" northwestern profession lauren rev race the author. >> this is booktv on c-span 2. here's our lineup. tonight, starting at 6:30, nick adams shares his opinions on political correctness. then at 7:30, the new yorker's jane mayer reports on the influence of big money in politics. miss mayer will join us live next weekend to discuss all of her books and take your questions on "in depth" primetime continues at 9:00 p.m. wife michael hayden, the former nasa and cia director sits down we former cia director james woolsey to asks national security on booktv's" after words "program. which that's followed at 10:00 with the panel on the history of the black power movement. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv.

>> the newman foundation at harvard university established the annual j. anthony lukas worrieds in 1998 and recently announces this year's finalists for works in progress-nonfiction writing and history. the first award is for unfinished books. the finalist include sasha eisenberg, whose writing history of same-sex marriage in america, and author steve luxenburg who is looking at the end of segregation in the united states. another works in progress finalist is steve one who is researching the creation of national public raid you're, and meredith wadman is examining cells used to develop vaccines. the lukas prize give awards for knock fiction writings. finalizes including adam brigles, guide to fracking, which reports on thefts of a texas town to stop an oil company's use of hydraulic

fracturing. "two dollars a day" look at extreme poverty in america and the book reports on how newark, new jersey school system used the donation of $100 million from facebook founder mark sucker beryl. other finalist are susan southard's look at life in nagasaki japan after the nuclear bombing of the city, followed bay history of music fire si and the last award it the linton history prize. finalists include sean's the ottoman end game which cans world war i, the thorns ottoman empire and the unstable in the middle east since the early 20th century. next the train to crystal city, about the prisoner exchange program. american internment camp at the

center of it. also on the narrative history short list is timothy snyder's study of the holocaust and the book on george custer, the history of nazi concentration camps is also nominated. the winners of the j. anthony lukas prize awards will be announced march 30th. book tv has covered many of the books nominated this year and you can watch them on booktv.org. >> i've been in washington covering national security issues and legal policy issues since 2003. sort of rode the with a in on abu ghraib and the attempt by senator mccain to impose a ban on pour tour and the defining statements by bush that came out of that as well as the revelations about warrantless wire tapping by my future colleague at the "new york times." i was then at the "boston globe." and this is -- essentially became a specialist in this layer of what the government has been doing, this sort of

continuing dilemma and legal fights over executive power, national security, individual rights, after 9/11. and you may remember in january of 2009 when president obama was inaugurated there was this moment in which it look like the war on terror was suddenly abruptly over. he had run on a platform of change from president george bun terror, and has been a critic on the campaign trail how the government conduct itself in the years after 9/11, and in his inaugural address talked about getting april from the sense there had to be a tradeoff between constitutional ideals and security and among the first things he do wad issue a series of executive orders promising less secrecy, closing cia black site prisons, banning torturing, organized guantanamo closed, and looked like it was over, and this thing that i had become a specialist in and costume kole -- couple colleagues of mine did for a living was no

longer going to be available. i remember joking to scott that we were going to have to find new jobs. maybe there was an opening in the sports department and we could keep paying the rent somehow. but very quickly it became apparent to me that it was not over, that there would be much greater continuity in the counterterrorism policies of the new administration with the old one than the expectations create bid the then-senator obama's campaign rhetoric. some of his incoming cabinet members and little notice remarks during confirmation testimony had affirmed that in fact they thought it was lawful for the government to hold terrorism suspects without trial under the laws of war, that they were going to continue the practice of rendition, transferring people to other countries for one intelligence agency to the next based only on diplomatic assurances there would not be mistreatment, which was exactly bush's policy, ate

least on paper as well. they shut down temporarily military commissions but had done so in a way that looked like they were keeping the door open to resuming them, which is what happened. they were stirring the states secret privilege in court to continue blocking lawsuits abouter to tour and surveillance they inherited from the bush administration. and all that was sort of apparent by two or three weeks into the new administration. so i called up the new white house and said i was planning on writing a story about this surprising emerging continuity, and one difference between the old administration and the new one was, the obama administration wanted to, or at least was willing to engage with me. when i would call the bush administration and say, i'm going write a story about this signing statement that says you can torture and notwithstanding the antitorture law, they would blow me off. this administration called me into the white house, and i went in and i talked to greg craig, who was obama's first white

house counsel, in his office, and we went through this sort of hit any of things that weren't -- litany of things that weren't changing and he explained they were not going to have a shoot from the hip bumper sticker slogan abrupt changes to government policies. they were going to look carefully at everything they had inherited and move deliberately, and that involved going out to langley and the pentagon and so forth, even during the transition, and getting briefed by the members of the permanent national security establishment, the subject of michael's book about what the programs were, why they were necessary, why they'd been put in place, what they were doing, what revoking them would entail, and he argued that this -- whether it was civil liberties people on the left or the right in and folks who were upset by that or bush administration veterans who were seeming -- claiming vindication by that, that both sides were wrong, they were charting their

own course, and people should just give them time to let this work out. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. this past week the president announce the announce. of card ha laid ton the librarian of the library of congress. she has been a member of the national museum and library services board since 20. another post she was nominated for by president obama. here's dr. hayden in 2004 discussing her opposition to the patriot act. >> libraries or bailing block of a free and open society and when members of the public enter a library, for whatever reason to pursue their own intellectual interests to look up something that they just have a curiosity about, or just find out about

the subject that they've heard about, no one should be examined or scrutinized by anyone, especially by the government, and the american library association supports the protection of confidentiality and the freedom that accompanies it, and we find that parts of the u.s.a. patriot act threatens all of these freedoms. in fact we remember the 1970s and the fbi library awareness program, and as librarians, we are interested in and we're committed to ensuring the safety of our fellow americans, but it's time for the government to stop wasting its time on supposed security risks posed by any american that goes into a public library for research, for learning, or just forren fun. the new and expanded authorities under the patriot act allow the federal government to investigate and to engage in surveillance of citizens and others without having to demonstrate any specific reason

to believe that they're engaged in illegal activities, and to threaten the civil liberties guaranteed in the constitution and the bill of rights. >> if confirmed by the senate, dr. hayden will be the first african-american and the first woman to hold the position of librarian of congress. confirmation hearings have yet to be set by the senate. >> tonight it's my pleasure to introduce to you to dr. ronald feinman. he specializes in 20th century american history with an emphasis on political and diplomatic history. he has taught courses at florida atlantic university, on america 1900 to 1945, fdr and new deal era. u.s. 1945 to the present, and america in the 1960s. feinman is also the author of "tie right