texas governor rick perry. in "fed up," he explains that government has become too intrusive and must get out of the way. in "american dreams," florida senator marco rubio outlines his plan to restore economic opportunity. independent vermont senator bernie sanders is a candidate for the democratic nomination for president. his book, "the speech," is a printing of his eight-hour-long filibuster against tax cuts. in "blue collar conservatives," presidential candidate rick santorum argues the republican party must focus on the working class in order to retake the white house. others who may announce their candidacies for president include vice president biden. in "promises to keep," he looks back on his career in politics and explains his guiding principles. in "immigration wars," former governor jeb bush argues for i new immigration policy -- argues for new immigration policies. more potential presidential

candidates with books include louisiana governor bobby jindal. in "leadership and crisis," he explains why conservative solutions are needed in washington. in "stand for something," ohio governor john kasich calls for a return to traditional american values. businessman donald trump has also expressed an interest in running for president. in "time to get tough," he criticizes the obama administration and outlines his vision to restore american prosperity. and wisconsin governor scott walker argues republicans must offer bold solutions to fix the country and have the courage to implement them in "unintimidated." in "a fighting chance," massachusetts senator elizabeth warren recounts the events in her life that shaped her career as an educator and politician. and finally former virginia senator james webb looks back on his time serving in the military and in the senate in "i heard my country calling." >> booktv recently visited

capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> well earlier this year i read a terrific book by edward larson who's a history professor at pepperdine called "the return of george washington." it's about the period after the end of the revolutionary war. he went home thinking his responsibilities were over, and it was clear during that period from 1783-1787 the articles of confederation were just not working. and so his return was to join the constitutional convention and preside over it in 1787 which led to the american constitution which has survived pretty well for a couple of hundred years. and then i followed that with a interesting book called "the kennedys and the churchill" by a guy named thomas mayer about the relationships between the kennedy family and the churchills before churchill became prime minister.

and, of course, joseph kennedy was ambassador to the u.k. at the outbreak of world war ii and was widely criticized because he was very sympathetic with the germans. not that he wanted the germans to win but he didn't think we could win and wanted to keep america out of it. well researched book about relationships going right up until the time churchill was still alive when kennedy was assassinated. so it tracks that whole period there from joseph kennedy down to jack kennedy. and now i'm going back to my favorite period which is around 1850 a book called "the american debate," "great american debate," about the compromise of 1850 and the efforts of clay and douglass and the rest to hold the country together after we'd won the mexican war and had all this new territory all the way to the pacific. and the big question was it going to be, were these new

states going to be slave or were hay going to be free? at that point there were 15 slave states and 15 free state. even balance. slavery held on as long as it did because of the senate. the house was based on population more hostile to slavery. it was a heck of an effort to hold the country together. and in the end it worked at least for 11 years because 11 years later we had the civil war. >> booktv wants to know what you're reading this summer. tweet us your answer, @booktv or you can post it on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> next on booktv encore book notes. michael oren appears op "book notes" in august 2002 to talk about his book, "six days of war: june 1967 and the making of the modern middle east." the book chronicles the events of the six-day arab-israeli war

which resulted in a new balance of power. this is a little less than an hour. ..r of "six days of war." june 1967 and the making of the modern middle east. why do we want to go back and look at that six-day war in 1967? >> the six-day war was in many ways the pivotal event for the creation of the modern middle east, the middle east that is the source of so much tension and controversy and bloodshed. the obvious reason we want to go back is to find out how the west bank gaza jerusalem principally but also the golan heights came into possession of israel. that happened in june 1967. the war was a pivotal event for many profound reasons. for example, the six-day war really spelt a death nell for the movement of arab