. >> search for author susan eisenhower or the title ofher book , how ike led using the box at the top ofthe page . next on book tv, bloomberg news investigative reporter susan burchfield recalls the fight between president theodore roosevelt and financier j.p. morganover the size of corporations and government intervention at the turn of the 20th century . >> i wanted to sort of ask you to paint a picture of j.p. morgan. obviously you're telling a story about roosevelt but a large amount of the book is about j.p. morgan. for a lot of americans he's one of those, i don't mean this in a demeaning way but he's out of an empty household name area will know his name from public institutions, obviously from the banking legacy. they don't know a lot about him. can you tell us about him and why, what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape that your drawing. >> so when i first started looking into this time period , i think i knew a lot more about roosevelt than i did about morgan. as is probably true of most people . and what i realized is i

. >> during a virtual event hosted by the commonwealth club susan eisenhower discusses the life and leadershipf her grandfather dwight eisenhower . here's aportion . >> eisenhower's very conscious of what it would be to be a diminished president. we have to remember president wilson was almost a scandal that people in the country didn't know how well that president was so i was determined not to find himself in that situation for the good of the country and after he had three illnesses during his presidency and after each one of them he would give himself a very arduous test like a round the world trip or a trip to europe th

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susan: dwight eisenhower had five appointments and most significantly put forward earl warren as chiefustice. he later called this the biggest damn fool mistake i ever made. it is important to talk about the war in court. -- the warren court. why was it his biggest mistake? ilya: earl warren was a republican governor of california and had a moderate record and was a popular figure in the party and contributed to eisenhower being selected as a presidential nominee. it was a bit of a reward as well as recognizing this was an esteemed republican public official and lawyer and should be a good choice for the court, especially to be chief justice, given the political skill required for that job. ultimately warren was a progressive, a liberal on the court and a host of ways, whether with regard to civil rights -- it was his court to put in the unanimous -- this was one of the less controversial parts of the court, the brown v. board of education and desegregation, the unanimous order. but other things related to criminal procedure and other areas that effectively spawned the modern conservat