he writes on the memoirs that you could see the snows. and whittier was a remarkable enclave, a quaker enclave of faith, theology and education in southern california. they came in the 1880s, maybe. and built first a church and then a school. and then a college. so nixon -- and it was also a considerably racially diverse community. so nixon's early life, i think, has been much disserved and misinterpreted by some authors. he was not the psycho biography as applied from almost from the cradle, although he didn't help us in the memoirs because, as he said, his first memory was first of all being dropped on his head and then running after a wagon from which he had been dropped, afraid of being left behind. freud is in the wings waiting to deal with that. and that's as he said in the interviews, the reason he unfashionably somewhat combed his hair backwards was instead of parting it on the side was because he had a big scar from that early fall. i had argued, and by looking at his bibliography you can see my success. i had argued that the fir

yorba lenda, whittier and fullerton, nixon's youth was idyllic and he writes in the memoirs about that on a clear day you could see the snows of mt. bald ty to the pacific and whittier was a remarkable enclave, a quaker enclave of theology and education in the 1880s and then to college. it was a diverse community and it was misinterpreted by some authors. he was not the psycho biography that was applied from the cradle although he didn't help us in the memoirs because the first

i'd like to point out the memoirs came out in 1978 and this is important work. released four years after his resignation. served as an instrumental step towards his rehabilitation. only 27 pages out of 1120 were dedicated to the early years. and so this is still an essential starting point for biographers. in the early 1980s we had academics who came into the picture, professional historians now provided access to extensive citations, notes, list of references and bibliographies. their research was scattered over a wide variety of sites and they used primary sources such as manuscript collections from presidential libraries, national archives including the main branch and the regional branches such as the vice presidential papers that were formerly in laguna niguel. library of congress had special repositories at colleges and universities. i'd like to focus on julie nixon eisenhower's work "pat nixon" the untold biography of her mother. she had access to materials not available to other beingiograpb. she provided outstanding coverage of her parents' courtship an

i had argued that the first book or a book he should do after the memoirs was a book on his early life. and i was partly inspired by president carter's books about growing up and christmas in plains. but i thought that to tell the nixon story in yorba linda and whittier and fullerton and orange county in his youth and up to the time that he went away to -- that he responded to the ad in the paper and the letter from herman perry and started his political career is important formative charming and interesting. am i free to go? good lord. i think i'm sort of out of things to say. >> did you want to comment on irv? >> oh, irv. well, irv is -- first of all, it's great news that the second volume is going to be published. and soon. sooner than later. the first irv is an indefatiguable scholar, an impeccable researcher and i think remarkably fair-minded in terms of his judgment. so he's a triple threat and a great contribution to nixon literature and historyography. irv has gone back to the sources and read in human capacity the papers and documents and research to get back -- another thing

i'd like to point out nixon's memoirs came out in 1978. this is important work. released four years after his resignation. that served as an instrumental step towards his rehabilitation. only 27 pages out of 1120 were dedicated to the early years. this is still an essential starting point for biographers. in the early 1980s we had academics came into the picture. professional historians provided access to citations and notes and references and the research was scattered over a wide variety of sites. they used primary sources like manuscript collects like libraries and archives including the main branch and the regional branches like the papers that were formerly in the library of congress and special collect, depositories at colleges and universities. i would like to focus on julie nixon eisenhower's 1986 work called "pat nixon, sty" bi mother. she had unique access to diaries and correspondents not available to her biographers and access to her parents which gave her a special place as a biographer. outstanding coverage of her parents' courtship and in 1945, she

writing the memoirs we didn't have access, because the papers had been nationalized, and the president's lawyers had advised him, a provision of the law was that he could have access to the papers while -- while and if he challenged it and he did challenge it. his lawyers advised him it didn't serve his best interests to avail himself of a provision of the law that he was challenging. so for the first two years, we worked on the early life and wrote maybe close to three quarters of a million words on it which we knew would be cut but it's a fascinating -- richard nixon had a life in full, really, before he became president. and he used to say that he thought the most interesting period of his life was the wilderness years, '62 to '68. when from absolute abject defeat within six years he was president. as joe says, the biographies of nixon range -- i put them on a scale from he was one step short of canonization, to positive which would be -- the ageography would be like bella kornitser which is still worth while as a period piece and because he had access to hannah nixon. he had a lot of

nixon himself said in his memoirs, they disdain and stand pat republicans. hannah nixon herself according to melvin small voted for woodrow wilson in 1912. at least in 1916. maybe it's recreational reading. in addition to the l.a. times, good house keeping on the saturday evening post, both of which may have pis america. hoover's america to some degree. some of the members of his committee of 100 helped push his 1946 and 1948 campaigns. frank jorgenson, he said i entrust fdr and distrusted him. i think he was befuddled a lot of the time and fooled by stalin. he was in the san francisco bay yarea and he told his own employer that governor fdr who he met in national economy and the stock market. "when the two of us got to economics, he seemed to think that all industry consisted of stock market operations." earlc. adams, a local guy, helped fund the 1950 run. "the new deal, the fair deal, the new frontier, all that is hog wash. it's a lot of rhetoric. builds up the pie in the sky for people and people get up hopes and ambitions and mean their goals never get m

yorba lenda, whittier and fullerton, nixon's youth was idyllic and he writes in the memoirs about that on a clear day you could see the snows of mt. bald ty to the pacific and whittier was a remarkable enclave, a quaker enclave of theology and education in the 1880s and then to college. it was a diverse community and it was misinterpreted by some authors. he was not the psycho biography that was applied from the cradle although he didn't help us in the memoirs because the first memory was of being dropped on his head and running after a wagon and freud is in the wings waiting to deal with that. and he said the reason unfashionably somewhat combed his head backwards -- combed his hair backwards was because he had a big star from that early fall. and you can -- by looking at his bibliography, you can see my success, and you can see the first book or the book he should do after the memoirs was a book on his early life and i was inspired by president carter's book about growing up in christmas in plains. i thought to tell the nixon story in yorba linda in whittier, and orange county in the

they decided to publish the memoir themselves instead of waiting to find a willing publisher. that is a route that is being used by a number of growing aspiring writers. >> it turned out to be not so easy. >> she paid $1700 to a service to help edit and design and print the memoir. >> there were some parts we couldn't get straight. >> reporter: she says the proofs came back with errors and she had to pay extra for corrections. when the final proof came back, here in the middle there are hundred pages from someone else's book. >> that is when i decided to cut it off. >> reporter: she cancelled the contract and she received a refund of about $1,000. she signed up with another service. things went fairly well untilt . >> i noticed they had changed something that made an inaccurate statement. >> reporter: they had changed the back cover to say the airmen made all american. but the book claims just the he>> they faced the same discrimination they were facing before. >> the cover was supposed to say their accomplishments will change the course of american history. she admitted she l

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. >

a memoir of the journey you have taken. >> yes: and a bit of an anti-memoir, too. and a counterbiography. but i tried hard to make it not exactly memoir and biography. not quite fiction, not quite non-fiction but something shimmering in that dream state where we can't define things. >> rose: was this therapeutic to write? >> it was. >> rose: a car that are sis or whatever you might say in >> all of that. all of the things i admire in green is his readiness to look unflinchingly at his worst tendencies or his darker parts and i thought that's something anyone can gain from. so i look at the parts of my life i'd rather not look at. >> rose: what is that? >> not belonging, for example. always being hungry for looking around the next corner. loving travel. and i think one thing that moves me about greene he takes those tendencies such as his love of flight and inability to commit and his books are cross questionings of himself so in this book, for example, i remember at one point i'm sitting in a little hotel room in bhutan and lights have gone off across the city, in

why power concedes nothing is the title for this memoir? >> every single fight we have taken on has had to be mainly demanding from their friends with power to get with it and help solve these problems for our clients. if you do not ask and you cannot ask loud and clear, they will let you anything. so it takes an aggressive demand, not just any old demand. it does not concede anything and you have to hijack the power and do jiujitsu on it and demand it. and sometimes you have to hide jacket and infiltrating it. it depends on how big the mission is and what you are trying to do for folks. tavis: i assume that strategy is necessary given the kind of clients over the years you have taken on. >> you take the poorest of the poor, tennis. you know better than we do. you talk about the bottom echelon of folks -- i do not care if they are an appellation or native alaskan, poor african- americans in the bottom of the well -- the poorest of the poor have been left behind. and you cannot just make a demand. you have to engineer it did you have to get

we have his memoirs. wonderful stuff. nathaniel green. nathaniel green is the stonewall jackson of the american revolution. the british voice, the stonewall jackson of the british army is charles corn wallace. this is another interesting. this is the next story. i'll be writing. i should have a manuscript by the end of next summer. they are already scheduling it for publication this time in two years. that's just a big tease. if you like this -- >> that's marketing. >> now it's marketing, right. let's not make any mistakes here. also, i would like to tell you, we are, because i get this question a lot. i know a lot of you are waiting to hear something definite. there's going to be a film of "gods and generals." august 28th is the scheduled start date. they are internet savvy. go to www.ronmaxwell.com. there is all kinds of information there about casting. we are still in the process of casting stonewall jackson. that is a challenge. there is a lot of things going on right now this minute, not the least of which had to do with the strike o

my mother preferred novels and memoirs.she wore "war and peace" during the winter primaries, two bleak winter landscapes. she has nice things to say about wisconsin also. and she always told us that the best preparation for life in the white house was reading the memoirs of the duke who describes how courtiers jockey for the king's attention at the court of louis xiv. when she was engaged and first married to my father, she translated countless french books for him, about the struggles for independence in the french colonies of algeria, tunisia, vietnam, and cambodia, all of which gave her a deep understanding of parts of the world that most americans were barely aware of at the time, yet are still shaping our history today. so she brought to the oral history interviews a respect for accuracy and historical scholarship. that's why she chose to be interviewed by arthur schlessinger, the pulitzer prize-winning historian who had served as a special assistant to my father pinpoint took a good deal of courage to be as honest as

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so he's come up with these memoirs.e said his memories are fading, so he wanted to make sure he put this on paper, how he felt, his ideas. so basically the format is, it is like a question and answer with a journalist and basically she wrote the book, based on the answers he gave her. so it is like a question and answer format. we know very little about it, as you mentioned, a thousand pages, two volumes. we know the brazilian president, she was visiting so she got an advance copy. >> signed, no less. >> i would think so. it is interesting. there was one quote i was able to get, what he says to this journalist who wrote the book, he prefers, he says, i prefer an old clock, old eyeglasses, old boots and in politics, everything new. and actually he still is staying on top of politics. he talked politics in fact the presentation of his book as well about his good friend, the venezuelan president and praised chilean students who were protesting for free education, he praised them for doing that. he's still through the with

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agnew would write his memoirs in which he would blame nixon for much of his fall. not a lot has been written about the nixon/agnew relationship i believe mostly because agnew just was not a substantive player in the administration. julius witcover did write a book called "nixon and agnew: very strange bedfellows." the relationship between the two men was complicated, never substantive. agnew did attend nixon's funeral. but he was never a major player in the administration. of course, when you think about what might have been if agnew was president, we'll never know. thank you. [ applause ] >> following up on what we are talking about, nixon's relationship with the press. coming up as an undergrad, i remember watching all of this unfold. in fact, i was -- let me sound like an old fart for just a second. i was standing over the wire machine when it came out that ap said spiro agnew just resigned. i still have that piece of paper someplace. that relationship between nixon and the media was not always an tast nisic in any way, shape or form. and it's curious we keep on

that he believed in principle of threatening excessive force otherwise known as the memoirs and it's all over. >> it was both intellectual and emotional. do you guys have any idea what the basis of it was besides some intellectual theory. >>. >> do any of you guys want to do it? >> i actually wrote about psycho history in the chapter, but today i didn't have time. i don't care about the -- i believe it was just a threat. he thought that if they would scare him enough they would take him seriously. >> jeff, i have done a bunch of work on this and it is a basis on eisenhower. eisenhower also thought of executive force and also preached vaguely obliquely, yes, we're going to use a nuke. no, we're not going use a nuke. yes, mal, you better behave in the taiwan straits or we're going to bomb you. it is part of our arsenal. we can use it. ira talks about this in the apocalypse, but it's a long, involved thing. i think nixon looked upon this coming out of the vice presidency and coming out of his own presidency as part of his training. it was an acceptable thing. here is the general of the

agnew would write his memoirs in which he would blame nixon for much of his fall. not a lot has been written about the nixon/agnew relationship i believe mostly because agnew just was not a substantive player in the administration. there was a book written called "nixon and agnew, very strange bedfellows." it's based, however, on a lot of old research i think. but the relationship between the two men was complicated, never substantive. agnew did attend nixon's fune l funeral, but he was never a major player in the administration. and before you think about what might have been agnew as president, we'll never know. thank you. >> okay. following up on kind of what we're talking about, nixon's relationship with the press, coming up as an undergrad, i remember watching this all unfold. i will sound like an old fart for a second, i was standing over the wire machine that it came out over the a.p. that said, okay, spiro agnew just resigned. i still have that piece of paper someplace. that relationship between nixon and the media was not always antagonistic in any way, sh

and it's in his memoirs. it's all over. it was both intellectual and emotional. do you guys have any idea what the basis of it was aside from intellectual theory? what's the psychological? >> do either of you guys want to do it? >> i actually wrote about psychohistory in a chapter, but today i didn't have time to -- i don't particularly care for the analysis. but i know there were -- as far as that, i believe it was just a threat. that may be kind of simple, but i believe he thought if he could scare them enough, that they might take him seriously. >> but why? >> jeff, i have done a bunch of work on this. and it is a basis in eisenhower. eisenhower also thought of excessive force and also preached vaguely, obliquely, yes, we're going to use a nuke. no, we're not going to use a nuke. yes, mao, you'd better behave in the taiwan straits or we're going to bomb you. it is part of our arsenal. we can use it. ira ternus talks about this. it's a long involved thing. i think that nixon looked upon this coming out of the vice presidency. and part of his own presidency as p

it was my familiarity with this memoir that first drew me to jennings' story. it is titled "a colored man's reminiscences of james madison," and as that title implies, it is more about the so-called great man than it is about the author himself. but my interest was in jennings. so i set out to discover elements of his biography, uncover the circumstances behind the publication of the memoir in 1865 and track down and interview living, direct descendants. paul was only 10 when he came to washington in 1809, the first year of the madison administration. he was chosen from among 100 month peelier slaveses -- montpelier slaves as just, oh, two or three to be part of the white house domestic staff. and he found washington to be dreary as, indeed, it wasment -- was. not only because he was likely home sick, but because this was a clanked city and at that time existed very much more on paper than it did on the ground. but i think that soon enough paul realized that he was at the start of a great adventure. he would be a footman in the president's house for eight years

. >> 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] [applause] [music playing]

[applause] from children's bedtime stories to coming-of-age novels and memoirs of the most colorful lives -- >> first and last embrace. >> hours of a stock -- ours is a story that needs to be told. [inaudible] needs to be told from generation to generation. this year, the international community saw the first ever filipino american book festival. it celebrated a richness and fusion of philippine and filipino american culture into literature, visual arts, and people. it marked the largest gathering of authors and artists of filipina heritage from around the world. the san francisco bay area filipino american community salutes this milestone, a legacy of the duration of our people's story. >> representing the filipino american book festival of the committee chair and the committee for the event. [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause] >> filipinos love a great party. in northern california, one organization proves this year in and year out by celebrating our heritage and culture. this year, it broke records, making it the largest festival in the region. ladies gentlemen, the filipino

you know, win jenny authored the first white house memoir it was a private printing. i don't believe there were more than 150 to 200 coffees. so really is quite remarkable that it survived at all and wasn't altogether obscured and lost over the years. and in part we do have daniel mary to thank for that because that assistant librarian of congress helped put together an exposition in 1900 on the works of negro authors and that included paul jennings. this in contrast to solomon northrop, 12 years of slaves. there were 8,000 copies printed and sold in just the first month when it came out in 1853 and many thousands and thousands followed. i am grateful to dangle murray and the library of congress that jennings's memoir is still there. and i thank you for preserving our heritage and i thank you for your kind attention. [applause] >> we are grateful to beth not only for the research that went into this story but also to highlighting a little bit of the library of congress history and our own story. part of the american story. we are not done yet. we have a question and a

he is out with a talked-about new muammar -- new memoir.omorrow viola davis and octavia's spencer as they discuss the foam. we will discuss the concern about the kinds of roles hollywood offers to people of color and the quest for hollywood storytelling beyond racial stereotypes. now after that i will be joined by suze orman. she believes she has come up with the sensible solution for every day americans. tonight we are pleased to be joined by chuck hagel. the combat vet earns two purple hearts. he was a member of the who intelligence committee. he serves of the chairman of the atlantic council. he joins us tonight from washington. good to have you on this program. so much news i want to get to. let me jump in with syria. we told americans to get out. your thoughts on the deteriorating relationship with syria and what is happening inside the country? >> these are very difficult, delicate, and complicated issues. did the united states or any one nation does not have the ability to change or control of events, and i think we saw about over la

public appearance in a country's capital havana was the presentation of his eighty thousand page memoirs called. the cuban state t.v. show the former leader engaged in an animated conversation that was a six hour long event retired in two thousand and eight because of ill health after almost half a century or more. a clash of cultures in kyrgyzstan now where the moderate indigenous practice of islam is being threatened by more radical alternatives there are fears for the effect on everyday life in the central asian republic. instability after two rebel ocean revolutions in the last few years alone on a book as the story. all. kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of cougars men praying at the country's central square just underneath the lenin monument even in this basket years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as islam does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims you need to pray or help my skin almost theological and lifestyle differences that exist among the various branches of this life here in k