word savior is not is kind of ambiguous. Has to be kind of lost to begin with. Save year as a title means that it should be saved. So great generals, we are not sure that they should have saved the things they did. Trying to do two things, described generals who were put in a position where things did not look too good and they did not stop the war and their cause was worth saving. Host so, tell me a little bit ab...

Common and i always liked him very much as a human being. So, i talked to the family and the archives or in process but they were let me willing to let me in, and i did that for a couple of years. I think the real surprise in terms of the archives is that he seemed to be very open man and had in fact vetted his archives quite considerably committing much of his correspondence and also anything that diluted to his personal life. I didnt expect that. That was the first for me and all of the biographies that ive done. We will start with his earlier life where you were able to get information from...

Host well, martin, im very pleased to be with you to talk to you about your new book. Guest thank you. Host now, youve written a number of biographies other the course of your career, and i wanted to ask if you felt this was a different sort of project than the other ones or whether you approached it differently . What were the reasons that you decided to write this book . Guest i knew howard somewhat. We were never close friends, but i did know him. And when he died, i had the thought that i might well be the right person, because we shared a lot of of political values in common. And i always...

How do you make a number of cases in this book but one of the central arguments to make is that men have basically fallen off the cliff. Guest sorry. Host i read the book and its hard to argue the case to muster that men are in trouble. Give us the parameters of disasters. Guest it starts as an economic argument. Men are having a harder time adapting to the economy and women are adapting more easily. I cant tell you why there are different periods had men at devotees year, but then its education and credentials. The economy as fast changing. Who knows what its going to throw. Women seem to be ...