i don't think lindbergh day. --flew his first comport combat mission in of course there -- in a corsair. who else but a marine would fly something with an 18 foot propeller. we go round and round with it. [laughter] dan: i see you are wearing a marine sweatshirt, so i can see where your sympathies lie. sir? >> what other aircraft did he fly in combat? dan: he flew -- he flew all of them in the pacific. at one point or another. everyone -- and he fixed, you know, lots of little things that to a pilot can add up. he fixed hydraulic problems, pneumatic problems, streamlined little engineering fixes here and there to basically make things better wherever he could. and again, he saw it as his debt. he wanted to get in there and fight. to be honest, it is probably good that he didn't. that he wrote -- i recommend this to anybody that is seriously interested in the man -- is called autobiography of values and it was published posthumously. it is a collection of all his writings later in life. he actually wrote very well

they finally worked out that he wasn't lindbergh. lindbergh's biggest concern at that point was my airplane. because he had seen people try to tear off pieces of it. the french assured him that in fact it was being taken care of and the hangar that they put the airplane in is still there today. it is used by private jet service. i was interested to find out. same hangar. it was locked and secured so it was all right. and the french army officers then drove lindbergh into paris to stay at the ambassador's residence. a bunch of other things happened to him. he did not have pajamas obviously had to borrow the ambassador's pajamas. he fell asleep in the bed and woke up the next morning and the world was not the same and his life would never be the same. right? that takes you through the book more or less. i wanted to concentrate specifically on the flying. because nobody besides lindbergh had ever written this before from the cockpit. lots of books have been written about his life, biographies, etc. i think the best one is about that fak

lindbergh, the wave of the future was fascism. she wrote that fascism and dictatorship, they are just infinitely more dynamic, modern, and energetic than america's 18th-century constitutional democracy with its slow-moving checks and balances and frequent elections. she argued that the conflict taking place in europe wasn't between good and evil, it was between the forces of the past and the forces of the future. and if the nazis were guilty of any minor mistakes or misdeeds, she said that was merely scum on the wave of the future. interestingly, eleanor roosevelt came out with a book of her own in the fall of 1940 and it was called the moral basis of democracy. she argued that the true essence of democracy is fraternity, sharing, sacrifice and an ethic of responsibility to the neighbors we know as well as for the people we don't know. american democracy, she noted, must be truly inclusive. all citizens should enjoy prosperity and equal rights and find meaning and pleasure in being active participants in a morally sound and robust

, and would point out that lindbergh was a member of the first committee.hat i crossed paths with bill buckley at about that same time. i spent about five years burrowing through buckley's archives at yale servicing occasionally, and we will go down to stanford to talk to berkley himself. the thing about buckley is that he repented of some of his positions in his wild youth. it was actually very important for the evolution of american conservatism that buckley said i made a mistake about jim crow segregation. federal government intervention was necessary, the south was not going to evolve the self out of segregation. buckley never repented of isolation. he continued to maintain that the united states had made a disastrous mistake by entering world war ii. some of the lessons that buckley and the other conservatives took with them from the american first committee experience were very different from those that the republican party took from them. one thing buckley saw was this was a populist movement that could be turned to conservative ends. there was a mas

"time" magazine kept attacking charles lindbergh during the war itself.which promote the young buckley to write not just a letter to "time" denouncing them for anti-americanism. but to report "time" to the fbi. in the hopes they would do something about it from this came the conviction after the war that the establishment had to be brought down. by any means necessary and we're all familiar with conservative animus against the media. that dates to this time. fred siegel has pointed out mccarthyism, the subject of our absent friend bev lind's paper was in many ways the politics of revenge against the establishment. it wasn't just revenge against the foreign policy establishment. it was a revenge against all the establishment. there was an interesting quote from pat buchanan. banner of america first as well. he said you know, the great thing about mccarthy was that he did to the american establishment what the new deal democrats had done to the business elite and wall street. he forever destroyed the american people's belief in their natural leadership. and

i have been planning this ever since i first learned to fly then lindbergh did and i was more determined i want to be the first girl i will do it you only want to fly to paris because you're a girl a reporter asked? they have pretty evening gowns i hear. then she said never been to europe i might as well go this way come back and then take it easy no flying back for me. the reporters were noting everything about her was she married or engaged? no and no especially to the last question. was older afraid her when she back out at the end? be honest. would her family talk her out of it? no. no. she was in new york for half an hour had not even left the airfield and already the new york press was picking her apart reporters described her nose as perfectly powdered they called her vein criticizing her purse and her knickers forcing her to admit she was not truly serious what is this you are doing? advertising a movie or just getting to be known? she said no i really flying to paris did you not understand? i'm here to fly. quickly looking out at the reporters with the runway where and birkhead

time magazine kept attacking lindbergh. buckley reported time to the fbi in the hopes that they would do something about it. again, from this came the conviction after the war that the establishment had to be brought down by any means necessary. we're all familiar with conservative animus against the media. that dates to this time. in many ways mccarthyism, the subject of our absent friend bev's subject. it was the politics' revenge against the establishment. it was a revenge against all the establishment. and there was an interesting quote from pat buchanan who kind of picked up this banner of america first as well. he said, you know, the great thing about mccarthy was that he did to the american establishment what the new deal democrats had done to the business elite and wall street. he forever destroyed the american people's belief in their natural leadership. and this, again, stemmed from the battles before and leading up to world war ii itself. and even the talk nowadays about political correctness in buckley's view we

salvage damaged works that could remove scratches on large format photos like this one by peter lindbergh for example. at the moment it doesn't seem as if this work by swiss artist can ever be salvaged the idea was to reflect on our throwaway society the work survived forty years before being damaged during transport is it to be thrown away a country's new course it can't be thrown away it's still a piece by shilling and bears witness to its time. damaged waiting for the day when it can be displayed once again. and finally every language has a word for happiness but what about the feeling you get when you're finished with dinner and you just want to sit around the table chatting with friends while english as you can see you need several words to describe that feeling but in other languages certain situations which bring about good feelings can be summed up in one word now for today's high five we've put together some examples so here are. the moments of happiness for which europeans have coined special words. the danes often rank close to the top of the global happiness index. the secret

and in late june, he is transferred to an airport near france, where lindbergh will land later in 1927 commute frome to mineola to sagamore hill, he was able to commute from this base to paris to hang out with eleanor roosevelt, ted's wife, on occasion and visit with people. 918. is in june, 18 he is flying combat missions. he takes a bullet to his plane from antiaircraft fire, but he doesn't go into one on one, none of that red baron stuff until july 11, 1989, when he is flying in formation and get separated from the rest of the planes, the n sees three planes flying nearby. the idea is to follow them, thinking the are americans. as he gets closer -- eh, what is that black cross on those plane? these are germans i am following. he attacks them and knocks one of them out. the other two germans are so surprised by this, they don't even pursue him, and he gets back. part of the problem with this was it was indicative of how reckless he could be. another squad member writes we were all very worried about him, because he was very reckless. he may have had a bit of roosevelt family death wi

occurs, the battle of fallen timbers and when i get done with that book will be the third book on lindbergh. sure there's a good listto get done and i'm getting done this summer already . >> book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list on instagram for facebook . book tv on c-span2: television for serious readers. >> our featured author is j.d. dickey and his book is "rising in flames". sherman's march and the fight for a nation. j.d. dickey has been writing books for 20 years, first as an author for penguin rough guides and now as an author of rough fiction about society and culture. his current book, "rising in flames", the wall street journal wrote no one interested in sherman'smarch should be private of his lively narrative . it's spellbinding.

particular, he has the fbi investigate several senators and prominent figures including charles lindbergh, all of whom oppose any intervention in europe. hoover learns from this experience that he can curry favor and gain leverage by digging into any presidents enemies or perceived enemies. for example, he never blackmails the kennedy brothers, but he does get ronald -- get robert kennedy monthly updates about the people he knows, the accusations against him and family members. on the one hand, this is helpful personal knowledge that robert kennedy can use however he sees fit, but it also ensures that the kennedys know that hoover knows, knows everything. knows everything that everybody is doing. should the kennedys have an inclination to shut down what they are doing, they will know in the back of their mind that hoover has tabs on what they were doing. the spying also takes place in the context of an emerging national security state, one we are familiar today. when the cold war ends, it begins soon after. the house on american -- house committee on un-american activities. and the progra

opponents, he has the fbi investigate several senators, and several public figures, including charles lindbergh all of whom oppose any intervention in europe. hoover learns from this experience that he can curry favor in gaining leverage by digging into any president's enemies or perceived enemies. for example, he never blackmails kennedy brothers. but he does give robert kennedy, attorney general under his brother's presidency, updates on people he knows, the accusations against him, and family members. on the one hand right perhaps this is some helpful personal knowledge that robert kennedy can use however he sees fit. but it also insures that the kennedys know that hoover knows, knows everything. he knows everything that everybody is doing. so the kennedys have the inclination, they will know in the back of their mind that hoover has a pass on anything they've been doing. the restoration of spying takes place in the context and emerging national security state. when we're familiar with today. in the second world war ends, the cold war begins shortly thereafter. the house on unamerican activi

. >> what about the lindbergh? that would've been fascinating as well. there have been a bunch of fantastic trials obviously throughout history. [inaudible] >> well, yeah. watching clarence darrow against william jennings bryan would have been pretty exciting. that is a good one. that's actually a really good one. because the lawyering, although it seems brian got beaten. >> thank you all very much. thank you for coming. we appreciate it, david. thank you. >> we all know in the community but a great bookstore politics & prose says. irony have a bad fall from a shopping earlier shopping earlier. >> if anyone wants to purchase a copy of "lincoln's last trial," we have it behind her registers. and please hold up your chairs. [inaudible

>> i think, it seems the prosecutors found, probably cohen would have pled guilty to the lindbergh kidnappingf they ask him to. at the end of the day, they said, plead guilty, will reduce your sentence, we won't go after your wife, i think that was on the table. those things he pled guilty to are not crimes! by getting him to plead guilty, they cannot create an unindicted coconspirator, conspiracy theory for impeachment on something that is not a crime. it was established with quentin, established with edwards very clearly in the fec rules when these payments were not campaign contributions and frankly, had they p paid him out of the campaign, probably be indicted for misuse of campaign funds for personal purposes. >> judge jeanine: no question about what he is saying, if you pay for it out of your own o money, there is no campaign valuation. they want to interpret it as he was trying to meddle with a 2016 election. i find that stunning as a prosecutor. >> we see it. we see ceos, corporate executives all the time who women, men want to extort money from them and they have -- my advice is, go

he was involved in the lindbergh kidnapping too, a strange story. but harding had very bad high blood pressure which a lot of them have to this day actually and it wasn't treated and his blood pressure was way off the charts if you look at his blood pressure so i think that he had a stroke or heart attack and died of natural causes. >> what about florence? james: he says now, wait a minute, what about florence? >> what he die from? james: i think he died from natural causes. heart attack, or stroke. other questions? >> my question was that i read correctly in the paper that you doubt the existence of the affair with nan britain and the illegitimate daughter? why? james: a little background. the question is about a woman named nan britain who had a daughter named elizabeth ann, and she claimed in a very, very scandalous but which was almost considered pornography at the time in 1927 that harding had fathered her daughter so it is called the president's daughter and she was the cause celeb, she has a lot to do with destroying his relationship through

third book on lindbergh. sure there's a good listto get done and i'm getting done this summer already . >> book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list on instagram for facebook . book tv on c-span2: television for serious readers. >> our featured author is j.d. dickey and his book is "rising in flames". sherman's march and the fight for a nation. j.d. dickey has been writing books for 20 years, first as an author for penguin rough guides and now as an author of rough fiction about society and culture. his current book, "rising in flames", the wall street journal wrote no one interested in sherman'smarch should be private of his lively narrative . it's spellbinding. the book empire of mud was a new york times bestseller and described the troubled landscape of washington dc in the 18th century. mister dickey has written articles on political and related topics from newspapers andmagazines and appeared in media , c-span tv to public radio, public radio international programtake a

sort of like in the 1920s, after lindbergh flu the atlantic a whole bunch of airline stocks, mostly existedn paper, only one was a going business seaboard airlines. it was not an airline but a railroad. neil: i remember covering that. let me ask you, one thing that comes to mind with this rally, surge in earnings, maybe buoyed by the tax cuts, so would try to avoid politics at all costs here, but the latest argument for this advancing is, taxes are so low, companies have a curse of riches at its disposal, buying back stock, doing the kind of things heretofore would be very difficult in a higher tax environment and that could keep this going awhile? >> indeed it will i think because we haven't seen the end of that by a long shot and whenever we lowered taxes the market has always gone up. the 1920s, the 1960s, the 2000s, and now. neil: when we look back at bill clinton, a fascinating presidency, a lot of people focused on hike being taxes on well to do, but he cut them for almost everyone else. cut business-related taxes, investment-related taxes and capital gains, et cetera. that did a lot

his client might have evident of everything from collusion to object destruction to, you know, the lindberghn incredible list. and what's also sort of telling is that this was the same time that they were rolling out their go fund me site to get donations for michael cohen. steve: a lot of people said why does michael cohen need a go fund me page. you look at some of the things that's been happening with go fund me pages whether it's mr. cohen or peter strzok or james comey. there seems to be a thread to them, right? >> yeah. i wrote a piece in the hill because it's a strange evolution of the role of this site. go fund me has become a site where can you essentially purchase testimony that people go out there and they really ramp up their expected testimony. steve: what do you mean purchase testimony? >> because what happens, people like michael cohen couldn't get a dime from anyone on the street when he was still saying he would take a bullet for the president. suddenly he started a promise that he could bag the president and they rolled out a go fund me site and they got hundreds of thousan