anyhow. skip hartman would come out and try to teach me how to hit aforehand or backhand. seriously, you learn something about a person by their behavior on a tennis court. you truly do. isn't that right, bobby? >> okay. thank you very much, mr. mayor. and we're ready for the signing. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, please, one more round of applause for mayor denkins. >> if you would like to get a book signed today, please re -- >> military historian max

hastings -- >> former alaska governor sarah palin explains religious is being stripped from christmas. protecting the heart of christmas in end of days the assassination of john f. kennedy, james want son recounts the days leading up to the assassination of president kennedy. tom hard point hosted a tom hartman radio program for seasoned economic collapse in 2016 in, the crash of 2016, the plot to destroy america and what we can do to stop it. in the right path, from ike too reagan, how republicans mastered politics and can. he is a former republican congressman and argues the republican party has lost sight of its core values. >> herb boyd and al shabazz, daughter of malcolm x, present a

couple of entries from the diary of malcolm x, and james tobin recounts roost's battle with polio, how fdr defied polio to win the presidency. look for these titles in become stores in the coming. week. >> this >> the best nonfiction books included this suffering and nothing to be freightenned of. another book review best nonfiction books for 2008 was jane mayer0s the dark side. the inside story of how the war on temporary turned into a war on american ideals.

this is on book tv's interview program in 2008 to talk about her book. >> first of all, it gives me a sense i'm performing a service which is informing the public about something they need to know about, and i feel it is the core of why people like me become reporters, and the second thing is, it was an obsessive kind of puzzle. even from the beginning, when i started on the story about rendition, i could not believe that people were being snatched off of streets in europe and elsewhere in the world by our own government officials, wearing black hoods and putting these people on a sleek white gulf stream jet and taking them to dungeons someplace where there would be no lawyer, no due process, no charges, and potentially where they could be tortured forever and some of them died.

it just was the most unamerican thing i'd ever heard of. i absolutely couldn't believe it was real, and the more i learned, the more i realized that it was worldwide puzzle, and there were reporters around the world piecing little bits of it together, which made it incredibly interesting. >> also on "the new york times" book reviews, best nonfiction books for 2008, what "the forever war" a look at america's battles withislamic fundamentalism. and "the world is what it is" an account of the life of the know nobel peace -- >> military historian max

hastings presents a history of the first year of world war i. next on book tv. the author examines the diplomatic failings that led to the onset of the war and recalls the early battles. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thanks so much for that. it's such a pleasure to be here at politics and prose. when i was talking to my wife about the program here, i said the great pleasure coming here, you guys read books and buy books. nothing every author loves more than that. every great historical event is shrouded in myths and legend. few more so than 1914, that summer