Transcripts For CSPAN2 In Depth 20th Anniversary Commemoration 20240711

In my mothers bedroom. Then on. Americas and the war. And why did you so much . Because we knew they were going to lose it. What did that mean for you in hungary . I did not cry then. Cold are you . I was 18. With that interview the late author john lucas in depth that was born 20 years ago. Since 2000, over 230 of the leading nonfiction and fiction authors of our time of appeared on in depth. Milton freedman, alice walker, Colton Whitehead bob woodward, neil degrasse, tyson george wells, just to name a few. So over the next three hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of indepth. But also to ask you a couple of questions, here they are. Who is your favorite indepth gas . What book are you reading now . And who is your favorite Nonfiction Author . And that is what will be talking about. Heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth. 2020 code 7488200. For those of you in the Eastern Central time zone, 202 7488201 if you live the mountain pacific time zone. And you can text in what your thoughts are as well. 202 7488903. I can text number only 202 7488903. Please include a first name in your city if you would. Also, unsocial needy booktv the facebook, twitter an instagram you can also make a comment on those platforms. So we will begin taking those calls in just a minute. Now, john lucas was the first gas that was february 6 of 2000. That same year, and 2000, richard rhodes, William F Buckley junior, joe didion, milton freedman, corbett all, Steven Ambrose and arthurs lessons are junior all appeared. Corporate always one of the guests, heres a portion. The heart of an aristocracy are theea school. And is very interesting she is example of your daughter. He is example of went and over neil. I would have gone to harvard if i hadar not chosen the army instead. Schools are what control the opinion of the children of the rich and or powerful. I had a stepbrother whos going to inherit a lot of money. Groton st. Marks, the schools. And its for those who will be rich to make them into not only gentlemanly scholars, but instill certain values. A tone opinion is in the ruling class. They know if youre sent to groton in the way you are going to get in political trading. But their view of the world. I belong to the ruling class as a stepbrother. But im not going to inherit any money. So im sent to where is the bright boys of the ruling class who will eventually work for the rich boys. And it will become judges, senators, editors of the New York Times, many fields are open to us, bankers. But we are the sort of apparatchiks and not properly speaking except by birth a member of the ultimate class. Thats how its done and thats how they continue it. Theres always been a move in england where, as you point out, they know about the upper classes and we are not told we are the most intelligent upperclass ive ever seen or at least overall they are. Nobody knows they are there. They own the newspapers, the newspapers are not going to give the game away who really owns what. Who really w controls what, controls opinion. And to be there and never be named, people have done marvelous work, but nothing really gets through to theou people at large. And so, they go on and on. Occasionally a maverick appears among them, i was one. And there are others. But by and large is a closed corporation. Stomach incorporate all passed away in 2012. His books include the United States, and lincoln for the next three hours or take your calls on these topics. What are you reading . Who is your favorite indepth guest . And who is your favorite Nonfiction Author question at 202 is area code 7488200 for those in the Eastern Central time does 202 7488201. Given the mountain pacific time zones you can text in your answers as well. Include your first name and city. 202 7488903. Well, it was in 2001 that fiction author Toni Morrison appeared. And she is a prize winner, author of beloved. Heres a little bit from tony morris. How do d you get inside the psyches of these people . It is difficult. I use what i think are methods for the actors and actresses us use. You have a vague character you want to be in that persons head if you are on stage to wear the clothes, where the shoes, behave the way that person would. So you would have to enter or project and no where they park their hair, what kind of soap they would wear, what food they dont like. Whether or not it appears in the book, you try to imagine all of those things. And that works for me. I can suspend, i dont judge my characters that way whether or not im going to have lunch with them not a something quite different. You have to love them for the moment of their portrayal. Whether they are men, women, old, young, children, what have you. Stay what are they sprung from your pen fully formed . Are they developed as you write . Two as you sit down in the book comes out you arty know the story youre going to tell . And thinking of questions a story iss supposed to answer. Or i am provoked as i was by mary garner what must that feel like . Or in paradise to hear about those people who walked all that distance to get to free black towns and were turned away by black people who would also been slaves like them. And they were not welcome there. I thought my god what that must feel like. So i know what the story is about. I sort of know the journey. Now i have to find out who is going to work that out for me . Garner did not want to know too much about her, what she look like et cetera. I wanted to invent her. And that was just a few strokes to start. Then i put them together. They are never fully realized immediately. They always take currying and coddling and stroking, personal introductions and anything i can do to get them to speak and trust me. And along with Toni Morrison in 2001, norman also appeared Toni Morrison was on in februar february. James mcpherson studs terkel jaques bar zone, shall be foot, richard for kaiser David Halberstams and David Mccullough all appeared in 2001. Now just one note. When it came to david burke kaiser we started the show. But the war in afghanistan started that day, bid cut it short. We brought him back for a later date. He is one of the few that ever pealed on the program twice. Mark in kansas city, missouri. Which of those three questions that she went to answer . Favorite author, what he, or favorite indepth guest . My favorite authors mary roach. I have got most of her books. Stomach did you watch her when she was on indepth . Yes, yes. Ive also replayed it on your websites a couple of times. Because shes very entertaining. I like the way of lot of her books just have the oneword title. But i have even emailed her geez email me back. She was a very good guest. Very good author. Gap, thank you for calling in for a less talked david and louisville, kentucky. David good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you for indepth. I want to answer the question about what in my reading. Alright. I am reading a book called twilight of the gods by ian w toll. It talks about the conclusion of the american effort against the japanese in world war ii. We recently had the 75th anniversary of the j day. I find it to be an excellent book. And we have covered him on book tv. Did you see him when he appeared . Yes i have. I was anxiously awaiting the third volume of his trilogy. s world war ii that attracts you . Yes. Specifically the pacific theater. Why . Caller because of the notoriety of the pearl harbor attack. He surprised that it garnered. And just the story, how it was a difficult task. The japanese had all of the advantages early on. And it took quite an effort for us to become victorious. Select thanks for calling and david in louisville, kentucky. Sometimes we take indepth on the road. In september of 2016 that we went to Hillsdale College comments right before the president ial election at that point. Dennis prager was on the program. And in front of an audience of students. Heres part of his presentation. Is there any way we can combat this socialism is utopia that the left is promoting and people of my generation . Because you and i know there systematically disestablishing the american we love. Thank you such nice thing to hear fromic a millennial. But that is exactly what is happening. That is factual pride that is not opinion. They are undoing what the founders meant to do. Theres one simple answer aside from all of the other arguments i gave. Socialism bankrupts countries. This country will be bankrupt and the bill will fall on you. And frankly i have no pity for you. Because your generation votes democrat. So thefore since im a, big believer in consequences, that is what children should learn. I have zero pity for millennials who vote democrat. For when the tab for the debt that they believe in by voting democrat comes to their generation. I will perhaps be gone or i will have my fine retirement account. So it has no effect on me. But it willo bankrupt, just like greece, just like portugal, just like italy, just like spain, just like veneela. And we will too. And we will be a borderless country. Because the left once borderless countries, just like whe the schengen rules of theuropean union. They do not believe in boarders because the do not believ in national identity. There be a country called United States between canada and mexic but it not be any different from canada or mexico. That is the lefts i dream. And so this will all happen to you per you will read about the once great country that existed. But that you helped dismantle because you, thank to the indoctrination you got in high school and in college voted for. That is my message t millennials. A non pity message. That was Dennis Prager in september of 2016 on indepth. By the way, all of these programs are available to watch in their entirety. Lets talk to carol in prince george, virginia. Carol good afternoon, which of those three questions you want to answer . The what i went to answers about my favorite interview on indepth. It was the year that indepth did the year of friction. It was David Ignatius paradigm a super fan of his. And i thought it was just such an engaging, really involved interview. And i just appreciated it so much. You still read him in the Washington Post . I do. Every time i get a little lonely egg on the archives and watch the interview on indepth again. I have read and think all but one of his books. And i follow him wherever i can. I think he is such an amazing, careful, precise author. Whether it is fiction or reporting. Host is the topic of National Security that interests you . Yes. Im interested in intelligence in the work of the cia. I dont have any professional background in it. I am a retired lawyer. Ive always been fascinated by it. I think he does a job of dispassionately but respectfully relating what the work of the cia and other intelligence agencies are in terms of protecting us nationally. And shaping our foreign policy. Thank you for calling in. We will look at some of those fiction authors that we did. I believe it was in 2008 team did a full year of fiction authors. We will look at some of those as we go. Nephew cant get through on the phone went to texan your message court social media at your message, text number 202748, 8903. Please include your first name and your city. Just a number tuppercaseletter was or handle for facebook, twitter, an instagram. Shelby foote was one of the authors that appeared in 2001. In fact we visited his home in memphis. On the desk there you also use that pen we used before. That is the kind that used to be in post offices. Finding points is an absolute nightmare, finding blotters. I dont worry about that. I was lucky i found a whole bunch of points at eight dusty old shop that was on the 44th street. And i bought b myself a lifetime supply. What kind of paper due right on . Ig that is a big problem. I write on typewriter paper. Doesnt hold inc. The way it used too. I have a bignod problem with paper. What is this i have in my hand . That is the manuscript ofit shiloh. At the end of each day i do the final corrective draft and put it on the stack. And then type it up for the printer. Is this the original or copy . That is a final days copy. Each day i do what ive done that day in the day by making that final copy. Youve got up on the shelf there how many other of your original . These were done last season, shiloh, counties not up yet. Thats my sixth novel. It had to have valuable those are . No. When you going to do with them . Weve been for my son. One of the things you have there the back of your desk . These are favorites of mine. As myself was an old confederate scout, that was when i was about 11 years old with all of my friends. Robert e lee, u. S. Grant, i thought kevin was one of your favorites . Absolutely. Who wasvo he . He was an irish immigrants. He became a lawyer. And i was interested in the military because he done a hitch in the british army as a corporal. He was a marvelous gentleman. He was killed in franklin and the laster of the war. We get a really good closeup on that board so folks can see from not such a distance. Check off you mentioned him earlier. He was a born years into this century. Chekhov had a tremendous influence on the writing of the short story. All short story writers influence for the good. He had a talent that you could not explain it. We used to try to figure out how he does these things. We could never figure how he did it so good. And shelby foote passed away four years after that interview in 2005. Text in dubuque iowa, im currently reading cass the origins of our discontent by isabel wilkerson. I highly recommend it she write writes. Isabel wilkerson has now appeared on our q a program on sunday nights. And on book tv as well. All available booktv. Just type her name in the search function at the top of the page. Hugh from ashland virginia good afternoon hugh welcome to book tv. Would afternoon, thank you so much for taking my call. I was prompted to call in by the earlier call from the woman whos looking at the Government Agencies like the cia. I have had quite a bizarre life. I would love to share my name if i can because i am a vietnam era veteran changing the world for my dining room table a selfproclaimed heartbeat of america. It also a whistleblower with the front page wall street journal article that can be seen on the internet that i was written up and it triggered an investigation that eventually led to the resignation of jim reitz, speaker of the house. I also its an interaction with a high level cia operative who authored about the kgb the eyes of russia. Harry brezinski and had some very interesting synchronicity s that i discovered with him and a lot of other things. I even share common background with the president will support any President Office to unite the people of the country properly. But im not going on the ego trip that the president is on. I will still reach out to unite the people of this country properly. The secret Government Agencies have to be more transparent and empower the people with the freedoms that we have. Host boasted name of the book he wanted to recommend . Is titled the kgb the eyes of russia authored by harry brezinski. Host alright thank you sir. John and hutchinson, kansas good afternoon. Yes. Ive got a question maybe you or somebody can answer. On tv i watch it in the newspapers everywhere they talk about russia interfering in our elections. China interfering with our elections. And this goes on and on and on. But nobody says a word. They all say foreign governments should not interfere with our election anyway, shape, form. I go to channel eight which is which is our local. So what went to interrupt you here paper talk about books editor 23 at aversive indepth. Anything along the book world you want to comment on . No. No i listened to television and read the newspaper praise vic right thank you sir appreciate your call. Rhett and new york, good afternoon. What he reading . Whos your favorite author . And do you have a favorite in Depth Program of the past 20 years . I have been reading this book, cannot murmur the authors name. Its due eight beats truman. Its a really good book part is at the new one, the a. J. Bain . Would that be the author . Yes thats the one. Hes got a new and out on dooey defeats truman. Yes its pretty interesting book. Truman did not have a good second term after he won i gues guess. This question about the favorite author have to be nonfiction . If youve got a favorite fiction author you want to ring up, go ahead. Abby Thomas Berger. Hes not real well known but he wrote one novel is written about 18 or 20 novels he died cummings 89 he died in 2014 i think it was. Anyway, hes only known really for one book. As little big man. It is written, some people stays not so wellknown because he worked in different genres, its all fiction. But he had detective novels, contemporary stuff. And also he wrote a takeoff on king arthur while. These known for his grasp of the english language. Nobody writes like the guy. Host where you get your books, brent . Why break, online, bookstore . Online and at the library. But Thomas Berger he is somebody his stuff is, proves fixture estrangement than truth. There is nobody like the guy who writes like the guy. I got on a site with time this if you like this author you will like him. So i saw Thomas Berger entered his name, tom dileo came up as i think his name. And so i got a book by tom im sure im not pronouncing the name right. He wrote a couple other books. Is at a specific genre . Is in intelligence, National Security . Suspense . I dont even know. I started to read it and it is unreadable. The point is nobody writes like this guy like Thomas Berger. Alright thanks for calling in. In 2000 to our guests included cornell west, tom clancy, peggy noonan robert caro, italics herod howard sims edwin morris, george will and bob woodward. In our first guest of 2003 was phyllis schlafly. Here is a portion of her talk. Will you remember kennedy was assassinated inat late november of 63. I was at that time the president of the Illinois Federation of republicann women. I had a whole series of republican speeches scheduled beginning in december. And it just seemed inappropriate to give the standard anti Democratic Party speech. That i worked up a new speech called how political conventions are stolen, starting the first week in december of 1963. And then i gave that speech all january and february. And it told the story of how the rockefeller establishment had outmaneuvered the conservatives and given the domination to people like thomas stuart. And by march i realize i could put it in a book and influence the convention. So it was a whirlwind year. Hire wrote it on my rural standard typewriter at night at home. And then of course i self published it. You go to a publishers going to take them two years to get their act together. Emily needed it and 64. That is the little publisher i set up to produce this book. And so sent it off to the printer in march. And 25000 copies arrived at my garage on april the 30th. And i typed out a one page letter that said dear friends, please read this book today. And then buy enough copies to send to your delegates to the 1964 Republican National convention. And i typed it on my typewriter type to stencil in those days pretty had a mimeograph machine in the basement. I went down the basement, puten the stencil on the round thing and ground out 100 letters part i sent 100 letters out. Its only advertising i ever did. And one of those letters was read by a friend in california called up and said i read it, im going to a convention this week and as united republicans of california. Airfreight me out 5000 copies. So i loaded themm up in my station wagon, took them down to the airport, set them out there. That we can bid statewide distribution inid california. In thehe california primary was the first week in june. We sold over half a million copies between the first of may and the first of june in california. Host where the title compan company . Guest Barry Goldwater use the title the minute i heard it i knew that was it. Gus is calling in from chicago good afternoon gus what are you reading . Who is your favorite author . Your favorite inDepth Program of the past 20 years . Its good to be on the program longtime viewer firsttime color. Currently am technically reading two books. Im reading an illustrated guide to the Mueller Report from idw publishing, Shannon Wheeler and steve are the authors. And illustrators but im reading also a fiction novel at a snails pace called raptor from Gary Jennings its basically the life and times of an orphan during the sort of early viking barbarian its fiction pretty good. My favorite author regarding nonfiction is maxim blumenthal. I met him personally, nice a gentleman. His books have sort of a narrative that similar to fiction or if you read anything sensational. That kind of case its not boring priest probably one of the best authors regarding criticism of government insiders and the middle east. I highly recommend it to anybody and long story short that was before trump got elected and they figured i would do everything in my power i worked on the Kennedy Campaign and the current tax assessor for the county and the member of moms demand action and im also part of other chapters and when im not doing that i walking my dog 50 miles a day and i 100 pounds later. Thank you for your time. And 2021 of the fiction authors appeared and this is tom clancy. How often does an author come outith his first book and have a bestseller . I know. The only person it has happen to. Ill bthe first person to tell you i got extremely lucky. If you want to hear the whole story how it happened . The book came out octob 1984. And november that year at the times that post was a retired marine colonel who has sce deceased and he wanted a copy of the book but he was too cheap to buy one so he was with these Public Affairs people who really does know everybody so the long flight from miami to a series. She was on the flight so she comes home and bs a whole case of books to give to her iends for christmas and then reading two or three books a week when he was preside and he like e book and was talking about it at the white house. Reported with Time Magazine ard the talkk a shazam i made the bestseller lt. And as because the president reagan. That was tom clancyho passed away i believe 2013 and 2003 on indepth Martin Gilbert susan sontag. Noam chomsky stanley crouch, and Doug Brinkley were all our guest that year. You are on booktv. How are you . I am just calling to recommend like gore vidal the first revenues imperial amica i like the author and his writing style with aristocratic political with the old world sicism and tells us the truth about unpleasa things without stoicism in the humor and its a nice way to get information. Nework city you are on tv. Good morning. The book that is very wl written and churchill by Andrew Roberts and my favorite Nonfiction Book the wisemen by evan thomas and Walter Isaacson both of these gentlemen have written the inrstate books the wisemen a talk all the time with people because of those six subjects of the book. How do you know Walter Isaacson . Professionally or personally . Personally should my sister is an author and what about Queen Elizabeth. Evan thomas has been here even sally. Writing several books on the english monarchy and other topics and is well known to the booktv community dience. Thank you for calling in. The prosecutor in the 1969 manson murder case in his very famous crime book was helterskelter. He appeared on our program in 2007 a here is a little bit. Who done it . Lee harvey oswald. Absolutely. You list at the end of the book the conspiracy all the groups that could possibly be involved and then to conspire to kill president kennedy. With these conspiracy theoristvery administration tries to cover up. You cannot believe this it was one contious lie. He had the correct date. The correct victimhe correct city. Other than that it wasne continuous lie. And then tightly to the opposition. Even kgb ncaa bitter enemies by cap together. So let me summarize for you like i did for a Time Magazine on oswalds guiland to summarize why there is no conspiracy if you ask me of thkgb and i answer you and someone doesnt say what about castro . What about the right wing . I will try to summarize. I learned as a procutor, you dont have to be but common a sense so chances are there a not any evidence pointing toward your ilt because you arennocent. But because of the nature and the unaccountability now and then an extremely unusual situation. Oi and then to ask me who done it. Everything points toward Lee Harvey Oswald guilt 53 separate pieces of evidence pointing towards his guilt and under the circumstances it would not be humanly possible for oswald to be innocent not in the world in which we live. Only in a fantasy world can you have 53 pieces of evidence. That was vince from 2007 he passed away 2015 and in 2004 a list of guest. Victor davis hanson. Neil ferguson Simon Winchester and on september 5th we went to the bookstore and did a profile and then the late tom wolfe in december about 30 percent of those authors we just showed you are still active in writing. My favorite author was David Mccullough he waits and approaches his subjects we appreciate that. And 2007 Newt Gingrich was a prolific author written several books and it is a little different. There is a continuum the start with a soundbite with the dvd and a continuum in the fascinating periods of dramatic change we can have an enormous dialogue just to give you an example how i see this. Or some of you whole process of an avatar would be a new one. Let me just say this is li learning a new technology the beginning of a very different kind ofystem those i can come together i important to look at what the First Successful manf the station was on meta verse in a Virtual World inhabited by other people since 1984 and on the 1982 book. But actually im not the first to do so. And in the court of Public Opinion with study groups and workgroups and in those environments. I was 15 years ago and early version of the avatar you can see how far technology has come in the last 13 years. Sarah mississippi. Caller high. I am calling from vicksburg. I look forward to watching cspan every weekend especially the first sunday of the month to see who the latest author would be. I will tell you. Right now. Hit the mute on your tv before we go any further. Im sorry. My Favorite Book of nonfiction is comingofage in mississippi. I think she wrote the mmr in 1968. The only book i have read twice in the book of fiction. I know you had told me on several times but i dont recall you having and moody on do you recall . No her book came out in 1968 . We started 1998. So perhaps she had passed by that point war was not active. Caller i think maybe she passed two years ago but i thought maybe you just had her on one of your shows. That does not ring a bell. We have limited over the years and has stayed with nonfiction that would have been a very appropriate but given the title. It is required reading and mississippi virginia one here in the schools i love book books. Host what is on your book table right now . I have a lot of books but i just finished reading claudias book just us i am also reading her other book citizen. Wandering in strange lands of the great migration i have seen her on your program. Claudia rankin has been on recently. She was on last week or the week before. Did you put them up because of tv . It was a bookseller years ago but i have the review of books and when i see new authors on your program and it seems interesting i believe and patronizing independent bookstores and i usually order my books from square books in oxford mississippi. Yes i have been there. Thats it for now. Host a lot of history and vicksburg mississippi do you read any about the civil war . Im trying to think of the authors name. He did do a book on vicksburg the gentle man who wrote mississippi and africana. Host there is another guy he also wrote forrest gump he did a book on vicksburg i apologize i am blanking on his name but he just passed away recently. I recall that. Host thank you for your time this afternoon we appreciate it and thank you for watching. Host hi janet go ahead. Caller hello. Host hit the volume on your tv turn it off. Caller i turned it down. Yes. Host who are you reading and who do you enjoy watching . What im presently reading is not what im calling about im presently reading another book but she does not address in this book but the subject are really reading about is the ghetto and i wanted to mention my Favorite Book. Im africanamerican. I lived in the ghetto until i was able to escape it. You have to escape the ghetto. It was like a bible to me. And in persistence of the ghetto but and then i will forget the statements from the clinton when black people moved into the predominantly White Communities and when that happened we must have somewhere then they can go. After that happens the powers that be will make a community a ghetto. But the other two books i wanted to mention, the second in 2009 was professor at Princeton University she wrote a book called Family Properties the idea that the ideas of the plaques the hsa would not give them mortgages , we had to buy houses on contract. The contract was held by a realtor or the owner of the house the deal was that you could never have the contract and you lost the house and then they would sell it to another black under the same circumstances. The third book is one written in 2016 called ghetto. I am in the interested in the subject of the ghetto as a pillar of race in america a pillar of race the ghetto is where blacks belong with that idea and they can only get out if we somehow managed to escape with those opportunities we might be able to access. Those are the books. Host what is your comparison. In the warmth of other sons she talked a lot about the ghetto and in cast, i just started reading it shows and talk about the ghetto so much in this book but the word is not even in the index. The great migration they left the sharecropping farms to go south and it came north even though initially plaques did not live in the ghetto but they did in the forties. Where did your parents begin their life . Where were you raised . I was in chester pennsylvania moved to the projects which are no longer there but the ghetto is where i lived until i was 16 years old my mother and father came to North Carolina they had a fourth and eighth grade education. And even to this day that pillar of race persist. Host janet we appreciate your time this afternoon brian in michigan. Caller good morning. Good afternoon. I was reading woodwards book i have not been through but the thing about bob woodward we know the history but the last decade with those socalled sources in a really dont have sources so wondering how we allow this to happen continually . Host have you read any of bob s other books . I have seen him around for decades and of course we all know the history going back by getting back to this, how do we keep allowing this to go on . Just like this anonymous he was not a highlevel source and then to profit from them. Getting back to journalism instead of calling them a journalist sure they understand the theory . Host what made you pick up this book . And then to take a look at it. But i worked in Naval Intelligence and when i see things that is so brilliantly going on i feel like i am back in europe with propaganda offered into america thats what were dealing with now and why we are fighting all the time with each other because we are not making these writers without having sources they can verify it is hurting your country. Host we leave it there in 2500 year Charles Murray , kaplan and friedman h w brands. Doris Kearns Goodwin john updike was our guest. And roach who is humorous in her writing appeared on the program here is a portion of that. I didnt really care if somebody had done in space or in zero gravity so i thought there is all this commercial stuff and i called them and they said nasa is a contractor we stand to lose a lot of money so no. He said no. Of course he will say no. I am guessing maybe the zero gravity core after hours or one of the early flights working out the kinks. Host research on the topic included. Yes sylvia. And fundantally this ilogy called the uranus experiment but there was a scene shotce in zero gravity on a simulator the ple that does the parabolion flights so conceivably you card and so i called the producer he was in spain. We had conversation about this. He said we did will send you a link to the movie you can check it out he went on and on. I have a timeshare on a Corporate Jet and we got t pilot r. You got a pilot to do zero gravity . He has shifted check the plane thoroughly afterward and he had a lot of detail. Then i downloaded the uranus experiment i fastforward on the only person who fast forwards through the born. [laughter] through the pornography but if you ow anything about zero gravity you can tell thi is fake her ponytl normally would be floating like ts but it is hanging down and other parts of her anatomy there should nothing be hanging down in zero z gravity. And there was they were trying to look like they were. But then ty flipped it sideways to make look like they were floating. Tt was mary roach and from pm harbor florida go ahead. Caller. My favori author story and i have read all of his bookss peoples history the beginnings of demracy from the student nonviolent codinating committee in the phd thesis governor laguardia and new york and the recent bo guest jillepore i think it ia fantastic broken right now i dont know if he has been on it is and demagogues i have read a number of his books is about senator to joe mccarthy a ftastic book. Host it just cameut in the last month o two i believe we have covered it or he will be on shortly. Also interviewed on pbs. Go to bktv. Org there is a search function. I do that all the time. Thank you for watching and thank you f calling curtis vancouver washington. Caller i want to remind yothe name you are overlooking was wston crow forest, bother with the history of the world behind the scene things. Host i had a chance to meet him at the southern festival of books in nashville a delightful person. I enjoyed your clipof tom clcy have you ever h Victor Davis Hanson . Yes. Host what is it about docto hansen . His insight and classical edation are one of the books had and what the impact was longerm with thosett battles were socrates managed to survive for the battle of okinawa were with the battle of shiloh with a had to backtrackma by writing the book then her. And he is still very active columnist. In fact he s on the afterwords program a couple months ago. It is in support of President Trump i dont know that alters your opinion. Yes. And a couple books to recommeni am currently reading a biography called a third face whichas some nice insight into his original career as a copy boy and then ono hisareer as a cumentary filmmaker and tn another book to recommend is the trilogy about the war in the pacific. Host you are the second caller to recomnd that. And James Hardin Fisher and Rick Atkinson with the europeanar were really good aac asimov is still my favorite and for bks to recommend i got some books fr reading murder mysteries and the y he kept his place in the book if used a special bookmark i looked that up to readnd is about the english language of Lincoln Barnett and African Genesis about the development of humanity from pre civilization by Robert Audrey who retired from writing scripts f movies. Host you seem to end a lot of time with books do you have a lot of free time or is it yourobby . Is just what i enjoy doing nderful book is dedicated to a library i had to tear it out so now theare all boxed up in the garage probably a dozen books. Host that is a t of book. I was have a f on hand like twilight of the gods i also wantedo recommend the trilogy about us grt starting with captain sam grant who passed away after writing the book and pass the all oto his bioapher who everybody with the civil war knows him. It was one great anecdote when he came back from vancouver and had a time at t post he was not happy but came back to galena illinois and one day ca into the store i the middle of a rainstorm and a pot belly stove who was a lawyer and said you look like ll he said i feel like it. With it like he says same as here lawyers closest to c the fir fire. Host are you lawyer by profession . Caller aerospe engineer who transitioned with the pee dividend into education now i am semiretired s wit a lot of time to read books. Host we appreciate your time on booktv sex city iowa one saks city iowa in los altos and the irregulars and the british spy circle has appeared on the tv several times and you can wch it online glenda from texas. Caller al hello. Calling attention to the book grant by ron sure now one dashure now a lot of people today dont le books but i find his books just hard to put down once yourt start. They are so well done and so welldocumented. I really appreciate that in the current climate. People playing so fast and loose with information. The other that i really enjoy and would recommend to anybody as richard were kaiser and his most recent book is excellent for people to read right now. Goes back to a time. When we are under attack and follows the real origins of the founders and their beliefs. Its not a long book but it is so worth your time. Host thank you for calling in from texas and mr. Brooke kaiser has appeared several times in fact one year ago we did an interview with the historian richard were kaiser and his wife jean are on jeannie was a psychotherapist and she had written a book basically how to long with your friends and neighbors politically if you dont agree on politics we interviewed them in their apartment in new york you can watch that online on the tvv. In 2021 of the many appearances on the tv on tv this gentleman appeared on indepth. John coltrane they seem to be here and hear how do they intersect . John coltrane brings together this actuality and genuine indicting one the doubting and the spirituality of genuine giving and serving the profound love and compassion with the loving kindness and the christian tradition brought together and taking it to such a high level in terms of a musical genius but we simply do not have a poet in prose of such profound compassion wrestling with death and disappointment and misery and the constant heartbreak of daily life to convince us this is not our business t. S. Eliot says in this book how do you keep keeping on . That is why i keep keeping on this is late at night and still i am losing but still im study and then accusing pushing no matter what with a level of compassion and love that you just dont find you have to go to Toni Morrison to get that fusion of temper. When did you find him . At first when i. Was 17. Host 18 years later joining us now as doctor cornell west. Doctor west listening to that is there anything you would like to add . Congratulate you you have been a force for good for years cspan has been in the middle of a bleak time. Youve been so kind to me and other voices asou well but i am just blessed to be breathing eight every breath is a breakthrough almost 20 years later im still tied to corane and the revolutionary christian ne to jesus. Host cornell west how many books are you upup to . Call i dont even count may be 20 or 21. Somethinlike that. And as you know its not the quantity but the quality of the words onan the page you pay can help somebody to heal hearts and the best way that we can and the actions that we do f with those fite lives that we live. Host are you rking on a bookve now giving different lectures on catastrophe of publicic intellectuals for those whose parents died in the bubonic plague making his way through the monasteries with her brother and sister of common life the first public p intellectual tied to the Printing Press this alloes back to Toni Morrison. And with the kaisers and it al culminates with Toni Morrison and ends with coltra as well. The making of that to work on these lectures that wille the next big book but at theet moment we have to get through e election if there is any democracy left. I been reading theook american empir from the university of cambridge and with military overreach and then the feeling among everay people with that power required to turn this around and all of them were going under we lost assetto the best of our past and able to mobilize spiritual and moral as well as political and thats where we are now in now it has always been insufficient that is indispensae to labor under the framework a certain lens that comes from writers and musicians shelley is right that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. The un apprehended inspiration and the shadows o the future cast thats right before he dies. And appropriating dante but he understood we have be connected with our past through ou ideas and notions and stories and visions and narratives. With the poor worki class alll genders all sexual orientations that begs with the genius of hebrew scripture ta to it 18 years ago. And then to persecute those rendered invisible. And the deal with israel and with jews including israel and including jews. What arewe youoing . What you doing to those who are dominated is the spam that has been created and none of us ever ssess that kind of truth and you know when i know youre talking about. And for your own formation or community and with that unbelievable compassion. Or a deeply concerned to bring together the people who are at each others throats trying to create some kind of peace but now my son looks back and wonders about being alive. Three years ago you were on indepth again. Brother robbie absolutely. Maybe not a book and with thes attentions to be put out we had a magnificent time on your show trying to hold up to the best of our ability with the generosity to others with racial identity gender identity has to be rooted and integrity and solidarity so those standards must always be highlighted you end up with massive spiritual decay and. And just to tell our Robert George is a professor at princeton and an author and set one and tends to fall on the conservative side of the political spectrum . And absolutely. And we have the veryun deep kinship and to revel in each others humanities even with the political disagreements. And now with deep love andt ne justicee am something more profound than justice you can love somebody and also have very to deep political disagreements but if that is just a narrow selfrighteousness and then you are unable and before their own families and thanksgiving dinner with and some goals and moms s and dads. That doesnt mean we dont have political foes. Of covert wonders of course we n do. And then i dont want to lose sight of their humanity. If he did not consent to the gangster activity and change his life as long as the image of god is a choice we have to be different you dont ever want to lose sight of that i baptistthis at the church to say that you can still try to stay in contact with thener. Humanity. For the kingdomgd of god but what kind of heaven behind are we with relation and concerns with poor people with those Indigenous People that they are concerned ethiopia somalia nigeria that has got to be global of the prophetic legacy of jerusalem every flag for jews should be under the god of justice and that shall pursue. Not just for the grouper for thee ego but all of those who suffer. These are some of the great moral truths of the species. We end up lose the plan and american democracy and then to gain the whole world and lose it soul. Doctor west it was a pleasure to see you virtually we look forward to seeing you in person thank you for your time today and take care. Congratulations brother stay strong. Host the text message from pittsburgh favorite guest was colsonr whitehead. And he was one of our guest. And in 2006 Taylor Branch fukuyama, shelby, steele, tammy bruce. Here is a portion of one of our guest. Youre also interested in photography. That has been a much more longstanding hobby i started as a kid. Or i gave it up 15 or 20 years and then the digital age hit ive been doing it for ten. I travel a lot. I take a camera wherever i go. And then if i had a ritual and then to have a very clear record of what that look like and then to take pictures of all my friends i know some pretty interesting people but unfortunately ive been too busy to do that. Is this where you do your portraitit work . Yes. But i can setf it up with all of my lights to do portraits. What kind of camera . It is an odyssey 67 a beautifull format that has a six by seven negative. It produces the most High Resolution beautiful picture i can scan into then computer i have taken this all the way toa australia. And it produces beautiful pictures. How long have you been using this . Have had it for years. And i have a collection of nikons im afraid the Digital Resolution are making these cameras obsolete because of the resolution now on a pro digital slr is getting up to this level i wl be sad because the film they make firm for the camera is just beautiful at the moment all of that will and. Host. So and slide that in an photoshop from there but it makes it so much easier these days you feel bad all the skills peopl develop like ansellns adams one that was printed repeatedly and took him 25 years to get the print he felt happy th and unfortunately all that effort and craftsmanship what you lose when you move to compers and digital. Host one of his best known books is the end of history and the st man still in the Virginia Area and still writingt. That was a visit we took to his house. We traveled to the authors homes we will show you a couple more those as we go. Tucson thank you for holng you are on booktv. Caller. My Favorite Book is the autobiraphy of malcolm x and read that when i was nine or ten years old. For listening to cspan just the wonderful authors across the board of a vy diverse background my career i Education Assistant principal 22 years and it moves me when you are lking to the lady from delaware go to play College Football tha so i ended up in tucso she was talki about the ghetto i am also reading a book by Richard Rothstein and talking about a have the pleasure with cornell west in the early nineties working for a school distrt the africanamerican studies department and was selected ask him a question. I wareading his book at the time democracy matters. One of my Favorite Books and ctor west w trying to get me inspired to go to princeton to finish my doctorate and im reading a book beginning again but then one of my favorite historia was professor meham and one of my favorites so i have a crosssection of things one thing i like about cornell westst is how it is a form of entertainment. And you just have to read between the lines so all the pele i admire everyone you have on that are good reade and one thing about cspan im so glad youave this program because it gives the chance to broaden our horizons intellectually. Michelle sullivan i read her book the finding latina so i am reading her book when my favorite people was tyson i have hisooks i enjoy that reading. Host what you see is what you get with cornell west he has always been consistent. But i will tell you, going down to tucson for the wonderful book festival missed going down there this year have you been there in e past . Yes. I picked ua couple ofooks. Host we been there the pt ten years and this year it didnt hpen but we look forward to going back down march is a nice time to be in tucson after a lonwinter. It is. Host thank you for ur time we appreciate itac. Mentioning a couple of historians and is still working today fro 2001 and bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner david mccullou. We a deo of yourome and writing shed. It is the headquarters its not a shed. [laughter] and the ville in the center of marthas vinard i was 19th century part of it was 20th century where we have gardens and at least reach bordering on a neighboring farm since the island was first settled thats where work right there 12 by feet i love it with aundred books and my faithful typewriter ive worked with since 1965 eve book i have ever written theres nothing wrong with that. The beautifully made americanew machine. 750,000 milesnd runs perfectl perfectly. Have you read one read every word . Yes. We lived there for a better part of the year dng research at the library of the university of virgini but all of it was written here in that room. I work all day every day. Im not writing all day. I am waitingr correcting what i wrote the day before or going over the notes. No phone no music a nice view but i have my blacks were not tempted. Is far enough from the house there you see geral washington because there is a guy the end that i identify with. O he slowly catching up. And my example. There he is. Theres the one. Host published by Simon Schuster president and ceo is on your screen now i jonathan what has davids mccullough meant . He is the franchise. First ofll happy anniversary. Hearing his voice he just fillme with such admiration if he is watching we revere you we love you and we will forever. He has been with us for over 50 years and he is one of the great writers work today. Just not a wasted word a careful writer and the way he can find the inspiration in American History is distinctive theres nobody quite like david. Host is he writing a new book now . I sure hope so you have to ask is editor. Host have you been to the sh . I have not actually he is hard treach on the cell phone because as he said he doesnt answer the phone. E inh host 20 yrs we have been on the air doris kearns odwin, david baroness all Simon Schuster authorshat have appeared on the program. How has the world of publishing changed and you only have two minutes to answer tt question. First of all a wide are still around and writing bestsellers. And then to have a tremendous impact on his president ial campaign but the short answer there are more books being sold online jt like the news cycle has accelerated and i think the nonfiction culture it has taken attention away s those are the b points. Host when you plan the most recent book rage and you talk about the timing what went into that decision to release earlye september . We thought that is when the attention would be the most focused on how the Trump Administration has behaved and conducted itself but a lot of thatat depends on his own timing and schedule. We werent really sure it could be earlier or later and the reporting really determined his schedule. We hoped it would be septemberrm but when bob is done we move. Host what is the effect of the pandemic on the Publishing Industry specifically Simon Schuster . St and for several months we actually did it publish that many books and then to publish more going into july and then ultimately book saleste were up book sales were up6 industrywide than people had time to read so through all the hardship and the suffering for readers it has been all right. Host well known in the Publishing Industry figures have passed recently. It has been a tragic year for people in the book Publishing Industry they are not the only ones just the other day it seems a lot of major people who passed away this year a lot of major people who passed away this year working a Simon Schuster for decades analysis one of the greatest editors of our time and with bob words editor and she was working right up to her final days and call me week before she died and wanted to sign up to more books and work as her life. And she made an immense contribution to publishing. Host was there a manuscript left behind . She was a deeply p private person we did publish the book about her we asked authors to contribute a memory and we publish that i think its available free to the public and it is a wonderful book of memories and was reviewed favorably by the Washington Post. Host what books are coming out this Christmas Eve we should be alerted to . Since you ask one that is outt right now the luckiest man by mark seltzer and his years working with john mccain. I was in tears by the end of this book a story you couldnt get any other way marked by senator mccain chief of staff for many years and worked on the president ial campaign with the chief speechwriter coauthoring several books so you see mccain from the most intimate perspective that any politician or politicalle leader even if you dont agree with the politics this was an honorable man and a man who cares deeply about the country and is a story regardless of your political ideology that is one. Other books we have for the holidays jimmy carter his very best is a terrific account for president carters life that took six years to write we have about that just came out on joe biden winning the National Book award the new yorker staff writer and has been covering biden for many years and we hope this will be the book everybody turns to to understand joe bide biden. Host a couple of years ago booktv went into the headquarters in new york city a Simon Schuster and did a tourur thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Pg work, dinesh desousa. David horowitz and Newt Gingrich. Good afternoon we waiting and who is your favorite indepth cast. Only the last couple of years of ive been following and i had been promoting it to otherat people and also librarians a couple of buddies of mine and they said they couldnt keep these books without the assistance of librarians i want to take too much of your time but to answer your question with a number of your authors i listen to with intensity and i enjoy the replay of William F Buckley that was a phenomenal interview and how can you beat thatha writing the fractured republic and the great debate and you cannot forgetug thomas paine and also want to mention doctor ross it is a well educated man and those thoughts he wanted to convey to us. And that burkett is fascinating and i thank you would enjoy having you measure guest. Those College Campuses to observe the behavior and whats going on on College Campuses today with the Alliance College back in the seventies and that changed changing the view it is very fascinating and the writer. Host what do you do in massachusetts . Caller through College Getting a degree in sociology and the commonwealth of massachusetts also my family has a Small Business my lectured at a College Campus andi at the house of collection and been involved in C Community Service thats why some information gives me great background when i talk to other people i hope your listeners will get something out ofet this did you find any central theme that i would also like to say a number of your authors is the decline of your morality and it goes back to the fractured republic that they would improve and that willpl listen and those authors threfer to for the future. And in massachusetts bob from detroit indepth should go back to three hours. This last year we put it down at two hours. Make from massachusetts go ahead. Caller i would like to mention the greatest Nonfiction Book ever written and the Peloponnesian War it is also the greatest nonfiction the most important fiction book i have ever read was 1984 and you can just see what is going on today is the most important book i have ever read and with paul johnson on who is influential and finally thomas soul. He is just fantastic he has written for the book. He did join us i remember that interview i appreciate you calling in. 2009 Temple Grandin appeared somebody with autism who works with livestock a big bestselling author and here is just a portion of what Temple Grandin had to say. What do you mean when you say you think in pictures . On my thoughts come up as pictures its like google for images. And then i see the cover of my book most people can visualize a car or something i can see in the tv studio the control room i will give you a noun and how it srches the database. Cspan my hotel rm, the tv on watching cspan. The tv will not turn on so now i see the Remote Control pushing the buttons thats how i got to cspan tv Remote Control i had to call the desk to get the Remote Control to work down the hotel file. Corral. Im starting to see the facilities i have designed they start coming up like slides so i see ranch facilities start to see things i have designed and those at the meat plant i will attend so ask something thatnot my business. Book. Host youre not being very creative i can see those in the room. [laughter] the only way that i can explain to you how i think is i have to show you and gets off the subject the same way the search goes on the internet. And then gradually get off the subject. How many people in the us think like that quick. There are people that are visual thinkers some are good Graphic Design and when we designed the piece of equipment with the Virtual Reality Computer System and interview people and i was shocked to find out they didnt think the way we do they call it the pacific slide put them in the Church People file. I have general images just specific ones. Host i was Temple Grandin 2009 on the tv i just finished reading. And with a Facebook College alumni group very well written and i recommend it. The next call from Huntsville Alabama good afternoon. Caller my favorite author i dont know if you have heard of them. Host what has he written . Mine is the first and the last and has been written about with the huxley statement the reader would sign a clear contemporary statement of the fundamental human problem together with and invitation to solve in the only way in which it can be solved by and for himself. Looking at the fundamental problems is greed and fear and security k are i s h and a. M. You are t i. Host next color please go ahead. Caller i am from ames iowawa not long ago as a result of watching cspan i think it was cute and they called on q a the clandestine relationships of the kkk and it was the illuminating book of 1998 so i am not so sure but it is a very interesting book. That there are two kinds of men and those who are ignorant and do stupid things and there was a very illuminating book and i enjoyed it and it was amazing how a black man could become very Close Friends with the members of the ku klux klan to the point they not only trust each other by became very Close Friends at which point at the end of the book he realizes his best friend of the kkk has a daughter and once gerald davis him to be his godfather. Host macon georgia go ahead. Caller to answer your question David Mccullough was one of the first to you there. I am in my sixties i remember the tv show called you are there and what it was like and then to get home after the war and what kind of care you would get into introduce me to that line of thought and to tailor the waiting list. And with the deliberation trilogy. And Victor David Hanson the first one to make that interesting. And i first heard that on a pay play on 2000 and tv i wouldnt call myself a groupie but that they should flip over to cspan every now and then i have all of your mp3. Host i will say that you are a groupie. [laughter] caller i will say you made me feel better about this years election. Basically from the contenders or the president and first ladies and the landmark cases i consider myself a study in history but basically there was always some big issue for every year, every election, al smith in the twenties, every year theres always some big deal and if you only listen to the propaganda out there today on other channels that i am thinking this is a big election with trump andnd biden, whoever wins or loses we will be okay and i have cspan2 thank for w that. Host thank you for calling in. From the publishers several authors have appeared like and coulter david horowitz, Newt Gingrich, they arell conservative and this gentleman in o first year. 49 years old . And that i had calculated withe the founding it was coincidental. The picturen the back do remember that quick. No. Where it is in the book . With lif at yale with speal attention given with the impulses having to do with government or that enthusiasm and also in respective religion of what those encouraged that it was touched. And for that skeicism and i concluded in those days the was a collective and the dinostic so should i ratt on . [laughter] as recently as four years ago remind me that i had volunteered to read that section to the christian mindedin that everythg you said was proven correct. We have to levels of editors a Senior Editor lead editor who takes the raw manuscript to work on developing the book and the big picture editing that we have copy editors who take it from there and i was one of the editors. Host i think ed Regnery Publishing ied picked up a copyf god and man at yale by william f. Buckley. Guest good for you. Host what is he meant to the company . Guest buckley . A lot. That book regnery started the company in 1947 and we heard in that interview clip that book wasbl published in 1951. God and man at yale and another important book in the conservative intellectual provision that the conservative mind by russell kirk. Roughly the same time early in the company. Those two books would regnery on the map and really established the tradition that we try to carry on to this day. Lets go who are some of the authors that have been published this year . What kind of authors do you publish a regnery . Guest its quite a variety. We have, we usually have bigname conservative figures. Dineshnt dsouza ann coulter and those kinds of people. Dinesh dsouza having been a classmate of mine at dartmouth college. We have politicians so our currentr bestselling book is called one vote away by senator ted cruz about the Supreme Court. That came out of the same time as another book on the Supreme Court from o regnery called extreme disorder by ilio shapiro. He represents another type of author the conservative intellectual and we have lots of those. We have another book by another act academic called the parasitic mind. He is a youtube and podcast celebrity and we have books by writers and one that just came out a couple of weeks ago about the pandemic and this spark of the governor response the pandemic. Economists statistician and a biologist. We cover the spectrum. Host thomas spends from your perspective at regnery he is it better to have a Republican Administration or democratic at administration when it comes to book sales . Guest well thats a good question. The joke at regnery he has always been whats good for america is good for regnery. The clinton years were very good for regnery he. When the conservatives in the white house the people in our market are a little less conscious so being in the opposition has been good for regnery e. The trump years, everything about donald trump breaks the mold. We have done pretty well in the trump years just because he stirs the pot and there are plenty of people to read about and talk about but in general, and general the opposition years are good for our business. Host subs Thomas Spence is the new ceo and publisher at regnery he. Thanks for spending a few d us on intes with depth. We have about 50 minutes on the program. Thomas from encinitas tell us more. Caller im a big fan of tv. Might be my Favorite Program in it like to answer my favorite Nonfiction Author and my favorite of tv guest. For some and nonfictionuthor thanks to the caller a few minutes ago i am also a fan and i wanted to mention another important author who is still living but i dont think he has beenn booktv yet and i would bet to see him, ken wilbur. Ho what did he write about . Caller he writes about the spectrum o consciousness, consciousness development, integrated paradms developmental paradigms and hes been called americas greatest living philosopher. Heseen talked about by the likes of dole clinton esparzas importance. So ken wilbur. Host i thank you sir for calling in. A couple of viewers have brought upup tom wolf, he was on the program and heres a portion of it. If i decide to do the white suit and the hats for purposes of what happens with publicity . Guess could happen by accident but i realized i was unto good thing. I had just come, i got a job in new york as a reporter and two previous at the Washington Post. I finally got this job in june of 1962. The summer iss coming on and i had to wear a jacket and a tie. Reporters always look like they are waiting the soup kitchen line. I had only two jackets to my name so i went into the store and i bought a white suit which in Richmond Virginia where i grew up was not an odd thing. It was made of some heavy material like tweet and i couldnt wear it in the summer so i started wearing it about this time of year. Its conventionally cut slight and annoyed people to no end. Why i enjoyed that i dont know but it made getting dressed in the morning a lot more fun than iye had been and finally i wrota book, a collection for some magazine pieces i had done. I discovered im not used to being interviewed. I always interviewed somebody else and i was speechless when people were asking me these questions my opinion. All the articles would say what an adjusting man. It took the place of the personnel of her many years. Host how many do you have . Guest i used to have a lot of them. I have about 22 now. I can get by with that. Host how long can you wear them without having them cleaned . Guest about six hours. The go on a trip many people think you have one. You have to have three and i have three suits to come here all made of the same material. You cant really tell the difference but it simply has not hurt to have a trademark. Host mr. Wolf passed away in 2018. In 2008 here are the guest on in depth Nell Irvin Painter and Michael Eric Dyson alice Walker George weigel ralph peters john wilson and Jonathan Karp talking about the election that year Steven Pinker and kevin phillips. It was in may that booktv went to alice walkers home in Berkeley Hills into the program d from there. About half marley, i have never met bob marley while he was alive and i feel so that i have met his spirit. Every year since i discovered him he has meant a great deal to me. I think hehi has given us, you know artists give energy. Thats part of what we do and its free. Its not like its a commercial thing ever. It may become commercial at some point but part of what we do is we just give this energy and when you are from a part of the culture that is suppressed, its a big gift because it means that people can keep going. I feel that bob has kept millions of us going and you see him dancing when hes singing. Hes a shaman so he does a dance when he is singing but hes singing about that. He of his giving. And i think millions of people around the world have connected with that, all people and that is why he is so beloved and hes completely free and giving the transmission of deep caring about each other and the planet. Host that was alice walker at her house in the Berkeley Hills. Deborah from george please go ahead and make your comment. Caller hi peter. Thank you so much for taking my call. This is difficult question on who is my favorite guest on in depth. John mcwhorter and nicholas basbanes. Any bibliophile should love him and then finally win cheney irc member because i got to talk to her and i will never forget it. The program and i got all her books so was lovely. Host she has a new one out. Caller i know. Im going to get it. I just love her. It was so unique with her husband interviewing her for that thought that was really neat but i love you all so much and is just the greatest thing in the world, booktv. Host we appreciate youre watching. Lets hear from eric from washington. What is the name of your town . Caller my favorite authors of the Christopher Hitchens and and of course he is no longer with us and anything victor David Sampson does. The guy is pretty much a genius as far as that goes. Anyway i really love your show and keep it up. Tell everybody you dont have to read all the books. You can watch your show every day. Host along with what the gentleman just said my favored in depth author Christopher Hitchens although ironically ive not read of any of his books. A favoritens writer currently other than christopher hedges and he is finishing his book i now, america comes the farewell tour. The next call is gordon from laramie wyoming. Hi. Caller thanks for your service with cspan and thanks fore cspan. As jon meacham, Sebastian Junger in james webb have any of them been on in depth, do you know . s. Host once again i think sebastian possibly has been on Sebastian Junger has been on and who else did you mention . Caller jon meacham and james webb. Plus could jon meacham not yet, somebody we have been trying for the sebastian we did one with him a couple of years ago from our new york studio owns a bar of their so we went up to new york and visited with him there. Caller what is the name of the bar . Host oh golly. That was a couple of years ago. Caller what a great writer and james webbs tales of fire the authoritative literature on vietnam. Host i dont think he has been on and i apologize that im not as familiar with that. Caller thats her right. You have a lot on your plate bare peat. Host we had jon meacham during the National Book festival. Caller a great sense of humor. The gal that, she said its really you and she went to grab a book and brought it back to him to sign and it was a john grisham novel. Host [laughter] by the way we have interviewed john grisham a couple of times here in booktv which was always entertaining to say the least. Caller we like our local author cj fox on his pickets series. Anyway thanks. Host thanks for calling in. Dr. Ben carson press secretary is the author of several books and he appeared on this program in 2013. Guest i was an extraordinarily selfish young person as an adolescent and i was a person who thought i have a lot of rights for the more rights you think you have the more likely someone is to infringe upon your rights. People are always infringing on my right tonight go after people with baseball bats and i would get in fights and once theyve been tried to stab another youngster with a knife. The scene as well depicted in the movie gift at hand which cuba gooding jr. Plays myft par. After that incident i locked myself in the bathroom and i started contemplating my life and a i realized trying to kill somebody over nothing, and i was seriously deranged. I. And i picked up a bible in the bathroom and it had all these verses in it about i said wow thatal sounds like me but also have a lot of verses about anger. Theres no point getting angry at a man and get in trouble. Youll just get dragged back into it. In verse after verse chapter after chapter they seem seemed like they were written for me and whilete i remained there for three hours i came to an understanding that it was not a of strength to punch somebody or to kick them. It was a sign of weakness. It meant that you could be controlled by other people and by the environment. I wanted control but i came to understand that it was my selfishness because somebody was in myspace and taking my things and someone was doing something to me. It was always about me and my end i predict you can step outside the center of the circle and let it be about somebody else maybe that would change things but i starteded trying tt that day. Ive never had another angry out or since that time. Host secretary ben carson hud secretary. 2009 bill gertz frank claims and edna green medford, robert hague Christopher Buckley bill ayers don furley Juan Williams Jonathan Kozol hugh hewitt Temple Grandin and joy they come rare guest that year. Several callers have brought up mr. Hitchens and it was in 2007 that Christopher Hitchens was on. Guess who was someone like say billy graham one can see all this symptoms of the selfconscious broad. At least hes a good businessman. There was that canadian billy graham who north of the border had that crusade and embodied who wrote a memoir when he realized what he was talking about was complete nonsense. He went to billy graham and said heres what happened to me and can you really go on saying this stuff . He said we are in business and that is the case with surprisingly large amountsxp of it. I know a lot of people who it means everything are very great deal and you dont try to profit from it. I did. Dues it to a racket that racketeering is an important part of religion. Scientology for example is nothing more than a successful con job but the virtual life cant the entirely reduced to that in heres the problem. Do people really believe that . They dont know any more than you do whether there is a resurrection at they say believe they are believing in something that they have to know probably didnt take place. They are asking us to believe their propensity of faith in other words to take something without evidence. If somebody wants me to believe that then i will but i feel and probably doing themselves and injustice. Host do you think early graham is an evil man . Guest yes. I said that choosing one of a number of possible answers its an unfaili sign of the sick and disordered person. They are some kind of prejudice. I dont particularly like people from new york but anyway i dont think that convicts me of anything. Would be a better person if i liked many more people from there. The horrible conspiratorial intellectual meanspirited eventually lethal piec of bigotry. If you read this stuff of graha on tape and you can get itt the library now on the question a revelation which wasnt much of a revelatn to me about what a bigot president nixon was. To find these outmatched by billy graham. He does that impress it. And then they are pershing preaching brotherhood and its enough to make you sick. Host mr. Hitchens passed away four years after that interview in 2011. In 2010 our guest Michelle Malkin come paul johnson, tara reade, john deigns pat buchanan mark must bomb ralph nader gordon wood miguel cockapoode jn of goldberg and solomon rushdie were all on. Paul johnson was one of our guests a british historian. Heres a look at his appearance. We are looking at an age where material is advances are really very comforting and very considerable a and we must be grateful for that. Of course where your email correspondent is nearer the truth is over the moral condition of the world are there hasnt been much improvement there could we have expanded enormously in a material sense butor our morality seems to be o better than ever in the past and i am afraid that is strewn if we go back through history and look at the time of George Washington or go further back and look at the time of Queen Elizabeth or into the middle ages in the crusades or to the age of Julius Caesar we have to admit that public morals on the whole have not substantially improved. There are still a large number of dreadful things that occur. Anyone who has lived through the middle decades of the 20th century as i did must take a certain pessimistic view about the ability about the world to improve its moral standards. Nevertheless i am not without hope that this can be done. I still take the view that on the whole the world is a good place and its getting to be a better place but we must all do work our hardest to improve the moral campus because that is what is required. Host leslie and south padre land, texas. Favorite author and favorite in depthh guest and who are you reading . Cocco did you ever have all over sacks on . Host i dont believe so. Guess who he is british but he was made famous by the movie the awakening and a number of other things and as for what im reading right now, its a good question. I read news breakers newspapers and magazines and in whats left of newspapers but i so enjoy your program and i feel books are so overlooked nowadays. Its rare to see someone reading a book. Ive love to see when people are waiting to vote some of them have a book in hand but i feel like the country as a loss especially young people bite not being exposed to the great literature and all the other things. Anywayun thats my comment. Ndit is love of tv. As to what lucas on your table right now . Guest let me see here. Actually ive got a table full of stuff but ive got something that i im sitting in a vacation condo on South Padre Island and sometimes their books lying around. A man named,so i guess hes the author of the Bourne Identity and is called last snow. Host are you there on vacation or are you there because of the pandemic . Guest my parents retired and 80s. Mamy dad was from south texas. Im from kansas city they came back and forth for years. Mom and dad are gone and we still have the house. Its being worked on some lucky enough to stem the beach for oil. I still have my sister here and im her legal guardian now. Its a beautiful place and its the best beachre in texas and nt as crowded as anyone would imagine. They have left the beach they have social distancing as far as you can have an umbrella up with only two people, 15 feet apart. I dontt mean to go on a nonbt its kind of the last stop my dad used to call it. If you look on a map you are almost in mexico the tip of texas basically. We have a gorgeous day today. Thank you so much. I learned so much and i feel like im part of the Community Watching booktv. You just dont find people that read folks anymore. They read the internet and thats all but anyway thanks again. Host thank youd maam. Booktv is active on social medias well on their Facebook Page ourci twitter page an instagram page. Just remember look tv is the best handle for that critic can also go on line booktv. Org. Everything we we have been talking about today all the in Depth Programs listed there at the tab at the top of the page that says in depth you can click on one off those tabs and you can watch any of the programs we are talking about. In 2018 booktv made over the years we have had a few fiction authors on but in 2018 we made a concerted effort to have only fiction authors brizard pritzer two types of fiction authors who wrote about issues and that type of thing and here was the list that we have on. David ignatius, Colson Whitehead Walter Mosley brad thor Cory Doctorow Geraldine Brooks jody p. Colt brad meltzer of the 12 we had on an jody p. Colt was a bestselling author and here she is from her in Depth Program and 2018. I do love the concept of the novel as a way to educate about social justice because i think for example when i wrote this book i sat down and i read countless institute studies about reproductive rights in the orson and things like that but most people dont sit down and do that on a daily basis that they might pick up a novel preview or think you are picking up some books to be entertained. You think you are picking up a book that will whisk you away or a few hours but if ive done my job right at the end of the book you end up thinking hard about a topic you might not hav approached and in that way i think fiction is so wonderfully sneaky because it really gets peoples minds toit wide open. Host calliope in pennsylvania hi. Caller hi how are you . I wanted to just say my favorite Nonfiction Author was Christopher Hitchens far and away and i also love Sebastian Junger and Michelle Malkin. Host of thats quite a range of people you have chosen. What wasnt, was there a connecting fiber to those for . Caller just the different topics they covered. You cant get them from anybody else especially Christopher Hitchens. I dont know anyone else that compares to him. Host what do you do in Wallingford Pa . Guest im on disability now but i was in radio. Host thanks for calling in. We appreciate it. Eleanor and south carolina. Good afternoon. Caller hi, how are you . Host you have called. What would you like to say . Ure its before you wait into the fiction only year years, but robert caro has been on cspan i think many different over the years has certainly been my favorite you probably have, he is just a wonderful because he know its tough to support the were all on tender hooks wting for him to complete the final installment of the lbj biography. Host may be over one year ago that conan obrien was a big fan of robert caro and got him out to california to interview him and we cover that on the tv as well. That was an interesting our. I think a lot of us that are not as high a Celebrity One celebrity levels as conan obrien. Host a lot of us are also waiting for him to finishh that. I know brian low is to ask him. Iis have a hint maybe we should email him directly and find out with physicians when it finishes. And with history and politics that futurist and inventor. Essentially man and the machine inside our bodies and brains to do two things to keep us healthier and i sounds very futuristic when we are doing the througone the first generation of that already and then to see the bld cell size device. And then to destroy the cells. T and then to take this magnification expansion and quartercentury of the capabilities of computers and communication what we can alreaddo hundred and 25 years will they will bvery sophisticated and also interacting directly with biological neurons. And expanding human intelligenc intelligence. How small are nano bots. That is the key feature of the most member of an ohmmeter thatoesnt mean it is is a the features are a modest number and then the little part of the meter whi is a blood cell. Anthen to be sophisticated and then to destroy your. And at deficiency of the white blood cells in a very very slow but biology is sluggish with my white blood cell an hour and a half to detect this bacteria. And then nano robots can see that in seconds with autoimmune disorders and then to combat the specific thogen and then to put dside the body andd now today like the parkinsons patients but the models are shrinking technology and the devices are 100,000 times smaller and a billion timeslr more capable than they are already. Allen in the Washington Area go ahead. Caller andnd w so wonderful to talk to. Watching you in just the last little while and what we last saw with Christopher Hitchens and i was so powerful and moving that just reared a few weeks ago. And pj rourke and heather mcdonald. And those intellectuals when there was a clip and i do wonder why you stopped going to visit authors and their workspaces. I thought maybe i got too expensive. But i enjoyed that feature when you were doing thattt i tk you. Host you are one of the many people who have chastised that decision that we cut back a little bit on those. It was timeconsuming. Its probably something to reconsider i appreciate that. J from washington dc. Caller i am a big booktv fan. On one of the cspan programs is a fascinating book and a real good read. And those that havent read but their program is so rich. And jodie and in that dialogue and her perspectives. Thank you for calling in and thank you for watching. And Coulter Ellis Coates Michael moore it was in august that and coulter joined us. A journalist we are about to interview and coulter again. Jonathan friedland of the guaran the baltimore sun, why are those. Chose few i chose them specifically because th ran a tapeal recorder when i talked and then play it back before typing what i said and i omise that is shockingly rare. We have to reduce the catal gains rate and then somehow in all his work. It is insane the misquotes. But then vitin figure so originally it was the ones and the way n agree with my politics and they quoted me accurately. I dont care what they say about me just quote m accurately three of them did buthen after that its a spial request thing to say want to be on thatwa list that is the sourc of them to have. Host who is your favorite author and program . I watching this Program Since it firs started my books are all political i pay full price the ones that is like i buy the books at the library so ian support the library. Host your favorite c authors . Caller i like political ones and i do have to say one political plant and am the other we been happily married 57ears so he pays the regularrice and then we hav extra copies. We appreciate you calling in. Speaking a diffent potted politics i love you but i hate yourk, pitics good ternoon. Thank you for my education and happy 20th anniversary i was going through a divorce and a buyout of my husband on marthas vineyarand i got an attorney from cape cod and i did not understand what was going on with the moy market. Unl that colossal failure of commonense by lawrence mcdonald. Anwith the collapse of lehm brothers i was fascinating to me. Host may cover that quick. It was so informative i wish there was me than i did it just come across a great book i found out about it on yourelevision show on cspan the cant pay wont a of the coalition where the change will b of the parts to leverage bad loans and the changing of how mortgaging Lending School loans and the landrds taking aantage of the collapse and to buy property. Host thats pretty recent book . Yes it is free online i stayed up pretty much all night for six hours. Host 2006 the historian from Duke University John Hope Franklin in his nineties at the time he was here but this is where we went to visit him. We are in the backyard and he has a greenhouse back here can you tell us what you do back here . The Bank Released almost 50 years teaching one summer 1959 and ia came back when i was living in brooklyn i came back as in order to do with him and thats how i got started there. Is a the difficult task to keepep them healthy . It takes some doing. Have to keep the greenhouse fairly clean. That is to turn for the successful growth but this has gone out of control really is the orchid is the important. Host he died about three years after that interview. In 2012 chris hedges was on the program with mark stein richard burr kaiser the National Review and a historian Kenneth Davis and former senator the late tom coburn and our january guess whether a bestselling political books and expose Rick Atkinson who by the way is working on aic trilogy on the early days of the us and ben shapiro the late john lewis and kitty kelly and for two more years and in 2009 we have talked about his father but Christopher Buckley was on the t program mostly satirical fiction here is a little bit of his program. I got the idea thank you for smoking making supper as the lehrer news hour and then with the latest evidence he had at least two phds after his name at the bottom of the screen to balance it out they had on someone from the Tobacco Industry with the Tobacco Industry lobby and Brennan Dawson and every time from the National Institute from not smoking and seven words of polymerase inhibitor receptor and would say please. And then to make it sound that was the most phony in the world i thought that has to be an interesting job. You brush your teeth and say goodbye and then go and sell for a living. Bleak. Little and there is something i am very dying to ask you i feel awkward. She said i know what is a nice girl like me doing in a place like this . I said yes. Exactly. Im just paying the mortgage. , [laughter] host Christopher Buckley 2009 from mary jo in dearborn michigan and with a year of wonders in the next Nonfiction Book and buy a is a ball dickerson and robert caro is writing the multi volume set onre Lyndon Johnson here he is talking about one of those. And then it takes for me to find out exactly what differences and our life by people in the south. You know you love it . It takes time to figure that out. We on a book tour now we spend two months in france and then we will start. I know you mentioned in the past vietnam. Yes you remember everything. Thats what i want to do becausee i try to write about political power but you dont write about that for the enough if you write not only that the man who uses it but the effect on the people on for those it is used but for Lyndon Johnson to his great Civil Rights Act of his presidency and Voting Rights act transformed that political power of by people in america. You have sewers now and the sidewalks are paved how do you feel about the sheriff now . And now to think of more than your father did your childrens have would be better however the other side that one of the things i intendhot to do it is what it means with a modern industrialized nation certainly not upn a nation want to go to vietnam to see how that works those that were bombed by b52s. Not only are they invisible you cannot hear them so nobody even knew they were being bombed until it actually hit. Host 2014 the Degrasse Tyson was with us in 2017 and here is a portion. Several impasses ago asking those that were not politicians what solutions do they have . So the president what will you do what solutions do you have . If i was president will not be president. [laughter] its on my website if ite were president it might take you to the New York Times they cut out paragraph before response to the question is there and it comes down to the expectation if you find for office somehow you can change everything. I am not convinced that. Literally the opposite of what a lobbyist is going straight for that politician to influence a politician in ways that serve the interest of the lobbyist and who they represent. For me, any elected official represents people who put them into office. As an educator what matters is the state of enlightenment of is doing the voting. Because of people for example all recognize and value how that works, they were never even heard of dreaming for someone who doesnt know that because that person would not represent the interest. I would rather educate the electorate to put people in office and to make scientifically informed decisions about everything they do rather than just install myself into office for people who dont have this knowledge or insight. 80 percent of congress for election every two years . You can convince one congressman or another but then you have to start all over againai to educate the electorate, we are good to go to the bahamas and they elect the country into the future rather than back into the cave. Host we ran out of time we have ever video to showm you. Including stead struggle and jimmy carter unfortunately we are unable to get to the video those programs are available on our website at booktv. Org thank you for being with us the past 20 years. To. It whh i would ask government to do something were asking them to the people who paid so one can always ask oneself what i is my mother at gunpoint in order to accomplish what im asking the government to accomplish . And then what about paving i95 i think that can be done with a danger to m mom. Bless her heart she is not with us but probably my mom a gunpoint, yes i might. I can maybe hold that will make tm pay for the things but not for paving95 academic po box