doris kearns goodwin the 14th annual national book festival. kelly and lost all of those california you are on the air. >> caller: thank you so much for your presentation. the question i was looking at a target announced that i want to say thank you for the response you gave to point to go about the importance of what's going on in the world today and the need for us as active as to speak out and voice the problems that we see. thank you. >> you are very welcome. in fact it's interesting the clue or the guy i wrote about in "the bully pulpit" what he was concerned about citizenry and the importance of activism. he said in the end it's down to all of us and without citizens taking on an active role in our country we despair over what's happening in washington, the dysfunction of the legislature and tribal problems with one another. we despair over money and politics which i think is the poison in the system. if i were younger that's what i would be doing is leading a constitutional amendment to get money out of the system. [applause] it's all up

how many people here have read a book by doris kearns goodwin? [applause] how many people have read two books? three books? four? five? six? all of them. how many people are going to buy her book today? and get it autographed. doris kearns goodwin is obviously a leading presidential scholar. she is a person who has written books on some of the most important presidents and today we are going to talk largely about her new book "the bully pulpit" which is about teddy roosevelt and william howard taft and the bit about the muckrakers of that time. she is from brooklyn. [applause] a big fan of the brooklyn dodgers and she wrote a book about them as well. the brooklyn dodgers don't exist any longer so she has shifted their allegiance to the boston red sox. [applause] and she was the first woman to go into the boston red sox locker room. [applause] she is a graduate of kolbe college phi beta kappa. later on a white house fellowship and is as a white house fellow assigned to the white house and worked with president johnson directly. after she left at t

so doris kearns goodwin is obviously a leading presidential scholars. she is a person who has written books on some of the most important president and today we'll talk largely about her new book, "the bully pulpit," which is about teddy roosevelt and william howard taft and a bit about the muckrakers. before we do so, a little more background about her another book she's written. she's of course written works on lincoln, eleanor and franklin roosevelt and a book on lyndon johnson with whom she worked when she was a white house fellow. she is from brooklyn. [cheers and applause] a big fan of the brooklyn dodgers that she wrote a book about them as well. clap back the brook when dodgers don't exist any longer come associate shifted her legions to the boston red sox. [cheers and applause] and she was the first woman to go into the boston red sox locker room. she is a graduate of colby college, phi beta kappa naturally. later when a white house fellowship and is a white house fellow was assigned to the white house and worked with president indirectly. afte

theodore roosevelt, william howard taft and the golden age of journalist, she's doris kearns goodwin, this is overherd. [ applause ] >> actually, there are not two sides to every issue. >> i guess we can't fire him now. >> i guess we can't fire him now. >> being on the supreme court was an improbable dream. >> it's hard work and it's controversial. >> without information there is no freedom and it's journalists who provide that information. >> window rolls down, this guy says, hey, goes to 11. [ laughter ] >> doris so good to see you. >> i'm glad to be back. >> thanks so much, congratulations, what another -- another great book and wish you great success with it. >> thank you. >> i had to say you had me at journalism. [ laughter ] and the reality is, as much as it may be unexpected, a book about teddy roosevelt is a book about the media, about journalism. in fact journalism does play i a part. >> huge part. >> yeah. >> i mean more than i even realized. i mean i think the real success of teddy roosevelt was his relationship with the journal i, the congress was grid locked or actually c

joining me is doris kearns goodwin. she's a presidential his -- his torian. albert hunt is here and gillian tett managing editor of the financial times i'm pleased to have all of them here. i say this from the beginning this is not a program that's going to look at the election results because we don't know what they are. we're talking about the country and where it is because those will be the issues that whoever wins the election will be facing. we'll try to reach into what had led us to these places where they look at a campaign and the electorate is described as sullen in bad mood tom. i begin with that because you have spent an enormous amount of time reaching out and looking at america and where it is. >> i thought about my own life john i was born in 1940 right before the john and it was about big ideas in my lifetime mobilizing for the war gi bill of rights kennedy saying we're going to go to the moon the civil rights act, nixon saying we'll open relations with china, ronald reagan staring down the soviet union and the cold war ends without a shot bei

doris kearnes-goodwin. good to see you. a father. this book, which you've gone through, is an affectionate, certainly not critical, but there are real insights into the father/son relationship and into the bush 41 presidency. >> 43 over and over again says he was given unconditional love by 41 and just as his father was given unconditional love by his father, prescott bush and this whole question of dynasty has two sides to it. one is probably it isn't fair for people not to be judged on their merit. if you have the blood lines of a clinton or bush right now, you have enormous advantages, access to media, supporters, people waiting for you. and george washington, when he stepped down after two terms, said the reason he was stepping down was because he wanted people to be judged on their merit. he didn't just want to be there until he ended, like a king. on the other hand there's a subtle argument in this book that there is a benefit for a family having gone through public life for so many generations. they've absorbed and k

rose: welcome to the programment tonight a look at the midterm lookions and what comes after, doris kearnsminute, tom brokaw, gillian tett and al hunt. join me with a conversation about the future of the country. and bob costa from "the washington post" takes us inside the washington party as it looks at the future but first a look at the results as of 11:00 p.m. this tuesday night. going to mark halperin and john heilemann and their broadcast currently in progress. >> slightly weird state of alaska remain open. >> the polls in alaska will close at 1:00 a.m. eastern time. we're being watched not just a bloomberg but other viewers for this election night update at 11:00 p.m. eastern time where polls have closed he

joining me now, doris kearns goodwin. her most recent book is "the bully pulpit." brokaw.here, tom albert hunt is here. and a u.s. managing editor of the financial times, i'm pleased to have them here. i saved this from the beginning, this is not a program that will look at the election results. we don't know what they are. you're are talking about the country. those will be the issues that whoever wins will be facing. we can also try to reach into what has led us to these places where they look at a campaign and the electorate is described as stolen, in a bad mood. i begin with that because you have spent enormous amount of time reaching out and looking at america, and where it is. lifetime, i was born before the world war, there were a big ideas. the g.i. bill of rights, candidate saying we are going to the moon, civil rights acts, relations with china, the cold war. and you go to silicon valley, that is a big idea. the disruptive, change, find new ways to do something. we're trapped in little ideas in this country. they don't seem to be serving anybody particula

doris kearns goodwin were members presidents roosevelt and taft.profile of book publisher simon & schuster. looks on the pros and cons the football, and a tour of the new york public library. for more information on this weekends four-day television schedule visit us online at booktv.org. >> you describe with wonderful "popular science" detail here why dogs are so good it does. tell us what you think most people don't know about why, the kinds of things dogs can do that machines are humans can do. >> it's a much more layered way. example i've been using, from education, not my own, but they call it a steal or hamburger. but we recognize, the dogs are smart all the ingredients and they can call them out. this becomes important in searching for ieds because the composition of a particular homemade explosive is never going to be exactly the same every time. the a very crude and easy to make in that way. .. our different environments impede them as they become frightened or uncomfortable that even though they have this ability within them, it is not al