>> for more information on this another summer reading list, visit said 10.org. >> booktv attends a book to be for mark shriver accounts his father's political career. sarge was the founder of the peace corps and director of president lyndon john's office of economic opportunity. party attendees include chris dodd, representative steny hoyer and senator bob casey. it is about a half-hour.

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i can wait to read it. >> people that are dealing with family. >> such a cynical time. >> unifying -- he wasn't into dividing people. really brings people together. >> what we do in kickoff. >> coming graduate out there? >> trying to put it together. >> one more year. >> you are doing great. >> watching some things going

on. thank you for coming. . >> yesterday in new york. >> six weeks. >> the pediatrician told me -- at six weeks. >> total irish personality. >> all from -- >> showing somebody out there something about him and some video. and he cried and off

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[talking over each other] >> there were moments when i was laughing my head off and other moments when i was crying. but a serious story. just vignettes about growing up and what i meant. used to write letters every day. and then we graduate from college and we are back and looking at other things. >> you have some of them? that is really cool. [talking over each other] >> people really love your show. >> appreciate it. thank you for coming. >> congratulations. >> happy to be with you. >> at some ungodly hour. >> i appreciate that.

oh my goodness. loving it? >> catching up on friday. >> it has been a lot of fun. you have a great story. in washington today so many people trying to survive and go into categories and bring people together. i am hoping that helps the people who are struggling with families and friends that people really love. >> more to it then you often no. . >> have my homework assignment for friday. >> nice to see you. congratulations. thank you for your notes. how are you? >> i talked to your brother all the time. >> i know you do. where are we looking? everything all right? >> everything is great.

obviously -- anthony and -- your house and as a candidate, life force. and i lost my dad after years past and go back and forth. [talking over each other] >> mom or dad. >> and the shoot. >> about trying to figure out how to fill somebody's shoes. and all the pieces. and anthony to alice. and in college, best buddies and working out.

>> we just do. you are living in miami. and -- >> alex is a great guy. longer than that. standing vote marriage and the wedding and stuff. [talking over each other] >> you are really likes to come. >> happy to be here. thanks for coming. thank you very much. [talking over each other] >> he was going to come. >> he rarely ever comes up the hill. >> really nice. >> to have you on the hill. [talking over each other] >> on my organic radar. 60 times. >> he was last in line.

20 your $30. aiken do him any time. [talking over each other] >> thank you for coming. really nice. congratulations. >> [inaudible conversations] thank you for coming. >> this is your honeymoon. [talking over each other] >> senate lawyer will be there.

first thing. >> did you actually have a ceremony? >> that is a beautiful thing. >> to work here. >> this is our wedding. >> that is why i say beautiful. >> wonderful. your screen saver. >> we were excited. >> really nice to help out. you got a thousand things going

on. >> have you seen the bound version? >> under way. a particular copy. >> but you know -- the guy runs politico and everything. i am not going with you. >> nice to see you. thank you very much. nice to come here. >> >> doing the book signing. >> offering nice to come. >> wouldn't have missed it. [talking over each other]

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[inaudible conversations] >> the people who were faster. but not about some of the other initiatives about poverty issues. >> the illustration of children needing families. >> that is for sure. >> can there be a memorial service. such a great journey. [inaudible conversations]. >> the book is built on that. how he interacted with his family. and everybody. you see that is the same.

whether you are the guy at the counter. >> traveling and covering world. >> he was literally asleep on an airplane and he went underneath the seat or the floor and years ago you never went in to a tough economy. so he would lay down. >> thrill but i have to live with. >> john of plane nonstop over 15 hours. . i was showing you. >> sorry. because you can't ever get an

update and have to book -- [inaudible conversations] >> a lot of folks came up to me after dad died saying he was a good man. i didn't quite know what that meant. i thought was something nice people said to a son who was losing his father but when i started thinking about it i realize he was hailed as a great man in newspapers and so forth but what made him good was the fact that he was married to the woman of his dreams for 56 years. the race five kids. had a daily relationship with god and went to mass every day and had countless friends and that don't mean senator kc or governors or cabinet secretary. had those friends but he also had a guy at the u.s. air counter at the national airport and women who waited in line for

35 years. waited in line and set your dad was a good man and turned around and walked out. he clearly had the ability to balance his faith and his family and friends and his commitment to the community and to the world and for me struggling to balance all that and how to raise three kids and deal with aging parents and have friends and make a commitment to god and try to do something with my life and decided to dig in and figure out what the secrets were and that is what this book is. a series of stories about a guy who lived and balanced these competing interests and did it very well. and did a good job doing that. and principles that structured his life was his faith and sense of hope and love and fat faith which was nurturing him as a child sustained him of through

his depression when the family lost money and put him through high school and college and law school on scholarships. the fact that that faith survived with him and he signed up the day after graduating law school to go fight in the war and that demanded hope. acts of hope whether it was in chicago working on catholic and racial counsel to integrate those schools and hospitals in that city or creation of the peace corps. or any of those programs and ultimately the acts of love. it sounds kind of corny but he really believed that. you see that commitment to love in his relationship with my mom of 56 years and some have said the greatest sign of hope and love and faith for him was the fact that he chased my mom for seven years before she agreed to

marry him. a seven year court should be for 56 year marriage but it was that combination of faith, hope and one of as exhibited in his role as a father and grandfather. one story -- my brother bobby got busted for pots in 1970 and he said it at the funeral. and he said at that point and uncle bobby had died a few months earlier and dad was thinking of running for governor of maryland. he was told -- it was on the front page of the new york times and he remembered walking down that hall. and dad said sitdown and he sat down and said you are a good kid. i love you. it is going to be fine. i am going to take care of you. that was it. no yelling or screaming.

nothing like that. that was the end of the conversation and bobby knew he was loved and supported. when you look at a guy who gave the unconditional love. a big public announcement was made at the twenty-fifth anniversary and dropped out a few months later and when i had my walk down that hallway to tell him that here was a guy who never said you ruined my family name and reputation, he just said how the want to make a difference? what the you want to do and we had that conversation. never once through body language ever expressed disappointment. the guy who loved unconditionally. i hope some little secrets like that on how to be a good father and balance fatherhood, faith and friendship is what the book is really about. i will tell one last store. greg jordan is a great writer of baltimore who put this book together and at the end towards

the end of the book, finishing up, he said i got engaged. i said congratulations. what happened was you dated for a little bit. what put you over the top and he said it was your father. your father has become a friend of mine. i thought this telling me to make a commitment to love and a long-term commitment to my lifetime commitment to the girl of my dreams. i hope this little book helps people dealing with being a father or mother better, helps the deal with balancing those acts. takes -- makes my father a few new friends and hope you get a new friend by reading this book. thanks very much. [applause] >> we would like to hear from you. tweet as your feedback.

twitter.com/tv. >> to get right into of want to set the stage of a little bit about the 1930s and to explain that part of what led to world war ii being such an upheaval for the united states were the policies of franklin roosevelt in the 1930s. to give you some statistics i will be brief. factory output. the output of american industry increased every decade beginning in 18994 the following ten years factory output was up 4.7%. from 1909-1919 was up 3.4% every year. 1919-1929 the roaring '20ss it was up 5.1% each year. but 1929-1939 it decreased

slightly every single year during the 1930s. so the industrial complex by 1939 has aged. it is out of touch with cutting edge innovations that are going on in europe and elsewhere and suddenly we are faced with this problem of a military complex in europe and we don't have anything to compete with them. in the book i mention army chief of staff douglas macarthur at one point testified before congress in 1935 pleading for enough money so that his army would have enough bullets for 100,000 soldiers. we are not talking about bombers or complex weapons. we're talking literally about enough bullets to man 100,000 army and i can understand if you are not for a strong military

american presence overseas which we don't necessarily need to but i do think that a strong defense of america awards of problems and in the 1930s we didn't have that and germany was aware of that and so was japan and that leads to a lot of problems. the war comes along to the united states in late 1941 and suddenly factories have to be converted. were you going to do? overnight they restricted products to consumers. overnight in january of 1942 you could not buy tires for your car. if your tires had been getting a late and next week i will run down to sears roebuck or whatever and get a new set of tires you were out of luck and the only way to get another set of tires was to go before the government's tire board and prov