republican convention or whatever it was. that's probably true. it still seems like a mostlyh white, older party. and i think, you know, and i've talked to a number of younger. african-american leaders, andpat they say you have to show up in between elections. you have to show you reallya care. you have to help people out of their, out of their misery andh out of their poverty. again, i think school choice isl probably the best way to startir doing that.ut but you've got to spend time in the neighborhood, and republicans don't to that enough. they're uncomfortable. they don't understand the language. they don't understand how to relate. it's a sadha thing, but it's something they've got to do not just to get the minority vote, but because it's the right thing to do,st the moral thing -- it't the moral thing to do, and it gives you a lot of personal satisfaction when you sees somebody overcome. >> great.al think we'll wrap it up with sat that. cal will be outou signing books, and if you have other questions, you can catchwe us as we wrap up here. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with

booktv guests and viewers, watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> later this morning around 11:00 eastern time, book tv will be live from hillary clinton's book signing for her recently-published memoir, "hard choices," from arlington, virginia. the former secretary of state is expected to sign about a thousand books, and book tv will be there to bring you some of the sights and sounds from the event. that all happens soon on booktv. >> book tv askedded, what are you reading this summer? >> well, presently, i'm reading "still dreaming." it is a book by my colleague, luis butte rez, from -- gutierrez, from illinois. he gave me a copy of this book about five or six months ago, and i had planned to jump into

it quickly, but because of the life we live, i wasn't able to. but then things happened in my district that caused me to try to consume it as quickly as possible. be. >> and what was that? >> well, i created an organization in my district, in the kansas city portion of my district, called the black/brown coalition, the bbc. and what we have done, we've brought together the most high profile latino leaders in our community and the most high profile african-americans. and in many communities around the nation, there is a friction between the two largest minorities in our country. and so i wanted to try to avoid that and create a coalition of the two largest minorities. so i brought luis gutierrez to

town to speak to the bbc. we had a standing room only crowd at the community college s. and when i say standing room only, i'm not saying that it was just packed. i'm saying it was standing room only, you could hardly get in. and he emphasized many of the things that i had been saying at our meetings, and we've been already involved in doing some things together. and so i'm reading his book because it gives me insight to what latinos are experiencing in this country. as a minority, i know what african-americans have experienced. i can assume what latinos are experiencing, particularly those children who came to this country and through no fault of their own are barred from receiving any status to go to college and other benefits for citizens.

so i am now reading this "still dreaming" because gutierrez is saying in his book that in spite of what's going on, in spite of all the setbacks, he still believes that we're dreaming. and i discovered that there's a play on words. there is a piece of legislation called the dream act that he has been pushing and, frankly, i'm one of the sponsors of that bill legislatively. so it gave me the insight of one of the most active and high profile latinos in the united states on what's going on inside his community and his relatives and people he knows who are in this country who are undocumented residents of this country. and so i intend to digest it. what i'm doing is reading it as i fly back and forth between kansas city and washington. so right now my prediction is that i will be finished with the book before our break in another

eight or nine days. >> what are you reading this summer? tell us what's on your summer reading list. tweet us @booktv, post it to our facebook page or send us an e-mail, booktv@cspan.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. at 7 p.m. eastern, molly worsen talks to us about her book, "aos les of reason." then at 7:to 0, the story of vietnam's dragon lady. and at 8:30, former secretary of state hillary clinton talks about her new book, "hard choices," followed by a look at her cosco book signing from today. at 10 p.m., ken edelman, "reagan

at reykjavik." and we conclude at 11 p.m. eastern with charlotte binelli who uncovers a collection of letters from a young german jew during the rise of the nazis. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> and now from washington, d.c.'s politics & prose bookstore, elizabeth drew talks about the new edition of her book, "washington journal." the book, originally published in 1975, covers the dissolution of the nixon administration from september 1973 to august of 1974. this is about an hour. >> thank you, david. why don't you just keep talking, and i'll sit and -- [laughter] try in your words. they were lovely. it's lovely to be back here. first time since my last book,