that's exactly what laura bush did. a devastating cyclone in myanmar firmly called burma prompted her to speak publicly about the humanitarian and political plight of the people there. and she explained when questioned by a reporter why she felt compelled to take that stage. thank you everybody for coming out. i just wanted to make a few comments about burma. on saturday cyclone nargis swept through burma the storm affected more than two million people and according to the burmese media killed thousands the aftermath has left cities paralyzed family separated and houses and businesses destroyed. americans are a compassionate people and we're already acting to provide help. the us is offered financial assistance through our embassy. we'll work with the un and other international non-governmental organizations to provide water sanitation food and shelter more assistance will be forthcoming. the united states stands prepared to provide an assistance team and much-needed supplies to burma as soon as the burmese government a

. >> laura bush? >> you have family here? >> yes. >> great. >> good to meet you. >> that's mary. >> how are you? are you all doing okay? hi. how are you? hi. hey, we were just in the same class, too. did you guys have fun? that was a very fun music -- did you like it? it was a fun music class. you played the sticks, and that was fun, and you sang "america the beautiful." is that your favorite green book kid song? >> how are you? >> great. glad you are here. >> she's shy. >> hi. how are you? is she in school? is she four years old? >> she's in the first grade. >> she's shy. well, i will go ahead and give a talk a little bit so you all can leave and i can visit with them a little bit more. margaret secretary spellings and i have been traveling today, and i had a back-to-school event before the hurricane, and i was going to des moines, iowa, which is where i went this morning, and those children are very concerned about the children here, and they sent a box of supplies to give to the children here with their love. des moines ac

this is laura bush in her own words. address, well the people behind me are some of the members of that emergency response team. so besides having the chance to visit with three of the victims who are here at walter reed whose lives will be changed forever like all of ours. and by the way who are all in very great shape and look like they'll recover fully. but besides the chance to thank them for their service to our country to give them our wishes for a very speedy recovery. i also had the chance to thank the emergency team members some of whom are behind me some of these emergency team members were in just in their last few days of a nursing course here practical nurses course, they never expected. to have to deal with the situation like this at the very end of their their course and i know how tough it is for them just like it is for the patients who are in here as well. so, i'm really thankful that i have the opportunity to thank them and to wish my best to the patients. all of us now is america as americans have the

that's exactly what laura bush did. a devastating cyclone in myanmar firmly called burma prompted her to speak publicly about the humanitarian and political plight of the people there. and she explained when questioned by a reporter why she felt compelled to take that stage. thank you everybody for coming out. i just wanted to make a few comments about burma. on saturday cyclone nargis swept through burma the storm affected more than two million people and according to the burmese media killed thousands the aftermath has left cities paralyzed family separated and houses and businesses destroyed. americans are a compassionate people and we're already acting to provide help. the us is offered financial assistance through our embassy. we'll work with the un and other international non-governmental organizations to provide water sanitation food and shelter more assistance will be forthcoming. the united states stands prepared to provide an assistance team and much-needed supplies to burma as soon as the burmese government a

good morning, i am laura bush. i am delivering this week's radio address to kick off a worldwide effort to focus on the brutality against women and children by al qaeda terrorist network and the regime it supports in afghanistan, the taliban. that regime is now in retreat across much of the country and the people of afghanistan especially women are rejoicing. afghan women know through hard experience what the rest of the world is discovering. the brutal oppression of women, the a central goal terrorists, not only because our hearts break for the women and children in afghanistan, but also because in afghanistan we see the world the terrorists would like to impose on the rest of us. all of us have an obligation to speak out. we may come from different backgrounds and faiths, but parents the world over love our children. we respect our mothers, our sisters and daughters. fighting brutality against women and children is not the expression of a specific culture, it's the acceptance of our common humanity. that's the fi

we will hear four keyments of speeches by barbara bush hillary clinton laura bush and michelle obama, which had a powerful impact after watching these our panel of experts will analyze and discuss them. we can go to the next slide on mrs. bush. mrs. purchase humor and attitude toward what is important in life are clearly shown in a speech. she made at wellesley college on june 1st 1990. she had not been the first choice and her selection caused controversy on the campus. let's see and hear some of her speech. and diana now, i know your first choice today was alice walker. guess how i know. known for the color purple instead. you got me known for the color of my hair and as you said off from wellesley, i hope that many of you will consider. making three very special choices the first is to believe in something larger than yourself to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time i chose literacy because i honestly believe that if more people could read write and comprehend we would be that much closer to solving so many of the problems that plague our nation and our society. early

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this week we feature laura bush. >> i was say first ladies are trivialized by products. in fact, our contributions to the united states from first ladies, in many cases are much more profound. >> exploring stories. watch american history tv saturday on c-span2 find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. ♪♪ book tv every sunday on c-span2 features leading authors discussing their data's nonfiction books. 2:00 p.m. eastern from the new orleans book festival, author and historian discussions including historians to walter isaacson and john berry, eddie and john meacham on the legacies of james baldwin and john lewis. authors on race and history jarvis barry, clint and mitch. 10:00 p.m. eastern on "afterwards", former australian prime minister and ceo, kevin talks about his book, the unavoidable war and thoughts on how the u.s. and china can coexist and avoid a war in the future. interviewed by united states institute of senior expert on china. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program gui

we will feature first ladies lady bird johnson, laura bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words, saturday's at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two or us into the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> c-span brings you an unfiltered view of government. our newsletter, word for word, recaps the day for you from the halls of congress to daily press briefings to remarks from the president. scan the qr code to sign up for this email and stay update on every thing happening in washington each day. subscribe today, using the qr code or visit c-span.org/connect to subscribe any. ization. >> "washington journal" continues. host: leah askarinam joins us come up with us this morning to focus on the midterm elections. welcome back to "washington journal." guest: thanks so much for having me. host: let's focus on the role of the president, the influence of the president's poll popularity. are we seeing evidence of the president's declining poll numbers having aef

this week, we feature laura bush. >> i will say first ladies are trivialized by what we call a pet project. in fact, our contributions to the united states from first ladies, in many, many cases, are much more profound. >> exploring the american story. find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online, anytime, at c-span.org/history. ♪ >> middle and high school students participated in c-span's student documentary competitions, where we ask the question, how does the federal government impact your life?

this week, we feature laura bush. >> i will say first ladies are trivialized by what we call a pet project. in fact, our contributions to the united states from first ladies, in many, many cases, are much more profound. >> exploring the american story. find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online, anytime, at c-span.org/history. ♪ >> middle and high school students participated in c-span's student documentary competitions, where we ask the question, how does the federal government impact your life? all month, we are featuring the winning entries. our second prize high school winter is a 12th grader from saint ignatius. their presentation is titled, i dream of clean water. >> in between pages about the dabbling alert of space to -- travel in time magazine they printed a 17-year-old photo of the possibility -- the cuyahoga river was burning, and with that came the world's attention. an hour away from the burning, a community of people in uniontown, ohio found their neighbors dying of cancer too often and too young as their water was affected by toxic waste that seeped into th

bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words, saturday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two. or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or where ever you get your podcasts. >> next on c-span, a look at the use of overdraft fees used by banks and how they could disproportionately affect those least able to pay them. then president biden talks about his plan to relieve high gas prices at the pump. later, a discussion on the role -- plays in armed conflicts. >> c-span this year -- c-span in its your unfiltered view. funded by these television companies. >> broadband is a force for empowerment, that's why charter has invested billions folding infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity in communities big and small. charter is connecting us. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service. along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. announcer: next, lawmakers look at the use

bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words saturday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now mobile app. or where you get your podcast. >> c-span brings you an unfiltered view of government. our newsletter word for word recaps the days for you to daily press briefings to remarks from the president. scan the qr code to sign up for this email and stay up-to-date on everything happening in washington each day. subscribe today you see the qr code or visit c-span.org/connect to subscribe anytime. >> c-span's washington journal. every day we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day that we discussed policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, matthew pines from the bitcoin policy institute on president biden's recent executive order regarding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies add student loan debt and potential changes to student loan forgiveness and repayment programs with attorney and forbes con

bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch "first ladies: in their own words." saturday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two or listen to the podcast on the free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> department of health and human services secretary javier becerra sat down for conversations including the administration's response to the covid-19 pandemic in the u.s. role as a health leader on the world's age. this is just under one hour. >>

. >> featuring laid by bird -- lady bird johnson, rosalynn carter, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies: in their own words, saturdays at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> on "about books" programs that report on the latest publishing news in nonfiction books, we spoke about the latest book on american political trivia. >> host: how did this project get started? >> guest: well, it really got started when i was probably about 9 years old, and i actually started watching c-span. if i'm a political junkie. i don't know where it formulated. for some reason, i had this gravitational pull to it. i had this interest specifically in the facts, and it was interesting, so it became the first book i wrote was about little known facts in american politics. then i did a book about political quotations in american politics. that one was kind of all-encompassing. i was looking for a political trivia book to buy, and all i could fin

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laura bush expected to be married to a politician, and barbara bush was terrified of public speaking, and she would do slide shows when she would go back to texas. she would take her children around to all the monuments when she was in congress and she developed her public speaking skills from doing slide shows back in texas so that she had a crutch and they were not looking at her. lady bird johnson sabotaged being valedictorian of her high school graduating class. she purposely got a b in a class so she wouldn't have to give a speech. she took a public speaking course with a group of other senate wives and that was how she got over it. she was not excited when she married lyndon. many of these women came into this reluctantly but then saw, because they had a public service commitment, that this was something that was very important to the country and that they could make a real contribution. so they overcame fears, the public speaking, and the fear of being out there in the public is eleanor roosevelt as some of the other ones did, and it's really more common, and a few wives praye

, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies: in their own words, saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 2. or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now mobile app, wherever you get your podcasts. >>> c-span now is a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what is happening in washington live and on demand. keep up with the day's biggest events with live streams of floor proceedings and hearings from the u.s. congress, white house events, the courts, campaigns, and more from the world of politics, all at your fingertips. you can also say current with the latest episodes of washington journal and find scheduling information for c-span's tv networks and c-span radio, plus a variety of compelling podcasts. c-span now is available at the apple store and google play. download it for free today. c-span now, your front row seat to washington, any time, anywhere. >>> at least six presidents recorded conversations while in office. hear many of those conversations on c-span's

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next week, laura bush. the first ladies series is available as a podcast. you can find it wherever you get your podcast. >>> weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday american history tv documents america's story, and on sundays book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span 2 comes from these television companies and more, including comcast. >> comcast is partnering with 1,000 community centers to create wi-fi. >> comcast, along with these television companies support c-span 2 as a public service. >>> c-span now is a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what is happening in washington live and on demand. keep up with the day's biggest events of white house events, the courts, campaigns and more from the world of politics, all at your fingertips. you can also stay current with the latest episodes of "washington journal" and find scheduling information with c-span's networks and c-span radio. c-span now is available at the apple store and google play. download it for free today. c-span now,

bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words, saturdays at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2, or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> ♪♪ >> all this month, watch the top 21 winning videos from our c-span student cam video documentary competition. every morning before c-span's washington journal, we'll air one of the student cam winner whose documentary told how the federal government impacted their lives and you can watch the winning student cam documentaries anytime on-line at student cam.org. >> we'll particular you live to the u.s. capitol on this thursday morning. today the senate will vote to confirm judge ketanji brown jackson to the u.s. supreme court. a final vote for 1:45 eastern today. judiciary chair dick durbin has asked all senators to be in their seats for that vote. this morning at 10 eastern lawmakers will vote on two bills, the first to suspend normal trade relations with russia and the s

first ladies, lady bird johnson, betty ford, carter, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words saturday's 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast, c-span now free mobile app or whatever you get a podcast.te >> good afternoon, welcome to the cato institute. a continuing series of book forms, this together one i've been looking forward to it for many months because i knew about

we feature laura bush. >> sometimes first ladies are trivialized. in fact, our contributions to the united states from first ladies in many cases are more profound. >> watch american history tv and find a full schedule on your program guide. watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. >> washington journal continues. host: welcome back. i am joined by a panel, dr. robert pearl the former ceo of permanente medical group, and dr. joel zinberg a senior fellow at the competitive enterprise institute. we are talking about the affordable care act. welcome to the program. guest: good morning. host: i want to ask you, i will start with doctors and -- dr. zinberg. what do you think has been the single biggest success and/or failure of the law over the last 12 years? guest: there have been multiple failures from the aca, but i would say that the biggest failure is the failure to ensure as many people as possible as were promised. the obama administration promised when he 5 million people would gain insurance and it never even approached that. it was more in t

bird johnson, betty ford, rose lynn carter, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcast. >> c-span offers a variety of podcasts that have something for every listener. weekdays, "washington today" gives you the latest from the nation's capital. and book notes plus has interviews with writers about their latest works, while "the weekly" uses audio to look at how issuing of the day developed over years. and our occasional series "talking with" features conversations with historians about their lives and work. many of our television programs are also available as podcasts. find them all on the v span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >>> today, we're going the begin talking about the year 1864. and we're going to start with the action in virginia in 1964 focusing especially now today on the action in may, in june, and the famous duel between ulysses s. grant and rober

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nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch "first ladies" saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or visit the series as a podcast on the free mobile app. >> first lady jill biden and former secretary of state hillary clinton talked about the importance of community colleges as part of the clinton foundation's clinton global initiative university. >> hello, everyone and thank you for tuning in for this really important conversation. community colleges are close to my heart and at cgi you we have seen their power in preparing the leaders of tomorrow to tackle our biggest challenges. and there is a leader who knows a lot about the importance of community colleges and that is dr. jill biden. dr. biden, or dr. b has spent her entire career in the classroom teaching high school and community college students. she continued teaching even as she became second lady and then first lady of the united states. today she teaches english at the alexandria virginia campus outside of washington, dc. when we were

bush, michelle obama, and wanting a trumpet watch first ladies in their own words, saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> joining us now on a book tvs author tom nichols. his most recent book is called our own worst enemy the assault from within and on modern. he is recently retired as a u.s. naval war college professor. professor nichols the last couple of years we have been hearing that democracy is in danger. do you agree with that? and if so what does that mean? speech i absolutely agree with it. i think it is in danger because of us. we are under attack. our electoral system has been under attack from authoritarian systems that try to influence the public and interfere with the public debate in the united states. but the biggest danger that we ourselves, we the people as citizens i think have become less >>. we have become more narcissistic. less participatory, moreth transactional. and i think those are not the kind of values and behaviors that

bush, michelle obama, and milania trump. watch first ladies in their own words saturday at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile apps or wherever you get your podcasts. >> this week the senate is considering the supreme court nomination of judge ketanji brown jackson. a confirmation vote is expected by the end of the week. republican senator susan collins, lisa murkowski and mitt romney, support her nomination.

we will feature rosalynn carter, laura bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words, on 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast. ♪ >> middle and high school students participated in c-span's student documentary competition where we asked the question " how does the federal government impact your life?" our first high school winners are 11th and 12th grade students from lake charles, louisiana where c-span is available through son

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bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words, saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on "american history tv" on c-span 2. or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >>> "american history tv" documents america's story. and box tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span 2 comes from these television companies and more including media come. >> schools and businesses went virtual and we powered a new reality. because we're built to keep you ahead. >> media come along with these television companies support c-span 2 as a public service. >>> since c-span was founded in 19 79d, historian richard norton has taken part in many of the programs and special projects as well as on book tv and "american history tv." c-span sat down with him for nearly eight hours to get his insights on american history, good books and more up next, part four of that conversation which focuses on charles de gaulle and writing speeches

bush, shall obama, and melania trump. watch "first ladies: in their own words" saturday's at two p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app, over of you get your podcasts. >> c-span now is a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what's happening in washington live and on-demand. keep up with today's biggest events with live streams of floor proceedings in hearings from u.s. congress, white house events, the courts, campaigns and more from the world of politics all at your fingertips. you can also stay current with the latest episodes of "washington journal" and find schedule information for c-span's tv networks in c-span radio plus a variety of compelling podcast. c-span now is available at the apple store in google play. downloaded for free today. c-span now, your front row seat to washington anytime anywhere. >> welcome. my name is chelsea lake and i'm a member of the events team at politics and prose books

. >> we'll feature first ladies betty ford, rose lynn carter, nancy ray gag, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama, and ivanka trump. watch on c-span 2 or listen to the series as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. >> okay. so what we are talking about today is picking up where we left off on thursday with the end of the cold war. and also, i'm trying to make sure we stitch different themes we have had through the quarter and through both quarters together. the program is titled america the 2025. so some thinking about the future is important. and as i have been thinking about the last part of the 20th century, the 1990s make sense to dig into about how people thought about the culture as well as politics. so the themes and overviews i wanted to talk about in terms of this. do a little bit of looking back/looking forward. there are kind of going to be two halves of the lecture linked to politics and pop culture. so i want to talk about the end of the cold war and how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. then i want to talk about pop culture and think about

bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch "first ladies: in their own words" saturdays at two p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> listen to c-span radio with our free mobile app c-span now. get complete access to what's happening in washington or wherever you are with live streams of floor proceedings and hearings from the u.s. congress, white house events, the courts, campaigns and more plus analysis of the world of politics with our informative podcasts. c-span now is available at the apple store and google play. downloaded for free today. c-span now, your front row seat to washington anytime anywhere. >> i'm marcia chatelain class of 2017 and i am a fellow and author of franchise, the golden arches in black america. before we start a few housekeepingng notes. if you have questions during the event please visit -- submitted to the to any function at the bottom of the screen will get to them in the se

bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch "first ladies: in their own words" saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcast. >>> c-spanshop.org, browse through our latest collection of products, apparel, books, home decoc and accessories. every purchase supports our operations. shop now or anytime at c-spanshop.org. >>> all right, so good afternoon and welcome. today we're going to talk about cold war era science education films, in particular ones that were made for tv and the classroom. now we've been talking about classroom films before. really to do any kind of history of classroom film you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of films. i will be quoting and referencing and pulling together work that i've done, work that's been done by other historians of science, film studies people,

bush, michelle obama and trump. watch first ladies in their own words saturdays at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to this year he is as a podcast on the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> today we are here to talk about nuclear weapons and the danger of nuclear conflict. a topic that couldn't be more important or timely right now. nuclear weapons have not been used in combat since 1945.

bush, michelle obama and mo lamia trump. watch first ladies in their own words. saturdays at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. or listen to the series is a podcast on the c-span now free mobile lab or wherever you get your podcast. >>> we welcome back to the program democrat of nevada, serving on several key committees of the house including foreign affairs homeland security and infrastructure. congresswoman, let's start with president biden's $5.8 trillion budget request that was released earlier this week. what do you like about it, what don't you like it, and is this a good spending plan? >> guest: well you know, budget is an inflation of your priorities and

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laura bush in that and incredibly active post first lady lady. yeah, yes. i mean so there we go. we'll be seen her this evening, right? yes next question. thank you very much for all of your insight when i think about the influence that first lady may have i think about the resources that the first lady may need to make that influence. so, can you talk about how the the budget for the first lady has involved over the years? we yes, we may need to call it in here. maybe it's there isn't one there. hadn't been one or even office space or anything else like that. you know, the east wing is a relatively new phenomenon within the white house from a physical space edith roosevelt was the first to actually hire someone to work for her and then for many years they were conscripting people from other departments to help out and agencies, but you know people are shocked when i i do a lot of public lectures on first ladies for both students and other groups and they're all they say. well, how much does the first lady get paid, you know zero and and they're stunned. it's like well, but it's

bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch "first ladies: in their own words" saturday's at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> booktv every sunday on c-span2 features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. at two p.m. eastern coverage of the virginia festival of the book in charlottesville with author discussions on american colonialism, medical and legal injustice. and michael craig part on his book winning and losing the nuclear. on "after words" former texas republican congressman will hurd with his book american reboot an idealist guide to getting big things done argues america needs a restart in order to address the challenges of the 21st century. he's interviewed by utah republican congressman blakemore. watch booktv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program to watch online any time at booktv.org. >> i'm john walters comprehensive you of hudson insti

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bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies, saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on "american history tv." on c-span 2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app. or wherever you get your podcasts. >>> since c-span was founded in 1979, historian and author richard norton smith has participated in many programs. c-span sat down with him for nearly eight hours to get his insights on american history, popular culture, good books and more. up next, part three of that conversation, which focuses on his favorite historians and history books, his love of hurricanes and american presidents he has known. >> from your personal standpoint, who would you say are your favorite historians and/or your favorite history books or books that you think people that are interested in listening to what we have been talking about ought to read? >> it's interesting. being an anglophile, i have a bias. the brits here that would be the kiss of death. you can see the critics rounding on the authorized biographer.

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