doris kearns goodwin. so having the author will give members of congress a sense of history and to think about what is a doris kearns goodwin 50 years from now or michael castles or douglas brinkley going to be writing about you all right now. well, it turns out, mrs. hayden, your mother is reading james mcbride. oh, yeah. and a book called camelot. so we will send john back out there. and to anybody else, the news, the news. i have to say, homer's in massachusetts. homer good afternoon. what's on your reading list? oh, this is also massachusetts. i am reading rob ford's from on this continent by david hauser, which is a good book. i become a history buff. up until six months ago. i don't think i've. i've read six books in my lifetime and i'm almost 83 years old, so the book i'm reading is mental maps of the founders. but michael, they're both excellent books. now, homer, you got to explain what you just said that you've only. reading about six months ago at age 83. why did it take you while to get started?

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but joining us now is pulitzer prize winner doris kearns goodwin. here is her most recent book, an unfinished love story a personal history of the 1960s. doris kearns goodwin, this is your eighth book. was this the toughest one to write without a question. why? well, before that, my guys were the presidents. they were no longer alive right? franklin roosevelt, teddy roosevelt, johnson and abraham lincoln. but more importantly, this was my husband so he was my guy. and it meant so much to me to finish the project we had started before he died, and i just wasn't sure i could do that after he died. but it turned out to be probably the most important emotional book that i've ever written. well you were doris kearns in the 1960s. you didn't meet him until the night, until 1972. but this history of the sixties, how did you do that? yeah, well, it's true. we always tease each other that we should have met because we were in a lot of places at the same time. i was at the march on washington in 1963. he was there, but so were 250,000 other people. so we didn'

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speaking for his grandfather tomorrow night and we got presidential historian doris kearns back with us, what doris kearns goodwinnference and a 1968. some startling ones coming up. welcome everybody, neil cavuto, laptop everybody with a very, very busy newsday, laskova mike poulin first in chicago covering the one of the convention. >> hi, neil. this is the big convention or the big demonstration that everyone was watching for this convention. this is a coalition of smart this is their big day. giving you a look right now, they boasted that he would get tens of thousands. it looks like the delivering tens of thousands, some said 100,000. frank lien yeung think they made it 100,000. there are possible start, had a lot of speakers here at union park in the market itself is of the event of a slow start. they made about half a block and stalled again, apparently just for organizational intermix and purposes. now they are primarily an anti- israel pro-palestinian organization and largely they are sticking to that message. they want to end the u.s. funding of these rarely military. that being said we've heard them tal

this year's guests include include library of congress carla hayden, doris kearns goodwin, and yuval levin. at sunday at 6 p.m., the book american materialism argues economic determinism and ideas central to marxism is shaping u.s. domestic and foreign policy. at 8 p.m. eastern, the "new york times", autocracy incorporated argues modern autocracies are working together to weaken democracy and offers her thoughts on how did he did. watch tv every weekend on c-span2 and find a full schedule under program guide or watch online anytime at booktv.org. >> president biden said a middle east fire is closer than we have been during the white house event designated a national monument of the site of the 1908 race riot in springfield, illinois. the designation mark the 116th anniversary of the right august 14 through 16th of a given attending the signing in the oval office were members of the illinois congressional delegation, civil rights leaders and interior secretary deb haaland. >> well, hello, everybody. welcome, all my former colleagues, colleagues, and members of the administration and t

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when doris kearns goodwin asked me to go binge drinking with her, i accepted it. one answer. good. i was thrilled to be wall street journal, but it was great experience. i mean, when somebody as you know well, somebody can buy your work and they don't have to talk. that's right. but let me be part of the process at every step along the way. and just to go to the academy awards, i felt really proud of what they done. and the interesting thing is this big fat i had originally tony had written a script that was more chronological and he loved and chase not liked him as a person, loved him as a character. and then was just too big. and they finally this is where imagination comes in. they hit the idea of just doing the 13th amendment, but meanwhile they knew the character of lincoln and that's what mattered to me was that that they got the person was they got the political genius he was got the humor person he was they got the melancholy that he had. and that's what you care about. did they responsibly do that they even i was even able to persuade daniel and steven to tell my favorite

this year's guests including librarian of congress carla hayden, pulitzer prize winners doris kearns goodwin, and more. the library of congress's national book festival live saturday, august 24 beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two. >> welcome back to washington journal. washington." we have andy kroll with us, an investigative reporter with pro-publica. explain project 2025. guest: it is an effort led by the heritage foundation and supplemented by dozens of organizations and hundreds of contributors to try to lay the groundwork for the next conservative presidential administration. obviously, that would be laying the future groundwork for a trump administration. your viewers have probably heard a little or a lot about the 900 page policy playbook. but project 2025 has put together and it lays out potential policies that the future president could do on everything from education to health care to technology, antitrust and the federal workforce itself. there are other parts of the project 2025. there is a whole piece that flows under the notion that personnel is policy, a phrase that c

doris kearns goodwin, as usual. thanks very much.nd i certainly will want to continue this conversation down the road coming up the list, growing a former trump aides and allies for speaking at this week's democratic national convention here in chicago. so how is the former president of the united states responding to this trump's former white house press secretary stephanie grisham, who also spoke last night here at the convention. she's standing by. we'll talk to her next you still going to win class president with the slogan wow, working campaign posters yet, well, in my experience, the best campaign slogans are short and memorable like, well that's definitely memorable that's good. >> do you ever seen anything like this you need new replacement windows, but you're just not sure of their in the budget this year, right? >> i'm brian gary here with ted coons from renewal by anderson and he's here to talk about how to make window replacement more affordable. >> well, first, bryan, you don't have to do them all. you could just replace

festival with vicious guess including library of congress carla hayden, pulitzer prize winner doris kearns goodwin and you've all of then and the library of congress national book festival live saturday begin and and 90 and eastern on c-span2. next a look at international trade relations, supply chains and u.s. leadership in the global economy with the chair of the white house council of economic advisers jared bernstein. canadian ambassador to the u.s. kierstin hellmann and others. this is hosted by the council on foreign relations in washington, d.c. >> welcome to the council of foreign relations. i matthew goodman, or matt if you prefer. i am director of the gruenberg center geoeconomic studies here at cfr, and as of two minutes ago i'm also director of the real economy initiative which we really out today here at cfr. so i'm delighted to welcome those of you in the room and also the hundreds online who are watching us as we launch this new initiative on reimagining american economic leadership. this initiative was a brainchild of cfr president mike froman who shortly after joining cfr last sum

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vicious guests including library of congress carla hayden, pulitzer prize winner doris kearns goodwin, yuval levin and more. the library of congress is national book festival live saturday, august 24 beginning at 9 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> the house will be in order. >> c-span celebratory figures of covering coming congress like no other. since 1979 we have been your primary source for capitol hill providing balance unfiltered coverage of government taking to what the policy is debated and decided all with the support of america's cable companies. c-span, 455 years and counting, powered by cable. >> and i am happy to introduce david roll the author of george marshall, the hopkins touch and "ascent to power: how truman emerged from roosevelt's shadow and remade the world." he is co-author of louis johnson and the army of america, along with keith mcfarland, a biography of harry truman said defense secretary. after serving as an assistant director for the bureau of competition at the ftc, he practiced law as a partner in the johnson llp and founded next monday pro bono foundation, a

congress carla hayden, talking with some of the authors appearing at the festival including doris kearns goodwin and telogen host cameron hall. watch coverage of the opening ceremony at 6:thirty p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> on saturday, booktv on c-span2 takes you to the washington convention center for annual coverage of the national book festival. since 2001 we feature hundreds of "in depth" and uninterrupted author talks. this year's guests including library of congress carla hayden. .. >> next, look at ways to improve retirement for americans during hearing of the sent health, education, labor and pensions committee. according to committee chair bernie sanders almost 45% of americans between 55-64 have no retirement savings. [inaudible conversations] >> the committee on health education labor pensions will come to order. and the purpose of this hearing is at issue were going to be discussing, it's have enormous consequence but it fortune i don't getting the attention that it deserves. i want to thank all of the witnesses for being here and i look forward to a good and serious discussion. let

one time i was at harvard law and to students at whatever happened to doris kearns goodwin away m quick did she die?t it took 10 years to write the first book. >> why was lyndon johnson lonely? >> he had been kicked out of the world. saying he had withdrawn but it was because he had withdrawn is kind of sad because he knew he had done extraordinary things. medicare medicaid eight education immigrationra voting rights desegregating the south. e-2 the city's extraordinary that the vietnam war cut it into him he needed feel like ev remember to somehow. if there's a desire somehow for all of us to remember they chose me somehow because ii was there and maybe because i was young and maybe because i was going to be an historian or and are a thought i might be to tell the story through so they became the foundation of the first book and luckily the book did well so that about me to become a writer. i would have been a teacher and not a writer by profession. >> listening to tell these origin stories and thinking one person here robbie is known for his fiction and doris for her nonfiction. yours

talking with some of the authors appearing at the festival including pulitzer prize winner doris kearns goodwintelevision host tamron hall. watch live coverage of the opening ceremony at 6:30 p.m. easternn c-span2. >> thisftnoon 2024 republican presidential nominee donald trump speaks to voters i glendale, arizona. the state gave its 11 11 elecl votes to the former president in 2016 but was one i president biden in 2020. uan watch the campaign valley live at 7 p.m. eastern on c-span, she's beenut our free mobile video at or online at c-span.org. >> sunday on q&a we sat down with -- author of breaking barriers with chile about the history of the washington d.c. landmark. >> april 4, 1968, did you stay open? >> yes. we were the only place that was allowed to remain open. >> allowed to remain open? >> actually asked to remain open. with dr. king, they wanted everything close in d.c. that uprising took place, we left for three nights. we would only place open. >> a good place for african americans to go to and feel safe and feel as if this is our place to talk, to eat, to socialize, to listen to yo

>> doris kearns goodwin's book team of rivals is one of my favorites, the lincoln presidency, the cabinetssembled, really remarkable, the wisdom, that is one that i think about frequently. when i tried to cross the aisle and bridge the gap making it safer people who don't have the same perspective. it is important to assure good decision-making, that there are different perspectives taken into account when hard decisions are made. i think of the lincoln presidency and that in particular is powerful. >> you go to some of the games. are you able to go to most of the football games?on >> i try to >> you like the lions too. [applause] >> happy o about the co-chair michigan state, on the right trajectory. >> he has been a wonderful goodwill ambassador for us. >> he's got the best spartan energy of anyone. i love him. >> questions from the audience when will you be done fixing the dam road? >> never. you are welcome, okay? [applause] >> what advice do you give young women who have a hard timeke finding hope in the fute of our country in moments like these when our right to make decisions about

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dishes guest including library of congress carla hayden, pulitzer prize winners doris kearns goodwin, yuval levin and more. the library of congress national book festival live saturday august 24 beginning at 9 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> the house will be in order. >> this year c-span celebrates 45 years of covering congress like no other. since 1979 we have been your primary source for capitol hill dividing balanced unfiltered coverage of government. taking you to what the policy is debated and decided all with the support of america's cable companies. c-span, 45 years and counting. powered by cable. >> hi everybody. welcome to the barnes & noble. today were joined by author martin dugard big az author of a great many books on a great many topics including to be a runner, into africa, farther than any man, with bill o'reilly is a co-author of the best-selling series of history books. most recently killing the which is about the salem witch trials. his book, his series on world war ii, taking pairs, taking berlin now continues with "taking london: winston churchill and the fight to sa

doris kearns goodwin. so having the author will give members of congress a sense of history and to think about what is a doris kearns goodwin 50 years from now or michael castles or douglas brinkley going to be writing about you all right now. well, it turns out, mrs. hayden, your mother is reading james mcbride. oh, yeah. and a book called camelot. so we will send john back out there. and to anybody else, the news, the news. i have to say, homer's in massachusetts. homer good afternoon. what's on your reading list? oh, this is also massachusetts. i am reading rob ford's from on this continent by david hauser, which is a good book. i become a history buff. up until six months ago. i don't think i've. i've read six books in my lifetime and i'm almost 83 years old, so the book i'm reading is mental maps of the founders. but michael, they're both excellent books. now, homer, you got to explain what you just said that you've only. reading about six months ago at age 83. why did it take you while to get started?

[applause] >> a please welcome to the stage doris kearns goodwin.ulitzer prize-winning historian's latest book is titled an unfinished love story. a personal history of the 1960s. >> good evening everyone. how joyful it is to be to get at the national book festival. we are going to celebrate the power of books to stir the imagination. to foster empathy propel action and carry us lands away. having been in love with library since i was a little girl it is simply awesome to be in this building. it must at building of levers of ever seeing that might love affair ea. [applause] my love affair with libraries really began with my mother took me to the small public library in my hometown. a new york britt a place she told me would be a place she could go to go to lands that she could never reach. rheumatic fever as a child has left her at severely damaged heart. her illness bound her to a house is it invalid but though she had only an eighth-grade education she read books and every spare moment she could find. in the middle of the night when should trouble

fso with vicious guests including library of congress carla hayden, pulitzer prize winner doris kearns goodwin yuval levin and more. the library of congress is national book festival live saturday, august 24 beginning at 9 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> the house will be in order. >> c-span celebratory figures of covering coming congress like no other. since 1979 we have been your primary source for capitol hill providing balance unfiltered coverage of government taking to what the policy is debated and decided all with the support of america's cable companies. c-span, 455 years and counting, powered by cable. >> and i am happy to introduce d

festival and dishes guest including library of congress carla hayden, pulitzer prize winners doris kearns goodwin, you fall within and more. the library of congress national book festival live saturday, august 24 beginning at nine p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> weekends on a c-span2 on intellectual feast. every saturday american history tv documents america's stories and on sundays booktv brings you the lest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span2 come from these television companies and more including cox. >> when connection is needed most cox is there to help. bringing affordable internet to families in need. support to veterans. whenever and wherever it matters most, we will be there. >> cox alo with these television companies supports c-span2 as a public service. >> we have someone with us here who is an absolute and true friend to the national archives and records administration as well as to the gerald r. ford. how true a friend is garrett graff? well, to put it in a kind of small perspective, garrett is such a friend that when garrett right out his check every year to the irs, ga

this year's guest include library of congress carla hayden, doris kearns goodwin.ibrary of congress's national book festival live saturday, august when he for, beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> the house will be in order. >> c-span celebrates 45 years of covering congress like no other. we have been your primary source for capitol hill, providing balanced coverage of government. taking you to where the policies are debated and decided. c-span, 45 years and counting, powered by cable. >> next, a review of the supreme court's most recent term and ruling and a at the dobbs decision which overturned the right to an abortion under federal law. scholars discuss the history of the civil rights in this report -- and the supreme court, including the recent ruling that preserves access to the abortion pill. university law center hosted this event. georgetown law university hosted this event.

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congress carla hayden talking with authors appearing at the fso including pulitzer prize winner doris kearns goodwinand television host tamron hall. watch live coverage of the opening ceremony at 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-span2. thisfternoon 2024 republican presidential nominee donal trump speaks to voters in glendale arizona. the state gave its 11 eleor votes to the formerredent in 2016 but was won by president biden in 2020. you can y can watch a campaign rally live at 7 p.m eastern on c-span, c-span now our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. >> we will welcome them to a great national crusade to make america great again. >> our dream has been heard. >> taxes will go up. anyone who says they won't is not telling the truth. >> our beloved nation, where in the midst of a springtime of hope for america. >> because we are the party that believes in the american dream. >> read my lips. no new taxes. >> i still believe in a place called hope. >> here's the question for the american people. who do you trust in this election. >> was the real choices whether we will build a bridge to the future or

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issues guest including library of congress carla hayden, pulitzer prize winners doris kearns goodwin, yuval levin n and more. the library of congress' national book festival live saturday august 24 beginning at nine p.m. stern on c-span2. >> the house will be in order. >> this year c-span celebrates 45 years of covering congress like no other. since 1979 we have in your been your primary source for capitol hill, providing balanced unfiltered coverage of government. taking you to where the policy is debated and decided all with the support of america's cable companies. c-span 45 years and counting, powered by cable. >> it is really a pleasure of great year and his family. it's great to see you and we have children and grandchildren. if you wonderful applause prats not at the right moment, that's just the great sound of the granddaughter enjoying her grandfather speak so let's celebrate that, too. so please join me in welcoming craig shirley, and our director of scholarly initiatives, dr. anthony aims to lead the conversation here today on his new book "the search for reagan: the appeal

>> well, i love, jenna, doris kearns goodwin book "team of rivals" is one of my favorites. the lincoln presidency and the cabinet he assembled. i just come really remarkable, the wisdom, and it wasn't easy and there wereof a lot of fights but i think that's, that's one i think abou' frequently as am always trying to cross, you know, the isle and bridge the gaps between us, making use for people who don't have the same perspective is really important. it's really important to ensure good decision-making, to ensure that the are different perspectives taken into account when hard decisions are made. and so i think about the lincoln presidency, and that in particular is something that is really powerful. >> it was great. did you go to, i mean you go to some of the games. are you able to go to most of the msu football games and some of the t vascular? >> i try to get to one a year these days. it's hard. >> yeah. and like the lions, to. >> i do. i'm happy about the lions. [applause] i'm happy about our new coach at michigan state. i think were -- were rebuilding. were on the righ

book, allison i've worked with david maraniss as editor bob woodward's editor, tony lucas doris kearns goodwin. it's an honor to have been edited by alice allison. i had a different way of working which was her way which really helped me which was that knowing i'm a recluse when i'm working on a book every three or six months, you would invite me to or lunch and we would end up doing all of the conceptual editing of a book just over the of those lunches. so that by the time i was handing in manuscript, we agreed on the big picture of the book. we understood the narrative of the book, and that made the line go much more smooth oddly. i also have to say this is the kind of editor alice was. she no detail escaped her. the last book i wrote for her was called breaking the line. it was about hpc, youth football, the civil rights movement. and the book is all done. it's going into production. we chosen the photos for photo insert and i sent in my captions and i'm with my wife going to kennedy airport to go and visit our son in madrid, where he's doing study abroad. my cell phone rings alice and she

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someone who was there almost 56 years ago joins us now appealing to prize winning historian doris kearns goodwinher latest bestseller, which is fantastic an unfinished love story, a personal history of the 196 these doors great to have you here. so you and your husband, dick, were there in chicago for all all of it, both of you worked for lyndon johnson during his presidency. dickey been very close to bobby kennedy, had been assassinated in june. what feels similar now, what feels different? >> well, what feels different is that it was a war where we had our soldiers who are abroad it was profoundly divided in the democratic party and the chicago police were not trained as i hope they are now. but what happened to me when i think about being there, i was just a white house fellow at that time. i'm working for lyndon johnson and i went to the convention with my friends. i was on vacation, i was doing nothing official and i was very confusing for me because i'd been an anti-war activist. i absolutely respected what lbj was doing domestically and he never changed my opinion about the war, but i was

this year's guest include librarian of congress carla hayden, doris kearns goodwin.sistant secretary during the george w. bush administration argues that economic terminates them, an idea central to much cousin, is shaping u.s. domestic and foreign policy could at 8:00 p.m. eastern, -- argues that modern autocrats are working to defeat democracy. find the full schedule on your program guide, or watch online in timeout booktv.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now is r street institute senior fellow jarrett dieterle to discuss vice president kamala harris' plan to fight price gouging and rising food prices. welcome to the program. guest: thank you for having me. host: you have a recent headline talking about -- the headline is harris joins the ftc's food fight against kroger-albertson's merger. bring us up to speed on that deal, where it stands, and what could happen. guest: the deal was announced a while back. the ftc then launched a very long investigation, as is often the case, antitrust cases. now they are challenging it in court. we will see

this year's guest include librarian of congress carla hayden, doris kearns goodwin.assistant secretary during the george w. bush administration argues that economic terminates them, an idea central to much cousin, is shaping u.s. domestic and foreign policy could at 8:00 p.m. eastern, -- argues that modern autocrats are working to defeat democracy. find the full schedule on your program guide, or watch online in timeout booktv.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now is r street institute senior fellow jarrett dieterle to discuss vice president kamala harris' plan to fight price gouging and rising food prices. welcome to the program. guest: thank you for having me. host: you have a recent headline talking about -- the headline is harris joins the ftc's food fight against kroger-albertson's merger. bring us up to speed on that deal, where it stands, and what could happen. guest: the deal was announced a while back. the ftc then launched a very long investigation, as is often the case, antitrust cases. now they are challenging it in court. we will s

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pulitzer prize winning author doris kearns goodwin.honored to have you here, especially because of how late you do your show. we're asleep three hours before you start. >> yeah. >> i want to, though -- i would love for you, because you've been doing this for so long and i've been in this for so long, i'd love for you to take a step back. forget about what happened last night. forget about what happened the night before. let's look at the last month and try to put it -- put into perspective for people who may just now be focusing on politics how extraordinary this past month has been in american politics. >> it will be a month in american politics that is being discussed 50 years from now in discussions like this. it will be the one that people will be comparing other stunning events in the future that we don't know about that might happen. and they'll say, well, you know, remember in 2024 there was that amazing moment where joe biden decided not to run, and 27 minutes later he endorsed his vice president for the nomination. and really

and partner achieve columnist, john hellman, pulitzer prize author, presidential historian doris kearns goodwin staff to president obama and ran his 2012 reelection campaign. jim, i will start with you. we haven't talked in a few weeks. there was early in the summer, after the debate with joe biden and donald trump, true doom and gloom among democrats about where this was headed. hopes that they could hang onto the senate and the house and sport donald trump as he went to another term. that has been turned on its head. how are you looking at this race with the stipulation that it is still the middle of august and there's a lot of road ahead? >> you are exactly right. there's a long road ahead. the two numbers i'm looking at the first is enthusiasm. that's the number you can track the best. put aside the daily polls. who has enthusiastic supporters? right now, it is the harris campaign. democrats were down 25 points in enthusiasm before joe biden got out. they now have a 14 point lead in enthusiasm. why is this important? you need people to do two things. you need them to vote and you need them

ranch and he would come on campus by helicopter with his assistant, tourist curves goodwin, -- doris kearns goodwin, and some family or friends. he would take them onto is talking about different things. johnson would allow some of us college students, maybe three or water anytime, to join his group -- three or four at a join his group. over a dozen times, i was able to follow lyndon johnson around and hear him talking about this event or that event. when he said to martin luther king at this moment, how he called george wallace and said i know you think yours, referring to testicles, are like this, but i have got bowling balls. hearing the stories and seeing that there is some great historic figure who is really made me want to know more. essentially, that is what i have dedicated a lot of my career to. thank you, lyndon johnson. every time i see a bowling ball, i think of you. peter: i hope that story goes viral. this is a text message from gf in colorado springs. i am a sucker for horses, gunsmoke, westerns. i am puzzled by the fact that nine of your books contain footnotes, sources, been their

word on msnbc, lawrence o'donnell pulitzer prize-winning author and presidential historian, doris kearns goodwinpecially because of how late you do your show. we are asleep three hours before you start. i would love for you, because you been doing this for so long and i've been in this for so long, love for you to take a step back and forget about what happened last night and what happened the night before. let's look at the last month and try to put into perspective for people who may just now be focusing on politics how extraordinary this past month has been in american politics. >> it will be a month in american politics that will be discussed 50 years from now in discussions like this. it will be the one that people will be comparing other stunning events in the future that we don't know about that might happen and they will say, well, remember in 2024 the was that amazing moment where joe biden decided not to run in 27 minutes later he endorsed his vice president for the nomination. and, really, that was all it took to create what happened here. you see how that day unfolded the clintons en