>> i would have to say the wilderness warrior about theodore roosevelt. that got me going at looking at the role of president and conservation. i love the national parks and all that roosevelt did. i have expanded from the national parks and monuments to national wildlife refuges, national historic sites. on a preservationist -- that book brought joy to me, i am proud of the amount of research i did. theodore roosevelt, they are building a presidential library for him in north dakota which will open in 2026. it will be an event. it is beautiful up there, he became a rancher, it will be built along the little missouri river, it was one of the special spots in my life >> one of your first books was about jimmy carter. are you still in touch with the family? >> yes, he will be 99 this boebert. when -- this october. when he had brain cancer, and the more recent announcement of him going on hospice. but he has a will, we write about presidents and their spouses, jimmy and rosalynn carter air -- are a unit. he works to make sure she is taken care of, that he is

>> i would have to say my favorite is by theodore roosevelt.ooking for the role of president and conservation. alsaving 234 acres of wild amera i expanded from the national parks and monuments. i love national historic sites. on a preservation and historic reservationist and tr was that way. that book brought a lot of joy to me when i wrote it and i am proud of the amount of research that i did. theodore roosevelt now they are building a n presidential libray for him in north dakota which will open in 2026, july 4. it will be quite an event. it is just beautiful up there. he became a rancher. it will be built along the little missouri river there. one of the really special spots when i like going to north dakota. >> one of your first books was about jimmy carter. are you still in touch with the family? >> jimmy carter will be 99 this october 1. when he had brain cancer, people were like, oh gosh. the more recent announcement of him going on hospice, they will, we often write about presidents and their spouse. jimmy and rosalynn carter are one.

theodore roosevelt. when tr won on his own in 19 four, or coolidge's party the gop had become ed become the progressive party. the election of 1912, when coolidge was running for state offices. progressivism led by the gop had totally transformed the american political landscape, and the idea was still political play. jefferson's success or roosevelt's successor, william howard taft had done, is utmost to uphold progressive policies. but by 1912, taft was seen as almost a quasi conservative of the democratic opponent. woodrow wilson squarely positioned the democrats in the progressive camp. and the third party candidate. in 1912, theodore roosevelt was running farther to the left on the bull moose progressive platform. yet even further to the left was eugene debs, who campaigned as an outright socialist. as william alan white has suggested, quote, never before have we been so nearly one people with one dominant political ideal, end quote. it was indeed. 1912 was indeed a hard time to progressivism with t

they would influence theodore roosevelt who came camping with muer. so, you get this-- this is all against the back drop of industrialization from the civil war until the beginning of world war i when muer died. and you knew this sort of clarion voice in the sierra nevada trying to protect the mountains and also, the giant sequoias, literally getting moe mowed down. and the united states swept across the country, but the 3,000-year-old trees were getting cut down with no realization they wouldn't just pop up again. and that's valuable to remember today when we have woods telling us, we need to pay attention to environmental conditions. i also tried to not just cover the history, i tried to put you there with muer. he left great descriptions. he wrote some magnificent stories and so there's a lot of detail. he had hundreds and hundreds of letters with robert underwood johnson so i'm able to work into that relationship and try to bring that alive as well. so, that's really the gist of my book is trying to take you there, make john muer come back alive t

washington, jefferson, franklin, then through to lincoln, frederick douglass, theodore roosevelt, martin luther king, shirley chisholm, henry enerplex, james baldwin, dwight eisenhower among many others. objectives is the bald eagle. in a whole new world open to me. i miss upon which our country was founded and without which they would be no united states of america. our naturales resources, land, water, flora and fauna. how we obtain a profit from it. the stories in the lives of jack davis, patrick dean, ryan fitzgerald bring us understanding of our society or culture and our future. and that natural resourcesand ts recounted by the four authors a heartbeat in a context to our american history. in depth a dramatic and deeply emerged in the delicate splendor of the natural world these books will discuss over the next hour explore humanity's connection to nature. the history of conservation and heroes to pave the way. please enjoy our panel discussion. i'll introduce our four authors first and will hold up the books. jack davis is a pulitzer prize-winning author of the gulf the making of

that would andrew jackson and theodore roosevelt. and so this makes perfect sense for conventional history. you like drama. you like great crises. you like to say all the person you know did things. and even if you think, as i do my opinion, just is that woodrow wilson was largely a disaster. whose legacy has been a disaster, and that franklin roosevelt did almost everything wrong. we still esteem those great presidents because were on the scene for all of this and to the great. they think they mastered them or we got it. we rank them very highly. and it is, i think, the wrong way to go about it. the point coolidge had the misfortune from the conventional point of view of governing during times, although even that's not quite. you know what i think john cochrane in the last panel made a very good point about how coolidge get in the way. there could be five or ten or 100 good books written about how and especially regulators will see some favorable happening and then try to get in front of the parade and just screw it all up. i'll jus

i have previously written a book on theodore roosevelt and conservation called the wilderness warrior. that is about tr saved 234 million acres of wild00 america a public lands through national monuments and national parks and federal bird reservations created the national forest service on and on. i consider that the first wave of environmentalism. second wave i wrote a book called rightful heritage about fdr's era how fdr was a tree planter whenever he would fill out a form for occupation roosevelt would write tree farmer it like that is my job. as a scientific farmer on the hudson river eleanor roosevelt said he knows every flower, note, cranny of the hudson river and i can rattle off national parks fdr created many like a big bend on d-day. he did not cancel the meeting said he was designing roads and how to visit big bend park in texas while the normandy invasion was going on. that is how deep he was at all this. he also created 800 state parks. they planted civilian conservation corps 3 billion trees. the first two waves the third wave is thiso book it really is about three pres

lot of my grandfather's colleagues over the years including one in particular, glenn hall, theodore roosevelt republican former national chairman of the republican party. i interviewed him in oyster bay, new york, close to the teddy roosevelt homestead some years ago and i asked him that question and i think he would have agreed with your response entirely, dwight eisenhower was not somebody who enjoyed campaigning but he said the two greatest natural politicians, the two greatest natural politicians he had seen in his entire life were al smith and dwight eenhower. ..

that would be under jackson and theodore roosevelt. this makes perfect sense for conventional history. you like drama and crises. like to say the person did things. even if you think, as i do, my opinion. woodrow wilson was largely a disaster, his legacy was a do master and franklin roosevelt did almost everything wrong. we still talk about those great present because there on the scene for all of this. we got there it and rank them entirely. coolidge had the misfortune from a conventional point of view of dr. ingram in times, although that is not quite right. i think john cochran in the last panel had a very good point about how coolidge did not get in the way. there could be five or 10 or 100 good books written about how politicians, and especially regulators, will see some favorable trend happening and try to get in front of the parade and screw it all up. i will give you a couple of examples. we could have had cell phone at least 15 years earlier than we got them. but for federal government regulations that prevented the market fro

for example, and it doesn't surprise me, i didn't realize until now, i have forgotten that theodore rooseveltas the one that appointed him to supreme court because mr. roosevelt didn't seem to have too much concern about the constitution either. and i'm sure you know what i mean. i was saying that one of the things i was thinking, there are other people in the modern-day supreme court who have similar types of approaches. in two of the most recent ones were, number one, anthony kennedy, and number two, david souter. i'm wondering how mr. holmes would feel about the jewish prudence of those justices, and just as an aside one other one that might come to bear in mind, because i've been learning a lot about the liberal world order, liberalism in general, how would mr. holmes feel about the jurisprudence of the german jurors during the nazi time, carl schmidt. peter: thank you, stephen, in west palm beach. pragmatism, sedition, anthony kennedy, david souter? jeff: it's an important question. i take it from your question you are voicing an objection that many conservative constitutionalists would

our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, and then threw to lincoln, frederick douglass, theodore roosevelt, martin luther king, shirley chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, dwight eisenhower, among many others. but then two years ago i was fortunate enough to read jack davis the bald eagle. and then whole new world open to me. i missed the little upon which our country was founded, and without which there would be no united states of america, our natural resources, land, water, flora and fauna. and how we struggle to gain and profit from it. the stories in the lives that jack davis, patrick dean, rien fertel and dean king bring us are indispensable to an understanding of our society, our culture and our future. the story of our natural resources as recounted by these four authors bring a heartbeat and the context to our american history. in-depth, dramatic and deeply immersed in the delicate splendor of the natural world, these books we will discuss over the next hour exploring humanity's connection to nature, the history of conservation and the heroes who have paved the way. please e

b jackson and theodore roosevelt. so, this makes perfect sense for conventional history and drama. if you like great crises, if you like to say the person who did things. my opinion is that woodrow wilson was largely a disaster, his legacy was a disaster and franklin roosevelt did everything wrong. we still see them as great presidents because they were on the scene for all of this and they think they mastered it or we got through.ranked them very highly. and i think that is the wrong way to go about it. the point is, coolidge had the misfortune from the conventional point of view of governing during quiet times. although even that is not quite right. i think john cochran in the last panel made a very good point about how coolidge did not get in the way. there could be five, 10, or 100 good books written about how politicians and regulators will see something fair in the trade happening and try to get in front of the trade and just screw it all up. i will give you a couple of examples for the young people in the audience. we could have had cell phones at least 15 years earlier than

and you are quite right that theodore roosevelt was not a believer in the checks and balances in separation of powers of the founders constitution. he found -- he called for judicial decisions to be overturned i majority vote. he viewed the president of a steward of the people who gentle popular impulses as opposed to william howard taft, who is a more constrained hamiltonian president. and, in all these respects, neither roosevelt nor holmes believed in strict construction of the text of the constitution in any formalistic ways. so you raised an important point. i think justice kennedy and justice souter had different approaches. justice kennedy was more of a fan of the natural law approach that holmes rejected. justice kennedy believe there was a certain basic ways, a right to define one's conception of meaning of the universe and the mystery of human life as kennedy upholding roe v. wade. that was the argument about self evident natural white -- natural rights that come from nature that holmes was not a fan of. but justice souter was an analog because he was a common-law constitutionalis

i previously had written a book on theodore roosevelt and conservation called the wilderness warrior. it's about tr saved you want a 34,000,000 acres acres of wild america, public lands the national monuments, the national parks and federal bird reservations and created the national forest service, on and on. i consider that the first wave of environmentalism. second wave i wrote a book called rightful heritage but fdr's error on how fdr was a tree planter. in fact, never he would fill out a form for occupation, roosevelt would write tree farmer, like that's my job. he was a scientific farmer on the hudson river. eleanor roosevelt said he knows every flower, , note, cranny of the hudson river of dutchess county. i can rattle off national parks fdr created, many like you could big bend on d-day. he didn't counsel the meetings. he was designing roads and how to visit big ben part in texas while the normandy invasion was going on. that's a dp was in all this. he also created 800 state parks, and they create, plant of the civilian conservation corps, 3 billion trees. the first two waves,

he nominates a young men man, theodore roosevelt, he blocked rossi conkling who was a big republican boss and new york. he does things in which he thinks are the right things to do. but, again, he was tainted by all of this other stuff. when he leaves office, it's kind of under a cloud. on the other hand, rutherford b hayes is the second most famous u.s. presidents in paraguay. and i am not making this up. paraguay was in the middle of a war with argentina and they decided to stop fighting and have the u.s. presidents arbitrate the dispute. and, the administration arbitrated the dispute in the favor of paraguay. in the award, whole bunch of land to paraguay and they loved him for it. in fact they deemed a city after him, they named one of the states, they called the department -- the state of presidency hayes in paraguay. even club presidents hayes, named after him. that as a going for him. right? of course, he's not going to run. republicans need to find someone else. they go back to the well by nominating james abram garfield . i think garfield is one of the great what-ifs in u.s.

progressive democrat and he's got his own cousin and his wife's uncle who is related to all the more theodore roosevelt, a progressive republican. now, this is the interesting he through these years in speeches as revealing his small d democratic instincts and. i won't go through all those speeches after world war one and many people had many of the progressives lined up with wilson during. the war people had believed there would be a furtherance of the progressive politics, progressive legislation to to tame control the, if you like, the gri, the selfishness, the corruption, the violence inducing power of that class of corporate bosses, that emerged during the late 19th century. however, it's an age of reaction. the 1920s, and we often get message. we often get the wrong view of the twenties by way of films and things, because it's the roaring twenties. most people don't realize that working people, urban and rural alike, actually suffered a decline in their income. they, they, they they the farmers barely recovered from the recession following world war one. and people, the only way they sustained th

in fact, he nominates, a young man named theodore roosevelt to to replace chester arthur, who was kind of the corrupt head of the customs house. he blocks roscoe conkling, who was a big republican boss in new york. he he does things which he thinks are the right thing to do. but again, he's tainted all this other stuff. and so he when leaves office, it's it's kind of under a cloud. on the other hand, rather behaves is the second most famous us president in paraguay paraguay and i'm not making this up paraguay was in the middle of a war with argentina and they decided to stop and have the united states president arbitrate the dispute. and hayes's administration arbitrate this this dispute in the favor of paraguay awards a whole bunch of land to paraguay. and they love him for it. in fact they name a city after him, they name one of their state. so they they they they call it a department. there is the state of president hayes. and in paraguay, even a major soccer club. club president hayes is named after him. so, i mean, he's got that going him right? of course, hayes isn't going run. t

franklin roosevelt, theodore roosevelt, donald trump, it's a long list. ihi think the real difference is the lower chamber, members of the house of representatives and since about the time i was 10 year's old their wealth has doubled and meanwhile the wealth to have average person has kind of been a flat line and in some case gone down. i'm talking about adjusted for inflation and things like that. there is right now the average member of congress is about 12 times richer than the average american household and so i think that gap has grown some of theus distrust and the sense is that the game is rigged and, you know, there are politicians who i think talk about the game being rigged, talk the about the swamp in order to exploit it and to sort of play on populist but the truth is they kind of do have a point as illustrated in the book. >> meanwhile they are -- so -- >> yeah. >> populism is rising because there's a attention and the fact that americans can no longer count on jobs that provide a living wage meanwhile they're represented by people who are we

lot of my grandfather's colleagues over the years including one in particular, glenn hall, theodore roosevelt republican former national chairman of the republican party. i interviewed him in oyster bay, new york, close to the teddy roosevelt homestead some years ago and i asked him that question and i think he would have agreed with your response entirely, dwight eisenhower was not somebody who enjoyed campaigning but he said the two greatest natural politicians, the two greatest natural politicians he had seen in his entire life were al smith and dwight eenhower. .. >> watch them all online any time@booktv.org. you can also find us on twitter, facebook and youtube at booktv. >> a few years ago some colleagues and i started mindsite news as early national new site focus solely on mental health reporting. we did so to fill a void, but long before we launched, my guest today, meg kissinger, was plowing background is one of the only reporters in the country working squarely on the mental health beat. for 35 years at the "milwaukee journal" sentinel, she covered the workings and mostly the faili

he said that liberals in washington were so scared that they had to build a new theodore roosevelt bridge over the potomac river. for all the liberals trying to get out of washington. and he ridiculed liberals from the right and x ridiculed liberals from the left, saying saying that they were part of the tribe and they were they mumbled and didn't know what they were doing. and as a consequence, the word liberal virtually vanished from our discourse to be replace progressive, which in some sense is a historical flashback back to what happened at the beginning of the 20th century, when the progressive movement was popular in both political parties. the roosevelt and wilson, and to some degree today a progressive is a liberal, chastened to talk about race by what's happened in the last 50 years. meanwhile, conserve natives. cannot cannot say the name conservative too often to claim triumph for conservative ideas without acknowledging that in many respects as that as it relates to equal citizenship. conservatives have retreat it under protest from every advance and equal citizenship from the

they would create the sierra club, they would influence theodore roosevelt, who came camping with muir. so so you get this this is all against the backdrop of industrialization from the civil war up until the beginning of world war one when when muir died and you get mirror this sort of clarion voice in the sierra nevada trying to protect the mountains and also those giant sequoias that were really literally getting mowed down the states just sort of across the country. they weren't even great building wood. but these thousand year old trees were getting down with no realization that they wouldn't just pop back up. so he was sounding that voice. i think that's a valuable thing to remember today when when we have voices telling us we need to pay attention to environmental conditions. i also tried to not just cover the history. i try put you there with muir. he left great descriptions. he wrote some magnificent stories. and so there's a lot of detail. he had hundreds and hundreds of letters. robert underwood. johnson so i'm able really work into that relationship, try to bring that alive

we think of franklin roosevelt, theodore roosevelt. donald trump. it's a long list. i think the real difference is the lower chamber. of the house of representatives, and since about the time i was ten years old their wealth has doubled. and meanwhile, the wealth of the average person has kind of been a flat line. and in some cases gone down. thaw average member of congress is about 12 times richer. the average american household. so i think as that gap has grown in some of the this trust and the sense is that the game is rigged. and you know, there are politicians to talk about the game being rigged talk about the swamp in order to exploit it and to sort of play on populist sympathies. but the truth, they kind of do have a point as illustrated in the book. meanwhile, they are it. so populism is rising because there's a tension in the fact that americans can no longer on jobs that provide a living wage. meanwhile, they're represented by people who are wealthier than them, who continue to get while they are public servants yet yet being loaded does not seem to be such

theodore roosevelt when in by around 1920, he was the most filled person in the world. so it's not just the president takes in culture, but the president becomes part of the culture. and then obama tweeted, i obviously wrote that before trump tweeted even more. but here you had a situation where the president, the united states thinks something puts it out there. and then 80 million followers immediately see it. it's a hugely powerful tool and can shape our national consciousness. so i just thought the intersection of all those things is very interesting and indicative of where we are as a society at different times. and that's why i jumped into the book. so in the book you chronicle the history really of presidents and their connection and really the political utility or the strategic connection between popular culture and and the white house. tell us what presidents utilize this relationship to their political benefit and which ones were not quite as successful? yeah, it's a it's a good question because it's just boring. if you say, oh, i watch this show or watch that

had this soundest strategic sense of any american president of theodore roosevelt. understanding how the pieces of the international puzzle fit together and if you move this over there, this will slide. to do this in a way that will improve american. why did he going to politics? that is what i cannot figure out. politics is usually the arena where people who like other people go. people who are happy to stand on the corner when the shift is getting off of the factory and say hi, i like your vote. richard nixon was painful in the small talk. i hesitate to tell the story because the punchline has to be explained in advance. i happen the grove in milwaukee. she became her own prime minister. she had a foreign minister. you are a crossword puzzle aficionado, you know that. he was educated in oxford. he spoke with an impeccable accent. he was foreign minister of israel. in america's foreign minister, which is the same as the secretary of state. if you have paid any attention to career, you will know speaks with a very thick german accent. even though he arrived in the u

had the soundest, strategic sense of any american president with the possible exception of theodore roosevelt and understanding how the pieces of the international puzzle fit together and how to move this piece over there so this piece will fly there and do this in a way that will improve american interest in the world, but why did he go into politics? that's why i can't figure out. politics is usually the arena where people who like other people well and people who are happy to stand on the corner when the shift is getting off at the factory and saying, hi, i am nixon and i would like her vote. nixon was painful under smalltalk. there is a story about nixon and i hesitate to tell the story because a punchline has to be explained in advance, but some of you will remember old meyer and she was prime minister of israel and she grew up in milwaukee but she moved to israel and became prime minister and she had a foreign minister and if you are a crossword puzzle, you know that. eba in works really well. she was educated at oxford and spoke with an impeccable oxbridge accident. america's foreign m

i think he, theodore roosevelt, tried to clear route. he said, i told the i'd stake my life to lead a division and routed. did you make that clear? hmm. well, i have written a lot about the first world war. this is not a counter factual. i've particularly entertained very frequently, i suppose, in part because i find it hard to see a scenario where roosevelt wins the 1912 election. it's interesting idea that the us gets in the war sooner rather than later, and perhaps knocked sense into the germans or something. although i'm somewhat well-known for being skeptical, the usual arguments about german premeditation and war guilt and all the rest. there's a more interesting to me that happens in the winter of 1916, 1917, after the next election. and that is when wilson effectively is elected. and he's not the last is something bob dole used to like to talk about. he was not the last democrat in the century be elected on the platform of i kept you out of the war shortly before entering the war. this happens again, of course, in 1940 with roose

he had the sound just strategic of any american president, with the possible exception of theodore roosevelt, and understanding how the pieces of the international puzzle fit together and how if you move this piece over there, then this piece will slide there and do this in a way that will improve american interest in the world. but why did he go into paula tics? that's what i can't figure out. politics is usually the arena where people who like other people go and people who are happy stand on the corner when the shift is getting off at the factory and hi, i'm -- nixon. i like your nixon was painful under a small talk. now. so here's a story about nixon and this i hesitate to tell the story because the punchline has to be explained in advance. but some of you will remember golda meir ear ever so she was prime minister of israel. she also happened to grow up in milwaukee, but nonetheless she moved as grew up in. she moved to israel and became prime and she had a foreign minister named abba eban. and if you are a crossword puzzle aficionado, you know that because works really well. there's lo