an english professor john burt has the seven debate between abraham lincoln and -- and lincoln's tragic pragmatism. the first woman to fly solo across the atlantic ocean in the memoir, west with the night. there are some of the staff picks from the harvard bookstore in cambridge massachusetts. you can watch a lot of these on our website booktv.org. >> it is a rapid pace of change. and i think what people are saying and i hope it will not be in an overly destructive way. want governments to slow us down a little bit. we want a little more sense of control. i look - slow down the pace of change, right? we live in a time of rapid

change. for the economy, high levels of immigration, although these kind of dislocating forces. they're very positive in lots of ways. positive in generating growth, diversity has a lot of benefits but people feel dislocated as a result. and i think what they're saying is we want a level of government control over this. we realize government can't set the world, make us get up if they can control the pace of change to a greater sense. i think that is commonality too much going on here and in europe. >> at what point does slowing the pace of change become protectionism. at what point does it basically move, it's on us like a spectrum between the being opened and being close. immigration issues, how do you, how does one if you will, get the goldilocks position on the right speed. it seems to me it is a -- challenge your setting appraisal. >> the goldilocks position is

called politics.you meet edmund burke. he says politics is how we go about balancing the different demands in society. if you look at the trade stuff, you go back to the boat on the tokyo round world trade agreement. 1979. the houseboat was hundred 95 in favor and four against. overwhelmingly the american people and representatives are in favor of liberalizing trade. by the neck time you get to nafta that vote had 234 to 200. the majority of bill clinton's democrats voted against it. and people say okay we are not so sure about this anymore.by the time you get to the central american free trade agreement and the fasttrack 30 that is needed, the republicans have to build the boat open for an hour. then these big guys go around intimidating the republican members to get on board. i talked to one of them after mark foley from florida said it was the worst experience of his life.

in order to get the single vote that they needed to get the fasttrack to the house to allow them to do this. someone who is paying attention to politics with a look, you know we do not have broad societal support for full speed pedal to the metal liberalization. maybe you should slow things down a little bit. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> look now at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country....