i'm here with scott ferris, the author of "inga." he was she?

she was miss denmark of 1931 and much, much more than that. a an tress, a ball -- ballerina and more. a screen rioter for mgm and mostly she was great love of john f. kennedy's life and they desperately wanted to marry each other. it was nat not a fling. shoe was a suspected nazi spy. >> do you believe nat is an accurateing a key saying. >> guest: i would say it was conclude shed was not spy. so interestingly, for several months she was considered the prime suspect, the key to the entire nazi espionage network in in the u.s., based o. circumstantial evidence which was not correct. but when j.ed gar hoover him was convinced she was not a spy.

president roosevelt directed him to havemer under surveillance and have here phone tapped, apartment becaused -- bugged. mail opened. >> host: you're the author of two 0 other booked "kennedy and reagan" and "almost president." while will be leg gay of barackk obama's administration. >> guest: the legacy is going to be determine over the coming years. as our first african-american president his legacy is secure in that regard as historical. the most important thing he did is what he did following the great financial crisis of 2008-2009. most americans are not aware to how close we came to having a great depression. and the other accomplish. obamacare and the question is, is that a stepping stone to other healthcare reforms people we view as a pivotal moment, and

is it going to get repealed? if it's repeal bid the republicans then maybe his legacy would be less but only time will tell. it's hard to tell with presidencies. harry truman was one of the most unpopular politician monday in america and now considered one of our near great presidents or a great president. so time will tell what his legacy is but obviously historically significant figure. >> host: in terms of the past election cycle, how has it affected america? >> guest: that is time will tell. mr. trump is unlike every president we have had. every a previous president have held elective office before or been a general mr. trump has been neither. a different president with a different background. hard to say itch wrote about losing presidential candidates and their impact on american history so the question is what

will mrs. clinton's impact. she is historically significant but a what did her campaign do? it's an open question. if she leads to certain trumpisms in an era of mrs. which is really good or really bad. people well say is watt important her campaign was not successful and allow president trump to come into office? did she change the democratic party? it's honored to say. the democrats looking to move to the left but the things copd be told immediately. that's for journalists to do history yaps need time to get perspective and there have been losing presidential candidates, goldwater and mcgovern, complete disaster. now from 50 years later we see that goldwater transform the republican party and mcgovern transformed the democratic party.

so we it will be few decades to know. >> host: your carpet book, "inning good" what sparked your interest in this topic. >> guest: unbelievable story. it's straight out of an alfred hitchcock movie from then 1930s. it is a little corner of the history of the kennedy presidency that most people are familiar with. the book argued that ingood was in many ways a singularly upon for john kennedy becoming president as anybody. we think of john kennedy as this handsome, man who was descitied to be president when they had their romance he was a young officer in office of naval intelligence skippy, gawky, and a terrible infear done inferiority complexion. and she bolstered his confidence. she had been around the world and knew adolph hitler and in

new the president of france and the king and queen of denmark and he con vicinitied beyond kennedy he was spur superior to husband bauer and encouraged jack kennedy to go to his father and tell him what he wanted to be. the kennedy family didn't know that he had any political aspirations or political talent and inga and then president kennedy was nearly court marshaled out of the navy. he was dating a suspected nazi spy and he was transferred and ended up in south pacific and became a war hero when his boat was sunk. he thought his career was over because he thought sinking the boat would be a disaster for his career. when he came back stateside, he sat down with a reporter named inga arvad and wrote the story that was the template for all

fuel stories of john kennedy and pt-109 that portrayed him as a war hero. >> here's a look at some books being published this week:

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