arried twice. he had seven children lots of grandchildren. none of them are named after their uncle jesse and none of them wanted to talk to me. [laughter] so no, they don't want any connection. so it's enough to say that maybe deep down he didn't allow the darker side to come out. [inaudible question] >> thank you guys for coming. we will have the book signing and you can buy a book to have it signed. [applause] >> have some cookies. thank you very much.

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this is the tv on c-span2 television for serious readers, here is our primetime lineup tonight at 7:00 p.m. you are in burton newborn arguing that the first amendment was created to protect the democratic process and not individual right. and at 730 pm patricia kelly talks about how poor people in baltimore are treated by the government. and then the argument that china is not taking over the united states as a supreme global power. and then we have grover more quests discussing his critique

with the american enterprise institute. and we wrap up barf primetime lineup with robert putnam who questions whether the idea of the american dream is dead in his books. "our kids.". that all happened tonight on c-span2 on booktv. >> here is a look at the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. the san antonio book festival taking place today. look for some of the festival's programs to air on booktv in the coming weeks. next on april 18 and 19 booktv will be live from the university of southern california for the 20th annual "los angeles times" festival of books. the full schedule of coverage for the weekend is available on our website at booktv.org. then on april 25, the annapolis book festival will be hosted by the school in annapolis maryland. booktv will be covering this as well. the cities of gaithersburg,

maryland, will host the gaithersburg book festival on may 16, and you will see it live on booktv that day. let us know about fairs and festivals in your area and we will add them to our list e-mail them to us at c-span.org. >> with a that ted cruz was nominated and let's say that some are just outraged. and let's say that people for the american way and other corporations decide that they want to make a documentary and they want eric to run the general election. wonderful, i'm all for that. i'm there, my check is ready to go. and now they want to air the documentary and they want something else.

they want to write a book. so do you know if under the dissenting views in the very case, the case that he supported people to the american way, it would be a federal crime to air that documentary and a crime as evidenced by the oral arguments that elena kagan and the previous conceded that a book could be regulated. to me as someone who believes firmly in the first amendment ladies and gentlemen, this is a nightmare scenario regulating planned parenthood is a nightmare and that is why

that's part of why that i did not come to defend the fat cats. what i am saying is that i'm worried, very worried and i will get to the constitutional amendment later that the bill of rights has never been amended. how dare anyone even call for that and i was behind him the day that he did push for that and even pushed for more than what was proposing. but this is my concern that sometimes the cure kills the patient and that is something that i simply cannot abide. >> you can watch this and other programs online at the tv.org. >> here's a look at books being published this week. in the road to character, david brooks looks at the lives of 10 historical figures as examples for how to achieve success and the political commentator

counting the lives of women in capital gains. kevin kruse argues that corporate america invented the idea that the united states is a christian nation in one nation under god and democracies news andrew bernstein examines the way that thomas jefferson's legacy has been used throughout american history. and also releasing this week on the 150th anniversary of resident lincoln's assassination looking at the life of john wilkes booth in fortune's fool. and investigating how geography has shaped regional understandings of freedom and the constitution and the law of the land. c-span's latest book, first ladies, presidential historians on the lives of 45 iconic american women publishes on april 14, 2015. booktv visited the printing plant in berryville, virginia, to see the manufacturing process

and watch the books come off of the presses. when we were there we talked with printers america general manager mark bone about the business of printing books. [inaudible] a paragraph [printing sounds]

its ai [printing sounds] >> hello what is the most difficult part of printing a book reign. >> guest: its it's organizing the process, getting the content in, being sure to have all of the books that we do that are scheduled properly. c-span: what is the beginning of the process? >> guest: it's the content that they want to have printed in the way that they design it. c-span: from the time of the material getting to you in the time that it was out to the

trucks, how long is that? >> guest: we are looking at a three to four week time frame we do have the same week. c-span: tell us about this company. >> guest: at the doubleday company that has been here since the late 1980s, it has been manufactured for distribution and that is what it has been doing for all of these years it has grown and we have obviously increase our customer base and we have a large customer base that we service every year. c-span: how many books do you guess the published every year? >> guest: we publish about 120 million per year. c-span: how many different books? >> guest: tens of thousands. c-span: what has happened since you have been in the business that has changed in the printing

of books? >> guest: obviously the publishers are conscious of the inventory and that the inventory is difficult for them to maintain, they basically have looked to us to improve our ability to take care of being cost effective and their inventory basically we can do shorter runs which makes them more profitable. c-span: it's a german company, how big is it? what do they own? >> guest: they own random house they own others that we belong to, that is pretty much the whole in the united states. c-span: the book business itself, how has that seemed to change since you have been in it and how long have you been in a? >> guest: i'm going on my 36 year the industry.

basically the turns and the needs for books to get out, the change of materials and then the competition. digital printing, that kind of thing. c-span: digital printing and the bookstores, how have they affected your business? >> guest: they are just another part of the business they are part of the business and we accept that, they serve us as the customer in a different way than we do. we have been very fortunate they have never decreased our need as far as what the publisher is looking for. c-span: go through the process of how a book moves through here. >> guest: the customer places the order, they decide what kind of material they want to use the we schedule it and we put it into the department that will then pose in such a manner so

that it comes out so that you can read it. we put it on the press, we read it, we take that and we take it to the binary and basically from there we gather signatures and we ship it. c-span: how many people will actually be in this process as it goes through the assembly line? >> guest: probably 30. if you took just the one look. c-span: are there a lot of other competitions? >> guest: there's a lot of competition with acquisitions and mergers less names of printers, but a lot of individuals out there, it's a little less work and we are all vying for that work. like i said we have actually increased the year over year.

c-span: how has the technology changed? >> guest: a lot of the technology has changed on the front end. the prepress area has really changed quite a bit. we take and then we impose it and make into this and then print. that is the biggest change, it is really on the front and side. c-span: let's say they see a price segment of $30 on the cover. doesn't estimate how much it cost to produce a book of $30? >> guest: it's a few dollars less than that quite a few. c-span: it's known that publishers, have the publishers get the money and that leaves $15 and 30.

would you say that there's $3? >> guest: it could be that range, i'm not really sure obviously the manufacturing cost for us we have mainly labor it expenses equipment, material like that so i don't know what all of the costs are. c-span: what is one or two of the biggest that you have printed in the last few years? >> guest: we have done a few harry potter books, danielle steel, john frischmann, we have done the 50 shades, that's of the bestsellers. we have done the maze runner series that has been very prevalent and very popular. c-span: what is still exciting about this business after 36 years? >> guest: it's basic

manufacturing. people actually putting their hands in machinery and producing a product. it's actually mechanical, they have done something to produce a physical thing. c-span: where did you grow up? >> guest: wisconsin. i went to the university of wisconsin. i got into this job 36 years ago c-span: what did you do in the beginning? >> guest: i was a helper on the floor and i work my way into apprenticeship and i got my journeyman's card and fortunate that i had some opportunities that came my way and good people that helped me along. c-span: how did you get to berryville, virginia. >> guest: i was returned to kansas back in the 80s and the plant was shut down, i was out of work.

they were looking to hire people and i needed a job and they interviewed me and i accepted a position here for the first time in 1991. c-span: what is the hardest part of this business? >> it's really having to deal with the schedules. we have a lot of people that work here and put a lot of effort into it. we have a test able to meet and people have to work a lot of hours, the schedule is often dictated so that we can get the books out in time. we are always asking employees to do more and they are very willing to do it. there are good employees that step of every week and it's one of the tougher things. but i think that we appreciate the rewards of that as well. c-span: did you look at your printing company today, can you compare it to when you started did you have more people on the

floor now or less people? >> guest: less people. i would say 25% somewhere in that regard depending on what we are talking about, some of the things that technology has improved, it could be as high as 50%. but obviously the cost of labor and in trying to improve the process and get more capital it's always looked at as we want to reduce our cost and one of the things that we do is make sure that that is an area that has reduced over the years. c-span: out of someone trained to be in its? >> guest: it's really a trade that you learn on the job. it's a good foundation to build upon. we actually learned the printing process and we think that it evolves around the printing process. all of those things are truly on

on-the-job kinds of things that you learn. so it gets passed on from one person to another. c-span: we read a lot about the book business being in trouble because of the e-books and what has been your experience with the number of books that you have been producing over the last few years? >> guest: obviously when this first came out i think they were doing triple digit growth in the double-digit decline basically that has plateaued off and we are seeing that. we basically maintain well over 100 million-dollar books per year and i think that for the most part even the competitors would say that they are not seeing any major dip in the values. c-span: how far out as a publisher come out and they that i have a book that i wanted to

print. >> guest: if it's a large print, we may get some advanced notice and there is a pre-schedule on now. other than that it's not a huge amount of time and they can put it into six weeks or something like that and we would be prepared with a large quantities with what we want to pre-schedule. c-span: the 50 shades of gray sold millions of copies. how much did you print? >> guest: i think we are at 15 to 20 million and that was in 2012. >> we did the original harry potter books here and basically it was a big seller obviously.

c-span: was a bigger then 50 shades of gray? >> guest: it was a bigger undertaking i think 50 shades probably wasn't one block of time for one season and one of the biggest that it ever has been. c-span: how many employees do you have a knack. >> guest: there are about 60 employees in the company. c-span: why is this company based in berryville, virginia and how far is it from washington? >> guest: we are about an hour from washington dc. publishers wanted to find a spot where they had some people and they always viewed him as those that have mechanical aptitude

which is kind of the mindset of that day. c-span: thank you for your time. mark bone. >> sent us a tweet at the booktv twitter site also join us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv. eric larson is next talking about the sinking of the lusitania and the influence of an american fleet in world war i. [applause] ..