we voted for trump and we were silent because we can put up a flag without someone egging our house. it just feels like it became a very un-american country. we were one of the silent.t. we asked for the white house to become blue and every time, no, no. so i did vote for trump because he is the closest thing that shows strength and comfort. >> thank you. we will leave it there. >> guest: thanks so much. i know a lot of people felt that way on both sides, that they couldn't be public about who they supported, but plenty of people were very public aboutan it, and now that the election is behind us, we will have an inauguration, and i think hopefully everybody can keep an open mind and let's see what they do rather than worrying about what they may do.. i think the whole country, this could take a deep breath and enjoy the holiday and it willup

pick back up in january. >> have all been on the tv, when are we going to get the other two booktv? >> i will talk talk to them this week. here's our primetime lineup. tonight starting at 8:30 p.m. eastern, look at first lady eleanor roosevelt and 10, conferences narrows delivers the fairfax pride lecture and we wrap up monday primetime at 11:30 with hildale college professor bradley bruiser who talks about his biography of conservative writer russell kirk. that all happens tonight on c-span2's book tv.>> i'm

here with scott farris, the author of inga, kennedy's great love, hitler's perfect beauty and the fbi's prime suspect. who was in arvada. >> she was missed denmark of 1931 but more than that. he was in actress, a ballerina, a concert pianist, explorer, washington columnist, gossip columnist and screenwriter for mgm and editor of harper's bazaar but most of all she was the great love of john f. kennedy's life and they desperately wanted to marry each other. it was not a plane, but she was a successful nazi spy and still married to her second husband lacks based on your research you believe that an accurate accusation of her being a suspected nazi spy? >> there's a 1200 page fbi file on this arvad and ultimately it was concluded she was not a spy. interestingly, for several months she was considered the

prime suspect as a key to the entire nazi espionage network in the us based on circumstantial evidence that turned out not to be correct but when j edgar hoover himself was convinced that inga was not a spy, president roosevelt directed him to continue with the observation of miss arvad. to have her phone, her apartment bond, or mail opened, it was a remarkable thing. >> you're the author of two other books, kennedy and reagan, why their legacies indoor and almost president: the man who lost the race but changed the nation. what do you think the legacy will be of president obama's administration and how do you think this past election cycle has affected the united states? >> his legacy will be turned over in the coming years. as our african-american president his legacy is secure in that regard. the most important thing he did is probably what we did following the great financial crisis of 2008, 2009. most americans are not aware how close we came to not having a great recession but a great depression and

history will be kind to him on that. the other great accomplishment was probably obamacare and the question is is that a steppingstone to other healthcare reforms that people view as a pivotal moment for for the building of medicare and moving on to maybe a single-payer health care system or is it going to get repealed? it's going to get repealed maybe his legacy would be less than it is right now but time will tell.it's hard to tell. harry truman left office is one of the most unpopular politicians in america and 20 years later he was considered one of our near great presidents or are great presidents. time will tell what his legacy is but it's obviously historically significant figure and we'll see how that goes. >> in terms of this past election cycle, how do you think it's affected america? >> that's when the time will tell. mister trump is like unlike anybody else we had awhite house. every previous president has held elected office before or

they been a general in our army. mister trump has been neither so he's a different type of president with a different type of background . it's hard to say what's going to happen. i wrote about presidential candidates and their impact on american history so the question is what will his legacy be in american history? like mrs. obama because she is the first woman to be a nominee in a party she is significant but the question is whether there pains will do. it's an open question. if she leaves to trump is an era of america which is either good or bad, people will say that was important that her campaign was not successful and so allowed president trump to come to office but did she change the democratic party? that's hard to say. she may have once been one of the last centrist democrats for a while. they look to move to the west under centers influence these things can be told it immediately. historians need time to get perspective and again, there have been losing presidential candidates at the time, barry goldwater, george mcgovern

being too. now from the perspective of 50 years later we see barry goldwater transformed the republican party and george mcgovern transformed the democratic party so it will take a few decades before we know both must what mrs. clinton's legacy is as well as president trumps. >> we will bring it back your current book inga. what is it that spark your interest in this book and made you want to write this book? >> it's an unbelievable story straight out of an alfred hitchcock movie from the 1930s with secret agents and glamorous winner and femme fatale and all sorts of things. it's a little corner of the history of the presidency that i don't think most people are familiar with. the book argues that inga arvad was singularly responsible for john f. kennedy becoming president has anybody. we think of candy as this handsome, witty, urbain man who was destined to become president but inga arvad, he was an officer in the office of naval intelligence. he was skinny, bulky and disheveled and had a terrible

inferiority complex compared to his older brother and inga did a number of things. she bolstered his confidence. she'd been around the world, she knew adolf hitler, knew the president of france, knew the king and queen of denmark and she convinced john kennedy he had everything it took to be president. she encouraged jack kennedy to go to his father and tell him what he wanted to be in life.kennedy family didn't know that jack kennedy had any political aspirations and didn't think he had any political talent and she managed to help him stand up to his father and get the support you would need to become president and because their affair was so scandalous, president kennedy was merely court-martialed out of the navy area erie is an officer of naval intelligence and he's dating a suspected nazi spy. he was merely court-martialed and eventually ended up in combat in the south pacific where he became a war hero and his boat the pt 109 was sunk. at that time he thought his career was over because he thought thinking that boat would be a disaster for his career.

when he came back stateside he sat down with a reporter named inga arvad that realized it was very heroic. she wrote that story that was the template for all future stories about pt 109 and that was the basis for the kinetic kennedy political biography for all the years up to the white house. >> as 2016 comes to a close, many publications and media organizations were offering their picks for best book of the year. here's some of the titles that national public radio has selected. luisa thomas recalls the life of america's first foreign-born first lady, luisa catherine adams in luisa. in the glass universe, davis so well reports on the women who acted as human computers at harvard college observatory in the mid-19th century and their impact on astronomical discoveries. andres percent as looks at the enslavement of native americans in his national book award nominated the

other slavery. npr's notable books of 2016 continues with rebecca tracer, writer at large for new york magazine who details the contributions of unmarried women throughout american history and all the single ladies and inborn a crime, daily show host trevor noah remembers his childhood in apartheid era south africa. >> well, i was born at a time when in south africa, due to the laws of apartheid, my parents weren't allowed to be in any shape or form in contact with one another. i grew up during a time when we were governed by the laws of miscegenation as they were called. interracial relationshipswere for bin. the mixing of races were is forbidden so essentially , being born from my parents, a white swiss man and ablack woman from south africa , i was essentially born a crime.

the very existence of me was something that was against the law. but what my parents had done was breaking the law and because of that, our lives were impacted in the way we could live as a family under those laws of apartheid. >> that's a look at some of this year's notable books according to national public radio. book tv has covered many of these authors. you can watch the full programs on our website, booktv.org >> . [inaudible conversation] good evening everyone, good evening. good evening everyone and welcome to chess club, my name is robert byrd, i'm washington correspondent and 109th