Author jeff quinn. You open your most recent book, waco, with this quote from rick perlstein, the historian. A fog of crosscut motives and narratives, the complexity that defies storybook simplicity at a that is usually the way history happens. I think the quote is the most cogent of ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself and its true. Know historic event happens in a vacuum. Its tied to many other things. And thats the fascination in research and writing on narrative, nonfiction, history. What i read a quote from you as well, and this is from 2021 in the cleburne times review. A lot of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction books to reflect what they already believ want books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction, for the last several years, theres three categor
state why not name a special council customer come after him of the house judiciary committee part of two hearings this upcoming week on governmen jt s overreach. ohio congressman jim jordan onhe why he is still waiting for responses from the d.o.j., whico sent americans top law enforcer to ukraine this week instead.eric communist china hitting america from all sides the air, the ground, the southern border. yet joe biden is laughing it o off. you talk about children being taken away from their parents. my children were taken away from me. this should not be politicized. the interesting thing is that sentinel came during the last .dministration [laughter] for coming up for her white house advisor steven miller reacts off of cpac with president trump. we are now in a marxism state of minor communism state of mind, which is far worse.op we are a nation in the client. our enemies are desperate to stop us becausy ste they know wt the only ones who can stop them. spent 201
you here as well as several members of our national council on white house history, which we re always grateful to have well this evening. it is my honor and privilege to introduce a really terrific friend of mine and as a friend of the white house historical association mark up to grove serves as the president and the ceo of the lbj. foundation in austin, texas, he is a presidential historian for abc news and also an accomplished author. mark is actually authored five books on the presidency including this book that we re celebrating this evening in comparable grace jfk in the presidency. and i had the privilege of recording a podcast this afternoon with mark which will release later in the month when the book is officially released and it was a fascinating conversation. i really enjoyed my time with mark and i think you re going to enjoy the time with him here this evening. he is also written for the new york times politico national geographic time the daily beast usa today
i m just gonna take control here because otherwise i won t be able to so you all may remember in 1962 john kennedy held a very successful state visit to france. and mrs. kennedy was enormously popular and at the farewell dinner the closing dinner in front of degoll and others. jfk said i used to be the president of the united states, but now i am simply the man who accompanied jacqueline kennedy to paris. i m the man who accompanied eddie gloud to new orleans? where this is like saddam s baghdad his pictures everywhere. have y all noticed this? it s just everywhere. so. i m going to start with a serious question. you wrote a marvelous book about baldwin and what he meant in real time and can mean to us. so give us your origin story with baldwin. when did you first read him? when did he become so vital to you? well, first of all, thank you for the question and you see how he lies. this is john. why right? i got a sedantry. yeah, this car here. eddie is a cigar man. it s the on
i m welcoming you under our roof here at historic decatur house, which is the home of the white house historical association. we are honored to occupy this property that is owned by the national trust for historic preservation one of our wonderful partners in our work and it s terrific to have them here. we have a three members of our board of directors who are here this evening martha kumar is here. i have seen martha i need a mcbride will be here shortly if she s not here already and david ferio is ex officio on our board here over on the right. so it s an honor to have all of you here as well as several members of our national council on white house history, which we re always grateful to have well this evening. it is my honor and privilege to introduce a really terrific friend of mine and as a friend of the white house historical association mark up to grove serves as the president and the ceo of the lbj. foundation in austin, texas, he is a presidential historian for abc