better symposium. we'll take a final break in the morning and we will be right back to rack up after this. >> would have a bag of coffee, right? i loved your book. the one thing i didn't tell you, which i should have. your writing is so smooth. i whispered in the senate was like i really pride myself on writing -- there's no choppiness and what you write at all. >> thank you. i worked really hard on the flow. thank you for saying that.

>> we have to do it again? >> we have to do it all again. and next time make your answers better. now, thank you very much. >> books tv is on facebook to like us to interact with guests and viewers. watchers and get up-to-date information and event. facebook.com/books tv. >> books tv asked what are you reading this summer? >> well, i'm doing a ketchup summer. i'm doing a lot of things not particularly new but i'd meant to be good not bad at. they start with to sort of real-life rescue stories from world war ii. one i am reading now is a

mitchell zuckoff book, frozen in time to crash in the second world war. then the rescue mission after them also in town and another friend disappeared. they finally did rescue these guys for a month and the tale of an airplane. that is just a gripping story. the second part is about an expedition to go back and find the people lost trying to rescue the original crew and the located aircraft in all kinds of things who is a great story. henry did not come you read the book jacket and it's got another one, "lost in shangri-la" if that's the precise title about a mission that went abroad that was supposed to be a joy flight in new guinea 1945. the rescue was pretty harrowing and took month-end people

survived. so surviving a desperate situation is probably good rating for congress in an election year. then i had the opportunity to meet recently and i may mispronounces name because it was david fun trail, we can rise to greatness and peter roskam, our deputy with put together a couple weeks ago and gave us all book so i got it for free, autographed. the lincoln has always been a compelling figure for any politician in any in american. the greatest president, the most critical time in america's history. i love the way his political skills, you know, have so much to do with holding the country together. and holding this party together. there's probably a lot of lessons and this is a republican

majority in the 1860s that had never been to maturity before. yet the majority in the senate and house the house but never function that way. not a single person had been part of a republican majority. how do you act, how do you really come up with the appropriate balance between presidential power legislative oversight and lincolns sheer political scale. and cunning. you know, manipulating various factions. anyway, we had a wonderful discussion about that and it got me really interested in reading the book. and then there's two other biographies i pressed myself i'm going to be. one is william next release book on grant. we are going to read. a reassessment of grants. nobody's ever doubted what a

great general he was somehow critical u.s. to win in a civil war. but there's been a lot of questions about him as president. but i think you sort of government are a little bit of the rehabilitation right now. the last one i promised myself i would read and mrs. sun king roy blunt from missouri who was a great leader and a good friend that brought to my attention and that is jane smith biography of eisenhower. he was a wonderful biographer. i remember any agency that a dual biography of lee and grant was very famous. again, gray had been telling me what a great book this was on eisenhower. and then i have been to a lecture on c-span history. smith died in 2012, but they were replaying the lecture and generalship and i was really intrigued that.

i thought my body roy has been bugging me to read this book. i've just listened to this great lecture and one other experience i had was 20 years ago, but it is great stuff so instead i'm going to read the eisenhower boat. when you are my age come you remember eisenhower so he's not quite the historical figure and lincoln or grant would be. he's a real-life person. was reading about precedence that i feel like just because i like experience have some connection with either have it back to their presidency eradication met them. just a fascinating thing. >> do you know anybody else interested on your website is quick >> i do. or sometimes recommend within months. sometimes we put together, i think we'll do link in this month and we will have three or four books that are particularly good on lincoln. i wish i could take credit for that idea.

our brilliant communications director came up with a finish that nobody's going to be interested in what i'm reading. surprisingly it's become a question of what i get in my district quite a bit. and they like it. i think they kind of like to know what you're thinking about who they hope it's not politics directly all the time. it is kind of refreshing. or someone will say about that book, to archive data is an idea of the book list. it actually breathes a little connection between you and some of your constituents, at least those engaged have to go to your website. thank you. it was fun. >> tell us what is on your summer reading list. tweet as a books tv. send us an e-mail. booktv@span.org.

>> "dogfight: how apple and google went to war and started a revolution" is the name of the boat. fred vogelstein is the author. he joins us now from san francisco. howard went to the company applegate started? >> gosh, apple has been around for almost as long as silicon valley has been. i mean, apple got started in the late 70s when steve wozniak and steve jobs started the company in steve jobs' garage. from then until the mid-1980s, it was the hottest come to me -- company and all technology is if not the world. i remember, but the iconic soup bowl live that aired right