>> rose: welcome to the
program.
we begin this evening with mark
halperin and john heilemann,
they are the authors of "double
down", the story of the 2012
election.
>> we look at petty white books
and we look at hunter thompson
and ben cramer and look at all
of them as" dolls and icons and
models as we try the best we can
to stand on their shoulders and
get somewhere close to how good
they are but they are all models
for a certain kind of thing
which was deconstructing, take,
peaking behind the curtain and
there is a public at that sad of
campaigning which has grown more
elaborate and more -- more
successful in the sense that
more and more is concealed from
the public.
>> rose: we conclude this
evening with the story of julius
caesar, a new production in new