all these, holding all these risky mortgages and all the homeowners could have just refinanced out of those mortgages couldn't anymore because the housing prices weren't there to support it. suddenly which had been profitable for how many years at that point? carey killinger had always delivered amazing returns. they literally were being away at the capital cushion they needed more money. >> coming up next a panel of librarians from throughout the country discuss their picks of the best upcoming titles from university publishers. this event is part of the american library association's annual convention held in anaheim california. it's about an hour and a half.

>> okay, we are about to get started. good afternoon. welcome to the best of the best from university presses books you should know about. my name is kim miller and i am the marketing membership coordinator at the association of american university press. the aaup is currently celebrating 75 years of cooperation and service. the association of american university presses also known as the aaup, celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding in 1937. a aaup is an organization grounded in a tradition of service, whose members engage in the forward-looking publishing programs and innovation. aaup promotes the work and influence of university presses, provides cooperative marketing opportunities and helps its 130 plus member presses fulfill their common commitments to

scholarships, the economy -- academy. aaup members are active across many scholarly disciplines including the humanities, the arts and sciences and are innovators in the world of electronic publishing. both the history of the association and the future of scholarly communications will provide focus for a series of events including a university press week in november 2012. to marked the occasion of the aaup 75th anniversary. for more information please feel free to visit our web site at www.aaup aet.org. today we are here to launch the 22nd edition of university press books for public republican secondary school libraries. the bibliography that most of you have in your hands right now. the bibliography is a popular

and trusted acquisition resource for librarians. annually the aaup works with the committee of aas l. and public librarians who examine, review and give a specific rating to titles that have been submitted by our member press publisher. the titles that make it into the bibliography are the ones that librarians feel are suitable for secondary school and public libraries. they are copies of the bibliography here at the session and if you missed getting a copy here they are at the combined book exhibit booth which is booth number 2410. this afternoon, five members of the university press books committee will each present a set of titles that they feel to be the best of the best on the titles that are featured in the

bibliography. at the end of the presentation, three members of this audience will be selected to wind our book wrathful. at each will wind a predetermined set of six of the books that are being presented today so if you haven't already, please please be sure to put your business card or a card with your name and information including your e-mail address in the raffle box which is in the back of the room. one last thing. since we are being taped, i would ask if everyone please take a moment to silence their phone or anything else that might have babies or a ring. also, if you need to leave the room, which i can't see why any of the wet, but if you have to leave us, would you do so being mindful of the projector and any other issues that might obstruct someone else's view. so, let's get started. can we please give a warm

welcome to our first presenter, nan hilliard from zion public library. thank you all so much for coming. >> i hope i can manage this while i'm talking. i have got so many wonderful books this year and i swore i would talk fast so i hope i can keep to that promise. okay, how do i do this? i donate most of the aaup books that i receive, or that i review and received to my library but each year there is at least one book that i absolutely have to keep for myself and this is this year's book. the author elizabeth sillinger

has written extensively about antiques. her late husband was an americana expert. rather than write exclusively about objects in a kind of archaeology she writes about those pioneering collectors, their passions and their motivations. first to weber comes a definition of folk art. the term was coined by a german art historian who said the folk art is not a static group activity. it is the product of individuals whose tastes and skills contribute to the vitality and constant renewal of the genre. for american collectors, full command ordinary people. in europe it meant peasant. it meant people who were removed from sophisticated circles created local styles for local consumption and that encompassed everything from pottery and glass to drawings and watercolors to household and other implements, products of specific groups like the shakers

and the pennsylvania dutch. arts refers to both made objects having supplied -- exemplified an appropriate approach to design. the centennial of 1876 awakened an interest in old americana and even at that date they realize that there were many things that have happened from the 18 18th century that were being lost. the concept of historic preservation began in the 1880s when people realize that houses and ways of life were being torn down. there was a hold emphasis on new things. still unsure writes about early collectors, as henry chapman mercer who discovered early folk are at the mercer museum in doylestown and pennsylvania that still has antiques of many kinds. objects that are interesting for their beauty, oddity and historic significance. and he felt that if one of these is nice to look at than a dozen is even better and i can tell

you that he kept things in quantity. these are not in the order that i put them in. this is a picture of a 1752 kitchen re-created at the philadelphia museum of art which was discovered by a curator collector in 1926 and this is how americana objects had been displayed in museums. this picture is from the chapter about edward deming andrews who not only collected shaker furniture but also promoted widespread knowledge about the respect for shaker beliefs and culture. they made their first contact with the shakers in hancock massachusetts in 1923. this is how collectors get into this. one day while driving on a

collecting trip they stopped to buy a loaf of bread from the shakers. they left with a new passion and they started collecting a household and world role of shaker furniture. these collections, these are from the collections of william and marguerite. you may recognize the name doll of picker who illustrated dozens of children's books. her parents were born in lithuania but settled in new york city. they summered in maine and when they're developed an appreciation or folk art so they decorated their entire house to accommodate their collections and peggy created her own folk art which were hooked rugs and that is the lien on the left-hand side. the shelbourne museum and -- i had to have a quilt. you might understand why.

the shelbourne museum in vermont is one of the preeminent collections of american folk art and among the many items they are art quilts. in this book, stillinger tells about the history of all these people and how they came about their collections and their passions. one wonderful quote from william ernest chrysler garvish -- who bought lavishly and said simply, we love this stuff. is quite an obsession with us. their specialties were primitive painting such as this cat which is oil on cabbage painted between 1850 in 1900 now it's in the national gallery of our. in substance, the abundant illustrations, the eloquent prose, the recounting of the stories and all of the disagreements among the collectors added to a richly reporting book for all

american -- americana collectors and certainly public libraries and i think it would be a great addition for high school libraries as well. the next book, my colleague and marie thought that this book was wonderful also. wewe are both very enthusiastic about the new atlas of world history. this is a large format but. this is not a stretch picture. it's a book this wide and this tall and it had to be in order to accommodate the wonderful format of the information. it allows to come a two-page spreads for each of 49 snapshots of the world. the oldest snapshot is 6 million -- 100,000 years ago and i miss being in 2010. i took random maps of the road simply to illustrate how the book is set up. this two-page spread is typical. this is 1000 b.c..

there is an introductory text that describes major political and economic trends and events and down at the bottom for the five largest cities in the world at that time and just to add to your knowledge of the world because you probably haven't thought that much about 1000 b.c. lately. the largest city at that time was 120,000 people. babylon had 60,000 people. how in china had 60,000 people. memphis and egypt had 50,000. there is a color-coded key which is next to the populations, which shows the type of society, the culture and economic development or the empire. there are color coatings on the actual map where state-level societies and empire so you have turquoise on this map is the middle east, china and and a

little bit in mexico. there are major migration and trade groups but not many on this map because of the year and there were uninhabited areas. they are the white ones and did notice very plainly madagascar is uninhabited. new zealand, iceland and at the very far left is hawaii. you can't really see it on the slide but it's in the book's uninhabited. the second spread is a timeline, and this is also 1000 b.c. so once again it is color-coded. in this example the foundation of the hebrew kingdom went unnoticed by the great powers of the region but it was so fundamental importance to judaism and christianity and islam. the total population of the world, the graph at the bottom and at that time it was 115 million people. the key map shows all the world regions in different colors.

the timeline is arranged in horizontal bands by topic, economy, religion and philosophy, scientific technology, arts and architecture. you can see the purple left ahead of gilgamesh. the blue is an old head from mexico and the teal on the right is the hill fort in derbyshire england. flipping ahead, this is 907 a.d. and you can see a huge difference in the world. you can tell from the colors of the maps. constantinople has 250,000 people. japan, 200,000 people in córdoba spain has 200,000 people. by this time iceland and hawaii are settled but not new zealand. china is divided into kingdoms. charlemagne's empire breaks up so you were learning what is happening not only in europe but

it's a simultaneous explanation of what is happening in the world. by 1715, the largest city in the world was istanbul with 700,000 people. the shane empire had conquered mongolia. the war of ellsberg which was france versus netherlands. the ottomans were defeated in vienna and in india there were sikh revolts. the world population of the time was 700 million. by 2010, wow, look at the difference in the map. shifting balance of global power is the sidebar titled. the largest cities in 2010 were tokyo, mexico city, mumbai, são paolo and new york and the world's population was 6.91 billion. it is so easy for us to compartmentalize history and geography. you were either studying the u.s., studying russia or

studying japan. the beauty of haywood's book is that it shows us what was going on while the u.s. was consumed by the civil war, but world war i was a european war with global entanglements due to colonialism but world war ii had battlefronts on multiple continents. the library journal review evaluated this book very succinct way or good valuable picture of human development that will be useful to academic and public libraries. your library collection will benefit with this book and so will you. i will click it and then i've will know what the next is. american menswear is just great fun. there are many many books devoted to women's wear, who is buying it and how to wear it but there are far fewer books that are counterparts. historian daniel talese hill fills the void with this very

topic of history. ready-made clothing goes back to colonial times. shopkeeper supplied ready-made shirts, trousers and codes to sailors who had an immediate need for an expensive clothing after long voyages. these slops as sailors were called it not sit very said very well and that is where we get the term sloppy clothing. the measuring tape was introduced in 1920. how is that for a trivial fact that you can bring into the conversation sometime? the u.s. army began manufacturing uniforms and large volume as far back as the war of 1812. master tailors design patterns, professional cutters laid them out. the cutters maximize the fabric used by this efficient layout. they then sent the cut fabric out to women, home sewers who are under contract to so for the army. all during the 19th century were tremendous changes in

clothing. we all know about the industrial revolution and how it changed textile production. u.s. cotton and wool, the sewing machine of course, distribution also underwent a revolution in the 19th century. department stores came to american cities and of course by 1900 montgomery wards and sears roebuck provided catalogs with mail order. shirts until the end of the 19th century were considered highly embarrassing for man to be seen jack atlas by a woman who was not family. laborers and trades were the exception. men could discard their jackets and all-male settings or during sporting events like hunting or golfing. shirts had detachable callers and cuffs for two reasons. fashion, different styles and laundry. it was much easier to take off the caller and cuff and wash them in those days before washing machines and boiled white clothing to get them truly

clean. for centuries men were pullover shirts and the legend is in 1898 famous stage actor tore open the front of a shirt while changing for performance. he explained, that is how shirts should be made so he placed an order with the tailor for a dozen center button shirts and those were an instant success. here is one of the many illustrations in this book taken from a montgomery ward ad. you can see all the styles for these nick lachaise which meant casual over shirts. you notice they come in starched, i'm starched with attached caller and cuff. sportswear. american men -- that meant new wardrobes and knickers blouse four inches over the top of the knee socks. that style was popular for golf and leisure wear. turtlenecks came with roll neck

sweaters. they were popularized when howard were won one in a play. the book includes information about underwear, about men's bathing suits and i remember my dad saying how that knit fabric stretched. there there are chapters about accessories and then talking about going into the 21st century, and who says that men's fashions don't change? these pictures from the late 1960's and i think many of us might say some fashions change back to the way they looked before. along the way, in this 300 page book hill examines the ideas and ideals of masculinity across the centuries of american history and the societal implications of men's choices and dress. this is a welcome addition to your collection for its contribution to history, advertising and marketing and american popular culture.

so, some other interesting pictures from throughout the years. some of you might -- some of the men here might have warned their hair like this but we can talk about that afterwards. renaissance people is a splendid look. of course they are all splendid looks aren't they? life that shaped the modern age. the general format of this book are discussing 94 people profiled in this book. each one gets a chapter and they talk about the authors write about the most famous ones leonardo, luther galileo etc. but they have also chosen people who lived and labored and compared of security -- obscurity and the reawakening that is the renaissance. in each separate chapter there

is a biography of one person and there are one or two illustrations of the person, painting, a drawing or something from a book. there is the bibliography that provides suggestions for further reading. there many different reasons why we chose his profession but it's a pretty safe bet that we all like to read. the paradigm for us is the book's. author martin wiens is a historian of the book. his expertise is the processes by which words are written and transmitted in a way that civilization has regarded, used and abused that transmission. for two and a half bulimia he managed his use of books in its manuscript and printed form to record administer worship and educate he says. the book is more than a useful gadget. christianity, judaism and islam are centered around sacred books. governments derive power from written text for taxation, legal cosan decisions. magical power is attributed to the written world -- were.

the caribbean islanders regarded letters written by the spanish is supernatural. it seems that the letters knew what would happen to the recipient. some of them thought it had a sole. we all remember that early bible translators were declared heretics for rendering a latin bible into the vernacular. the bible was also viewed as an oracle to find a solution to whatever the concern is. this is an example of how the book is set up. lots of illustrations and a panel of tax. this particular one shows some of those surfaces on which books in the written word is inscribed. this is ancient china and on the left is a turtle, the bottom part of the turtle and they have found more than 50,000 inscribed in the record. given the rate of turtle reproduction however that was not a renewable resource and the first chinese books were written

on strips of bamboo. there was a whole lot more bamboo than there were turtles and that is what you see on the right. later they use silk which was light and durable but expensive and of course we know that it was the chinese who developed paper using the old rags, hemp from tree bark in fishing nets in fiber separation and recombination process similar to that used today. lyons history as global. he writes about ancient egyptian tax, wax tablets in clay pots in greece and the great library of alexandria which had a half a million scrolls but he also writes about japanese constantine of books which are folded accordion style on mulberry fiber paper, ancient buddhist texts written on palm leaves or would locks. page 41 shows st. jerome and if you don't know who he is he is the patron saint of librarians. he is always shown as a -- here composing the life of st. paul. lyons reminds us that they have

very accurate copiers. they didn't have to understand what was that they were copying but they had to do it exactly. and they also had to be familiar with even sizes in a range of scripts and they also had to use right straight lines. i don't think very many of us would be eligible to the scribes today. the conquistadors conquistadors brother brixton in the world. 70% of them were intended to convert the natives. the maya and aztec have a traditional written style. the paper was made from the inner part of a fig tree and their books were folded constantine a style. this is the codex mendoza which was commissioned by the viceroy of new spain. it has commentary in spanish but the illustrations were done by the natives. what interested me were chapters about printing and publishing. this is from a chapter about almanacs, early reference books which functioned as diaries.

in 1687 in england, 460,000 new copies of 30 different almanac titles were sold. the grand were successful in france and england which had writes from the great sage, the shepherd of the high mountain on how to live a long, healthy and moral life. emphasized submissions which reinforce the existing social hierarchy. circulating libraries were best-sellers such as lord byron which were welcomed by publishers who saw libraries as reliable customers. public libraries reviewed by social reformers as a way to control society by providing wide access to healthy literature. and as we all know the book had its enemies. book earners are aren't away responding to the supernatural power of books and of course that sparked a visceral response in us. the nazis are shown here and the

rushdie satanic diaries and of course we have challenges in our libraries today. in 1900, the print was supreme. lyons asked if is their crisis now? in 2005 u.s., china and u.k. each produce 120,000 new titles annually. people are reading as much as ever but they are reading differently and they multitask. as it shows in the caption here, this is an ecuadorian woman who is reading a book and listening to music in a café. lyons figures the depth of the book crisis affects first world western cultures. the depth of the book is not debated in africa or parts of south america where a literacy is high in digital access is limited. the u.n. says that 776 million adults in the world are in a letter it and two-thirds of them are women. lyons concludes the story is a book that is one of ever widening access to reading and writing. there are no rules anymore.

we need to widen the availability of veaux and the skills to read them. those are five of my favorite titles from this year and i hope you will come out and enjoy them as well. thank you. [applause] >> he hi everybody. my name is anne-marie rossillo. my books don't have such pretty illustrations, but we are going to take a look at my three favorites. the first one i'm going to talk about is by university of washington press. she was an international health professional. she worked all over the world. when i first looked at this book i must tell you what went to the bottom of my list. i was not so excited to look at this one but i've really enjoyed this book especially for

students who are maybe sixth grade to 12th grade would probably be very appropriate. it's super easy to read. and it's also more like a practical guide to working in general. a couple of the features that i just want to point out is for example chapter 10, working with your local counterpart. one of these sections is titled make your counterpart your key adviser. this may seem like practical and reasonable advice for you or i who have worked for a number of years but for international relations, who think they know everything, this might be advised that they could take to heart. and, one of the other comments she also makes is speak in terms of week, and not i. so this book is not when to bow and went to handshake and whether to walk next to somebody or behind somebody but just a

very practical advice of how to be respectful of other people. the format of the book makes it super quick and easy. one of the things that she has is journal notes. she kept a journal as she was working for the last 20 years, and so let me just read you one of her notes here. and it's not actually the one that's up there because it -- before i found the best one. this is an south pacific island come 2001. a battered old bus hauled us to one of the outlying villages to showcase their environmental improvement projects. six of us were consultants from various development organizations and the rest were government officials. i usually enjoy these jobs but today i was embarrassed that i couldn't wait for the trip to and.

three of the consultants from the entire two hours talking to each other about their expensive vacations to exotic locales apparently unaware of how the conversations completely looted the locals and probably people even poorer than they are. the strange part of it was the two of them are very good consultants and kind human beings who i assume would have known better. practical simple advice of just -- in addition there are also voices from the field and these are her friends and colleagues who have obviously contributed to the book, some of their advice so i'm going to read you just two short little segments from these voices from the field. they both have to do with dress code for international professional. this is tar and who is a field auditor. after an unexpected change in plans i find myself at the airport check-in, checking to flight a couple.

i wondered if i would need to cover my head with a scarf. i looked at people in line in every single woman had her head covered. question-and-answer. i think for a high school student, this was the very classical advice. just pay attention to your surroundings. on the next page, working in an islamic country i scary -- carry a scarf or shawl with me no matter what i'm doing so i can cover my head when necessary. so i think that this book would be very good for any high school student, because it is practical advice. and that is my first book. i enjoyed it greatly, but the next book is actually my favorite book that i receive. this is the press secretary for gerald ford and at first i thought to myself can i really recommend this for high school students they probably would

think what was it like back in the 1700's? but i said to myself in one of my liaison areas of the college's journalism. one of the assignments are students have is to read a book on journalism or immediate communications from cover to cover. the professor doesn't care what the book is. he just wants us to read a book from cover to cover and i think this will be a popular one because i will definitely recommend it to a lot of the students. i believe that in my review i said that it was a romp through history and it really was, because ron nessen takes not only a personal perspective on what is going on, he talks about how being a journalist and the long hours really affects his personal life. anybody who is considering being a journalist and they want to major in that in college when they start reading 18 hours, 20 hours, they might say to

themselves, is this a career from a? ironically he wanted to be an author. his mother wanted him to do something practical. so, here i have him walking with kissinger and i have a question for my audience. so, a lot of the players in the book, and i look at my audience and i think we are all here for the ford administration, that a lot of the players are people that are still on the political scene now. so does anybody know what position dick cheney held in gerald ford's white house? does anybody know his first one? no? first he was the assistant to the president and then he became his chief of staff and then he was a the campaign manager for

ford. you can imagine is the press secretary ron nessen had a lot of good and bad stories to talk about. rumsfeld is also very prominent in the book, so here is ron nessen and cheney. everyone is a little younger back in the 70's, and then of course we have kissinger here and rumsfeld also in that picture. so, let me just read one small excerpt for you from this book and this is from 76, when ford was running for the presidency against ronald reagan. okay, i recorded in my aural diary at the time the white house is not showing great under fire. described as weeks of primary losses and finger-pointing as the cannibalistic self devouring period. i also noted the white house doesn't seem to be as much fun any more. seems to be all hard work, long hours and little fun. during this period the president

came to see me again to complain about how badly the white house staff generally in the press office specifically were serving his father. i wonder how people around you can go home at night and sleep when they realize how they are letting my father down jack declared. i don't have any trouble when i go home to sleep because i work down here 16 to 18 hours a day for your father i shot back. when i get home i'm pretty well tired from network and i don't have trouble sleeping out. the conversation went on for two hours. by the end i had not come into -- were working hard competently and enthusiastically for his father. that basically summarizes the way that he writes about his interactions with the other people in the white house. i think this book would be very good for any student that is considering journalism or is interested in political science. so that was my favorite book. i had a lot of occult books. i had vampires coming out the pores.

i had dead people. had stories about graverobbers. that was a big portion of the books that i receive. my favorite one was monsters in america a historical obsession with the hideous and the haunting. this is really a historical book. the first example i have here is a page from the book. this book does not have a lot of illustrations. it truly is a history book. a lot of the perspective of this book is called folklore became movies or stories that were written about and what the influence of our obsession is and if you think of what is in the movie theaters right now you will realize it is a lot of aliens and monsters and things that go bump in the night. so, this is something that was written, wonders of the invisible world back in the 1600's.

and this is one of the great examples of how we started with our obsession. i'm just going to read you a short paragraph that goes with this. had not included the giants put out -- that's the only big word -- but also the claim that native people in north america at a have a special relationship to satan. in his new world demonology the native americans had been seduced by satan to come to america as a special service. this made them in some literal sense the children of the devil. other leaders reinforce the view seeing native americans as a special trial design for them by the devil. devil. frequently puritan leaders turned to old testament imagery of the israelites to join the people for the description of the relationship with the new england tribe. the puritans believed he could not live with or even convert

monsters. you must destroy them. so that is in the first chapter. there is a very long introduction i think a little bit exceedingly long introduction but then he starts with where we got got our duty diaz and the beginnings of monsters and then it goes on to talk about specific types of monsters and the history of those monsters. are go for example aliens, dead bodies, those kinds of things. and, i think the students would enjoy this and really could use this book as a reference book for example aliens. there's a short chapter about the history of our aarp session with aliens. that is my presentation. on to barbara. [applause]

>> american indian art and literature follows well her last book with few exceptions. native americans have not had access to their own stories. the ability to tell their own stories in their own voices. instead, hollywood and the media interpreted their lives not for them but to them. and to the rest of us. in this one beautifully rendered interdisciplinary volume, the author moves us away from the comet images and text rendered by others to those created by diverse groups of native american voices. this book is about tax the author writes and the prologue. it addresses many other things, but its main goal is to provide some new ways of looking at, thinking about and making sense of native american voices.

and recent american indian art, literature and film. the title, engage resistance, emerges from the authors assessment of the motor persistence against those forces that assimilated or erased altogether their lives. later moves engagingly and deliberately as she situates movies, poetry, fiction, paintings and sculpture as products of american indian sovereignty. he then examines the aesthetic activism recounting in detail the reclaiming of alcatraz island by a american indians on their own terms. now i have several photos that i've pulled from this but one of the reasons i like this is there were so many excellent illustrations. i'm going to try to go through this as they do this. it requires a certain amount of ordination and my son is not here to help me but let me see

what i can do. this is the cover of the book. he looks, as i said, he mentions that he calls civic activism reclaiming alcatraz island by the american indians on their own terms. many of you in this room are old enough to remember when several native american tribes took over alcatraz island. they created a whole different culture there, one that basically took back the island, including creating this residence card that you see here. bear with me for just a moment. this is an outstanding collection because it is a rare work represents an interdisciplinary view of native

americans and one well illustrated, well thought amended volume. this is a well researched scholarly work making it an outstanding choice for academic libraries, especially to support their literature anthropology, art history or ethnic studies departments. its research value makes it highly recommended for public libraries, well read populations in high schools with advanced classes. at several photos here that i just want to go through briefly. this particular picture, the artist says the steins became part of the place making. indian alcatraz. they took signs that said keep off the property and inserted the word indian. this next photo --

this is a t-shirt image from the movie, skin and is entitled the real founding fathers. the author says that we construct identity both personal and tribal through a collage of genres and not aired is and that is why this book is so interesting. it has not only paintings and artwork of different media but also poetry and film and for example this is a page from leeann howe's book evidence of red. poems written in verse and dialogue and screenplay. how population of generic collections with myriad kinds of texts, poetry, drama, memoir essay and fiction.

.. >> it's untitled, but it's a memory map done in 2000 on mixed media on paper, 46x34 courtesy of the artist. now, in the book there are several versions of this same painting. one in particular that struck me as being very interesting is that this theme in it is all brown, and it's called "the

browning of america." in this particular one, edgar heap of birds is the painter, and it's walk to oklahoma and trail of tears 1836 evoking the cherokee trail of tears in which so many of the cherokee nation died as they were displaced into oklahoma x. and it's part of the project in atlanta, georgia. these are metal signed panels, each 18x12 inches. and in this last one, the author spends a great deal of time talking about the national museum of indian art. i'm sorry, called the national museum of the american indian. and he makes a comment, the observation that the nmai takes

as its main mission the unenviable task of completely rewriting the text. taking the issues of blood quantum head on, this challenges the notion of who indians are, notions that have, in part, been perpetuated by museums. going so far as to spotlight them in the city of their inception in perpetuation. he spends about two chapters actually looking at not only the physical structure of the museum, but how it has taken away all of the cure tore y'all expectations that we have when we go into a museum. it's not about anthropology, it's about interpretations of indian life by native americans themselves. i highly, again, i highly recommend this book for collections in colleges and in public libraries because it is very different, and it presents

a different voice. my next favorite book, these are slightly out of order, so let me just -- here -- is remembering the music, forgetting the words: travels with mom in the land of dementia. the author strips away the romantic veneer of mother/daughter love to the bare tooth and tough reality of caring for a parent who is slowly losing her mind. when we meet the author of this compelling memoir, she has seen her mother through her rehab for alcoholism, her divorce from her father and her marriage to an abusive stepfather only to discover little by little, day by day that her mother is developing alzheimer's disease. it seems that we can never learn everything about this disease of the mind. much of what we know can only be

speculated by medicine and psychology and observed in bewilderment and and horror by family survivors. those who have watched sadly as a parent or friend declines, however, will quickly realize kate wooly's account of her once musicically gifted mother and her erratic behavior. but from discovering piles of garbage in her mother's home to quickly forgotten conversations that lead her mother to fret, i can't remember what i had for breakfast, don't get old, katie, don't get old, wooly is dogged in her determination to protect her mother and see her through this latest and last catastrophe with or without her mothers or or -- lifelong friends. nevertheless, kate develops her own positive coping strategies for making it through each day with her mother in tow.

at the end she, like many of us in similar situations, battles contradictory feelings of grief, relief and guilt even though we know and she knows shah he did everything -- that she did everything possible for her ailing brother. writing the book is clearly therapeutic, and readers whether or not they have shared her experience will probably find it equally therapeutic. its contemporary subject matter and wide appeal make this an outstanding choice for public libraries, highly recommended for book clubs and for academic libraries, especially those institutions that train medical providers, psychologists and social workers. i understand there was some misprint in all of the publicity about this session that the words "public library" somehow got left out of the presentations. but i think all of our books today are really very appropriate. and this one in particular. um, as i barbara williams, i

didn't mention that when i first started, but i'm barbara williams, i'm the county brine of riverside county, and i make a time of helping patrons when they come in, and i'm always amazed at the number of people who are caregivers or very good friends of people who have issues like this. remembering the music, forgetting the words portrayed. and i, in fact, had a colleague read the book whose mother has alzheimer's, and she was very moved by it. so i highly recommend it. my next favorite book was race appeal: how candidates invoke race in the u.s. political campaigns. this work is timely and informative not only because of the 2012 presidential election, but also because it places

recent past elections and their candidates in a new, sharper focus. the authors -- one a media, culture and communication professor and the other a political science professor -- observe: candidates off use any and every kind of tool available to them to persuade voters to elect them. sometimes even appealing to the most deplorable human attitudes to accomplish their electoral goals. recently-coined code words, immigration reform, food stamp president, racial authenticity or black and the like and the technique of racial framing, for example, are re-examined through familiar and well documented cases including footnotes, charts and graphs. written in intelligent but not academic language, this is an outstanding selection for large public libraries, especially those with significant collections in history and popular culture, for libraries

in schools with advanced placement classes like history and for academic libraries. last on my list of -- and let me just say here there were so many books. like the other ladies who have spoken before me, there were so many books i received that i really enjoyed. and what i do is i usually -- the ones that i really enjoy, i usually end up donating. so, for example i've donated most of them, one of my daughters is a school librarian, and i donated to her library, and hi husband is a dean -- my husband is a dean of humanities, and i donated the bulk of the books to them. but i could have kept all of them very easily. they were just really excellent. the best of times, the worst of times: contemporary american short stories from the new gilded age. this is a fully engaging collection of contemporary short stories. the new gilded age, as the late

20th and early 21st century has become known in some circles, finds a range of issues in short story format written by authors who bring insight from a variety -- um, one more. sorry. there we go. who bring insight from a variety of -- hold on a minute. i'm sorry. let me just start again. authors include, um, a full range of political issues in short story format written by men and women authors who bring insight from a variety of class perspectives and ethnicities. authors include the immediately-recognizable like john updike and those who may be better known in smaller circles but equally literate circles. the collection groups their work into subcollections for stories about family relations, identity and working conditions, for example. the involvement of university students to help identify which stories to include gives the

collection a freshness and accessibility for anyone who enjoys reading and maybe discussing well written, contemporary short stories wherever they can find them. the stories are written using a variety of styles and voices making this collection highly recommended for public libraries. and for high school libraries and academic libraries, especially for writing and literature classes. i highly recommend all four of these books in addition to the ones that you will find in your catalog. um, i think they make excellent choices for several different libraries. thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is merlyn miller, and i am a high school librarian in

vermont, and i have picked three books that i felt were my favorites from what i was reviewing. they just happen to all be about world war ii. the first book is about, is a memoir called "accident of fate." and the author was living in vienna when the german army invaded austria, and the austrian republic ceased to exist, and its territory was incorporated into the nazi reich. with all the other boys in his school, the 13-year-old was segregated from his non-jewish class mates and notified he would be expelled in june at the end of the school year. it quickly became clear that his family needed to leave austria, but like many jewel families with limited -- you families

with limited means, they had almost no options. most countries severely restricted the admission of jews from german-controlled areas. their first choice would have been the usa, but with no relatives there and a quota system in force, it would have meant waiting years. the only feasible destination was yugoslavia where they had an uncle, grandmother and an aunt. yugoslavia was still an independent country free of anti-semetic legislation, but next came the problem of valid passports and entry visas. there was a little bit of confusion and some mix-ups, but the author was granted papers while the rest of his family was not. so his mother put him on a train to yugoslavia by himself, and he said good-bye to his mother and his brother, max, hoping that at some point they would be able to join him. eventually, his mother managed to send his brother max to

england, and she crossed illegally into yugoslavia, and they were temporarily reunited. the author was able to remain safe for a while, but when he was 17 years old, he was handed a piece of paper that states: as a jew, being dangerous to order and safety, has been sentenced to two years hard labor in concentration camp. he was arrested and imprisoned with a sentence of hard labor, and this was the worst sentence imaginable to him because he knew it was the harshest of all the concentration camps. he was thinking, i'm only 17, and i've never done anything wrong. perhaps if i work hard and i to bay all the commands -- i obey all the commands, i will not be harmed. but these thoughts vanished quickly. he was assigned to a grave dig canner's detail, and the grave digger's job was to drag the

corpses out of the barracks, load them onto a large sleigh and spend the entire day digging mass graves in frozen ground and flinging the corporations into them. -- corporations -- corpses into them. the earth was frozen hard, and the work was exhausting and painful. none of the prisoners had gloves, and all were in an utterly weakened state but had to work without respite. how many of the grave diggers themselves were murdered on any given day under the pretext they worked too slowly depended entirely on the mood of the guards. in the end, though, the author or ended up spending just three weeks there because of a nazi general who happened to respond to an appeal from his uncle. and this is a picture of the release form from, um, for him from the death camp.

eventually, the author joined tito's partisans, it was a communist resistance movement in yugoslavia, but still he had to deal with anti-semitism because his personal identity placed him in triple jeopardy. first, because he was a jew, second because he spoke german and had a german education, and many could not fully appreciate the difference between a german-speaking jew and a nazi. and, third, because his first name, imre, was hungarian, and they were allies of the germans and, therefore, detested by the partisans. um, as a partisan, he became involved with many search and rescue operations to recover duned ally -- downed allied airmen, and this was a job he was especially proud to partake

in. and this is photograph of one group of airmen that he helped rescue. and in this photograph imre is the young man who is right in the middle of the picture, the tallest one. in '45 he fled yugoslavia's communist regimes and reached liberated southern italy. in '47 at the age of 22, he emigrated to the u.s. and earned a law degree at new york university, and eventually in the 'moved back -- '50s moved back to europe. allow me to read this passage from the book. these are imre's words. knowing that my stamina or resourcefulness played a significant role in my survival and that religious belief played no role at all, i am deeply disturbed at to casual

suggestion that those who sur psied did so -- [inaudible] the implication that those who perished could also have survived if they had shown the same qualities is disparaging of their memory. it is, in fact, nothing but mindless nonsense that flies in the face of the stark evidence. we who survived owe our lives to chance. in no way were we more worthy, wise or strong than those who were gassed, hanged, shot or slaughtered. if i have lived to write these words, then it has been nothing but an accident of fate. and i must seize the opportunity. this well-written memoir, um, i think will appeal especially to teenagers because the bulk of the memoir describes the author's teen years. um, and also at my school books about the holocaust and memoirs

about the holocaust are really popular with the students, um, because the holocaust is part of our curriculum, and i think it would also be great book at a public library. the next book is called "finish 40 and home: the untold world war ii story of b-24s in the pacific," and it's by phil scarce. so two weeks after the japanese attacked pearl harbor, a young 16-year-old boy by the name of herman scearce lied about his age and joined the army. first assigned to radio school, he then volunteered for gunnery training and ended up assigned to base in hawaii. um, he is the young man in the middle in this picture. while e had join -- while he had

joined the army on a spur of the moment lark thinking it would be a fun adventure, his first time out on a bombing mission -- shooting and being shot at, witnessing death and losing friends -- cearce and the rest of the dog patch express crew became veterans. they quickly came to understand the price of a single combat mission could be quite high, and they knew firsthand that the japanese were skilled, capable adversaries. and this is a picture of the crew of the dogpatch express. um, the b-24 that he flew in was nicknamed the dogpatch express, and many of the other b-24s had similar nicknames, things like naughty nanette, virginia belle, daisy may, green hornet and superman. the dogpatch express comes from a cartoon called li'l abner, and

this is a picture of mamie. she's delivering a knockout punch with her left fist. they used armor-piercing bombs, fragmentation bombs, incendiary bombs, but the most common bombs used by the b-24s were just called a general purpose bomb. painted olive drop with a one-inch band around the nose and the tail. 500-pound versions were the norm, but there were also 100-pound, 250-pound, 1,000 and even 2,000-pound bombs. their primary responsibility was protection of the hawaiian islands, and they flew patrols and search missions and conducted countless hours of training to maintain combat readiness. the missions were flown against targets to soften the japanese defenses. so if an island was slated for invasion, air strikes would be

followed by navy ships moving in for close range shelling, and then marines would go ashore. this book is the true story of the young men and missions of the 11th bombardment group as it flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war. most looked to the war being fought in europe, but these men were facing determined enemy fighters in the south central pacific, often with inexperienced crews and inadequate navigational training. they faced thousands of miles of overwater flying with no alternative landing sites. their losses were enormous, but always their goal was to complete 40 combat missions and make it home again. one such bombing mission was to complete a mine field that would close the shipping channel between the islands of chi chi and i who gee that.

there were -- iwo jima. there were four bomber planes that took off, but because the harbor was heavily defended by antiwar craft guns and japanese ships, they flew a very risky route between mountains where they had to fly so close to each other that their wing tips overlapped. at one point a lieutenant miles released a mine just as another aircraft passed laterally in a bank beneat, and the mine -- beneath, and the mine crashed into the fuselage punching in an ugly 3x6 foot hole which you can see in this picture. a six-foot parachute was attached to the mine, so it billowed out full behind the aircraft dragging the plane down while the mine, dragged into the control cables for the rudder. so two of the airmen grabbed an axe and started chopping the

parachute lines to get it to fall away. then they word their gun barrels -- worked their gun barrels as improvised you bars to pry and lift the mine out of the plane without setting off 465 pounds of tnt. after that there was nothing they could do except hope and pray that the plane would hold together for their 800-mile ride back home. and they made it. but as you can see in the picture, this aircraft never flew again. oops. how do i go back? no, that's forward. oh, thank you. now i want to go forward one. thank you. um, this is -- process frowz bombs were develop canned by aircraft flying over american planes, and the bombs were set

to detonate above their target aircraft. then the white streaks, and this is a picture of one of those phosphorous bombs. the white streak shooting from beneath the burst left sering, hot pieces of phosphorous that were able to burn a hole new the bomber. through the bomber. and then, um, this is a picture of iwo jima. you can sees the entirely cratered by -- you can sees the entirely cratered by bombs. this book was written by herman scearce's son, it brings the reader along on the combat missions flying from places like midway, guam and saipan exprg increasingly closer to japan. the author's intense research is obvious and yet i think it

appeals to the reader because it is like, it reads like a page-turning story. and my last book is called "just a larger family: letters of marie williamson from the canadian home front, 1940-1944." so as world war ii in europe got underway, families began evacuating british children. at first evacuation was limited to well-to-do families, people with money or influence, but then companies like ford and kodak arranged evacuation of children of their employees, then service clubs like rotary started to help, and then private schools would make arrangements. then the british government got involved to make evacuation a little more equitable, and the result was corb, the children's overseas reception board for canadians it was painfully clear

a german invasion of great britain was a great possibility, and many canadians still had strong ties to the mother country and felt committed to supporting the british cause in any way they could. one way was to accept british children into their homes for the duration of the war. so what would possess a young, divorced woman, margaret sharp, to send her three sons -- bill, christopher and tom, ages 13, 11 and 9 -- thousands of miles away across a submarine-infested ocean to stay for an indefinite period of time in a city she had never visited with distant relatives she barely knew? and what could have convinced another young couple, marie and john williamson with two with children of their own, a limited household income and a mother whose help was never especially robust to welcome three young boys they had never met into a home they knew was not large

enough? um, this is a picture of' williamson, and she -- marie williamson, and she and her husband john welcomed these three english brothers to join them and their two children in a small house in toronto, canada, for the duration of the war. the sharp boys were private evacuees and, therefore, in a different position than children who came to canada under the banner of the corb. first, because they were unofficial advantage wee wees -- evacuees, the williamsons were not eligible for tax relief, and although the sharps were eventually able to send a small amount of money and clothing to canada, the burden for the boys' financial upbringing fell on the williamsons. guardianship was not a legal concern, but it certainly brought out personal issues, and as the letters reveal, marie was

constantly forced to deal with everything that goes along with raising children. in the grand scheme of a world at war, those issues might seem small. but in practice questions, lift to answer when -- difficult to answer when they concern your own children, are even more difficult when deciding for someone else's children. transatlantic communication was difficult, and letters might take weeks to cross the atlantic. they had to worry that letters might go down with a torpedoed merchant ship, and more often than not parental decisions can't wait that long. so margaret sharp also seemed to be a somewhat reluctant letter writer, and at one point marie williamson had to outright ask margaret to write more frequently to her boys to insure they did not forget their real mother. um, this is a picture of the two women when they actually got together many year later. it's actually in 1958 of marie

and margaret. it's amazing today to look back to a world where distant cousins, as the williamsons were to the sharps, were prepared to take all three boys from a different country into their home for an indefinite period. although first bill and then christopher went off to live with different families, one cannot but be staggered by the generosity of the offer, a generosity that at times one feels margaret failed to appreciate. um, this is one of the letters written by one of the boys writing to his mother. um, it's not important to know what it said, it's obviously a child's, child's scribbles. but marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys' mother, margaret sharp, imagining that she would make margaret feel she was still with her children. and the letters are brimming with detail about family

holidays, financial implications of their extended family, their involvement in their church, the games and activities that kept them occupied and their education. marie's letters reflect the lives and concerns of that particular family in toronto, but they also reveal a portrait of what was then canada's second largest city during wartime. and they reveal a special insight into the program of child evacuation. there's a forward in the book that puts the letters in historical context, and, um, it's actually -- the book is actually edited by marie's daughter, mary, and margaret's youngest son, tom sharp. at first be, this book grabbed my attention because of my english-canadian heritage, but ultimately i just liked the way the letters slowly reveal the way these two families intertwined and about this child

evacuation program in world war ii that i was completely unaware of until i read this book, and i think it would have appeal to high school students as well as to public libraries. thank you. [applause] >> hi, i'm hilary albert from new york. my books respect filled with lots of -- aren't filled with pretty pictures. if anything, one that does have pictures has disturbing images. they have something to offer for everyone. sometimes it may be for the high school teacher, and sometimes it is for the world leader, but the thing they have in common is that they teach a lesson, and that is an important thing.

there is nothing more important than giving knowledge. whether the reader walks away with the same knowledge is a different matter. each book challenges the reader in a different way, and that's perhaps the most exciting thing of all about holding a book in your hands. once you open it, you are not only reading what someone wants you to learn from them, but your own interpretation on it. which one do i push? can i go back one? sorry. sorry. okay. reading like a historian, teaching literacy in middle school and high school classrooms is a great source for teachers who want to work on history with a new approach. this book takes teachers beyond the textbook, beyond facts to concepts and questions that make earning the facts necessary and

then, therefore, more memorable. there we go, okay. um, as you can see from the first page, this introduction, what it does for the teacher is give them an idea of what each chapter's going to teach them, teach the student. um, a great source for teachers, and what it does the first step is aided, uses primary source material to help set the stage by looking beyond the internet and beyond memorization which we all know is what the teacher is usually doing to an actual source document. and it can bring the history alive right away. this helps put the concept into time and place. rather than thinking of struggling students being unable to use an actual source document, this book helps figure that they can by using a modified version and a word bank to assist the teacher.

it's down on the bottom as you can see. i don't know if it's clear enough, it's the word bank, and it takes the large words which are in bold print and tells them exactly what it means so that then the struggling student or, um, i don't know, there's another term that i think teachers use for struggling student. they can then understand those technologies, the word. a set of questions and analysis then follow. um, and the students are then asked to take a side and prepare, um, a position. and they usually discuss it in the classroom. this helps the teacher plan a lesson plan, um, which i don't know if you work in a public library, but we get teachers coming in all the tomb asking for lesson -- time asking for lesson plans. thises a great book to give to a history teacher. along with suggested resources which come at the end of the book. this book is, obviously, not a

substitute for the textbook, but it also comes with a thing called outs which are, um, open up the textbook sections where the teacher can then open up the textbook and use the section that they're using in the textbook with this part of the book, and they can combine them, and it makes it more interesting for the student and also for the teacher. they call it sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating with close reading. each lesson plan will then stand on its own. it engages students in historical inquiry revolving around one question in the be primary source documents giving the teacher a chance to do something a little bit different and more interesting than just rote memorization which, to me, would have made it a lot more interesting to sit in the classroom. i don't know about the rest of you. my next book, "worlds apart: bosnian lessons for global

security," was my be favorite book. i know it sounds kind of depressing, but it was really remarkably written, and it was by an amazing author. suwanee hunt was very much involved in bosnia, even today. she spent a lot of her time going to bosnia during the bosnian war while it was actually happening. the book itself is divided into two parts, war and peace. this is a map of boss any herzegovina during wartime. that's not very clear, is it? but the book itself has the two sections, war and peace, and then it has chapters which are told from, quote, the inside and the outside. the inside, um, would be something like this bread factory which fascinated me that ms. hunt was actually able to

gain the trust of the average civilian. she would go in during the war, and she gained trust of the civilians like this man who was working in the bread factory, and they told, they told how -- oh, my goodness, my cards are out of order. anyway, they told how they were surviving and how the factory itself was being run by an old motor from a serbian tank that they had stolen. and she went and met with all the people and would then bring the information back to the dinners that she went to in vienna which were the outside part. and she was trying at the time to try to get the people at these dinners, the german ambassador and the austrian ambassadors and then, of course, her husband, the good looking guy on the end that she's talking to, to get more involved and try to do something to help end the siege. and the reason i thought this book was so important for today was that this book was written,

and the information was out there during rwanda and some of the other -- darfur and during some of the other information. and she brought it, she brought this information to world leaders, and nobody did anything to stop the other general sides, and that really -- genocides, and that really upset me. and, frankly, they can use this information right now with syria, and they're ignoring it again. my last book is "the quotable thoreau." it's from the princeton university press, and it's a really great book. it's really little. it's about this big and this thick, and the paper just -- he would have loved the book. it feels really good when you touch it. and the first, it's organized really beautifully. for librarians, it's great. it's alphabetical, for starters, it's not just random quotes like most quote books seem to be these days. and, um, it goes from beauty to

experience to weeds. i mean, it ends with weeds. isn't that cool? i loved it. and then ends, actually, with miscellaneous subjects where they couldn't figure out what to put it in, so they actually created a miscellaneous subjects. but at the beginning of the book there's a delightful discussion on how to pronounce his name because when he was first out there, um, they thought his name was thorough, and people used to call him thorough, and it really upset him that people didn't pronounce his name thoreau. and before the actual quotations, he gives us quotes that he had about himself. one of them was: it is my own way of living that i complain of as well as yours that showed that he was an equal opportunity curmudgeon. he hated himself too. [laughter] so i thought that was great. this book is also illustrated with objects. for example, this one which is a slug that was used to kill a moose in the hunting and fishing

section with an appropriate quote: perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted not except the humane society. this next is a photo of an old path that thorough walked on -- thoreau walked upon. and his survey of walden pond along with the excellent quote: do your work and finish it. if the you know how to begin it, you will then know how to end it. there's a map of walden pond that he did, the very first map of walden pond. i love it. the end contain quotations of all the other and ever-popular misquotes. all in all, it's a joy to return to over and over again, a great addition for any library. my three books are short, they're not beautiful always to look at, but they are beautiful to touch. they're all well printed, and i recommend them to all public libraries and all secondary education books. be secondary educational

institutions. thank you very much. [applause] >> spend this weekend in ohio's state capital, columbus, as booktv and american history tv join c-span's local content vehicles to look behind the scenes at the history and literary life of ohio's largest city. on booktv on c-span2, browse the rare books collection at ohio state university. and from american homicide, randolph roth charts murder from colonial time toss the present. and on american history tv on c-span3 from the statehouse, learn about ohio's connection to our 16th president. also discover how the people created and used the largest geometric earth works in the world. throughout the weekend, history and literature with c-span's local content vehicles on c-span2 and 3. >> tonight in prime time on

booktv, "wall street journal" reporter kirsten grind talks about her book "the lost bank," detailing the collapse of washington mutual in 2008, the largest bank failure in u.s. history. >> so the crisis, they say it happened slowly and then quickly, right? and that was absolutely the case at wamu. it began to get very bad. all of their issues internally, their internal controls had just fallen apart. at one point they were making mortgages on 12 different systems. they had grown so fast that there was just no control internally. their mortgage division had ballooned out of control, they had this massive trading desk. today had turned into not a mortgage lend, they were only 15 years earlier when lou was there, but almost a mortgage middleman in which they were sucking up mortgages and spitting them out and making a lot of money in between. so all of this -- they had turned into this just as housing

prices, which had been going up astronomically every year, began to crash. >> uh-huh. >> really began to crash. so suddenly, wamu is left with all these, holding all these risky mortgages, and all the homeowners that could have just refinanced out of those mortgages couldn't anymore because the housing prices weren't there to support it. so suddenly wamu, which had been profitable for how many years at that point, they literally were eating away at their capital cushion, and they needed more money. >> watch the entire interview with reporter kirsten grind on the collapse of washington mutual bank tonight at 8 eastern here on c-span2. >> john kennedy once met with harold mcmillan, the british prime minister, and you read it in the day of the newspapers, they discussed arms control, you

know, whatever, issues between the two powers, which they sure did can. only long afterwards did we get the notes on what they said exactly to each other in private. turned out, kennedy spent a lot of time complaining about bad press coverage. the press was being tough on jackie. and mcmillan who was a generation older said, jack, you know, why do you care? it doesn't matter, you have other things to worry about. and kennedy quite heatedly said, well, that's easy for you to say, harold. how would you like if the press said your wife was a drunk? and mcmillan replied, i would have simply said, you should have seen her mother. [laughter] so it's the kind of thing that later on, the sort of fun things that give you an idea what these people are like that you just can't learn in realtime. >> historians and biographers use the advantage of hindsight to understand their subjects through a prism of time. sunday your questions, calls, e-mails and tweets for presidential historian michael beschloss on the lives of