George washington and why its different than other biographies of americas first president , he spoke at politics and pros store in washington, d. C. I want president ial history because the presidency and especially the person that establishes the office and built around and everyone pressure intoed it its really important that everyone understand him and the presidency but i think that the biographies are alienating in the way that their visual presentation, their titles the way that they are written, and so i really wanted the reader to feel like they had if they had never read a president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book and at the beginning of every section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts and so that was part of it. I really did think a lot about my reader and the other part of it was not washington has been called by an adams family editor, president ial editors, they edit the papers, called him vanilla once to
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
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the night tv studio, another edition of our program. As the 2020 president ial election, starts to invade our daily news feed, and with joe biden feeling the fire this week. What better time to look back at the history of the presidency, and looking at the character and dignity of the man holding the office. The title tells it all of our book, youll be hearing from susans wayne soon, who will discuss how her book came together, based on the historian survey of president ial leadership. Following the presentation, i have the distinct privilege of speaking with brian lam, the chairman of cspan, who over the course of many years conducted the interviews, with president ial historians that make up the content of the book, and we are also joined today by historians can ackerman, and David Stewart who have both contributed to the book. At this time please welcome susans wayne. Hello nice to see you, we have a long long friendship and relationsh
Friend of the daily show who is now an author and correspondent for cbs sunday morning, mo rocca is joining us, everybody. cheers and applause also on tonights show, america is getting a new prince, your snacks have been lying to you, and donald trump heroically stops the war that he started. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with some big news from across the pond. Being a member of the royal family has always been one of the sweetest gigs you can have. You get an unlimited budget for hats, there is always free crumpets in the break room and lets be honest, most of your job is just waving. But now two royal family members are turning in their twoweek notice. It was a rather stunning announcement today from the across the pond, prince harry and wife Meghan Markle say they are stepping away as senior members of the royal family, they announced it on instagram and social media is blowing up over it. The couple made that announcement saying they will split their time
Friend of the daily show who is now an author and correspondent for cbs sunday morning, mo rocca is joining us, everybody. cheers and applause also on tonights show, america is getting a new prince, your snacks have been lying to you, and donald trump heroically stops the war that he started. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with some big news from across the pond. Being a member of the royal family has always been one of the sweetest gigs you can have. You get an unlimited budget for hats, there is always free crumpets in the break room and lets be honest, most of your job is just waving. But now two royal family members are turning in their twoweek notice. It was a rather stunning announcement today from the across the pond, prince harry and wife Meghan Markle say they are stepping away as senior members of the royal family, they announced it on instagram and social media is blowing up over it. The couple made that announcement saying they will split their time