Booktv. He recounts president franklin d. Roosevelts involvement in the debate between interventionists and isolation is prior to americas entry into world war ii. This is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] welcome back to lunch and learn, im david cowan president of the museum of American Finance, and today were going to hear from Nicholas Wapshott on his book, the sphinx. Nicholas graduated with a degree in politics and then started his career in newspapers. He rose through the ranks of the london times the worlds oldest continuous newspaper to become its features editor which means he wrote profiles of everybody from playwrights to politicians and everybody in between. And then he moved over to the worlds oldest sunday continuous sunday newspaper the london observer, to do a similar thing. Returns to the times, comes over the pond here to be their north american correspondent, and then joins the new york sun as national and Foreign Editor as well as a columnist. So welcome