As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
Host thank you so much for being here, debora mackenzie. Much of your work over the years i was delighted to read your book which is the first that youve done in this way. Guest the first that ive written. Host it must have been challenging to create such a factual account of a pandemic while it is ongoing. Can you tell us about that . Guest i understand why people would think why are you writing about this now. I deliberately took a step back. As things unfold im not about this misstep or that by the government. Not that level of. What im doing is saying why a pandemic, why now and this is something i could do because if youve been reading my book you would say this is going to happen, these are the viruses we need to work on and this is what we need to do. Its already obvious those productions were spot on and we havent done what we need to do so this is kind of the moment to repeat that stuff at the time that people can understand it and it would make sense to them and therefore the
Thank you so much for being here Debora Mackenzie its really an honor. I was really delighted to read your book. Is the first book ive ever written. Amazing, its also been challenging to create an account of a pandemic while his ongoing, can you tell me about that process. I understand why it has not happened yet, i am writing about the things we can write about now, i deliberately took a step back and i am not writing about things untold and about government, im not talking on that level auto i suppose it will be acquitted by that, im standing by and saying why now and thats something i could do really quickly. I like many other people have been writing a book for a few years and weve been saying this is going to happen, these are the viruses we need to worry about this is what we need to do, is already so obvious that the predictions were right on and we have not done a lot of the things that we needed to do, this is kind of the moment to repeat all of that stuff at a time when peopl
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