we have jean baker joining us, and retired professor of history. taught history for more than 30 years. as written 11 books and were here to talk about that . she is fascinating biographies, a mary todd lincoln, and others . tonight shall talk to us about related books of building america, doctor baker will be joining the conversation. and from mount vernon executive director for historic preservation collections. >> hi kevin . >> will handle things off to you. learn more. and you put everything in your hands take care and have a great evening everyone. i will see you another time. thank you so much. thank you kevin . and thank you to all of those who are joining us for unit and jane, it is wonderful to have you with us tonight . jean: thank you. >> i am really excited about this. i think it's one of those important figures for early america forget it i'm really know that much about . perhaps that is true with any of our audiences as well. and kevin mentioned several of the previous books you have written. susan: on a variety of topics and they don

up next historian jean baker on the life of architect henry latrobe who designed the senate, house and supreme court chambers, and assisted in he plans for the white house and u.s. capitol building. then foreign correspondent david an delman talks about hot spots around the world that could lead to the next war, followed by an author discussion on critical race theory and ideology. the next three programs on booktv. find more schedule information at booktv.org or consult your program guide. >> tonight's program is an exciting one. dr. jean baker joining us, retired professor of history, from croucher college, thought history for 40 years and has written 11 books and we're here to bach it her recent, he she has biographies of james buchanan, mary todd lincoln, and margaret sanger. tonight she is talk about building america, the life of henry latrobe. she dwell we joined in conversation with susan schoelwer, i hi, susan. >> hi, kev

and jean baker was at his side, in some cases, hanging on for dear life for those 25 years. it's great to have her here, for personal reasons. jean and i go back a ways. we grew up together in a small farming community about three hours east of here. her family farm, my family owned and operated the harvest factory in missouri. i went from our little tiny high school in the corner of the country to journalism school at the university of missouri, and jean went on to the journalism school at the university of missouri. i took my first job at what essentially was our hometown paper, the mexico ledger. a couple years letter, jean took her first job at the mexico ledger. i moved from there to the newspaper in springfield, missouri, owned by the largest newspaper chain in the country at the time, and jean moved to the newspaper in danville, illinois, also owned by the largest newspaper chain in the country. in 1982, i went to this new national newspaper that was starting, usa today. a few years later, jean went to usa today. >> i was not stalking you. [laughs] [laughs] i can't tel

jean baker joining us, retired professor of history, from croucher college, thought history for 40 years and has written 11 books and we're here to bach it her recent, he she has biographies of james buchanan, mary todd lincoln, and margaret sanger. tonight she is talk about building america, the life of henry latrobe. she dwell we joined in conversation with susan schoelwer, i hi, susan. >> hi, kev van. >> excited to watch this interview and learn more about henry latrobe. take care. have a great evening. susan, thank you so much. >> thank you, kevin and thank you to all of those who are joining us. jean, it's wonderful to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> i'm really excited about this. i think latrobe is one of those important figures from early america that i wasn't real -- i heather known that much about, and perhaps that's true of many of our audience as well. kevin mentioned several of the previous books you have written on a variety of topicsics and dt necessarily seem to lead to latrobe, so i'm always curious how authors come to find their subjects. how did you get inter

first history professor jean baker looks back at the life of the architect henry latrobe who created supreme court in the chambers. in the u.s. capital buildings . then host joe describes harry truman's efforts to prepare american for the cold war. also tonight, it is foundation senior fellow, talks about identity politics. another beat chief of staff are former democratic majority leader harry reid of nevada. argues that the modernization of the senate is damaging to democracy. george washington professor talks about the power struggle between the u.s. and china. in southeast asia as well. for more information visit booktv.org . mark sawyer program guide partied and now here's a look at the life of the

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and the three of them worked well together because each of them had specific roles to play for jean baker chief of staff, operator, i made the trains run on time and the paper i talk in the book divvied up the roles to and baker took all the kind of logistical pieces but actually helped him run the white house effectively. he was the keeper of the ideological plane and outrage -- outreach and he would try to make sure that they did not go off the rails. baker was more moderate and seaver did not care about ideology all but he was a more image guy in the reagan image was so important and he was good at making reagan look good so because each of them had specific roles and even though they might have thought they did not step on each other's toes in their specific areas and that's important to other think anything about the tramp rent in this book and "fight house" is the extent to which they distrusted the other so they always stuck together as a group and the other staffers knew that they could get a lot done without those three senior people bothering them if they were all going to reaga

. >>> up next on american history tv, we'll hear from jean baker who served as chief of staff to george h.w. bush from the time just after he left the white house until his death in 2018. from the kansas city public library, this is an hour and ten minutes. >> good evening. i'm steve wieberg with the library's public affairs staff and first of all before we start, jean is going to give us a wonderful, wonderful presentation about george h.w. bush. we'll have question and answer afterwards and what i want to ask everyone because c-span is filming tonight, please use the microphones that we will place -- i think one right there and one over to the side there. that's so your question doesn't get lost on c-span. i want to welcome all of you and let you know how much we appreciate you all being here tonight, especially knowing that the democratic party has done a little bit of counter programming. [ laughter ] of course, we've got another 15 months-plus to get our fill or probably more than our fill of 2020 presidential campaigning. here we're going to take a few moments to remember a man wh

[applause] up next on american history tv, we will hear from jean baker, who served as chief of staffsh from the time just after he left the white house, until his death in 2018. from the kansas city public library, this is an hour and ten minutes. >> good evening. i am with the library's public affairs staff. first of all, before we start, i know jean will give us a wonderful, wonderful e

. >>> up next on american history tv, we'll hear from jean baker who served as chief of

if you ask jean harris in 1981 who wrote this book, she's gonna say she was a coauthor. they asked a guy who is a coauthor again in sampson claire bakere says no. while jean harris that was minor editing, she offered some suggestions. she gets mentioned in the acknowledgments. jean things that she contributed more than this. it adds to the tension in the relationship. it adds enough tension that she is now thinking about things like money. because he's making a lot of it. he's getting these awards in these accolades, he's going to the stuff with lane on his arm she's down in washington d.c.. you can't get away from the job. she wants to go to the awards and she wants acknowledgment. this is something that irritates or even more. she writes or check. murray the battle over the diamond engagement ring, you keep it know you keep it and all that. she does that with the czech to. i don't want the money, take the money. and in the book with alexander, harris reports that she felt like he was trying to buy her and he was trying to bar for four grand. she defend that she wants to buffer for grand. she's irritated that it's not large enough an

because if you ask jean harris in 1981 who wrote this book, she's going to say she was a co-author. now, they asked the guy who is a co-author, a guy named sampson claire baker. and he says, no, all jean did was do some minor editing, she offered some suggestions. she gets mentioned in the acknowledgments. but jean really thinks she contributed more to this. so it adds to the tension in the relationship. and it adds enough tension that she is now thinking about things like money, because he's making a lot of it, he's getting these awards, he's getting these accolades, he's going to this stuff with lynne on his arm because she's down in washington, d.c., she can't get away from the job. and she wants to go to the awards and she wants acknowledgment. and he does something that irritates her even more. he writes her a check. and remember the little battle over the diamond engagement ring, you keep it, no, you keep it, i don't want it, blah blah blah. well, they do that with the check too. i don't want your money. here's the money. i don't want your money. here's the money. take the money. have to have it for tax purposes. do the money. and in the book with alex

drunks paulina's phage therapy in belgium has now ended at home jean hailes a harmless say line solution. work up move your upper body so the bakers can get deep into your lungs and caused. the phage is worked. out enough finds it much easier to breathe she finally feels like working out again and exercise is good for her lungs. i wonder if after shock and how much 122 was not bad better than last time. if i do the poem unary function test elizabeths are good it also influences my mood was as if i usually feel better immediately i have more motivation and i'm somehow happier if you know better because i feel like i could do more. because of her illness our alina has to catch up with a lot of school work at home it's much easier for her to study 100 longside clear she's doing much better but doctors can still detect dangerous germs in her lungs so she is considering going to antwerp again with her father for another round of faith therapy. doctors here at present agnes hospital in bulk hold have already made great strides in the fight against the germans and by applying hygiene concepts from the netherlands standards have increased