Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. This weekend on booktv Arthur Brooks is live on in depth. Jason so kill sits down on after words, nick childs and robinship advise africanamericans on how to deal with police and the criminal Justice System in the u. S. , robert baer provides a history of political assassinations and a literary tour of waco, texas. Check out our full schedule online, booktv. Org. You give me your name and the title of the book and tell me how you came to the project. Hi, im lawrence knutson, the title of the book is a wave in the white house, i came to the project because i am a retired reporter for the Associated Press and in my last three or four years i exploited a personal interest and wrote a column about american and washington history. That led me to the publisher of this book which is the White House Historical association. We started talking about it and someone said, wh
Why am i willing to go out on a limb . As an economist might put it, on the one hand, according to the website, super scholar. Org, mark is one of the top 20 living economist in the world. I guess that designation is a gentle way of reminding us that as a no longer living economist famously said, in the long run, were all dead. But i digress. Marks topranked status was echoed by a columnist for scientific american, who that he haste emerged as one of the clearest writers on all matters economic today. The next, Milton Freeman Milton Friedman. Mark comes byand, his knowledge of Milton Friedman on a firsthand basis. Reveal, they had a dear, but occasionally prickly relationship. The two of them constantly argued over a variety of issues, but always remained cordial. Mark was probably the last person to go out to lunch with Milton Friedman he for he died of a heart attack on november 16, 2006. Mark over account their friendship, will recount their friendship and discuss their differences
Chesident kennedys spee writer and special counsel at many president s have said, that a president s office is wherever the president maybe. Unlike congress or the Supreme Court, the presidency never assurance. Politics playoes in president ial vacations, president ial getaways . I am not sure what. Ishink the need to get away probably predominant. As we have see recent presidencies. If you have your own home, you tend to go to it. Otherwise, like president obama, you go to a place of interest you. And because of security concerns, you have to get a rented property. Do you think it is just the press or the public, does the public understand that the president needs to get away from the pressures of the job or is focusingess that keeps on what the president is doing on vacation and what is happening in washington and elsewhere . I think both. I think the press reacts to what the public thinks and vice versa. Certainly, perception is a lot. The optics of the situation. George h. W. Bush
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Hyannisport with the kennedy compound, it seemed like a summer camp. Compared to what other president s have done on their vacations, what sort of activities did john f. Kennedy do . Time magazine in august, 1962, said that not since the days of Theodore Roosevelt had the nation witnessed what the magazine called such a hard pounding, muscleaching round of activities. And hyannisport, which was besieged by tourists, the president , his children, his nephews, his nieces scrambled on the lawn, splashed in the water. At times, when i read about it, i thought it resembled the olympics. Time described it this way sitting down is somehow considered that form. Touch football has rest periods. Between tennis, swimming, water skiing, sailing and dragging. Dragging as an attempt to avoid drowning while being towed by a life preserver tied to the president s schooner. Look magazine put a picture of the president on a golf cart loaded down with nieces and nephews. What did this image say . It cert