copley. he briefed me on foreign policy when they just an amazing mind on foreign policy. and i learned so much i want to read some of his books. is subtitle is urban geopolitics in a time of chaos. maybe at first blush an unlikely source of grounding for international policy but his thesis is some of the uncertainty and instability and chaos we are sitting around the globe, which we are clearly seeing, is driven by the urban-rural split in our country. just with the growth of the urban cities, a little bit more detachment from the jeffersonian yeoman farmer and love of country patriotism and nationalism in the positive sense, and that maybe we need a little bigger dose of history.

i haven't finished the book. i started reading about and a little of it. next one, the desire of the nation's was highly recommend to me on political theology. obviously, that's probably the issue of our day now with isis and the debate over our constitution, the role of the judeo-christian tradition, how does islam fit into this conversation. and so the desire of the nation's karthik most of you probably know, islam, the jewish tradition and christian, we all used to have a nice conversation about aristotle. the conversation is possible but it requires unity of thought. aristotle is one nice place to be. there's plenty of it. i think we need urgent some of our brothers and sisters over in the hotspot the reformation might not be a bad idea and the

like but which would be a good idea. so those are some of the things i'll be reading about in the book. next one more contemporary, "extortion" i peter schweizer. it's been around a while. i read it a few years back but i'm going to give it another look. what are the politics broken? anyone back home seems to think there is is left wing-right wing war going on between the party, faction. i'vi talk to bernie sanders at a white house christmas party. he shared my view that's not the case, that most of the case has to do with maybe the middle and doling out $4 trillion to the insiders and could appear in d.c. that i think is a stronger explanation for why the politics is broken. so i think peter schweizer pursues that quite well. money correlated with elections, correlated with committee assignments, correlated with everything after, voting records, et cetera. he traces them all up with footnotes and evidence. the next one is a shameless

plug, it's called american underdog but a congressman named david brat, available june 28. i'm plugging my own stuff. it's wide ranging. i a friend help me put together but i think the greatest books i put together, lecture notes over 20 years when i taught economics and ethics at randolph macon. basic thesis i went on the republican creed in virginia, basically american creed. since then i went a little 30,000-foot up in the air, and tend instead to the three pillars that have made our civilization the greatest i think the greatest country on earth. three pillars that hold the foundation, and include not surprisingly the judeo-christian tradition. i went to princeton seminary before economics. and studied hebrew for kicks.

the judeo-christian tradition lead into the second, the rule of law, and then we did in 7076, also i don't know if by divine intervention or not, you can make up your own mind, travis smith, the founder of free economics, across the pond in england, scotland, doing economics and ethics as well. used to share a moral philosophy. a lot of great thinkers weaving together religion, philosophy, economics, political theology. in the past not so many doing it today. so that's kind of why these books in for my reading list. next was given to me by a 4-star general appear a few weeks ago "combat ready?." by all accounts our military, army, navy, air force, weakest level since post-world war ii in terms of troops, ships, planes,

et cetera. it's an else's of combat readiness. next one "how god became king" backing the right, new testament scholar of no. again political theology, political philosophy, "how god became king," not necessarily what you might think at first blush, maybe kind of a david and goliath malcolm gladwell explanation, that the king in this case is now booking. next one, "the triumph of christianity." again not a boastful triumph but triumph if you look at the country and if you have strong civil liberties, strong civil rights, political rights, women in the workforce, protections. all sorts of christian, reformation and enlightenment again. basic things i want to explore or deeply. and then a whopper, kindly three-inch biography, george

washington. i will try to make my way through called "sacred fire" was given to it as a gift about a year ago after i entered office, some going to do my best on that one in washington is just one of those amazing figures when you read about him and what others say. all men and women loved him and respected him. so there's something to this guy that is extra particular, extra significant. the more i read about him the more i see that, i can never get enough of seeing what resonates with such an important founder, and some argue the founder of the indispensable man, the one to all the others looked up and loved and respected. and so it's good to take notes on people like that. and so that is a hefty reading list come and again i think c-span for letting have the opportunity to share of few books that i'm going to take a peek at.

my constituents do i go around talking about this stuff at our meetings around the 10 counties. most people get stimulated by the kind of intellectual exchange. i should do. so thank you, c-span, for all you do. happy reading. thank you. >> booktv wants to know what you reading this summer. tweet us at booktv or post it on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here's our primetime lineup.

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and welcome to the roosevelt presidential library. we are glad to have you today and we are very happy about our annual reading festival and this wonderful turnout as well. especially on our 75th anniversary which were celebrating june the 30th. i think i should've roosevelt would be quite pleased to see everyone and deceit is turnout at you know that his library, as he intended, would be used for research and scholarship, to continue to explore the issues of his era and especially how they still have an impact today on our political and social life. i'm going to speak for just a moment about how this works. many of you already know. that would be 30 minutes during which walter borneman speak to you about his book, and then we'll follow 10 minutes worth of question. we ask you to go to the microphone because we are

fortunate to c-span with us today, and it's great, it's your questions can be heard so that everybody can benefit and so that mr. borneman can really provide a good analysis and explanation in response. walter borneman, i will give you a little background, is a military and political historian, and his work on mcarthur is particularly interesting i just read the book and it's great. it exports its rapid rise. we all know a lot about the outline of macarthur's life, but what i found particularly interesting was the attention he gives to the myth versus reality's of mcarthur and roosevelt's relationship. and would often speak about truman and macarthur's relationship, but the one with president was the is equally