to take one home and read this and get it signed tonight, and once again thank you for coming tonight. thank you james and hopefully a lot more conversations about this in the next 15 years. [laughter] >> thanks very much for everything. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] : sharing anything on book tv.org easilily chick clicking share on the upper left side of the paimg and selecting the format. book tv streams live online 48 hours every weekend with top

nonfiction books and authors. book tv.org. the citizen campaign saved the old capitol and had prevailed and the two buildings were going to coexist and one capitol complex, but how exactly the historic capitol would be restored to was then the debate. it wasn't whether we save it or not, it was what time period to we restore it to. 1902 version offered great benefits because all three branches of government won this one building and a the goal of the department of state was to

turn it into a museum and use it as a teaching tool for school children and being able to come to the one site and see the supreme court, governor's house and house and senate chambers understand the three branches of government and how they work together. reallies was the benefit -- >> next weekend book tv and american history tv look at the history and literary life of florida state capitol tallahassee on c-span 2 and 3. >> when i went to germany, and i went through a lot of different archives i was fascinated reading some of these original transcripts of these scientists. and these are sort of 70-page documents which show in a very subtle way how this program began. so you have these military intelligence officers learning about hitler's nerve agent programs that we did not know about.

learning about hitler's biological weapon programs that we did not know about. interviewing the scientists an trying to find out all that we can, but also you see decisions being made and that real decision comes down no to this, should this scientist be hanged? or should this scientist be hired? >> you can watch this and a other programs online at book tv.org. >> here's a look at some of the best selling non fiction books according to "new york times." malcolm has the list with david and goliath followed by duty with robert gates. book tv covered talks by both be of the authors you can see them online at book tv.org. third is unbroken, the story of an olympic runner who survived scraps imprisonment during world war ii. elizabeth exams role of manmade influences on plant and animal loss o in the fourth book, the

sixth extinction and spoke at the town hall an show you on book tv. go to book tv.org to see our complete schedule. fifth, fox news host bill o'reilly and martin recount the life and death of jesus of nazareth in killing jesus. number six is charles hammers collection of the political columns things that matter. three decades of passion, past times an plibs. 7th is glitter and glue by kelly. watch the pulitzer prize oning columnist program from the george washington library on our website book tv.org. facebook chief operateing has her book, lean in. >> ninth is secret six that has the spy ring during the revolutionary war. >> the talk of the computer history music in california an brian featured on the afterwards program last november. wrapping up the list is one way

out by alan paul and oral history of the almond brothers band. a look at some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to to the "new york times." >> three elements are first a sense of exceptionality and you can get it from lots of different source but it is a feeling that you're special and just for special things. second element is almost seemingly the opposite and that is a dash of insecurity to offset that exceptionality, and that is a feeling that you haven't quite done yet or good enough yet and third element is impulse control or about discipline and ability to persevere and resist temptation. >> individuals that have these qualities grow up in merck an they tend, predictably to have kind of an interesting, creative -- relationship between their culture and american culture

such that second generation kids in immigrant communities start very typically looking back at their parents and grandparents generations and saying, you know what, we don't want to do success the way you told us to. we're not interested in those jobs that you said were the only ones. and instead make their decisions to be a stand up comic or artist or something like that and what we found is, aspirationally at least these same qualities can help hem do that and achieve a very different kind of goal. >> superiority. insecurity and intuls control triple package tonight at 10 eastern part of book tv this weekend on c-span 2. part of the book club we'll be discussing joseph's new biography of carmickle go to book tv.org to enter the chat room. >> there was a poll done in 2013 after the 2013 --

after the second inaugural which asked americans it if ronald reagan were to run today against barack obama, who would you vote for? they said reagan by 58%. over obama and that is right after obama's reelection in 2013. here's a really fascinating -- how is obama elected principally, youth votes. youth vote that same poll, they asked people ages 18 to 34 who would you vote for ray begun or obama they picked reagan. unlike the gallop does a president's day poll every president's day annual president's day poll opinion doing this 13 times since 2001. reagan placed first among the american public as far as question who is your all time favorite president. reagan got on 2001, 2005, 2011,

2012. an reagan you recallly finishes in the top three. typically beats lincoln. [laughter] and imagine that. imagine that. there was in -- in june 2005 a poll done by aol and time warner that survived americans and didn't give them a choice but put in whichever name they wanted. who is the greatest american of all time? not who is the greatest president. who is the greatest american of all time 2.4 million people responded. which any status will tell you is far in a way a representative. you only need 500 people to do some of this polling. and reagan won. >> you can watch this and other programs online, and book tv.org. >> you're watching book tv, next elisabeth colbert argue as we're undergoing a fixed max

extinction five others occurred over the past 500 million years. likely that one is the result of human action, and be the most devastating. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much, i too am very impressed that such a large number of people are here on a friday night, and i really, really appreciate it. so thanks very much for being here. i want to start by introducing you to this up on the screen who is a hawaiian. otherwise known as alala. i know that he looks a lot like an ordinary crew you might find around here. but there are significant differences, his beak is thicker for example. and his legs