in how to survive a plague, david france reports on the recent advances in hiv research look for these titles and bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on book tv. >> i decided that i missed the 60s. i was born in 1963 and i grew up in new york city on central park west and my playground was essentially the staging ground for the antiwar movement's and i knew a lot was going on as a young child, but i was not completely aware of the significance of its. my early hometown heroes were shirley and i had photos of them on my wall and i was a young feminist at age seven, but all of this really was peter to me and when i graduated from college

in 1985 was exactly 15 years after the largest student strike in america, which you just saw the statistics about there were 700 colleges close it down, 2.5 million students went on strike after kent state and the invasion of cambodia. no one took finals and yet i graduated 15 years later to the middle of the reagan administration. a few of us went to battle on the streets against apartheid in trying to get harvard to divest, but otherwise it was very quiet. all of my friends went off to work at wall street and i just knew that my life was different because of what had happened in the 60s and i was free to choose any career i wanted and living a life i wanted to lead, but i really wanted to know what it was about this revolution in the late 60s that i had missed and how that activism,

that awakened generations had changed my generation and all of the generations to follow. i also thought it was a good time to go back and with history i think you are allowed to go back every decade or so and revisits what had occurred even if the 60s has been written about enormously, i mean, there is a library that i just collected in my research and it was a fast, so i did feel like it was a bit cheeky of me to decide i could take on this a decade as a kid who was not even their. but, it seemed like the right time to revisit the decade and talk to people who are activists because many of them were in their late 60s and 70s and they were ready to reflect and so much had gone on in the last 45 years that there was a lot to talk about and i wanted to catch them at a time when they still remembered what they had done and wanted to reflect. >> you can watch this and other programs

online at book tv.org. >> after the recent presidential election, the "new york times" a suggested six books to help understand donald trumps when. first, the unwinding in which new yorker staff writer george packer argues that people across the country have suffered at the hands of the political system over the last three decades. national book award finalist carly russell profiles conservative americans and reports on their concerns about liberal policies in strangers in their own land. also on the list is hillbilly elegy in which jd fans chronicles the decline of white working-class americans in the rust belt picked the "new york times" recommended in order to better understand donald trump and election 2016, read thomas frank's listen liberal, where he argues the democratic elite has abandoned its traditional commitment to the working-cla