Protecting america, it said a great deal about the man. Guest we cover that with his interactions with margaret t from Margaret Thatcher, gorbachev, the ultimate success of his policy toward the soviet union. We made that quite clear that the way he structured his administration, very successful and foreignpolicy. Host relationship with Margaret Thatcher you have some great stuff in here. They both were strong individuals. Guest we got that transcript of the Reagan Thatcher phone call they did not tell his best pal it was hanging out to dry peas he was telling her parliament the United States is not going to do this. And she lets him up on the phone call and we have the transcript. We lay out the whole thing which is why these books are so successful because people get the big picture. Now who was at reagans funeral into using the given him . Even though there was this detachment over granada they came back together again because they were both essentially of like minds and wanted free
About the book. Host i have to disagree. As someone who love this man , i read the book and was delighted to think i would be able to read and talk to you about ronald reagan. Millions of americans have appreciation for his true greatness. He continues to inspire. I got the sense that you are undermining and demeaning his true greatness by throwing his stuff that is irrelevant to the and suggesting he was not really with it. He tells us all of the things he did. Guest i standi stand behind the book, no you are emotionally attached. I am not. I am an historian who writes in on this book. Nothing i say will be challenged because we can back it all up. The selection of what we have is debatable, but i did not set out to write saint ronald reagan. I set out to write here is a great president , here is what made him great. Here is what he overcame. An assassins bullet that almost took his life. It is a compelling dramatic story and we did a good job and im happy to talk to you about it. Hos
Very much in high positions and demanding positions when they need those positions if they dont keep very busy mentally he leaves the office and he still very vibrant. He goes to mexico the fall from the horse that have the concussion. Talk about that a little bit. Do you think nancy may have hit something here . Guest i think so. All of those traumas accelerate whatever you have inside you in a hereditary kind of way. Again, was in our intent to be medical people . It was our attempt to show what happened. Happened. And to take you from a very historical point of you to tell people who lived during a reagan era like him and dont like him, i want everybody to read the book it was not a guy who did not care. He did not care about poor people of the Little People as minorities. Not true. His embrace of the free market system and that he believed if you allow american capitalism the freedom to prosper everyone will work who wants to come and that is exactly what happened. We show that pre
This week on q a our guest is erik larson out with his book dead wake. With world war one being fought in europe, the lusitania liners sailed to liverpool, england with 2,000 passengers and crew on board. Cspan erik larson, your new book, dead wake, you start off first sentence, on the night of may 6, 1915, as his ship approach the coast of ireland, ccaptain William Thomas turner left the bridge and made his way to the first class lounge. What are you talking about . This is the night before the lusitania was torpedoed. The ship was that day, on friday the next day on friday, may 7th was going to enter the socalled the zone of war declared by the german navy. The water surrounding the u. K. Had become this they had designated this a zone of war. So the night before, captain turner was going into the lounge to actually talk to passengers during the intermission in the talent show, the nightly talent show, one of the features of transatlantic voyages. And he had some sobering news but al
Throughout the rest of 1914, he was deeply troubled. But by may he is head over heels in love with a woman named edith. A 40something widow in washington, d. C. It is not clear yet whether she is going to fall in love with him back. He is writing passionate love letters to her by the dozens at this point. This is the context, war and passion. Brian you start out by saying this i first started reading about the lusitania on a whim. What was the whim . Erik when i look for the next idea, it is always a difficult time. A good friend of mine coined a term to describe it, she says that is when i am in the dark country of no ideas. When i am in that country, i always try to just read. If something occurs to me i will start looking into it. The lusitania had always been on my back burner, but i had always been reluctant to think about doing a book about it because it seems to me it is almost like, too obvious a story, too much low hanging fruit. A lot of times i want an idea that is complex e