. >> our first speaker is amity shlaes. she is chairman at the calvin coolidge moral foundation, a fairly new posting for her. she's a syndicated columnist for forbes and her recent books have one numerous accolades and she is a recipient of the manhattan institute's prestigious hyatt award. we were colleagues at the bush institute, for george w. bush, and importantly to me, and this may be more than she wanted to say, but "the forgotten man" is one of the most important books that anyone alive can read about the depression and for understanding the practicality of understanding economic theory. she has just told me that it is going to become a graphic novel and i think this is terribly important. if dante can be put into a graphic novel, surely "the forgotten man" can. that is only because it teaches so much today in this culture. we welcome her. next is darren guerra. he is a professor at biola university. finally, ryan t. anderson. his greatest claim to fame is the speaker at a university a year ago. he is a fellow at th

that [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> up next, "after words," with guest host amity shlaes, author of the forgotten man. this week, herbert hoover asks burke, george nash in his latest, tree in a period in it, the hoover institution fellow refers to the missing link in the hoover memoirs. he provides 31st political for huckabee and the most historic conflict. this program is about an hour. >> host: hello. the book is "the crusade years 1933-1955: herbert hoover's lost memoir of the new deal era and its aftermath." the editor is george nash, the most esteemed scholar of herbert hoover today. herbert hoover served from 1929 to 33, 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 hits arenas about assigning blame for it, figuring out whose fault the depression was. many people blamed hoover and down the decades increasingly so. the 31st president of the united states was ranked 37 out of 43 in a recent u.s. news poll. the magazine would've hoover he was known as a poor communicator who fueled and exace

. >> up next on booktv afterwards with guest host amity shlaes, author of the forgotten man. george -- george nash book "the crusade years 1933-1955: herbert hoover's lost memoir of the new deal era and its aftermath". in at the herbert institution presents what is referred to as the missing link in the hoover memoirs. she provides the political philosophy and analysis and the depression he was blamed for and the century's most historic conflict. this program is about an hour. >> hello. the book is "the crusade years 1933-1955: herbert hoover's lost memoir of the new deal era and its aftermath". the editor is george nash, the most esteemed scholar of herbert hoover it today. he served from 1929 to 33 which means he was the president who saw the worst years of the depression and the great depression was so bad that a lot of our modern history is about assigning blame for it figuring out who's fault the depression was. many people blame hoover and down the decades increasingly so. the 31st president was ranked 37 out of 43 in a recent u.s. news poll. the magazine wrote of hoove