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quite a few artifacts from morten storm's life in the jihadists world and in the world of espionage and also we didn't get a chance to play the video of anwar al-waliki's wife responding to the proposal but that is in the lobby as well and i am told also that for those of you who are trying to buy the book the bookstore had an equipment problem up here, but the bookstore downstairs is open, immediately adjacent to the lobby. and i am assuming it will be possible to get two of the three authors to sign it. morten storm is a big guy. with that, thank you for coming. [applause] >> this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers.
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here is a look at our primetime live. tonight at 8:00 eastern new york university professor anna harvey examines the influence of the house of representatives on the judicial branch. at 8:45 c i a director and defense secretary leon panetta as he recalls his career in public service. on after were dead and:00 p.m. eastern, the consumer debt collection industry. at 11:00 ronald kessler reports on the secret service and the first family. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. the c-span city tour takes booktv and american history tv on the road travelling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend we partner with time warner cable for a visit to green bay, wisconsin. >> wisconsin is known -- we make the most sheets and the best sheets. the industry developer in
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wisconsin allowed what was homestead cheese, the family made cheese for their own use and was recognized we had an ideal environment for eating dairy cow and cheese was just the way to take that perishable product before refrigeration and will only last three days. if you make cheese, you have cheddar cheese, can last for a decade. this was in the late 1880s when the industry got started in wisconsin. generally farmers in a neighborhood would form a cooperative that would build a cheese factory and iron a cheesemaker and the cheesemaker would work for the cooperative on shares listed cheesemakers tended to do more. there were thousands of them. in 1930 over 2,000 cheese plants in wisconsin had transportation, and consolidation among a
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smaller plan and that continued until 1990 when there were 200 cheese factories in wisconsin. >> in 2008 at publish the book on torture. i was looking at torture and the war on terror. i realize some of the techniques we were using for the war on terror were in our prison system. i know this all these connections between overseas policies and invested policy so i started looking at what is happening in the prison system and that led me to start teaching -- to another book, psychologists and psychiatrists studied what happens to a person and they develop these very distinctive -- one psychologist calls it a shoe system, and
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palpable paranoia, real aggressiveness, a sense that yourself is disintegrating. the kind of bodily harm they do to themselves damage the self mutilation that they put on the door, this kind of deterioration of your whole sense of self. i have more respect for myself than to damage my body. i don't have a lot of strong empirical evidence of what makes people better. people that i talk to, i see it as more a spiritual thing, difficult to measure this kind of spiritual thing, feeling valued. >> watch all of our events from green bay at noon eastern c-span2's booktv and sunday afternoon on american history tv
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on c-span3. >> in the book "border insecurity" sylvia longmire 11 looks at how we protect our borders and argues the federal government needs to make border security a national priority. she talked-about it with the author of the black hand -- "the black hand," chris blatchford and timothy pratt. their conversation was held in las vegas. [applause] >> thank you, jeff. great to have you all here with us tonight. the thing i was thinking about, with two people, you guys how lucky to get ten people, because the breadth of experience of the work my colleagues have

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