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the national book award for nonfiction that your went to tj stiles for his biography of cornelius vanderbilt and the 2009 high outcries or the history of the great depression and the forgotten man. the pulitzer prize for a biography went to johnny jim and his account of the presidential tenure of andrew jackson. his book was discussed in 2008. >> i began this book five years ago. partly because it was the period in which david mccullough's john adams was doing so well and and benjamin franklin by will drive that captured the popular imagination and my sense was that if we were going to go back and recover these early figures, we should recover someone who represents the best of it in the worst of it. and andrew jackson surely does that. he teaches as much by vices as he does by virtues. so this is not -- you can't really have anything other than it works with andrew jackson. but they are on a man who ultimately kept the possibility of progress alive by preserving the union. >> over the next few weeks, booktv is much all the programs online at booktv.org. >> we continue with the recognition o

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but in this film you have cornelius vanderbilt jr. and the reporter who interviews him, edwin c.they're very cleared high about the jews which is brought up repeatedly in this film in a way that you will not see brought up in hollywood cinema until years later. >> reporter: vanderbilt saw the threat and the uproar his film was likely to generate going so far as to smuggle the film canisters in a spy movie caper. >> some adhesive tape, i climbed under the car and glued the cans to the bottom with tape. >> reporter: but what happened next may have come as a shock to the filmmaker. the "hitler reign of terror" was panned. it was called heavy handed, and they dismissed the notion that hitler could be any global threat. and then vanderbilt's movie faced the kind of pressure that document aariens would never imagine. hollywood gave hitler's "reign of terror" the cold shoulder. >> in the 1930s motion pictures had no first amendment rights. that seems incredible to us today, but in 1915 the u.s. supreme court ruled that movies were, quote a business pure and simple and as a business movi

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