we have an expert on that country and a biographer of kim jong-il. we have the founder of geopolitical futures. they both join us now. first you, michael. as an expert in north korea, what is the point of this exercise. the kim regime obviously thinks it has some strategic purpose. what would that be. >> when you're trying to analyze north korea, trying to read a book upside down in a mirror underwater. you have to read backwards. but i realized is this. north korea has always asserted their right under their sovereignty, just like the u.s., to engage in shipment and sales of weapons. what we are seeing, in my opinion, incidentally or by

might remember, for example, that instead of releasing a typical politician, you know, glossy auto biographical book like a lot of top tier candidates do at the start of a campaign, instead jeb bush got creative and released a bound version of his correspondence with his constituents from the time that he had been governor of florida. the idea was to show how, you know, detail oriented he was, how hands-on, how accessible he was to the residents of florida when he was governor. people could individually e-mail him, he would individually e-mail back about issues in the state and trying to solve people's problems. the problem was theyco la colla those and bound them, but it apparently never occurred to anybody to go through all the e-mails and make sure that people's individual private

inning gays mentioned in almost all the kennedy buying a grandfathers since the -- biographs, when they dated at the beginning of world war ii met in october 1941. inga was still married to her second husband. that was the reason for them to be discreet about their relationship. then inga was a suspected nazi spy and came under the surveillance of the fbi. so, they did their best to keep their relationship a secret and wasn't until j.ed gar hoover died and people learned more about this relationship that was very pivotal in john f. kennedy's life. and so she has been -- appears in almost all the biographs of kent as an important -- of kennedy as an important figure but nobody has devoted a back to her own life. i argue that inga arvad was the great love of john f. kennedy's life and that includes his relationship with jackie kennedy, his wife. >>> that's not to say he didn't love jackie kennedy but before that the woman he carried about the most, most wanted to marry, was inga arvad and there are variety of reasons for that. she was beautiful, obviously so she would attract men and she

joined biographers international organization, an amazing group of biographers, for guidance, and i learned a lot going into their conferences and reading their newsletters -- their pulitzer prize winners who are experts in research and mining for information, but i learned very quickly that those tricks don't necessarily work when people haven't left behind information and neither ray nor joan did. so thankfully ray's brother ran the foundation, the first iteration from the kroc foundation, from a ranch in santa inez in california, called the j & r double r ranch, and ray's brother was the exact opposite of him and he was meticulous record keeper and knew he was doing michigan important with the early part of the mcdonald's corporation when mcdonald's went public. so there was this hardship assignment of going to the university of california san santa barbara, which has a beautiful research library and sifting through the papers and looking for clues, was both la borous and -- lab borous and also a joy when you found something. i'm sorry for the long answer. >> host: let's talk about ray a

i want to stress as great a historian and biographer, you are a wonderful writer and what you are missing by not reading the book is quite a bit. if you would like a copy of the book we have copies for sale here and don't forget, next monday there will be another event. thank you. [applause] >> booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> one that was a wonderful book called last fall the rise and fall of prohibition, the definitive history of prohibition america, how it got started, the movements that join date like the women's suffrage movement actually were prohibition. and of course, the disaster of the prohibition was that created enormous violations of the act and the law and frankly criminalized a lot of americans and led to a criminal underground in america that is still with us. so, it is a story of good intentions and try in a wall that went bad. a wonderful book by daniel, one of the best of prohibition i've read. "scars of independence" by holger hoock, he is german but he's talking about the american revolution and this is a his

and i feel often that lots of other biographers and historians have expressed the same thought that youet to know these people in many ways better than you know people in real life. charlie: you read their letters and diaries. david: exactly. and the letters are so reveal, so often touching and eloquent and -- and the relationship between bess and harry truman that is found in those letters, the relationship between abigail and john adams found in those letters, there are over 1,000 letters between abigail adams and john adams. and neither of them was capable of writing a boring letter. or a short one. and you're reminded that history is human. history is not about memorizing dates and statistics and quotations. it's about human beings. and that's why it's so important. jefferson said, any nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never can be. and of course he said, when in the course of human events, and the operative word there is human. none of these people who occupied our highest office has ever been perfect. charlie: remind me -- jefferson didn't wri

announcer: tonight on c-span, "q&a" with biographer in university professor david garo, followed by british prime minister theresa may taking questions from members of the house of commons. later, a look at the 1967 detroit riots and the impact of that event two years later. -- event 50 years later. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," part two of our q&a interview with pulitzer prize-winning author david garrow. he talked about his book "rising star: the making of barack obama," which covers president obama's life prior to winning the presidency. you can watch this interview on our website c-span.org. brian: david garrow, author of "rising star: the making of barack obama." what was the hardest part of this book to be?

we're living in a time when wonderful biographers and historians are writing books. never in my life have there been so many good writers and historians working hard as hell to produce marvelous books. >> rose: hamilton, great man? yes. >> rose: brilliant? brilliant, great, had numerous human flaws. >> rose: mainly women or other than that? >> well, i don't think he had to go the way what it is. that i do know something about. hamilton's in vogue right now. >> rose: right. and fine, fine. we can never know enough about that founding era, not just because it's the revolutionary war, but because it's the american revolution which is still going on. the political revolution. benjamin rush said it will keep going on forever. we're still working on it. that's our advantage. we're constantly trying to make life better, our system better and we've had good people who are willing to give that every effort. imagine john kennedy saying we will go to the moon. >> rose: yeah. and we did. >> rose: took ten years. and we did. and kennedy almost never talked about himself. it's rea

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biographer and gero.sor darrell -- david that's followed by washington journal with your phone calls and a look at today's headlines. >> this week on q&a part two of our interview with poland served davidinning by a for gero. a professor of law and history talks about his book rising star in the making of barack obama priorit covers his life to winning the presidency. you can watch us on our website c-span.org. david gero other of rising star, what was the hardest part of this book to you? aspectmost challenging of doing this book was dealing with the women before michelle obama. i am an academic historian. i am very different in how i deal with people than many journalists are. even when one is talking with intimate, personal hesitant,ips, i am deferential. i don't oppose intrusive questions. ,ut it is very important crucially important, that what alex mcneil and with genevieve cook, there are lengthy letters that barack wrote to them that they have hung onto. i think that it gives a history of barack's life a great depth and richness to have all of those letters in his own words de

note it reagan biographer craig shirley is the author. author of six books and chart member of in the new york stay conservative party he comes by this love of reagan and conservativeism homily. it places a glimpse into a celebrated personality. reagan rising chronicles the journey of a man after having suffered a devastating defeat in 1976 back becomes a leader of a any conservatism, achieving an improbable presidency. trump's presidency is the perfect backdrop to study reagan township. republican party struggling, "reagan rising" offers development of a philosophy that is the touchstone for conservatives. reaganys optimistic and unifying philosophy inspires today. as a special aside in reef reshave searching what i say mr. charli paid a significant role as having the sport of lacrosse named as the sport of maryland. so join me in welcoming mr. craig shirley. [applause] >> interviewing mr. shirley today will be juan williams, man who almost needs no introduction but we'll introduce him anyway. an emmy award winner and texas news contribu

the second of the two part interview with biographer david gero talks about the book's rising star of the making of barack obama which covers president obama's life up to his winning the presidency. >> i think the point to emphasize is over the course of the presidency, there were scores and scores of people in illinois would know him in the years earlier who were deeply disappointed with the trajectory of the obama presidency in two ways. number one, disappointed that he forgot the people, many of the people, most of the people who were essential to his political rise. >> a senate panel looks at a proposal to reorganize the state department. department. we will hear from the deputy secretary of state johnof state sullivan, tom to the kebab corker chairs the senate foreign relations committee. >> [inaudible conversations] >> senator cardin wanted to make sure that everyone had the opportunity to hear everyone's questions. so in order to accommodate that

pyle biographer james tobin crated an emotional trying to with the soldier one point, the reader at home, and what was felt at the apex. as it came to be understood and cannot be bridged. soldiers killed, journalists did not. came to see the war as if he had enlisted. he did not seek what is thought journalistic objectivity. that was not what his purpose was. he was devoted to the cause. conveying broad ideas and very particular descriptions. when united states invasion of france began, americans at home and initially heard the news, but not the details. news coverage was based principally on press releases at the very beginning. reporters and photographers reports landed in sizable numbers with american troops at normandy and eventually, americans with the photographs. but the early coverage, james tobin writes, was like reading and accountable football game written by a sports writer sitting outside the stadium. homehile, americans at long to see, to have a visual picture of what transpired. arrived at normandy on the landing craft early in the morning after d-day. it was the first sub

trump biographer michael deantonio wasn't so sure.u say he chose his own paths or was he raised to take over the family business? >> i don't think any of the trump children really chose their own path in life. if any one of them had said i'm out of this, they would have found themselves really isolated and perhaps almost banished from the family structure. this business and the family are one in the same. >> reporter: back on the path, don jr. began to employ the lessons he learned on the floor of his father's office -- work hard, work office. >> i used to love getting the call on a saturday, why aren't you in the office? i am in the office. no, you're not, because i am. >> soon he was showing off his new wife. >> my fiancee. >> vanessa, a former model, and soon after they became parents, five children in seven years. >> what are you doing? what are you doing? yeah, buddy. first time without a vest. good job! i love you. i love you. >> reporter: and as the kids grew, so did don jr.'s involvement in his father's empire. joining "the ap

sonia sotomayor and - >> the second of our two-part interview with posterior prize-winning biographer, david - he talks about his book rising star. the making of barack obama. which covers president obama's life up to his winning the presidency. >> i think the point to emphasize here is that over the course of his presidency, there were scores and scores of people in illinois that in years earlier would deeply disappoints, ty

his biographer and literary executor. in 1980, yes, larkin sent a christmas card back. one in 1979, he doesn't get one, he writes down, he sent one back the next year. the exhibition also includes super 8 film from the 1960s and ‘70s. it is clear why philip larkin became a poet and not an actor. now on bbc news yalda hakim looks at the plight of europe's mediterranean migrants, in 0urworld. a flimsy inflatable dinghy full of migrants is adrift in the open sea, around 30 miles from the libyan coast. they have no fuel, no water and no food. they have been detected by a spanish ngo. most of these migrants have never seen the ocean. they can't swim. after hours at sea in the sweltering heat, they are exhausted. this boat has just arrived with about 500 migrants who have been rescued trying to make the very dangerous journey from libya to sicily. so far this year, more than 80,000 people from different countries have arrived. around 2,000 have drowned. but the vast majority are not refugees fleeing war, but those in search of a better life. most will stay in italy. sympathy

his biographer and literary executor. in 1980, yes, larkin sent a christmas card back.ne in 1979, he doesn't get one, he writes down, he sent one back the next year. the exhibition also includes super 8 film from the 1960s and ‘70s. it is clear why philip larkin became a poet and not an actor. now on bbc news, the travel show. on this week's travel show, we're in a surfing community trying to hold back the tide of development on the chilean coast. also coming up... we go looking for lost ships beaneath the canadian waves. we discover a novel way to make a cake in rural france. and our global guru, simon calder, tackles the biggest question in travel... where next? let's start this week's programme on the stunning pacific coastline of central chile. punta de lobos is best known for its dramatic high cliffs, with views over black sandy beaches and rocky outcrops, where sea lions gather. and it's also become famous as one of the best places to surf in south america. this is insane. wow! with a consistent swell and regular runs of huge waves, punta de lobos is considered on

i'm appealing more to i guess the hood of the black audience because i'm being biographical where i comey a lot of golf. >> i just shot a commercial for the pga tour. >> tevor: oh, wow. i got to, i'm nice at that. oh wow. i don't know golf so i don't know what you just did. >> i just killed it. >> tevor: you stood up and then you dabbed. i don't know what that was. i prett>> i pretty much showed e away. anything else i would have knocked over a cup. >> tevor: when you were growing up did you bleanl like being -- dream like being like tiger woods. >> yes. this is the plan. i wanted to be in the pga tour then college happened, had fun, lost track. an actor, addition, where did those con from. want to be a comedian then became a writer now i'm using everything, all my passions are in this show. so we're talking about golf, friends of gang members so i'm going to show you the human side of the gangs. i'm talking about black girl magic. so i'm really just breaking down things that are nuanced within the hood and explaining it to the adjacent. but then also talking about things in the adjacent

. >> well, and he's also -- i mean as a sort of matter of buy logic -- biographical matter about the man, he has been obsessed with the press and press coverage from the moment that he first started appearing on the tabloids. >> sort of you hate the thing you love. if you think about what donald trump has been successful in his life, it hasn't been real estates, it hasn't been casinos, it's been working the new york media. the new york tabloid press was the thing he was good about, getting them to write about donald trump, who donald trump is dating, planting stories, using a fake name and pretending to be his publicly cyst. you finds himself in a position where he cannot get the press to talk about him or shine him in a blowing light, and he is clearly frustrated about it. >> his biographer once reported he saved a clipping from the first time he made the papers when he was actually a kid, he was quoted in a paper and he saved it. he remembered that moment and the power of the moment. the story says he finds his usual relationship has been short circuited and he craves validation fr

he is reading washington:a life by best-selling biographer ron chernow.it is an in-depth look at the first president of the united states. also on this list is strong fathers, strong daughters by pediatrician he and doctor meg meeker who highlights the importance of the father/daughter relationship. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading, send your summer reading list via twitter at booktv or instagram at book/tv or posted to our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. ok

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we've run the biographic vetting in advance. we know it's accurate and belongs to the person we expected it to. >> reporter: while we were there today, customs officers arrested a passenger, the man wearing a hoodie. an american with an active arrest warrant. congress ordered the biometric upgrade years ago. now testing in washington, houston, atlanta and chicago before rolling out nationally. as homeland security tries to keep better track of who is entering the country and who's leaving. >> the real problem in immigration today is not so much people coming over the border but people overstaying their visas. and we don't have a way of tracking that. >> reporter: the ultimate hope is they can integrate the biometric screening process with the airline check-in process, doing away with paper tickets. in boston, jetblue is already testing biometric check-in. >> it's probably safer, more secure. >> it is pretty cool. i just hope i look good. >> reporter: to address privacy concerns, the kiosk photos of u.s. citizens must be deleted

biographer david garrow, "rising bout his book star," which covers president life.s >> the point heres over the barack obama's presidency, there were scores illinoiss of people in who had known him in years arlier, who were deeply disappointed with the trajectory of the presidency and two ways.ed in number one, disappointed barack people, many of the people, most of the people who were ess

yes, future poet laureate but also his biographer and literary executor and then in 1980, yes, larkinistmas card to the motions. he doesn't send one in 1979, he writes it down and he sends one in 1980. the exhibition also includes newly—found silent super eight films from the 60s and 70s, which the library made for their annual christmas party. it's clear why philip larkin became a poet and not an actor. you have not shied away from the darker side of his personality? no, this figure of hitler was bought by his father on one of his visits to germany and he gave it to his son. and philip kept it. hull's year of city of culture has helped change perceptions of the place and the librarian doing larkin‘s old job and using his office is certain he wouldn't have approved. i think he would have been appreciative, but i suspect an exhibition about larkin, i don't think he would have been comfortable with that. but as the exhibition shows, larkin wasn't entirely comfortable with anything. now on bbc news — sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. two teams cannot be separated. the lions draw

eade is a fascinating biographical topic, but people have not found him attractive until recently. >> i would add i think there are two things related to gettysburg, and one thing related to the overland campaign reputationd meade's greatly and carries to this way. one is sick of's testimony about his generalship at gettysburg, both the pseudonym articles he wrote in new york newspapers that were really condemning meade's generalship. perpetratedimony that. but also the committee on the conduct of the war, the hearings they held in the spring of 1864 were for meade tremendously damage to his reputation because all they called for for the meetings were enemies of meade. how, i huge hero at gettysburg. remember him? why did they call him? he hated meade. they tried to stack the deck against meade, and they he was inmeade when washington and had him testified. to testify.repared then in the overland campaign, he -- there was a correspondent who wrote for a philadelphia newspaper, i think the philadelphia inquirer, and in a story he wrote about the early part of the campaign, he wrote --

citizen now has in their passport a little chip that has the biometric information, it has their biographicalnformation, where they live, etcetera, their birth date. and it's got a photo which isn't coded in that chip. it can use that information to compare it against say outstanding arrest warrants, basically if someone is want for a crime. the government says it's not going to retain this information, it's not going to keep record of this information but the border patrol official i spoke to said that they're not precluding that in the future they could retain that information. >> sreenivasan: what about the accuracy of these images, these image recognition. let's say you get caught in kind of a face scan trap and there's a flag but it's a case of mistaken identity. >> well technology has is steadily improving over the years. and it's now, the best of it is at 90 to the 5% accuracy. however, the experts that i talked to said that there are apt to be mismatches. if there is a mismatch what can happen. first of all it can cause travel delays if you're boarding an international flight of 500 p

. >> the second of our two-part interview with biographer david garo. he talks about his book rising star, the making of barack obama which covers president obama's life up to his winning the presidency. >> i think the point to emphasize here is that over the course of his presidency, there were scores and scores of people in illinois who had known him in years earlier who would deeply disappointed with the trajectory of the obama presidency and disappointed in two ways. number one, disappointed that he forgot many of the people who were essential to his political rise. >> boeing senior vice president patrick shanahan testified before the senate armed services committee about his nomination to be deputy defense secretary. he answered questions about improving the process and prioritizing defense innovations. he also assured the committee he would divest all ties to the boeing company. [inaudible conversns

arguably examined in award winning author lucy hughes helots new book peculiar ground the moon as a biographer of cleopatra and fascist precursor doesn't say oh it's her first novel loosely welcome to going underground so it's a question about any historical novel arguably so what what is alternatively novel about the return of a nobleman after exile in english revolution what's a relevant to today well. the novel is set in one place but over a long period of time three centuries and the two things that link the disparate parts of the of the story are two walls and one is the wall around a great estate with a great house at its center in rural england and another is the ballin room and the house around which the wall is being built belongs to an artist pratt who has been in exile almost all his life since he was a small child he's a political exile but there has been a real regime change in england six hundred sixty the monarchy was restored after a whole generation of civil war. and he's come back and he hasn't had a home he's been a refugee all his life a privileged one but nonetheless homel

his biographer and literary executor. in 1980, yes, larkin sent a christmas card back.. the exhibition also includes super 8 film from the 1960s and ‘70s. it is clear why philip larkin became a poet and not an actor. you have not shied away from the darker side of his personality? no, this figure of hitler was bought by his father on one of his visits to germany. and he gave it to his son, and philip kept it. i never thought about hull until i was here. hull's year of city of culture has already helped to change perceptions of the place. the man currently doing larkin‘s old job is certain he would have approved. i think he would be appreciative. would he have suspected of philip larkin exhibition? i'm not sure he would have been comfortable with that. but, as the exhibition shows, larkin was seldom entirely comfortable with anything. and now for the weather. hello there. after a warm, muggy night, sunday should bring us some more warm weather, with some sunshine. not dry everywhere, though, some rain in the forecast too. during saturday, there were scenes a bit like thi

sonia sotomayor and - >> the second of our two-part interview with posterior prize-winning biographer, david - he talks about his book rising star. the making of barack obama. which covers president obama's life up to his winning the presidency. >> i think the point to emphasize here is that over the course of his presidency, there were scores and scores of people in illinois that in years earlier would deeply disappoints, they were disappointed in two ways. number one, disappointed that barack obama, most of the people that were central to his political rise. >> on q&a. >> next, a senate panel looks a proposal to reorganize the state department. we will hear from deputy secretary of state john sullivan. senator bob corker chairs the senate foreign relations committee. [inaudible conversations] >> the senator wanted to make sure that everyone had the opportunity to hear everyone's questions and so in order to accommodate that gladly, at 530 we will recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5:45 pm so everyone can vote and be back so everyone can hear when everyone else is questioning. we

all the wonderful books and scholarship on adolf hitler they classic biographer ace there had never book, full book on the trial in the english language. in way that is one of the first books i read as a teenager was an oxford professor sink efforts college the nuremberg trial expert and an expert on it. he said he was always the most impressive hitler during the trial. his political skills were never more revealed and during the trial he said. but yet there had never been a book. i thought this is astonishing. i thought there must be something wrong. that was a dealbreaker for me many times. i had this wonderful story and there weren't enough good credible sources because writing history if you have sources, you can't make it out. it's all from the source. i have never done historical fiction so i would be lost. when i started looking at the sources i found out with this trial it was a goldmine. the trial transcript itself almost 3000 pages, the complete unabridged copy of the original german transcript verbatim dialogue hour after hour of hitler on the stand fencing with his opponents

biographer and future executive. in 1980, larkin sends a christmas card to motions. embarrassed, writes dan, sends 119 80. the exhibition includes silence even eight films from the 60s and 70s, which the library made for their annual christmas party. it is clear why philip larkin became a poet, and not an actor. you have not shied away from the darker side of his personality? this figure of hitler was bought by his father on his visit to germany. he gave it to his visit to germany. he gave it to his son. philip kept it. hull's year city of culture has already helped change perceptions of the place. the librarian currently doing his old job, using his office is certain he would have approved. he would have been appreciative. an exhibition about larkin, would not have felt entirely comfortable with that. mind you, as the exhibition shows, he was seldom entirely comfortable with anything. now time for click. this week: is this the smartest building in italy? the latest worker drones. and, beat this, a hearty handful. on july 12th, the internet, as we know it, will chang

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