Its meaning, and ive always liked to write about real people who are in a situation whether it be averill hairman after world war ii and you have a create a new world ordinary like nato and the world bank and the Marshall Plan 0 steve jobs who says were now in a digital revolution, we have to make it personal. These are people who to use steve jobs words, were able to think different, think out of the box. I want to try to explore the creative mind and how it works. Host one of them themes themes in your book seems to be a connect to spirituality. Guest everybody believed they were part of something larger than themselves. I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you realize its not how much you get to take out of the river its what you put back into the r
I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you r great devices or great ideas but after a while you realize it is not how much you take out of the river but how much you put into the river, what you leave behind so your spirit is so manifest after you have been gone. Whether it is Robert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin or anybody else they did have a connection to something supernatural, something larger than themselves. Host from 2011 to your book and steve jobs, the opening sentence in your the 2004 got a phone call from steve jobs. Why did he call you . I had written a biography of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein and his it why do you do me next . My first reaction was okay, Benjamin Franklin Albert Einstein, you . Then i realized he had been sick fig
Recently, it has only become much worse. Big government progressives are interested in marginalizing, dividing and silencing critics who provide a different point of view. They believe solutions are found in the federal government. We believe the American People have the answers. There are three institutions i believe in first of all, the family. Second of all, the church, and third, the government. Each one of these institutions play a very significant role and if they are out of balance, things can go wrong. The family has to be strong. We have to have fathers and the home. Divorce rates need to be lower. We need to love and support singleparent families. The church has a Critical Role in our communities. They need to have Community Awareness and involvement, supporting the family, building character in young people. If those two are filling their appropriate roles, the government will fill its appropriate role. National defense, infrastructure, when i think about what xm america gre
Off russia and china to create a triangular diplomacy where opening to china and a detente with russia as we pulled out of vietnam, preserves the United States influence and power in the world after a retreat from vietnam by doing this tray triangular balance with russia, china, and to me that was a Creative Leap that even the bright people the best and the brightest, the mcgeorge bundies hat not thought spoof that helped preserve ore influence in the world. Host the wise men, six friends and the world they made, Averill Herry man, georgetown ten net, dean acheson, robert love vet john mccloy. Were they the establishment . Guest they were. I wrote that book with a friend evan thomas, because i was knew at Time Magazine. I was covering Ronald Reagan these people handing out leaflets and evan, a friend of mine from college, he had come from a more prep school background. I said evan, whats this establishment thing . Then we decide to demystify is buy writing a book at six people who at t
With our guest. But every guest is on indepth. We asked what they are reading and influences. Ch here is the look at mr. Issacsons answers. Host walter isaacson, who is walker percy . Is. Guest he was one of my original heroes mentor, uncle of a friend of mine, ugging by uncle by marriage. We called him uncle walker. We used to go across lake pontchartrain in new orleans where i group, and percy was a friend of ours. We couldnt figure out what anns dad did. Whats your dad do . A writer. And it wasnt until the movie goer came out in the early 960s 1960s, and i was 9 or 10 years old, and i go oh a writer thats something you can be when you grow up just like a fibberman, a doctor an engineer. And and so i took sort of an enter in, you know, dr. Percy, uncle walker. And, you know, i would sit there, and id sort of read his books and say, well theyre sort of deep, philosophical religious messages, especially in the moviegoer the last gentleman. And hed say things like, you know walter, ther