of the texas state capitol in austin. texas has played a rather outsize role international political world, hasn t it? absolutely. for texas goes, america goes in many respects. that has never been more true than today. texas has always sort of lead the way for america in so many respects. we had three presidents from here in the last 60 years. lbj, president george w. bush and president george w. bush, so texas is an outsized presence in american life, and texans wouldn t have it any other way. you have worked with one of those presidents as well. well, have you worked with all three in some capacity? let s start with lbj who is right here in boston austin. mark: i with the director of the presidential library from 2009 to 2017 and now, the presidency or the lbj foundation. i ve written several books including one that we will talk about today, indomitable will: lbj in the presidency. but one of the reasons i wanted to be the director of the library now 13 years ago
books, including the making modern economics. as always, we appreciate grace, jfk in the presidency. mark updegrove. we re sitting here in the shadow of the texas state capitol in austin. texas has played a rather outsize role international political world, hasn t it? absolutely. for texas goes, america goes in many respects. that has never been more true than today. texas has always sort of lead the way for america in so many respects. we had three presidents from here in the last 60 years. lbj, president george w. bush and president george w. bush, so texas is an outsized presence in american life, and texans wouldn t have it any other way. you have worked with one of those presidents as well. well, have you worked with all three in some capacity? let s start with lbj who is right here in boston austin. mark: i with the director of the presidential library from 2009 to 2017 and now, the presidency or the lbj foundation. i ve written several books including one that
freedom and the author of, 25 books, including the making modern economics. as always, we appreciate announcer: and now, we are live with president of the storage and lbj foundation president mark updegrove who over the next few hours will take your calls and questions the email, text, and social media. his books include indomitable will, lbj and the presidency, the last republicans, and most recently, incomparable grace, jfk in the presidency. mark updegrove. we re sitting here in the shadow of the texas state capitol in austin. texas has played a rather outsize role international political world, hasn t it? absolutely. for texas goes, america goes in many respects. that has never been more true than today. texas has always sort of lead the way for america in so many respects. we had three presidents from here in the last 60 years. lbj, president george w. bush and president george w. bush, so texas is an outsized presence in american life, and texans wouldn t have it an
pulls up in the lam seen as the mayor and shows up at the party. he was one of the last persons to leave. that kind of charming. he was a champion of city of providence. the city was a downtrodden city. he would, you know, go on national tv and go we ve always had corruption. it predates buddy and post date him. it makes him at least he helped put it back on the map. so that s why people loved him. for more information on all of the cities visited by booktv s local content vehicle visit us online at at c-span.org/localcontent. booktv continues with president obama paul gregory. he profiles five women who lived in the soviet gulag in the 40s and 50s. it s a little over an hour. good afternoon. i m not paul gregory. i m not i m a hoover associate fellow. welcome to the concluding session of this year s hoover institution workshop. every year the workshop gathers some of the most promising and historians from around the world. and the workshop is lead by paul gre
they were both acquitted in the 70s. or the case of the austrian perpetrators who go back to vienna and don t even, i mean, their cases are heard in a kind of closed court, but they re treated with the utmost kind of respect as being these ladies and told to go home. host: so most of these women who worked with the nazis kind of faded back into normal, so-called normal life, correct? guest: yes, yes. and this is really another astounding piece of the story, is how much contact, how much this brought out the horrific behavior, and after the war they slipped back into society. you could say they got away murder. they did. scholars refer to, psychologists that i refer to in my book, the chameleon effect which is this ability for these perpetrators to, you know, just slip back in. they don t go on, they re not psychopaths, you know, who continue to kill after the war. they become normal, upstanding they re no longer threats to society. it s a different system. the system t