and it is an incredible documentary because what you see was that the american south were very long time has always been a three tiered society. it was a veneer of whites at the top manipulating white and black on the bottom. in 1936 there were 1,800,000 sharecroppers in the south. 1 million to 1,000 of them were white. that was the exact ratio of the percentage of white and black in the south. i have always felt a harmony with all the people who share that history. and i think that we can bring that back. a think we can do that. i appreciate your comments. [applause]

i just finished this book. it is about hard-working folks to work every day and how they are struggling to make sure that they are treated properly in terms of wages, hours, and come to my motion. and i am reading this book here which i just cracked this book the other day. this is my airplane read. sister simone campbell. i love this lady. she is just great. it is about how all of us can create it -- kick changing community. i was taught as a kid. this is the kind of woman who taught me. by have very fond memories.

she is in that same tradition, service giving, no-nonsense. and then, you know, i actually just picked this book out. have not started reading it. this book is by ralph nader called unstoppable, the emerging love fried allies to dismantle the corporate state. i am about to start this book. i am very concerned about, you know, corporate personhood, citizens united, you know, we need united citizens. and then, of course, good friend of mine, an awesome sight. this is a biography. vibe his book is called blessed experience fit. he is the third most powerful democrat in the house.

done >> the publishing director, first of all, what is live right? >> the newly launched division begun in 1917. it was the home of the first books of hemingway, faulkner, dresden, norton bought it in 1973. we relaunched in 2012, and we are in our third season with many best sellers.

>> what is the point of having a lot of and prince under one publisher? >> it gives a diversity of books we have differences in many similarities. we like more translation. we like some times edgier bucks. we both to high quality books, but it is the way of branching out. in many ways we are alike but express editors differently. >> well, let's start with a couple of books you have coming out this fall. vestar with pulitzer prize winner edward wilson. >> yes. ed wilson has won the pulitzer prize twice for books. he has written a book called the meaning of human existence with 15 sa's car really examining how he came to be in the challenges of human existence in the future. he says, we passed a line on which natural selection of babies has ended and that we are designing our own children.

he examines the genetic implications for this. in another piece he examines what it would be like if they're really were and et, and extra terrestrial. he talks about the ending of biodiversity, the challenges to the environment. so it is a work of very thoreau- like meditation all scientific based essays. >> another author you have coming out this fall. >> a physician in north carolina. this is his second work. his first book was a collection of fiction short stories. this is non-fiction. it is a 11 shorts stories about being a doctor, the challenges of our residents. he is a great doctor. he trained many. he gave up riding in order to

practice medicine. he would take it to the extremes of life, showing you what it is like in the emergency room, and an intensive careward and the challenges of the doctor faces to all with extraordinary language. >> our declaration, what is that? >> our declaration is actually coming out in july. daniel allen is a leading philosopher and scholar at the institute for advanced studies at princeton. she feels that we don't know what the declaration of independence is about. we have never studied it. she has done courses on a for adult students call also a talented undergraduates. she says that the declaration is as much about a quality as it is about personal liberty. she has also discovered errors in the version of the declaration that we use, and some of this will be revealed in the next months.

and she is an extra very figure. you will hear a lot about this book which she makes us love to be one of the most important in world history, not only american history. >> how long have you been working with dan l. allen on the spur? >> i have been working with dan l. allen two to three years. i have known her a bit longer. it is a major work. those serious historians and critics are paying attention to it. the news material and it will surprise people and make scholars debate how we interpret what it means and why the declaration means something to everyone. ..

also who has collected them and what they meant draft history. it's like outrageous statement that but she does it so seriously, from how they were used for rei