harry truman and henry wallace and be strom thurmond and dewey, first election after the war. so i'm reading terry anderson and the book about george bush and how he decided to go to war. my wife just finished katherine the great which was given to me, and she picked it off, so i've got to get involved in that. i read a lot of magazine stuff, a lot of essays. i read a -- i actually opened up a correspondence with a poet by the name of donald hall as a result of something he wrote in the new yorker about growing old. so we had a little exchange, and that was quite gratifying. i'm in awe of great writers. i don't pretend to be a great writer. i'm pretty good sometimes, but great writers move me in ways that nothing else in life does. >> for more information visit booktv.org on this and other summer reading lists. >> and now

i read about 48 campaign which if you think that was really wild and harry truman and henry wallace and a strong friend and tom dewey triet fi said about carry anderson the book about george bush and how he decided to go to the war my wife just finished catherine the great, so i've got to go back and get involved in that. i read a lot of magazine essays and actually opened the little correspondence with the donald hall as a result of something he wrote in the new yorker about growing old, and it really spoke to me any way and so we had a little exchange and it is quite gratifying to the audience in awe, an energetic and i am pretty good sometimes, but the very writer that moved me in ways nothing else in life does. >> for more information on this and other summer reading lists, visit booktv.org. >>> i wanted to read what i thought one of the moving passages as you describe actually what's happening before the cameras rolling so this is what you describe, you said that was not their intent and that was made clear when one of the officers kicked me with a boot in sight lightface smashing

henry wallace and the radicals were beaten out. harvey's less injured, harry truman, i think it represented the good guys. -- they represented the good guys. in 1972, there was a new civil war. teddy white said it was not just the political radicals, not just the heirs to henry wallace that one in 1972, it was the youth eleeme -- element, contrary to popular myth, they are never good for politics. there are full of fervor, take no enemies, and that sort of thing, and by the way, they were not very deep or knowledgeable. when they won in 1972, the radically change the democratic party. patrick moynihan was on the sidelines. other democratic politicians like at the stevenson and hubert humphrey, they were really marginalized. remember this, in 1948, hubert humphrey was too radical to be considered a candidate for higher office. by 1972, he had been a candidate, and his radicalism had been toned down a bid. robert carroll talks in his new book about humphrey being a radical liberal. another way to put it is he was an ardent liberal in

the 48 campaign which was really wild and harry truman and henry wallace and strom thurmond am tom do we the first election after the war. terry anderson and the book about george bush and how he decided to go to war. my wife just finished catherine the great. she picked it off. i have to go back and get involved in that. i read a lot of magazines and essays and open the correspondence with donald hall, something he wrote in the new yorker about growing old and it spoke to me in a way. we had a little exchange. i am in off of great writers. i don't pretend to be a great writer. i am energetic. >> visit booktv.org for more information. >> i wanted to read what i thought was one of the more moving passages as you describe what is happening before the camera is rolling. so this is what you described. you said but that was not their intent and that was made clear to me when one of the officers suddenly kicked me with his boot inside of my face smashing my job. it felt someone had taken a baseball bat to my head. . it felt someone had taken a baseball bat to my head. before i could registe

it was not just the political radicals not just the errors of henry wallace that one in 1972, it was element, and youth element, is never good for politics because it is a youth element, full of fervor, and they would take no enemies. they were not very deep. they radically changed the democratic party. other democrats, democratic politicians. they were marginalized. remember this, in 1948, hubert humphrey was too radical to be considered a candidate for higher office. by 1972, he had been a candidate, and his radicalism had been toned down a bid. robert carroll talks in his new book about humphrey being a radical liberal. another way to put it is he was an ardent liberal in a party that had conservatives, moderates, liberals -- a lot of diversity. it does not have the diversity today as a result of people like hubert humphrey, who are called conservative today. he was no conservative, but he was a man you could respect. over education and the news media. the president of the university of tennessee kept calling our government a democracy. people called and it was not a democracy, an

may be the first communist president ever elected in the united states, but the communist party, henry wallace in 1932 was elected vice president because he was the leader of the communist wing of the democratic party. today, the whole democratic party has aligned themselves -- and you can check this -- across the world with communist programs, so obama just has solidified it at the top. the house of representatives and senate and president now are full of communists. thank you. host: during the height of the civil rights era, the fbi -- particularly j. edgar hoover -- were concerned about the presence of communists with the civil rights movement. is there anything at the international civil rights center and museum that talks about the fears that the civil rights movement was being infiltrated by communists? >> -- guest: know, that is not something we were focused on, and i think that was something made up by j. edgar hoover in order to put a dark light on our leaders at the time. at to was not justified or substantiate it whatsoever at all, so it is just another way of trying to divide and c

harry truman and henry wallace and strom thurmond and tom dewey, the first election after the war.'m reading, i said about terry anderson and george bush and how he decided to go to war. my wife just finished catherine the great which was given to me and she picked it off, so i've got to go back and get involved in that. i've read a lot of magazine stuff, a lot of essays. i actually opened up a little correspondence with a poet by the name of donald paul by the something he wrote in "the new yorker" about growing old, and we spoke to me anyway, so we had a little exchange and that was quite gratifying. i'm in awe of great writers but i don't pretend to be a great writer. i am energetic and i am pretty good sometimes, but the great writers moving in ways that nothing else in life does. >> host: by the way, mr. brokaw mentioned that david mayors has a new biography of president obama coming out. that comes out june 19. on june 17, david marinus will be here for, to take your calls and tweets and to talk to his book. that's on june 17 here on book tv on c-span2. and that wraps up "in

henry kissinger for a full body patdown. >> hank you. and the latest moesh ads attacking mitt romney apparently factually incorrect. oopsy daisy! that man, chris wallace few seconds to talk about that and so much more. are you ready, chris? >> i'm ready. >> all right. good, because hour two of "fox & friends" for a tuesday starts right now. >> i don't think i've ever seen the person from sunday morning working on a tuesday. >> he's going to be talking about saturday. >> he's got every day of the week covered. >> look at the way chris is standing like with his shoulder to you like saying not only will i talk news but i'll fight crime. >> look at that! >> jockey stance. all he needs is a cape. >> brian is trying to pick a fight with chris wallace. >> i am not trying to pick a fight but saying how multidimensional he is. >> is my mike on? >> go for it at this point or hold it until you get over here to the couch. >> talk about the news of the day with chris wallace in two minutes after some headlines. >> normally he's sleeping right now. he sleeps until like wednesday. >> and gets up -- >> ok, it appears to be the beginning of the end now for ron paul's