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🗓️ 13 November 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | What don't we know about the 41st president of the United States? |
0:06.3 | John Meachim will be here to talk about his new biography of George Herbert Walker Bush, |
0:11.0 | Destiny and Power. |
0:12.4 | And if you were raised as he was, to feel that you could plausibly become the president |
0:18.0 | of the United States, even if it was not yet a probability, then you race, you race, you race. |
0:24.4 | How did the assassination of Yitzhak Guarbeen transform the state of Israel? |
0:28.1 | On the 20th anniversary of that terrible event, Dan Afron will be here to talk about his |
0:32.0 | new book, Killing a King. |
0:34.0 | The assassination sets off this chain reaction that leads to this shift in power from the |
0:39.4 | pragmatists like Guarbeen to the ideologues, from the left to the right. |
0:44.4 | Alexander Altar will give us an update from the literary world, and Greg Cole's has best |
0:48.2 | the news. |
0:58.5 | John Meachim is here to talk about his new book, Destiny and Power, the American Odyssey |
1:02.9 | of George Herbert Walker Bush. |
1:05.4 | Welcome. |
1:06.4 | Thanks for having me. |
1:07.4 | Thanks for being here. |
1:08.4 | So how did you get into this? |
1:09.4 | I went up to Walker's point in 1998 with the historian Michael Beschloss to do a piece |
1:14.7 | for Newsweek about a world transformed, which was the book that President Bush did with |
1:20.3 | Prince Gocroft about foreign policy. |
1:23.3 | Almost immediately saw that this man was President Bush was a much more complicated and interesting |
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