Mark Halperin

He's also a brilliant mimic and a Beatles expert, and we'll get into that.

And the Beatles thing's significant to me because when James decides he loves a topic, he digs in deep.

He goes all in, and I find that attractive in people who are journalists because you need to be a generalist.

If you cover the White House, you've got to be an expert on national security.

You've got to be an expert on the economy.

You've got to be an expert on civil rights, policing.

So you need to be a generalist, but you also want people who have the interest and the discipline and the mental capacity, the intellectual curiosity to say, I'm going to know everything about this.

So we're going to play some Beatles trivia here later, but first we're going to talk about James' book.

And that's the last piece I want to tell you.

This guy has written many books, and he takes important topics –

And he writes narrative nonfiction that makes it cinematic, that makes a compelling character and a compelling story, and add in the great history of it.

His encyclopedic knowledge of Watergate is fueled by his intellectual curiosity, but also by old-fashioned shoe leather reporting.

He spends time in archives.

He spends time online.

He finds the story with an eye for detail that puts it all together, the arc of history.

individual characters who are compelling, and then a real sense of bringing you back into a place in time.

And in the culture we live in now, when a 10-year-old tweet for many is considered too old to read, understanding and appreciating American history is extremely important, whether you're an adult or a child.

And so I'm grateful for the Chief Washington Correspondent of Newsmax, James Rosen, also the author.

of a book, two books so far, two of three in a series about one of the titans of the last hundred years in America, Justice Scalia of the Supreme Court.

The books are called Scalia.