portland oregon, harrisburg, pittsburgh, grand rapids. that begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern. there's tonight we feature authors of recent bestsellers. we'll hear from david grant, author of killers of the farming, the true story of murders in the 1920s on the osage indian reservation. mark talks about his book, turning point of the american war in vietnam. then, newt gingrich on his book, understanding trump. and roxanne k, author of hunger, a member of my body. this is part of book tv primetime. >> book tv visit capitol hill test members of congress with their reading the summer. >> i intend to read different books. i love reading history about presence. the library of congress has something where every so often

they bring in the author of a book on one of the presidents. the lesser we had last recapping to be on internet jackson. so they give you books. signed by the author and i love reading the specs. it had different ones from lg bay and now just recently answer jackson's. one that i wanted to read now is one called a geography of genius. nowise that important? has example, lies at that you have ancient athens the 21st century silicon valley. they were separated by thousands of miles, and thousands of years apart. so what is it that you have this innovation, creativity and athens many years ago and now you look at silicon valley and you have an innovation creativity.

it looks at what happens, was the catalyst in certain areas. it's not only athens and silicon valley, but you have different places across time in different cities and different continent. and that's interesting to me. >> do you focus on reading history books or to have other interests when you read? >> i love history. i love also self-improvement. but i'm also sci-fi fan. from reading the princess of mars many years ago to natalie reading the books, but the princess of mars i think they turned it into a movie so start track and some of the other science fiction. that's my pleasure reading. but i love history. i know that in high school .. in

college they like history but if you look at it the world has been reinvented. it's all a matter of rearranging things. you look at discoveries and it's all a matter of rearranging things. if you look at history, their slotted ideas that you can look and create a new niche, come up with a new idea, and therefore spark a new innovation or her creativity. >> and finally, what are some tools that you're using so that you can add reading into your schedule? >> i love the ipad. and there's different apps. size look at what's out there. one is called blank list which is an act that will give you some recent books and you can either take the option of reading or do it by audio. then if you're interested in looking at the book that of

course he met the book itself. but it will give you a snapshot and then the key message of what's the take way. the other one is called curious where you get an e-mail every day and it has different things from humanities to music to science, whatever the area might be in. every day will give you something in one of those areas. those are the ways that you have to keep your mind at this. especially someone like myself where i have to go from foreign affairs to appropriations and then when you get on the airplane flying from laredo to houston, from houston to washington, he spent a lot of time on the plane. this is where you use some of the saps to make sure you keep

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