Author information and to talked rectally to authors. Facebook. Com book tv. Longtime white house reef porter able ryan has also written a book called the presidency in blackandwhite. A bill rank, a bill rank, how long have you been covering the white house and when you write about it . Speemac, ive been covering the white house for 18 years. I write about it because it is very important. People need to know what is happening, leader of the free world, what is he doing, what is happening, it is beyond especially now with the first black president , is beyond the fact that he uses his pen and you want to he uses his pen and you want to get a picture of him writing some bill were signing the bill, its its about actual issues that affect america, look at the times that were in now, you want to know everything president ial. What makes up his thought process of maybe not sending boots on the ground to syria to fight isis. What is in his mind when he thinks about womens issues. Or when he deals with race. So Everyone Needs to know what the president is thinking, and i happen to be privileged to be one of the few people in the country who get an up close view of the presidency and the president of the united states. People need to hear about it. Whats the blackandwhite . The blackandwhite is cyclical. It is something that continues to happen since the enslavement of africans in this country. There is a problem with race in this country and it has yet to be fixed. We saw the Silver Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s, major legislation, but theyre still in transit problem in the country that needs to be fixed. Today were seen tensions between the black community, is not saying we dont support lawenforcement we do hold heartily but they have to be weeding out a bad pleasing. Theres still a problem in the station. A lot of the problem is subtle, some of its over. I talked to obama recently in a flight going to selma and he is here to close the gap, the gap still remains. There are still gaps that need to be close. Hopefully the next president will deal with those issues, this is not going away. We havent been able to get it right yet. Other countries are watching us. Of someone picks up the presidency in blackandwhite will they hear some personal stories about you working in the white house . If so what is one you will share . When the person picks up the presidency of blackandwhite, they will get various views. Various stories. Stories firsthand from the presence of cells. In the record from brock, bill clinton, laura bush, condoleezza rice. What theyll find out is some of the things that happen in the white house when it comes to race or their thoughts on certain issues about race, i remember a story going to an art gallery just a few feet away from the white house with First Lady Laura Bush to the exhibit on the descendent of slaves in the plantation on alabama. Ultimately and im giving you a synopsis. The first lady went all the rooms in at the end of the store these black women about five who i do not believe were republicans they were so happy, they just embrace the first lady in the huddle and just started crying and a descendent of a slave on my mothers side it was it brought tears to my eyes. So theres a lot of human stories that people can relate to in the story. Its about you and me, its about black and white and all of us coming together. People can go to book tv and type in april ryan they can see a big panel, what was that. The author panel was a discussion on race. We had professor paul butler he talks about criminal justice. We had joy read an author, wrote the book fracture. We had an author with various books. I was the moderator. We had a serious discussion, a civil discussion on issues of race. From authors who have written about it, who researched, researched, who are experts in their field. We had a Panel Discussion on it, we had people from all walks of life. Very diverse who were in the audience and asked about it. It was a great discussion. It was like the beginning of the discussion that needs to happen in this nation. And book tv thank you, i, i love book to be in politics and prose. We are going to do this again in february. I hope book tv will be there. But we had a discussion that was needed and well keep it going. April ryan, from the white house and the presidency and blackandwhite. At this Years National book festival in washington beat d. C. We talked to David Mccullough about his book, the right brothers and took calls from viewers. This is a recorded program so we will not be taking any new calls