george nash is a frequent guest on this channel. richard norton smith introduced him and interviewed him a few years ago for another book and this time we give license to this crucial controversial depression subject. we will break our hour into three parts. the first is to remind ourselves who hoover was. the second part is to talk about the production of this tremendous book and many pages and much editing and detail and the third part will be to talk about why it matters. what about the great depression and c-span viewers, welcome, george nash, welcome. hoover's identity really begins in college and you have written a whole book about that. where did hoover go to college and how did it affect him? >> you was born in 1874 in iowa as the son of quakers and a blacksmith and was often before he was -- went out to live with an uncle in oregon, never had more than a high school land newly formed stanford university in the summer of 1891 and got admission and was told to take some additional tutoring with the help of which he passed mos

george nash, the premier scholar of herbert hoover.we are going to spend a little time not talking about the job of hoover biography. i wanted to mention some of the names of the people we built our work on because there's a lot of hoover work. many other hoover biographers. joan hoff wilson, forgot progressive vote and perfect visionary. eugene lyon wrote a biography long time ago. the luxemburg wrote a short book in the arthur schlesinger series, glen johnstone. a wonderful scholar recently passed. david werner. robert byrd wrote about president and did some interesting work on hoover. the fishing president about hoover and fishing, fly fisherman. uncommon in it i know you've interviewed with him before. for margaret hoover, who recently wrote a book not about hoover directly, but his ideas in american individualism. is there anyone to add? >> guest: many have written monographs that we probably wouldn't have time to list, but these are very eminent group of people. i think i knew all of them and know all of them except for mr. lyons

george nash, premier scholar of herbert hoover. we are going to spend a little time now talking about the job of hoover biography. i wanted to mention some of the names of the people that we built our work on because they're is a lot of hoover work. many other hoover biographers. john wilson, the forgotten progressive to my eugene lyons mike glenn johnson meant david berner, robert merry said hoover and fishing. is there anyone to at? >> well, there are many that ever and monographs that we probably would not have time to list, but these are very eminent people. i knew all of them except for mr. lyons. one of the things that has happened in this generation is that hoover scholarship as taken off partly because his papers were opened in 1966. up to that point people had to rely and newspaper articles. now they get to see the hoover story from the inside. there has been a kind of a boom. maybe more detachment as time has passed. some of the motions of his era faded. i am happy to be in the company of those scholars. many of the asses

the editor is george nash the most esteemed scholar of herbert hoover today. herbert hoover, he served from 1929 to 33

the editor is george nash the most esteemed scholar of herbert hoover today. herbert hoover, he served from 1929233 which means he was the president who saw the worst years of the depression. the great depression was so bad that a lot of our modern history is about assigning blame for it figuring out whose fault that depression was. many people blame hoover down the decades increasinincreasin gly so. the 31st president in first president united states was ranked 37 out of 43 in a recent u.s. news poll. that magazine voted hoover he was known as the poor communicator who fueled. wars have exacerbated the depression. not only those on the left but also sometimes on the right assigned blame to herbert and we are here today to talk about that specifically and president who wears on and analysis, his own work which blames other people as well including his successor franklin roosevelt and his predecessor calvin coolidge. we want to welcome the viewers to this hoover revision. dr. nash is a frequent guest on this channel. richard norton smith introduced him and inte

on our afterwards program george nash and eddie sleighs discuss the ideology of herbert hoover. ..

. >> george nash, coming up tonight on "afterwards -- on "after words". your calls,take e-mails, and tweets. joinmonth on "book club", the discussion of the new biography of stokely carmichael. >> we were focused on making sure that we can eliminate barriers, getting those networks in place. building out these networks is our priority. localmes, there are issues. sometimes, there are federal rules that might affect how we deploy things and the impact on his door excites or the environment. or theoric sites environment. at the same time, we want to move forward on deployment. our customers, those who use these devices everyday, depend on having a good, strong connection to get the data they want when they want it. that means having a really robust wireless network. >> the wireless infrastructure, monday on "the communicators" on c-span 2. c-span, "q&a" with cast some steam -- cass s unstein. followed by the british house of commons and "question time". then, the senate intelligence committee and cia. [captioning performed by national captioning institute]

. >> editor george nash on the missing link of hoover's memoirs. in a few weeks, military strategist and former assistant defense secretary will take your calls and comments on the mideast and the wars in iraq and afghanistan. this month on book tv, join the discussion on camilla joseph's new biography. enter the chat room. >> last week, the chair of the senator intelligence committee accused the cia of disrupting investigation. cia director later denied her allegations. the next day, the visor chair spoke on the senate floor. he said there may be a need for a special prosecutor to look into the situation. the confirmation hearing from late last year of cia's general counsel. she tells by the agency's techniques. first, some of senator feinstein's remarks. the c.i.a.'s actions. based on what director brennan has informed us, i have grave concerns that the c.i.a.'s search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the united states constitution, including the speech and debate clause. it may have undermined the constituti

. >> george nash on the missing link in herbert hoover's memoirs. tonight at nine on afterwards. calls andeeks, comments on the mideast and the wars in an rock and afghanistan. live from noon to three eastern. this month on book tv spoke --e, >> from the public affairs of and from washington directly to you. but he knew in the room at congressional hearings, white house fence, briefings and conferences. and offering complete gavel to gavel coverage of the u.s. house of all is a public service of right industry. we are c-span, created by the two cable tv industry 35 years ago, and about you as a public service >> joining us on "newsmakers" this week is adam schiff, a senior member of the house intelligence committee. thank you for joining us. our two reporters are michael lillis of "the hill" and cis

. >> george nash on the missing link in herbert hoover's memoir. saturday night at 10 eastern and sunday at nine on "after words." and in a few weeks military strategist and former assistant defense secretary will take your calls, comments, e-mails and tweets on the mideast and the wars in iraq and afghanistan live from noon to three eastern on c-span booktv. this month on booktv's book club, joined the discussion on peniel joseph new biography on stokely carmichael. >> and now to line -- to linda for british by mrs. question time. -- now live to london for british house of commons question time. we also invite your participation via twitter using the hashtag pmq. proud to question time members are finishing up other business. now live to the floor of the british house of commons. is my stand in for primus or david cameron, is deputy prime ministers nick clegg. ..

. >> editor george nash on the missing link in hoover's memoir, saturday night at ten eastern and sunday at nine on "after words." in a few weeks, military strategist and former assistant defense secretary, bing west takes your calls, comments, e-mails, and tweets on the middle east and wars in iraq and afghanistan, live from noon to three eastern on "inn -- "in-depth" on c-span 2. go to booktv.org to enter the chat room. expwr veterans affairs secretary testified about his department's budget wednesday before the senate veterans affairs committee, and 309 billion dollars in 20 is a. this is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] >> okay, let's get to work. i want to thank all the guests from the va today to discuss the budget. let me begin by thanking you, and for tackling some e nor nowsly difficult problems in the enormously difficult period of facing our veterans, and if anything i learned in the year and two months chairman of this committee is that the course of war is much, much greater, i think, than most americans are perceiving. we are dealing now with hundreds of thous

. >> george nash on the missing link in herbert hoover cost memoirs. -- herbert hoover's memoirs.and being west will take your calls, e-mails, and tweets. live from noon to three eastern. month on the book club, join the discussion on camille joseph's new biography. whistleblowers from the nuclear waste treatment site participated in a discussion with senators. some of the workers were fired after reporting about safety concerns. later, testimony from energy department officials. mccaskill chairs the subcommittee. subcommittee chairman senator claire mccaskill is holding a roundtable discussion. this is live coverage on c-span3. >> -- welcoming all of you to this discussion. i'm really pleased that you are able to be here today. i know you've come a long way. i appreciate that. this discussion represents the intersection of the subcommittee's ongoing oversight of whistle-blower protections, and the department of energy's contract management. both areas that i have done, and this subcommittee, has done a significant amount of work around both of those issues. after the conclusion o

on our afterwards program george nash and amity sclaise discussed herbert hoover and programs on the federal budget, harry truman's white house a visit to tallahassee, fla.. for the full schedule visit booktv.org. >> we are here today at the state library archives of florida, the middle of three stack boards at the archives. what you see behind you is a cubic foot box of those 45,000 cubic feet we have 30,000 cubic feet of state records from the legislative branch of government, judicial and executive branch. we have 15,000 cubic feet of records which fall under our manuscript collection, private donations from individuals everything from letters and journals to photographic collections. this is what is known as the patriot constitution of 1812. there's a lot of history behind this particular document. in 1812 a group of georgia settlers known as the patriot army invaded northeastern florida and they were operating with the assistance of citizens living in spanish florida. it was still a colony of spain and the motivation for the group of individuals, to come in to florida, from geor

on our afterwards program george nash and eddie sleighs discuss the ideology of herbert hoover. .. >> good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the commonwealth club of california, the place where you're in the know. you can find the commonwealth club on the internet at commonwealthclub.org. i'm andrew leonard from salon.com, your moderator for this evening's program. to my left is erik brynjolfsson and andrew mcafee who are researchers at the mit sloan school of management. erik is the directer of the mit center for digital business and andrew is the principal research scientist. the two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with their self-published book, "race against the machine," which kind of coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is really beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. they followed this up with a bigger book, "the second machine age: work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies." and it's really, i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is. in the san francisco and

and then it's george nash on the crusade years 1933-1935.rbert hoover's lost memoir of the new deal era and its aftermath. booktv is this prime time this week here on c-span2. >> at the end of the day, i think the economy is going to continue to need enormous monetary stimulus, and so i think that the fed will not be raising rates for quite some time. but i do i am optimistic that the u.s. economy is going to accelerate. and i think one of the core thing here one of the core dimensions is the fact that last year the u.s. economy grew 3.9% -- 3.9% -- 1.9% with fiscal drag reducing growth by 1.3 percentage points. so without that fiscal tightening the u.s. economy would have been growing over 3%. >> well, as you know, cbo does not make policy recommendations and that's very important. because policy choices depend in the just on the analysis of the consequences of different courses of action but also in how one weighs those consequences, what values one applies. there's nothing special about our values. it's up to our elected leaders your and

at 9 eastern, "after words" with george nash, "editor of the crusade years." and then at 10, john judas talks about his book, "genesis." and we wrap up at 11 eastern with stephen watts. he describes the life and lasting impact of dale carnegie, author of "how to win friends and influence people." that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> iraq war veteran kayla williams is next on booktv. she talks about her and her husband's return from iraq and the major problems they faced reintegrating into american society. kayla williams' husband returned home after receiving a serious head injury, and both suffered from ptsd. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> first, allow me to express my most profound regrets for being late. i had an interview run late and then had the fun experience of traveling on the beltway which i think may be sometimes more stressful than driving in iraq because i'm not allowed to carry a weapon on the beltway. [laughter] so as my introducer mentioned, i am also a veteran, and before i get started, i want to take a brief moment to tha

jonathan allen and amy parnes, at 9:30, freedom fest, and at 10 p.m., qualify -- "after words," with george nash. and we wrap up tonight's prime time programming at 11 eastern looking at ways the news media shapes the way we think about politics, tragedy, crime and celebrity. all that happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> sean strub talks about his life and his efforts to bring awareness to the aids epidemic during the 1980s. in 1990 mr. strub, who himself has lived with aids for over three decades, became the first openly-gay hiv-positive person to run for congress. this is about an hour. [applause] >> that was very lovely, thank you so much. and thank you, ken. i, you know, i tell people about this tour that i'm going on. we have 40 some events, they say, oh, my god. you're going to be so exhausted. but i love it. i really enjoy getting out and talking to people and having the kind of, you know, conversations that have been arising at some of these events already. of so i'm going to read just for a few minutes, for five or six minutes, the prologue from the book. and then we can go into ques

. >> editor george nash on the missing link in herbert hoover's memoirs, saturday night at 10:00 p.m.stern and sunday at 9:00 p.m. on after wards. in a few weeks, military strategist and former assistant defense secretary will take your calls, comments, e-mails and tweets on the middle east and the wars in iraq and afghanistan. live from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern. this month on booktv's book clubs, join the discussion on camille joseph's new biography of stokely carmichael. washington just -- "washington journal" continues. host: michael schmidt is a new york times correspondent -- talking about corporate influence in washington. he wrote a piece with these colleagues, hedge funds holding the leverage of power -- that in the herbalife will fail and lobbying to bring it down. who is william ackman and why is he the center of the story? guest: mr. ackman is a big-time hedge fund manager out of new york and made the billion-dollar bet herbalife is a fraud. and he argued it is a peer amid scheme and regulators need to crack down on it. not only regulators here but regulators in the sta

. >> george nash in the missing link of herbert hoover's memoirs.nd in a few weeks form former defense secretary bing west will take your calls and questions about the mideast and wars in iraq and afghanistan live from 2:00-3:00 eastern. and join the discussion on the byeography "stokley" go to the chatroom. "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome dave levinthal the political writer for the center of public integrity, your work available online at public integrity.org. i want to begin with the comments of harry reid, this has been an almost daily speech delivered on the senate floor taking aim at the koch brothers. here's senator reid last friday. >> mr. president i'm not afraid of the koch brothers. none of us should be afraid of the koch brothers. these two multibillionaires who spend billions of dollars of their money rigging the political process for their own benefit but that doesn't mean we have to lay down and take it because we're not going to. they make us believe whoever has the most money gets the most free speech. mr. pr

. >> george nash on the missing link in the missing memoirs. few weeks, military strategist and former assistant the fence secretary will take your calls, comments, e-mails and tweets on the middle east and the wars in iraq and afghanistan. live from noon until 3:00 eastern. this month on the tv book, joined the discussion on camille joseph new biography. to entertv.org the chat room. journal "gton continues. host: taking a look at the february story cover for "wired magazine", " how the u.s. almost killed the internet and why it still could." mr. leavy joining us to talk about this. companiesese tech were contacted by the washington post about the revelations made by edward snowden, what was the reaction? this came out june 6 of last year, purported that these companies had cooperated with access to giving it the data about customers. searchesg from google to facebook photographs to anything the people shared. to read the articles you would think there was a direct umbilical between the nsa and these companies. the case,ot really but as it tur