please join me in welcoming bob garfield and mark leibovich. [applause] >> a non-alcoholic. >> i'm not going to answer that question. hi, bob, hi, everyone. thanks for being here. should i start? i guess i will start. i'm the guy interviewing. >> i, thank you for being here. i have no idea how this is going to play. >> bob has written a book, actually a manifesto. it is called "american manifesto: saving democracy from villains, vandals, and ourselves". this is your thing. i want to start with something because it is the kind of thing that is usually a telltale sign the guy asking the question didn't read the book but i did read the book but the telltale sign, you ask about that but actually i am going to read it. in a vast american wasteland of homogenized regurgitated media there is alone heroic taco truck. bob garfield is that taco truck, very smart and very brave. alec baldwin. do you think he read this? >> how did you get him to read your book? >> a fully my mother were alive to hear me being compared to a food truck by end of the star. >>

ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming bob garfield. >> hello everyone. thank you for being here. i guess i'll start. i am the guy interviewing you. hello, everybody. thank you for being here. it is a delight to see you all here. i say that respectively. i have no idea how this is going to go. >> bob has written a book. he has actually written a manifesto. it is called, "american manifesto" and if anyone was looking for a good manifesto to become of this is your thing. now, i want to actually start with something because come as a kind of thing that people that is usually a telltale sign that the guy asking the questions did not read the book but i did read the book. the telltale sign is that you go for a quote on the back and you ask about that. i actually think it is kind of interesting. i'm going to read it. then the vast wasteland of homogenized, regurgitated media there is a loan heroic taco truck. bob garfield is that taco truck. nourishing, defined, also very smart and very brave. american manifesto is his spicy masterpiece. alec baldwin. he actual

the bearded presidents, hayes, grant, garfield, they all to me looked kind of similar. you can tell that all of the neckwear from every sculpture is time specific. there is some military garb with grant where he has some stars on his shoulders. if you go down to george bush elephants on his tie. james garfield, from what i have read, had an interesting talent where he could write with one whilen latin simultaneously writing with his other hand in greek. is sometimes difficult for people to recognize. i do not know why. i think he is pretty true to form. he sits there in the back and he looks fairly young. gerald ford is right next to him. the interesting thing is he was the most difficult of all of the sculptures to create. his features are so un-pronounced. president lincoln was the easiest because his features are so pronounced. thomas jefferson is the third most decayed president here. he is starting to follow the bad. -- fall apart pretty he died on the same day as adams, on july 4, which i thought was interesting. days in the summer, we allow our guests to walk thr

the bearded presidents hays, grant, garfield, they all to me look kind of similar. you can tell that all of the neck wear from every sculpture is time specific which is neat. you can see here that there's some military garb with grant where he has stars on his shoulder. if you go down to george bush jr., you'll notice he hazel fs t elephants on his tie which i thought was interesting. james garfield could write a sentence with one hand in latin while simultaneously writing another sentence with his other hand in greek. i thought that was fascinating. bill clinton is sometimes difficult for people to recognize. i don't know why. i think he's pretty true to form. he sits there in the back and he looks fairly young. gerald ford is right next to him over here. the interesting thing about ford is he was the most difficult of all of the sculptures to create because his features are so unpronounced. contrary, president lincoln was the easiest for him to make because his features are so pronounced, which i thought was interesting. thomas jefferson as you can see is probably

presidents hayes, grant, garfield, they all to me look kind of similar. you can tell that all of the ear from all the sculptures is time specific. with is military garb grant where he has got some stars on his shoulders, and if you go down to george bush junior, you will notice he has some elephants on his tie, which i thought was interesting. james garfield, what i have read , had an interesting talent where he could write a sentence whilene hand in latin simultaneously writing another sentence with his other hand in greek, which i thought was fascinating. is sometimes difficult for people to recognize. . don't know why he's pretty true to form, but he sits there in the back and he looks fairly young. gerald ford is right next to him the interesting thing about gerald ford is he was the most difficult of all the sculptures for mr. attucks to create, because his features are so i'm pronounced. contrary, president lincoln was the easiest for him because his features are so pronounced, which i thought was interesting. seeas jefferson, as you can , is probab

thethe chandeliers from grant administration and chester arthur's continuation of what president garfield had started in 1881 and one of the few wases surviving from that this sofa given to the white house in 1962. hollering --the the stories that came from the white house, because the photograph backs it up or the object backs it up, they will say this is jefferson's table, but it's like, this is a fire -- there was a fire in 1814 and they didn't save any of the furniture. it looks like it was made in 1930. one of the events in the east .oom is a state funeral seven of the eight presidents who died in office have laid in state and the east room with the only exception being president garfield. inn he was assassinated 1881, the room was torn up like today.d be the one that you see on the left here is the casket of president william mckinley. i have been asked to explain why william mckinley's portrait hangs in the east room. it is a nice visual comparison with teddy roosevelt, but also because they bookend the sentries of white house history, mckinley being the one at the end of the 19th

presidents who died in office have laid in the east room with the only exception being president garfielden he was assassinated -- which is an unexpected way to go layingroom was torn up new floor. is one you see on the left the casket of president mckinley. i have been asked to explain why william mckinley's portrait hangs in the east room. it is a nice visual comparison with teddy roosevelt. nd theecause the book e same ends of what has history. you would see potted palms and victorian furniture and theater roosevelt coming in to office in 1901 and in 1902 directing a neoclassical interior was something he needed to -- for visiting dignitaries to understand we were not steamboat gothic. [laughter] we have a sense of style and taste even i if it has nothing to do with american taste. on the right-hand side, you see one of the last event president roosevelt staged and that was one reason he did the 1902 renovation. that is the east room set up for prince henry of prussia. he was the brother of the kaiser andy kim to take a new imperial yacht. this was a stag dinner where no lady was invit

date from thes grant administration and the -- from chester arthur's continuation of what president garfield started in 1881 and one of the few pieces surviving from that was this sofa given to the white house in 1962. those things that got away in the sales often come back to our office with stories about grandmothers who said this came from the white house. once in a while we can prove it because photographs back it up or the object backs it up. sometimes they say, this was thomas jefferson's table, it's kind of late, remember? there was a fire in 1814 and they didn't save any of the furniture. so it really can't be. and besides, it looks like it was made in 1930. one of the events in the east room are state funerals. seven of the eight presidents who died in office have laid in state in the east room, the only exception being president garfield. when he was assassinated, which is kind of an unexpected way to go, the room was torn up like it would be today with them laying new floor in a renovation of the east room. the one you see on the left ear here is the casket of president william mc

garfield, from what i have , had an interesting talent where he could write with one hand in latin while simultaneously, had an interestt where he could writing another sentence with his other hand in greek. i thought that was fascinating. bill clinton, difficult for people to recognize. i think he is pretty true to form. he sits there in the back and he looks fairly young. gerald ford is right next to him. he was the most difficult of all of the sculptures to create. his features are so un-pronounced. president lincoln was the easiest because his features are so pronounced. thomas jefferson is the third president here. on tried days in the summer, we allow our guests to walk through here. wet.area is pretty we have had significant weather here lately. we have never seen snakes back here. but it looks like an area that is completely conducive to stakes. the most interesting thing i have seen as a bald eagle circling george's head. we have been out here during an electrical storm. it looked like lightning strikes 's mouth.ng out of fdr i have not been out here in the wintertime but i know

and nearly a hundred years later james garfield, him not of the jim davis comic strip, wrote now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their congress. if that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. indeed. so here we are. trying to make one of the most important decisions a citizenry can make, and we're being asked to do so in the midst of an absolute cacophony of crazy, and it's not just the failures in iowa putting undue pressure in all of us and the process. every election usually has a surprise, maybe two, that throws a wrench into the system. this one's already had the mother lode. think about it. during this election cycle, the sitting president of the united states was impeached and acquitted. we came to the brink of war with a run just a month ago. the dow has hit record highs, unemployment record lows. a total of 29 candidates entered the democratic primary including to who got in just over two months ago and 11 are still in it. we've already had an election integrity scandal i

later radio host bob garfield addresses america's political divide.ournalist andrea bernstein chronicles trump and kushner families rise to prominence.

james garfield wrote wonderful diaries.iariesms to garfield allow us to know that he was , reading civil war books. diaries are good sources. i wanted my book to tell a real story and to be a coherent book. to do that, i had to make cuts. there have been a lot of presidents and they have written a lot of things. what interested me was the story of their books and how important their books have been to american history. i focused on their books, what they were reading, presidents reading other presidents. when i made those kinds of choices to tell the best story, no offense to poke, but his story is not one of the best stories. i did not want to waste pages on it. >> so having spent 10 years with presidential books -- you have a favorite or if people haven't spent much time with them, where's a good place to start? craig: i like calvin coolidge's autobiography. it came out a 1929. i don't believe it is in print anymore, but someone should change that. it is a wonderfully personal book. we talked about s grant -- we anded abo

later radio host bob garfield addresses america's political divide. journalist andrea bernstein chronicles trump and kushner families rise to prominence. find more information on your program guide. now here is kathy chambers from the bookstore in louisville. : so, whati want to do tonight is i'm going to read some excerpts and talk a little i bit about why i wrote this book and what inspired me to write and give you an overview about how the book came to be into the world and after that i will have time d for questions so please, anything on your mind i would love to hear from you all for discussion or dialogue and i look forward to hearing your thoughts on the book and anything you have on your mind. the first part i want to read comes from the introduction. one of the poorest counties it is in the appellation a small county about 4500 people one of the highest poverty rates in america. it's hard for me to know which part i should show the rest of the world. it helps people understand the extent of the poverty and i do want them to know how it goes.

but three of them -- harrison, taylor, and garfield -- were exceptionally short due to death from illnesssidencies, and maybe one president lacks the inclination to repaint, you've got your 17 layers right there. after generations of repeating their family legend, the meisters now know they spoke the truth all along. you went from rejection to respect. how'd that feel? >> we had solved a mystery. >> bill seale encourages them to donate the plinth on the spot to the white house historical association. they say they're inclined to, but first they need to find out what it's worth. did you have a number in mind that you thought it would be? >> no. >> what about you, larry? you did all the running around. >> you could shoot real high on this one, just from the fact of how much historical value it has. >> and when the meisters get the appraisal, they'll have some thinking to do. that's next. what's your "strange inheritance" story? we'd love to tell it. send me an e-mail or go to our website -- strangeinheritance.com. there's a company that's talked to even more real people than me: jd power. 4

grandmother, aunt and mother who grew up in poverty in kentucky's operation mountain with your host bob garfieldddresses america's political divide, andrea bernstein chronicles the trump. book tv monthly program. you can find more information on your program die guide or by visiting our website booktv.org. >> here are some of the current best-selling books according to newsmax. topping the list, and 100 bible verses that made america, robert morgan argues that the bible played an important role in them are confounding. after that his npr host stephen, and perfect union, a dual biography of 19th century political power coupled jesse and john fremont. that is followed by scott mcewan and hoff williams novel the trigger mechanism. then pastor and former southern optus president james merritt offers his thoughts on the importance of character over reputation. in character still counts. in wrapping up our look at some of the best selling books according to newsmax is james book looking at the relationship of: cal and cheney in the great rift. some of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can

from garfield, diaries allow us to know that he was reading civil war books. wanted my book to tell a real story and to be a coherent book. to do that, i had to make cuts. there have been a lot of presidents that wrote a lot of things. important --, their books, presidents reading other presidents. but his storypolk is not one of the best stories. i did not want to waste pages on it. favorite?have a startis a good place to for people who have not spent a lot of time with these books? craig: i like calvin coolidge's autobiography. it is a wonderfully personal book. we talked about usss grant -- ulysses s. grant's book and how even know it had great details, it did not shape his legacy. calvin coolidge did not do that. sixth as long as grant's. it is a wonderfully personal volume. the example that stood out to me centers on calvin coolidge's son. his son died while he was in the white house. he developed a blister while playing on the white house lawn. in the air before antibiotics, that blister became infected -- era before antibiotics, that blister became infe

but three of them -- harrison, taylor, and garfield -- were exceptionally short due to death from illnesshallway isn't repainted during those presidencies, and maybe one president lacks the inclination to repaint, you've got your 17 layers right there. after generations of repeating their family legend, the meisters now know they spoke the truth all along. you went from rejection to respect. how'd that feel? >> we had solved a mystery. >> bill seale encourages them to donate the plinth on the spot to the white house historical association. they say they're inclined to, but first they need to find out what it's worth. did you have a number in mind that you thought it would be? >> no. >> what about you, larry? you did all the running around. >> you could shoot real high on this one, just from the fact of how much historical value it has. >> and when the meisters get the appraisal, they'll have some thinking to do. that's next. what's your "strange inheritance" story? we'd love to tell it. send me an e-mail or go to our website -- strangeinheritance.com. the better question would be where do

even if it's garfield, i will write down democrat and walk out of there >> jimmy: i want to talk aboutu have -- if you're on netflix was what i was going to say >> if you're currently on netflix. >> jimmy: then it's impossible that you're watching me. you might have two screens in your home, i don't know if you're lucky enough to have a dual screen. >> yeah, that's the future >> jimmy: you have to check this out "john mulaney and the sack lunch bunch. i don't know how to describe it except it's you and very talented kids. >> yeah, we had a group of 15, like, eight to 13-year-olds. >> jimmy: yeah >> and we do a bunch of songs, and we had some sketch comedy and we talked about existential fears with them. [ laughter ] and that's as good as i could ever describe it >> jimmy: yeah, it's something i've never seen before, and something i didn't know that i needed until i saw it and i go, "this is unbelievably fantastic. >> well, thank you >> jimmy: i absolutely loved it and i love the cameos that you got. the celebrities you got to come in are -- it's an odd group of people and i loved every

radio host bob garfield offers his thoughts on how to address america's political divide. chambers looks back at her grandmother and mother who grew up in poverty and kentucky's mountain region. find more information on your program guide or online booktv.org. >> at a recent event held at the enterprise institute in washington d.c., national review editor offered his thoughts on nationalism. here's a portion of the program. >> the book was a case by trump. i hadn't really thought much about nationalism the lazy assumption that it was a lazy word. until trump's inaugural address got me thinking about it a little more. i think what's happened is democrats, although they haven't had that tradition in the not so distant past, totally turned their back on it and progressivism and republican party also lost touch with nationalism. i think under the influence of libertarianism. the conflict of business elite that's a little more transnational orientation, delete social scientist talked about how the 19th century, there's innovations and technological changes that created a nation

and applause] now, i think they have heard you on pikes peak but they did not hear you on mount garfields and applause] colorado, we are going to win. we're going to win. we believe in colorado. we are going to win because we believe in america. we are going to win because we will fight against the socialist tied across this country. the democrats are trying. they are not going to win. look, there was a dangerous thing that happened in 2016. it was the normalization of socialism by bernie sanders. [booing] the most dangerous thing was the normalization of socialism by bernie sanders. what happened? candidates started running as socialists. they embraced the platform. today, they aren't -- there aren't shades of socialism. they're running to the left on a socialist platform. they want to take our guns, our health care. that's their platform. what they say they will do. colorado, are we going to let it happen? we will not. mr. president, you have done so much good for colorado. as a result of your work, the bureau of land management is headquartered in colorado. [cheers and applause] unite

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under construction is the complete rehabilitation of the aquatic center at garfield, and then slotted for construction to begin this year is a small rehabilitation at jury commons in the mission. one of the -- we are also looking to participate in the funding of a lot of major transit and complete streets projects, one of which is second street, of which we've provided a little over 10% of those funding. some of the smaller projects that the c.a.c. has advocated for includes potrero gate way. we previously referred to this as the loop. it's a smauj project that public works is completing conceptual designs. about 1.5 years ago, you approved a plan for central waterfront, and we set aside $10 million over the next few years to fund those projects. the first coming out of the gate are a series of road improvement projects, minnesota at 25 street. market octavia, again, we're funding about 30 projects. so one of the things that we do in the various area plans is that we provide funding for community-based efforts. one of the things that are very popular in market octavia is a street walk

under construction is the complete rehabilitation of the aquatic center at garfield, and then slotted for construction to begin this year is a small rehabilitation at jury commons in the mission. one of the -- we are also looking to participate in the funding of a lot of major transit and complete streets projects, one of which is second street, of which we've provided a little over 10% of those funding. some of the smaller projects that the c.a.c. has advocated for includes potrero gate way. we previously referred to this as the loop. it's a smauj project that public works is completing conceptual designs. about 1.5 years ago, you approved a plan for central waterfront, and we set aside $10 million over the next few years to fund those projects. the first coming out of the gate are a series of road improvement projects, minnesota at 25 street. market octavia, again, we're funding about 30 projects. so one of the things that we do in the various area plans is that we provide funding for community-based efforts. one of the things that are very popular in market octavia is a street walk