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>> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress will be reading this summer. >> i'm reading several things right now. i'm reading china shakes the world by a financial times writer, award-winning books very fascinating look. he's an elusive writer dealing with kind of which would not think would be an interesting topic, but it is. i'm also reading the works called if this were a man. just astounding account of his experience as an italian jew that survived auschwitz and one of the most important accounts of that to come out of the war. just a very sobering make you

think about the rule of law and just because something is legal doesn't necessarily mean that it's humane. some pretty weighty things to consider there. but it's a reminder. i'm reading through proverbs and corinthians right now, just a my morning devotional reading. and then i always peru's different topics. i finished some very good books lately. -- peru's your i finished the patriots. fascinating book that are early framers and founders and how we not only came to have a nation but the importance of samuel adams and the importance of all of these men and kind of detail woven from a handful of them and

what it cost them to give us our country. i really read all over the map. i'm also reading some german books i bought on a recent book to berlin that were first person accounts about berlin life from 1933-45. you never know what i'm going to be reading. i have varied interests. >> of tv wants to know what you're reading this summer. tweet us your answer at booktv or you can post it on our facebook page facebook.com booktv. >> here's a look at some recent books featured on booktv's afterwards.

>> up next from politics & prose bookstore in washington, d.c., johnny dwyer talks about the life of chucky taylor the americans of liberian warlord charles taylor. when charles taylor took over in liberia in the early 1990s chuckie became ahead of his anti-terror unit called the "demon forces" which committed crimes that were so horrifying that even his father was shocked by them. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out tonight. my name is jon purves and i'm a bookseller at the store. just a few things before we get

started tonight. i would appreciate if if you could turn your cell phone off. thank you very much. we will be having a question and answer session after joining to have spoken for about 30 minutes or so. to my right thing to see a freestanding microphone. i would appreciate if you could come up to the microphone and speaker into the. we are recording tonight and we want to make sure all of your questions are recorded. finally, this is the last event we'll be holding tonight so if you could use a huge favor the end of tonight. if you could fold your chair and put up against him hard surface that would help us out. for the future, put it anywhere. thank you. johnny dwyer, an american warlord. if this were to take place in the novel credits my question applaudthe plot because they are so unreal. the story johnny dwyer tells us so skillfully, so