easy thing to do. come in from the outside, and i live here. i am a pretty polarizing figure, and the nice thing, hopefully this next book, people read them and they see you i made an effort to gather the story from the people but it is hard to hold back on certain judgments and some of these books have become indictments of a place and when you live in that place is difficult. and a great nonfiction writer.

>> of cultures were telling them the same message my culture told me which is go out, become an attorney and make money, they are going to have all the time but that is what you hope for. the story is evolving. this kind of landscape with these many issues is going to evolve and someone has to tell that story. >> for more information on book tvs recent visit to fresno and many other destinations in our cities to or go to c-span.org/citiestour. >> this weekend on c-span2's tv we are featuring the rancho mirage writers festival. coverage starts at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >> diseases are verbs and not

nouns would you are cancering, heart diseaseing, altheimer esther chang, one doesn't get cancer. it is something the body does. >> reporter: former senator barbara boxer. >> resigned, you are a disgrace. the whole thing. i said no. all i tried to do was find common ground. if you want to twist it, be my guest. >> reporter: panel discussions on the state of america's hospital, life and politics florida and the environment and pulitzer prize winning officer lawrence right. >> i lived a lot in the middle east and this is one lesson you learned from spending a long time in the middle east, things can always get worse. >> sunday at 3:00 pm eastern -- >> make a list of things that you think would make you happy and if they all arrive you would be temporarily happy. >> reporter: the director of the ucla longevity center.

>> if you can achieve your brain health you are going to be able to remember and think about all those decisions you need to make every day to keep your brain healthy. >> panel discussion on national security. watch the rancho mirage writers festival today on booktv. >> i am here with pulitzer prize winning author steve toomey, author of his most recent countdown to pearl harbor, 12 days to the attack. december 7th marks the 75th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor in hawaii. you chronicle several clues and an attack on american soil is going to happen. what was the most significantly ignored warning sign? >> probably the fact that four japanese aircraft carriers were known to be missing and it had long been rumored that japan

might use aircraft carriers to attack hawaii. here we had obvious evidence that something might be happening and they thought that did not mean very much in the end and the result is in part due to that. >> host: what was the intelligence like back then? was very strong intelligence system? >> guest: this was the age well before satellites and big listening dishes. it was a very by comparison to today, a very primitive time when it came to intelligence. we basically tried to find out what the other side was doing by listening to their radio signals. it sometimes worked, it sometimes didn't, but it was not nearly as sophisticated then as it is now. i don't think pearl harbor could happen again for that reason.

it is so easy through satellites to find almost anything on earth that it would be almost impossible to hide a fleet for two week sailing across the pacific ocean for 3150 miles. >> booktv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> starting now on booktv, coverage of the 2017 rancho mirage writers festival in california. several authors including senator barbara boxer, realtor prize-winning author lawrence right, humorist dave barry, historian douglas brinkley and more. first up, david agus talks about his book "the lucky years: how to thrive in the brave new world of health".