and book tv this weekend soviet tara sits down on her after its program to discuss the history and science behind body fat. syrian american journalist ali out mallet weighs in on the syrian civil war. chelsea clinton examines the public and private partnership that are working on global healthcare issues. former senior state department advisor david phillips takes a critical look at the us partnership with turkey. book tv visits wilmington north carolina to talk with local authors and visit the city's literary sites that all happened this weekend on book tv. forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books, television for serious readers. about 20 years ago i was doing some research on my first book.

about african-american women in the north and i came across an advertisement for a runaway, and enslaved person who had run from the president's house in philadelphia, may 1796. i was sort of caught up in looking through microfilm and old newspapers and this made me pause and i said, wait, who is this person who iran away. she was named only judge. i thought wait a minute. i don't know this person. that was troubling to me because this is my area of expertise, i'm supposed to know all of this stuff and i had no idea who this only judge was. there was something that was compelling about this advertisement, never sort of escaped me.

i said i'm going to come back to this important story, i'm going to try to trace this woman, i need answers. i finished the first book and here i am, many years later,. it was a lengthy process in atmpting to rever the work on the life of only judge. this is recovery work. those of us who do specifically african american history doing this only work in archives where the evidence is slim, factual evidence often doesn't exist because people of color, women in particular often remains outside the archives and so what i will say is that there's absolutely no way i could have written this book had i not written my first book. that's my plug for graduate students and people who are doing the work of academics.

i needed a grounding in order to be able to write this book about a woman who is really absolutely magnificent. when you read this book you'll be blown away by her life. many folks here in this room and in mount vernon say this is no new story. we know about own a judge and you are among a small group of people who know her. the expectation is i want her name to become one of those household names like a frederick douglass, like a harriet tubman because e runs away decades before they do. the title -- i'll give you a title about the story this is one of my first choice is for the title of the book and i

presented it to some people at the publishers and they hated it. they said it gives away the story, erica. [laughter] i said yeah but so does 12 years a slave. [laughter] we understand. twelve years will end at some. this is really a history of how a woman who is a fugitive never found freedom, she was never free. she simply was never caught. i think there's a big distinction and one that i wanted to make especially as i was trying to dismantle what we think about slavery in the south, in the north and at this moment when the nation is new. i think that's one of the other things that was really trying to do with this book was to allow us to see what the early days of this new country looks like for

the eyes of being enslaved. >> you can watch this and other programs online @booktv .org. >> here's look at the current nonfiction beverly books topping the list is former double future bush and his portraits of courage he discusses his paintings of veterans is why he chose them a subject. there followed by self-help guru, unshakable. and hillbilly elegy he recalls his childhood in a town in ohio. that's number three on the list. box new bills o'reilly and historian marco, japan's defeat in world war ii, killing the rising sun is number four. next, is nintendo's legend of zelda. publishers weekly bestsellers list continues with cop under fire by former milwaukee county sheriff david clark. hdtv's tip and joanna gaines is next with their book the magnolia story. next on the list is genes as

always by sarah young and followed by this life i live by rory feick. rounding out publishers weekly bestsellers book is big agenda, president trump's plan to save america by david horowitz. that's a look at some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to publishers weekly. some of these authors have and will be appearing on book tv on c-span two. you can watch them on her website. booktv.org. >> welcome to wilmington north carolina on book tv located on the cape fear river along the carolina coast this city was founded in 1737 due to its proximity to the ocean, wilmington served served as a important trade route during the civil war and was the last atlantic seaport of the confederacy until it fell to union troops in january 1865. today wilmington has a population of about 112,000 and