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i know. it's the only thing left to offer because we've exhausted all of our remedies and youu can do that but as far as how you feel personally i haven't found a way either. and i want to tell you. bless you for the work you are doing. >> defined the danger of developing to think of skin.matw >> and i know how you could develop so thick of skin as to not sever over an injustice. matter what side of the lawsuit it is.pros it's all about justice. i think we're out of time.e -- i thank you very much think marcia for marsha for being here. i hope people will go out andn.
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talk about the book why presidents fail and how they can succeed again. and then eastern a week count of the social and political upheavals that took place in the u.s. and at 10:00 on book tv afterwards program they argue that they don't understand the impacts the policies have on america's heartland. at 11:00 we wrap up our prime time programming. and now joining us on book tv is lissa warren the director of da capo press. >> any types of nonfiction books. music, polka culture, military history and then we have a
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wellness in print. what are some of the books that are coming out the season. we had three big history titles. the first one is on or before glory. it's about segregated unit of japanese soldiers who actually volunteered to serve while they were in internment camp. they went on to be known as the go for broke regiment. 200 soldiers who cannot break free from the german enemy. it is a thrilling nailbiting book and one that makes you proud to be an american. we have another book that's in the mountains. this one is in the mountains of eastern afghanistan. and this one is called the chosen few it's by greg zero is who is a veterans reporter at usa today. idc favorite as it were. it's about a single company of u.s. paratroopers that was
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chosen to go and try to win hearts and minds in the mounds of afghanistan. and when they got there they were faced with 15 months of constant fighting a very heroic unit. two of them returned home to win the medal of honor. >> with a wonderful book by stephen harding. he is an author who has published multiple books with us. to turn out a really good book again and again and again. this is a book that has a delicious subtitle. >> a sunken ship a banished crew in the final mystery of pearl harbor. there was a cargo ship that
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went missing between seattle and honolulu right as pearl harbor was happening and he does a lot of research and suggest that perhaps that ship sinking was actually the first casualty of that war. it's a wonderful history book. a sad story but fascinating. you should read it. it's great. is there a secret to marketing military history books. you need to make sure you're not just getting reviews. it is the journal of the naval academy. it needs to be a targeted approach. but we do find because there is so much interest in military we are able to get mainstream media for those books as well. we don't want to send an author to a story whether not going to be able to draw a crowd but if we have an author
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who we are confident is going to draw a crowd. and the right mix of the two we will absolutely send them where we need to get them. there are stores you can rely on every time. you can't go wrong with those stores. they always draw a crowd. and one more book you want to preview. it's called i am brian wilson. it's incredible. he is so honest in this book. and so well-crafted. and of course brian is a musical icon. it's going to be a huge book for us this fall. it comes out in the fall. lissa warren of da capo press. >> here is a look at some of the authors featured on book tv.
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kimberly stossel argued the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. eric fehr discussed his time in iraq working as an interrogator. and karen greenberg director of the center on national security at fordham university took a critical look at the steps taken by the department of justice to combat terrorism since september 11. in the coming weeks on afterwards seymour hersh will discuss the events that surrounded the killing of osama bin laden. along with other covert operations that have taken place during the obama administration. in culture will make her case for supporting donald trump for president. also coming up face the nation moderator john dickinson will remember some of the most important moments in american presidential campaigns. this weekend dana lasch
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contends that the united states is divided itself dividing itself into two countries coastal america and fly over america. >> is the area between new york and la that's 30,000 feet below your plane window. it is the huge expanse of patchwork. whenever you look down. you've no idea what's going on down there. it's small town america. it is the people with middle-class america. i have an uncle who owns the quarry. it's people just everyday people who aren't on the coast. they value family. it's all of those people that don't get the attention that the coast gets.
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>> this airs on book tv every saturday at 10:00 p.m. you can watch all previous programs on her website book tv.org. they recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress but they are what they are reading this summer. >> i am a multiple reader so i read a lot of books at the same time so sometimes i will finish a book all in one sitting but more often than not i read in different parts of the book. one book that i finished reading recently is a book that you did a whole segment on. i'm a big fan of shakespeare into no that the folger library is right library is right down the street. when i saw this book i immediately picked it up and it's a terrific book about a soldier who went on a spree to
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buy shakespeare's folios and he amassed a huge collection enough material that he created the folger library. it's a fascinating story of how it ended up in washington dc. but i'm also reading the righteous mind. it is a book about communicating and how we communicate in a more effective way. there is one on the elephant. they merely explained what the elephant is doing. and a lot of times you talk to the writer who is not making the decisions. we ought to be talking to the elephant. it's a good way to remember that you should be talking to the elephant making the decisions. i think it's important that we keep in mind who the heck we
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ought to be talking to. it's a book that i am rereading. i am also reading a book that i picked up at the national gallery a week or so ago it's called the accidental masterpiece. it's about how you see art and really to me i am a great lover of art you can see beauty and art and in everyday objects. but this is also another really interesting book that i just picked up. i like color, i like art i also do my own art. reading i just want to mention is a foundational piece because i was not born in this country english is not my first language. i credit a library and when i was in elementary school who awakened my love of reading.
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