Depth. The next three hours shall see many of the authors who appeared on the program. We were also joined by an author, cornell west and the heads of Simon Schuster and rectory publishing. There is something there is still something that brings tears to my eyes. I hope it wont do it now. On the seventh of december, or the eighth of december 1941, i went to what you would call a problem, an event, you know. I was the equivalent of a freshman at the university. I came home atoc 2 00 oclock at night, the light was on. Excuse me. [inaudible] americas and the war. Yes. And why did that touch you so much . To act because we knew it was going to lose it. Would that mean for you and hungry . I did not cry then. How old were you . Eighteen . I was 18 yes. With that interview with the late author john lucas, indepth was born 20 years ago. 2000 leading nonfiction fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth. Freeman, colton walker, bob woodward, george well, just to name a few. So over t
Macmillan and jon meacham. I hope that you are having as much fun as accessible as i am. [applause] [cheering] the best thing to do is to take the teacher, not the course. To take these incredible authors and whatever they are talking about. The only problem with this festival is there is somebody in every room. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. Douglas brinkley has also done so many other interesting thin things. John f. Kennedy and the great space race. He is the cnn historian and has a little basement studio envy of jon meacham, whos got that at msnbc. [laughter] of course the great historian and transformative books that is so important and hes written so many wonderful biographies, former editor of newsweek many of us know him from his basement from morning joe. The assignment is to talk about their favorite historical figure. I think i want to make that a free and fun thing. And then maybe we will then get into some other elements of thinking about writing.
Historian troy talks to 60 minutes correspondent lesley about the impact of the Clinton Administration on foreign and domestic politics and culture. [applause] i have to turn my phone off before we do anything. Wouldnt that be something if it went off . I was told you that i know grill because he is a president ial historian and i met him when he did his book and we met at the Reagan Library and hes the most generous person. He was helping me. I didnt know what i was doing out there. He taught me how to work in a president ial library so we have been friends ever since. This book is wonderful having read every word. Because its not just a portrait of a president and his life butn that ten years he calls at theft age of clinton so we learned about the 90s in general. So i guess with my first question is you call them the gilded age. How much of that prosperity anda a sense of wellbeing that we had in the 90s do you attribute this to clinton and bute the choices that he made . It was a p
Wellknown historian in lithuania who i spent many hours with and hes always a very astute historian and very quick to dismiss that which is just you could could collect historical gossip and i said you know i was talking to this poet and he mentioned that there was this banquet and a look came over his face and he said actually it was quite common after each of these that there would be these parties or gatherings. And i later found out that the paper presents both at this banquet and then another one and he was the guest. Thank you very much. [applause] i would love to invite you up and we do have copies of the book available for purchase as well. Thank you so much. [applause] good afternoon. Im the director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum and on behalf at the Kennedy Library foundation and all of my colleagues i think you for coming to welcome to viewers the viewers on cspan and acknowledge the generous underwriters of the forum bank of america of the institut
Carter posted the top qualifying mark in the boys triple jump, and he leads 31 athletes and six relays teams that will compete in Saturday's championship session in Clovis.