[applause] >> we'll feature programming on prime time and c-span2. look at two book tv special programs on sat september 5th live from the nation's capital. followed on sunday with our live indepth program with former second lady. book tv on c-span2 television for serious readers. >> book tv recently visited at capitol hill what they're heading this summer. >> well, i'm currently reading a mystery called business. i'm just -- i'm reading about a jewish woman who was separated from her fiance from world war

ii. i just finished reading about foreign policy. very good book. i recommend those angry days which is about to lead up to world war ii here in the united states and the time between isolation and others, which is sort of similar of what's going on today. i just am not too long ago read six more row. you know, i love to read so i'm reading something else. i just finished reading man in profile which is the biography of mitchell. so that's a few.

so anyway, that's a few. >> it's reading poetry night at the ballpark and other scenes from an alternative america by bill cosman. tweet us your answer at book tv or you can post it on our page facebook.com/booktv. >> missouri senator shares stories from her time in politics. senator will be on book tv's afterwards program in the near future. reports on urban police. also being published vice president of foreign policy council officer concerns and sanctions on iran and iran's deadly ambition. to mark the upcoming tenth

anniversary of katrina several look back in the storm and the after math. he'll discuss the book at the mississippi book festival will be life on saturday august 28th. in katrina the immediate damage and rebuilding of new orleans and the effect on the city. colombia university looks at how natural disasters differ on the rich and poor in the disaster. finally in the storm of the century, looks back at a hurricane from 1900 which destroyed the city of gal -- gal -- galveston texas. watch for the authors in the

fear future on book tv. it might be funny. i was looking it might be funny. i thought it might be funny. he was calling himself bin laden and so on. he said, okay. we went to his to his house and the first day what we did was watch lion king. he needed to get a collections

box. they had been stocked with giant plastic, i said that it's funny to overthrow the west. he's like, yeah. [laughs] >> they were encaged. and then we spent months on and off. if you find cheaper they will give you the difference or something. i remember once i was at the couch and he's gotten that said crush the pilot state of israel.

[laughs] >> very sensitive moment. and then i let you in my life, i would like something in return. i said, what, and he said could you drag my to this meeting. i -- i drove him to what was basically -- i was going to say like a secret terrorist radical islam meeting, country house in birmingham. they wouldn't let us in. i got into trouble. so we had to wait in the parking

lot. and then after he had training camp. he said -- he certainly said look at me with the infidel look at me, who is a jew. [laughs] >> and i said fully expected a jew thannia -- athiest.

they surrounded me and one of them said -- they were treating me like rare. i remember the time the jewish -- he said, you know, britain, i think hement -- he meant me hasn't won't up to what terrorist mean. and then, you know, four years later ever since 2001 omar's people have been intre -- a lot

of the cases were suicide bomber have blown themselves up and would have his number stored in the phone. that happened on a number of occasions. one of the drivers ended up some where. he's in prison now. so a few people have said, were you narcs -- but you presented this comic story. i guess my answer is everything that happens happens. all the comedy happens and we were there. we were there by luck, in a way, but we were there filming it.

it's a available record of the world being about to change with nobody knowing. >> you could watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> now coauthors richard paul and steven moss talk about ten african american who broke the barriers in nasa. [applause] >> thank you i'm richard paul and steven will be up when it's time for his presentation. we're here to talk about our book. we could not fail the first african americans in the face program. nasa's role in civil rights before the civil rights act passed -- that's an important distinction. discrimina