Brilliant at it. I mean, you would take train rides around the country. Six weeks in the spring and fall and he talked about simple language. He said the Harvard Audis think i talk into folksy language, but i know i reached them. Speak softly and carry a big stick. It summed up his entire administration. He then gave Maxwell House a slogan good until the very next stop. He was able with his relationship, but he was so interesting. He had a mida shave. When the barbarous shaving hand he is answering their questions and they say the barber has to keep up with him as hes moving around. He understood the press was an important channel for him to reach the public and so he would read their articles ahead of time. Investigative reporters would be able to criticize him. They would criticize them. He didnt have the relationship of the press that he had so the president was drifting and the progressives were moving further forward than teddy was at the time. It was a desire to be back in office
Beyrle full circle. So, what is your next book going to be . Right now im doing two things. Im working on what might be potential movies about teddy and taft. They bought the rights for the bully pulpit maybe even a miniseries. [applause] im trying to think about muckrakers as a miniseries. A ida tarbell is my favorite character in the idea of this great female investigative journalist and then the relationship between teddy and taft but for a book at this stage of my life i dont think i can afford 10 years on Millard Fillmore or franklin pearce. Theres no big person to go back too easily so im bringing all my guys in the room at the same time and im going to write about leadership. Thats really what i care about underneath it all. [applause] oh thank you. I just started it. After you finish that book i hope you will do a Great Service for america by running ask froml over the country some questions of doris. Are you ready . Host this is the tvs live coverage of the 14th National Book
Be fine. He goes to europe and it comes back on the titanic and he dies. For taft it was yet another blow. He said every time i look in the room im missing every single moment. Those letters are an absolute treasure and he felt especially betrayed with teddy running against him. To me the most poignant part of the book is taft and roosevelt were enemies. After the election wilson as president. Taft and roosevelt dont talk about. Taft tried to talk to roosevelt and roosevelt ignores him. Finally they came by happenstance in a hotel. What happened . What happened was when i finish the book i didnt want to end it. It was such of the trail but i didnt know so i followed them in 1913 and 14 and 15. Ut i didny know what the relationship had been like past that. I followed them in 1914, 15 and 16. People brought them together but taft says it was like an armed neutrality. In 1918 teddy was in the hospital with an operation that taft had once undergone any work undergone any wrote them a lette
You ar if you want to get in line here as well will be taking questions from the audience aso well. Well for Doris Kearns Goodwin, live on booktv on cspan2. Oodwin le n 202 5853890 if you live in east and central time zone. 202 5853891 for those of you1 in the central or the pacific time zone and the Mountain Time zone as well. Well we will begin taking those calls in just a minute. Go ahead and ireland. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2 and we have people in line. We will begin taking those calls as well. Ms. Goodwin thank you for joining us here on booktv for another 50 minutes worth of calls from our national audience. Lets start with this gentleman right over here in line. The relationship between lincoln and Frederick Douglass in terms of bringing the end of slavery because we often in a sense celebrate the emancipation emancipation proclamation and remarsary but in a real sense blacks were not freed until they were behind the union lines, so there is that time in 1864 we are now