this international best-selling author walter isaacson. you're going to talk about his latest book, the code breaker jennifer doudna, jean editing and the future. this is an unbelievably fascinating book. promise you this is a book you are going to sit and you can't put it down she's not gotten a copy yet picture check your website or you can always go to the official bookseller the jcc literary consortium at a cappella books. and i promise you you will have a million questions. i have a million questions, you're going to have some too. if you look at the bottom of the screen there's a q&a section. not the chat session towards the end of the program will try to t get to all them for you. okay, let's count the main event. a little bit about our honored guest this evening. walter isaacson is a professor of history at tulane and he is the ceo of the aspen institute chair of cnn and editor of time. he has offered many incredible books including leonardo da vinci, the innovators, steve jobs, einstein's life and universe, benjamin franklin and k

with international best-selling author walter isaacson. are going to talk about his latest book "the code breaker: jennifer doudna,gene editing, and the future of the human race" . this is an unbelievably fascinating book. i promise you this is a book where you're going to set and read and go look at the time because you can't put it down and if you haven't gotten a copy yet check your website to find your local bookseller or you can go to the official bookseller of the jcc national literary consortium which is a cappella books and i promise you won't have 1 million questions. i have 1 million questions and you're going to have some to you look at the bottom of the screen you'll see there's a q&a section. put all your questions for walter there and towards the end we willtry to get to all of them . let's get on with the main event and a little about our honored guest. walter isaacson is a professor of history at tulane and he's been seeing ceo of the aspen institute and editor of time. he's authored many incredible books including leonardo

walter isaacson. >> hey, holly, thank you so much. it's good to be back with you all. first of all we're talking about it's the most beautiful cover. i want it as a coffee-table book but it's long, comprehensive. i think i have a phd now from reading it but for those who have it ready give us an overview of what they'll get from the codebreakers. >> this is not a wonderful one named jennifer doudna, you've heard about her because she won the nobel prize. she's a buddy who grow up in hawaii and she read the double helix when she was in middle school. her dad left it on the bed and she thought this is like a detective story and what she read it she realized it was more than a detective story. it was about he and francis crick using the images from rosalind franklin discovered the structure of dna . the secret of life so she says i want to become a scientist like that. and her school guidance counselor said girls don't become scientists. she persisted and she did. and she made the greatest discovery of our lifetime which is how can we edit our jeans and it's called crispr

in the code breaker, the best-selling author walter isaacson looks at the work of jennifer, who invented and editing technology. heather mcgee examines the cost of racism for all americans in some of us. when the triumph of nancy reagan, "washington post" columnist looks at the former first lady's political life and other books at the "washington post" notes as notable reports on how psychedelic drugs are being used for medicinal purposes. his book is called this is your mind on plants. and tangled up in blue, georgetown university law professor, former reserve officer rosa brooks offers officer rosa brooks offers suggestions on police reform. the police cannot change the law by themselves or the context and i think often the police get blamed for those that they didn't create in a social contact. it's a way for the rest of us not to look in fear and say if it harms the community we voted for the lawmakers and when you look at the long prison sentences that's prosecutors, judges, lawmakers. there are some things that cops can't change but as a society we need to change the massive over c

in the code breaker, the best-selling author walter isaacson looks at the work of jennifer, who inventedditing technology. heather mcgee examines the cost of racism for all americans in some of us. when the triumph of nancy reagan, "washington post" columnist looks at the former first lady's political life and other books at the "washington post" notes as notable reports on how psychedelic drugs are being used for medicinal purposes. his book is called this is your mind on plants. and tangled up in blue, georgetown university law professor, former reserve officer rosa brooks offers officer rosa brooks offers suggestions on police reform. the police cannot change the law by themselves or the context and i think often the police get blamed for those that they didn't create in a social contact. it's a way for the rest of us not to look in fear and say if it harms the community we voted for the lawmakers and when you look at the long prison sentences that's prosecutors, judges, lawmakers. there are some things that cops can't change but as a society we need to change the massive over crimina

in the code breaker, the best-selling author walter isaacson looks at the work of jennifer, who invented and editing technology. heather mcgee examines the cost of racism for all americans in some of us. when the triumph of nancy reagan, "washington post" columnist looks at the former first lady's political life and other books at the "washington post" notes as notable reports on how psychedelic drugs are being used for medicinal purposes. his book is called this is your mind on plants. and tangled up in blue, georgetown university law professor, former reserve officer rosa brooks offers officer rosa brooks offers suggestions on police reform. the police cannot change the law by themselves or the context and i think often the police get blamed for those that they didn't create in a social contact. it's a way for the rest of us not to look in fear and say if it harms the community we voted for the lawmakers and when you look at the long prison sentences that's prosecutors, judges, lawmakers. there are some things that cops can't change but as a society we need to change the massive over c

in "the code breaker," biographer walter isaacson looks at the inverdict of a dnc -- inventernv of a technology. and malcolm gladwell looks at the development of precision bombing during world war ii. and in how i saved the world, fox news commentator jesse watters provides a critique of left-wing activists and their policies. and wrapping up our look at some of the best selling books of 2021, it's "the washington post"'s bob woodward and robert costa's report on the report of the transition between the trump and biden administration. their book which came out this fall was called "peril." all of these authors have appeared on booktv. you can watch their programs anytime atnd our web site, booktv.org. and that's this week's publishing news and the latest nonfiction books. thanks for joining us on "about books." "about books" is available as a podcast at c-span now, which is our new app, or wherever you get your podcasts. happy holiday season to you. we'll be back in january with another episode of "about books." ♪♪ >> and you've been watching booktv, every sunday on c-span2 watch non

examines the cost of racism for all americans in her book the some of us into the code breaker walter isaacson looks at jennifer who invented a dna technology and best-selling author malcolm gladwell examines the development of precision bombing during world war ii. his book the bomber mafia and fox news commentator jesse waters provides a critique of left-wing activists and their policies and wrapping up our look at some of the best-selling books of 2021, it's the "washington post" bob woodward and robert costas report on the transition between trump and biden administration's and their book that came out this fall was called peril. all of these authors have appeared on booktv and you can watch the programs any time on the website, booktv.org. with soy professor, laura june davis, on civil war naval warfare. >> last class we talked about this video the key layers and we have to compare the confederacy in the united states and the military capabilities read today, we talk about things about the civil war and focus on the things that we

you consulted other historians, doris kearns goodwin, jon meacham, walter isaacson. - mmm hmm. - [margaret] how'd you pick and choose? who didn't make the cut? - that's an interesting question. what is more interesting is the people i, i missed. i wish i'd been able to write about andrew johnson, for instance. didn't get around to him. - would you be willing to read one of my favorites for us? - sure. you take your pick. - this is boss tweed. - aha. - perhaps at the end. - yep. this is called nasty business, the tale of boss tweed, and it's about boss tweed and his opposite number, thomas nast, the cartoonist who brought him down. a subject that was particularly dear to my heart, - since you illustrated. - since i illustrated the book - that's exactly why i thought that was a perfect nexus. - we now introduce the aforesaid cartoonist, who brought down the boss like a punctured balloonist, the depictions of tweed by the great thomas nast were scathing, satiric, and destined to last. nast pictured a slob of falstaffian bulk a baleful, beady-eyed, glowerinhulk. tweed frantically raged at his

we are in for a fascinating evening tonight with international best-selling author, walter isaacson.oing to talk aboutaa his latest book, the code breaker. the future of the human race. this is anel unbelievably fascinating book, i promise you it's a book you are going to read and go look at the time because you can't put it down. if you haven't got a copy, check the website to find your local bookseller or go to the official seller of the literary consortium, capella books. i promise you will have a million questions. if you look at the bottom of your screen, he will see a q&a section, not the chat section, put your questions there and we will try to get to all of them at the end of the program. a little bit about our honored guest. the professor of history and ceo of the institute cherub cnn and editor of time. he's authored many incredible books including leonardo da vinci, the innovators, steve jobs, einstein, his life and universe, american life in kissinger, a biography and co-author of the wiseman six friends were remade. welcome our special guest this evening, sir isaacson. >

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and also professor of history, walter isaacson, an associate professor of political science at fordhamns us. great to have you all on board. >> great to have you guys here with us. curt, this is -- we love doing this, obviously. you and i don't agree on everything but i love watching former republicans still love to watch when democrats fight and that's perfect, we have to get him back tomorrow, but just like the differences, obviously, where democrats are economically, that reagan quote reminded me of when i went to the house as this libertarian/conservative/ populist, one of the things that irritated me so much was that, yes, you are right, there were republicans and there were business people that tried since the early 1970s to get government off of their backs. but it is so funny that most of these people, the chamber, these pro business lobbying groups, they weren't such libertarians when, you know, people like me would try to vote down the sugar subsidy, or i remember just catching absolute hell when i tried to end loyalty relief, so big oil wouldn't get federal subsidies for doi