darcy olsen?> barry would have been something we don't see too often today. i think he would have been a very honest president. i think he would have been very candid, as he was his whole life. that was the way he campaigned. it was the way that he sat in office. it was how he was after office, and i think just -- i think that candor is something that people loved about barry goldwater and it's, you know, it's one of the reasons that so many people sought out barry goldwater even after he was in office and he was so well respected and liked by so many people because, you know, you knew with barry goldwater where you stood. he always put his principles first. he kind of, as rick was saying, had a tin ear sometimes to messaging and what people might think, and he put his principles before partisanship, party, and before politics. it's hard to say whether he would have been able to work with congress that way, but it's an exercise that i for one would have liked to have seen. >> we are in week ten of

darcy olsen darcyolsen -- also, darcy olsen. her editorials have appeared in the washington journal and the national review. he served two turn to the state legislature including one term in the senate. he has produced 90 documentary's including "barry goldwater, an american life." he called himself a different kind of a candidate for a different kind of an election year. how so? >> i think the thing that may have most different is that he was a reluctant presidential candidate. if we think about all of the people running for president in 2012, we cannot say any of them are reluctant. it is a full-time job. it is consuming. ever since 1960 when the first group of people came to barry goldwater and tried to draft him and said we want to make to a presidential candidate, he would say that is the last thing on my mind. i don't want to run for president. he once even said i do not have the brains to be president. over and over again, he said we don't care. we are going to draftee. that is what happened. he pretty much was drafted by

and darcy olsen, president of the gold water institute took a critical look at the review period new medications undergo to receive fda approval. in the coming weeks, former senators tom dashal and trent long offer their solutions to resolve the current state of partisanship in washington. jeffrey callen explores theodore roosevelt's unsuccessful campaign. and an argument that america continues to suffer from racial in inequality. and mei fong talks about the effects of china's recently discontinued one-child policy. >> the problem is there is no input from economist or psychologist. so issues on how human behavior can shape a plan. it is not rocket science to think a nation so in love with son is restricted to one child and they will have more sons and at one point you will have more men than women. >> "after words" airs every sunday at 9 and 10 p.m. eastern. you can watch previous programs online at booktv.org. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> and this is the senior repu

and darcy olsen, president of the gold water institute took a critical look at the review period new medications undergo to receive fda approval. in the coming weeks, former senators tom dashal and trent long offer their solutions to resolve the current state of partisanship in washington. jeffrey callen explores theodore roosevelt's unsuccessful campaign. and an argument that america continues to suffer from racial in inequality. and mon

and darcy olsen who is also our host as the president and ceo of the goldwater institute. she previously served as the director of education policy at the cato institute in washington, d.c. her editorials appeared in "the wall street journal," "usa today" and "the national review." bill mccune who grew up here in arizona, served two terms in the state legislature, including one term in the arizona senate, he's produced more than 90 documentaries including barry goldwater and american life. thank you all for being with us. rick perlstein, let's begin with you. in your book and in his campaign, he called himself a different kind of a candidate for a different kind of election year. how so? >> i think that the thing that made him most different as a presidential candidate was that he was a reluctant presidential candidate. i mean, if we think of all the people running for president in 2012, we can't say that any of them are reluctant. it is a full time job. it is completely consuming. but ever since 1960, when the first kind of group of people came to barry goldwater and trie