dr. nash's -- very magnanimous. and additive without selfish and that is one reason and accuracy and academic contribution, and herbert hoover if they knew he was right and sometimes as dr. nash is showing he was. thank you very much, c-span viewers and dr. nash for this time. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours and nonfiction authors and books every weekend. here's some of our coverage for this weekend. ..

dr. nash and you can see dr. nash's edits in it where hoover distills the same.is it more like frederick douglass who wrote his own autobiography? why did he feel the need to go back? >> guest: hoover wrote over 30 books and my favorite statistic about him. between the ages of 85 and 90 when he died he published seven books not including the two we are talking about. >> host: did he turn to the dictaphone? >> guest: he wrote everything by pencil and then he would send it off to a typist in the draft would come back with type editing, rewriting and revise it and send it back again and again. finally he would get to the point where he wanted to see what it looks like. he had it set up and page proofs and would keep tinkering with that. why did he tinker so much? i think partly it was perfectionism. he wanted not only his style to be perfect but also he won at the facts to be perfect because he saw both of these books is having a didactic purpose. freedom to trade and the crusade years which is his account of his life as a crusader for socialism and regimentation an

dr. nash is a frequent guest on this channel. richard norton smith introduced him and interviewed him a few years ago for another boat. this time are going to get right to this crucial controversial depression. are going to break our our into three parts. the first is to remind ourselves who hoover was. the second part is to talk about the production of this tremendous book and its many pages and editing and detail. the third will be to talk about why it matters, what about the great depression. today c-span yours welcome. hoover's identity really began in college. you've written all book about that. where did you ever go to college and how did it affect them? >> was born in 1874 in iowa as the son of quakers and some of a blacksmith. he was orphaned before ten, went out to live with them on call in oregon, never had more than a middle school education. and then he applied for entrance into a newly formed stanford university in the summer of 1891. he got in mission and was told to take additional to agree with the help of which s

dr. george nash, the premier scholar of herbert hoover.we are going to spend a little time not talking about the job of hoover biography. i wanted to mention some of the names of the people we built our work on because there's a lot of hoover work. many other hoover biographers. joan hoff wilson, forgot progressive vote and perfect visionary. eugene lyon wrote a biography long time ago. the luxemburg wrote a short book in the arthur schlesinger series, glen johnstone. a wonderful scholar recently passed. david werner. robert byrd wrote about president and did some interesting work on hoover. the fishing president about hoover and fishing, fly fisherman. uncommon in it i know you've interviewed with him before. for margaret hoover, who recently wrote a book not about hoover directly, but his ideas in american individualism. is there anyone to add? >> guest: many have written monographs that we probably wouldn't have time to list, but these are very eminent group of people. i think i knew all of them and know all of them except for mr. lyons

dr. george nash, premier scholar of herbert hoover. we are going to spend a little time now talking about the job of hoover biography. i wanted to mention some of the names of the people that we built our work on because they're is a lot of hoover work. many other hoover biographers. john wilson, the forgotten progressive to my eugene lyons mike glenn johnson meant david berner, robert merry said hoover and fishing. is there anyone to at? >> well, there are many that ever and monographs that we probably would not have time to list, but these are very eminent people. i knew all of them except for mr. lyons. one of the things that has happened in this generation is that hoover scholarship as taken off partly because his papers were opened in 1966. up to that point people had to rely and newspaper articles. now they get to see the hoover story from the inside. there has been a kind of a boom. maybe more detachment as time has passed. some of the motions of his era faded. i am happy to be in the company of those scholars. many of the asses

dr. nash is a frequent guest on this channel. richard norton smith introduced him and interviewed him a few years ago for another book and this time we are going to give license to this crucial controversial depression subject we are going to break our hour into three parts. the first part is to remind ourselves who hoover was in the second part is to talk about the production of this tremendous book and its many pages and much editing in detail in the third part will be to talk about why it matters. what about the great depression and today c-span viewers and george welcome. hoover's identity really begins in college and you have written a whole book about that. where did hoover go to college and how did it affect him? >> guest: first of all he was born in 1874 in iowa as the son of lakers and the son of a blacksmith and he was orphaned before he was 10. he went out to live eventually with an uncle in oregon never had more than a middle school education really. and then applied for entrance into newly formed stanford university

thank you very much, c-span viewers and dr. nash for this time. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours and nonfiction authors and books every weekend. here's some of our coverage for this weekend. .. >> my tale from the training ground to the battlefield we heat navy seal k-9s. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> good morning. first of all, i'd like to thank the savannah book festival for having me here. you know, i think what they're doing is a marvelous thing, and it gives a lot of authors access to venues like this to be able to, you know, talk about what they do and what they're passionate about. so, you know, i'd first and foremost like to thank them for bringing me here. secondly, i'd like to thank everybody that's sitting out here for taking interest in what it is that i do and the book that i wrote, the message i like to convey in terms of the importance of military working dogs and the different types of missions they're doing, the wonderful things that they're capable of. without your guys' support, this would

thank you to the c-span viewers for this time and also dr. nash. [inaudible conversations] and good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, take you for being here today for the briefing. i have a couple of guests with me today. susan rice and the national security adviser that are here to give you a preview of the president's upcoming trip and then we will take questions on that trip. then we will start with an overview of the schedule and ambassador price will provide a systematic overview then we will take questions on those topics areas. then i will stick around for questions. >> i will start with the interview with the president over the course of the trip on sunday night in arrived on it -- a 8:00 in the morning said he will go to the museum where he will meet with the prime minister of the netherlands. they will then have the bilateral meeting there as well. following that the president will go to the soviet side id have a bilateral meetings to initiate the meeting with trade and this is the first since the g20 in september and they could agree to t

dr. alan deal is an air force investigator. shawn pernicke used to be a commercial pilot, and captain chuck nash is a fox news contributor. general, good to see you all. let me start with you, dr. deal, the thought of going two and a half to three miles under the ocean to try to find bits and pieces that may or may not be there seems overwhelming. how do they start? >> well, that -- you're right, megyn, we've done it before. in the west end ocean we found a 747 south african air ways lost one back in '87. took them two years and they knew roughly where the aircraft was, but still they didn't get to it while the pingers were still operational. took them two years, they got one of the black boxes up and it answered the riddle. >> they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because the seas are just so overwhelming. they talk about the seas getting sometimes up over 32 feet high. how are they even supposed to search out there? >> well, you're exactly right, extremely challenging, very adverse conditions, right? so part of this is using gps technology which is something that is far more accessible now than in some of the past

dr. alan deal, former ntsb, faa and u.s. air force investigator. and author of air safety investigations. sean used to be a commercial pilot and an aviation accident investigator. captain chuck nashnews military contributor. good to see you all. let me start with you on this, dr. deal. the thought of going 2 1/2 to three miles under the ocean to try to find bits and pieces that may or may not thereby seems overwhelming. how do they start? >> well, we've done it before in west indian ocean. we found a 747, south african airways lost one back in 87. it took them two years and they knew roughly where the aircraft was. but they didn't get to it while the pingers were still operational. they did get one of the black boxes up and it answered the riddle. >> sean, look at these did she they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because these seas are just so overwhelming. look at some of this video. they're talking about some of these waves getting up over 32 feet high. how are they supposed to even search out there? >> you're exactly right. extremely challenging and very adverse conditions. part of this is using gps technology, which is something that is far more accessible now than i

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