Working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide; the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build measurably better lives; the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Hed go into a room of five people or 5,000 and he could light up the room. I want our Political Party to match a conservative mind with a compassionate heart. Peter jennings says al gore won florida. Let me get this straight, youre retracting your concession . You came here because you believe in what this country can be. I went to work for barack obama for free because i believed in that guy. I knew exactly what he stood for. We will respond with that timeless creed, yes we can. [upbeat music] the son of a former president and the son of a kenyan and a kansan, a texas oilman and a Community Organizer from hawaii. At first glance, neither george w. Bush nor barack obama screamed oval office. Yet both men ended up i
Also this weekend on booktv on our after Words Program, author sebastian mall by talks about his new biography on former Federal Reserve chairman alan greenspan. Youll see the 2016 National Book awards, and we visit pittsburgh to tour thattys literary sites that citys literary sites. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. And now well kick off this weekend with a ram from 2009 with a program from 2009. This is the late gwen ifill who taped an after Words Program with us in 2009. She died at the age of 61 from cancer this week. She was a journalist, of course, and author with more than 30 years of experience covering washington and the white house. Host hello. Welcome to after words, my names david brooks, im a columnist from the new york times, and im joined today by an author, gwen ifill, and we are not only going to talk about er book [laughter] no, we are going to talk about her book
Searching speech at the Memorial Service for the five Police Officers slaughtered by a lone gunman in the big d last week, both bush and obama found grounds for hope and optimism for a country full of overwhelming cause for despair. Praised lawnts enforcement and called for unity and reconciliation. President obama im here to insist that we are not as divided as we seem, and i know that because i know america. I know how far we have, against how far we have come against impossible odds. Bush at our best, we honor the image of god. We recognize that we are brothers and sisters, sharing the same brief moment on earth and owing each other the loyalty of our shared humanity. John we will place a more extended excerpts from the dallas situation in a minute, but first, about this event today struck you the most . Mark these are two guys who did this before, and i thought they were extra ordinary. So much conflict, and a beautiful job. Somewhat remarkable, and where the optimism can come from
Landscapes. I wanted to write a little pamphlety kind of book that took eight issues that i care about and, incidentally, where i think im in the majority of public opinion. I dont think im a barricaded minority with some weird, outlier ideas. I think im in the majority on issues like war and peace, issues like mass incarceration. So what i wanted to do was take it out of the frame thats been given to us and make it kind of in the form of a manifesto, this is what were fighting for. I wanted to say that, you know, lets just take one example, health care. So the debate is obamacare or the way its always been. I reject that. I want with Free Health Care for all. And i wanted to break the kind of, you know, duality that we sometimes get trapped in. And the kind of framing of issues that i think is wrong. Schools is something, as you know, that im passionate about. So the framing of the debate is those who want to privatize and crush the unions and measure education by a single metric and
Created by americas top Cable Television companies and brought you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. And now we are live on book tv with author and legal analyst Jeffery Toobin. He joins us on our indepth program for the next three hours to talk about his book and to answer your questions. Mister Jeffery Toobin is the author of many books including the old too close to call in his most recent, american heiress area. Toobin, welcome to cspan2s in depth. The authors of seven books and counting including your most recent book american heiress, wild side of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of patty hearst and i want to begin where you end the book. Youwrote this without her cooperation. I did quite how was that . Guest there were several things different about this book then my other book. This is the first book ive written that was really atthe border of journalism in history. All the other books that i wrote, i had sort of covered the underlying story in real time