[applause] >> we are very honor today to have doris kearns goodwin is our special guest. before i give her background for a moment and start some questions, how many people here have read a book by doris kearns goodwin? okay, all right. how many people have read two books? three books? for? five? six? all of them. okay. how many people are going to buy her book today and get it autographed? okay. 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 do

this of course is the speech that doris kearns goodwin will be here shortly, turned into a wonderfulook titled no ordinary time. this is where that comes from. henry wallace is narrowly, but the revolt was off in the convention adjourned without more turmoil. another important character of this. was charles lindbergh, much admired, but also the leader of the isolationist movement. roosevelt detested them. if i die tomorrow, number one thing. charles lindbergh is a nazi. charles lindbergh was many things, that he was not a savvy. he was used on three military inspection trips to germany during the late 1830s. wendell wilkie, if there is a secondary hero to this story, it is when the wealthy. he is now the bill remembered unfortunately because there was a very significant dates in and he was the utilities executive, but very charismatic and he came from the republican nomination and charmed the dickens out of the republican party. that there were some that didn't like him, that was entered in ,-com,-com ma they'll sell conservatives didn't care for and because he had so recently been a

after that doris kearns goodwin and a call in with that historian. this is booktv on c-span2. >> i was an exchange student studying in china in 1989 so i'm very excited to be able to introduce our next speaker. i think most of us here may not recognize her but we certainly recognize her voice. i'm here to introduce luisa lim to talk about her book "the people's republic of amnesia." she is the voice as i said from china for "national public radio" and prior to that she worked for bbc. over a decade of reporting she has earned many prestigious prizes and broadcasting awards for her work. during the previous academic year 2013 to 2014 louisa was a mic wallace fellow at the university of michigan and i just learned for the next academic year she will be teaching at the university of michigan in journalism school. for me reading her book brought back to me a flood of memories from my year in china and especially the events that surrounded tiananmen. having been in china around that time i found a reason quote in "the wall street journal" about her book t