. if the georgetown person wins the drawing it will be mighty suspicious. >> these are strictly by seat numbers. >> i will not look and i will pull from the middle. >> first read the row. >> okay will do this with some drama. >> the row would be j. >> and seat number. >> are you ready? we are road j, seat 26. this is for you road j seat 26. [applause].

>> your name is? >> pam. >> thanks pam enjoy your book. in the booth, as soon as we say good night, would you kill these mics so you don't hear us talking? thank you so much for coming. we appreciate it. we are going to get her back for that second book. >> thank you so much everybody. it was a pleasure. [inaudible conversation]

>> you're watching 48 hours of non- fix fiction authors and books. here's a look at some of the current best-selling books here in washington d.c. topping the list former israeli ambassador to the united states looks back at his tenure and details the relationship between the two countries in the book he wrote. up next he reports on the 30 set seventh president. class divide is about the class of yale 1964. david mccullough discusses the

birth of flight in the right brothers. a look at the best-selling books continues with president jimmy carter's recalling of his life and career in the full life. next they discuss the hidden biases of the criminal justice system. wrapping up the bestseller, the double agent for the united states in how to catch a russian spy. that's a look at some of the best-selling nonfiction. >> book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading the summer. >> i decided to reread a book i read 20 years ago entitled the monk who sold his ferrari. it's written by robin sharma.

it's a nice little fable about a lawyer who is a very successful trial lawyer who has him massive heart attack in the middle of a trial and goes to nepal to search for the meaning of life and comes back and teaches everyone that the meaning of life is to help others. i also started reading a book by stephen ambrose. we re- watched saving private ryan and that wanted me to read the book d-day. i heard evan thomas talking about a book called being nixon and it's a profile of pres. nixon and his life and his characteristics and personality works. i'm a big fan of evan timeouts.

one of my favorite books of all time is a book he wrote several years ago about edward bennett williams titled the man to see who was a famous trial lawyer. after i finish these two, i don't travel with the books, i leave one on each nightstand and after i finish those finish those i'll be reading being nixon the summer :