Booktv. Org. And no one book tv, were showing you some programs about u. S. President s. First this past february, lexus took talks about a biography of George Washington bridge offers her thoughts about why her book is different than other books on the same. She spoke with no times colonists in politics and prose bookstores in washington dc re read. I want to president ial history because the presidency and especially the one who it was it bill sora, who everyone pressured into it. Its really important that everyone understands him in the presidency. But i think the biographies are alienating those in the way that they their visual presentations, there title some of the way they are written. So i really wanted it the reader to be like that if they have never read a president ial biography, they had everything that they needed at the beginning of the book and then at the beginning of the section come to equip them to feel they are ready the experts. I really did think a lot about my re
And the nice thing is that it turns out to be that he is a much more interesting and complicated person. And i thought i knew him pretty well and i learned a lot of things. There was a lot that he didnt even know about himself. Tomorrow morning if youre watching this live at 9 00. He said so much and he meant them to be public. He may have been doing it privately but he knew they would come out. I think there is no other president able to communicate like he was, he was able to just lift the world. Sometimes very complex, but still very extraordinary. The at the front of the look is a picture of peter drummy. I took this picture so im very proud of this. He is looking closely at the John Quincy Adams diary. If you have not seen it or red it it is just magnificent. We know he has been a White House Reporter for 11 years and he is distressed with the attacks on the press that is happening right now. I fear the anger and disstress will entour long after the trump administration. How do we
Hindered American Consumers from keeping up with the high levels of american productivity. Her class is about 75 minutes. Its been the last few weeks considering how americans adapted to abundance, between the 1890s and the 1920s. Despite their efforts of producers, advertisers and retailers and of others, the supply of goods continue to outstrip demand. This was not because everyone all hundred 6 million americans had everything they needed. It was because they didnt have adequate purchasing power. They dont have adequate wages or income to buy all of that stuff. And it wasnt just americans who were in the situation. But so to our trading partners around the world. They dont have enough income to buy all of the commodities we were producing in our fields and all the wonderful things are factories were making. So by the end of the 1920s, the American Economy went bust. You will know this. You all know the stock market crashed in 1929. And the World Economy went bust as well. Worldwide
We continue the conversation on the president s. Well hear from historians and book contributors. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the night studio and another edition of inside media. Im the senior director of programs here at the museum, john maynard. With the 2020 election filling our news feed, what better time to look back at the history of the presidency and to examine the character and the dignity of the men that have been in the office. We dive in deep today. We rank the best and the worst chief check tiexecutives. In just a moment you will hear from susan swane. Coceo of cspan who will discuss how the book came together. Following her presentation i have the distinct privilege of speaking with brian lamb, the founding ceo who over the course of many years conducted interviews with president ial historians. In addition were joined today by historians ken acraman and ken stewart. So at this time please welcome susan swane. We run it, it is almost as hold as cspan
Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean patterson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It doesnt mean he doesnt have money. He did have money but needed cash to cover expenses of moving out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done. Except Herbert Hoover but hoovers time in office was much briefer, trumans presidency covered far more to multiple us history tumu