answer the noble call of public service. and i i was impressed in the book how the roots of that i'm going to say trait that you love america enough to to give it all started with your grandfather and your grandmother and the fact that you've never practiced brag attorney shah -- >> yeah. >> well maybe you have a few times, but your dad hasn't. [laughter] >> i never would have gotten to be governor of texas, you know? [laughter] >> well it's a great gift and and we are thankful that you told us the story of not only "41," but your dad and your mother and your siblings and your love for this great country, and you give us a chance to have some insight as well to a great family who gave us much more than we are willing to acknowledge. thank you very much. [applause]

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>> look for these titles in bookstores in the coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv.org. >> by far the most jaw-dropping aspect of life in crystal city was the fact that the camp was the center of fdr's secret prisoner exchange program.

one of the lessons i learned through going through all these documents and interviewing all these people is that by whatever name it is called -- internment, preventive detainment or just flat imprisonment -- the practice of incarcerating immigrants with blood ties to countries in which the united states is at war always exists in part for the purpose of exchange. it works like a human chess game. each side tries to get back their own citizens without giving up their highest value prisoners. some of the people in crystal city were probably they probably should have been at crystal city. chris kuhn, who was the head of the american nazi party was a high value prisoner for us, for the united states.

and in germany, and germany desperately wanted him back. and he was on one of the early trades. and so that's the way it worked. we didn't want to give him up because roosevelt knew that he knew a lot that might could harm us. and so every trade in the book describes what was consideredded behind the trades -- considered behind the trades. but the great tragedy of crystal city is that many of those traded should have been b of the highest value to americans because many of them were american-born children. as this fact unfolded during years of research at the national archives in washington, d.c. and with interviews with many former children, now elderly men and women in their 80s and sometimes 90s i just found myself shaking my head in disbelief. it was in crystal city that the

machinery of modern internment and prisoner exchange was crafted on an industrial level. the first of four large prisoner exchanges took place in june 1942 and the second in september 2 1943. during these two exchanges, more than 2,000 japanese and japanese-americans were literally traded for other americans imprisoned in japan. in february 1944 634 german residents and their american-born children were sent from crystal city into germany in exchange for americans. on january the 2nd 1945 428 more in crystal city were traded into war. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> from time to time "the washington post" will fish e-books on -- publish e-books on topics that their reporters cover. here's a collection of some of

those books: in the case against cosby, the post interviewed five of the women that have accused cosby of assaulting them. next a profuel of the 36th president -- profile of the 36th president, lyndon johnson in "the great society." also on the list is a collection of ely saz low's pulitzer prize-winning articles on the impact of food stamps on a small town's economy. in `nsa secrets," the most puts into book form its reporting on edward snowden. also on the e-book list is a series of stories on america's relationship with personal firearms and the history of gun control in "guns in america." and wrapping up the list investigative reporter robert o'hara jr. expounds on the potential for cyber warfare and computer hacking to see what other e-books "the washington post" has published visit washingtonpost.com/e-books.

>> you're watching book tv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> on booktv of this weekend -- on booktv this weekend, we're live from politics & prose bookstore in washington, d.c. with avenue ya sa car ya, author of "the upstairs wife" about her experiences as a woman in pakistan. we take a trip to to corpus christi, texas to bring you the area's literary scene as well as a visit to johns hopkins university to talk with professors for our college series. on "after words," journalist toby around done recalls his time embedded in afghanistan. stephen brill and dr. ezekiel emanuel discuss the health care system and mark krotov of melville house talks about the book publisher's decision to release the senate intelligence committee report on torture. for a complete television schedule booktv.org.

booktv, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors. television for serious readers. >> and now on "in depth" on booktv walter isaacson. the best selling author of several books including biographies of albert einstein benjamin franklin, steve jobs and henry kissinger took viewer questions for three hours. mr. isaacson is a former chairman and ceo of cnn chairman of the broadcasting board of governors and was the editor of "time." he currently serves as president and ceo of the aspen institute. >> host: so, walter isaacson what is theat link between avril hourlyman, ben franklin, steve jobs henry kissinger and adar can lovelace?: th >> guest: yeah, i think they're all create cannive minds, ander. that's what's intretted me throughout my career. to me, it's people who can come

wound different disciplines like the arts and the sciences the way ben franklin did, the way ada lovelace did and make creative leaps of thet imagination. you know, we talk about innovation so often, it's almost drained of its meaning. and i've always like t to write about real people who are in a situation whether it with avril herriman after world war ii and you have to create a whole new world order of things like nato and the world bank and therl marshall plan or a steve jobs who says okay, we're now in a digital revolution, we have to make it personal. ..rds, were able to think different, think out of the box. i want to try to explore the creative mind and how it works. >> host: one of them themes -- themes in your book seems to be a connect to spirituality. >> guest: everybody believed they were part of something