my biggest advice would be any phrase that says a state plan has to be reviewed by d.c., that's a no will have go for me. -- no-go for me. >> wonderful. thank you, vicki. please join me in thank vicki for her wonderful presentation. [applause] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious read ors. here's a look at what's on prime time tonight. we kick off the evening at seven eastern with a report on the world's water supply. and be then at eight, robert watson remembers one of worst maritime disasters of world war ii. our prime time schedule continues at 8:45 eastern with the washington east -- washington post's dan zack. at ten on "after words," ann coulter presents her case for why donald trump should be president. she's joined in conversation by the daily caller's tucker carlson. and we wrap up booktv in prime time at 11 with service employees international union

vice president david of on the improvement to increase workers' wages. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> host: clive priddle is the publisher of public affairs books. what have you got coming out this season you want to share with booktv? >> guest: i'm not a big computer games guy. i'm an innocent really, but one i know and i think almost everybody knows of any age is tetris. it's far more than a game of cubes falling out of a black skylining up at the tonight -- sky lining up at the bottom of the screen. it's actually the story of a guy who wants to smuggle this wonderful game platform out to the west. there's almost a little bit of industrial espionage mixed in with the politic obviously the time. and in the middle of it all, the

creation of perhaps the world's most copied, imitate thed, stolen and used video game of all time. >> host: how did dan ackerman discover this? >> guest: dan a longstanding reporter for cnet, and he got ahold of the author's story and interviewed him, and there's quite a culture around tetris as you probably know, so he'sen been scouring around the story for a long time, and it is really a terrific tale. >> host: what are some of the other titles you want to share with us that are coming out this season. >> guest: nation books has a wonderful and truly moving book from gary younge. gary younge is a reporter on the guardian who lived in chicago for 12 years, and he has looked at the deaths of ten young people on one day in america, 23rd of november, 2013, and the thing that links all these unfortunate people who died is that they are under the age of 19, and they're all the victims

of gun shootings. most of them accidental gun shootings. and his point in the book was to look at not the high profile victims of gun culture, the mass slaughters which we tend to explain away a as being, as it were, acts of madness, but this awful routine, almost normal loss of our young people to guns. these young people barely got a paragraph in their local newspapers. he had to search out their lives and their family lives, and he's created a portrait not just of lives cut short, but of the circumstances in which they were placed in jeopardy. and he's asking the kind of questions that i think we should all be asking about, where guns are in our culture. it's a really powerful book. he is, he's himself a caribbean-born briton who lived in chicago, so he knows what it's like to be a black person in america. he has done a remarkable job

interviewing the families of the victims, and i think this book is really going to move minds. >> host: and one more you want to share. >> guest: one more i want to share with you is a different place entirely but fascinating to me. professor at the harvard business school could eugene -- [inaudible] is -- called eugene -- is writing a book called "why they do it." white collar crime, often incredibly well remunerated professional crimes who nonetheless can't stop themselves from going one step over the line, sometimes one very large step. salters has built up a relationship withmany of these people from jail, for example, bernie madoff. he and madoff have exchanged 20 or 30 long written correspondences where they've looked at his motivations and how it was that he came to be a successful financier at one point and then, of course, a

fraudster by conviction at the end of the day. he did tremendous damage to a lot of people. it's a really great study of how if you work in a certain kind of environment, you can effectively shut yourself off from your moral compass. that's where this book is going. it's the story of the elite and how sometimes they lose track of right and wrong. >> host: that's a quick preview of some of the books coming out this fall by public affairs. >> here's a look at some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to politics & prose in washington d.c. ed young examines the relationship between animals expect microorganisms that live inside them in i contain multitudes. georgetown university law professor rosa brooks looks at changes in the american military and how war is waged in how everything became war and the military became everything. the hour of land by terry williams celebrates u.s.

national parks and argues for their preservation. j.d. vance's hill billy elegy is next. the late neurosurgeon paul kalanthi in his memoir, when breath becomes air. our look at the best selling nonfiction books at politics & prose bookstore continues with ta'nehisi coates. his look at the current state of black america is called between the world and me. jasmine ward is next with the fire this time, a collection of essays and poems about race written by more than 15 contributors. nancy isenberg examines class in america and the political significance of poor whites from reconstruction to the new deal in white trash. and carlo rovelli with his

overview of modern physics in seven brief lessons on physics. that's a look at some of the current nonfiction bestseller ors according to politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our web site, booktv.org. >> you know, one of the tenets both for military thinking and also even in the business world is you have to know your competitor or know your enemy, right? know your enemy, know your enemy, know your enemy. i mean, that has been engrained in me and, i'll deyou, lots of us that have served this country, it doesn't make any difference whether you're an intelligence officer or not, you must know your enemy. now, as i sit up here today and i dabble in the business world, know your competitor. it's the same concept, but know your enemy. if you don't know your enemy, then you cannot figure out a way to defeat them, period.

i mean, it's that simple. and so we have in this book described that notion, this idea about clearly defining this idea, this ideology, this very cancerous, barbaric, vicious, cunning, savvy ideology that we call radical islam. and the second big part of the book is really describing a strategy to win. because we can never think that our enemies are ten feet tall. i think during the era of communism, post-world war ii for the better part of 40 years we, you know, we would look at these, at our enemies as though they were ten feet tall. no enemy's ten feet tall. all enemies are beatable. nazis, we beat. had adolf hitler won 75 years ago, let's say, not that long ago. had he won, we'd all be praying at the alter of naziism. so -- altar of naziism. so thank god we did what we did

and we called out these isms last century, naziism, fascism, imperialism and communism. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. minnesota.-- .. this is meaningful to restoration and the new press as we amplified and spotlight marginalized