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roger. >> thank you very much. um, we know there's a story about the -- recounting a priest who was hearing confession from someone. the priest was always in the habit of saying be brief, be blunt and be gone. [laughter] and, yeah. i am going to do that. it is not true, it is not true that i'm wearing this sling because of some altercation with an heir to george bundy or t.m. greene or any of the other, any of the other spoiled prof sore ya that weighed in on "god and man at yale." before i get to the book, i want to mention one aspect of bill's life and work that i don't think has come up today yet. namely, you know, he was a very accomplished man at many things. one of his greatest talents was as a kind of talent scout. and there are many people in this room just looking around i know who benefited from that activity, and i just want to mention one in a new book that he has, my friend wally olson just published with america's premier conservative publisher whose name i will not tell you -- [laughter] a book calle
roger. >> thank you very much. um, we know there's a story about the -- recounting a priest who was hearing confession from someone. the priest was always in the habit of saying be brief, be blunt and be gone. [laughter] and, yeah. i am going to do that. it is not true, it is not true that i'm wearing this sling because of some altercation with an heir to george bundy or t.m. greene or any of the other, any of the other spoiled prof sore ya that weighed in on "god and man at...
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roger kimball will speak second, wears an amazing number of hats. he is the publisher and president of encounter books, one of the leading, one of the best conservative publishers in the country. he is the author of, i'm sorry, the editor and the publisher of the new criterion, the distinguished magazine of cultural criticism. and he's the author of many books including "tenured radicals: how politics has corrupted higher education," and his forthcoming volume, "the fortunes of permanence: culture and anarchy in the age of amnesia." with linda bridges who is here and will be chairing the third panel this afternoon, mr. kimball edited a thwart history, the sprightly anthology of bill buckley's writings that appeared last year. our third speaker will be r. 'em 'em -- r. emmett tyrrell, the founder of the american spectator. he has written many provocative books and, certainly, none more provocative than "the new york times"' best selling "boy clinton: the political biography." his latest volume is called qualify after the hangover: the conservatives'
roger kimball will speak second, wears an amazing number of hats. he is the publisher and president of encounter books, one of the leading, one of the best conservative publishers in the country. he is the author of, i'm sorry, the editor and the publisher of the new criterion, the distinguished magazine of cultural criticism. and he's the author of many books including "tenured radicals: how politics has corrupted higher education," and his forthcoming volume, "the fortunes of...
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you mentioned roger's action -- a little skirmish--a bloody little fight which takes place on snowshoes. it is a disaster for rogers and his men but things are really sort of industrial warfare as when benedict arnold -- the southern edge of lake champlain and this is repeated later on in 1814 when the united states navy built a more substantial flotilla on lake champlain and completely defeat a slightly superior royal navy. one of the things the book brings out is the multiplicity of that. that remains true today. even as we do these things in iraq and afghanistan, we are getting ready for a much larger conflict with much more conventional forces in the other places. >> we actually have a little time because of the efficiency of town so we might take a couple questions from the audience. if there are any. go-ahead. [inaudible] [laughter] >> we would have to go through an institutional review board at johns hopkins university and people from the medical school would be passing on whether i could use human subjects and work with dead people. >> are there archival materials? >> no. as i s
you mentioned roger's action -- a little skirmish--a bloody little fight which takes place on snowshoes. it is a disaster for rogers and his men but things are really sort of industrial warfare as when benedict arnold -- the southern edge of lake champlain and this is repeated later on in 1814 when the united states navy built a more substantial flotilla on lake champlain and completely defeat a slightly superior royal navy. one of the things the book brings out is the multiplicity of that....
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what about roger's widow, jen? are they going to get their money back? i'm doing my best. i have a list of people -- wait, andrew interrupted. how can you even do that? they're not going to keep that must be. they will, bernie explained, and patiently started to outline other situations where firms had failed and investors were made whole. andrew stopped him, sickened, not wanting to hear more. how long has this been going on? oh, god, it's been going on for years. much has been made of when the fraud started, and the truth is no one really knows. bernie started the firm in the '60s. the records from that time are thin. even modern regulatory requirements don't require records that go beyond six years. bernie claims the ponzi scheme began in 1992, any questionable behavior before then was at worst a gray area involving synthetic trades to defray income tax costs for his most important clients. and there is evidence that he executed actual trades into the '80s. but whether it started when bernie said it did or much earlier, only bernie knows. what's going to happen to us? i
what about roger's widow, jen? are they going to get their money back? i'm doing my best. i have a list of people -- wait, andrew interrupted. how can you even do that? they're not going to keep that must be. they will, bernie explained, and patiently started to outline other situations where firms had failed and investors were made whole. andrew stopped him, sickened, not wanting to hear more. how long has this been going on? oh, god, it's been going on for years. much has been made of when...
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, it was a bloody little fight which takes place on snowshoes and is a disaster for rogers and his men but also talks about some things which are really sort of industrial warfare as when benedict arnold built this amazing fleet out of virtually nothing in 1776, and then this is repeated later on in 814 when the -- 814 when the united states navy builds a more substantial flotilla on lake champlain and completely defeats a slightly superior royal navy flotilla. so i think up with of the things the book brings out, i hope s the multiplicity of that. and that remains true today because even as we're doing all the things we've done in iraq and afghanistan, you know, we're also getting ready for much larger kinds of conflicts with much more dimensional kinds of forces in other places. >> well, good. um, we actually have a little time because of the efficiency of the panel, and is so we might take a couple of questions from the audience if there are such. go ahead. >> eliot, i'd be interested in what the sources -- you, obviously, weren't interviewing. [laughter] >> no, then we'd have to go
, it was a bloody little fight which takes place on snowshoes and is a disaster for rogers and his men but also talks about some things which are really sort of industrial warfare as when benedict arnold built this amazing fleet out of virtually nothing in 1776, and then this is repeated later on in 814 when the -- 814 when the united states navy builds a more substantial flotilla on lake champlain and completely defeats a slightly superior royal navy flotilla. so i think up with of the things...
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and william henry, snow shoes where robert rogers's men, 250 years before. during the times i worked on this book judy and i have seen our wonderful teenagers grow
and william henry, snow shoes where robert rogers's men, 250 years before. during the times i worked on this book judy and i have seen our wonderful teenagers grow
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and steve personally is like bringing the itune software to the time warner building, showing it to roger ames at warner music, getting him aboard, and then getting doug morris at universal, finally encircling sony. no other ceo would have been so passionate about just going at people until they finally surrendered, and sony is the last holdout. there's a great story that andy lack tells me. he has to put sony music in but the one thing that steve wants is all of dylan. because he and woz found every bootleg tape, totally dylan fan natics. the sandarac of steve's life. dylan is a sony artist. so he wants to do all tracks of dylan as a virtual digital set you can buy for $199. andy at sonny says, no, i'm going to jab it to him. we need leverage. steve calls bob dylan, bob dylan, slightly spacey, doesn't deal with it, hismark, all trying to figure out -- steve jobs talked him into it. andy lack finally says to bob dylan, i will write you a check for one million if you'll stay out of the itune store with that box set. and dylan -- i hate to say it because i love dylan -- takes the money, bou
and steve personally is like bringing the itune software to the time warner building, showing it to roger ames at warner music, getting him aboard, and then getting doug morris at universal, finally encircling sony. no other ceo would have been so passionate about just going at people until they finally surrendered, and sony is the last holdout. there's a great story that andy lack tells me. he has to put sony music in but the one thing that steve wants is all of dylan. because he and woz found...
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[laughter] well, i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodell, you know, when i was struggling with the russians and iranians every day, your job looked good, but actually from northern california, it doesn't look so good anymore. [laughter] and these days. and i have to say it, these days being a university professor at stanford university where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season -- you know, come on. you know what those special seasons are like. you've had plenty of them. let us have one. that's really the greatest job in the world. >> ah, thank you, madam secretary. [applause] that was fun. >> that was great. [applause] >> for more information about condoleezza rice, visit hoover.org and search her name. >> recently, the new york times released their top ten best books of 2011. here are the five nonfiction titles. christopher hitchens's cay collection, "arguably," ranges to afghanistan and politics. "the boy in the moon" by ian brown recounts the story of his son who was born with a genetic mutation. "malcolm x" has been discussed
[laughter] well, i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodell, you know, when i was struggling with the russians and iranians every day, your job looked good, but actually from northern california, it doesn't look so good anymore. [laughter] and these days. and i have to say it, these days being a university professor at stanford university where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season -- you know, come on. you know what those special seasons are...
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against reagan, nancy reagan arranged for strauss and the former secretary of state republican bill rogers to sneak into the white house one evening. they would enter the treasury building. they went through the underground timeout. but not been through it before they said it looks like a fallout shelter and he couldn't believe he was mayor. and went up to the residence of the white house and advised the president on what to do about the iran-contra scandal. and he advised him to get rid of chief of staff don regan and said you need to bring in someone like a howard aker, someone who really had a lot of credibility and congress. with those sides are they all outcome that a lot of relationships with the press. and nancy reagan really took this to her. at the time, stressed in the president had been been listening to him because the president disagreed with them instead i would never do that. and that is what is said to helen when he got home that night. amanda got a call from nancy reagan the same night. and she said, i do suppose there's any way you want to come help us over here in the wh
against reagan, nancy reagan arranged for strauss and the former secretary of state republican bill rogers to sneak into the white house one evening. they would enter the treasury building. they went through the underground timeout. but not been through it before they said it looks like a fallout shelter and he couldn't believe he was mayor. and went up to the residence of the white house and advised the president on what to do about the iran-contra scandal. and he advised him to get rid of...
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well, i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russians, your job looked pretty good. actually from northern california doesn't look so good anymore. and these days -- and i have to say it -- these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season -- you know, come on you know what those special seasons are like you. have had plenty of them. let us have one. that's really the greatest job in the world. >> thank you, madam secretary. thank you. [applause] >> we have the this book called "the deal from hell." what is it about, basically, and why should we? specially why should people watching in maine, new york, why should they care? >> this book talks a lot about the differences between journalism today and journalism when i started. when i got into this, journalism this, newspaper business was archly controlled by families. not all of them were angels by any means but they really had a kind of a public service mantra, that they followed, an
well, i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russians, your job looked pretty good. actually from northern california doesn't look so good anymore. and these days -- and i have to say it -- these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season -- you know, come on you know what those special seasons are like you. have had plenty of them. let us...
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against reagan, nancy reagan arranged for strauss and the former secretary of state, republican bill rogers, to sneak into the white house one evening. they went into the treasury building and they went through the underground tunnel. bobbitt never been through this underground tunnel before and it sort of looked like a fallout shelter and there were beds lining the walls and he couldn't believe he was there. he went out to the residence of the white house and it buys the president on what to do about the iran-contra scandal. and he advised him to get rid of chief of staff don reagan and he said you need to bring in someone like howard baker, someone who could really, who had a lot of credibility in congress on both sides of the aisle, had a lot of relationships with the press and nancy reagan took this hard. at the time strauss didn't think of the president had really been listening to him because the president disagreed with him and said i would never do that. i'm not going to fire reagan and that is what he said to helen that night. he got a call from nancy reagan the same night. she sai
against reagan, nancy reagan arranged for strauss and the former secretary of state, republican bill rogers, to sneak into the white house one evening. they went into the treasury building and they went through the underground tunnel. bobbitt never been through this underground tunnel before and it sort of looked like a fallout shelter and there were beds lining the walls and he couldn't believe he was there. he went out to the residence of the white house and it buys the president on what to...
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the same would go for the morgans and and roger too. trying to chronicle. there were a number of books that had come out but they're still going to see several more volumes that will make sense of what led to the economic crash, what lead to all sorts of malfeasance and bailouts and all those things which certainly not only america but every place around the world is trying to get a grip on. one need only look what is happening in europe and the moment with the precariousness of the euro zone to see that we are nowhere near out of the woods and sometimes books are the best way to get a sense of what is going on and anticipate what will happen next. >> host: one history book was love and capital:carl and jenny marks. this did quite well. it got notable on several different lists. >> guest: and nominated for the national book award. to my mind how can you not win by combining the story of calm marks and his wife against the larger backdrop of the changing economic times, is serious about socialism which led to communism. contrasting love and money is a great
the same would go for the morgans and and roger too. trying to chronicle. there were a number of books that had come out but they're still going to see several more volumes that will make sense of what led to the economic crash, what lead to all sorts of malfeasance and bailouts and all those things which certainly not only america but every place around the world is trying to get a grip on. one need only look what is happening in europe and the moment with the precariousness of the euro zone...
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reading these books, i--i don't always approve of the ways people like william bennett, lynn cheney and roger kimball and so on--other people--talk about literature, which strikes me as philistine. and i think that--i think--i think it should be said that the conservatives pointing out that something was wrong in the way the liter--the--the universities were--were--were preserving or failing to preserve the lit--the literature and ph--and philosophy of the past--when they said that in 1980 and '81, they--they did a service. there's no doubt about it. but i don't--i think now it's enough culture war. there are too many people who are not interested in culture. they're interested in culture war. and if you don't agree with them on every point--and this is where i got clobbered--then you're dismissed altogether. and i--i--i find that stuff unilluminating. i try to listen to both sides; i try to be as even-handed as possible. i interviewed left-wing teachers and gave them a long platform. i try to give the conservative case. i make what i think is the conservative case in some ways for reading li
reading these books, i--i don't always approve of the ways people like william bennett, lynn cheney and roger kimball and so on--other people--talk about literature, which strikes me as philistine. and i think that--i think--i think it should be said that the conservatives pointing out that something was wrong in the way the liter--the--the universities were--were--were preserving or failing to preserve the lit--the literature and ph--and philosophy of the past--when they said that in 1980 and...
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i told roger goodell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russian every day, your job looked pretty good, but from northern california, doesn't look so good anymore, and these days -- and i have to say, these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal are having quite a successful season you know what those special seasons are like. you have had plenty of them. let us have one. that is the greatest job in the world. >> thank you, madam secretary. >> thank you. >> that was fun. for more information about condoleezza rice visit hoover.org and search her name. >> we have this book called the deal from hell. what it's about basically and why should we care, especially why should people watching as far away in bangor maine, portland, maine, new york, why should they care? >> the book talks a lot about the differences between journalism today and journalism when i start ode. when i got into the journalism, the newspaper business, it was really largely controlled by families. not all of them were angels but they really had a kind of a publi
i told roger goodell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russian every day, your job looked pretty good, but from northern california, doesn't look so good anymore, and these days -- and i have to say, these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal are having quite a successful season you know what those special seasons are like. you have had plenty of them. let us have one. that is the greatest job in the world. >> thank you, madam...
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. >> host: roger, ohio, you're on booktv with author ben mezrich. >> caller: anyway, i hadn't herd of mr. mezrich, so i looked him up on the internet, so that gives me questions. >> guest: that's scarry. i don't know what you find on the internet. >> caller: there's one obvious one, it was either rigged or of the ugly american, maybe both was about a guy who used the stock markets to -- rigged the market to make a lot of money, and according to occupy wall street, that's what's going on now. it's the great recession that's all a result of the goldman sachs conspiracy. how much of that is true and is in your book? >> guest: i get so many pitches about evil conspiracy, wall street conspiracies. i mean, i get ten of those a week. i wish i found a really good one, but i have not found a true one yet. i write about people who gamed the system or figured out a way to make money from a corrupt system. that's what ugly americans is, rigged is like that, but bringing down the house in a lot of ways, there's a system in place, but there's a way to make money off of it. you know, i'm not a big p
. >> host: roger, ohio, you're on booktv with author ben mezrich. >> caller: anyway, i hadn't herd of mr. mezrich, so i looked him up on the internet, so that gives me questions. >> guest: that's scarry. i don't know what you find on the internet. >> caller: there's one obvious one, it was either rigged or of the ugly american, maybe both was about a guy who used the stock markets to -- rigged the market to make a lot of money, and according to occupy wall street, that's...
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benedict are its headquarters in montrÉal, can't their fort william henry, snow should where robert rogers met catastrophe 250 years before. during the times i worked on this book, judy and i've seen our wonderful teenagers, grow to adulthood, graduate, find institutions of higher learning, traveled the world, go to war and return from it, mary, and he began having children of their own. they are spirit of adventure, love and good humor have inspired, and the joy of the company would not the least of this offers pleasures. with her kind, patient and wise mother's permission, i affectionately dedicate this joining us. this point we will conclude. hungry graduate students. >> no is there a nonfiction author of book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> its authors night at the national press club. several different authors are here. selling their books to support charity, and one of those authors is jeremy. booktv has covered him for his book, a new voice for israel. first of all, what is j street? >> j street
benedict are its headquarters in montrÉal, can't their fort william henry, snow should where robert rogers met catastrophe 250 years before. during the times i worked on this book, judy and i've seen our wonderful teenagers, grow to adulthood, graduate, find institutions of higher learning, traveled the world, go to war and return from it, mary, and he began having children of their own. they are spirit of adventure, love and good humor have inspired, and the joy of the company would not the...