what i've been reading are the memoirs of oral lauren, at each place i would read a memoir. memoirs of -- >> charlie: bob is a bigfan of napoleon. >> yes. >> charlie: why >> bob likes, are interested in men in politics and power and i think napoleon symbolizes that

finreg is legendary the best presidential memoir ever written but also the of best military history is another presidential book by stanley weintraub this looks at pearl harbor and the days immediately following the bombing and the state of america at that time. it in some ways the most unified christmas in history. >> host: why make this a a book? >> he cannot go wrong and attends to look at holidays and history in america up. it was a perfect match. >> one more. he had previously done by orders-- parodies of the life of frederick who we know as the designer of central park but he was also an abolitionist and a journalist which i was not aware of. this chronicles the different places he designed for it including the of mclean and mental hospital and he ended up at that hospital at the end of his life. his life became a full circle in that way. . .

when we come back we look at dick cheney memoir and what it dick cheney memoir and what it tells us about the [ vet ] your turn max. [ cat ] inside and out. and i'm not the only one who thinks so...right doc? [ female announcer ] vets agree, a healthy check up starts inside. our breakthrough iams premium protection formula is developed with vets... ...with cutting edge ingredients for the lifelong health of your pet. [ cat ] what a surprise... straight as again! [ female announcer ] iams premium protection. our most advanced iams nutrition. ever. [ cat ] oh, i'm not in your way, am i doc? i...[yawns] am an iams cat. >>> dick cheney's much anticipated memoir was released. never one to pull punches the former vice president predicted that there would be heads exploding all over washington. while it may not have happen but there is backlash already. former secretary of state colin powell and condoleezza rice say it takes cheap shot at members of bush administration. we're back with dan herringer and joining us bret stevens. dan, you interviewed the vice president. another hardship assignment

i doubt that. >> well, the second half of condoleezza rice's memoir is coming out, and this is about her years in the white house with the bush administration. >> right. in fact, peter, i was going to suggest c-span should get maybe ms. rice and mr. cheney to interview each other. [laughter] >> i would watch that in a second. [laughter] >> well, we have bob woodward interviewing dick cheney for our "after words "program, so we'll have that for our archives. and, but what about condoleezza rice's book? have you heard anything about this? jason boog, she's out at stanford. >> yeah. it's actually quite a heavy tome, 700 pages, more than that. and she served as a very historic time. she was the first african-american woman to be the secretary, to serve, and so i think it's going to be a very historic book. she has a lot of scores i think she wants to settle. 700 pages worth. so i think a lot of people will be looking at that book too. >> mr. boog, will you read that book, or is that a book that one might do a washington read and go back to the index and look for names? >> yeah. in my job

if you are writing a memoir, it makes you scour because you care about being accurate. this was complicated because i worried about this for a long time, who was right? who was wrong? i had my hyperrational reporter's hat on. then i began to realize, it doesn't matter. part of the great challenge of writing in a personal way is saying this is my story. it is just what is right for me. that was interesting. i was very lucky in that, the brenners are a family of letter writers. everyone had a typewriter in the era before computers and bang away at typewriters in the middle of the night as children and my father and mother, long, long letters. anita brenner turned out to be the same kind of obsessive letter-writer pack right. all of her letters were in the university of texas, the great archives of the world. i was able to go on a traumatic day and see she had neatly kept hundreds of letters that my father and family wrote to each other in the 20s. i saw patterns, the anger that had gone on 60 years before i was on the planet that became stamped on us. it became our dna. >

now, this book is your memoir. it's beautifully written. you really are a wonderful writer. you are able to get in touch with... as i was reading it, i was thinking, boy, i don't know anything about myself. you have the ability to be very open about things with a great deal of speed. was it difficult to get to that point? >> no, i think it started with just being raised by my mother, who taught me to love myself. and she loved me so strong that i felt confident in myself enough to be around whoever i am, whoever i'm around, i can be myself. >> jon: uh-huh. >> and i'm not afraid to be open because we're all human being, man. we all have great things about us, and we all have flaws. we just are works in progress. >> jon: why did you say when you said "flaw," you looked directly at me, because i thought that was interesting. "flaws," and then you looked up, i see 'em, right there. your mother actually, and i thought this was interesting, writes, you know, almost annotates the book. she writes about some of the stories that you're writing about, giving another perspective on it,

my guest tonight is academy award-winning documentarian who has written a memoir, "here comes trouble," which is what he'll be thinking as soon as i stand up. please welcome michael moore. [cheering and applause] michael, good to have you back. i'm going to tell you, good to see you again. how you been? >> i've been doing good. what happened to your portrait back there? >> we're unveiling a new portrait soon. no, no, no, no puppets back there. [laughter] now, michael, i'm excited because you've got a new memoir, the stories from my life, "here comes trouble." well, explain to me about this. parents can read this story, stories from your childhood, and use it as a cautionary tale. to make sure our children don't turn into you. [laughter] 2348 because, michael, you've got to know at this point, it is over. liberalism has lost, and you stand as a walking,, breathing cautionary tale, a decaying don quixote standing at his windmill. with every turn of the spar, you are driven down into the mud. send yourself a letter while the post office is still here, michael. [cheering and applause] it'

what i've been reading are the memoirs of oral lauren, at each place i would read a memoir. memoirs of -- >> charlie: bob is a bigfan of napoleon. >> yes. >> charlie: why >> bob likes, are interested in men in politics and power and i think napoleon symbolizes that too. >> charlie: indeed. has he ever thought about writing a book. >> i tried to get him to write a book about napoleon. >> charlie: when is he going to finish the book on lyndon johnson. >> i'm not sure. >> charl: is he sure. >> no. >> charlie: what's life like when he's writing. does he have normal conversations and normal meals. >> we don't talk about lyndon johnson ever. not ever. when i do research for him i figure through osmosis what he wants to get because he never likes to talk about what he's writing about. >> charlie: why. >> he feels if h talks b it won't come out as good when he's writing it. >>harlie: i would ask him the same question about you but he's not here. so what's his, what makes bob caro the great bioaphe that he is, hard work, attentio to detail, he does a thousand interviews, he reads ery

you would be hard pressed to find a more exciting memoir this season. >> coming out in november. bob minzesheimer, anita hill has a book coming out this fall. >> right. this is her second book. remember, for those of you without long memories, the witness against clarence thomas in his confirmation hearing in 91 or so. sometime. she wrote about that experience in her last month and that the she is trying to get beyond there he said she said story. it is a book that seems to be a blend of both her own life. she grew up poor in a huge family in rural oklahoma, and the stories of other women who rose above their circumstances. beyond that a little more sociological and philosophical, philosophical view of gender and racial discrimination. >> two books with titles that lend themselves to the same theme, but by a vastly different authors. tom friedman and michael mandelbaum have a book coming out, that used to be us, and pat buchanan's newest book, suicide of a superpower. what can you tell us about these two books conventional? >> pat buchanan is an apocalyptic book. i have not read

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now. >> she can write her own memoir about her own time in office.emember, her book was more about her childhood, which i enjoyed very much. that was a great read. but she has a chance to make her own statement on this and i'll be looking forward to reading that. >> bill: new poll, fox news poll asked this question: should sarah palin run for president? 20% yes. 74% no. what you die think is behind that? >> well, i think a lot of things. this applies a little bit to the cheney, powell, rice controversy because while it's interesting inside the beltway people and historians and probably to write, the country is kind of moved on. i think we're not really interested in relitigating the past with bush and powell and cheney and maybe, i'm just guessing -- people see sarah palin to some extent as john mccain's running mate and we like her and we think she's an energetic force, but since she hasn't gotten into the race yet, we have really important problems in this country and we want to kind of focus on the people who are putting forth the solutions and of

his controversial memoir hit bookstores this week. it contains very candid moments.ng his request for former president bush to pardon scooter libby. he said mr. president you are leaving a good man wounded on the field of battle. i want to go back to this one second. you write about this extensively. you said that you were angry about this. you used those words. bring us inside -- was the conversation in the oval office where did that final conversation take place? >> this one was in the small office next to the oval office where we used to eat lunch once a week where the president had lunch just about everyday. this was at the last meeting of eight year's worth of meetings where the two of us would sit down alone and talk about whatever was on his mind or my mind. those were great, important sessions. this was one obviously that took place under this cloud. at that meeting he informed me there weren't going to be any more pardons. i thought he thoroughly deserved one. i thought he was innocent who had been badly treated. >> sean: that's a harsh word. i think we both

you've been in some money different bands in your memoir you reflect on this ... it's been a great run so far i have been doing this music thing for 30 plus years i began in the twin cities in the late '70s early '80s with my first banned husker du then i went for the alternative music scene and we have lots of stock pictures ... here's a little walk down memory lane this is your life bob ... does this take you back a little bit are you channelling your inner pete townshend? those of some of my old band mates everybody reviews these books but they go right to the pictures in these interviews so many different bands we can talk about like the replacements and the foo fighters tell us about your relationship with the foo fighters ... i hooked up with the drummer who had worked with nirvana he wrote a song and the latest record they have with me in mind i guess and i went down there i played and sang on the song dear rose mary and you have a show coming up tomorrow night and saturday night at the montrose room at the intercontinental ... i have a little bit distracte

never. >> geraldo: these are all issues addressed, ladies and gentlemen, in the best selling memoir?ver, never. listen, michael, when spent time with diana ross and with the wiz he had this admiration for diana ross when was young and i think it got to a point where he really loved her and he really liked her. still to this day and she was just this dream for him and he had this ongoing just fascination for her. he loved her. >> geraldo: was his marriage to lisa marie presley, another point you make in the book a sham? >> i thought the marriage -- i wanted them to stay together. why? because i felt michael had a strong woman and she is strong and speaks her mind. michael is timid and shy and i thought that it would work. michael jackson and lisa marie. she doesn't need him for what he has and he doesn't need her for what she has. there is pride and ego and the outside world and something has happened. >> she stood by his side during the roughest period. >> i love her. she's great. >> are the children michael's biological children? >> yes, they are. and i will explain to you why? >> t

the book i wrote is a memoir. covers all 50 years of my life. the early years are short. there wasn't a lot of good stuff to write about that period of time. but the last half of the book focuses on the cheney administration break here as vice president. the book opens in the prologue with recounting the events as i saw them a 9/11, much of the last half of the book deals with what we had to do during the course of our subsequent 7.5 years in order to keep the country safe, some of the things were involved in such as a large part of the book is relevant, with respect to 9/11 and the aftermath, although i don't want to mislead anybody, there's an awful lot in the period going back to the fact there've been administration. i worked in four of them, worked closely with the ferrets, reagan administration as part of the house republican leadership in so i tried to cover all of that. time and obviously there's a lot we had to leave out. there is a lot. there's a lot of articles. i'm going to train over to him. >> just to give you an idea of what i would try to do this morning,

never. >> these are all issues addressed in the best selling memoir. >> never. never.e with diana ross and the wiz he always had this admiration for diana ross when he was young i think it got to a point when he really loved her, he really liked her. she was like this dream for him and he had this ongoing fascination for her. he loved her. >> was his marriage to lisa marie presley another point you make in the book a sham? >> i thought the marriage -- i wanted them to stay together. she is a strong women. he was a tender guy i felt it would work because i got michael jackson, you got lisa marie she doesn't need him for what he has he doesn't need her for what she has. there again we forget there is pride there's ego and the outside world something had happened. he really loved her. she is great. >> are the children michael's biological children? >> yes, they are. i will explain to you why. >> tell me. >> i was at the house the other day. prince and paris were all playing and i looked -- >> your majesty. >> that's my heart. he was swimming, all here on his body is a spo

. >> i have been spending a great deal of time in india every year my next book is a memoir of going through india and what this has done to transform my own life. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> [applause]. >> [applause]. we have a very special guest. [inaudible] is here with us tonight. [inaudible] dancing. step dancing which we are familiar with. you may have seen this before. this will be a treat. [applause]. >> someone once told me this was from scandanavia. this is a different version. about 2 sisters that fall in love with the same guy. it didn't work out too well. one of the sisters throws another one into the raging water. he fashions her body into a fiddle, into a violin. this is the actual violin. i love her so much. [singing] [music playing]

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as some of you know, vice president cheney recently published a memoir, "in my time," written with his daughter liz cheney. we understand it will debut at number one on "the new york times" bestseller list on sunday. [applause] today he joins us with weekly standard senior writer and best-selling author steve hayes for a conversation about that attack on our nation, about decisions made since then and some reflections on an amazing life in politics and pretty much whatever else he and steve choose to talk about today in the hour that we have. in the time remaining after that conversation, we'll have a q&a session moderated by steve. lynn cheney has been a scholar at axe i for many -- aei for many years. dick cheney is, again, a member of our board of trustees. we're so glad to have them as part of our aei family, and we thank them and you all for joining us here today. [applause] >> well, thank you. >> i won't interrupt. [laughter] >> remember, you're a reporter, steve. >> that's right. look, i get my payback. [laughter] >> i just wanted to say a word, and then i'll turn it over to mr.

the former california governor and actor will publish a memoir in october 2012, the working title, total my unbelievably true life story. the publisher calls it a portrait of schwarzenegger controversial and ever entertaining life in and out of the public eye. >>> princess catherine is getting formal training in the royal ways. officials say the duchess of cambridge is being coached for future engagements with husband prince william. she is getting private tutorials with experts on the media, arts and the government. and will be receiving information on her charitable duties. the lessons are expected to last through the end of the year. i don't suppose any teacher would flunk the princess, would they? >> not publicly. now she will know which fork to use in any situation. >> yeah. >> mike is here with our forecast. >> she had already been through that. >> you would have thought. >> advancing coaching now. >> we all need a little coaching every once in a while. i love the semi annual meetings with the boss. those are always fun and productive. i'm being serious. i'm sure he's not watching.

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memoir >> predicting the jobless rate will remain around 9%. president obama presidential address. all setting the stage for the fall debate participate as always this friday morning september 2, 624-111 for democrats. 624-1115 for republicans. 202-624-0760 for independents. >> with that background and the unemployment rate hovering at about 2%. what's next. how do you create jobs? bob is joining us from new york on the line for democrats. good morning to you. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i have a plan. if you allowed insurance companies that supplied business liability and workman's compensation policies to basically be in a position not to honor claims that involve the employment of undocumented workers. you could get legislation and workman's compensation policies that would force employers that would hire u.s. citizens and people here that can legitimately work and then people not here legally and shouldn't be working, those jobs would open up and they'll have to get on the line to get the proper documentation to work in this country. you could put everybody back

only one secretary of defense has really written a memoir. mcnamara, long after he left office, did write a kind of apologia on vietnam. but even the sec staff themselves don't put anything on paper, so i thought they deserved more shelf space. while the failure rate? the short answer is in the subtitle of the book. because it is a nearly impossible job. the secretary of defense has multiple roles, mostly just managing the pentagon is debatable. over 2 million people, a budget as large as the central government budget of any other country larger than. twice as large as walmart, the biggest private company in the world. you have to manage that. the sec staff is also a war plant -- a war planner and if need be a war executors. understand the use of force and the components of the u.s. military. has to be a diplomat, especially with so many military regimes a round the world, it is the secdef that gets called on to deal with some of these military regime leaders and others, to. and, of course, the secdef is a member of the national security coun

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i am curious to know what was hardest about memoir with somebody living their life as a working journalist? let me preface it a little bit with someone who has similar tendency. this is from 2005. i would like it if you would read from here. >> perfect. yeah. this is a moment in the book where, i am kind of flipping out writing about my brother. i am listening to tapes, because of course i have gone back to the orchards, my brother has died at a young age. i have gone back to the orchards to do interviews, i keep doing this dancing about what it is really about. i am saying i am outside the event although in the middle of it. it is protection, part of the latex that is