A look at the impact of entrepreneurs living in the worlds poorest countries, and a book on the rise of chinas military and economy. For a complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Youre watching booktv. Up next, historian h. W. Brands recounts the life and political career of americas 40th president , Ronald Reagan. Henry william brands is a man of the american west. Born in oregon, earned graduate degrees in mathematics and history in oregon and texas. He taught at Vanderbilt University and texas a many and university before going to the university of texas at austin where he holds the jack s. Blands senior chair in history. Professor brands teaches history with and writing to graduate students and undergraduators. Hes written several dozen books on American History and politics politics and is no strange err to the bestseller list. Two of his books about fdr and Benjamin Franklin, were finalists
Website, cspan. Org history. Youre watching cspan youre watching American History tv, all we can every weekend on cspan3. Memorialetnam veterans was dedicated on washington, d. C. s National Mall in 1982. Restonuthor james discusses the memorials creation. Of,s reston is the author art, memory, and the fight for the Vietnam Memorial. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I am the lisbon centers vice president. James reston is a Wilson Center global fellow. I believe so is it . I was going to an event Henry Kissinger was speaking at and the chair set can everyone hear me and from the side henry , by definition, the people who cannot fear will not respond. The people who cannot hear will not respond. [laughter] youre at the Wilson Center and today is another in our books at wilson series featuring the latest book by the remarkable james reston who is a Wilson Center global fellow. The topic of the book deals with a contentious period in the history of the vietnam war, and the book itself de
Me and from the side Henry Kissinger said, by definition, the people who cannot hear will not respond. [laughter] youre at the Wilson Center and today is another in our books at wilson series featuring the latest book by the remarkable james reston who is a Wilson Center global fellow. The topic of the book deals with a contentious period in the history of the vietnam war, and the book itself deals with the contentious debate over how to mark that war and the american role and sacrifice during that period. That was fraught with politics and contention over the appropriate artistic expression to memorialize that dramatic period in American History. The Gold Standard of book reviews remains the new york times. They reviewed it this week and described the book as superb and affecting in terms of the emotions it evokes as one reads it. It is a fantastic volume. Jim has been affiliated as a fellow at the Wilson Center. It is remarkable the topics he has taken on in 17 books. The range from
Understand until we feel it otherwise it is just dry academic and factual and i think through portraying a character we can somehow identify with where we are more able to understand and with no field of the remarkable fact of my parents having been the only journalist who met him and i did hear my parents talk about this strange guy and then i started thinking that weve been talking about the parallel between the two and this american played such a huge role in the last chapter and he wasnt at all known. We know about a british spy that we didnt know about who in some ways did probably more damage when you read the book you will be appalled how he basically destroyed his own family and never said sorry. Thank you all very much. We have one more. Do we have time for one more . We can take one more. Thank you for this fascinating for him. Was their adopted daughter ever bitter about the path her parents took her down flex she wasnt a bitter person. She considered herself a fortunate per
Absolutely wonderful. Guest thanks for being here. Host and best of success on your next book. I cant wait to read it. [laughter] guest thank you. Host i cant wait to read it. Its going to be another changemaking book. Guest i hope so. Host thank you. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Bradley birzer, 1953 publication of the conservative mind, what was the reception . Guest pretty incredible, actually. Far more so than anyone would have expected including kirk and his publisher. When it came out, it came out in may of 1953, and it took about a month for it to catch on. But once it did, it really just caught fire. Its roughly 7580 publications in the englishspeaking world, major ones. Everything from the chicago trib and the New York Herald tribune, New York Times, london times, times literary supplement. They all reviewed it, sometimes two or three times. Going through the summer, kind of fee