before i introduce our author michael dobbs, let me make a few announcements. please silence all of your electronic mobile devices for the latest updates about the book festival. make sure you're following the gaithersburg book festival on facebook and twitter and if you post about the festival if you're one of those people that social media savvy, please use the gbf hashtag. your feedback's really important to us surveys are available on our website, which you can access at gaithersburg book festival.org or by using the qr code that you'll see displayed prominently around the grounds by submitting a survey you'll be entered in a drawing for a $100 visa gift card, which we hope you'll spend in our bookstore. michael dolls will be signing books immediately after this presentation in the air condition comfort of the activity center. so please meet him there. copies of his books books are on sale in the politics and pros store, which is also in the activity center a quick plug for buying books. remember, this is a free event, but it does help our festival if you b

michael dobbs will be signing books immediately after this presentation in the air-conditioned conference of the activity center. please meet him there. copies of his books are on sale in the politics and prosestore which is also in the activity center . quick plug for buying books. remember this is a free event but it helps are you books, books . more books we sell arguments the more publishers will want to send authors to speak. purchasing books from our politics and prose internet booksellers in the tworld and benefits our local economy, supports local jobs and books make great gifts. stop by the activity center and purchase some books . so our presenter today, our author michael dobbs is a foreign correspondent for reuters and the washington post in moscow. he's covered the collapse of the soviet union, written about the history of the cold war biography of marilyn all right. during the presidential campaign user supposed to launch online checker column so we havelabeled today . king richard, nixon and watergate tragedy is his most recent book compounding the days following the landsl

so please join me in welcoming michael dobbs to the gaithersburg book festival.plause] >> well, thank you very much. as was explained can you will hear me? i am a former journalist at work for the "washington post". and after 30 years of being mainly a foreign correspondent, i turn myself into a historian in actually to distinguish myself from all those presidential historians out there, i call myself a presidential crisis historian. i try to focus on not just in the entire lifee of somebody, writing biographies like the biography of nixon, i try focus on the most dramatic moments of that person's life when they faced an existential crisis of one kind or another. i wrote the book about the cuban missile crisis called a one minute until midnight. which is about the time in 1962 when the world came closer than ever before or since perhaps with the exception of the current time to some kind of nuclear exchange. obviously that was the ultimaten crisis that a president can face. but nixon also a face a crisis pretty face a personal crisis he faced a national crisis, a

loss, jon meacham, doug brinkley, robert dowell, ronald white, david mccullough, david remnick, michael dobbs, robert massey, lynn nelson, rick atkinson and anne applebaum. i'm sure i'm forgetting some remarkable books. so as they say in congress, i reserve the right to advise and extend my remarks. susan glasser's response -- louisa mayt, little women. what is it about that book -- and it is women who really like that book? susan: i wasn't sure if you're asking about nonfiction or fiction. obviously peter has chosen to answer your question by not answering your question, listing every single author that he likes. [laughter] there's no question that for every bookish young woman for a century, they have delighted in this story of joe marge and her sisters. i love that book so much that i would read it again and again as a child. in fact, in the book, they talk about reading again and again a book. that's what i was doing with little women. i would finish it and start all over again. host: other books susan glasser gave us -- zora neale hurston, their eyes were watching god, a bright shining l

loss, jon meacham, doug brinkley, robert dowell, ronald white, david mccullough, david remnick, michael dobbs, robert massey, lynn nelson, rick atkinson and anne applebaum. i'm sure i'm forgetting some remarkable books. so as they say in congress, i reserve the right to advise and extend my remarks. susan glasser's response -- louisa may alcittlwomen. what is it about that book -- and it is women who really like that book? susan: i wasn't sure if you're asking about nonfiction or fiction. obviously peter has chosen to answer your question by not answering your question, listing every single author that he likes. [laughter] there's no question that for every bookish young woman for a century, they have delighted in this story of joe marge and her sisters. i love that book so much that i would read it again and again as a child. in fact, in the book, they talk about reading again and again a book. that's what i was doing with little women. i would finish it and start all over again. host: other books susan glasser gave us -- zora neale hurston, their eyes were watching god, a bright shiningie.