parties. you want people to fix the problem. gimme a solution. here's the problem. let's just do this and not worry about wanting people or the names of high-frequency traders who did all this. don't think people on national tv. it's just not necessary. the more that there is there is a less likely solution because the people who have perpetrated upon feel like they are exposed. and so let's just fix it. >> host: the thing that we can start looking at this problem? >> guest: yes, i do. the money is funneled into the process with these advantages on these exchanges are the overwhelming debate. and we will see this fog machine in congress and inside the sec with lots of numbers and data

and my hunch is that now the problem is expose. and it can do what we need to do. and we do have one new regulation. and the two things that people in congress who are concerned with the issue should keep in mind, is that everything should be in the direction of genuine transparency. ..

are you previewing your next book? are you previewing bigger better faster? >> the book ends -- it will take a long time to get to it. riding along fiber-optic cable laid from chicago to new jersey to cut off two milliseconds, cost $300 million. no one who was around knew what its purpose was. the thing is it is like a beast underground and i went riding along its on a bike and see while i am writing on the bike and a newly constructed chain of microwave towers hovering on the hills in pennsylvania over the

line and those microwave towers are there because they are able to move a signal a couple millisecond's faster than this line that was put in. the mystery is who did that? i ride up to one of the towers and see the sec number on the tower and go figure out. interesting story who did this and why. is not my next book but the bottom of the story is the question do people want to know enough to go and find out how our markets were? it is a challenge to the reader. go on internet and you can figure out what is going on here. >> host: "flash boys" is the name of the book, michael lewis is the author. thank you. >> booktv covers hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we will be attending this week. look for these programs to air in the near future on booktv on

c-span2. this wednesday at norwich university in vermont the annual military writers symposium where radio host mark johnson will interview among other military writers the author of blood of tyrants. george washington and the forging of the presidency. sat same day at green light bookstore in brooklyn, new york we are taping a program with the editor of the new york times op-ed section who will discuss his new history of the civil rights act of 1954. on thursday booktv will be in denver at the tattered cover bookstore is investigative journalist doug fine discusses help and how it may affect the u.s. economy. we will also be in los angeles on thursday evening at the alex theatre to cover best-selling author michael lewis discussing his latest book "flash boys" about high frequency traders and the stock market. he will discuss his book with malcolm glad well. that is a look at some of the

other programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to our web site booktv.org and visit upcoming programs. >> catherine hall on the campus of the tee school, the site of the 2014 annapolis book festival in maryland. we will be back with more live coverage of this event shortly. >> the sense of a entrepreneur and freedom which is will we have always been about. my buddy of gear had a comment earlier about equal opportunity equal outcomes. democrats today are about equal outcomes. check the rhetoric. >> the book party for the publication of age arce and john allen. the cutoff there's made informal remarks. at was held at the w hotel in

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>> executive editor for bloomberg news and i ever see the washington bureau. thank you so much for coming out here tonight to test john allen and amy on their incredible achievement of their book the state's biggest secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton. john and amy are appreciative of your support. thank you for coming out. sorry. a few comments. nobody -- interesting in american political life van

hillary clinton and she has inspired a great deal of curiosity. john and amy have it all. they hit the best-seller lists, number 6. big hand for that. just a few words, john. when we will talk about amy. bloomberg news hired john just a couple weeks before the book came out. it was my fastest and perhaps my smartest higher ever. not many reporters that you hire immediately go to the best-seller list but it was easy to fall in love with john. he is warm, he is funny and he completely won meal for when i asked why he decided to write a

book about hillary. he said his mother who is here somewhere when he was growing up in the 70s, none of us can remember whose idea the $0.59 was but it is good for women in pay equality and the fact they were earning only $0.59 of every dollar a manner and that is what sold me on john. he wrote this part. in all fairness, and john had at slightly slow start pretty much after we hired john he disappeared and said i have to go on meet the press, cnn, have a book signing, going out to california, got another reading. it has been a whirlwind tour. we are looking forward to your comments from jay carney. and looking forward to you in all seriousness we couldn't be more excited about john being at

bloomberg, will the bureau is on a roll and john is going to help us lead that on top of a really talented staff we already have so read the book. we will have copies for you and bags on the way out. john and amy have signed all of them for you. thank you for coming and showing your support for this great book. [applause] >> i am very grateful. i want to welcome you on behalf of the hill, you are here to congratulate amy and john for the fabulous achievement they have put together. we are very proud of them being reported to the hill. and you came to was a couple years ago, a local start up in arlington, virginia and now joins us in washington d.c. and is all right as a correspondent

doing a fabulous job. doing great sources, a real adornment to the paper. john in his nomadic career was with us in 2005-2006, has done great work which you already know. they are the star attraction. please come up, john and amy. [applause] >> thank you. i just want to thank you all for being here. it means a lot to less and for all your support, we have been through a lot. disappeared for a year-and-a-half. we said lots of nice weekends.

and we wanted to thank you all for your support. this is really important, not just politics aside and but a come back story. how do you get over from bay or come back or see that? that is very important. i hope you read it, like it and we like hearing from you. [applause] >> i want to thank bloomberg for throwing this party. in particular laurier's, mentioned she hired me and i appreciate that. a by line or two out of that. i notice you said that.

and from bloomberg, to help put this together and hugo. for getting somebody important but thank you to all of you for putting this together. we are moved and touched. we see so many familiar paces--faces and friends. we appreciate your support and hope you are not too annoyed by the face book and twitter updates. and enjoy yourselves, we can just say thank you. >> thanks to the out of town friends. my friend andy who traveled from new mexico and my mom. [applause] >> so many people. and my wife stephanie i totally

forgot to say thank you. of course she was arranging the baby sitter for the kids which is not unusual. thank you, darling, i love you. >> thank you for coming. >> a toast to john and amy. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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everyone. >> when i was covering the 2000 election, my mom -- so at the mall, working for al gore in 2000. [inaudible conversations] >> i love this. the 2000 election. [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] >> on your screen a look at catherine hall at the key school in annapolis, md.. we will be back live from the annapolis book festival. >> booktv is on facebook and twitter. like and follow us for book industry news, booktv schedule updates, behind-the-scenes look at either events and interact with authors on live television programming. here are booktv and social media posts from this past week. we posted a washington examiner article about senator ted cruz's recent book deal with harpercollins.

according to the article, $1.5 million advance to write his memoirs. we posted an article from publishers weekly reporting on book sales for 2013 which increased 1% over 2012. we tweet about upcoming events around the country as well as an excerpt in politico on the 1964 civil rights act. follow us on twitter at booktv and like us on facebook, facebook.com/booktv for more news about the world of publishing and what is happening on booktv. >> one of the fascinating things, he is a fascinating character with the rich history. some of the main know him as one of the fbi's ten most wanted for years. son the 10 most wanted list next to osama bin laden until he was captured in santa monica, california a couple years ago. living just a couple blocks from the beach, living at this --

retired guy telling people he was charlie-gasco go from new york. he was a bank robber who committed bank robberies and was convicted in 1956 and sent to federal prison and because he was involved in some escape attempts he ended up that alcatraz which was the first maximum security federal security prison and was the worst of the worst as much to our delight as reporters anyone who was ever done, and alcatraz their entire prison file is open for the public to see. you can go to the archives in san bruno california and read all of these files, letters he wrote his brother in prison, what his record was like, a glimpse of him as a young man and this vicious, scary

criminal, to see these letters if you are on federal prison, you write to ten people and had a big families a six of the people were immediate family members. one of the fascinating things, talk about political connections, at law school. we see that billy managed to have someone who became a congressman because of his brother's mentor in prison and we saw these letters back and forth coming and he was very big as a prisoner of war, so tired of being the black sheep of the family. and go straight and actually meant it. >> you can watch this and other programs on line on booktv.org. here are the upcoming book fairs

and festivals happening around the country. this coming saturday booktv live from maryland's capital city for the annapolis book festival. coverage will include several of their panels ranging from the civil rights movement to a debate on gun control. the same day we will be covering events from the san antonio book festival on booktv in the coming weeks. on april 12th and fourteenth los angeles times festival of books at the university of southern california. saturday, may 17th, the gaithersburg book festival will take place in gaithersburg, md.. june 6th through the eighth, the first sacramental black book fair. festivals happening in your area will lead them to our list at booktv@c-span.org. >> good afternoon. my name is stephen wrage and i will be moderating a panel with evan thomas. >> we are back from the

annapolis book festival in maryland. next discussion of the similarities between president eisenhower and president obama. it starts now on booktv. >> much younger black guy. a president who seemed to be on the links. it would seem like eisenhower's happiest moments were playing poker with cronies, drinking lots of scotch and obama might have been more on the basketball court. we may have had a lot of similar problems that confront them during their times in office and it may be they converge more in their styles and temperaments for their two terms each. there are a lot of things for us to talk about about cia opportunities or activities

during eisenhower's days and obama's days, with drones as a new weapon that came in obama's times versus you twos in eisenhower's time a crisis in crimea and one presidency and won in budapest and another, a lot of points of comparison. so we have evan thomas whose book "ike's bluff," president eisenhower's secret battle to save the world, begins with the premise that eisenhower showed a lot of style and character in the way he played poker which was superbly well. end that he used some of those capacities in trying to manage nuclear issues, the soviet union. we also have daniel klaidman to t