Came to do this show you heard about the hacking of twitter, the fact that trump asked out onto facebook get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years, and actually wrote a column recently questioning why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact check the president. Tell us your take on this. What is this relationship between facebook and the white house, between facebook and free speech . Im going to throw you a big question to launch you off track you first, thank you for doing this. It is good to connect with you again to some virtual see. Like a lot of things you cant just keys out in the one problem of facebook from its dna and its origins. In the case of trump, obviously he wasnt a factor in the early days. It wasnt something they talked about in the dorm room when they started it up by the time Trump Campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook. It was lathered on top of sort of the messy way they dealt with controversial content.
Prom and i was the equivalent of a freshman at the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night and the light was on americas and the war. Why did i touch you so much. What did that mean for you. I did not cry then. How old were you. I was 18. The late author john lucas, indepth was born 20 years ago, since 2000 over 230 nonfiction and fiction authors over time have appeared on indepth, Freedman Alice walke walker, bob woodward, george will, just to name a few. Over the next three hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of indepth but also to ask you a couple of questions, here they are, who was your favorite indepth guest, what book are you reading now and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author, that is what we will be talking about and showing the video from the past 20 years as well but here is how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth, 202 7488200 for those of you in the mountain in the Eastern Central time zone 202 7488201 if you live in the mountain and p
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
Mr. Jon meacham, this book came out in august, congressman lewis passed in july, how long have you been working on this . Is a tricky question to answer, on one level it was 28 years, another level it was about six months. I met congressman lewis in 1992 during a Senate Runoff down in georgia, i was a reporter for the chattanooga times. Began kind of a running episodic about running conversation that we had over the ensuing three decades. I really decided to do it when i was standing with my family and Speaker Pelosi and congressman lewis and about a thousand other people on the pettus bridge in march and i realized watching the congressman that this was almost certainly his last trip there. I very much wanted to pay tribute to him but also wanted to hang a lantern on what had driven him to that bridge as a young man. As an example, and exemplum of how religious faith can be essential to political activists. Did he know you are working on this entity sit down with you . We talked a lot
I wondered, could have made the choices they had to make to protect ones family, to protect myself. Could i have found the perseverance, the fortitude, the courage, to get to. Its where i am now where i wrote my book, if you hear noises in the background, those are not horns those are frogs croaking away in my pond at college hilltop in connecticut. Hopefully there wont be a thunderstorm and it will stay nice and you callawhen i was up your writing i would spend a good deal of my time wishing i could understand what was like to live in world war ii. Wishing i could find the apathy, the understanding, to convey on the page what its like to live with a constant sense of uncertainty. What its like to live not knowing whats going to happen next. What its like to live through a great unknown. Now its a previously unimagined year later and all i can say is, be careful what you wish for. I am not saying that our battle against the pandemic is the same as fighting world war ii. There is not an