deal with the source of the problem, the look at the root of the problem and deal more broadly with the people that come through their system. so there is some good news out there. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> with a few weeks left in 2013 many publications are putting out their year-end lists of notable books. these non-fiction titles were included in "the economist"'s books of the year. in coolidge, syndicated columnist, amity shlaes recounts the years of the america's coolidge. ian baruma, "year zero", history of 19 h 1945. margaret thatcher, authorized eyeinggraphy, charles moore, a reporter for the telegraph recounts the late british prime minister's personal life and early career. in, my promised land, the

triumph and tragedy of israel, are ari shavit, senior correspondent for haret's newspaper, presents a history of israel. margaret macmillan, professor the history at university of oxford recalls the events that led to world war i in europe, the war that ended peace. the road to 1914. in lien in , women, work and the will to lead, cheryl sandberg, the chief operating officer at facebook gives her thoughts on women and leadership. for an extended list and links to various other publications, 2013 notable book selections, visit booktv's website, booktv.org. >> why does it matter? it matters because world war ii literally shaped the world we live in today. it preserved, and easy to forget this because it always sound like a cliche. but it preserved the world for democracy. world war i which we're going to

mention in a moment, had the slogan that woodrow wilson called, making the world safe for democracy. didn't work out that way. what it did make the world ready for yet another war. but in this case if the axis had gained more momentum, they might very well have snuffed out the largest democratic society in the world. that's one element of it. it also ended the depression. the new deal had failed to do that despite very ven russ attempts but the start of large expenditures in may of 1940 is what finally started putting the depression to bed. from that point on the economy grew by leaps and bounds because of the war effort. and in doing that, it put a whole generation of unemployed americans back to work and then some. a lot of people who had never worked. when we talk about sacrifice,

which we will in a couple of minutes , it's an ironic thing that the war made a lot of americans much better off than they had been in the past, if at all. they had gone through some very, a lot of them had gone through very hard times. it created, all kinds of modearn institutions, every thing from the tax system, to social security, which was on the books then, but which was in effect nailed down during the war. it created what we call the industrial military complex. and it created literally the american military. if that is the way that this war turned out, nobody saw this pretty much at binning. -- beginning. and that is where the story starts. i want to make two or three basic points.

that really governed where the book went. . . it was very difficult to get america to start mobilizing its defense is. so, this. it's full of conflicts, disputes, denial and so forth.

the second point is that one of the reasons why you have this kind of difference is the legacy of world war i. the end of world war i let's be very bad taste in americans mouth. it didn't come out the way were supposed to. the idealism that crashed and ended up with a cynical treaty of her side effect is aged for world war ii. it did not -- there's the joke that we beat the germans in 1917 and it hardly bothers to. they bothered is very much in the years to come. more important for americans who thought the war ended at home. number one, and they sometimes forget is, on the tail end of the war came to worst epidic