you dedicate this to two people named macmillan, who are they? >> guest: my parents, robert and eluned which is a welsh name. they were absolutely heroic during it as a lot of my family and friends read it but my parents read every single word. they were absolutely wonderful. in fact, they probably read every single word a couple of times and so i think they

with the margaret macmillan. when she first came to serious acclaim with paris 1919 and now with the war that ended peacefully road to 1914 which comes out september 29 this time she will present a history of europe from 1900 to the beginning of world war i which again so much happened at that very pivotal time and it will be interesting to see what lives macmillan how she portrays it and what new nuggets she comes up with and how she will put it into proper context. with doris kearns goodwin it's almost as if she's something of a brand name with respect to history so this time she is going to come out with a bully pulpit theodore roosevelt, william howard taft in the golden age of heroism. >> host: is this her first book sense -- >> guest: i don't believe so but certainly it's the one that is a reticular significance. of course team of rivals is back in the public consciousness because of the recent film adaptation by steven spielberg and lincoln which was nominated for a number of oscars last year. klesko. >> h

let's start with margaret macmillan. i mean, she first came to serious acclaim with paris 1919, and now with the war that ended these, the road to 1914 which comes out on october 29. this time she'll be presenting a history of europe from 1900 to the beginnings of world war one which again so much happened at that very pivotal time. it will be interesting to see what, how she portrays it and what sort of night she comes up with and how she will put it into proper context. with the doris kearns goodwin, it's almost as if she is something of a brand name with respect to history. service time she's going to come up with "the bully pulpit: theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, and the golden age of journalism." it will be interesting again to see how she sympathizes what we know and what we think we know, and still what we don't know. >> is this her first book since team up for a rival? >> i don't believe so but certainly it's the one that is of particular significance. of course, team of rivals is back in the public cons

palgrave macmillan is the publisher. let's focus on another battle which to some was more existential but very real, and that is the architectural plan. the competition, the results, and polarizing battle, and what architecturally should be done with this important piece of land. >> this is one of the first, at a sixty acre piece of land, it is an open ended, everyone wanted a say in that so very quickly, people put on leaders promise, a master plan. and like i said before you and larry silverstein, and the port authority, they believed in the importance of the commercial space, wanted to make sure lower manhattan remained international financial hub and believe as an order to remain in their reputations they had to rebuild all of the commercial space. that was a very controversial point early on when a lot of people thought of the land as a battleground and even those who didn't lose loved ones weren't sure this should be developed like a regular new york piece of real estate. so the leaders went ahead, without -- there

the macmillan family in canada has decided to defy time itself and keep their family trapped in one thousand nine hundred six sort of like new age only for one year and not their whole lives so to live in one thousand six the family forbids the use of any technology developed after the mid eighty's they want their children to experience the world they grew up in when you had to read books and if you're outside no one could call you and there were no tablet computers to stupefy children at a moment's notice as a paradigm some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen that technology is dumbing us down a lot i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information on any scientific or historical topic is one click away if

the macmillan family in canada has decided to defy time itself and keep their family trapped in one thousand nine hundred six sort of like new age only for one year and not their whole lives so to live in one nine hundred sixty family forbids the use of any technology developed after the mid eighty's they want their children to experience the world they grew up in when you had to read books and if you're outside no one could call you and there were no tablet computers to stupefy children at a moment's notice as a paradigm some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen that technology is dumbing us down a lot i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information on any scientific or historical topic is one click away i

macmillan jumped into the struggle and pointed the gun at his head. he stated, let it go, or i will shoot. heckert let the get go. the officers took him into custody and saw fire arm that was formally in his hand was now under his body. when they lifted him up, they saw even more disturbing, a three-month old baby was on the bed to feet from where the two men had just been engaged in a violent struggle. manning told him that they were there for a provision search, and were still undeterred from his mission. hector stated that he had the gun for his own protection. he continued to search your the bed and found another weapon. a semi-automatic loaded pistol just a few feet from the scene of the bike. in this situation, i believe the courage and fortitude the sergeant manning displayed here not only save his life, the lead of his partners, and the life of the three-month old child on the bed, and for that he is being awarded the bronze medal of valor. [applause] >> sergeant orkes will read the citation. >> good evening. please allow me to introduce three

you dedicate this to two people named macmillan, who are they?>> guest: my parents, robert and eluned which is a welsh name. they were absolutely heroic during it as a lot of my family and friends read it but my parents read every single word. they were absolutely wonderful. in fact, they probably read every single word a couple of times and so i think they deserve the dedication. c-span: what do they do? >> guest: my father is a retired doctor and my mother is a very energetic woman who is a great gardener, great conservationist, always busy organizing to save something or other. i don't mean this frivolously because i think she does a fantastic job. c-span: so, why would they spend all that time reading your book? >> guest: well, they're the most loyal parents. i mean they have five children. they think we are all terrific. they back us in everything we do. i mean if one of us writes a book, then they will read every word. they're absolutely terrific. c-span: where did you get your education? >> guest: in canada mainly but i went to high school

the macmillan family in canada has decided to defy time itself and keep their family trapped in one thousand nine hundred six sort of like new age only for one year and not their whole lives so to live in one thousand nine hundred the family forbids the use of any technology developed after the mid eighty's they want their children to experience the world they grew up in when you had to read books and if you're outside no one could call you and there were no tablet computers to stupefy children at a moment's notice as a parent i have some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen that technology is dumbing us down a lot i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information on any scientific or historical topic is one

the macmillan family in canada has decided to defy time itself and keep their family trapped in one thousand nine hundred six sort of like new age only for one year and not their whole lives so to live in one nine hundred sixty family forbids the use of any technology developed after the mid eighty's they want their children to experience the world they grew up in when you had to read books and if you're outside no one could call you and there were no tablet computers to stupefy children at a moment's notice as a paradigm some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen that technology is dumbing us down a lot i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information on any scientific or historical topic is one click away i

the macmillan family in canada has decided to defy time itself and keep their family trapped in one thousand nine hundred six sort of like new age only for one year and not their whole lives so to live in one thousand nine hundred the family forbids the use of any technology developed after the mid eighty's they want their children to experience the world they grew up in when you had to read books and if you're outside no one could call you and there were no tablet computers to stupefy children at a moment's notice as a parent i have some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen the technology is dumbing us down a lot i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information on any scientific or historical topic is one c

macmillan is the publisher. let's focus on another bout, which to some is more existential but a very, very real, and that is the architectural plan. and the competition, the results, and sure enough, the very polarizing battle over what exactly architecturally should be done with this important piece of land in lower manhattan. what was that all about? >> guest: so this was one of the first. early on, you know, we said we have a 16-acre piece of land. we have to put something on a, or maybe not. it was just open any, what do we do with it, right? everyone wanted a say in that. so very quickly people, leaders promised a public process to receive public input, to generate a master plan. at the same time that that was going on, however, like you said before, you had larry silverstein, you had pataki assuring the port authority and they believed in the importance of the commercial space that was destroyed. they wanted to make sure that lower manhattan remained an international financial hub. and they believed that

robbery at the macmillan museum. it was big big. the alexander diamond. whoa. i know whoa.obbery division asked us to help out, so we're taking statements from everybody on site. so you're not arresting him about the drugs. uh, no. what drugs? his fingertips are stained. looks like red phosphorous. you get that from making crystal meth. he's gotta have a lab somewhere. okay, i'll check it out. excuse me, mr. landis. could you come here, please? if the captain needs me, i'll be in interrogation room b. uh, right this way. what? you know what. you just solved that case. for free. what was i supposed to do? well, if you're selling ice cream, would you hand out free scoops? what was i supposed to say? hey, lieutenant, there's a drug dealer somewhere in this room. i'll tell you who it is for $20. at least we'd have $20. all right, there's the captain. remember, you deserve a raise. you deserve it! okay, when you're right, you're right. okay, captain? hey, monk. what are you doing here? captain, i have to talk to you about something. can it wait? okay. well, we'll come back. we'r

especially nato commander norse dad was very worried about it and the british including prime minister macmillan who once called clay is senile and bitter old man. pardon the redundancy but i think it says exactly what he felt about somebody who was going against the way he wanted. .. >> they sent a squad of soldiers who, with their rifles in front of them, and walked in the dark several times in order to make the point that we were going to oppose this. they kept it up, and a couple of times in the next few days did the same thing. at the end of the week, decided he would try a test, so he put a few military in civilian clothes, and had them try check point charlie. they did, the same thing happened. by thursday of the week, there was a great recognition this was something the east germans would try to keep up. clay already sent a cable to kennedy ten days earlier saying that kennedy should look out because the soviets were letting the soviets intimidate us and harass us while they were in the background. he said, i don't think we should let this happen. what i'm going try to do is bring the so

in fact to use the analogy at that time the scandal was a macmillan government. he said if you get brought down as a civil rights leader you will bring us down because we have a major civil rights bill so you have got to get rid of them. the very next day martin comes to new york. it's so important that he comes to new york and we are having a one-on-one discussion. one of the most amazing thing is , he knew stanley before i did he says to me clarence do you think he's a communist? what, i'm saying? no i don't. he said i just wonder, do you think he rejoined the party? i said absolutely not. he said why are you so sure? i said stanley has an identical twin. martin chuckled and he said i think i know. aside from his wife beatrice and when he sees his identical twin he spends most of his time with me working on stuff for you and when he is not in his office he would be on the phone with me so i don't know what kind of party member he could be because when does he do at? he would have to start at 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. in the morning. that is not possible. then i d

and macmillan at one point referred to in horrific terms this childish nonsense, childish nonsense thatclay was showing in berlin. but, of course, it will have none of that as we all know, and as he said himself. the other strengths of the book as mary beth has also making is that the book shows in fascinating detail how kennedy actually developed as a learning process of jfk as a foreign policy practitioner. and how his willingness at the beginning, unwillingness at the beginning, to confront the russians and eventually develop into his willingness to confront the russians at the time of the cuban missile crisis. the entire pattern of kennedy's behavior, foreign policy behavior changed to i think we forget and we forget, dick alluded to this, a series of defeats his first year in administration was terrible. the bay of pigs the bay of pigs was in april 1861, then a disaster summit that dick refer to with nikita khrushchev in july 61 when he was brutally browbeaten by the soviet leader. and, of course, the building of the berlin wall in august 1961, all of which were a series of defeats

especially nato commander norse dad was very worried about it and the british including prime minister macmillan who once called clay is senile and bitter old man. pardon the redundancy but i think it says exactly what he felt about somebody who was going against the way he wanted. .. >> they sent a squad of soldiers who, with their rifles in front of them, and walked in the dark several times in order to make the point that we were going to oppose this. they kept it up, and a couple of times in the next few days did the same thing. at the end of the week, decided he would try a test, so he put a few military in civilian clothes, and had them try check point charlie. they did, the same thing happened. by thursday of the week, there was a great recognition this was something the east germans would try to keep up. clay already sent a cable to kennedy ten days earlier saying that kennedy should look out because the soviets were letting the soviets intimidate us and harass us while they were in the background. he said, i don't think we should let this happen. what i'm going try to do is bring the so