a. scott berg, in your 818-page book on woodrow wilson, you start it all. you wrote it all in the first paragraph this way -- dawn broke that day on a new epic, one that would carry the name of a man whose ideas and ideals would extend well to the next century. when did you write that? >> i wrote that about 13 years ago. when i started, i had this feeling about wilson that he is still very much with us. and it's one of the reasons i wanted to write the book and i long had a fascination with wilson. i thought of all of the presidents of the 20th century, he lingers the longest and the most. >> why? >> i think there are several reasons. one is so many of the programs wilson initiated are with us to this day. i think the foundation to our economy, the federal reserve system, that goes back to wilson. certainly, our foreign policy is rooted in a speech woodrow wilson gave in 1917 on april 2 when he said the world must be made safe for democracy. and he was calling for american entry into world war i. really, all of our foreign policy decisions since then for goo

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a. scott berg? >> it does. my mother was reading f. scott fitzgerald before i was born and i was named a. scott. never used andrew, used scott. >> dean sayer, who was he? i lived long enough to know who he was. i remember the name. what was his son like? he died since you wrote the book. >> this is the grandson. dr. grayson's son, yeah. he was a lovely man, maybe -- maybe the most gentlemanly virginia gentleman i've met. >> sayer? >> no, not talking about dr. grayson's son. kerry t. grayson jr. i learned about wilson from both of them,again it's this humanizing element, they both gave me that thing. but it was a really caring man. this was a loving father. this was a man with real tenderness of the people in his lives. he was strict as get out.he could be vindictive if you crossed him. there were two or three of his best friends, he felt like they and he never spoke to them. >> colonel house? >> he's one of them. the closest friend when he was a princeton professor, who succeeded him is one of them. after hibbit betrayed wilson in a tru

. >> host: pulitzer winner a scott berg's book wilson is already out and it's gotten very good reviews hasn't its? >> guest: yes indeed and not only has it received good reviews but the word came in that leonardo dicaprio's production company will be adapting it into a film and mr. dicaprio last seen as jay gatsby in the reinvention of "the great gatsby" may indeed star as the president woodrow wilson. >> host: sarah weinman have you ever followed a book from being written and published into a movie adaptation to see what that process is like? >> guest: only i guess that the distance. i've certainly never been on a film set and i believe i'm going to end up misquoting the great writer james and came when someone asked him what he thought of his work except it for a film pointed to his bookcase and he said mike books are here on the shelves. in other words the book is a book in a film as a film and sometimes they mesh and sometimes they adaptation works out dutifully. sometimes a little bit less so where sometimes they become wholly different works of art that have to be appreciated on

a. scott berg's book, wilson, is already out. it's gotten very good use -- views. >> the word just came in that leonardo dicaprio's production company will be adapting it into a film at their stock that leonardo, lasting jay gatsby -- last seen as the great gatsby, will star as woodrow wilson. >> have you ever followed a book from being written and published into a movie adaptation to see what the process is like? >> only i guess at a distance. i certainly have never been on fm set, and i believe in going to end up ms. quoting the great nor writer who want to mark when someone asked him what he thought of his work being adapted for film. he pointed to his bookcase instead my books are here on the shelf. in other words, the book is the book, the film is the film and sometimes they nation and sometimes the adaptation works out beautifully. sometimes also bit less so, or sometimes they just become wholly different works of art that have to be appreciated on their own terms. especially with nonfiction. there can be such liberties take

a. scott berg presents his book, "wilson." this 45 minute presentation oured during booktv's coverage of the national book festival on the national mall in washington d.c. [applause] >> thank you very much. welcome to the opening event to have second day of the 2013 national book festival on this absolutely perfect first day of autumn. if you weres here for the end oc the program yesterday, you know what a contrast this is. my name is jonathan yardly, i'm the book critic of "the washington post." [applause]e "w thank you. thank you very much. the washington post has been a charter sponsor of the national book festival since the festival's inception 13 years ago and plays an active andon 1 enthuse with yeahsic role in aspects -- enthusiastic role inn aspects of the promotion. estivas planning and promotion. i'm instructed to remind you this presentation is being taped and you should stay off of the risers located in the back of the pavilion. at the national book festival in 2001, the final event of what was then a one-day festi

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a. scott berg spent 13 years writing "wilson" a new biography of the former president. winning the national book award is many of the things you have received. what is that that excites you about biography? >> telling life stories. i've been more interested in reading real life stories than fiction. ever since i was a child i always got into them. the task for me is to write nonfiction as compelling as fiction. >> rose: is that easy if you have an interesting life. >> so far i've been lucky because i've had fascinating lives to play with. nun has been more dramatic than wilson's life. >> rose: why do you say that? >> for two reasons, i think. i don't think i know of another president in the 20th centuried who who had a greater effect on the century. and second, i don't know of another personal story that ever unfolded in the white house as dramatic as woodrow wilson. >> let's take the first and go to the personal story. what was it that he did that so impacted an entire century? >> where to begin? if we work backwards with foreign affairs i would say-- and you've been a

a. scott berg presents his book, "wilson." this 45 minute presentation oured during booktv's coverage of the national book festival on the national mall in washington d.c. [applause] >> thank you very much. welcome to the opening event to have second day of the 2013 national book festival on this absolutely perfect first day of autumn. if you weres here for the end oc the program yesterday, you know what a contrast this is. my name is jonathan yardly, i'm the book critic of "the washington post." [applause]e "w thank you. thank you very much. the washington post has been a charter sponsor of the national book festival since the festival's inception 13 years ago and

a. scott berg wants you to know that wilson was no cold fish. >> woodrow wilson was an extremely emotionalbeen a more emotionally turbulent presidency than wilson's. >> [inaudible] >> born in stanton, virginia, the son of a presbyterian minister, wilson from a very early age was imbued with moral purpose. >> it's quite amazing. here's woodrow wilson at nine years old drafting a constitution for his little league baseball team. it's got to be the little league team to this day with its own constitution. >> for college he ventured north to new jersey to what would become princeton university. >> is it true that when he got to princeton as an undergraduate he had never heard the star-spangled ban center >> that's true. he had never heard it. he was a southern boy. >> he would return to princeton as it's president, transforming what had become something of a country club into a first-rate university. the political bosses of new jersey took notice and made him an offer he couldn't refuse. >> to run for governor of new jersey, which at the time, is perhaps the most corrupt state in the union. >>

. >> pulitzer prize-winning author a scott berg's biography of woodrow wilson releases tuesday. here more tonight at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's "q&a." on thursday, the caf development bank of latin america held its annual conference in washington dc. during the conference the panel highlighted the global drug trade and drug trafficking and abuse in the u.s. and latin america. speakers include white house national drug policy director and current and former government officials of mexico, brazil, colombia and guatemala. this is one hour and 40 minutes. >> to the end of this today. ,hank you again to secretary and the team that made this meeting possible. we have this conversation and the new approach in the americas towards the global problem of drugs. that we areallenge confronting based on real events . a little over four decades since president nixon , thered war on drugs creation of the dea, the zero- tolerance policy of president reagan, the u n convention against illicit drugs in 1998. and a model of shared intervention such as the one --t was used in columbia colombia. moment.a

a. scott berg, in your 818-page book on woodrow wilson, you start it all. you wrote it all in the first paragraph this way -- dawn broke that day on a new epic, one that would carry the name of a man whose ideas and ideals would extend well to the next century. when did you write that? >> i wrote that about 13 years ago. when i started, i had this feeling about wilson that he is still very much with us. and it's one of the reasons i wanted to write the book and i long had a fascination with wilson. i thought of all of the presidents of the 20th century, he lingers the longest and the most. >> why? >> i think there are several reasons. one is so many of the programs wilson initiated are with us to this day. i think the foundation to our economy, the federal reserve system, that goes back to wilson. certainly, our foreign policy is rooted in a speech woodrow wilson gave in 1917 on april 2 when he said the world must be made safe for democracy. and he was calling for american entry into world war i. really, all of our foreign policy decisions since then for

a. scott berg, in your 818-page book on woodrow wilson, you start it all. you wrote it all in the first paragraph this way -- dawn broke that day on a new epic, one that would carry the

a. scott berg's biography of woodrow wilson. at 8more on sunday night p.m.ant to turn our attention to u.s.-russian relations. jeffrey mankoff is joining us. let me begin with the "washington times" headline this morning. obama saying in stockholm that reset with russia is working. i want to show our viewers what he had to say in his own words. [video clip] in the u.s.-russian relationship was not done on a whim. there were specific u.s. that i believed we could pursue with russia, where interests overlapped, and it would help us on our longtime national security and economy. we succeeded. we succeeded in passing a new start treaty that reduced nuclear stockpiles for both the u.s. and russia. russia joined the wto, which bound them to a set of international rules governing trade. it will be good for the russian economy, but also good for its trading partners. and for potential companies investing in russia, including u.s. companies. we work together on counterterrorism issues. they have provided us significant assistance in applying our troops -- supplying o

a. scott berg releases about the on woodrow wilson. >> "washington journal" continues.t: we are joined by lieutenant general david barno. ofis here to talk about some the military potentials when it comes to syria. when we talk about a limited strike, what are we talking about? isst: one of the questions how limited this will be. what the president has spoken about and what we are going to hear about in the next week or two is what kind of military power we are going to use treated -- going to use. it it is going to be cruise missiles, cruise missiles from the eastern navy ships and mediterranean. these will be launched from several hundred miles and beyond. we have quite a bit of capability and our naval forces in the area to be able to do this. host: what kind of forces do we have? clear.it is not entirely from news reporting we have probably three or four destroyers in the eastern mediterranean with a guided missile type. we also have the largest aircraft carrier in the red sea. that has about 45 fighter planes that can launch strikes. i think most of the leading dis

a conservative. they got the very republican agenda that tried to undo most of woodrow wilson's thinking and his agenda. >> host: scott berg, a friend of mine is reading wilson and says with in the first into 15 pages she had already basically learned that woodrow wilson was a sex addict. is that accurate? >> guest: i would not say was a sex addict. he was a healthy american boy. but he was passionate, and he was not afraid to articulate that passion. he loved women. he remained true to his wives and i hasten to add his first wife died in the white house command and he remarried within a year, was married to a second live. he had three daughters. most of his friends were, in fact, women. he loved talking to them, playing. he grew up with a doting mother and two older sisters. so that was the audience. he was always used to playing. >> host: the next call comes from davis and maryland. good afternoon. >> caller: good afternoon. i am reading the book and i just finished reading the part about 1911, woodrow wilson, new jersey. out of boston. it put him in office. and the legislature went along with all of his initiatives. i a

. >> a scott berg's biography of woodrow wilson releases next week. here more on sunday night "q&a." >> only the most willful desire to avoid reality can assert that this did not occur as described, or that the regime did not do it. it did happen. the assad regime did it. i remember iraq, and sodas secretary hagel, and general dempsey. secretary hagel and i remember iraq and a special way because we were here for that vote. we voted. toare especially sensitive never again asking any member of congress to take the vote on faulty intelligence. that is why our intelligence community has scrubbed and rescript the evidence. ed the evidence. we have declassified information. >> john kerry and chuck hagel from tuesday's hearing on syria. "booktv," the impact of foreclosures and evictions in african-american communities. lectures and history looks at the murder of emmett till. "washington journal" continues. host: our final guest this morning, sudeep reddy at the "wall street journal." what was the purpose of the g20? guest: it was set up as a forum for the le

a. scott berg and rick atkinson. looking had to october, -- >> young people come young children come up and say, how can you do in the congress, you got arrested? [laughter] you violated the laws. and i said they were bad laws. they were customs, they were traditions. and we wanted america to be better. we wanted america to live up to the declaration of independence. live up to our created. make real our democracy. make it real. so when i got arrested the first time, this book is saying that i felt free. i felt liberated. and today, more than ever before i feel free and liberated. you know, abraham lincoln 150 years ago freed the slaves. but it took the modern-day civil rights movement to free unemployment rate the nation. >> civil rights leader and congressman john lewis will be our in depth the guest sunday the sixth. he will take your calls and comments for three hours. also scheduled, november 3, kitty kelley. december 1, christina hoff sommers. january 5, radio talk show host mark levin. >> now a look at u.s. ho

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