tevi mentioned john quincy. you was described by david mccullough as the most brilliant human being who ever occupied the executive office. his tastes were definitely elite. quoting tevi, quote, as president he enjoyed poetry, literature, theater, opera and translating latin text. i ensure that is the way obama spends his saturday afternoons. not to the too partisan there is no recent president who could possibly compete with quincy adams. but i think we do get now to the nub of tevi's book, namely that in a democratic republic, successful politicians must have a must learn to fake the common touch. the man who unseated quincy adams, and rejection, somewhat crude, and leonard, a notoriously bad speller, but knew how to use that disadvantage in the story tevi told. it said the template for everything that followed. teddy roosevelt, the 00 wealthy man and a remarkable intellect himself, published his first book the year eat graduated from harvard, didn't make the mistake of being like quincy adams. restyled and se

[applause] >> thank you, tevi. jonah goldberg, please. >> i want to say, first of all, thanks for -- thanks to tevi and thanks to the hudson institute for having me here. i'm a big fan of the hudson institute. in fact, the president of the hudson institute introduced me to my wife a while ago. the day after he called me up to let me know she was way out of my league and i shouldn't try, so i appreciate it. it gave me extra incentive. so i'm going to try and be brief. i've got a lot of thoughts about the book. i really enjoyed the book, i think it's a wonderful book. i think in ways it's a lot like tevi, it's very smart without being otherly eggheady. it has, it's full of stories and interesting trivia, a lot like tevi. and at the same time, it weaves them all together for a pretty grand theme. one thing you might want to know, tevi, for your book tour, when you talk about andrew jackson and others going to theaters to be amongst the people, there's an interesting countertrend going on right now. there's a big open

tevi troy is my oldest friend in washington high-tech's job at a.e.i. in 1981 if anybody knows him or me she is a much better jews and i am but i have a much better practitioner of seinfeld faith to have the airing of the grievances so i figure i would go a slightly different way. his book is remarkably even-handed that does not mean he does not have sharp ideas are arguments that he is not a hurricane if this in the fight and i figured i would offer sharper points. i think he is way too easy on the progressives and particularly woodrow wilson you may know i of the treasure of the international association of the woodrow wilson and hater society and i am biased. [laughter] but i did not know that wilson probably did not say birth of a nation was like history written lately the next time i have a chance it will correct my book but maybe one of the reasons he did that who reese segregated washington d.c. and initiated the practice to put it in racial quotas into federal policy to keep the whites out and also thinking it is interesting to mention the clan

moderating this afternoon's session in which we will be recognizing and celebrating and discoursing upon tevi troy's new book, "what jefferson read, ike watched and obama tweeted: 200 years of popular culture this the white house." with a title like that, you might expect that the book is a parade of ton and entertaining stories about presidents' idiosyncratic tastes in reading, theater, music, sports, movies,

i don't see a prospect for change when president obama leaves office. >> tevi troy in chicago. now to the philippines. the death toll is rising to 2300 for the thousands of survivors the situation is growing dire by the day. doctors warn of a new disaster, the spread of disease. wayne hay reports from tacloban >> reporter: there's to many casualties in tacloban, the main hospital has no time to deal with the dead. patients are outside - tired doctors and nurses take a break in the fresh air. most have worked long hours since the typhoon struck. inside there's no electricity, and it's hot. the main power generator was destroyed by the storm. >> the ground floor was flooded. we had to bring the patients to the second floor. the roof are destroyed when it rains. it leaks. it's the only available space to keep the patient dry and safe >> a small donated generator is enough to power one light bulb in the theatre - which is in desperate need of a clean. drugs like tet nus shots are needed. despite the challenges, the hospital has not stopped taking patients. all things considered the

[inaudible conversations] >> for more information about the author visit is website, tevi troy.org. >> this weekend booktv is live in florida for the miami book fair international. coverage kicks off at 10:00 eastern on c-span2 with dave barry, roy blount jr. and roy millssir and appearances by doris kerns goodwin and a scott burr and called ins with cheri thanks, peter baker and susan herman. sunday's coverage starts at 10:30 and includes mark albritton and john hale said the man, thomthomas cahill and chri. us your thoughts on our book club chat room, booktv.org/bookclub. >> i see it as a presumption that somehow, working with the right and leader. sometimes you have to combat a narrative with a narrative. and the narrative is, muslim country and islamic country, and therefore global rules don't apply to us, nuclear-weapons, we told americans we are not making nukes and kept getting buried but in this end, the nukes we said we were not making, at least we broke, if nothing else broke a promise, that can only be combated by a narrative. this review that we develop a personal relation