but working with evan thomas my co-author on that book, we were both journalists.in it was a chance to look at archives look at all the letters. acheson -- i'm sorry, herriman and lovett who were both the brown brothers herriman when lovett and hairyman were then going into government, wrote each other twice a day. so you got the conversation in the letters, and then you could go to governor herriman and say, okay what did you mean about this thing on laos when you wrote the lovett? and so one of the things evan and i were able to do in writing that book was combine the ability to go to the archives, new york historical society had the brown brothers/herriman archives. also then go to the people and say -- who were involved -- and say when you got that letter what were you really aiming at? and that's why i like this intersection that i've been able to be part of between the journalistic approach to history and an archival academic approach to history. >> host: are we losing some of that with today's technology? >> guest: oh yeah. >> host: often people e-mail a cou

i apologize to those of you sitting here expecting to see my friend evan thomas. that was the last hour. i really apologize to those who expect to see my friend khalid husseini that is in a different tent. i'd also like to thank the library of congress and the "washington post." the other corporate sponsors for making this one of the great annual event in our town. it is not this time, it not that town. it's a hard time they live in the district of columbia are not. [applause] from the national book festival shows you can still be civil and thoughtful and thought in washington d.c. said jack london said a writer i'd not wait for inspiration to knock the door, but instead go looking for up at the club. 15 years ago i took what i found what inspired me was the second world war. the war lasted 3174 days and i began with the greatest greatest catastrophe in human history. as marty said, 60 million dead. that's 27,600 dead every day or 1150 dead an hour. if you're a german boy born between 1915 in 1924 the odds are one in three bye-bye 1945 you would be dead. 14% of th

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>> cal thomas and former indiana seven evan bayh are here. thank you for joining us.now the former governor is looking to take a more progressive stance than hillary. do you think that's what the country wants? >> no i don't think that's what the country wants but i think it's what the democratic party wants. he's a pretty consistent liberal. he was for same-sex marriage at the beginning. he is for higher taxes and more spending. he was against the iraq war. hillary clinton was for the iraq war and voted for it when she was a senator before she was against it. she was against same-sex marriage but now says she is for it. so i think martin o'malley has a far more consistent record that is appealing to progressives on the democratic left. you asked is the country ready for it? martin o'maly has a record as mayor of baltimore. he was applauded for trying to get people to come back in. the number of abandoned buildings increased by over 2,700 while he was mayor of baltimore and a study by two harvard economists show that among 100 american cities baltimore ranks last when

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