but walter in particular shows a theme, reading is not optional. and we were able to send him during his first year through around the country. at the que visited some new places. louisiana tech book festival which was sponsored by the louisiana center for the book. and i would like you to, perhaps point to a couple of these wonderful experiences that i know you had come not only in places like festivals, but your concern about visiting detention centers and talking to young people in detention centers. >> one of the other qualifications you did not mention is that you have to be very handsome. [laughter] >> distinguished and at least 6 feet four. right. >> i am particularly interested. i wanted to know the reading levels, what they read, what was going on with their venture with books. and for me, i have been in this gamelan time. i have been writing years and years and years. i have seen prisoners that i first saw in grade school and second grade and third grade. you see them 15 years later in maximum-security prisons. to me that is absolute shoc

walter suspect did that meigs was doing everything he could to take credit for walter's accomplishments in design. in fact, both people were right, was happening exactly as he described. there is really no stepping back from the brink. from 1857, from 1857, pretty much until the beginning of the civil war, very little was done to the dome inside the dome just sort of languished because walter wouldn't give meigs the drawings and at the drawings couldn't build the domes. this is the senate after he was dedicated in 1859 and include this only to show it looks exactly here at this point exactly the way it does today, even to the carpet. and this is, i've included this -- this picture is his most dazzling. database and meigs together at top did decorations taiyo that they describe as the highest taiyo. this is the presidents room just off the senate chamber and nothing reflects the media is more dazzling techniques then that's. almost all the, it looks like this is loaded with relief sculpture and with the pain teens and things like this. it's almost all optical illusion. the british still

. >> now, walter jacobson, author of "walter's perspective: a memoir of fifty years in chicago tv news," and keith koeneman, author of "first son: the biography of richard m. daley," talk about their books. this event was part of the 2013 "chicago tribune" printer's row lit fest it. >> walter, what compelled you or who compelled you to tell, most of the people on television have made so much money that they can just go up and do nothing. you write this book for money, he wasn't always was in television one of the best writers and we don't always associate television with good writing, especially in local news. but you always were a good writer but he wrote in the short form a perspective, what compelled you to tell your story? >> i had, rick, no idea that writing the book. never have thought about doing it. of course, never have tried to do it. when i retired maybe five years ago for the first time -- >> he's like the michael jordan of local television broadcasting. [laughter] >> my retirement is often compulsory. as the hair gets a greater, the less management wants to be part of the

walter cronkite, andy rooney they, homer bigart and hal boyle. mr. gay speaks with walter cronkite's and chip cronkite, tim wendell and david maraniss, associate editor of "the washington post" that is next on booktv. >> good evening and welcome to the national press club. i am the aarp bulletin executive better for state news, member of the book and author committee and former president of the national press club. are booked tonight is "assignment to hel," the war against nazi germany with correspondents walter cronkite, andy rooney, homer bigart, and hal boyle. the authors timothy gay. excited to be doing this book because that just finished reading andy rooney's my war. before we turn to tonight's book but me mention some upcoming books. june 14th, liz quince said the persian look media and satirist will discuss her book is free or die. june 28th, a commanding officer of the uss cole at the time of the attack will discuss his book front burner:al qaeda's attack on the uss cole. on june 12th, the vice president and the republic of donna will discus

first a discussion entitled "reading is not an option" with walter dean myers, national ambassador for young people's literature and john cole director of the library of congress a center for the book. this year's international summit of the book was hosted by the library of congress in washington d.c.. >> earlier this year doctored billing sten named walter dean myers as the third national ambassador for young people's literature. this is a project of the center for the book with a children's book counsel and it's a nonprofit arm, every child the reader. the notion of the national ambassador would be someone who traveled the country on behalf of young people's literature, promoting it and also expanding the audience for reading in every way that we can think of. my proper today you already have. on the table in the back there is a bookmark which has walters photo and also a free explanation of the national ambassador program. it lasted for two years. walter is midway through his two-year term, speaking on behalf of reading and today we are going to learn a little bit about his experie

i thought all, he is part of walter cronkite.e is going to think i am a no cultured dweeb and i just shot my credibility with this guy for the program wasn't even on cbs. [laughter] i was sitting there really upset with myself. two seconds later as, my computer be dinner was chip. they rather the actors made west haven work. i was thrilled to deliver a script to him once in hollywood. we loved i dream of jeannie in the cronkite household. simpatico. having bonded over arboretum, we were friends for life. there are hundreds of things we could explore here, but i boiled it down to three things, especially how those three things affected to great correspondence and friends who in fact, stayed friends for the rest of their lives. walter cronkite, and homer bigart, as i mentioned, they did their jobs brilliantly month after month. the first thing is how these five correspondents rose to the challenge, despite being so wet behind the ears. there was nothing about their backgrounds to suggest that they could cover the global conflict. n

walter recounted. glock discouraged an extracurricular contract but it was las vegas and walter did not tucker in at night. at the awards ceremony marking the end of the shot showed dylan was called to the stage and given a plaque honoring her as best all-around model. shooting industry magazine reported after seeing glock sharon dylan is easy to see why dealers were anxious to get glock. that is all i am going to read from the book. i will say next week my lovely wife julie and i are going to be shot show and only hope we have similar success marketing glock, glock 18 the book. [applause] i guess questions are in order if there are any and there's a microphone so our friends from c-span can record your thoughts. >> i assume that was your "glock" article in bloomberg magazine. >> yes. >> when this gun came out in thes i remember hearing there was a ceramic chamber that was available. a ceramic slide. it could be smuggled onto airplanes. what was the company's explanation for that? >> part of that myth

that is the great walter cronkite and the great walter bigger standing up for the baric symbols were 300. and if you didn't know better, wouldn't you souris peter graves from stores 17? and that's the good guys. anyhow, i know from a research come in the correspondence that that was taken on february 19, 1943, exactly one week before the assignment to how arrays. these guys have been trained by the army air force on combat braves. they're right in the middle of the training of the photograph was taking. they were taken on that days the shin. is it the weather attempted strummed. they brought a couple bites, peddled around and visited across the stabenow points, once, but twice. so i don't know how many pitchers of went down before the photograph was taken. .. >> three times at that point. now, think about that for a second. here it is 14 months after pearl harbor, and the only real action to speak of in the european theater are these amazingly brave bomber boys who risk life and limb to take the fight directly to adolf hitler. and yet it's taken all this time to get the manpower, the

yes, ma'am. >> hi, walter. i didn't write anything either, but -- [laughter] i'm the daughter of a man who, he majored in philosophy in college, went to graduate school, was trying to get a ph.d. in philosophy at penn and was told there are no jobs out there for philosophers. so he left with a master's degree instead of a ph.d. and then started to work in the telephone industry, independent telephony specifically, and had no training in electrical engineering but was trained as ap apprentice in the industry -- an apprentice in the industry and ended up inventing a number of machines for the telephone industry. so there he was, a humanities person -- >> yeah. >> -- and was trained in all this. my question for you is how can we encourage this today without a degree in engineering? he was a member of ieee. >> right. i do think that one of the lessons from that story is that he was able to embrace engineering and apply what he thought about his philosophy to it. i will say i'm not quite probably at his level, but i

walter, again, when you talk about bill and walter, you talk about icons in this field. now, every single treasury secretary would come to see walter riston. and there were problems in argentina, there were problems in your bay, there was problems in peru, there was problems in brazil, there was problems in mexico, there was problems in jamaica, there was problems in panama, and then we go over here, and there was problems in korea, in japan. then we came over here, and we went back to the european crisis, we went down to south africa where there were problems. and in every case the treasury secretary would come and say, look, walter, i need help. we don't have these kind of people at the treasury. can you offer up somebody, you know, that would understand this and be able to deal with it? now, walter riston would always say i've got the person. person's name is bill rhodes. but you can't take him. you can only borrow him on that. and so, you know, and here was the fun part, the fun part was every once in a while bill rhodes would go on vacation. and every time he went o

have a question for walter williams? e-mail it to booktv at c-span.org. post it it to our facebook wall or treat it@book tv and also call in during the program. this among's guest on booktv's in-depth program, economist walter williams. booktv, television for serious readers. >> many of this year's presidential candidates have written books to introduce. thes to voters and to promote their views on issues. here's a look at some of the candidates' books inch his newest book, reply all, jeb bush catalogues his e-mail correspond turns his time as governor of florida. ben carson argues that better understanding of the constitution is necessary to solve america's most controversial issues. in his latest book, more perfect union. former secretary of state hillary clinton looks back on her time serving in the obama administration in "hard choices." and in "a time for truth" ted cruz recounts his journey from a cuban immigrants' son so the u.s. senate. carly fiorina is another declared candidate for president, and rising to the challenge, she shares lessons she l

walter cronkite of up. an amazing guy, we're fortunate toave chip with us tonight but which is lucky to be here at all. his old man flew on bombing missions over nazi germany. tracked uboats in those reconnaissance rattle traps that flew at such low altitude. he was the only american correspondent fly in a bomber over d-day. on august 16, 1944, he was sitting in a c-47 on a runway in britain, set to become one of only two correspondents to witness what have been the incredible, dramatic, parachute drop liberate paris but at the last second eisenhower cancelled the mission because the first and third army were advancing across northern france rapidly. one month later, cronkite got to fulfill his wish. he went into market garden, into holland in a glider, carrying the top command of the 101st, including general anthony mcauliffe, who a couple of months later would become famous for saying "nuts" to the germans when they demanded surrender. so that's just a brief snapshot of cronkite. homer bigart, cronkite0s

walter is written over 100 books. he is known throughout the country and the world for his concern about youth which is reflected in most of what we would call young adult fiction which has a focus based on his experience, being born in harlem and being a new jersey boy basically, and this is a career that is remarkable and is one that he is now sharing through his travels around the country. i would like to ask you to talk a little bit about what is happening, what happened during her first year of touring. the only conditions really for a national ambassador would be the selection by the jury, which consists of experts in children's and young people's literature, which we hosted the children's book counsel with myself and a number of experts including robert adelson who is the chair, and that we ask the person that we choose is known not only for his or her book, but their ability to relate to kids basically. it turned out to be a key thing and the little obligation, the minor obligations for the poet consultant, po

i would be walter cronkite.for him to succeed yet to get at least a third of the population watch and appeared to succeed a cable tv now, whether it's fox news or anything else, you need to get maybe 2% of the nation washing, 3%. so what she do as you go after a hard-core audience who will be -- you know, who you can excite ideologically rather than getting a mass audience where you have this not offending of people. by offending people you can get the 5% or 10% that agree with you. you have a much more offensive anti-domestic type of media. thirdly, even when i was at cnn, if we put on -- fox is pretty non-than opinionated talk shows. o'reilly was coming on, whatever. no matter how much you pay o'reilly or hannity is a lot cheaper paying a talk show format than having chris john of import in tehran or nic robertson in baghdad and doing the reported formatting. i still try to have reported news that cnn be the core of it with anderson cooper and aaron brown and many others. it is cheaper and it's easier to get a

we have walter isaacson coming up in a minute. you have the opportunity to talk with john dean, in nixon's defense. you saw him a little earlier live at after that, television producer norman lear, even this i get to experience, he will do a call in so you will talk with him. he is the founder of people for the american way as well. lots going on. cornell west will be out here all little later. a couple of the guards who were in benghazi on september 11th, 2012, will be here as well. lots going on here in miami. now let's go up, you can see one of our camera guys on those green. we will go live in chapman hall, walter isaacson will stars in a minute. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] a [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversati

for walter. [laughter] but i'm sure that both of us would be more than willing to receive those letters. so i hope that answers part of your question. >> it does. and just one little bit after that. in terms of, um, when martin luther king was assassinated and it was the relationship with the garbage strike and the whole movement in terms of the economic justice which, um, i know you said the thing about, you know, we get stuck in places, but i think there's a whole corporate, um, a corporate media that wants us to be stuck in a place. >> right. >> and they highlight what we pay attention to. >> right. >> so it is important to pay attention to the other speeches. so as kind of a follow up of what someone asked earlier in terms of your reading, was there any communication in terms of an economic, an economic direction in the conversations between bayard and martin luther king? >> yeah, great question. early on, very early on bayard is encouraging dr. king to see linkages between economic justice a

you are on with walter mosley. go ahead. >> caller: hello, yes, i am old, i am a nam vet and i just wanted to mention or comment on the contrast between the serious issues we have going right now today that are mortal and bad and people are daunting but the basic issue that we are hotly debating when we have somebody debating an issue is pretty much exactly what i encountered in 1967 when i got out of vietnam i had been wounded and i went right in to the college scene on the west coast, and i mean it was hot on the west coast and -- >> host: and what is the issue were debating back then that you're still debating now? >> caller: the basic -- the foundation of what really is c'mon, like the speaker just commented on, capitalism is for all the things good coming essentially separated workers from the surplus value that they have created often with physical damage of their health and that's what we were talking about 40 years ago, 50 years ago. the same thing. and we have to stay on that. >> host: thank you. thanks fo

thank you, walter. .. so too did a great episode law rights movement was successful in the 1950's and the 1960's, so to the significant shift and a white movement in this country, far most of the 20th century with the exception of say the 1920s and maybe a slice of woodrow wilson's presidency, the country was increasingly moving to the left book ended by theater roosevelts politics and and and common aiding in lyndon baines johnson administration. so, the question that i have is, here is a man who is not only black, he is painted red, not as a socialist tank and its. he carries a tremendous burden of representing a kind of politics, personal empowerment wedded to social justice that costs people their lives, particularly in the south, particularly the height of the mccarthy era something that we haven't talked about in this discussion but certainly the letters that you have told together make reference to the cold war. and the stakes for this kind of politics of action that bayard rustin was committed to a

walter george, in fact, was not a diehard reactionary or an outspoken adversary of the president. in 1933 he'd supported virtually all of fdr's proposals including the national industrial recovery act, tva, agricultural adjustment act. later he voted for social security, the national labor relations act and other new deal measures. and during the 1936 presidential campaign george had backed roosevelt all the way. but during fdr's second term he cast votes against some key administration bills including housing bills, court reform, executive reorganization and the wages and hours bill. roosevelt began his talk by discussing the achievements of the rural electrify case administration. it was one of the great new deal successes. before it the free market economy had left much of rural america literally in the dark. then fdr spoke about coming to georgia for the first time 14 years ago in search of a pool of warm water where he might swim his way back to health. and he came to love warm springs in georgia, but he told his audience that there was one discordant note in his first stay a

>> will be bringing out a book of the defensive wartime letters of walter cronkite. it will be out in about a year. could not be more pleased. in fact, i defy anyone to read the letter that walter cronkite wrote to his wife on christmas eve 1943, and not tear up. chips sister and i were looking at it in austin. we both started blubbering. that's okay, because chips old man was a blubber, too. early on, chip and i were exchanging e-mail notes over some of the classic cbs news videos that his dad had been part of. these historical recreation films. this one happened to be a dramatic recreation of events december 7, 1941. nathan, could you run a little -- >> located in the cbs newsroom here in new york. the regularly scheduled news program is now on the air. >> a so this is folks in -- >> that's the guy who used to be on i dream of jeannie. [laughter] so i immediately e-mailed chip to that effect. as soon as i hit send, god, he's a cronkite. he's going to think i'm a dweeb and i just shot my credibility with this guy. the program wasn't even on cbs. so i was sitting the

walters, but i was having fun. i was in public speaking and all that kind of stuff. >> host: jerry apps, were you the only person in your peer group who had polio and was there a ostracization? >> guest: was there a what? >> host: did you feel ostracized >> guest: no one knew it. this kid is limping, maybe he got hurt in some farm accident. i would not tell anyone ever. when my wife and i were married, she did not know i had polio. i spent 10 years in the army reserves and no doctor ever asked me if i had polio. i was smart enough to join the transportation corps because we usually got a ride, but i was a captain in the army reserve. people find that unbelievable because i was always limping and people don't buy a guy who has been an accident. i never told anyone about my polio and to my editor to me one day when she heard that about that she said you should write a book about this. so, i did. tough book to write anger? >> guest: no, sorrow. missed opportunities. a sense of worthlessness. i have lived a life of wor

they you, walter. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> i wanted to ask a question and bring the evening to close. it seems to me that one of the most significant developments over the past century really has been the institutionalization of politics of the right that gained a tremendous support by way of the civil rights movement. to the degree that the civil rights movement was successful in the 1950s and 60s. to get these significant shifts in the rights movement in this country, for most of the 20th century, with the exception of, say, the 1920s and maybe woodrow wilson's presidency, the country was increasingly moving to the left to it ended with the linden -- lyndon johnson demonstration. here's a man that is not only black. he is painted red and pink and is gay. he carries the tremendous burden of representing a kind of politics and personal a comment related to social justice that cost people their lives. together we in the south, particularly the height of the mccarthy era. something

one of the main adversaries was walter camp, the guy who played in the game teddy watched. it was a good football player, but made his mark as a coach and rules maker, the closest thing football has to a founding father. he invented quarterback, the concept of possessions and downs and line of scrimmage and formations, the way the game was scored, unvirtually every aspect of football, camp left his mark in the 1980 -- 1880s and 1890s. he made the sport popular. they made the idea of the all-american, a term that is familiar now, but didn't exist before them. one the primary motivations was to encourage controversy about who should be on the all-american team each year. he made football not only a great game to play and watch, but a great game to discuss and debate. in the rivalry between elliot and camp, we see one of the ongoing conflicts in american poll politics on display,s fight of the progressives in a dream of a world without risk, and the resistance to the agenda. they identified a problem with football, but the preferred solution was radical, regulate football out

walter cronkite being the most trusted man in america for so long. that was good and bad. it was good in that he was the cost of professional, and it was kind of a calm and stability without question. on the other hand, unicom is kind of a narrow successive. a lot of people, have you pointed perspectives were not represented by that news broadcast. i'm with you that it was incredibly simple. that i cannot argue with, so thanks. >> report on things like kennedy affairs, now we have from gary hart on, you know, constant surveillance to see the president are up to anything that may be are not exactly civil in their personal lives. >> that's right. >> i agree with you that probably we didn't get as many viewpoints that we are getting today, but when it degenerate into name-calling like calling people idiots on fox, and stuff like that, that's not really good -- let's see, role models. >> and it doesn't lead to more constructive political discourse that would help us solve problems, whether health care, social security, energy, water, transportation, education. take your pick o

today, panelists include "new york times" book review editor pamela paul, walter mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer college opportunities for you today. randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and david rothkopf iran's "foreign policy" magazine will be talking about u.s. foreign policy. full schedule of today's live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv.org. all they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. .org twitter handle. you can also join us at facebook.com/booktv. if you're in the area, come on down. c-span bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. the sun is shining. it's about 83 degrees. a little breezy but otherwise it's a great day for the street fair that happens here at the miami book fair. opec chapman hall which is at miami-dade college which is where the book fair is held, there's the room that we will be broadcasting live from all day long. the first panel is just

. >> and now on "in depth" on booktv walter isaacson. the best selling author of several books including biographies of albert einstein benjamin franklin, steve jobs and henry kissinger took viewer questions for three hours. mr. isaacson is a former chairman and ceo of cnn chairman of the broadcasting board of governors and was the editor of "time." he currently serves as president and ceo of the aspen institute. >> host: so, walter isaacson what is theat link between avril hourlyman, ben franklin, steve jobs henry kissinger and adar can lovelace?: th >> guest: yeah, i think they're all create cannive minds, ander. that's what's intretted me throughout my career. to me, it's people who can come wound different disciplines like the arts and the sciences the way ben franklin did, the way ada lovelace did and make creative leaps of thet imagination. you know, we talk about innovation so often, it's almost drained of its meaning. and i've always like t to write about real people who are in a situation whether it with avril herriman after wor

i said i would mention my one criticism, and walter has actually touched upon it although i don't -- i think that his original idea for the title may be wasn't the this either. ten - ideas from all schools. i'm not thrilled with the title that he chose so i am going to ask a very well pragmatic question. it's not a screed so it doesn't deserve a screed title. one title that might sell but to be misleading is how the law schools are destroying america so i don't think that would have worked either but do you mind telling us what the process is to focus group a book titled how you settle on this one may be whether i have any talent with with your title? >> first you're absolutely right i didn't want to signal discreet because i didn't want to write a screed, and it's not easy to come up with titles, but the last week i would try to do is focus group because it would wear off all the images. i was thinking i'm afraid of in part to the school for scandal as a phrase from what was the restoration company in part of the lord of misrule at the public festivals to make fun of the high and mi

spoiler this the eastern extinguished authored walter echo-hawk is in that embody the roots of injustice in the legal doctrines upon the property and cultural rights of indigenous peoples why they have said it is okay the survey of the legal travesties looks for reform with american jurisprudence. taken together they may seem to tragic for consideration but they offer davidians-- been stereotyped of those americans so please help me welcome susan supernaw and walter echo-hawk. [applause] it. >> your book is much more of an account how you became miss america to compete but growing up with cultural confusion sometimes and a lot of stress. navigating the world between your native culture and the larger american culture. tell us about that. >> and growing up i started off in a very rule area in oklahoma. we lived there and for the times taking place in the '50s and '60s so there was a different mindset with a lot of racism that had to be dealt with by my parents and especially since my father was indian and my mother was not come even they have a lot of racism aimed at them or being the int

[laughter] shaking hands s roosevelt said god bless you walter let's always be friends. one other call at -- campaign stop come on labor day weekend he traveled to maryland to speak at rallies against the democratic senator.erva actually he feltfor conservative for walter george but had nothing but loathing a one day muttering , i take tidying his high office and rubs salt in it.ar he hadly opposed nearly every new deal mr.. theag nra, agricultural adjustment act, works progressarne administration, housing bills and revenue acts and gore reform and even on social security he voted only present. and with the veiled attack warned of home-grown dictatorship. and yetsh complete the aware of the extraordinary popularity insisting he embraced the bones of the new deal.befo fdr and surged and gave speeches for the challenger and as for tidings fdr never pronounced his name and said any politician has the right to be liberal, conservative and reactionary but the nation cannot stand for the confusion to have them pretend to be one but act like another. finally happened? and then

walter camp didn't see anything wrong with the way football was played. he practically invented the game, and over the years he tweaked the rules and he thought he got things just about right by 1905. he was very happy with the way the ball was. harvard's coach, however, was a young man. he took roosevelt more seriously. as a harvard man, he understood the threat of football differently. he knew that eliot still wanted to eliminate the game and within weeks of meeting roosevelt came to fear that eliot was indicted on the verge of success at harvard. this almost certainly would have encouraged harvard to drop the sport, it would have encouraged other colleges to do the same. they were all looking to harvard for leadership. this would have endangered the future of football in america. so at the end of the 1905 season, reid plotter with a group of reform minded colleagues to form an organization that today we know of as the ncaa. they approved a set of sweeping rule changes to reduce football violence. in committee meetings reid outmaneuver camp and received

of view had to describe walter cronkite influence in america how would you do it 20 words or less? >> most trustedam man inat america he wore the moniker well but he carried c the country through things likery t mercury and gemini and apollo missions and ourd t voice througheh the t hecivil-rights movement in theax vietnam war, and nixonhe bir of resignation and also brought some got together to the camp david peace accord. the big three are at edwardworl' r. murrow and walterbout a tho cronkite. >> host: how did he get to be that guy? >> he was good with the wire service and united press your stories are given 1,000 words. there cannot be a lot of bad firms are adjectives it was perfect for television with only a half hour broadcast. a precrating has to be tight. he was very precise. >> host: was he political?ocrat. >> he was a new deal democrats. >> it was not known and was a a fan fan of franklin roosevelt as a a boy growings up but of the ths 1950's people thought he was thg republican because his boss was the founder workedt directly for july eisenhower and he personally love

the to know walter was to likecr him. >> what was your connection torw walter cronkite?>> i knew cronkite. he came to a book party of min mine in 1993 for my biography of dean acheson, and he thought iht was david brinkly's son, which i am not. and i had to correct him. and then later we would haveth lunchen with arthur schlessinger jr. in new york, so i got to know him, and he did a dust jacket blurb. he knew i was doing this book before he passed. i was with him about six months before his death, but at that point a form of dementia had come in. and while he could show you memorabilia, he was not up for a true drilling on his back pages. >> so, doug brinkley, this book came out five, six months ago. what's the next book for you? >> well, i have been, i've been working on this what i'm calling a wilderness cycle.er it's conservation history, but i happen to like the word t wilderness better than conservation. i did the warrior on theodorethe roosevelt and quiet world onworl saving the alaska wilderness. , g forester in chief, franklin roosevelt, the ccc, and wild americ

in the summer of 1989 walter had another marketing brainstorm. he convened a meeting of more than 50 independent regional sales reps and their managers. he gave the group a special assignments. what i thought was we should pick out the best looking girl from among all 300 to promote the product at the shop show. the shooting and hunting and outdoor trade show is the u.s. gun and ammunition industry's main conference of the year, often held in las vegas. in

walter will introduce them. don't they look good? they have sneakers on here. we had about 3,000 items in the collection from apple. it's one of the largest collections of its kind in the world dealing with app 8, but after steve died when we looked through the collection to see what was the best of the best, we discovered something very amazing. a videotape regis mckenna made in 1980 of a 25-year-old steve jobs making a presentation at stanford on the roots of apple and his vision for the company. we digitized that and it's at computerhistory.org. it's never been seen before, and we'll play you two minutes of it tonight, and i hope you will be as amazed as we were when you see it. >> we had these things when we started out. we couldn't buy a computer on the market, so we liberating parts from atari, and worked on the design for six months deciding we would build our own computers, so we built them, and was up until 4 in the morning for many moons, and we got it working, and immediately everybody wanted one. it took 40 hours to build one of these things, and we

walter recounted. he discouraged me extracurricular contact the finnegan was less vigorous and walter didn't tucker in that light. the award ceremony marking the end of the show, dylan was called to the stage and given a plaque honoring her as the best all-around model. shooting the industry magazine reported after seeing them it is easy to see why the dealers were anxious to get glocked. that's all i'm going to read from the book and i will say that next week my lovely wife julie and i are going to the show and we can only hope we had similar success marketing. [applause] questions are in order if there are any and there's a microphone so our friends from c-span can record your thoughts. estimates before. i assume that was your article i saw in the magazine a while back. >> when this came out in the 80's i remember hearing that there was a ceramic chamber there was available, a ceramics lied to the estimate interesting story behind that that could be smuggled onto airplanes and i was wondering if that

johnson is thinking first about the loyalty to walter jenkins and his family. reaching out to him with a statement of support. and she essentially says, is carol has indicated, i know you can't do it, lyndon, but i am going to make a statement. she just goes ahead and does it. it is a very well worded and thoughtful statement. she backed it up with years of friendship with walter jenkins. >> is a very moving story. that story alone is who was reading both of these books for. i think. this was one of the most productive presidential terms in the history of this country. it is amazing how many bills got passed under lbj. that, again, was the product of this symbiosis between the two. i have a long list here of the accomplishment of that administration, and i would rather ask mark to please designate as many of the acts that he signed them what they meant meant as a great society and civil rights act, voters rights act and we haven't even begun to get close to vietnam. i would like to ask mike to talk about ladybird's contributions to the country, not as separate,

. >> walter and olive ann beech. >> walter, i think his great get was an ability -- his great gift was an ability to sense what the market might want before the market knew it wanted it. olive ann, in turn, her great ability was administration and making decisions. she actually was a better businessman than he was. >> all this and much more as booktv and cox communications bring you to wichita, kansas. >> i started working on the project, the popular wisdom was that, you know, presidents and the u.s. government really didn't have an interest in black entrepreneurship until the '60s. part of that was motivated by the war on poverty and some saw business ownership as a means to help alleviate african-american poverty. another impulse, you know, the urban rebellions of the mid to late 1960s, and there was a belief that if you had more african-american-owned enterprises in black neighborhoods, that that would decrease, you know, the likelihood of people destroying property in those neighborhoods. now, all that being said and in doing some preliminary reading, i came across a fleeting refer

walter borneman, i will give you a little background, is a military and political historian, and his work on mcarthur is particularly interesting i just read the book and it's great. it exports its rapid rise. we all know a lot about the outline of macarthur's life, but what i found particularly interesting was the attention he gives to the myth versus reality's of mcarthur and roosevelt's relationship. and would often speak about truman and macarthur's relationship, but the one with president was the is equally

. >> when i resort about a book on walter cronkite -- >> a wonderful book on walter cronkite by the way. >> i was looking at the history, abc started coming on strong and became the third of the big three. how did abc news did on a parity with nbc and cbs? what's the timeframe that that happen? >> abc news, everyone always says it's the fourth out of three. for the '60s and '70s but it was a very weak news organization by all accounts. let's be clear. abc was the weakest of networks as well. if you recall there were two can be seen networks. nbc had to spin off one because they have trust concerns. leonard who took it over started building up the entertainment part at abc. is some degree of success for the 70s. he concluded away to really get parity with cbs and nbc was to build a great news organization. not so much because leonard love the news but the local stations been most of their money off of their newscast. he wanted to improve his affiliate line, really created modern olympics and said you go over the news come you spend as much money as you want which he did. and the buildup

. >> walter isaacson, inputting the innovators together, you crowdsourced this book a little bit. >> the internet was invented in order to allow people to collaborate on the research. that was the original done by the defense department and the internet which is if you want people in different resource centers far away to help you save your work, we will have this internet. so we can share things. so i thought one night, well, why don't i see if it still works that way? so i took some of chapters in my book, early drafts of them, very early drafts and put them online for everybody to read. comment, tell me. oddly enough some of the people, i got 18,000 comments in the first week for one chapter. and a lot of it led to some good stuff, like stewart brand, one of the great, wonderful, colorful characters in this book. stuart graham was a who invented the catalog, the well which is one of the early online services. he invented, he helped do the mother of all demos. he was at the gracious so may different things. the electric kool-aid acid test. so he's been involved in sony things in th

um, like to bring walter into the discussion here.e've just heard susan talk about a very personal story, and be, of course, we all expect that the writing of your book was personal for you, but it deals with a much larger scope. um, how, what was your inspiration for coming to this book? >> well, i think, first of all, let me just say good morning to everyone and thanks for inviting me to be a part of this program. um, i, well, i think in part, you know, susan's story is a smaller story of native america, you know? i think her personal struggles for fulfillment, you know, and to be able to transcend, you know, her problems and become recognized in the miss america pageant, you know, is a pretty stirring personal story, you know, on her part. and i think we have seen on a larger level the same thing, you know, throughout indian country, and that is the during this modern era of federal indian law from, you know, 19 -- the late '50s, you know, right into the present, you know, we've, we've seen this tribal sovereignty movement, you kno

i said i would mention my one criticism and walter touched upon it. the title wasn't the best tea there, ten bad ideas for law schools. i am not thrilled with the title he shows so i will ask a very pragmatic question. it doesn't deserve the street title. one title that might sell but be misleading is how law schools are destroying america. that wouldn't have worked. >> i did not want to write a screech. it is not easy to come up with titles but i would focus group because it would wear off all of the edges. i was thinking i am afraid in part of school for scandal as a phrase from restoration in part of -- public festivals to make fun of the high and mighty. i wanted to make fun of the high and mighty. partly i was looking for words that had not been overused and how something is destroying america have lost all shock value. it word people have not been using is this tool. that is as unfocused that i could think of. >> i haven't read the book so i may have missed something. you make a very good case that the in the electoral self-addressed will be pur

. >> host: walter isaacson to my new book coming out this fall. what is it about? >> guest: innovative spirit we talk a lot about innovation these days. the word is almost becomes of the void of meeting through overuse. i wanted to look at how real people into the computer and internet adelle innovation really happened in the digital age. was something that came out of working with steve jobs and before that bill gates to say who made that type of person, how did they end up being successful? so the book is not just about singular people but about teams, but collaboration. one of the things that i discovered in doing this book is that real innovation comes from great teams, not just for a great leaders. >> host: would it surprise you? >> guest: the importance of connecting the arts to topology. the importance of the liberal arts and the engineering. it begins with a lovely suit is father was a great poet lord byron to of lord byron. she loved poetry to but her mother wanted to be a mathematician. she became of greek mathematician. by the end she is able to combine

i'm elizabeth town college or send them to walter nagle. i shouldn't speak for walter. i'm sure both of us would be more than willing to receive the letters. i hope that answers part of your question. >> it does. one little bit after that. in terms of martin luther king was assassinated and it was the relationship with the garbage strike and the moves of the economic justice, which i know you said a thing about we get stuck in places. but i think there's a whole corporate media that wants us to be stuck in a place. they highlight what we pay attention to. it is important pay attention to the other features. as a kind of followup what's asked earlier in terms of your reading, was there any communication in terms of a economic distribution in the conversations between bayard and martin luther king? >> great question. early on, very early on, bayard is encouraging dr. king to see linkages between economic justice and racism. he's doing in in the 1950s. he's also encouraging king very early on before anybody else does so, to form alliances with the labor. .. >> he led a mem