thanks everybody for coming today. >> i do recognize that it exists explains irrational fear of islam and absolutely against it. it's part of kuna phobia. it is nothing. it's part of it. but what happened is that the is

lamas lobby, the brotherhood lobby and the iranian love the have hijacked that notion nothing to do with their religion, nothing to do with the five pillars. they have been accused of islam a phobia. i think this is close to what the national socialists in germany would have accused anybody of criticizing the policies of being against the german. and even at the international level it becomes very dangerous. >> wally ferris on u.s. policy in the middle east. tonight at 10:00 eastern and smart at 9:00 on book tv afterwards. and on april 6th more discussion on the middle east with military strategist and former assistant defense secretary banalized with your calls and comments live in-depth study in any session. >> book tv spoke with scholars

at the hoover institution, public policy think tank in stanford university to find out what they're reading. senior fellow michael mccall a recently stepped down as the u.s. ambassador to russia is currently reading the shock. he shared i'm reading because of my interest in how modernizing autocrats eventually lose power. you can watch the interview at the hoover institution on booktv.org. victor davis hansen, an expert on classics and military history just finished richard oversees the bombers and the bond, a survey of the allied strategic bombing campaign against germany between 1942 and 1945. he mentioned, i am writing in the history of world war ii. new revisions treatments. larry diamond to focus is on democracy the righteous mind. he explained this book is absolutely a must read for

anyone who wants to understand what politics in the u.s. is interested polarized and how partisan polarization might be east. over 30 years, and this was a book that i have read recently in will be read in the future is the for war. a classic account of the american wars in afghanistan. he lived these wars and brings to his readers the ordeal of war for the soldiers who fought it and the civilians were caught up in it. dexter focus discussed his book at the 2008 miami book fair. you can find is talk at our website. shelby steele and specializes in the study of race relations multiculturalism and affirmative-action recently reread, abandon the river. he says it shows more graphically than anything else i have read how so many

third-world countries coming out of colonialism descend into chaos, corruption, and totalitarianism. to wrap up our hoover institution scholars reading less senior fellow and economics john taylor is rewire growth matters. >> the reason i wrote the book, there is crisis of manhattan and the culture. we have shied away from the idea of saying this is greatness of this is a great man. you know, releases the 60's we of celebrated anti euros. i feel like it has not done -- it is not been so good for us. i think that this generation

needs euros, real heroes, you know. i had the privilege of writing a book about, upper. a great hero, a true hero who died for what he believed and had the privilege of writing a book. so many friends said on not a big reader. and not going to read it. i'm right at 20 page version and put it in seven men. i started there and done what is it that makes anyone break? in no way it has to do with self sacrifice. it is not about strength. it is about using a strain for those that don't have any strength. we can leave it there for now. there is much more. i just thought about the stories with which i was familiar of great men from history. @booktv, i said i know that many

people don't know some of these stories. for example, the second half of what happened. many people don't even know. came out 30 years ago. so one of the seven men then george washington. i have to talk about him. very few people know the whole story of jack robinson, what an amazing story. the central piece of that store most people don't know. ..

c-span: jane holtz kay, when was the last time you owned an automobile? >> guest: 1991, when i began this book and dispensed with the automobile. c-span: you actually got rid of it? >> guest: oh, yes. i actually was at a lecture at george washington university in st. louis, and someone in the audience said to me, 'do you have a car?' and it was kind of--the duck came down. 'oh, i'm only going to get asked this question again and again.' so i sold the car and it was a very positive experience, but i was prepared, if it hadn't been, to have gotten the car back again and written a different book. c-span: where'd you get the title "asphalt nation?"