Nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by americas Cable Television companies of the Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Beginning now on booktv we will spend time with the late author and columnist William F Buckley. This is part of our summer bins watch series which features one wellknown author. He found the National Review and help to the political Debate Program firing line for several years, also the author of 50 books which included his thoughts on politics, religion, culture, literature and other topics. He appeared on booktv and cspan at 45, we will share those programs with you. First up tonight, in 1993 Mister Buckley sat down to discuss the collection of his essays from his book happy days were here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993 book notes. Cspan on the cover of your book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. You always call yourself a libertarian . Guest as of course you know, something called the
Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
Stuart stevens, welcome to firing line. Great to be here. Thank you. Listen, you have worked in republican politics for more than four decades. You were part of five republican president ial campaigns, including that of mitt romney, george w. Bush, and bob dole. And now you are working to defeat the current republican president through a group called the Lincoln Project. And were going to get to all that, but first, you have just published a book. It is titled it was all a lie how the Republican Party became donald trump. So lets start with what was the lie, stuart . You know, margaret, if you go back to the dark ages, say four years ago, i think that 90 percent of republicans would have agreed that there was a handful of values that united republicans. What were those . Character counts, personal responsibility is critical, strong on russia, free trade, pro legal immigration. You know, Ronald Reagan announcing from the statue of liberty, signed a bill that made everybody in the countr
Larry kudlow, welcome back to firing line. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Its been a while. We are now the midst of a pandemic. More than 150,000 americans have died in several months. Would you also agree that when it comes to americas economic health, we are also int uncharted tey . Well, look, its a difficult story cause, obviously, the economy has depended on the virus and the various mitigation measures, essentially shutting down the economy, affected, you know, stores, shops, everything, sport at one point in april, you had almost a complete shuttering. Factories were down. Ok so it uite a toll. There was a lot of hardship, a lot of heartbreak. People were laid off. And as we meet here today, even though theres still some difficulties, there are alwaysgo a be uncertainties on this story, i think the economy is coming back i think theres a vshaped recovery in the making. Jobs are rising. Yeah. Things are improving. And i can also report from i sit on a coronavirus
Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Firing line, dr. L west and dr. Robert george. I am honored, because you are both celebrated scholarsnd public intellectuals who come from remarkably different world views and profess differentpe pectives. Dr. West, you are a professed nonmarxist socialist. And, dr. George, you are a leader in the theoconservative movement. Im not sure id y that, but at least im not a marxist. Im like cornel in that respect. [ laughter ] were both christians. Stians. Youre both christians. And you respect each other enough to disagree and to engage in a serious and rigorous ntest of ideas in a civil and respectful way you teach a course at Princeton University and you also have in common that you re both guests on the original firing line with william f. Buckley jr. Mmhmm. T a very great honor. Very great honor. Theres a clear affection h tween the two of you, wh hes so lovable. We ct help it. [ laughter ] in fact, i think its deeper