gorgeous, beautiful, superhuman with the powers of a cyborg and look just like us. except have super powers. this is something that cannot be ruled out. this is called homo superior. however, i should point out that's a hundred years away. so we're not going to see it in our lifetime, okay? however, it is something that you cannot rule out, the fact that maybe these surrogates maybe will live our life as surrogates, and that's what the movie "surrogates," starring bruce willis was all about. in that world people preferred to live in superhuman bodies. they don't want to go back to being human anymore. they prefer to be superhuman. and then, of course, because it's a hollywood movie, bruce willis messes it all a up and turns off all the superhuman bodies at the end. okay, anyway, thank you so much for being here today. [applause] what i want to do now is sign your books. [applause]

okay? you've been a great audience. thank you so much. [applause] okay? >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click "search." you can also share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking "share" on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> in my book i decided to take the privacy investigations i'd done at "the wall street journal" a step further by investigating myself. like what is known about me and what can i protect. and so i sought my data from as many places as i could find which, actually, was very few places. so, for instance, i identified 200 data brokers out there, but only a dozen would let me see my

files because there's no law requiring them too. but interestingly, even in that small set of files it was shocking how wrong some of them were and how right some of them were. so some companies were completely wrong about me. one company said i had never completed college, i was a single mother and i had a very, like, poverty level income. and none of those things happened to be true. other files were incredibly detailed and had every address i had ever lived at going back to the number on my dorm room in college which i had actually forgot been. [laughter] forgotten. and every member of my family perfectly associated to me and all sorts of purchases that i had made including ones i had made fairly recently. so on the whole, they knew a lot about me. and occasionally they knew all sorts of wrong things about me, and i couldn't decide which one actually outraged me more. >> were you surprised by how much google knew? it was the depth and precision of your searches that surprised

me and actually freaked me out a little bit. >> yes. so google was incredibly shocking to me. since i joined gmail in 2006, they had been storing all my searches, and that's a long time. and when i started to look at my searches, i realized how revealing they were. they were far more revealing than my addresses because it was a map of every single day. i would wake up in the morning, and i would google the weather, and then i would google, you know, something about something with my kids' school, was et open. then i would look at what article i was researching, that topic, then i would start weirdly shopping for online kids' clothing, and you could just see by mind making its little leaps. and the idea that there was a record of the mental madness that goes on really disturbed me, and i quit using google search after that. >> booktv coverage hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we'll be attending this week. look for these programs to air in the near future on booktv

on c-span2. on tuesday we're in princeton, new jersey, at labyrinth bookstore for washingtonmy anthony appiah'sed of w.e.b. dubois' time at the university of berlin. he'll speak with cornell west. that same day we're at book passage bookstore in california as stephen pressman recalls the efforts of gilbert and eleanor krause to rescue 50 jewish children from nazi-controlled vienna in 1939. then on wednesday ralph nader speaks at politics & prose book store in washington d.c. he argues an alliance is emerging between progressives, conservatives and libertarians to fight against the power of corporations. that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to our web site, booktv.org and visit upcoming programs. >> these pictures now survive to

verify lynchings' theatrical qualities and the variety of stages that mobs claimed for their victims dangled not just from trees, but also light posts, telephone poles and privileges. bridges. when we elevate the photograph above other artifacts of the same time period, our focus on strange fruit amounts to an acceptance of a very specific representation of this violence. after all, these gruesome images were created and preserved because they fell in line with the forces that supported racial violence. the black corpse is surrounded by a mob of righteous whites, no grieving loved ones in sight. thus, mainstream lynching photography depicted victims as isolated brutes with no connection to family, community or marriage. to similar effect, the images today encourage an acknowledgment of black bodies and even black bodily pain, but

the interest in them has not naturally led to an appreciation of the community's more enduring losses including psychological, emotional and financial suffering. too often historians have interpreted the photographs according to the perspective that produced them. sure, scholars work to expose the picture's racist orientation, but we've been slow to undermine it by placing the perspectives of victimized communities on par with the photographs. today i do just that using black author lynching drama. african-americans who lived at the height of mob violence and its photographic representation left artifacts including plays that offer insights into the causes and consequences of mob violence that are not available through those photographs. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here's a quick peek at some

upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. the south carolina book festival takes place from may 16th-18th at the columbia metropolitan center. james clyburn thereby there to discuss his -- there to discuss his book. on saturday, may 16th,@the gaithers burg festival from maryland. on may 29th-31st, booktv will be talking with authors and publishing executives at the publishing industry's annual trade show, bookexpo america in new york city. we'll also be live from the chicago transcribe wound's printers row -- tribune's printers row lit fest. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll be happy to add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@cspan.org. >> here's or a look at some books that are being published the week. c-span's latest book recounts over two decades of interviews on subjects ranging from

politics to social issues and history in "sundays at eight: 25 years of stories from c-span's q&a and booknotes." in "unstoppable: the emerging left/right alliance to dismantle the corporate state," ralph nader discusses people across the political spectrum rallying against corporate power. former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate rick santorum provides his plan to rejuvenate the republican party in "blue collar conservatives: recommitting to an america that works." in "so much to do: a full life of business, politics and confronting fiscal crisis," former lieutenant governor of new york richard ravitch recounts his career and addresses state budget issues. charles marsh, religious studies professor at the university of virginia, recalls the life of german pastor and theologian dietrich bonhoeffer in strange glory. in "the reckoning: financial

accountability and the rise and fall of nations," jacob soll, a history and accounting professor at the university of southern california looks at how the tracking of finances has affected civilizations. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. beginning at 7:30 p.m. eastern, economist william easterly talks about the failure of organizations including the united nations to reduce global poverty. then at 9 p.m., patrick tucker is on "after words." the deputy editor of the futurist magazine discusses the impact vast amounts of data have on better understanding the future with the director of the national lawyers' guild. at 10 p.m. eastern, new york times reporter carlotta gall talks about books on

afghanistan. and we wrap up tonight's prime time programming at 11 p.m. eastern with ben tarnoff's account of mark twain's life in san francisco in the 1860s. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> now joining us on booktv is author richard minister. richard miniter. what do you write about? >> guest: i write about things that interest me. this latest book is about the navy seals, but it's a little bit different. it's about the culture of the navy seals, what makes them different, you peek people. i mean, the united states navy has spent millions of dollars trying to discover how a navy be seal is made, you know, what makes some people go through basic training, and what makes 70% of people fail? they looked at demographics, ethnicity, family backgrounds, they looked at religion, and they found that fun of that matters. some of the most successful navy

seals grew up in wealthy suburban homes, some grew up on food stamps in public housing. some were white, some of the most distinguished were black, jeh johnson, some are hispanic, some are asian, some are native born with. many are foreign born, and in this book i have a story about a man born in prison in communist poland and grew up in that struggle. so they come from all walks of life, all economic backgrounds. can't find a common denominator except for one thing, they never quit. what makes a seal get through all of these levels of training and makes them a real standout in combat is they're able to do three things at the same time which no one else can really do; they dominate their bodies, control their bodies, fight physical exhaustion, and hell week is one of those things they do in basic underwater demolition school that really forces them to go almost a week without sleep. send