, it's amazing, david mccullough is a two-time winner of the pulitzer prize, as well as the two-time winner of the national book award, and has received the presidential medal of freedom. our nation's highest civilian award. on a much lesser note, he has been a favorite in my book store, in illinois. in 1992, -- we were talking about it earlier -- remembers -- on his way back from a trip to independence, missouri to visit the truman home, david and his wife stopped by the store for a story signing of his new book "truman." in david's words, the truman house is far distant in missouri and far different. it is quite another kind of setting, just as harry truman was another kind of american. we sold a lot of books that day. will always cher-my memories of hosting david mccullough not only in the store put many book venues in the chicago area. let us all welcome him today to the most special of them all, the american writers museum. we did it. >> thank you very much. thank you all. and let's all be very grateful that be live in this marvelous country and the things of importance are stil

we begin this evening with the author and historian david mccullough. >> i like to write about people who i feel deserve more attention and credit. i like to bring them front and center stage. i like to write about the wives of these people. i like to write about people you never heard of because why should they remain in the shadows or in the wings, as it were. and the other -- i'm drawn to people who set off set out to accomplish something worthy, noble even that they knew would be difficult which turned out to be even more difficult than anyone imagined and they succeeded. >> charlie: we conclude with three syrian women who have activists. >> we want to highlight the syrian story through the syrian eyes not from the outside. seeing more syrians speak about syria. listening to syrians. we heard about the u.s. strike but we haven't heard any syrians speaking about how the strike affected the lives. >> charlie: the case for history and three activists in syria. join us. funding for "charlie rose" is provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and info

here -- where do you put the presidential medal of freedom among the honors that have come to david mcculloughvid: you mean in what cabinet? charlie: you know what i mean. david: i consider it the highest honor i have received. if i have to tell you what means most to me, it is that none of my books have ever been out of print in 50 years. charlie: people are still reading them. great to have you. david: thank you, charlie. i consider it a privilege to be your guests. charlie: thank you. book is called "the american spirit: who we are and what we stand for" and it is a collection of speeches. to know david mccullough is to know that when he writes a speech, he thinks about it because he has something he wants to say. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ charlie: syria's civil war is considered the greatest political and humanitarian prices of the 21st century. how are journalists collecting the news and video feeds? what are the risks to syrian journalists? how can people in the west support their work? how do women's voices play into this tragic narrative? joining me are three syrian women who h

ceremony. , speakers include former vice president joe biden, pulitzer prize-winning historian david mccullough, and journalist cokie roberts. this is about an hour and 40 minutes. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please recognize the color guards from each of the original 13 states as they are introduced in the order in which each state ratified the u.s. constitution and entered the union. delaware. first delaware regiment. [applause] pennsylvania. first troop philadelphia city cavalry. [applause] new jersey. old barracks museum. [applause] georgia. sons of the revolution in the state of georgia. [applause] connecticut. the governor's foot and horse guard. massachusetts. 54th massachusetts volunteer regiment. [applause] maryland. maryland society sons of the american revolution. [applause] south carolina. south carolina national guard. [applause] new hampshire. first new hampshire regiment. [applause] virginia. the virginia military institute regimental color guard. [applause] new york. ninth new york field artillery, veteran core -- veteran corps artillery of the state of new york. [applause] north

ceremony. , speakers include former vice president joe biden, pulitzer prize-winning historian david mccullough, and journalist cokie roberts. this is about an hour and 40 minutes. ♪

here -- where do you put the presidential medal of freedom among the honors that have come to david mcculloughvid: you mean in one cap -- in what cabinet? charlie: you know what i mean. david: i consider it the highest honor i have received. if i have to tell you what means most to me, it is that none of my books have ever been out of print in 50 years. charlie: people are still reading them. wow. great to have you. david: thank you, charlie. i consider it your best i consider it a privilege to be your guests. charlie: thank you. book is called "the american spirit: who we are and what we aand for" and it is collection of speeches. to know david mccullough is to know that when he writes a speech, he thinks about it because he has something he wants to say. back in a moment. stay with us. i've spent my life planting a size-six, non-slip shoe into that door. on this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. but these days it's phones before forks. they want wifi out here. but behind that door, i need a private connection for my business. wifi pro from comcast business. public wifi

david mccullough said yes, he had a connection with the marshall plan, but the idea of , not a crotchety behavior, but you did not step forward to be rewarded for things you are good at doing when you are doing them for your country. sorry. marshall continued on in the army. he got to know such people as this is theho said noblest roman of them all. he got crosswise with a number of the senior british commanders, the british chief of the imperial general staff, lord alan. he said marshall seemed filled with his own reputation, not a particularly flattering or accurate reading of marshall, but the whole idea of serving as a commander of what he was always conscious of, a democratic soldiery. these are not automatons. these are not career soldiers. these are gis. marshall was always aware of that. and one of the most moving cartoons, and some of you must be familiar with the work of bill mauldin, the cartoonist, his will be gone, 38-40-year-old cynical -- who never shaved. cartoons inreatest my view is a picture of marshall or a teacher of soldiers honoring marshall the day he died in 1959

thursday in boston, at the jfk presidential library, pulitzer prize-winning historian david mccullough discuss his collection of speeches. also that evening we are headed to the tulsa historical society for best-selling historical says -- historian michael losses recount of the ill-fated journey of the donner party and friday we are back in the nation's capital to hear founder and editor david callahan report on how the wealthy are using ventures to influence society. that's a look at some of the events book tv will cover this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to are in the near future on book tv on c-span2. >> longtime washington journalist, white house aide and author sidney blumenthal is about to begin live at the gaithersburg book festival in maryland. 's latest book is "wrestling with his angel: the political life of abraham lincoln". >> welcome, everyone. welcome to gaithersburg book festival. i am the president and ceo of the gaithersburg chamber of commerce and we loved this festival. i am also on the board of the arts and humanities council of mo

thursday in boston, at the jfk presidential library, pulitzer prize-winning historian david mcculloughdiscuss his collection of speeches. also that evening we are headed to the tulsa historical society for best-selling historical says -- historian michael losses recount of the ill-fated journey of the donner party and friday we are back in the nation's capital to hear founder and editor david callahan report on how the wealthy are using ventures to influence society. that's a look at some of the events book tv will cover this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to are in the near future on book tv on c-span2. >> longtime washington journalist, white house aide and author sidney blumenthal is about to begin live at the gaithersburg book festival in maryland. 's latest book is "wrestling with his angel: the political life of abraham lincoln". >> welcome, everyone. welcome to gaithersburg book festival. i am the president and ceo of the gaithersburg chamber of commerce and we loved this festival. i am also on the board of the arts and humanities council of mon

david mccullough and robert dowling have written the best civil volume on kennedy's presences the -- kennedy's presidency to date. susan: we will have copies available after so you can look at them. they are shorts and essays punctuated by that. we work through the arc of john kennedy's life. stephen: we also have conan o'brien for those of you born later than me. he wrote a fantastic essay on jfk's sense of humor. he said abraham lincoln and john f. kennedy are the two funniest president. susan: i had a question about humor in politics. when you read through the essays again and again, including conan o'brien's essay, it is the thought of easy wit as an aspect of john kennedy's personality in his public life he's being reinforced. how important to a successful presidency is a sense of humor and do we still have it today? [laughter] douglas: in a sense we still do. the president is the butt of all national satire. kennedy was a funny guy. he was a prankster. he saw the absurdity of life. he was a leader of the misbehaved gang in prep school. somewhat that way when he was at harvard.

convictions and thursday boston at the jfk presidential library pulitzer prize-winning historian david mccullough will discuss his collection of speeches, the american spirit. also that evening the historical society with michael wallace's recount of ill-fated journeyer-- journey of the donner party and friday we are back the nation's capital to hear founder and editor david callahan report on how the wealthy are using ventures to influence society. that's a look at some of the events book tv will cover this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on book tv on c-span2. >> the question was getting back to the topic are hospitals killing us. i mean, quite frankly i will just say i think that's ridiculous, i mean, i work every day with people that give their all to provide the very best care they give. i believe we have the very best healthcare system in the world. when you say are their mistakes made in any healthcare organization or any system? of course there are. does there need to be a commitment to constant improvement to do a root cause anal

david mccullough told me he left his job in random house and went to washington with a young family with no idea what he was going to do because he wanted work for jack kennedy. he ended up in the u.s. information agency. he ended up leading the charge of promoting american ideals against communism. he had that narrative of the young generation rising. he also had the narrative that free society is more aligned with fundamental human interest than totalitarian communist societies. i think he was right about that. reagan shared that viewpoint. kennedy went to berlin and gave his berlin speech and reagan went again when the berlin wall was eventually torn down. he had both of those narratives going, national energy and national anti-communism and the third narrative he had was he went to independence hall and gave a speech called "the age of interdependence." revolution american was the age of independence, and he said there was the revolution of 1787, the revolution of interdependence when we formed the constitution and became a national and powerful society. he said this is what we're fa

charlie: david mccullough is here. he is one of this country's best-known historians.er prizes and a presidential medal of freedom. his new book is a collection of speeches. it is called "the american spirit: who we are and what we stand for." i am pleased to have david back at the table. welcome. david: thank you, charlie. glad to be back. charlie: before we talk about the book, you have been outspoken about president trump. david: i have. along with great many other historians.

david mccullough, a collection of speeches, the american spirit. followed by bill o'reilly's latest book, old school. non-fiction best-sellers according to the conservative book club, women who work, by ivanka trump, daughter and assistant to president trump. the true jesus by david limbaugh. the extreme ownership, jocko willink and leif babin's book about u.s. forces effort to secure ramadi. bill o'reilly, martin dugard, killing the rising sun, wrapping up look at conservative book club's current nonfiction best-sellers, former president george w. bush's paintings of american soldiers, portraits of corerage. many of these authors have or will appear on booktv. you can watch them on our web site, booktv.org. >> to put as simply as possible the main theme of the book, we had huge upward redistribution of income over the last four decades that is not arguable at this point. documented any number of ways. people heard of thomas pacetti's great book, capital, talks more about wealth. we had number of good reports, solid data documenting upward redistri

david mccullough with collection of speeches, the american spirit. followed by bill o'reilly's latest book, old school. our look at current non-fiction best-sellers according to the conservative book club continues with women who work, by ivanka trump, daughter and assistant to president trump. followed by the true jesus by david limbaugh. 8th is extreme ownership. navy seals jacques cowill link and leif babin's account of their mission to help u.s. forces secure ramadi. next on the list bill o'reilly and historian martin dugard history of japan's defeat during world war two, killing the rising sun. former best-sellers, president george w. bush's paintings of american soldiers, portraits of courage. many of these authors have or appear on booktv. watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> we live in an era of very rapid change, rapid technological change. rapid integration of global economy, high less of integration. all these are dislocating forces. they're very positive in lots of way. they're positive in terms of generating growth. diversity has a

. >> david mccullough wrote an essay about jfk as historian, president kennedy was a member of the americann the pulitzer prize for his book "profiles and courage" and believed knowledge of history was important to decision making. so i think among our presidents he and probably woodrow wilson are the most knowledgeable presidents about history and it certainly influenced the way he thought about and made decisions. >> jfk was a writer after the pt 109 phenomenon, we forget sometimes he went and covered potsdam and he covered the u.n. founding in san francisco, and so he had a journalism background. kennedy actually admired the first amendment in journalists so much that he became the master of the press. he kind of created the modern white house press, you know, corps interaction and he was remarkable at it. he's our first television president and boy, could he communicate with people. >> it's amazing. >> a vision for america. >> it's amazing. >> thank you, guys, so much. >> let the record show we asked mika brzezinski to be in it. >> oh. >> you couldn't make it. >> of course. >> my first