al f. he controls the secretary of the navy. we talk about the strategic petroleum oil reserves, and this is what this is abt. ptel an sovy hth art searavuto t .. doesn't know what he's doing. he's not crook, b he doesn't know what he's dog. ts oran oi cano 'r wyoming, they're in california, and he is given -- they track it down, basically, from a herd of cattle. myio arstsherd of calech h ner ane ylare t i k,li one of the washington papers, i think "the washington post," actually.

so it unravels. is i-- it's difficult t owtrdewou s uel diul k wg of scandals at was the problem and which caused him to die. it is all in coolidge's l hmeresintnd d sim ic system take its course. on this issue and also on the e ory nea fign do this sound familiar? coolidge who is very wary of upsetting what inher fm ild in mys a

loyoeskgs. you are not an honest attorney, your focus, if you are not going to coopera iresptively osn 2eione se aims to past elections? >> guest: there always are similarities and differences. regard to baseball i always inuainreerd to all things ualebumeth do remind you and certainly in 2012 you think a lot about 1948 because you think of the ressliin mn est- truman started out at 87% approval rating. we had won thear and things

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was e t i was able to vote in and when it came to the polls i was very aware what the tribune hae a c u wiewav tre was tity st th poll also came up with dewey bhe sames aclyke wne leaveps ndy anere g spl thas exactly the kind of sample one needs after that election with a digest you fold up and never est ain >>statdsho hnd fnedand whr realnge les

they have cellphones and are we going to be measuring opinion that way? are we going to be measuring pe o t et? opnd batng a keotnd whs nae he sample? balanced republican/democrat at the right point in time? the main thing about your question is right fewrong s t foe nd the ler des roelrsananwhat you said is true. they were pulling people by telephone and got it spectacularlwronand re of before hhat eheal t:t heeo pretty much t it right except in wisconsin, jack kennedy got mp ie g amo

btay through. it is neck in neck from start to fini. h yuon 19 t oue helen haeefnt n with exports supporters explaining his position over a glass of scotch and a cigar but he was not the drinking, smoking illegal explaininsour for osm t p i60 >> host: >> guest: when you have an election that close any factor can be put into that slot. the blackote n te, bo t fstat relationship with the press,

nixon himself could do that beuse he sort of agree with that in not so many words b i erwowhwereou tavriar >>t:asrobert. >> caller: is it true that a mobster once said of truman we bought him he didn't say ut? >>t n'ou filr toat. no doesn't sound familiar. [talking over each other] reena nadler mst old. uehert as sll town farmer. the machine puts him up for fi i19lem ruarnd

fa and the democratic family involved in the nation's and paternal organizations and the veterans' organizations and althe boys go over aunch fres iwo ine tyer w and the county legislature. and taking orders from the boss coming out milions and he is wrestlg d am ioinghe d we ht m o k? he writes this out himself wrestling with his conscience and gangsters before he wins for the senate in 1932 there is a ouintaon w > : fr los angeles e-mails to mr. pietrusza, why do

u like louise brooks and what areavhioric es because of the style of pro cahes lyand such auris ic iwaer similar or hertory, false spring which is about baseball and a young guy who relyas all the dgs he wldivo kesssimlf, jo-- jeine jerkiness, louise brooks is beautiful and make a lotf ak ita edthannaso dt di h

young and beautiful but did not serve her well in the long run. but in eonrusotimes e d tsn fe. maybe you are roy hobbs andn herldhe cou a h ri a on ok isanpietru >> caller: i am here. i am right outside greenville, mississippi where a lot of authors are from. i am originlyrosconn. th wg.96 i was in the library studying a book about fascism.

moricans rlly d't unrs wa faist al in t of republicans are really fashioned and that is a radical statement ut i would like your en tha gu jogorgecd gh what constitutes fascism and fascism is somethini is a, temperamentally, and kind of like occupy wall street where they don't even know what the als are but we are goi t mpeny al

y doesn't fit into that mold. >> host: hendersonnevada. >caller: i haveeen reai am struck by the parallels in particular are around the second hundred days wherehe supreme court sakg 5-4 ncded austi ned roberts. 0 one roberts. and there is precedent wre these 5-4 decisise de at we erienci. anwo if you could comment. >> gueste cot paing

fiof 17 afr r wie lasl s icby vdist a heno going to deal with this anymore. and they say there was an old saying the court dt desionthct e grof c a ves on the porch, to flip so they allow new deal programs which tad bn ut dmtrn. y s retirements where roosevelt doesn't get the court by dint of inflation of numbers but simply by making apme ueyeyoitllme h ateng >>st. lko teaching.

my are original goal was to lle ndaid eree lo oupo twork after this? it was a mind chilling statement. i took a day job after that. >>t: joees in whats ur ewwiriok? hooung archives? >> guest: thprocess is you opos tbl ahe an idea, youak inabsktilu uloofrcso y yet!

wh anu you will be pursuing. then the are months and months of shear research and at the end oft verien a u bbungt fof it from which to work and it becomes at some point at all w yo.f md er oes after a while the material takes you. but so much is now available electronilly. h tnywehon. weotiste your next booabout?

>> guest: good question. i don't know. i am w t tt hxt en3 nohi iavou is t a is out there being shocked is i have written a novel. were goingff initally ree di. >>hohiicno litical.elut and it started out based on my sports background to tell you how long it bn olin

ork mp w i will call it that. >> host: springfield, missouri, go ahe with your question for etrua. >>al ildto the ar heughat ink' hltlems would have prevented him from running in 1964. thank yo >>uesti dotnken hnis the senate majority leader, the boy had his shot. now let's give it to the man. i t thk etdo t iisst toi is also starting to dabble in drugs

which he shouldn't be which d ederiat ihit is had e tr sl a deal country. nixon has to close the gap with five million votes and he nnsh hwo m esi t k pty en will give him a chance because they adjusted that with stevenson. that hasn't rked in 56 tiin 1enr >>st y ofisenhower personally. probly could have had a third term. nsnc of tntdes so popular. reicpa cotualnd tep

r psiga. keep eisenhower from being president. there is g americag e te ine we inehdsiwhwend fthd he c war is like that was as phony as the missile gap. we were doing very well but we had the feeling we sulha d me d ja covethel >>t:l iac general macarthur had on the 48 election and if there's any truth to the theory that truman later firing of the neral was based os tanarreed r some sort of threat. scott eter 18 there are four candidates on the gop big side.

g: candaten th ke warn. thiseynd ho son h shot at it and macarur should have won mp was ngnsin primary and his oms rcan tl ev as a soldier. some people like his style and others didn't. there is a drafmacartr m 8 4ru wh y a ring japan across the ocean and he was 73 years old. we are getting used to olr ndes n. ss thelixptay w umoue vrick so

onnitylde played a role in that. how much i would hesitate to say. >> host: next call from david "1920:he year of the 6 esidents" om portlan on. al hre? uen ts. n'ins ut fr the years we have seen publicans have very openly theeionre byam mts after him, so many buildings after him. they almost created a cult. i don't think reagan was a pealible mut ty h on s my r my question to the author is there any historical precedents for aty movement te

aringis th presidency where necessary to create this almost godlike g:pe a their eyes? . delist by, look at the 1948 convention and aefrs jan e wag ol s popular after the civil war, to this day, ted eviser roil is oth teighw -miti figure kind of misses that and

things are so controversial on ckooks at philadelphia/jfk boulevard, a er p. hoin0 in estsow w wi fou about theodore roosevelt's death and what w sio uehet e tyst, end frao cf1 peace treaty firsthand, and england and france and still wildly popular, savior of the world and he hears about it in at s sut h is hpy aut it

ac he n b m abo these things and so many interpersal relationships go to crash and ho turns toas osniana pasgo mment.r >> guest: >> caller: i want to know about your opinion of the process we use now t pick presidential candatompared to 40 or5 s ao bny ppletcf wveo ou y f vote foreaty only to vote agai e. >> guest: we have a long history of ving against people in this coun nsorhee en a different process as we touched on before that there are

so many primariesndo ny ane ts stch geg us we took a look at mi romney or even newt gingrich at the end of th pross tyt id-mbg th d pleasure of conducting a series of interviews with the european press earlier in th year to explain this pce th. atkeorraed s pren tniss msorced to go to some general store in new hampshire and the fact that it is so fragmented 16 vot he te eaisut a

retiouolde reflection of our wole federal system. which is that diffusion of wer. ho se, osst, ts s no ote in su yan etg se, you're goi to end up going a lot to back rooms. a vestige of the back rooms is pisz 07,idalle rlees whres pren in that presidential election? >> guest: theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, warren hard ca coodge,er hr h hhe oth volved? >> guest: t are would have bee the nominee of the republican party but dies in his sleep in january of 1919.

endi f nepe iwis the nomination, calvin coolidge, a tampe ma himice estate 20 gohehaingie wow on psi t united states and invalid think. woodrow lspresidenof the taedthonioise tw hin he >>t:s s the chance? >> guest: he is in a wheelchair. some days he functions and some days he n't. cry omes ec in20.

franklin roosevelt, democrats secretary of state for secretary of the navy under wilson, d lewa h re th mi nut it sounded better. >> host: do they matt? wn to the wire. counting vote after vote 1976 reagan and ford there was e bam thingog . le purint aneday i got to roli. my sick daughter in south

0 ty ill un al yla aicre of cvin coolidge and it looked like his tweet 2 sons. year-ago i w pering some old pape and camacss a un t dthf wt paed h en presidency if it did. >>uest: we are coming up on annirsathnli l b tewemom plymouth not. the older son was calvin jr.. they are playing on the white house tennis court. y ul1sor jundut rd is tira ts ctn develops

or a blistered develops on calvin's foot and rapidly become than infection. inctpadeliadeal with it and treasn torshoaw by is a horrifying event. there is glass bulbs blowingp aneyi gl ial cogeacdli nearly hysterical at the death of his son. it is teible. gilbert was a historian. concludes thacoolgeas bffhiaperhi olidge said the boy ran out of the presidency after that as we it should. every time lt

wi aee tt i m cdge and achieves what he wishes to do on his agenda ficilymo bwehedk for longme h d puss ot ornd historian. he is our guest on booktv's in death. bob from california. you are on the air. >>owoi. ou oprusme you made on the republican party and fascism. the 0 original modern d cd orsm, t merger of the cporation and

government power. niusni0s.sent byams the republicanarty, and corpore power and government power puter anmm>>strkboidf thsl w will if not to further their own interests directly to keep government from coming down on them. am rtlveeggiouy unth o administration with the bailout of certain industries, takeover of certain industries. ry oltca lciinmeg nbut

siioeruou point to certain things where the pharmaceutical industry was in favor of certain things so that certainther things d t iusye so yohave partnerships with this and with ethanol or whenever so you can point of the finger t b orts. reicty, re ersmdso a from that. >> host: david pietrusza, in the 1920 election was the corporate interests ofilam randolph g: 'titvehey rsnt bausehey su dabblers in politics and hearst is a fascinating

figure. he starts o as ral cratnd en thothermos lth g oumeuite cova l iis career. a supporter of coolidge very early on. >> host: y? >> i'm not sure why but hdoes. oples ter cng r ionden t in 1920 he is still a democrat. in 1932 he is a democrat and hursat t origin ofack kdyatjoo ost ns tnk nat hefos a mocr ruing for the united states senate and got cheated -- controversl, lost the senate riorarnashe e

ie anti-semite publishing the dearborn independent and elders of zion and the ternational view. >> did he pport third-party candatr wahertine cr tt? >>wono on h own. he probably flip over the republicans after the new deal. there was a poln2 ty d bhiwe ga'smao ch o t an people. number one was henry ford. this was after all his anti-semitic stuff and harding was well bewhat. thiss o ofhe insed abhieect ets i 4. besides knowing the scales were coming and also the republicans ha taken a big bath in the midterms.

ge et 92s ti 9% of the vote for a long period of me in the ely eyde dr eces ofhery. blt s. whts blout't ma wour, for socialist. when it is closer like a 1916 the vote goes way down and he wasn't on the ticket that year but they get him backn sa i20 bu hut he is s an influence. he gets 900,000 ves that year. it is remarkableal. row lsiato im i t fheai

fthtind. democrat wilson puts him in jail and hardinis a very kindly man. that is what evee would say. on ry e y. hes taid really ought to be out of jail. when you are coming by spped by the white house. hn rdcongyel y. of se. hood ratnsith congress? >> no. the senate is so fractured twesvend natilarlth whe ys hiram johnson and george norris and this big western midn

1annte b the nominee of the progressive. >> host: next call for david pietrusza is from north rolina. you a on a soualbo eson archives. what is the future for historians now that everything is on computer and paperwork and on phones were you can'get your phones on a lot of it and e oron n us ho dhe with television and radio and questions asked and not asked. has a ange? hod utoet id fen ng hat. the person can do it on tir

own. it is good to have these things not ite fi it ialid in ne it. f. oit and never will b you have to go through it and maybe the more stuff there is does create a problem like that. you go thrgh morend me nde mo aoue io. whiea did they vet them? just as they do now often a hit and miss process. in 1920 with warn harding the o pughrohat orary ens ecwh u ias that it is you. we will go to you and is there anything in yo background that will keepou from being

ede hags keit twto sw that is the first cause for alarm because there were all those women troublesnd rs up. dot hm rr ngis psincy b ha his legacy for prosperity. >> host: they you think charles evans hughes would have made a padide? asc- a w b o tonight on americanhistory tv. he wasmazi ivl. hag oove gh hd under both of

them a secretary of state and then was a fairly conservave n'totally pigeonhole him and it is one of the foremost progressives and he starts o by busting themstfo how w did thomas dooley -- dewey no earl warren? >> guest: how well didl enimde wenooiske h a lot. and the republican governors' atewas a full.

d he was a progressive fell. d sro. all dewey turns him down. warren thanks if he has a future in the party i better turnim dn agn. eyon. hwas campaigns don't mesh and earl warren's wife ends up in that voting booth in novembepulling do theeveror tran ndsif oian pe trpr two tears while congress is unfettered. any chance to go back?

>> guest: ion thi so. rt constituency among the senators who all want to succeed two term president so i don't think that wilpp irdamenthe s e hder ha. >>t:t ll, two left. john in port st. lucie. u are on book. tagonioonwge e tfo. he the first to have a vice-presidential candidate during his primaries? o eeoe sho ow i19 id fhee wat's

mistake was george bush and i wish he had picked someone else. ckro18r s nk the or two years before the election and they pick the vice president but in the modern era reagan's taki ochaweicker rknd hh dn' remember being at a meeting that they of folks and that was announced and thegrin that as n g cnge erf98and george bush if you were not happy with george bush you probably would not be happy with the fellow who was discuss bi agadg oqu that po who was

ti bors ing not to be vice president again which is understandable but to be cosi oinly-enr co-psi a yd whonre w y t that osav a h you read the wikipedia article -- would you change anything? >>uei imine me ytbun' mya d mal a this point. >> host: richard e-mails in to you in his book the case aga ol aiserti wiheeresnk whre yunrs

and/or impressions of the ybotn vorf ne.dency rarng i w rding re neiab aut ro ag nstianbeian there was some issue as to whether reagan should have had moreontrol over the ra tca hmay ve the thing about coolidge is he would appoint people land trust them with a position and give themheir head.

hulk heesup wd foei h unthe ul lem have their head. >> host: >> host: you are on with ahor david pirusz oorn uen bo t inra baseball team and providence, wrote island. do you havenyinul g a 19 2 u te re information. >> are you writing a history? why your personal interest? o ayero: i had great uncle id -atal know. there is a picture of him in

se o fit. >>stenas ar n pndo l ethabball bukn lf le would know the answers. quing sothing the isd o oe eran out how to contact them and they will have something. na le moerenfere canaan? new york state. and couple teamstari >>st: y trenlon aganmnaj

>>stu e limited number of cities of a certain population. montreal they start on iu to en olad t no i ao extement. then you go to the concession stand and everyone would be standing there wating the hockey game on .tey. osarn ca alha program. i grew up in san francisco. i remember wn jack kennedyas runng present. th.l tir sio me td all the time. now that mitt romney is in the

running i don'tear ou wbe fir on itmsmemosmmaorctofulhan catholicism. i wonder what you think about that. i don't hear one word about that. i wyn. scd.atbe e gs areo usinpe kind of discussed in whispers and in certain quarters. one of theroes ofendy hnvas riea hco heat that goes to mike msfield, the speaker of the house died and john mccormack becomes speaker of the hou and he a cathoc. heu tresint jo lr heen

and nobody notices. >> host: did martin luther king had a role in the 1960 econ? >>st: or >>t: mofe g:by kwn treab known in the black community which in terms of the elections story h getsrrted on araic stn s iwh aroi to the prison camp which is a real bad place. his wife gets worried and jack veetngbo tand it becomes a fact swaying the black vote and they put out millions of pieces of literature and radio adverting

to do that d ghe that -- h nca from memphis, tennessee. >> caller: i am very nervous. cr:yore estuught to ru at cveio s ard i am 64 now. t tman d gr espof i whobhad t confuses people today. you have a president with absolute integrity not just a portn. yec que isng t t campaign

of 48. romney is the dewey. thddcaks pretty like a man on >>sttet a rponse. the comparison -- the question s een tounoveyth?a a truman heirmstances are very different. you have 8.1 umployment, three% uneloymt t h m itiha yr haatn l peace and trying to figure out how to get to peace. we just passed milestone in

ann. soavmaivdi in tn. dynamics. so stay ned. >> host: paul nor wine treats in est mifowek eiow wa ie back? >> guest: charlie halleck was the majority leader of the house of representatives from iia whofh'he t that yroer so he wanted to be ce presint. he promised iwith a wink and a lideteewacro i nvonphelge

he would have beenecause warren delivered nothing. we are damning with fainte bue nef do cagn huculve eta n ham. you are on the air. aom red p inwouavma aio knhe i might find some photographs in west virginia during the campaign? ctght appe al >>aleweres or sh pesnd you are a billionaire to take it over is very hard. they don't want newcors coming lsonocllimy wa

reic ulvee sw aih e don't think it would have been a comfortable match. >> host: is there a good o hereboth the best. >> host: is teapot dome a major scandal? >> guest: it is a major scandal. when a secretary gs to j da a h t o is mor williams -- wilson's son-in-law gets implicated in a very unfair w tdes hihaes so as ioth oslecot ross

perot's legacy. >> guest: the ideologyot honwhe ienal b oerwise i think not. he did talk about things we are still talking abo. talking aboutefitanade imlanc a ls macng gntkioulkabis o creating a partor movement based on hi >> host: for the past 3 hours w btng wda ru se cou 1995. wild century saw the in 97. theife mn ri in 2003.

major league came out in 200 baseball's canadianmeri hk couatearn pren 20asn bti out, "1920: the year of the 6 presidents". 1960 -- "1960, lbj vs. jfk vs. nixon: the epic campaign that rged pde camout in08 hi recent, "1948: harry truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed america". he added "silent cal's almanac". mr. pietrua, thank y for being on booktv. thank you for joining us. okonesill wrap he. >> visit booktv.org to watch any