[laughter] >> i am just a fan of robert shogan. >> we are running out of time.this is going to be the last question. >> you talked about all the men in you said they were all men so you conceded that. i wanted to talk about influence and just get your opinion on whether franklin listen to eleanor because traditionally when it was herded eleanor was far more sympathetic than her husband to the jewish cause. >> well, yeah. i couldn't find much evidence to that. the evidence, that may be but she was neither of the roosevelts were very concerned with these issues before they got to washington. i mean both of them had certain what you might call social anti-semitic tendencies. so did eleanor. i think she changed in many ways but i don't know of jewish groups particularly taking her help for intervening with roosevelt. i know she tried you know on racial issues. i think she tried to get him to support something you would think as safe as anti-lynching legislation. he wouldn't do that. thank you professor. >> thank you, bob. [applause] >> this event was hosted by polit

robert shogan discusses his book at politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c.. the program's love all over 15 minutes -- 50 minutes. >> i want to thank those of you who are here for coming and i want to thank looking ahead those of you who are attuned and on the model public surface television c-span. thank you for watching and i hope you will find reason to stay with us. i also want to thank another institution, politics and prose bookstore, for hosting this event coming and i want to say a special word of appreciation for carla cohen, co-founder of politics and prose, who has many of you know, lost her brief fight against cancer only about ten days ago along with her partner, barbara meade, carla tikrit dewolf energy bringing reading and writing in to this city and i think barbara tells me they hope they will find someone to carry on the tradition and its good work. she told me speak to the property heads of the neighborhood. [laughter] and i don't doubt that that is the case. this book was inspired so to speak by a story in "the washington post" on the annive

shogan. that is once they were robbed of their stated this belief by facts and reality of any of these prominent roosevelt advisers who were jewish or they have contrite even public or private for the failure? >> in private i don't know. there was no public action nor was there any from roosevelt -- people who weren't jewish. i think there was a feeling among jewish leaders not necessarily president but the jewish leaders they hadn't done enough, they hadn't done anything most of them that more could be done now. presupposing that helps account for the tremendous mobilization is the jewish political support behind -- for mark shields aren't you? is this your first time on television? >> i'm just a fan of robert shogan. [laughter] >> for janet to -- >> this is quite be the last question. you talk about all the men and said they were all men so you conceded that. i want to talk about influence and just get your opinion whether franklin listened to eleanor because traditionally when it's her tha