Salons jacob weisberg, and we take a look at the life of florence kennedy. And finally, david reef questions if ending extreme poverty and hunger around the world is possible. Those are some of the highlights for this weekend. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, this weekend 72 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now were kicking off the weekend with Brian Kilmeade and dan yeager. Their book, Thomas Jefferson and the tripoli pirates. [inaudible conversations] here we go. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] like were coming to court. You afraid of the audience, brian . I wanted to have a dramatic entrance. Oh, all right. [laughter] actually, he doesnt want to be seen on the same stage with me. Hes already found out im a little too smart alecky. Which he is, by the way. Five minutes, see what you learn . Good afternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation. We, of course, welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org web s
Insecure. Fredericksburg investment banker, steve floyd, who blogs that best president ial bios. Com reads multiple biographies about each president and expects to complete his reading after four years and 200 bucks by president s day 2017. For those looking to par take in their own principalat biography challenge, Justin Moyers suggests the american president series. This series begun hi arthur she is singer injure. Offers short biographies of nearly every president. The most recent focuses on reagans tenure book tv has covered numerous president ial biographies and you can watch the authors on our web site, booktv. Org. Nod block. Good evening. Im bradley graham, the coowner of politic and prose and behalf of the entire staff, welcome. Just a few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything that might make a noise during tonights presentation. When with get to the q a part of the session, we do have book of there here this evening so i
Wondering how theyre going to make it in the real world . [inaudible] [inaudible] when do you know . Went to know how capable they will be to be dependent . I watch karen watch work this question through and i will like to take it but i have seen you go from is going to be great to ive got to get realistic, to where you are today. I think you dont lose hope. [inaudible] other specific indicators . [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] it is a great question. I do not have the answer. I am still working on it. My son is 21. I felt in the early years that they were all the steps i could take because their people before me had taken him so i was always on the five year plan. Now that he is 21, im okay, now what am i going to do for the rest of his life. You do not know how much more they will continue to grow, how they will change. Adolescence for kids with autism is much later, 12 years old, you have like five or six years before you hit adolescence. That changes everything. So
Shows there was much more to reagan than the usual stereotypes are loaded by both democrats and republicans. So ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming jacob weisberg. [applause] thank you, bradley, for that kind introduction. I just want to say i love the bookstore, not just because i do think it helped of my last book on the bestseller list, but bradley and lisa have done an amazing job. Its one of the best independent bookstores in the country. You are lucky to have it here in washington and im lucky to be speaking here tonight. This book, it is a short book. I consider that a virtue although some biographies are often considered a virtue to be as long as possible. I had to take the opposite approach. This is really an exercise in distillation, internet figure what is essential in the Ronald Reagan story but also along the way try to take on some of these myths. The armistice on the left about reagan that i think its a myth he was a dunderhead. To our myths on the right ab
Laurie at our table once again. The perfect gentleman villain. Wholeave a ready got a line in the manufacturing process. Villainess nor gentlemanly. But the character is an interesting combination. He has a sort of superficial affable charm. In fact, more than charm. He is positively adaptive and get the world he has created is built on something very dark and wicked. Jeff before we talk about re thisper, le car novel in particular. Hugh these are the holy texts of my childhood, particularly my team years. Teen years particularly the books about the cold war. And then 1990 came, the wall came down and i and others imagined that the spies are now out of work and possibly spied writers would also be redundant. I worried that he will he would have to hang up his typewriter ribbon. I happen to know he writes longhand. He is old school. Delight, notmy were he equaled found a subject that was equal to the high stakes of the cold war, he found something that if anything exceeded those stakes.