Brilliant at it. I mean, you would take train rides around the country. Six weeks in the spring and fall and he talked about simple language. He said the Harvard Audis think i talk into folksy language, but i know i reached them. Speak softly and carry a big stick. It summed up his entire administration. He then gave Maxwell House a slogan good until the very next stop. He was able with his relationship, but he was so interesting. He had a mida shave. When the barbarous shaving hand he is answering their questions and they say the barber has to keep up with him as hes moving around. He understood the press was an important channel for him to reach the public and so he would read their articles ahead of time. Investigative reporters would be able to criticize him. They would criticize them. He didnt have the relationship of the press that he had so the president was drifting and the progressives were moving further forward than teddy was at the time. It was a desire to be back in office
Something that happens. When his father died he just got involved in activities. When his wife died in the life is gone out, he died he would never marry again, he goes to the badlands and is just on a horse for 10 hours a day. He said finally bit that night because constant activity prevented over thought and then he did come back and eventually marry and have a fulfilling marriage with edith,s girlfriend and monitor as much as they couldve loved anybody. The little girl who was born when his wife died i think represented the dead wife he couldnt remember and didnt want to remember because he had to move forward. Its a terrible thing in some ways. So we did give ally to his sister for a while but edith, the new wife in old friend brought her into the family. In his memoir he never mentioned the name. And comprehensible and just the opposite of somebody who wants to believe the more you talk about the people you loved, the more you keep them alive, he just had to keep moving forward. W
Beyrle full circle. So, what is your next book going to be . Right now im doing two things. Im working on what might be potential movies about teddy and taft. They bought the rights for the bully pulpit maybe even a miniseries. [applause] im trying to think about muckrakers as a miniseries. A ida tarbell is my favorite character in the idea of this great female investigative journalist and then the relationship between teddy and taft but for a book at this stage of my life i dont think i can afford 10 years on Millard Fillmore or franklin pearce. Theres no big person to go back too easily so im bringing all my guys in the room at the same time and im going to write about leadership. Thats really what i care about underneath it all. [applause] oh thank you. I just started it. After you finish that book i hope you will do a Great Service for america by running ask froml over the country some questions of doris. Are you ready . Host this is the tvs live coverage of the 14th National Book
Be fine. He goes to europe and it comes back on the titanic and he dies. For taft it was yet another blow. He said every time i look in the room im missing every single moment. Those letters are an absolute treasure and he felt especially betrayed with teddy running against him. To me the most poignant part of the book is taft and roosevelt were enemies. After the election wilson as president. Taft and roosevelt dont talk about. Taft tried to talk to roosevelt and roosevelt ignores him. Finally they came by happenstance in a hotel. What happened . What happened was when i finish the book i didnt want to end it. It was such of the trail but i didnt know so i followed them in 1913 and 14 and 15. Ut i didny know what the relationship had been like past that. I followed them in 1914, 15 and 16. People brought them together but taft says it was like an armed neutrality. In 1918 teddy was in the hospital with an operation that taft had once undergone any work undergone any wrote them a lette
Havent changed in the book world over the past 20 years. Many things have changed. But im also very pleased to say that one constant over the past couple decades is the Media Presence of john mutter, cofounder and ed or to have in chief of the brilliant daily newsletter, shelf awareness. He was also the longtime editor at Publishers Weekly and the former e newsletter. Go to the web site, www. Shelfawareness. Com. Without further ado, ill turn the stage other to john who will introduce this panel of wonderful and talented booksellers who i know will offer you brilliant insight into the everchanging Book Business. Of john . [applause] thank you, gene. I dont think ive ever been called a constant. Thank you. [laughter] welcome to the independent bookselling panel. I want to start off by saying anything you take away from this session, it should be that contrary to current perceived wisdom, one independent bookseller stores are not dying and are not going the way of the dinosaur and, two,