current state of health care in "an american sickness." colorado congressman ken buck provides a firsthand account of deal making in washington in "drain the swamp." founder and editor of inside philanthropy, david callahan, reports on how the wealthy are using philanthropic ventures to influence society in "the givers." richard florida offers his thoughts on how to make american cities more culturally and financially diverse in "the new urban crisis." also being published this week, author and former investigative reporter jeff guinn recalls the life of jim jones who was responsible for the deaths of over 900 people in november of 1978 in "the road to jonestown." neyork university public policy and economics professor jonathan morduck and center for financial services innovation senior vice president rachel schneider followed the spending habits of over 235 families over the course of a year in "the

financial diaries." and journalist drew phillip chronicles rebuilding an abandoned house in his hometown in "a $500 house in detroit." look for these titles in bookstores this week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> when adolf hitler came to power in january 1933, 55% of the germans had never voted for him. he was dropped into office by a coalition of powerful people who thought they could use him. he had received, and they wanted to use him because he had received more votes than anyone else but never a majority of the votes. and this is an important point to make because when we try to explain why germany became the place where the holocaust was perpetrated, where the actors

came from, the events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the events that precede it. the long tradition of anti-semitism, thing coeing of anti-semitic arguments -- the echoing of anti-semitic arguments did not matter politically until the minority of the people who believed in it acquired political power. power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it. and when people who hold beliefs that are regarded by the general society as not quite acceptable become enormously powerful, their beliefs become steadily more acceptable. a famous historian of nazi germany, william sheridan allen, once said more people became antisemites in germany because they became national socialists

than became national socialists because they were anti-semites. this is another way of formulating what i just said. power magnifies the ideas of those who hold it. and if those who hold it appear to be successful in realms that are important to some segments of the population, those segments of the population will come to think that those other ideas they hold might be more persuasive than they thought at first glance. if the economy flourishes in the 1930s as it appeared to many germans to do, then perhaps the nazis were not so bad after all. and perhaps what they say about the jews is not so errant as we thought. add this to a society that was thoroughly capable of creating an echo chamber, an ideological world in which only its ideas were presented to the public and in which one could not challenge

those ideas without fear of punishment, and you create a situation that transforms a nation in 1933 from one in which 55% of the germans had never voted for hitler to one in 1938 and '39 is ready to do to the jews everything that hitler wants it to do. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> so tonight we are delighted to have camille paglia here, and i will do a more formal introduction than usual, but bear with that, because instead of my usual ramble. camille is the university professor of humanities and university studies in philadelphia where she has taught since 1984. she received her b.a. from the state university of new york at binghamton in 1968 and her masters in philosophy and ph.d. degrees from yale iv