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doing here. >> the ruling elites determine the configurations of rebellion. unable to respond to the mortgage foreclosure crisis, the job crisis, the climate changed. no entitlements. they will exploit until exhaustion or collapsed. >> it just wanted thank participants. >> guest: your neighbors before they join the vigilantes' and make revolution everybody. thank you. i just want to thank our friends
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>> and you're watching book tv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. our prime-time lineup for tonight. setting a 630 eastern, charles lewis founder for the center of public integrity examines the way people in positions of power manipulate the truth to achieve their goals. at 745 congressman paul ryan talks about conservatives imminent future of the republican party, former governor and republican president candid and romney 31 who are deployed to iraq in afghanistan at 10:00 p.m. eastern. and then we'll wrap up to that's primetime programming and 11
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that all happens tonight on c-span2 book tv says it. >> what do you do and did you work for? >> a vice president and senior director of publicity and acquiring editor at a capitol press. >> what is the capitol? what kind of books to you publish? >> all nonfiction, primarily in the field of history to a military history, biography. >> this is our 50th anniversary. >> some of the titles. some military books coming out. >> when i am particularly fond
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of his crucible of command, add to above roofie written by william p. davis. pre-eminence historian. he liked very much at the time in battle but also at the personal life and leaves it altogether. we also have a book by patrick k. o'donnell. he is someone who has done many books for us. and this is one that looks at the origin of the navy seals unit to how it started with the dentist and an archaeologist faugh this format of the ones to founded this unit and made it wouldn't yesterday. the saddest analyst in many ways he enlisted court he decided
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that he would rather spend the war in jail for deserting been fighting impossibly getting killed. unfortunately general eisenhower thought that he needed to make example of someone who had deserted. he air arranged for private eddy to be executed on u.s. soil by americans for desertion. and that is the last time in history thankfully that an american have been executed for desertion. awesome because he simply could not hack the war. he also is a mainstay of the list and someone who is a veteran himself, a veteran of the korean war. his book is about correa and glenn macarthur promising the troops there would be home for christmas with the families and
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then the elected to fulfill that promise. his personal take on what happened but the politics involved the time that made the troops stay overseas in world war ii. >> you mentioned the you are an acquiring editor. how long is the process. >> it takes about nine months from manage cribs to the company ending process, the page design, the production process and then of course the cover design and it goes on as well. nine months i would have at this .20 children. >> how long will the author be working on a book like that? >> usually takes a when the three years. one that requires a lot of research. but then there are pretty needy. copyediting pin in evaluating.
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that can take several weeks. occasionally a month or two, but we don't always have a long. of the books in this season and a month they have been slaughtered. we have to keep the schedule. the authors give some time with them, sometimes not as much as they would like. but it is a process. of those are behind-the-scenes. a reader does not see it. >> we have been talking with was a warrant. we are at the book expo america where all of the publishers come annually in new york city to display their wares before the fall season. in watching book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> commentator for fox news. this week danielle helper and his book. in it the weekly standard online
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editor takes an inside look at what he calls the country's most powerful political couple of and how he says they are positioning themselves for return to the white house. this program is about an hour. >> welcome to afterwards. today daniel halpern and his new book clinton aide, the audacious rebuilding of a political machine. welcome. >> guest: thank you. >> host: the summer of 2014. hillary clinton looks like she is the inevitable the regretted nominee. i say inevitable with a bit of a stock because we have been here before, but this time her numbers are just daunting. and in this summer there are a number of books about the clintons and especially hillary clinton. ..

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