something happened in monticello. residents freely emptied their cupboards for the kids. merchants were stunned by their politeness. >> they are polite kids. they were happy here. >> i think they are a wonderful group of kids. i've never met so many kids in such large numbers that were patient and courteous and understanding. >> there was a great deal of apprehension. i can say the attitude of the town has changed toward these young men and women. >> there was a lot of inconvenience. >> because much of the press coverage was so jaundiced in what happened, not many people would've learned what monticello learned. it was not a disaster area. there were 450,000 young people here. an instant big city. there were no conveniences, no violence. that even arguments in the midst of a 12 hour traffic jam. host: abc news coverage from 1969. joining us from lawrence, kansas is david farber. professor of history at university of kansas. we appreciate you being with us. let's talk about what happened in bethel, pennsylvania. what was woodstock? prof. farber: it was a surprise to the en

festival site is near the biggest town monticello nearby. but before it was over, something happened in monticello. residents and resorts empty their cupboards for the kids. merchants were stunned by their politeness. >> polite. that is about what i can say. did not sell any shoes? >> not too many, but they were happy here. >> i think they are a wonderful group of kids. i have never met so many that were so patient, so courteous, and understanding under the conditions we had here the last three days. >> in the beginning, there was a great deal of apprehension, but right now, i can say that the attitude of the town has changed for these young men and women. >> they took a lot of aggravation and inconvenience of the average person that they would not take. >> unfortunately, because of the press coverage being so jaundiced, not many people would learn what monticello learned. suffice it to say it was not a disaster area. there were 450,000 young people here with no conveniences, a few police, but no violence, not even arguments in the midst of

festival site is near the biggest town monticello nearby. but before it was over, th

. >> i said when i give gifts to the smithsonian, kennedy center, monticello and washington monument, what i tried to do is remind people of the history and heritage of our country but also about the good things our country stands for. and also some of the things that are not so wonderful reminding people good and bad when i do that i regarded as patriotic >> what is the role of the. co-chair of the national book festival? >> it is probably less impressive than the title was seen. i have put up for the last ten years roughly a million dollars a year to support the national book festival. in the national book festival cost $2 million or so a year, maybe a little bit more. so this is enabling to do some of the things that i would otherwise not be able to do. we get 200,000 people coming to the book festival the last couple of years and we originally held at the mall and the mall is a great site but the national park service thinks is not so wonderful for the grass to have that event and also does have weather problems we had rain storms and other things when we had it there. a few years

i went back and had my babies there and i love it and it stands in the shadow of monticello and it is a town that is complicated to slavery so how do you feel pride in the south in a cradle of democracy and that's the same thing we have with the statue or how the south feels about itself so how do you thread that needle if you are a bunch of racist haters and that's a state that we are in. >> i talk about that at length virginia is a great state of eight.5 million people to have haters and racist and because they came to virginia very unique history in this country i talked about wishing - - washington and jefferson so when you do talk about history you should talk about all of it. nobody should hide who we are or where we have come from and what our leaders were like. but i wish you are native american you came here from somewhere else. saw this idea was as strong as the people that lived here with the immigrant community only made a stronger coming from united states of america and virginia was a great state with the issue of the confederate flag through executive order nobody that

much of the press inerage was so jaundiced what happened, not many people would've learned what monticello learned. peopleere 450,000 young here. there were no conveniences, no violence. host: abc news coverage from 1969. joining us from lawrence, kansas is lawrence farber. we appreciate you being with us. let's talk about what happened in ethel, pennsylvania. what was woodstock? >> it was a surprise to the entire nation. it started one way and ended in a very different way. ofstarted as three days peace and music with some of the biggest names in rock 'n roll. quiteme something different, a free concert in showedome 450,000 people up, almost all of them young people who had to make do with what they had, who triumphed over rain, lack of food, had an amazing time and show the nation what young people are capable of. host: why was the dairy farm selected for the site? farm in newdairy york was not supposed to be what was happening. it was first going to be up in the woodstock area. then it was going to be not far from what stock. townspeople decried what was happening. with less than a mont

is both an nbc news historian and national archive foundation, white house historical society in monticello, i could go on for 20 minutes. although the award-winning producer for the documentary the decisions that shook the world coming in his new book presidents of war, which bill gates ranked as one of the five to read. it looks at a range of decisions that they made to go to war under a number various circumstances. but taken together the two books give you an extraordinary insight into what it takes for a president of the united states to start a war. we are going to start with a quick question from suzanne, because this hearing that she talks about surrounding the campaign of 1940, and it's sort of the big issue that fdr is dealing with at this point. talk a little bit about the decisions he's making as he is going forward, knowing that running for a third term there is enormous pressure against him among the war in europe as an isolationist nature. what is he doing to educate americans about what they face? >> that is a great question. 1932, fdr gave a campaign speech in which he said

lived there and have my babies there and i love it but the fact that it stands in the shadow of monticello is it so complicated and you mentioned jefferson in the book and it's also a town that is so really complicated in its relationship to jefferson, slavery, african-american women and how he treated them. so i think the same thing you are describing which is how do you feel pride in the south and cradle of democracy and also strive to be candid about its failings and that's the same problem we have with the statutes. there is a plaintive southern pridpoint of southernpride in aw the cells feels about itself and about the civil war. how do you have that conversation without saying you are a bunch of racist haters which is why we get into this feedback loop that we are in. >> guest: virginia is a great state of 8.5 million people and those peopl people like him prid when i was running for governor, they are not symbolic of virginia is that every state is going to have haters and racists and so forth. that isn't what defines us. there is such a unique history. as i say this month the first

to stand in the shadow of monticello itself is complicated so it is really complicated to jefferson slavery and african-american women and how he treated them. so what you are describing with pride in the cradle of democracy and then to be candid about its failings. and there is an argument about the civil war. how do you thread that needle without saying you are a bunch of racist haters quick. >> i talk about this at length. it is a great state of a the half-million people they are not symbolic of food virginia is but that's not who we are. you are right. virginia has such was the first i came to virginia for the sleigh's 400 years ago this month came to virginia we have a very unique history in this country i talk about jefferson and washington and those slaveowners but you should talk about all of that and nobody should deny who we are where we came from or what those were we are but if you look at america today to say you came here and this idea that this is our place country that was built it's a great country but the immigrant community and that's why it's sad of what trump has done t

plants that were grown at monticello during thomas jefferson's time. this is one of her favorite quotes by thomas jefferson that always graced the garden. this is a sign we kept in the jefferson beds the whole time. how did we decide what to grow? it was easy. what the first family ate. we would work with the white house chefs. we helped out the first lady's office to help make this happen and bishops would harvest throughout the year. -- and the chefs would harvest throughout the year. all kinds of things all through the fall we helped provide. for the first family's private meals, but these were tomatoes and radishes, it was a vegetable kebab at one of the congressional picnics. i think this was 2015. also the things they couldn't use some the white house chefs would process them for later use, and everything else was donated to a local soup kitchen. at the end of the summer, the first lady would have another gathering of schoolkids. they would come out with the white house chefs and they would prepare the vegetables the kids harvested and they would

children stuck on a migrant rescue boat are being allowed to land in italy after the interior minister monticello they need to political pressure the fate of their parents and other adults on board it's still unclear if he bans humanitarian aid vessels from docking 5 european countries have agreed to accept these 134 migrants they were rescued near libya by the spanish aid group open arms and says after 2 weeks. of sorry on board conditions are becoming unbearable. ok here's what's ahead for you still on this news out of mammoth job of saving elephants new moves to combat the illegal trade in ivory. add a little salt in line. delicious. like a scorpion. correspondence going to take a stroll mexican restaurant serving up insects. on dominic cain in berlin at the home of germany's youngest top flight football team can they make a big splash in this year's big find out here on out of there. hello welcome to another look at the international forecast very much business as usual across the middle east at the moment loss of dry weather clear skies lots of hazy sunshine a little more cloud between the b

and i only realized the books i did before this one, one of them was calledtwilight at monticello, the of thomas jefferson which was such a tragic , we kind of story. and i wanted to write like a comedy after writing this tragedy but one of the things i realized is maybe my specialty is great americans who lost all their money because jefferson, twain. i've got aniche . if you've got any recommendation , i'll take it underenvironment . >> alan crawford, how not to get rich. the financial misadventures of mark twain is the name of the book. thanks for being with us. >> you're watching book tv on cspan2. for a television schedule,

but i think that the fact that it stands in the shadow of minute chell monticello and you mentioned jefferson in the book and a up to that is still really complicated in its relationship to jefferson to slavery, to african-american women and how he treated them, and so i think the same thing you're describing, which is how do you feel sort of pride in the south, pride in the cradle of democracy, and also strive to be really candid about its failings, and that's the same problem we have with the statues. there is a point of southern pride, there's a argument about how the south feels about itself and the civil war. how do you have that conversation? how do you thread that needle without saying you're a butch of racist hater which is exactly why we get into this feedback loom loop we're in. >> guest: i talk about is in in the become at length. virginia is a great state of 8.5 million people. and those people that i confront when i was running for for they're not symbolic of who virginia is but every state is going to have folks, going to have hater ands racists and soing for and that's not who

mother and father on a history tour, spring vacation and we drove to charlottesville and went to monticello and saw the old campus at the university of virginia and then went on to washington and then came back to gettysburg. this has opened my eyes as nothing ever had. i was busy and i also thought the university of virginia looks very appealing. my older brothers had gone to yale and i was thinking i would go the ale. my english teacher had gone to jail when he was a wonderful or from maine named lowell and this i went in to see him after i got back from a trepanier said mr. in his i just had a wonderful trip and we went to the university of virginia and saw the beautiful campus then i was thinking maybe i might apply to the university of virginia. he was standing right close to me and he was considerably shorter than i and he jammed his finger into my chest and he said you are going to yale mccullough and i want to hear anymore about it. he didn't say let's sit down and talk about your innermost feelings. [laughter] it was a different approach and i never thought about going to the unive

i did before this one, one of them was calledtwilight at monticello, the final years of thomas jefferson which was such a tragic , we kind of story. and i wanted to write like a comedy after writing this tragedy but one of the things i realized is maybe my specialty is great americans who lost all their money because jefferson, twain. i've got aniche . if you've got any recommendation , i'll take it underenvironment . >> alan crawford, how not to get rich. the financial misadventures of mark twain is the name of the book. thanks for being with us. >> you're watching book tv on cspan2. for a television schedule, visit booktv.org or follow behind-the-scenes a social media on twitter, instagram and facebook . >> guys, we are here, "chatter on books", r 34th episode which is stunning and we are in an undisclosed location which makes me unhappy because we've been in an undisclosed location for a few weeks and we're at east city bookshop which is 645 pennsylvania avenue southeast . i'm going to keeprepeating the address, 645 pennsylvania avenue southeast because it this is bricks and mortar an

she has published six books, amongst them the hemmings's of monticello, an american family. it won numerous awards , including the enterprise in history and the national book award four nonfiction. she is also the author of thomas jefferson and sally hemmings, an american controversy. it was a nonfiction finalist in the first annual library of virginia literary awards. among her many owners are the national humanities medal alma and guggenheim fellowship in the amenities, the macarthur fellowship, and the national organization for women in new york city, women of power and influence award. she was selected a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences in 2011 and is a member of the academy's commission on the humanities and social sciences. please welcome annette gordon-reed. >> [ applause ] >> our second-guess is a celebrated author, teacher and scholar of american history. he is a professor at rice university and cnn's presidential historian. he has published best selling books on the presidencies of roosevelt, jimmy carter and ronald reagan and has covered subject

auction, what it did change is that other institutions, the phone calls and letters i got from monticello, mt. vernon, mt. pillier. they said my god if you can do that we can at least talk about the black presence at our sites. so it changed the game in that way. but again, there weren't that many black people doing costume work, let alone in museum work beyond the ethnic specific institutions. and we were in a funny place with some of them, right? our colleagues and ethnic specific institutions were like why are you doing that? you need to work in your own institutions where you are really going to be loved well that's another thing. it's this -- that, to me, is what created it. i mean, that's the space. we had shared experience. we had a respect for the work. we had a shared faith tradition. and we just were passionate about what we had to do. it wasn't what we chose to do. it was what we had to do. and so a different -- and people have come in and out of this journey. because it is -- it is wearing work. it is wearing work. >> rex, i want to say this and then please say something. when

>> i'm going to monticello, georgia. a family. you know, so i'm really honored to go back and start this journey back with them again. >> will garth be on tour with you too, starting the garth tailgate >> he'll be in the parking lot flipping burgers he might be steaming my clothes. we don't know yet. >> congratulations as well trisha's southern kitchen, 15th season. >> so good. >> tv shows don't last 15 seasons. >> you know what, we aren't scripted we don't -- we laugh a lot we make mistakes and we show our mistakes and i'm a cook so i think most people cook like i do and i think it's really a real show. >> how do you cook on the road >> not so much. >> do you miss it? >> i do. i like to cook it's very relaxing for me. garth makes the caterers cook out of my cook books it's embarrassing, it's like trisha's whatever. did we make it right it's fine, it's okay. balance, balanc >> how do you have time? >> balance sometimes means you don't do everything well at once something at the forefront and something else suffers you ha

much of the press inerage was so jaundiced what happened, not many people would've learned what monticelloearned. peopleere 450,000 young here. there were no conveniences, no violence. host: abc news coverage from 1969. joining us from lawrence, kansas is lawrence farber. we appreciate you being with us. let's talk about what happened in ethel, pennsylvania. what was woodstock? >> it was a surprise to the entire nation. it started one way and ended in a very different way. ofstarted as three days peace and music with some of the biggest names in rock 'n roll. quiteme something different, a free concert in showedome 450,000 people up, almost all of them young people who had to make do with what they had, who triumphed over rain, lack of food, had an amazing time and show the nation what young people are capable of. host: why was the dairy farm selected for the site? farm in newdairy york was not supposed to be what was happening. it was first going to be up in the woodstock area. then it was going to be not far from what stock. townspeople decried what was happening. with less than a month

i am 50 miles from pine bluff's, 20 miles from monticello and there is no way. .ight now, i am bedriddenn order for me to go to the doctor to get a good checkup, there is no way. there is no way for me to go. bus, that bus is going to take me all day long and i have to have a nurse to go with me so if i have a problem, they can take care of it, there is nothing for rural americans, hardship.t . cannot afford rent anywhere it is a big problem. host: you said there is nothing for rural americans, did you think there would be more for rural americans with the election of donald trump? caller: i did not vote for trump. trump has nothing that i want that he offered. wasve been working since i 15 years old. they were taking up social security, whatever they call it, they left that money alone and gave me my whole paycheck. i have good money saved to take care of myself because i had good jobs. taught school, worked as a caseworker and the defense department. i know if they left my money alone, i would have lots of money, but they took my money for this, that, and the other and i don't have any