"part of our lives," young and dashing. i had dinner with adrian brody one night. i don't know about vladimir putin. said the author of the book has zero control of these things, the lowest man on the totem pole in terms of importance. there is a bar over there, go get a drink and you hang out on set. producer's favorite writer is a dead writer because they can do whatever they want with the book in terms of the movie. it depends who i have worked with and i have worked with great people. i don't know. anybody else? >> daniel craig would be awesome. >> he is doing everything.

he would be amazing. if there are no more questions thank you so much. i am happy to sign books over here, thank you. >> booktv is on instagram. follow as for publishing news, schedule a date in behind-the-scenes pictures and videos. instagram.com/booktv. >> booktv covers hundreds of water programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the

events we will be attending this week. tuesday we are in portland, ore. for you and me park's account from her escape from corey at the age of 13. on thursday booktv is covering several events throughout the country starting on the east coast at harvard book store in cambridge, mass. for the life of clementine churchill, wife of 57 years to winston churchill. then we stop in the midwest at westminster town hall in minneapolis for jennifer lawless's discussion of her research which finds young americans rank running for elective office near the bottom of their career choices. later in the evening and on the west coast booktv is in attendance for salon.com founder david talbot's discussion on the life and career of allen dulles the longest director of the cia. green arcade bookstores in san francisco. thursday night we will be taking an event at town hall seattle, the former wall street journal reporter roger loeowenstein

will talk about the federal reserve. next saturday recovery events from the louisiana book festival in baton rouge. it includes doctor talks on african-american history, hurricane katrina, the deep water horizon oil spill and much more. look for our coverage of the louisiana book festival to air the weekend of november 14th and fifteenth. that is look at the other programs booktv will be covering this coming week, many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> one thing that struck me when i was researching the book was that the north has a very complicated racial history that has been in some places almost completely buried. there is little willingness to engage with the history of slavery for example, one of the places they talk about in portsmouth, new hampshire which

actually had a slave burial site under the downtown and that site was unknown to most of the people who lived there until they're needed to be construction on one of the water main, the backhoes went in and started digging and started finding people's remains. that horrifying discovery brought it dotownhe town to of critical discussion, the tourist walks through the city, the people who had basically brought much of the prosperity to the town which continues today. >> you talk about for community history is important, the history that a community acknowledges and neglects. can you talk about that?

>> there is a way that -- all counts have their history they want to remember, things they want to celebrate about their pasts and emphasize to people who are visiting more our prospective presidents to th ss area, there's also a history that is more violent. the act of moving around that history or trying to build artifacts or cultural institutions without acknowledging that history results in a community that is really disconnected from its own past. many of the issues, discord, many of the conflicts reappear over and over again. >> i remind my students in

america we have between 12 to 15 holocaust museums and it didn't even happen in the u.s.. in many ways it is all -- easier for us to tell bad stories as long as our hands don't have blood on it and i talk about how we have one museum dealing with emplacement and so many others dealing with tragic holocausts in europe. let me go to you, the subtitle of your book is race and politics from boston to brooklyn. i am from cleveland, a kid of the 1970s and every spring i look forward to the lakers play in the celtics in the nba playoffs. i don't know any black people that cheer for the boston celtics. >> i didn't cheer for the celtics either. in writing this book about race and politics from boston to brooklyn, you make the point that this is a distinct region in the country if you talk about it represents the best of

american democracy but at the same time it represents a dark history in america's race relations. can you speak on that? >> i wrote my first book on white southerners and race in the south. in some respects that history was a lot more straightforward because the side of racism and segregation had for so long won out but i am on northerner and i had always been attracted to studying what i saw as a conflict in the northeastern region, on the one hand the cities of the northeast, boston, new york, and the states were often associated with progressivism, political progressivism, cultural enlightenment, liberalism, and on the other hand if you look at those cities, the experience of african-americans on the ground is an experience of housing

segregation, school segregation, and remitting police brutality. i wanted just sorry that had both of those stories together. on the one hand on a ring this reputation for liberalism to understand where it came from and what to make of it and on the other hand telling this story of this bloody history of segregation and racism. >> when you talk about the north vs. south, what did the south -- malcolm x believe anything north of canada was south. you make some other authors talk about the north is anything outside the south. the north to be in seattle during world war ii to work for boeing, los angeles. speak for a minute about when we talk about what is not the south? >> there's a lack of precision wendy was speaking to and we need precision when we talk

about race. in a lot of historys of the united states carries the south and there is everywhere else and the north is whenever sort of is outside the south. california is in their. oregon is in there. along with chicago. with importantly different histories, i wanted to be true to that. >> you can watch this and other programs and booktv.org. here are the latest selling books according to the conservative book club.

our look at the conservative best of this list continues with glenn beck's critique of fundamentalist islam.

>> many of these others have more will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our web site booktv.org. you are watching booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. we are live from the wisconsin book festival in madison. right now you are looking inside a room of the madison central library, the home of this year's festival. all day we will be bringing you programs on politics, grammar, religion, justice system and more but here it is a history of the american public library system, wayne wiegand. >> good morning, everyone. the marketing manager for madison public library. on behalf of the library and the wisconsin boofe