Winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. She is the author of seven books and is appeared on cspan and book tv over 60 times. She is well known for her work on Abraham Lincoln and her book team of rivals with the inspiration for Stephen Spear spielberg film. She earned her phd at harvard, we will reair her indepth appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took your phone calls. We will show you discussions from her book leadership in Turbulent Times and bully pulpit. We will start with january 1, 1995 appearance on the cspan series book notes. In the hourlong interview she discussed frank gooden Eleanor Roosevelt and the homefront during world war ii, her book, no ordinary time one the posted price for ordinary history here is historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either Frank Franklin Elinor Roosevelt a couple questions after all the work he did on the book, what would it be. With eleanor i would like to understand why she was una
Count 1191 books in. On Abraham Lincoln. More than john Kennedy Franklin roosevelt and Robert Kennedy combined. Guest i knew i wanted to live with him and i had to have a leap of faith that i could find something that would be my own way into it but the last one on Eleanor Franklin took six years longer than world war ii so i knew this would be a fundamental. He turned out to be the best companion i could imagine. Host how did you begin the process class guest at first i read. I hope its beginning to do a book about marriage the way ive done with eleanor and franklin but i realized they couldnt hold the public side of the story the way eleanor did. I realized he spent more time with the members of his than with mary. He was married to them more protected tense time theyd wait for news from the battlefield and go to the front of relax at night. These are the guys im interested in when it turned out theyd been as rivals beforehand that i finally realized that got my story. Host book came
Childhood in ohio at the 17th annual National Book festival in washington, d. C. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming out. My name is travis cohen, am a bookseller and in charge of the bookll a club. Im going to do quick housekeeping and we can jump in. Please silence your cell phones, we are also going to be recording video and audio also when it comes time to the q a portion, we have a mic right here, and the aisle, we ask that you speak clearly into innkeeper question to a question. And then following everything, we have all the books on sale behind the cash registers sir. We ask that you keep your trees in place. Also, we host a lot of events this year or every year end if a you need any help keeping track of those, we have the calendars of the info desk and check our website. We have to do the overtime. We cant person to another. We have the pleasure of matthew algeo, he is an awardwinning journalist and all things considered, marketplace, he has wrote many books on the adventure
The conservative movement on the other, so this is a natural kind of looking at that area. Natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work looking at that area. Heather has watched maybe not watched every single one of 33 years of firing line episodes but pretty close. She is probably the reigning expert now on all things related to firing line. Please help me welcome Heather Hendershot to the podium. [applause] she is probably the reigning sother hendershot thanks much. It is really great to be here, particularly here at the Hoover Institution because hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. I was out at stanford where all the papers are, and the preserved all the episodes in the papers and transcripts, i really could not have done it without the Hoover Institution, so it is great to be here. The first thing that people ask me about this book is why did you write it . The short, quick answer in part is this guy. Book been working on the since 2011, and about a year an
The consul general is responsible for eight in the u. S. And we have our embassy in u. S. And we have our councils who do the same things the msc does but in their jurisdiction, and in San Francisco, its quite a big one. We have washington, oregon, alaska and down to hawaii. You cover the western and far west of the u. S. . Absolutely. We spit this we split this with the rest. You are part of the court of germany . And diplomatic service, there is no distinguish made between consul work and ambassador work. There are other Foreign Services who have two different segments. One for consul and one for diplomatic work and its interchangeable. What is your term of office, so to speak . The length . It is normally three or four years. In one particular place . And one assignment, three to four years or if there is a special need to have a hardship of these assignments, with spouses and kids, but its not that difficult for us to go to another country because we know the organization and who w