the discussion on writing history, with biographer robert caro and historian brenda wineapple. united arab emirates ambassador to russia, and what it means to be a good muslim in the world today. fox news channel brett there looks at the exchange of power with president dwight eisenhower to president john f. kennedy. the latest book, 3 days in january, dwight eisenhower's final mission. he is interviewed by susan eisenhower, ceo and chairman of the eisenhower group inc.. >> great detail from both sides. eisenhower is impressed and says to himself, there's a lot to this guy but what concerned him most is he didn't -- kennedy, the national security apparatus set up for dissenting views. >> go to booktv.org for the weekend schedule. >> the first constitutional republic that can trace its founding to a single document, the declaration of independence. think of what these documents are. there are artifacts, protected in humidity prove cases is your proof cases, computer digital computer that can monitor inch by inch the condition, certainly artifacts. to make this point they are sym

starting out a conversation between biographer robert caro and historian brenda wineapple on writingy. >> hello this afternoon, hi. thank you for coming. good to see you all. i think we need no introduction or at least robert caro who i hope you have read all of his books and as enamored of them as i am. we are here because we are enamored to talk about writing. not so much the subject matter per se but why writing matters. and we both feel, as i'm sure you do, that writing matters quite a bit. how it matters, is really a task for the writer to come to terms with.how are you going to get people to read, to turn the page, to be as enthralled wiou

starting out a conversation between biographer robert caro and historian brenda wineapple on writingy. >> hello this afternoon, hi. thank you for coming. good to see you all.

starting out a conversation between biographer robert caro and historian brenda wineapple on writing history. >> hello this afternoon, hi. thank you for coming. good to see you all. i think we need no introduction or at least robert caro who i hope you have read all of his books and as enamored of them as i am. we are here because we are enamored to talk about writing. not so much the subject matter per se but why writing matters. and we both feel, as i'm sure you do, that writing matters quite a bit. how it matters, is really a task for the writer to come to terms with.how are you going to get people to read, to turn the page, to be as enthralled with your subject as you are. and you know mr. robert caro is working on he has a master of the enthralled. we thought we are talking a little bit about that. recently and hope you saw this, there was recently a interview with bob and one of the things i thought was so wonderful about this was bob talking about certain working methods. and one of the things he said reminded me of walt whitman. and that, if you read whitman, one of the thing

caro, billy collins, gail collins, brenda wineapple. but first, it is a pleasure and an honor to welcome back to our stage someone who was first here with us, i think, in 2013, a writer of exceptional intellectual charity and grace -- clarity and grace with, steven l. carter. [applause] >> well, thank you, arlo. and thank you. it's a real pleasure to be back in key west. it's a wonderful community, this is a wonderful event, and it's always a great joy. my subject, as you i assume saw from the program, is the black woman who prosecuted lucky louis january know -- luciano. and since i am probably better known as a novelist, you probably assumed this is fiction. actually, this is nonfiction. this is the subject of a book of mine that will be coming out this fall be, and i wanted to give you a little preliminary of what that is about. i'm going to speak for just a few minutes, about probably 15 or 20 minutes, and then i want to take your questions and comments so we'll have a conversation about it. in order to tell you about the black woma

and a discussion on writing history with biographer robert cairo and historian brenda wineapple. then at 9:00 p.m. eastern, united arab emirates ambassador to russia omar saif ghobash talks about the dangers of islamic extremist and what it means to be a good muslim in the world today. on sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on after words, fox news channel chief political anchor brett bear looks at the exchange of power from president dwight d. eisenhower to president john f. kennedy in his latest book "three days in january: dwight eisenhower's final mission." he's interviewed by susan eisenhower, ceo and chairman of the eisenhower group incorporated. >> in this meeting we have great detail from both sides. eisenhower is very impressed and says to himself, you know, maybe the american people got this right. there is a lot to this guy. but what concerned him most is that he didn't like kennedy, the national security apparatus that was set up for accidedissenting. >> go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> recently representative ro khanna spoke to c-span for a house fresh

and a discussion on writing history with biographer robert caro and historian brenda wineapple. eastern, ambassador omar saif ghobash talks about his book "letters to a young muslim." "afterwards," bret baier talked about his book "three days in january: dwight eisenhower's final mission." details fromeat both sides. eisenhower is impressed and says to himself may be the american people got this right, there is a lot to this guy. one concern him most was he did not like kennedy, the national security apparatus set up for dissenting views. >> go to c-span.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> american history tv, a panel of two authors and a pow/mia historian discussed efforts to locate and return remains of deceased american

women in politics and a discussion on writing history with biographer robert caro and historian brenda wineapple. then at 9:00 p.m. eastern united arab emirates ambassador to russia author of "letters to a young muslim" talks about the dangers of islamic extreme imand what it means to be a good muslim in the world today. on sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern fox news channel chief political anch anchor bret baier. his book three days in january. he's interviewed by susan eisenhower, ceo and chairman of the eisenhower group incorporated. >> in this meeting we have both detail from both sides. eisenhower is very impressed and says to himself maybe the american people got this right. there's a lot to this guy. but what concerned him most is that he didn't allow kennedy the national security apparatus that was set up for dissenting views. >> go to book tv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> women will be in the capital city tomorrow for the women's mafrm on washington. among the speaker, gloria steinem, harry belafonte and cecil richards. while that's taking place, c-span 2 will be live with the 58t