Youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have the opportunity to explore the earlier years with our distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in the many years weve been anticipating this for some time. Much of the research took place in the Kennedy Library archives and we are pleased to learn more about this comprehensive new look at the formative years. Im now delighted to introduce tonights speakers. We are glad to welcome frederick back to the Kennedy Library virtually. He is the professor of International Affairs and professor of history at harvard university. A specialist on u. S. Foreign relations history hes the author or editor of nine books including embers of war that won the Pulitzer Prize for history. The books include our man Richard Holbrook and at the end of the American Century. To get out of the news for an hour and a half as we try to navigate one of the storm used years in our lives. I knew you as a vietn
Bestselling author James Patterson is our guest on book tv. Author of about 150 books or so. The most recent is a nonfiction. Yes. Welcome to my house. How many nonfiction have you written . I dont count so probably four or five. The first one was jeffrey epstein, filthy rich which is now, they just dropped the video today. It is for parts, i think the 25th of the month or Something Like that. Then it was Aaron Hernandez did that and then this one, john lennon coming out later which is interesting. This connected to a house john owned, a bridge between these two houses. Who used to live in your house . Nobody famous but it is a disgustingly big house. [laughter] they were here for a while and she held onto it for a while. Another in his florida fami family, why did you choose to write about kennedy . It seemed to me this was the Great American family story a royal family and what i wanted to do was write about the whole family. There were plenty of stories about jfk and robert, etc. Bu
Winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. She is the author of seven books and is appeared on cspan and book tv over 60 times. She is well known for her work on Abraham Lincoln and her book team of rivals with the inspiration for Stephen Spear spielberg film. She earned her phd at harvard, we will reair her indepth appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took your phone calls. We will show you discussions from her book leadership in Turbulent Times and bully pulpit. We will start with january 1, 1995 appearance on the cspan series book notes. In the hourlong interview she discussed frank gooden Eleanor Roosevelt and the homefront during world war ii, her book, no ordinary time one the posted price for ordinary history here is historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either Frank Franklin Elinor Roosevelt a couple questions after all the work he did on the book, what would it be. With eleanor i would like to understand why she was una
So, mr. Patterson, your most recent the house of kennedy is a nonfiction. Ive done a little nonfiction. Welcome to my house. We are sheltering in florida which is a good place to shelter. How many nonfiction february. I dont count. I probably written for five, the first one was jeffrey epstein, filthy rich. Which is now they actually dropped the video today its a four parter, i think it is the 25th of the month, Something Like that im not sure. That was the first one and that was aaron hernandez, i did that and then this one and i have a john lennon coming out later in the year which is really interesting. This house is connected to a house that john and yoko owned, a bridge between the two houses. Who used to live in your house questioning. G, nobody famous. But its a disgustingly big house. As is lennons as well. They were here for a while and then she held onto a while after he was killed. Another famous family, why did you choose to write about the kennedys . It just seemed to me t