after that it's the best of me, a collection of stories and at the essays by author and humorist david sid harris and wrapping up our look at best-selling books according to washington dc's politics and prose bookstore, alice george's biography of the late astronaut andsenator john glenn in the last american hero . some ofthese authors appeared on book tv . what's their programs online at booktv.org. >> during a virtual event hosted by the commonwealth club of san francisco susan eisenhower discusses life and leadership of her grandfather , dwight eisenhower . >> eisenhower was conscious of what it would be to be a diminished president. we have to remember that president wilson was really almost a scandal that people in the country didn't know how bill that president was so ike was determined not to find himself in that situation for the good of the country and after he had three illnesses during his presidency and after each one of them he would give himself a very arduous test like a round the world trip or a trip to europe that required lots of meetings and lots of stress and he'd always tell