Same with narratives. I think its right that, for example, Frederick Douglass and harry jacobs did they really do stand out intrinsically a little more than i read some of these narratives. Theres a lot of thickness and energy and subversive energy in those two spectrums in particular and certain other works, were some of the others are very interesting and important in their own way, that may be lacking density a richness that you do find in Frederick Douglass. So anyway. Some texts are better than others. I am not [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] and however and dirt outside. The thing is kind of throw it out there and hope for the best. When i published a conviction back back in 81, price books back in. Its about 300 or 350, Something Like that. They can barely sell it to libraries. The price of the book as well. And yet, you have to publish a book. Its harder and harder to get reviews for University Press books. Even in scholarly journals, the whole thing is shifting, but part of it is the type on exchange of the digital revolution. So many people have academic laws and they publish online. Is the day approaching when academic books only access . Im not quite sure. What i do in my own books is to reach the online to people, maybe general readers, if you interested in culture, who i can talk to. This is what i was talking about. If we can jump to divide in our prose, and are writing to interest people a little out side of academe per se contacted them in some ways that we can sustain all this together, it seems to me an arm to maybe we can keep the publishing alive so it doesnt shrink so much that it becomes almost not. How do others feel about this . I was going to ask you actually when you talk about extending hands to keep one scientist, i wonder in the . At nine, you know, how literary critics can speak to historians and vice versa. Return literary his jury, cultural history. This is a big problem. A lot of historians like literature and want to incorporate them in their work. We get a sense of what the bad. When it comes to formalize, that sort of thing. Theres a lot of comfort mobilization within academe. The English Department people in over there in the psychology over there. There again, the insurer within academe should be a little more dialogue and im very happy to be at this tivo. Historians, biographers and harvard law school. He seems to me that any way we can kind of bridge that gap between interacademe beginning and science is certainly sunlight. [inaudible] i mean jan mark [inaudible] [inaudible] [laughter] [inaudible] merrimac i want to talk about this being about publishing. Suppose you abolished the phd dissertation, which i think would be a great idea. Save a lot of trees but about treason anymore. Save a lot of cybersomething. Most people publish dissertation never published another thing again. Its not the mark of being a scholar necessarily for being a teacher. Not all of us are book writers. Even great writers had their distances. 3000 word people, marathon runners, sprinters. But those are the good writers. Its our talent for that. Its not till that way you can be talented. The second set would be how should i put it, constraint unoriginality, liveliness, i see that as someone whos never published a peerreviewed article. I have tried. To have to go into this a bit more quiet the mac you understand why. Yet five, six, seven, 10. It is a being like a puree of me and. So thats my contribution to that part. Maybe one more. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] academia should be more open to bridging the gap in opening up, reaching on hand to other areas and other people to bring the jury to whatever it is supposed to be. I think we have to end it there. This is what davids work as an about. [applause] while visiting coeur dalene, idaho, booktv took a trip to caloric 36 miles away. The town was founded in the late 19th century by prospect or know a catalog who discovered kalina and area. We sat down with julie whitesel weston who recalls that his rehab the town. I remember playing in the park. Members skiing in the mountains. I remember going to school, which i love. And i remember all the people who were around. The miners might buy a house in the morning. They can buy your house in the evening. We could hear the whistles blow. We could see the light of the house where he came in. But we were very much involved. We saw these people, but i dont think any of us realized what was going on underneath us. So was kind of like a normal childhood. The history of catalog again with a. Know what kellogg was a prospector who came here from further the valley. He is exploring around the house right out this way and supposedly the kicked over and that started the race here. Mostly you find minerals underground. You often find school closer to the cup, which is one of the first rushes to this area. When i found the silver, that is when caloric started in about the 1880s. Mining town looks very different from a town in the midwest. And this time, we had caught that way pumped out smoke. Tall smokes tax that would pump it out day and night pier towards the end of the time it was still going, they did a smokestack that was 150 feet high. It was higherups who would get in the wind goes in place else. That is where we put them in big fat of chemicals in mud was the predominant model. West led you often have silver in. Here in this valley, the boom lasts 100 years. It went from 1880s to the 1980s when it was closed down. The miners almost the sole employer except for retail stores. Everybody depended on the mind. Because everybody depended on the mine, it affected everybodys lives. The bunker hill, the name of the mine supported the hills, pete for a uniform in the marching band and employed students in the summer and provided thousands of scholarships for the kids who came out. The effect on the top closing was devastating. The town had been through hard times. There had been labor strikes an irate about one of the big strikes in my book. It had been through the depression. All the men voted three days a week so everybody could work. When the mine closed down, nobody could believe it. They tried to get people to come in to save the town and somebody else buy it. A Company Called golf resources had got it from original owners. They were mining deep and fast in getting this stuff out. The Environmental Protection agency came in and said you cant keep doing what youre doing. Between the way the resources managed in the epa to close the town became a superfund site. The Environmental Protection agency is the one who tries to keep the air clean and the water clean. This town did not have clean air or clean water. And zero, there are lots of poisons that were spread out on the ground. While this one company was managing, there was a back house fire. It was the place where many presents for taking out of the processing before it went up in the air. They kept running even though the back house had earned and that was approximately 1972, in 1874. The town didnt know that in so there is lots of lead and arsenic and other toxic chemicals that were spread out. So when the epa came in and said this has to be cleaned up, the river has to be cleaned up, they just closed everything down. The company he was managing it had already said they couldnt run it anymore because it is too expensive to comply with regulations. It became a 21 squaremile superfund eight. Everything was closed down. Their fences around everything say no trespassing. The come into this property, you will be poisoned. The lakes in the area and from adults in here, dont eat the fish. It was it really did end the town as a mining town. The government money spent. About 220 million by the time i wrote my book, which was in the name you may need some i was first doing interviews. Now its up to 440 million. Cleaning up the area. A dugout every yard, putting clean dirt. They worked on the river, moved the river, dredged it, move it back. They took out the field in the football stadium and put clean dirt in. Basically the town is pretty clean now. Many people in that town felt that was not appropriate, that we had all lived here. Theres nothing wrong with any of us, with a few exceptions. It just was the end of an era. A lot of people stayed and waited and waited for the minds to reopen, but they didnt. There was still mining going on up the valley. They would ship it out. There is a smelter in washington and some in canada. So some of them could get workfare. Most of them just waited and waited for the minds to rio. And they didnt. Many stayed and maybe theyre involved with the ski industry they are in the tourist industry. The wages paid were so much less than the miners were paid. It really hurt the town a lot. I wanted to write a book about kellogg because i grew up here. I began at the liquor strike that happened when i was a junior in senior in high school. I came back to interview people about the strike and find out more about it. I knew a lot about it because i work for a lawyer who held a fund the new union. I learned i didnt know everything. In things that matter, Charles Krauthammer presents his writings on limited government, feminism and the death penalty. He spoke about his book at the george bush president ial library and museum in dallas, texas. This is just under an hour. [applause] good evening, everyone, and happy birthday, mrs. Bush. [applause] this is a great personal pleasure for me, because as charles reminded me in the green room, weve known each other now for 32 years. I was briefly charles em employer employer. Charles krauthammer has written a fantastic book, a compilation of his columns plus just a marvelous introduction. And as somebody who used to be in the publishing business, i know one thing which is that compilations never sell. Charles book is number one on amazon and will debut as number two in nonfiction on the New York Times bestseller list this sunday. [applause] hes ahead of john grisham and bill oreilly and you name it, charles. [laughter] he was born in new york city, he was raised in montreal. He went to mcgill and after that was a commonwealth scholar at oxford, then went to the Harvard Medical School and was a psychiatrist, practiced for three years, was the chief resident at massachusetts general hospital. Briefly went to work for president carter, was a speech writer for Vice President mondale during his president ial campaign and then where i got to meet him was when he came to the new republic in early 1981. And at the time the new republic, if i may say so, was, it was the golden age. Charles was there and Mike Kingsley and Rick Hertzberg and what was interesting about it, at least to me, was you had a group of people who had different ideas and frequently fought over them, but it wasnt a monolithment at any monolith. At any rate, charles won the National Magazine award for commentary in 1984, a very cofted prize for anybody whos a magazine writer x. Then in 1985 he went to work for the Washington Post as a columnist. And within two years he had won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Since then he has continued to write for the Washington Post. One of the things that charles taught me when i was an aspiring columnist was that you write one column a week. Its hard to do more than that. And even one is not so easy. Joe scarborough called him the most powerful force in american conservativism, and i think thats an accurate, an accurate description. David brooks has called him the most important conservative columnist. Youre going to hear from him tonight, and we will have charles will speak, well hear questions from the floor. So save up your questions. Youre in for a real treat. Charles krauthammer. [applause] thank you, james. Im very honored to be here. Thank you for being here, mr. President , mrs. Bush. There are nice introductions, and there are kind introductions. A nice introduction is where they say all the nice stuff about you, today list your achievements. They have it transcribed and notarized, and they send your mother a copy. [laughter] a kind introduction is where they leave stuff out. [laughter] now, despite your intentions, that was a distinctly unkind introduction. [laughter] because you included two things which i now have to explain. [laughter] first, theres the mondale thing. [laughter] yes, its true, i was a speech writer for Walter Mondale, and people ask me, as you can imagine, how do you go from Walter Mondale to fox news . The answer is simple i was young once. [laughter] and then theres the psychiatry part, got to exlain that too. Yes, it is true that i once was a psychiatrist. Actually, technically speaking i still am. But in reality im a psychiatrist in remission. [laughter] doing very well, thank you. [laughter] havent had a relapse if 25 years. [laughter] and, of course, im asked to compare what i do today as a political analyst in washington with what i used to do as a psychiatrist in boston, and i tell people it really isnt that different. In pote lines of work with i deal every day with people who suffer from paranoia and delusions of grandeur. [laughter] the only difference is that the paranoids in washington have access to nuclear weapons. [laughter] present company excluded. [laughter] can makes the stakes a little higher and the work a little more interesting. I am really honored and delighted to be here at the bush library, to have seen the bushes. Im happy to be among you, but truth be told, im happy to be anywhere where Juan Williams cant interrupt me. [laughter] [applause] ill be sure to tell him how you feel. [laughter] i want to begin by saying how much i appreciate, mr. President , what you did for the nation at the moment of maximal danger. How you were cleareyed, straightforward and courageous in rallying the nation against a new barbarism, and you were never afraid to use that word and that idea, managing to recognize islam a as a great religion while at the same time seeing no contradiction in denouncing, opposing and rallying the nation to fight the we accelerated branch of islam perverted branch of islam which attacked us so wantonly on nerve. I wrote at the time and i believe to this day that history will treat you like harry truman, recognizing the depths of your achievement and creating the very infrastructure that will carry us through this war on barbarism. We are already seeing in this today in a kind of backhanded tribute to you as those who so criticized you during those eight years, the very people who did criticize you in those eight years when they came to power, they adopted the very same tools that you bequeathed to them, and that you and your administration had created in a moment of National Confusion and danger. Just as truman did in his day, providing the infrastructure, the tools and the institutions that carried us through the cold war in those days and will carry us through this war. In this generation. And if i can just repeat what i said to you in private, but id like to say it in public, that i spoke to my wife earlier today. She asked me to convey to you her admiration and respect more what you did for our country, the steadiness of your voice, the depth of your devotion the country and your determination to see things through each when you were even when you were nearly alone. Now, i know im supposed to be selling books, but i just had to say that first. Especially [applause] especially the wife part. [laughter] otherwise, when i get home tomorrow night, ill be sleeping on the couch. So [laughter] now about the book. Its called things that matter 30 years of passions, pastimes and politics. And its very good. [laughter] you should why buy it. You should buy lots of copies especially for your liberal friends, if you have any left. I dont. [laughter] so in conclusion [laughter] no, that was just a test. I wanted to see whether id get the kind of applause that clinton got at the 88 convention when after 50 minutes he used those words, and the place erupted not just in applause, but in celebration. That laugh [laughter] but i digress. [laughter] about the book. The book is several things. The first thing, because it does span my career as a journalist going all the way back to, as jim said, 1981. In fact, i started on the day that Ronald Reagan was sworn into the presidency. Its a chronicle of the last three decades, and those three decades are historically a time of enormous fascination which it was my privilege to witness and to comment on. The 80s, the reagan revolution and the last days of the cold war, the 90s, our holiday from history. The 2000s, the beginning of the age of holy terror. And for the last half decade, this week is the fifth anniversary of the winning of the president i by Barack Obama Presidency by barack obama. Barack obama and the rise of a new kind, a new, more ambitious and i might even say radical kind of american liberalism. Regarding the 80s, i think the one column that sort of captures it the best is the one in which bill clinton says during his presidency when we look back on that era he meant the cold war era and and we long for a, i made a crack the other day. I said, gosh, i miss the cold war. It was a joke. I mean, i didnt want really miss it, but you get the joke. And the point was that we had this myth created after conservativism in the decade over the 80s, utterly destroyed and undid what was left of the soviet empire of commune ill. This myth communism. This myth that there was a Great National consensus on how to confront the soviets. Now, there was in the 50s and the 60s, but it dissolved after the vietnam era. And there was a Great Division in the country. And the 80s were distinguished by the fact that there was a total breakdown of that consensus. And i write about that in the column because jim had mentioned in the introduction that the new republic, this was a liberal magazine. It was the would be of contention between me and, well, essentially, everybody else on the magazine because i began to support publicly and in the writing many of the things that reagan did. Essentially, the things that he did that won the cold war. And we have these huge arguments internally, but i ended up writing a lot of t