do with -- [inaudible] having to do with the fife pillars, okay? they have been accused of islamphobia, and i think this is very close to what the national socialists in germany would have been against the german race. and even at the international level this has become very dangerous. >> walid phares on u.s. policy in the middle east tonight at 10 eastern and tomorrow night at 9 on booktv's "after words." and on april 6th, more discussion on the middle east with military strategist and former assistant defense secretary bing west with your calls and comments, live "in depth" starting at noon eastern. booktv, every weekend on c-span2. >> why is it that it's the one name we all know? and it really is because of her man, because she married john

adams. and i must say being here today i feel like i've come home, because i've come to john and abigail's home and also home that all three sisters spent a lot of time in. but the other two sisters that i think you know less about, i argue in my book, are even though they didn't can marry presidents -- they didn't marry presidents, they're equally important and remarkable women. first, there's the oldest sister, mary cranch, and she was sort of the uncrowned queen of the family because, in the puritan family, hire hierarchy s very important, and she was born first, so she was the first born. she was very important. and especially after her brother was disinherited by their father, she was really the one who inherited the first son's

role. because there was no brother. finish -- and then when she grew up, she proved he's to be just a wonderful administrator. so even though she was a woman and couldn't be elected to any position, she was the de facto mayor of quincy. and her husband would be appointed to positions, but really even would know mary would take care of everything. and then there's elizabeth shaw peabody who was the youngest sister and always thought that neither of her older sisters gave her enough attention, and she was constantly clamoring, listen to me, listen to me. and she was also the most literate and the best educated of the three of them. she had the ambition when she was young to grow up and become a published writer, a published letter writer. it was the golden age of letter writing, and she wanted her letters to be published, and

i'll let you read the book to find out whether that actually happened. but she did become, with her husband, the founder of the second co-educational school in america. so that itself was pretty impressive. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> he's a look at some books that are being published this week:

>> watch for the authors in the ner future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> bend is a timber town. you wouldn't know it to look at it today. the timber qualities are almost completely removed, but, yes, bend was a timber town to begin with. at the height of the timber industry, so if you were to drop

into bend in, say, 1928, you would have smelled the mills, you would have smelled sawdust if you went through certain parts of town, you'd get saw on your clothes. you would hear periodic mill whistle les from the two gigantic supermills that were on the banks of the river. it would have permeated everything. it would have been ten minutes off from the downtown core where all the shops were, but you would have seen the smoke from the smokestacks and the barners, you would have smelled it, you would have heard the whistles, you would have known right away that you were in the middle of timber town usa. >> next weekend, booktv and american history tv look at the history and literary life of bend, oregon, on c-span2 and 3. >> actually, the film comes from the spanish, and at the

beginning -- [inaudible] which has wandered off the farms and by extension, it was used for runaway slaves. so in spanish -- [inaudible] and it becomes maroon in english. now, what is interesting also is that even though the term is used maroon and cimarron as any kind of runaway, then it became useful for people who settled in the swamps, the -- [inaudible] but in the united states maroon was actually reserved for, you know, large communities of surname and jamaica. and in the united states maroons were actually called runaways simply or outliers. >> but these -- normally when we think of runaway slaves, we think of people coming up to the

north, getting to canada. but you're talking about people who established communities in the south. >> yes. so communities or also individuals, families who remained in the south and decided to leave in an non-- live in ab anonymous way in the swamps. >> now, how did you get interested in this subject? because it's a very interesting and unusual one, but not that many people have written about it in the united states. >> in the united states, absolutely. >> how did you get into it? >> actually, you know, i really didn't start wanting to write a book, i wanted to really read books on maroons in the 1960s. i'd been reading a lot about the maroons in jamaica and brazil, in cuba, suriname, and i was looking for information on maroons in the united states. i was interested in who they were, what they were doing, where they lived.

and really i couldn't find anything. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> and now, booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. here are some of the programs to look out for this saturday and sunday: