The Bookmonger with John J. Miller

Did Ronald Reagan get one of his best ideas from John F. Kennedy? That's what Lawrence Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic claim in JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity. In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Kudlow and Domitrovic discuss why we haven't heard this story before, why Democrats have abandoned their hero's supply-side legacy, and whether Donald Trump's tax plan is in the Kennedy and Reagan tradition of believing tax cuts are better than tax hikes at generating revenue.

The biggest challenge the next president faces almost certainly will be an unexpected disaster, says Tevi Troy, author of Shall We Wake the President? Two Centuries of Disaster Management from the Oval Office. In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Troy talks about disasters in all their forms, from terrorist attacks to the Zika virus, and describes the role of presidents, the federal government, and ordinary citizens in prevention and response. He points to the worst disaster-manager in U.S. history (we're looking at you, Woodrow Wilson) and predicts the event that will come to be seen as the great disaster of the next four to eight years.