. >> during booktv's coverage of this year's national book festival, biographer david nuzzo spoke about joseph kennedy. spent finally, kennedy couldn't figure out the mind games, whether churchill was teasing him or was so drunk that he forgot from the day before that kennedy didn't drink. they dislike one another intensely but the war was over. there had been an intense suffering, and churchill said the kennedy, he held out his hand and he said, i'm so sorry for your loss. joe, jr. had died during the war, and churchill was sincere. and he said to churchill, what good was it all? and churchill looked at him, and believing, world war ii had destroyed, and churchill's "mein kampf" hitler and mussolini and the dick daters. it had saved democracy. it had saved western civilization, so churchill thought. and kennedy blazed hatred at him. >> booktv is the only national television network devoted to nonfiction books every weekend, and this fall we are marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. .. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979,ro