Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. Did your reading help you in your work as a congressman . It does. History in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but youre really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of intere
President s . Guest quite a few. My taste is about the same as everybody else. Well, maybe not. I will grant you theres been about on him and eisenhower. Again, you do get some wonderful privileges. She was kind enough to invite me the chief of staff another dear friend to come out to gettysburg to get a personal tour of the eisenhower postpresident ial homestead. And it was wonderful. It was one memory after another. Here is where i met khrushchev and the house. We were talking and i actually got close to the plane and 59. My dad was a Master Sergeant in the air force base and i will bl never forget us going out there to look at the plane that had brought Nikita Khrushchev to the united states. He was the most Senior Master on the base. It was wonderful. What a treat. Their grandmother and grandfather and what it was like and see the things in the home but have a personal hunch this is where i used to sit when my grandmother was doing this, that and the other. Host i dont know if you
Of books. We keep one up about a month. Sometimes maybe had two or three books that i am reading. Do you ever post reviews. We just dont have a lot of time to write reviews. What are you reading right now. I thought i would take a little break. This is one of the cases where you see the movies they want to read the book. I think andy we are. I got intrigued by this new netflix thing the man in the high castle which is an old book i used to read Science Fiction when i was a kid. I did not read that one. Those are the light things just finished up a biography of the wonderful one on washington. It was a fabulous book but boy its long. I used to be a historian. Thats what i enjoy. We will have some things in every now and then. It is quite often its not this case. I read quite a bit of historical fiction. Mostly the heavy history and heavy biography. You mentioned that you are in them you. I taught as a graduate assistant. That was just a semester gig. I taught in Grinnell College london
For a complete schedule, visit booktv. Org. Youre watching booktv. Next, Peter Carlson recalls the capture of journalists Albert Richardson and Junius Browne by Confederate Forces at the battle of vicksburg. The reporters were sent to multiple confederate prisons over 20 months until they escaped and made their way across the appalachians with the assistance of Union Sympathizers. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] thank you, david. Im thrilled to be here at the national archives. To be back here, i should say. Ive written three books, and i have researched all of them at the national archives. A place with buried treasures all over it. Theyve got a lot of boxes here, boxes filled with little folders filled with papers, and there are a lot of stories hidden b in those papers. In fact, if you get really quiet and you listen really closely, you just might hear somebody take a piece of paper out of a box upstairs and read it and go, holy cow. You dont have those holy cow experiences all
Lets give markets a round of applause. [inaudible] thank you very much. Ill see you other than. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. You are watching booktv. Next, Peter Carlson recalls the capture journalists Albert Richardson and Junius Browne by Confederate Forces at the battle of vicksburg. The reporters were covering the war for the new tribune anderson to multiple confederate prisons over 20 months until the escaped and made their way across the appalachians with the assistance of union sympathizers. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you, david. Thrilled to be at the national archives. To be back your i should say. Ive written three books and have researched all of them at the national archives. Its a place of buried treasures all