So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont think teddy wouldve approved of it was get on a raft wi
She served as first lady from 1977 to 1981 and shes the author of five looks and a 1984 her bestselling memoir first lady from planes was released. This is carters subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. The subject shes championed throughout her life. Now from 2010 here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach ending the Mental Health crisis. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be here tonight and pleased to see so many people interested in my book. I have been on a book tour this week. I started on monday and i get the same two questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how to do you get involved in Mental Health and the second one is why did you write the book lacks im going to tell you how i got involved in the to help. I was campaigning for jimmy in florida. That does make a difference. I was campaigning, and telling you how i got involved with Mental Health issues. I
They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won thepr pulitzer prie biography would have changed the view on the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. You start out by saying im a as far back as nearly as he co
Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question what is it about america that makes it number one in the world for deaths by gun lets get to the bottom line. Before the coronavirus hit before the Opioid Epidemic before many other invisible killers another epidemic has ravaged america for generations and thats extreme violence towards each other and an inability to bring guns under control the United States is the only country in the world that has more guns than people if you live in America Today you can buy a fast action Assault Rifle thats been Battle Tested in places like iraq and afghanistan most of the time people owning guns is not the problem honors like the one millions of people believe that having a gun keeps them safer and theres a line in the United States constitution and it gives people the right to possess private weapons tie those guns to human natures tendency towards violence even more intense in America Today given the heat generated by deep racial and economic divides a
Bestselling author James Patterson is our guest on book tv. Author of about 150 books or so. The most recent is a nonfiction. Yes. Welcome to my house. How many nonfiction have you written . I dont count so probably four or five. The first one was jeffrey epstein, filthy rich which is now, they just dropped the video today. It is for parts, i think the 25th of the month or Something Like that. Then it was Aaron Hernandez did that and then this one, john lennon coming out later which is interesting. This connected to a house john owned, a bridge between these two houses. Who used to live in your house . Nobody famous but it is a disgustingly big house. [laughter] they were here for a while and she held onto it for a while. Another in his florida fami family, why did you choose to write about kennedy . It seemed to me this was the Great American family story a royal family and what i wanted to do was write about the whole family. There were plenty of stories about jfk and robert, etc. Bu