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a. scott berg. ( cheers and applause ). the book is "wilson." we'll be right back. ( cheers a ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: that's if for the report, everybody. good night. ( cheers captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. good show tonight. our guest tonight the author mr. malcolm glaad -- gladwell will be joining us tonight. we begin tonight with the fallout of government shutdown and the look at the true victims. no, not the families that rely on headstart. no, not cancer patients whose treatment was delayed that's so -- no! not those fame-whore panda cam pand yaz. look at me i'm nibbling on bamboo. [ laughter ] (bleep) but the real victims of the shutdown there we go. >> 28%. that's how many voters now say they have a favorable view of the republ

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a. scott berg presents his book, "wilson." this 45-minute presentation aired during the national book festival on the national mall in washington d.c.. [applause] >> welcome to the opening event of the second day of the 2013 national book festival on this absolutely perfect first day of autumn. if you were here for the end ofc the program yesterday, you knoww what a contrast this is.og my name is jonathan yardley, i'm the book critic of "the washington post." [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. "the washington post" has been . charter sponsor of the national book festival since the festival's inception 13 years ago and plays an active and enthusiastic role in aspects of the festival's planning and promotions. ctive and enthusiastic role in many aspects of the festival's 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 festival

we agile and by a scott berg, author of the new book "wilson," won a pulitzer prize for his book on charles lindbergh. next call from craig in salt lake city. >> hello, how are you. i am just wondering about taxation policies of wilson versus those of harding, what is your contrast on that? >> the very first thing the harding administration did was try to go back to the tariffs and excessive rates that were in place when woodrow wilson came into office. tariffs are often kind of misunderstood but when woodrow wilson came into office this is where the most revenue was raised throughout the government. wilson believed there was a great inequity and a lot of ways, the tariff on sugar, everybody with sugar who was everybody in essence had to pay a kind of quiet tax on sugar for on wool or cotton and wilson felt there was an inequity in that richman could afford that without having to think about it but the poor man necessarily couldn't so that is why he brought in the income tax and reworked it and it was a graduated income tax which of course the redistribution of wealth and again this fits in

i am currently reading a new biography by scott berg. is a wonderful biography by john milton to prayer from the university of wisconsin. woodrow wilson came up to capitol hill to negotiate with congress. i don't think pennsylvania avenue is a one-way street. i would encourage the president to do that. certainly i encourage the president to engage in negotiations. house democrats are meeting behind closed doors. senate republicans are meeting with the president as well. the washington post says this -- are you ok with keeping sequestration in place until at least march? i am. i note that is a challenge but i think we need to reduce levels of federal spending. i think that is appropriate. edna in tennessee, a republican caller, hello. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a couple of remarks about obamacare. that will amend -- that will eliminate the care rl or -- that will eliminate the care our elderly will get. be aovernment needs to small businessman. i don't spend, it. i don't buy a new record when i do not have the business t

scott berg. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. think you for coming to the texas book festival faq for coming to this session. to our featured author is scott berg the author of a brand new and wonderful biography of woodrow wilson. scott berg is the author of four biographies and before the best common max perkins that won national book award and charles lindbergh that won the pulitzer prize. this book on wilson has been long in the making if you had a chance to read it it has been worth the wait so please join me to welcome scott berg. [applause] i will start with the question given the fact the subjects you have friedman -- written by a previously were not from the road the politics aside from the fact he was the president of fear of a matter why did he write about him? >> i had not written about him. i decided when i was writing my first box by the time i was 22 i begin to think when it be interesting just to write off just this one book but a shelf of every use of the 20th century cultural figures? said each would be said in a different part of the country in each subject p from a different when jack of the apple pie that is twentieth century america summe

scott. uncertainty tends to boost gold and so does a falling dollar. both of those. even as the dollar index hitting an eight month low jeff kill berg if the shutdown and debt ceiling debate can't boost gold what can? >> it's been a wild week. day one of the shutdown they came in and crushed gold and got the technicals out of the market. the high frequency pushed it down. today in day three of the government shutdown we're seeing equities pull back. therefore, you are seeing some people come into gold. very tentatively like you said. i think above 1305. a huge technical level we're looking at here in chicago. i want to be an owner of gold to go back up to the 1420 resistance level. >> todd, jeff is saying people are coming in, albeit slowly in terms of the charts you're watching. where do you think gold will start to find some support. >> i don't know if it's going to find support. i think even after the fed meeting look what happened. it's position driven. we have yields down, dollars down, stocks down. that's a trifecta for gold to rally and it's not. when something should be happening it's not. underlying weakness, position comin