as always, the launch will be held on the second level at the george m yeager conference center which is up the spiral staircase at the front of the cato institute. restrooms are on the second floor on your way to lunch area look for the yellow wall and i would like to thank our authors and our commentator today for coming in at a very goodtime, thank you very much . >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. former federal reserve analyst danielle demartino warns that the federal reserve and congress are leading america into another financial crisis in setup. journalist brian alexander reports on how lancaster ohio went from what forbes magazine calls the if any of the all-american town in 1947 to a city acing many issues today. in glasshouse.

doug mack explores the us territories, american simile, guam, puerto rico, the us virgin islands and the northern mariana islands and their relationships with the rest of the country in the not quite states of america. also being published this week, usa today's greg saroyan shares how a group of us paratroopers survived 15 months of attacks from taliban fighters in the mountains of afghanistan in the chosen few. and former computer hacker turned cyber security consultant evan mitnick details how companies are following your cyber footprints and what you can do to protect your online activity in the art of invisibility. tvs titles in bookstores this week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on c-span2. >> is a rapid pace of change and i think what people are saying and i hope it won't be

an overly destructive way, we want government to slow this down a little. we want a little more sense of control.slow down the pace of change.we live in an era of very rapid change, rapid technological change, rapid integration of global economy, high levels of integration. all of these are very positive in a lot of ways, positive in ways of generating growth, we obviously have a lot of effort but people feel dislocated and i think what they're saying is we want a level of government control over this.we realize government can't stop the world and make us get off but they can control the pace of change to a greater sense and i think that's a commonality between what's going on here and was going on in europe. >> at what point just slowing the pace of change become protectionism?

at what point does it basically move, it's almost like a specter between being opened and being close, between immigration issues how do you , how does one if you will get the goldilocks position on the right? it seems to me it's a king can like challenge your setting up here. >> except the goldilocks position is politics. you read edmund burton and edmund burke says politics is just how we go about balancing the different demands. if you look at the trade, you go back to the vote of the tokyo around the world trade agreements. the house vote was 395 in favor and four against. overwhelmingly, the american people and their representatives are in favor of liberalizing trade. by the time you get to nafta, the boat is 234 to 200 and the majority of bill clinton democrats vote against him. the people are saying we're not quite so sure about this anymore. by the time you get to the

central american trade agreements and the class authority that's needed, republicans have to hold a vote for an hour. and it's our big guy those around intimidating their republican members to get on board. i talked to one of them afterwards, mark foley from florida. in order to get the single vote they needed to get the fast track through the house and allow them to do the american security, we paid attention in politics. we'd say look, we do not have broad societal support for these pedal to the metal liberalization. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> hi, welcome. [applause] >> i just realized i don't have to go to sound check. it's so glad to see everyone here. i love doing book events.