we wrap up our monday prime-time line-up at 11:30 with hillsdale college professor, bradley birzer talks about conservative writer, russell kirk. that happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> there is a story about a murdered girl and a campaign about what i imagined as white sheeted night riders, torch wilding mounted klu kluxers. i thought this was a kid's fantasy, something you talk about in the back of the bus. in a newspaper database up came a list of headlines sure enough told of an 18-year-old woman raped and killed near the banks of the chattahoochee river allegedly by three black men. her name is may crow. there is photograph about her 1912. she lived very near where my parents house was little town called oscarville, a little village. this is me really playing hooky, i was doing graduate work at nyu on the 17th century beau bonn playing outbreaks. i was bubonic plague outbreaks. i was board writing dissertation. a lot of things were many coming on line this is 2005. a lot of things were coming on line first time. archives like the atlanta history center was scanning information

we wrap up the monday prime-time line-up at 11:30 hillsdale college professor, bradley birzer, talks about his biography of conservative writer russell kirk. this happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> modern presidents are so obsessed with talking and campaigning and going places, that they fail to take the time to think about the third step of leadership, which is, implementing policy. in fact i start the book with a quote from thos

we wrap up our monday prime-time line-up at 11:30 with hillsdale college professor, bradley birzer talksbout conservative writer, russell kirk. that happens tonight on c-span2's booktv.

we wrap up the monday prime-time line-up at 11:30 hillsdale college professor, bradley birzer, talks about his biography of conservative writer russell kirk. this happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> modern presidents are so obsessed with talking and campaigning and going places, that they fail to take the time to think about the third step of leadership, which is, implementing policy. in fact i start the book with a quote from thomas jefferson, quote, the execution of the laws is more important than the making them. if you think of leadership as three tasks like getting the answer right, the policy right, communicating that, and then implementing it, the argument i make this book that presidents spend so much time on communication that it leaves little time to think about how they are going to implement the policies they want to implement and that involves understanding something that the, in the business schools we call organizational capacity. in other words, in the federal government, is the piece of the federal government that you're giving this job to, is it capable, is it u