Week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. History and biography is sponsored bywells fargo. [music] welcome everyone, everywhere here with Madeleine Albright, 64th secretary of state and here to talk about her new book Madeleine Albright hell and other destinationsand i just finished reading it and i look forward to having a conversation with Madeleine Albright about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you david, i enjoyed talking with you anytime. I am at the Jefferson Building in the library of congress, madeleine is at her home in the washington area. We had a longstanding relationship because madeleine and i were young staffers in the white house under president carter and i followed her career ever since then with great admiration so madeleine, this is her seventh book since you left as secretary of state so did you ever imagine when you finished as secretary of state first woman to ever serve as secret
Degree from Oklahoma University and a phd as well. He served as assistant to a political scientist, economist, and author and teaching assistant to former u. S. Secretary of state Madeleine Albright who was here for a private dinner earlier this year to drop a name or two. [laughter] gary joined the William Jewell College Faculty in 1992 and serves as chair of the department of Political Science and director of the International Relations major. The William Jewell student body voted him professor of the year four times. Gary is also a longtime supporter of the National World war i museum and memorial and for that we are appreciative. Please give a warm welcome to dr. Gary armstrong. [applause] good evening and thank you for coming tonight. There should be a lot of interesting questions. On the hundredth anniversary of the senates first rejection of the treaty of versailles. What a great moment to talk about americas place in the world. It was a time of growing polarization and radicali
We working with the 64 secretary of state Madeleine Albright talking about her new book, hell and other destinations which is a very interesting book it would look forward to the conversation. Welcome to our podcast today. Guest i am enjoying talking with you anytime. Host im at the Jefferson Building of the library of congress. She is at her home and virginia we were young staffers together in the white house under president carter and i have followed your career since then with great admiration. This is your seventh book since you left us secretary of state did you ever imagine after the first woman to serve as secretary of state you would write seven books in addition since you left . Guest no. Never occurred to me i would write so many but i think it was important those who have served to write their memoirs that is what gives people an understanding of what happened. Everybody writes a somewhat different version and then to figure out what really happened. Host behind you have a l
Whose book just out this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of james baker the third. Of two brilliant books about it too complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930 and holbrook 1941 holbrook a democrat, student of Foreign Policy. Their lives had different trajectories but they both ended up in washington. Picking up on that, this is a man with great ambition and even before he came to washington. He was expected to do great things. He had a very dominating father who imparted on him the legacy of his family. One thing they were not meant to do his politics. They break away from his fathers domination and at age 40 he suffers a great family tragedy. His wife dies of cancer and the tennis court helps pick him up from the George Hw Bush on a whole different odyssey that put them in the center of world events. Host george im going to be going back and forth because the stories of the books are so rich we could go so many Differ
Host you are watching booktv on cspan2 this sunday evening. We are pleased to be alive with the authors diamond and a cell, their book is called uprising who the hell said you cant ditch and a switch, the uprising of diamond and silk. I want to ask you what you mean by ditch and switch. Guest to ditch what we call the democrat plantation and switch to republican and vote for donald trump and when we say this we are talking about the mindset of being on a plantation and being controlled. The ideology thats being implemented into people every day and that was being implemented into us as democrats. We want people to ditch the ideology. This got people thinking and that is what we did. We switch to the party to republican to vote for donald trump. Host what was led to the event that led for you to switch . Guest the candidate back in 2015 when he came down the escalator and said i want to secure the border. The first thing we thought is the American House should be secure and then he said