in the book, drive. lawrence goldstone looks at the birth of the automobile through the innovators, marketers and and those who created the automobile industry. jill lepore, investigates the life of jill gold, and eccentric who was believed to have been writing the longest book ever written after he died 1957 and mental hospital. they again to question whether the 9 million word manuscript was just a figment of his imagination. look for these books and more a book tv. >> host: radio talkshow host says this book will make you squirm and think. the author is steve -- why a novel. >> guest: thought it was a good device to tell some inconvenient truths about a title from another famous book. but to do it in a way that they

see more entertaining. less confrontational. it may may cause people to take a look at what is happening to the culture from a different point of view. >> host: what are some inconvenient truth is. >> guest: unless we return to our constitutional form of governments in this generation, or must we see some form of moral and spiritual revival which we saw and the founding of a country and the great awakening that gave birth to liberty in our civilization in the first place, we we might be totally and irrevocably screwed. the course that we are currently on. so this book is humorous, although at times unsettling warning. it's like a road sign danger ahead turn back now. >> host: without giving away the ending, how does the and the various plot form.

>> guest: the various plot is sort of a contemporary homage to the screwtape letters. lorna farias was cast by hell with destroying the united states over a century ago. now he is so confident that his plan has worked that he connects all of the dots, he names names and talks about philosophies, institutions, movement that they either started, corrupted, or co-opted in order to accomplish the demise of the united states of the superpower. he is so confident that the plan has worked that he has written it all in his book in vivid detail. he connects he connects to every.. our inability to believe that to think that this is paranoia, conspiracy, this can't be right. that is how he will convince his master, the devil that we are done and his plan has actually worked. >> host: steve has appeared on c-span many times and if you list listening in iowa you probably recognize the voice from his radio talkshow. what prompted you to write a book? >> guest: i was in the shower

getting ready to do pr for my last book, rules for patriots, and this book popped in my head. i think my best or worst ideas, the shower because it's only place on earth where either am not talking to someone or myself want to start going off. so i was in the shower, this idea came to me. this book is dedicated to all the useful idiots out there, especially those of you who are unaware that we are using you all along. for you turned out to be the most useful idiots of them all, lloyd various. that was sort of the mustard seed that you talk about that the rest of the book came from. if you look through out the history of western civilization there'd been great examples of using alter ego's are characters to tell cultures that maybe if you put your name on it that they might be offended by it. i think one of the greatest examples utopia, which was a scathing review of the monarchy was happening in the culture at

the time. now they eventually did burn him at the stake. by writing it originally in the book utopia he escaped persecution originally got people to listen to his ideas. this is sort of a way to get around some of the political correctness and maybe some of the walls that we have built up in our culture between different ideological dividing lines or theological lines and to objectively look at what has become of us as a people and where we are going if we do not turn back. >> host: ben shapiro says that steve it days new book takes a look at how we face america. we are to you in early march here at cpac, if you are to write a story about this election season so far, what would you entitle it, what would you write? >> guest: it would be, instead of primary colors it would be

paradigm shift. you are watching a massive paradigm shift happen in the american electorate. what's happening is there is an existential revolt happening within the conservative movement within the republican party. there's no question the republican party as it has been known, really sense george herbert walker bush washed left the stage. one of these things is not life like the other, nixon, four, reagan, bush, dole, mccain, bush, the one that sticks out his reagan. bush, the one that sticks out his reagan. the rest of the party has traditionally been this right of center, small p progressive, corporatist waning political party except for the era of reagan. most of the conservative base is tired of it and fed up with it. the last rise really what is happened with romney loosening 2012 and then the massive gains republicans had in the 2014 midterms and there is literally nothing to show for it whatsoever. that's why when we sit here in early march, two candidates, donald trump and ted cruz were

dramatically different people. donald trump is running on some form of white nationalism. he is running a dixie crack type of platform, that's not conservativism. cruise is running on conservative sum that built america. but these two individuals person by the voters are the two most outside the mainstream are blowing with the field and a roughly in the delegate count at this point because they represent the biggest paradigm shift. the debate that we are going to have in the republican party now the rest of the way is one, should there even be a republican party and if there should be, which path, instead of corporatism which path should pursue. should it pursue. should it pursue what trump is advocating which is a return to white nationals, dixie crack sort of americanism? or a truly conservative party that is trying to conserve the value that made this country exceptional in the first place? >> radio talkshow host, and your

most recent book. the various plot. >> you're watching book to be on c-span2. television for serious readers. here's a look at what some prime time tonight. we can copy evening with former fda commissioner david kessler. he david kessler. he talks about the history of mental suffering. at 7:45 p.m. former u.s. assistant secretary of state argues that liberals have abandoned their core principle. at 8:45 p.m. historian on the biography of entertainer paul robeson and the u.s. relationship with haiti and the dominican republic. on afterwards, don watkins discusses income inequality. his book is, equal is unfair. is unfair. we finish up our primetime programming at 11:00 p.m. with veteran who talks about roosevelts address. that happens tonight on c-span two, book tv.. untran first. was first up is a look at mental