we will kick off our live coverage today with wreckers university professionals david greenberg. an inside history of the american presidency. this is live coverage from savanna on book tv. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> good morning everyone. welcome to the ninth savanna book festival. i am delighted to welcome you this morning. my name is ann gardner and we are being presented here in the church and for the festival by georgia power, bill kelly and the estate of ralph handelsman. we are blessed once again to host such a celebrated author at trinity united methodist church which has been made possible by the generosity of substate bank. many of you have already watched on deck with eric. today we suspect suspect you are staking your claims around chippewa squares. as you choose among the dozens of renowned writers who have published outstanding books this year. we would like to extend special thanks also to our literary, and the individual donors who make this event possible. if you would like to lend your support we welcome your donations and have provided you buckets for books. th

david greenberg is an expert in such matters as up prof. of history and journalism, media studies at rutgers university. he speaks often on the shoes of media and contemporary politics, the subject of this latest book "republic of spin," an inside history of the american presidency. in it, david greenberg recounted the rise of the white house spin machine from teddy roosevelt to barack obama, from the bleep it to the well calibrated construction of today's pollsters, speech writers and snake oil salesman who excel on social media. please welcome david greenberg. [applause] >> thank you, thanks to all of you. it is really encouraging to see such a good crowd on saturday morning. i want to thank in particular ted and linda mohr, my hosts this weekend who have been showing me around savannah and showing me a wonderful time. wonderful to be in this terrific city. i want to talk today for a few minutes about what led me to write this book "republic of spin". my first book was on richard nixon. it was a book called nixon's shadow, the history of

immediately after the presentation, david greenberg will be signing the books, the festival purchase books. now please join me in thanking doctor preston for sponsoring mr. greensburg appearance here today which is perfect and the timing as it we are in the midst of a contentious and sometimes entertaining, and always mesmerizing presidential season. david greenberg is an expert in such matters as a professor of history in journalism and media studies at wreckers and university. he speaks often on media and content politics which is a subject of his latest book, republic of spin. and inside history of the american presidency. in it, he recounts the rise of the white house machine from teddy roosevelt to barack obama. from the bullet pit to the well calibrated construction today publicist, poor stirrers, speechwriters sisters, speechwriters and salesmen who excel on social media. please welcome david greenberg [applause]. >> thank you and i think you to all of you it is very encouraging to see such a good crowd this early on on a saturday morning. i want to thank in particular ted and

we kicked off our coverage with rutgers university journalism professor david greenberg, author of "republic of spin: an inside history of the american presidency." >> thank you, all of you. it's really encouraging to see such a good crowd this early on a saturday morning. i want to thank in particular ted and linda moore, my host this weekend who have been showing me around savannah and showing me a wonderful time. it's wonderful to be in this terrific city. i want to talk today first for a few minutes about what led me to write this book, "republic of spin." my first book was on richard nixon did it was a book called nixon's shadow, a history of an image. it was not so much a biography of nixon as a study of nixon in the american imagination. not a story of what he did so much as a sort of what nixon meant. and i came to see through the study of nixon how many

we're going to kick off our live coverage today with rutgers university journalism professor david greenberg. his book is called "the republic of spin: an inside history of the american presidency." this is live coverage from savannah on booktv. ..

greenberg with what's going up along the boardwalk. >> and lester holt has a look what he's working on for 6:30. >> hi, natalie and david. coming up at 6:30, reaction to the bombshell endorsement of donald trump by cndis christie, did an order of protection from the -- a number of cases involving pregnant travelers in the u.s. >>> new tontd, some college students will no longer be able to buy an enet'y drink to help themut an all nighter. middle bury college just banned from energy drinks being sold onsmpus. unhealthy work habits like stress and sleeplessness and high risk sexual activity. some students are fighting the ban, arguing the college is overreaching its role. >> we just talked about spring like temperatures this weekend. may have you thinking about a getaway down at the jersey shore. it's a race against time to get everything ready for the crowds for summer, including new attractions. ted green berg has details new at 5:30. >> the work happening up in the air in ocean city is photo worthy to john. he>> every week at ast, i send pictures to my grandchildren for the summer when they'll be up to ride it. >> repor

our kimberly greenberger, our retail equity analyst, calls it the luxury recession. to see thene, results of retail yesterday, davidugh them on bloomberg radio, on kohl's and a few others. caroline, jump in here on this idea of gasoline. caroline: we have seen an ugly quarter when it comes to retail. then you are saying you have a lower call on whether we will see economic growth, 1.5% likely this year, lower than consensus. ,ut the goodwill from low oil already spent, is that why it is so much lower? speak to saysne i oil will play into the economy and give it a boost. ellen: i think one of the things we have seen is that in the past oil has been unambiguously good for the u.s. economy. what we have this time is what has been the fastest-growing capex, and it has taken a major hit. at the same time, it came with a lot of market volatility. tom: let's review your 1.8% call. we all know and it is ugly. where is the part that gets you 1.8%?-- that gets you to is consumption? ellen: it is not consumption. we cannot blame the president, either, even though we would all like to. we take a supply-side approach. labor mar

really good, rocksolid, we heard that from hank greenberg two days before they got kicked, so how bad are the banks in terms of their own balance sheets? david hard to know because they don't disclose. i know deutsche bank has a 2 trillion balance sheet and they have tangible equity of 66 billion, so that is 3%. they are leveraged 30 to one in terms of tangible equity. let's world around in the 2 trillion, nobody knows, but i did inc. the banks have unloaded the worst of their stuff and it is in mutual funds, etf's, non-bank and financial institutions like all these companies that have come up overnight to make auto loans by selling junk bonds. assetsie: so these bad that the banks had on their books, they are elsewhere and they are now in the hands of mutual funds, mom-and-pop. david stockman: those are worse, run is moref the dangerous than banks. back then, main street banks did not have to market most of their assets and there was never a run on mainstream banks but just at the wall street hedge funds posing as banks that should have been liquidated and reorganized. this time, you will have a run on five or six trillion of funds. this ti

we will kick off our live coverage today with wreckers university professionals david greenberg. an inside history of the american presidency. this is live coverage from savanna on book tv. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> good morning everyone. welcome to the ninth savanna book festival. i am delighted to welcome you this morning. my name is ann gardner and we are being presented here in the church and for the festival by georgia power, bill kelly and the estate of ralph handelsman. we are blessed once again to host such a celebrated author at trinity united methodist church which has been made possible by the generosity of substate bank. many of you have already watched on deck with eric. today we suspect suspect you are staking your claims around chippewa squares. as you choose among the dozens of renowned writers who have published outstanding books this year. we would like to extend special thanks also to our literary, and the individual donors who make this event possible. if you would like to lend your support we welcome your donations and have provided you buckets for books. th