Colleague, michael holt. Michael holt is the professor of American History here at the university of virginia. He was educated at princeton and learned his ph. D. At Johns Hopkins university. With time offer visiting professional ships at cambridge, yale, stanford and other institutions. He has been at the university of virginia since 1974. He has written widely and deeply about 19 century political history. For many years his writing focus on the years before the civil war. Both the political crisis of the 19 fifties has become the standard for advanced college courses. His 1999 book, the rise involve the american w. H. I. P. Party, draconian politics in the onset of the civil war, was the runner up for the lincoln prize, his most often described as magisterial. And that is not just because of his 1296 heft. More recently, he has written of the reconstruction period following the war. By one vote the disputed election of 1876, it tells the story of americas closest election which perh
Is the moderator. Okay, well, i am quite honored and pleased to be moderating as session with two distinguished authors on american politics from different perspectives, there is Jonathan Darman was a journalist before, maybe he still, is before becoming an author. He was correspondent for news week and he covered among other Things National campaigns and in 2004 and in 2008. He most recently has turned his attention to another Political Campaign in the 1960s, his new book is landslide lbj and Ronald Reagan at the dawn of a new america. Jonathan will be talking about that and anything else we can get him to speak on. On my left is Chase Untermeyer who has been a practitioner of politics, he served in the president ial administrations Ronald Reagan, george bush and george w. Bush, his book when things went right the dawn of the reaganbush administration is drawn from his diary of the first years of the first Reagan Administration. Please give me a hand tour to authors. And we will get s
Legacy of his grandparents a george h. W. Bush and barbara bush. Thank you. Welcome. I feel like i probably do not need to introduce my fellow panelists here, because everyone knows who they are, but on my left we have george p. Bush. Speaking on behalf of the bush brand. [applause] susan page is the washington andau chief for usa today author of the bestselling biography of barbara bush called the matriarch. She will be signing copies of it after this. [applause] beschloss, one of our most wellknown president ial historians who has written so many things, so many books, i will be asking you about some of the stuff that i found in my worn copy of character of all. Something i want to ask all of lost given that we have barbara bush and george h. W. Bush so close together, what kind of reassessment do you think this has brought for the country as to what the bush name and what the significance really was of all of the work that they did in so many arenas of Public Service . Looking back
Things. Maybe you are right. That was back. I love her initiate strong ties to family and to china. I didnt expect are coming to welcoming with open arms, but it still shocked to hear her mothers reaction a first hearing about me. She was horrified to learn her daughter was dating a foreigner. You will leave me and go away with him, she cried. My grandchildren will not be in china to live with me. I will lose my daughter. She was distraught after that phone call. Her eyes red and face flush. I did not know what t to say but id enough trouble dealing with obama, let alone her to for now we have each other. At the time particularly at night wakefulness and sleep and strange thoughts. The pictures in my mind encompass the image of my youth in kenya and my present life in china. I felt i was in the space the mine to mold and whatever i please with an obligation to my mother, my father, friend or even that long divided but ever present candidates. No, my grandmother. I could imagine have a
History. He wins and 72 over mcgovern , the biggest landslide in history. In fact, at dec. 72 he says someone asked not to write a book about all of this. And having the most successful presidency of all time. But, boy, how the mighty have fallen. That story, of constantly looking at the interest, how someone can be the most powerful person and take that kind of cataclysmic fall, and these tapes are forming of just a part of the story. They need to be supplemented with memo, oral history. I wanted to think john dean for coming here to austin and providing your insight and firsthand knowledge and stealing the buck. [applause] and he wrote a biography of warren harding. [laughter] [inaudible question] [applause] [inaudible conversations] and that was a conversation about the nixon presidency. We will be back with more live coverage from the texas book festival after this short break. Coming up next a memoir. [inaudible conversations] interested in American History . Watch American Histor