[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> historian andrew roberts on booktv. visit the author's website andrew-roberts.net. >> what are you reading this summer in book tvments to know. >> first book on my reading list this spring and summer was kleopatra, and what a great insight in recounting her life. it was a book recommended to me, and so i decided to pick it up and read it and then continued with the strong woman theme if you will with elizabeth the first, and that's on my ipad, i'm reading these both as e-books. going back doing these two, it got me on to the historical and older novel type approach and with my bible study group, i'm rereading pilgrim's progress which is delightful to get back into that. it's been awhile since i've reread it and because there's a movie coming up, i, with my family, we're rereading atlas which is very tel

[applause] >> historian andrew roberts on booktv. to find out more visit the author's web site, andrew-roberts.net. ♪ >> coming up next, booktv presents "after words," an hourlong program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week, author eric stakelbeck asserting the obama administration is concealing the true magnitude of terrorist attack on u.s. soil. he makes his case using interviews with covert operatives and people he says are terrorists with link to al-qaeda. he discusses his findings with former u.s. house representative and radio host fred grandy. >> after i read this book, i came across a few facts that i want to run by you because i think it sets up the discussion pretty well. according to some data i've just seen, there are over 1200 government organizations across the country involve inside intelligence -- involved in intelligence, counterterrorism and homeland security. we've got about 850,000 people with top security clearances, and the intelligence budget since september 10, 2001, is now

. >> congressman robert andrews is a democrat from new jersey. thank you for your time today.clear there's agreed urgency on this debt deal. the question is can that translate into genuine practical terms to get this done. >> i can and i believe it will. the president did a great job this week i think by saying he wanted a $4 trillion deal, a big cut many the deficit. and bringing the parties to the white house sunday, i think we're headed in the right direction. my guess is about two weeks from now, we'll be voting on that final agreement. >> congressman, house minority leader pelosi spoke with the president right before he came out to make some comments. i want to play a bit of her sound, what she said before that meeting i believe yesterday. >> do not consider social security a piggy bank for giving tax cuts for giving tax cuts to the healthiest people in our country. we are not going to balance the budget on the backs of america's seniors, women and people with disabilities. >> the house minority leader speaking. the question might be as she and other leaders get together

[applause] >> spent historian andrew roberts on booktv. to find out more visit the author's website, andrew-roberts.net. >> the panic virus is a book that i began working on because the recent that relates to what we're talking about today. a little over three years ago, which was before i had a child, i started noticing that if conversations with my friends when the issue of childhood vaccines, started coming up, the answers i get to questions about how people went about making these decisions were answers by much in the language of giving for intuition. it feels to me like children receive too many vaccines today. it makes sense to me that the number of antigens in vaccines overwhelm developing immune systems. and the reason i found this so interesting is because that was very antithetical to the approach in the language that might choose to use when it comes to other topics where there is an intersection between science and public policy. for instance, global warming. if we had a conversation and someone said, well, we had three feet of

and in our case, unfortunately, andrew flew home, and sat in a cold dark garage for over four hours waiting for robert owe o'dubaine so andrew could then kill him. >> my father got a call from the grand avenue detectives that they were starting to think that cathy had some sort of involvement in my brother's murder. i had never been so surprise. i had no idea. i had no idea that this -- that cathy is involved in rob's death? it just -- it was baffling. it was a shock to us. to us as a family. >> at the time the media reported that catherine was not so obedient, that's what they would say. but i'm not sure about that. i wasn't there so i don't know. but the media would report that andrew was the son. when his father was sick, andrew would tend to him for a long time and was obedient and good. >> the doctors cut him open and said the cancer spread everywhere. it covered his entire stomach. it was only a matter of time. it was not a good thing. catherine was nowhere to be found. catherine was at home doing her thing. i mean, my mom focused everything on my father. and i focused on everything on it. and t

robert andrews from new jersey.r joining us. >> thank youion heather. >> do you have any insight you can provide as to what is happening at this moment? >> i think we are on the way to a good agreement that will help the country put jobs back in the picture. >> and you have worked hard actually that is one of the things that you have done in new jersey to create jobs. how will this deal, the possible deal that we are talking about right now help americans on-the-job front? >> a lender who isn't sure what the interest rates are going to be isn't going to lend money. an entrepreneur who isn't sure what he or she will borrow monitoring p any at won't borrow. then jobs don't get created and i think stability in that area of our country will create private sector jobs that the country so badly needs. i think we are on the way, heather, to that kind of agreement. >> and the sticking point right now seems to be i think a term has been used, the trigger, how can we guarantee that additional cuts will be made when they need

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the other interesting thing about andrew johnson, robert e. lee, the famous southern general said that she was surprised that johnson didn't push harder for free equality for the freed slaves because he -- lee felt the south would have understood. we lost the war. you know. >> host: they don't understand that yet. >> guest: this is what robert e. lee thought. that showed. there is still the dynamic there. johnson was afraid the southern states would cause him a lot of problem with their other programs. of course, he had a lot of problems with impeachment. he was impeached himself. there was the whole other dynamic. the fear of what the south might do has been common since the beginning. >> host: one other thing that surprised me was woodrow wilson. he was intellectual, he was the president of princeton. once could have thought he could have had good sense. his reaction to race was almost unpredictable and very, very harsh. coming after a president who had entertained booker t. washington, here comes the intellectual who is literally rigid. how

richard burton, robert calais, and julie andrews from the broadway show. her very final symbol of that weekend, those three days of the funeral in washington d.c. in november of 1963 was task that at arlington on the hillside just down from the cuts were hurt husband was buried that there be an eternal flame. she thought that would be such an appropriate metaphor going back to the inaugural address that he says the torch's been passed to a new generation. you might remember at the funeral, she, bobby, and teddy all with this eternal flame. she also then hired john carl weinberg began, her architect friend, to put together and design this very grave site, and i'm sure most of you have been out to arlington cemetery to see it. she also asked, and i think this is telling, that she be buried there when she died in 1994 of lymphoma. she did not ask to be buried in greece, she did not ask to be buried with aristotle onassis, her second husband. she has to be buried with her husband and these other two headstones and then to of the children they lost, patrick and

another interesting thing about andrew johnson, robert e. lee, the famous southern general, said that he was surprised that johnson didn't push harder for a free equality with the freed slaves because lee felt that the south would have understood. while we lost the war -- >> host: they don't understand that yet. >> guest: this is what robert e. lee thought. and that showed. there is still that dynamic there but johnson was afraid that the southern states would cause him a lot of problems with his other programs and, of course, he had a lot of problems with impeachment. he was impeached himself so there was a whole other dynamic with him but the fear what the south might do has been very common in our history right from the beginning. >> host: one of the presidents that surprised me not surprised you know the history is, of course, woodrow wilson. he was an intellectual. he had been the president of princeton university. but one would have thought he would have had good sense but his reaction to race was almost unpredictable. and very, very h

robert ran down the aisle and said andrew you've done it. that was a great moment. brightman and i had a great rapport through music and that -- music says is a lot of things. there are a lot of people i think who should really love music but people who do, then you can talk a lot about it. there's a lot of artists. >> do women find musical genius sexy? >> i don't know. because i don't think i am one. i do know what you -- >> you're being modest. anyone that can conjure up these kinds of mellow disand become anthems around the world that's genius, isn't it? >> don't know. maybe that i have a good ear fortunes. >> who do you think is a musical genius who is alive today. >> today? well, i think i'm obsessed with melody. i prefer to say that i think, look at the last century, say richard rogers was a genius, gershwin was. anybody who can do -- ♪ -- for a cat. in exactly four bars which took me 2 1/2 hours to do. he's a genius. i think of the living composers who are around now. i really, really think mccartney. some of his melodies are just sublime. >> take another bre

a tribute to his story and manning then andrew roberts now on booktv panel discussion on the life and work of african american history scholar manning marable who died on april 1st, 2011. this is just under two hours. >> welcome to the central library. i'm the ceo of the library of baltimore. we are very, very pleased to have all of you tonight for this special evening and we just want to say a special hello to c-span's book tv viewers who might be tuning in. when we of originally brought manning marable we could as you imagine very excited to have him here in baltimore and to hear him discuss his much anticipated landmark book. we were heartbroken when we heard he became ill and then later passed away just days before the monumental book was released but we still want to honor him and his book and his wife. so thanks to a lifelong supporter and a board member we arrived at this agent to night and we are honored to have the people we have on our panel tonight. we know it's going to be a great tribute but before we get started, we have a very special guest we want to invite to come up

robert stigwood, people remember, used to manage me. he ran down the aisle and said, andrewr way. >> that leads me neatly to the irresistibility to women. what do you put this down to? you've had a series of beautiful wives. >> i'm not sure. i think sarah brightman and i had a great rapport through music, and that -- music says is a lot of things. there are a lot of people i think who should really love music, but people who do, then you can talk a lot about it. there's a lot of artists. >> do women find musical genius sexy? >> i don't know. because i don't think i am one. i do know you can sort of play -- >> you're being absurdly modest. anyone that can conjure up these kinds of melodies and become anthems around the world, that is genius, isn't it? >> i don't know. maybe that i have a good ear for tunes. >> who do you think is a musical genius who is alive today? >> today? >> well, i'm so really obsessed with melody. i prefer to say that i think, look at the last century, say richard rogers, i think, was absolutely a genius. gershwin was. anybody who can do -- ♪ -- for a c

filmmakers lucy bailey and andrew thompson spent 2008 recording the experiences of a white family who challenged the land reform policy of president robertugabe. it was designed to reallocate white-owned land to poor black farmers, but mugabe's henchmen were often the chief beneficiaries. mike campbell claimed the policy violated human rights laws and filed suit in an intnational court based in south africa. here is an excerpt from the film "mugabe and the white african." much of it was shot with a hidden camera. >> their plan is to remove every white farmer off the land, and now we've gone to the international court, and i think this is the last chance we got to keep white farmers here. >> this case is a huge responsibility and i know that it wears in mike mind constantly. this case is direct challenge to robert mugabe and his government, but its also a challenge to the rest of the world. we want the world to wake up to the injustices of what is happening inside zimbabwe. mugabe doesn't want harmony between blacks and whites. he wants the whites to hate the blacks and the blacks to hate the whites. >> since the land invasions in 2000, w

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ú y@9 l;n>úúpsçççóo((( >> and now on booktv in his book "the storm of war," author andrew roberts presentsby the manhattan institute at the harvard club in new york city. mr. roberts examines the entire expanse of the war which resulted in the deaths of over 50 million people and the financial cost of $1.5 trillion. this is about an hour. >> good evening, everyone. if i could have your attention we will get started. we are here to mark the