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we are in the gallery of the light catcher building at the new museum. we're looking at vanishing ice. 1775 to 2012. the purpose of the exhibition is to highlight the rich cultural heritage of the planet's frozen frontier. the alpine region, arctic, and indian art -- antarctica. dating from dwaight and it's exhibited side by side with a photograph.

as, of east greenland. it's from her last iceberg series of 2006. many people understand the importance of ice for the planet. it's reflective qualities, that help regulate the climate, but many people are unaware. it was important within the context of climate change to let people know the regions are fundamental to our identity. >> there's more next weekend as booktv and american history tv look at the history and literary life of washington. on c-span2 and 3. we're taking with gang at the national press club and the new book on "due possibility circle." it is about young people.

20s and 30 who came to washington on the eve of world war i. they all live around dew point circle. they were friends and in and out of each other's live frpts next 50 years. and they were franklin roosevelt, el eleanor roosevelt, felix of the supreme court justice, the brothers, alan and john foster. and most people don't make the connection between all of these people. yet they were friends and they were very much involved in the league of nations for the collapse and ultimately in the creation of the united nations. it all began right here. >> did the social interaction kind of start their political relationship? or was it the other way around?

>> they were all very -- [inaudible] not what we call progressive. these were though door roosevelt progressives. and it came to washington to help him. but they ended up staying with -- [inaudible] and getting involved in world war i. and then being in and out of this for the next 50 years. so they were really bonded more by the political beliefs. in fact, they all hung out at one particular house, a boarding house, called the house of truth. they stayed up all night and argued politics and chased girls, and danced, drank liquor. also argued politics. >> tell me more about franklin roosevelt, a democrat, coming to washington to assist teddy roosevelt, a republican. >> well, he was the exception.

he deliberately became a democracy so people wouldn't mistake him from his cousin, who was the president. he was pretty much inties ting -- indies ting wishble. the real star of the area. the guy everybody admired herbert hoover. nobody thinks of him as being a progressive. yet he was the ideal progressive of his time. and it was a culture story. it was a political story. it was a story about friendship. they argued with each other. they chased each other's wives. they smoked an awful lot. and ended up creating the united nations among other things. >> how did they assist each other in their careers? >> a., by getting jobs for each other. the ones who were in the media,

like walter wrote editorials, criticizing each other. they fought with each other, they broke up, they got angry. they would come back around. it was a family relationship. you're not really sure you really like this person, but he's a relative so you've got to. >> what drew you to angle? how did you discover the group and decide to write about them as a group? >> i found them by mistake. i was working on a biography of alan, the cia director. and i wanted to know where he began. he began in dupont circle. his grandfather lived there. he and foster went to gw law school here.

everybody thinks harvard now. no, no. so they were friends with franklin roosevelt, and roosevelt, of course, used them both. and of course, they went on to serve president eisenhower and kennedy and so on. one of the things a reader has to do is drop a belief about democrats in one -- [inaudible] and republicans being another. because their idea of progressivism is about as liberal as you get in the 1920s and '30s. there was a right-wing that makes today's tea party look like a bunch of gentle -- [inaudible] it's different time. that's what fascinated me. was trying to get inside their heads. >> is there anything today commemorating the houses where

they lived? do we still know where some of the places are? >> we know where that are. were. most of them are gone. the house of truth still exists on 19th street. it's being rehabbed by its current owners. it's going to be kind of a new seem. >> thank you very much for your time. >> we now have secular norm instead of theological norm that govern our acceptance or rejection of the ways in which a god of gods or god escaladed can speak to people and what impact on that. for instance the -- well.

that, by i.t. dpubt seem to be a problem. but when it leads to other elements then the trig your of law enforcement concern as well as the popular press is concerned then suddenly this idea somebody listening to god and having do things that seem to be -- national norms. that's the interest. and that needs to be believed and controlled. ..