Nominated twice for the pulitzer prize. The author of i think one of the great books about the civil war, america which was in the library a few years ago talking about it and talking about the importance of the evangelical religion in american politics leading up to the civil war and in some senses, the decline of evangelical religion, certainly the righteousness of evangelical religion after the civil war in the beginning of postreconstruction era and jim crow. It is i think a great book that refrains from what we have thought about the civil war and what we thought about race and religion in america. In a sense, you get his generation whose new book, when government was good is the subtitle. It may seem like a distant path for some of us today. We phrased also the conversation about the place of government in American History and particularly executiveleadership. Its really a book about truman and eisenhower and johnson who was the coda about those who came after. Here in kansas cit
Lincoln assassination as my topic. I was fascinated by it. The following year the kennedy assassination took place and kept everyones interest and has continued and ive been interested in it and i have done interviews, you know, as far as various groups and lectures and two years ago Roman Littlefield loaned to me an email we see and do lectures on the subject and he said would you loo ick to write a book . Here i am semiretired, a lot less work to do and more time thinking why not . I said okay. They sought me out and i was pleased to say yes. Brian you start with Andrew Jackson. What is that story . Professor feinman Andrew Jackson is the first president we know of that has any problems with assassination threats. There were three such cases. There was the case of a young man who punched him in the nose in 1833, which is pretty minor but a first example of assault. Then we have the father of later lincoln assassination John Wilkes Booth who writes a threatening letter to jackson in 1
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seen now in this encore booknotes from october 2000, journalist bonnie angelo discusses her book first mothers the women who shaped the presidents from this sara delano roosevelt to virginia kelley. profiles the women who nurtured the american presidents of the 20th century. it s about an hour. c-span: bonnie angelo, where did you get the idea to write about the first mothers? guest: well, you know, i d covered the white house for a long time for time magazine, but i remember the exact day it came into my head, and that was in 1968. i was covering the california primary with robert kennedy. and i i asked him i said the the family was deployed all over the state campaigning for him, and i said, with all the tragedy that your family has suffered at the hands of politics, how do you account for the fact that they re out there again?ai a and he kind of looked at me under the eyebrows and said, have you met my mother? and so i spent a couple of days with that formidable ro