i love being home at leech lake. at some point in my life there will be balance if not parity, someday. >> host: david treuer. here's the book "rez life" an indian's journey through reservation life. thank you for being on booktv. ..

i love being home at leech lake. and so at some point in my life there will be balance, if not parity. someday. >> host: david treuer, here's the book, "res life: an indian's journey through reservation life." thank you for being on booktv. >> next, from the nixon presidential library and museum, pat buchanan describes when richard nixon rebounded from two election losses for president in 1960 and california governor in 1962 to win the presidency in 1968. monday, september 8th, marks the 40th anniversary of president gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. >> tonight's a great night because we've got a very special treat for you. we have someone who's spent a number of years at richard nixon's side. and remember that when he lost the two elections, the presidential in 1962 and the gubernatorial in 1960 -- pardon me, in '60 and the gubernatorial in 1962 -- people wrote him off. they said richard nixon is gone.

it was only when he moved to leech lake that if i felt he had a home. he was rejected in austria, rejected in american society, rejected ever he went to the reservation, he said he finally felt accepted by the people understood him as a refugee, as a holocaust survivor. so he set up shop, raised his first three children. he and his wife separated, kids grew up. he met my mother. she was working on the same health care on the reservation but there were coworkers and fell in love and had a troublesome children they have now, my older brother faisal, my younger brother and sister. >> here is the cover of the book. you talk about that life is not all bad on a reservation for an american indian. but then you include this picture. who is this? >> this is my cousin, jesse, my first cousin. he is my uncle's son. he's been in prison for a while for a number of charges. he will be getting out very soon. our lives may not be -- i may argue our lives are not tragic but they are hard for some of us. my cousin, jesse, we might be first cousins. we grew up very close