Have you always been a reader . Yes, i have always been a reader. Science fiction has always been ply favorite followed by the political thriller genre. Does it help you in your work here . It it helps me unwind. There is a lot of reading to be done here but it is all bills and reports and nonfiction. One is the redistribution by the university of chicago professor who dives into the incentives that show americans not to work too hard. The other is the scandal of money by george guilder. He is from wealth and poverty. It deals with the Federal Reserve is right now making the wealthier People Better off but the policies over the last six years in particular have kind of hurt the average guy. This week on q a, Robert Kaplan. Mr. Kaplan discusses his book, in europes shadow two cold wars and a 30year journey through romania and beyond. Cspan you start in the proto logging by talking about books prologue by talking about books. Why . Guest because i think the ultimate goal of travel is to
Books about them to explain their past. Those books be due to other books. Often very obscure ones. We travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. The relationship between travel and good books is inextricable brian . Why a book about romania . Robert i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. Where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. Brian 1973 . Robert my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. I stayed in Youth Hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. Weaverey taught me reading that all these countries were the same. What i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. Really start not my session with romania. That happened later. It happened in 1981. In the fall. I was getting out of the Israeli Defense forces. I was in jerusalem. , a seeminglyk obscure book by
Announcer tonight on the communicators, we will examine the Communications Act with two of its chief authors will stop jack fields and senator edward markey. The two will discuss whether the act is outdated and whether it should be rewritten. Words like google and hulu are popular today, but they were not there before the app. Moved not only our own country but the world from analog to digital and our goal was to take away the lines of demarcation that prevented competition. The competitive forces, it created the investment that was able to bring us to this world debate. Announcer watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan two. Next q acoming up with robert kaplan. Then, the washington journal. Andill talk about the life legacy of nancy reagan, who died yesterday at the age of 94. Announcer this week, robert kaplan. Mr. Kaplan discusses his book, in europes shadow two cold wars and a thirtyyear journey through romania and beyond. Brian robert kaplan, in your you sta
Those books be due to other books. Often very obscure ones. We travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. The relationship between travel and good books is inextricable. Brian why a book about romania . Robert i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. Where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. Brian 1973 . Robert my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. I stayed in Youth Hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. That journey taught me that all these countries were the same. What i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. That trip did not really start my session with romania. That happened later. It happened in 1981. In the fall. I was getting out of the Israeli Defense forces. I was in jerusalem. I found a book, a seemingly obscure book by a canadian author
And dont say a word until you know who you are talking to. I wont say much tonight because i dont know you that well but i know you have an interest in the topic of the day extraordinarily important to all of us and i want to encourage all of you to pick up this book that we are introducing him. Ive traveled as i said all over the United States many times. But theres one state in particular that you just cant get past. Its always stood out. Its way down south but among all the states those are the friendliest people in the whole country. There is no getting around even when it even when i was a student at Duke University we would go to South Carolina to buy fireworks and they were always friendly to us. That might have changed nowadays but the important part is the people. The people were always hospitable and each which way. You couldnt imagine more friendly people even those of the opposite political persuasion. They would hope they could change your mind that in but in our family of