launched his campaign, he kept talking about his book. he kept saying we needed a president who could write a book like this. it sort of embodied who he was. so i figured i would read it. i never read art of the deal. i learned he had written many books. his advice books, even a golf book. so i decided to pick a few of them. brian: why did he interest you, other than the obvious? pros: a lot of politicians memoirs tend to be sort of formulaic. they are prescreened and scrubbed. they project sort of this plan wholesomeness and all americanness. trump wrote his before he intended to run for president ever. the first was when he was 41 years old. i thought they would tell me something about him. i thought he would be more interesting than reading all the other sort of long-term politicians, which is the same reason i ended up reading ben carson s book to book, too. what is the reason candidates write these books in your opinion? carlos: there is probably a lot of reasons. the
about his 1987 book the art of the deal. he kept saying we needed a president who could write a book like this. it sort of embodied who he was. so i figured i would read it. i never read art of the deal. i thought i might write something about it for the post. i learned he had written many books. three memoirs, business advice books, even a golf book. so i decided to pick a few of them. brian: why did he interest you, other than the obvious? carlos: a lot of politicians memoirs tend to be sort of formulaic. they are prescreened and scrubbed. they project sort of this bland wholesomeness and all americanness. trump wrote his before he intended to run for president ever. the first was when he was 41 years old. i thought they might tell me something about him. i thought he would be more interesting than reading all the other sort of long-term politicians, which is the same reason i ended up reading ben carson s books too. brian: what is the number one reason candidates write
, lozada. and, at 7:00 this morning we open our phones and take a look at this morning s headlines on the washington journal. announcer: this week, carlos lozada talks about the books written by the 2016 presidential candidates. brian: carlos lozada of the washington post. a while back, you went through a whole bunch of books written by presidential candidates. why? carlos: it started with donald trump. when he launched his campaign this summer, he kept talking about his 1987 book the art of the deal. he kept saying we needed a president who could write a book like this. it sort of embodied who he was. so i figured i would read it. i never read art of the deal. i thought i might write something about it for the post. i learned he had written many books. three memoirs, business advice books, even a golf book. so i decided to pick a few of them. to see what i could learn about the guy through his own writing. brian: why did he interest you, other than the obvious? carlo
by theent, hosted historical office, is about an hour. good afternoon. it is 12:00. we begin with two very distinguished guests, veteran reporters who covered the civil rights act of 1964. i way of introduction, we are in one of the most historic rooms at the capitol complex. now known as the kennedy caucus room, it was the room where the hearings were held, the watergate hearings were held. this is the room where john f. kennedy announced his candidacy for president. the room where a lot of nominees have been grilled by committees. there have been a lot of inquisitions here. today, we are not doing an inquisition. we are doing a conversation. we are very pleased to have andy glass and roger mudd as our guests today. andy glass was born in warsaw, poland, and arrived in the united states during world war ii. he became a citizen in 1948. he is a graduate of the bronx high school of science and yale university. in 1960, after he completed his military service, he became a rep
cows in the morning. my parented moved in and there was no running water or indoor baath room. the cows got running water before the house because it was more important for the barn to have it. through education i attended public high school and public universities. i spent 26 years teaching political science at brown university and met my first billionaire. eventually i came to washington, d.c. and now work as the vice president at the leading think tank in the world. we are now seeing billionaires becoming more active in influencing the election process and spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars pursuing their own objectives often in secret from the american public. it is the combination of wealth and secrecy that most problematic about the period. i wrote the book to provide a much better understanding of who these people are and how they are using their money in the political process. the challenge of having bill billon billionaires is they are able to influen