As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
This week on q a, james mann, author and resident at Johns Hopkins school of studies, he talked about his biography of george w. Bush. James mann author of the biography on george w. Bush. If a friend asked you to tell him about him what would you say . I would say he was the son of a president , had trouble dealing with that fact for the first 40 plus years of his life and then got his own personal life together enough to be a quite successful and shrewd politician to be elected governor of texas and then became president of the United States. The first thing he would be known for then, at the time of his presidency, now and forever more, will certainly be the fact that he was president at the time of the september 11th attacks, and chose to wage a war in iraq that turned out to be a disaster. What were his early years like . Well, he followed in his fathers footsteps and i say that quite literally, because he was forced, almost, to go to prep school at andover, he went to yale, he di
James i would say he was a guy who was the son of a president , had trouble dealing with that fact for the first 40 yearsplus of his life and then got his own personal life together enough to be a quite successful and shrewd politician to be elected governor of texas, and then became president of the united states. The first thing he would be known for then at the time of his presidency now and forever more will certainly be the fact that he was president at the time of the september 11th attacks and chose to wage a war in iraq that turned out to be a disaster. Brian what were his early years like . James well, he followed in his fathers footsteps and i say that quite literally, because he was forced almost to go to prep school at andover. He went to yale. He did many of the things his father did. It really in his mind, i think, it was not him. He once said many years later there were differences between him and his father starting with the fact that he went to Sam Houston Elementary S
Tell you about him, what would you say . James i would say he was a guy who was the son of a president , had trouble dealing with that fact for the first 40 yearsplus of his life and then got his own personal life together enough to be a quite successful and shrewd politician to be elected governor of texas, and then became president of the united states. The first thing he would be known for then at the time of his presidency now and forever more will certainly be the fact that he was president at the time of the september 11th attacks and chose to wage a war in iraq that turned out to be a disaster. Brian what were his early years like . James well, he followed in his fathers footsteps and i say that quite literally, because he was forced almost to go to prep school at andover. He went to yale. He did many of the things his father did. It really in his mind, i think, it was not him. He once said many years later there were differences between him and his father starting with the fact
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