bill buckley has it at yale. i think what we tried to do with eight or nine different categories and we took these books and put them into various states and what we did was to take about and to boil it down to just a page to page and a half. to make them pick up the whole book. and read it. as one of the hardest things i have ever done. i have to read a book and then condense it down into three or 400 words and that really is not easy. that takes an amount of concentration and focus to do that. i cannot do it for more than a couple books in any one day. it took us a while to come up with the 109 books. >> i think you talk about your best selling book which one was that. it was really my first book. so easy to write ach best seller at first i have to say the first biography of ronald reagan. and then of course he is elected governor the year following. i said i think he is going to be a contender and 68. i'm going to write his story now. which is what i did. it was the first political biography. and wanting to fi

i spent -- some of you remember this back in the 70's, i was a constant guest on bill buckley's tv showand bill called me his favorite liberal. i called him my favorite conservative. we could talk about anything. we could talk about anything. we never raised our voices, we never got excited, we never called each other names, and we would finish the show, and go out, and have, you know, a beer. that's not happening anymore, unfortunately. and so, i worry that the democratic party as evidenced by the election of the four new members of congress who call themselves the squad, are presenting a new face on american politics, and it's an extremely dangerous one, and it's one, of course, that president trump is going to try to take maximum advantage of and the democrats are playing into his hands. take this issue of the state of israel, an independent sovereign ally of the united states refusing entry to two members of congress who have sworn to destroy the state of israel, they don't want israel to exist. they want there to be a palestinian state from the river to the sea, from the jordan riv

our wedding was quite an experience because of course bill buckley was there and the publisher. of course russia was one who was an enforcer for mccarthy and the man who gave me a way is one of the first people who lost his tenure position to mccarthy politics in new york state. >> i knew this was her mentor. very smart guy, delightful. he would have been killed on day number two. >> everybody behaved, and one of our friends said [inaudible] that is how it started. and i have an idea. i started a very subtle campaign. >> did he ever try to enlighten you or were you ever in my complex delete the >> he was much more sophisticated about this than i. do. i explained things to him. i'm not embarrassed about it anymore because i was foolish. >> there was a built in asymmetry because i was a political journalist, and i have been doing it for years so i was used to encountering people who disagreed with me and use debating them in public forums. i knew politics as a world of disagreement and contention so i already knew this and i had been to an ivy league school living in the biggest c

in the 1960s, bill buckley said i would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the directorysified in recent years because what you are seeing on the right and the left is a change in the two institutions. working-class voters are leaving the democratic party for the republican party all suburban elites in the last couple of elections have moved and conservatives are becoming a movement of the working class and democrats were always a party of the urban elites, but now the suburban elites. >> martha: i want to show you an interesting chart here. it's a little confusing but we will show it to you. those who say that race should not be a factor in admission are the red parts, asian, hispanic, black, white all say race should not be a factor in admission and robin, that is not the case. >> it's not the case and i agree with those in the red. i don't think it should be as much as a factor. i have to talk about some of this, the anti-intellectualism. it bothers me that there is a mind-set that your ignorance is as good as my education, a famous quote by isaac asimov. i hope that i

bill buckley became one of my heroes. so it's heart breaking for me to see what is happening to this magazine which once chased anti-semites out of the conservative movement and now it is indulging in this white supremacists rhetoric. >> the other thing this writer wrote, i honestly didn't understand it. it was -- he said that you had demonstrated that you hate yourself and that your writing was boutique and performative. >> i don't know what that means. >> i don't know what that means, boutique and performative. >> it was saying that boots attacks on white people are basically driving them into the arms of the white nationalists, forcing them to choose between the white nationalist and boot and his self-loathing whites. this kind of bizarre moral equivalent -- >> all those people are reading the washington post, your column and going to white nationalism. >> it doesn't make any sense. it's incredibly shocking and offensive for me to see this kind of lapping waj appear in what is a mainstream publication and it sadly is i

times a week and read biographies and one of those that stood out was god and man at yale was by bill buckley thoroughly enjoyed the book and became a lifelong fan and you know better than i do what a great human being and as a lifelong service subscriber to his magazine he had a columnist in those early days and if not mistaken they dabbled with it and it seems in those early issues that had these great anti-communist writers coming from communist ecountries and i am still a subscriber to the national review. >> what do you do in west haven connecticut?ct i am a retired teacher incidentally my first year ofoh teaching i taught john chamberlain stepson so this is a comical little story. i taught freshman english and american history when we got to the age of industrialism i use the phrase lab or barons and soon after that his stepson brought me in a book about the great and dusty list of the rockefellers and vanderbilts and he may have written the book, i'm not sure but i got his point. t7 so before we let you answer a lifelong subscriber to national review the editor now has a new bookk comi

. >> alex is a little bill buckley. the "wall street journal" is his bible.intense 17-year-old. >> the first thing the teacher will ask is what you did over the summer. a lot of kids will say i went to the zoo or i went to the beach or i went to a baseball game. what are you going to say? >> i watched the iran contra hearings. >> if mom and dad thought this generation was going to the dogs, think again. this is the generation that has discovered hard work and success. >> american culture is changing in the '80s. and in terms of television, there's a whole notion of demographic segmentation. >> networks were beginning to not be afraid to appeal to a very specific demographic. >> hey, handsome. look at that shirt. is that a power shirt or what? >> nice suit, alan. good shoulder pads. you looking to get drafted by the eagles? >> 30-somethings said we're not going to have cops, lawyers or doctors. we're just going to be about people. >> what are we doing here, why did we start this business? >> to do our thing. but right now we got two wives, three kids, four car

bill buckley has one, we have road to serfdom. we have eight or nine different categories, we took these 109 books and put them into various statesmanship, economic, politics, history and so forth. what we did was to take a book, like say the road to serfdom. and then to boil it down to pager page and 1/2, to try to get people to see what it is, perhaps to spark interest in it and make them pick up the whole book. and read it. actually, that little book, it's only 125 pages, something like that. it is one of the hardest things ever written because i had to read a book and then condense it down into three or 400 words. and that really is not easy! i mean, that takes an amount of concentration and focus of debt. i couldn't do it for more than a couple books than anyone day. it took us a while. >> to watch the rest of lee

bill buckley scott a yell, the road to certain, we have about eight or nine different categories. we took these 109 books and put them into various statesmanship, economics, politics, history and so forth. what we did, was to take a book, like those go to certain and then to boil it down and just a page or a page and a half. to try to get people to see what it is and perhaps to spark their interest in it and make them pick up the whole book and read it. actually, that little book, 125 pages or something like that is one of the hardest things i ever did. i had to read a book and then condense it down into three or 400 words. that really is not easy. that takes an amount of concentration and focus to do that and i couldn't do it for more than a couple of books in any one day. it took us a while. to come up with the 109 books. >> join the rest of the book tv .org. click on the index tab at the top of the page. . . . .

bill buckley, frederick hayek's road to serfdom. i think what we try to do, we have about i developed is it eir nine different categories we took these 109 books and put them into various statesmanship, economic politics and history and so forth and what we did was to take a book like the road to serfdom, and then to boil it down and just a page or page and i have to try to get people to see what it is and perhaps to spark their interest in it and make him picthey can pick up thk and read it. actually, that little book is only 125 pages, something like that. it is one of the hardest things i ever did, because i had to read a book and then condense it down to 300 or 400 words and that really is not easy. that takes an amount of concentration and focus and i could do that for more than a couple of books so it took us a while to come up with the 109 books. >> to what the rest of the interview and other offers on in depth, visit the website, booktv.org and click on the tab at the top of the page. >> one reason kids who score low on thos