. >> host: princeton press puts out the book for you use the word of polished. >> guest: that is what they would talk about with communication skills can you interact with the client are you presentable to someone who is executive? bad definition if you look at advertising agencies of mannerisms that might be different but with very different styles but we need a couple of things that means to be formal without too for most so to have a sense of relaxation between you and the word working with that is of two for more not 4 million of that is the lens of a racial stereotype but professional but not too informal to be immature but second to take the reins of the conversation. people may thank you are supposed to reassert the question is passively that is for many different types of occupations but here it is called conversational leadership with the ideas and to treat the interviewer as an equal so read the and have them the position of power you want to preach this into a conversation of equal. and they talk about that is a hallmark of the economic elite regardless of how high or low r

. >> host: princeton press has put this book out. use the word polish quite a bit. what is it mean to be polished? >> guest: polishes would interview with talk about presence and communication skills. soft skills. can you interact with the client? are you presentable to someone who's an executive? it varies from place to place. if you look at an advertising agency, the type of mannerisms valued may be different from law firms. likewise academia and different presentations in the corporate world. in this world it means a couple things. it means being formal without being too formal. having a sense of relaxation between you and the person you talk with is the reason why the candidates are thrown out as they are perceived as too formal for two informal. the first thing is being formal enough to be professional but not too informal to be immature. the second is in the interview context taken the reins of the conversation. a lot of people think in an interview you're supposed to passively answer the questions the interview asks you. that is how you do an interview in man

i got in contact with princeton university press and the rest was history, so to speak, and i started walking. >> tell me about the process. how long did it take you and did you map it out and how long did you walk every day? >> it took me four years. >> four years? >> 30 miles a week. 120 a month. 1,500 a year. four times fir teen hundred and you are at 6,000. i walked 6048 miles. and the city is really 6163. that's 121,000 blocks. i mapped it out by taking each neighborhood, block by block, step by step. when you walk it in a focused way, you know, you have to really concentrate. and did it step by step. i used my rock ports and i used my pedometer. >> and you got it done. what surprised you -- you're a lifelong new yorker. what surprised you the most about what you found when you walked around? >> the friendliness of the people. the way in which, on a serious note, 9/11 is seared in the consciousness of every new yorker. >> no matter what neighborhood? >> it doesn't matter. when you take a look, you see so many streets named after firemen, policemen. i remember walking on a street

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i then took a course at princeton called politics of the press, run by the editor of "the nation" a brief moment before victor came, who had run mccarthy's campaign. i did my papers there on mccarthyism and the press, on a columnist known for clearing people. my first experience in an archive up at columbia, on how ordinary people suffered during the mccarthy period. as victor said, he at a different time, i found in this publication, a publication that never capitulated to the kind of, you know, conventional wisd wisdom, pressures of that time. blair clark said, go be an intern at the nation. i think victor navasky just started the program. i arrived two years after the first group, victor. it was my journalistic boot camp. it was my political education in many ways. at princeton, i had great professors who challenged traditional orthodox views. at the time, you had an exchange program from the new stateman. the then-editor was went to london. andrew copkind, a great radical journalist was doing informal seminars at all moments. i learned so much. i had the great fortune to work with for

i then took a course at princeton called politics of the press, run by the editor of "the nation" a brief moment before victor came, who had run mccarthy's campaign. i did my papers there on mccarthyism and the press, on a columnist known for clearing people. my first experience in an archive up at columbia, on how ordinary people suffered during the mccarthy period. as victor said, he at a different time, i found in this publication, a publication that never capitulated to the kind of, you know, conventional wisd wisdom, pressures of that time. blair clark said, go be an intern at the nation. i think victor navasky just started the program. i arrived two years after the first group, victor. it was my journalistic boot camp. it was my political education in many ways. at princeton, i had great professors who challenged traditional orthodox views. at the time, you had an exchange program from the new stateman. the then-editor was went to london. andrew copkind, a great radical journalist was doing informal seminars at all moments. i learned so much. i had the great fortune to work with for

lot of people may not know you were a debate champion at princeton and solicitor general in texas where you argued for a living and were pressedy hard questions from smart judges. you have been at this rodeo before. how confident do you feel going into thursday? >> i think the debate will go well. i think it is a continuation of the debate we have been having for a number of months which is what is the right direction for the republican party? there are a lot of voices in washington that argue every four years that we have to run towards the mushy middle that the way we win is not really standing for much of anything. every time we listen to those voices we lose. i'm convinced 2016 is going to be an election very much like 1980 and that we are going to win by following reagan's painting in bold colors and not pale pastels. >> did you strike a deal with donald trump? you came to new york and met up with him. >> donald and i have been friendly for a long time before he was a presidential candidate. i expect that we will remain friendly after he is a presidential candidate. and i commend donald for sticking out. >> you didn't ans

princeton university. malvern prep is actually cooperating,. >> all right, jenny, we'll probably follow this case the next couple of days. jimmy cart letter hold pressonference in about three hours. down in atlanta. you know the topic. his cancer. the 90 year old announced last week that while he was undergoing surgery, on his liver, to remove a mass, the doctors discovered his cancer had spread. the nation's 39th president expected to reveal what type of cancer he actually had, and howell deal with t carter's father, brother, two sisters, all died of pancreatic cancer. that will what has? we'll find out at 10:00 this morning. >> president obama set visit new orleans, visit will mark the ten year anniversary of hurricane katrina. storm struck louisianna august 29th causing death and destruction in the gulf coast. nearly 2,000 people died most in ooh orleans, will meet with the city mayor and people who spent the past decade trying to rebuild, will also deliver remarks on the area's reese birth. >> hillary clinton us a lawyers said her e-mail server was wiped clean before it was given to federal authority. interesting. >> in a letter sent last week t