booktv, tonight at 7:30 p.m. vermont senator and former presidential candidate bernie sanders offers his thoughts on how to bring about change in america. >> what is the agenda? what should we be doing as a nation? well, if you have a middle class which is shrinking, if you have millions of people living in poverty and sometimes in desperate poverty, the first thing i think we have got to do is demand that if you work 40 hours a week in iowa, vermont or in america, you're not living in poverty. >> then at nine fox news contributor and pollster douglas schoen discusses his book, "america in the age of trump: opportunities and oppositions in an unsettled world." >> my book, "america in the age of trump," tries to forge common sense, bipartisansolutions to the problems we are facing. and i would argue that those problems are getting worse, and they are being, to a great

degree, made worse still by our political leadership. >> and sunday at 9 p.m. on "after words," harvard university professor danielle allen examines the issue of mass incarceration in her book, "cuz." >> a prison system as big as ours? 25% of the world's prison population in our prisons despite the fact we have only 5 percent of the world's population? it touches everybody. which means there's a lot of stories out there that we're not telling. and, yes, by not telling those stories, we're letting this thing live. it's like we've got to get the stories out so we can see the damage that we're doing and fix it. >> for more of this weekend's schedule, go to booktv.org. >> people have asked us, you know, why did you choose certain people to be in the book. i mean, one of the things that we have said as we've been interviewedded recently is the fact that there are really countless numbers of stories.

i mean, there are so many women who we could have put in the book, and one of the reasons why we launched our digital platform was to try to highlight more of these stories. there truly is a visibility gap in tech. but one of the reasons why we chose donna is because not only does she have this super compelling story about failure and getting up and becoming incredibly successful, but she's also a fashion designer. she's also a writer. she is a maker. she is really kind of the opposite of the stereotype that you would think of of who works in technology. and i love that. i think we both love that about her, is that she just, she really kind of crushes that stereotype. and that was really important to us as we were meeting all these different women from all different backgrounds, from all over the country to see how creative and collaborative not only their jobs are, but how they are in their lives. and a big goal for us was to try to choose people that we felt

others out in our audience would hopefully feel a connection to in some way. and also to dispel, again, a lot of sort of the misconceptions about what it means to work in tech. and is often times people assume that it's lonely, that it's cold, that it's not collaborative, you know, these are some of the things you hear certainly from young girls when you ask them about it. but what we found with so many of these women that we met was that was the complete opposite. they were super creative. they were artsy. they care about fashion. they had families. they, you know, they had these incredibly multi-facetedded lives, and their jobs are very collaborative. and so that was a really big point for us in terms of the message that we wanted to get out and in hopes of maybe inspiring women to maybe think twice about going into these types of careers, is to see the breadth and the depth of the kind of people who work in these jobs and how interesting they are. >> has anyone here ever seen the

hbo show silicon valley? okay. it's pretty hilarious. but it's very, very stereotyped. there's a hacker house, there's, like, the computer genius, the coder guy, richard hendrix, who's the ceo, founder of pied piper, the tech company. so i spent a week in silicon valley in menlo park at a accelerator called the women's start-up lab. i spent a week at a hacker house with eight female founders who are technology founders living in a hacker house, and the really interesting thing i learned about, you know, researching this book was that a female entrepreneurs in tech don't look like richard hendrix, they don't act like the programmer type that you see on tv or hear about in the media. these women were from all over the country. one woman in particular, her name was carrie, and she's from santa fe, new mexico. she's got two little kids at

home. she said this is the first time i've been able to actually breathe and not have my kids all over me. she's starting a company which is a baby rental equipment company which she calls the airbnb of baby equipment. so when you go visit your parents cross country and you're traveling with kids and you have all the strollers and cribs and toys to carry, you don't have to. you can go from one state to the other and rent the equipment. so carrie was there, she said it was the first time i could actually focus on my company with these seven other entrepreneurs, and she spent the week workshopping and training and learning, basically building her pitch deck so she could go out and pitch investors for capital to scale her business. so i met carrie and spent the week with her and the other entrepreneurs, and the other interesting thing about this program was that it really was building a network of women entrepreneurs. so, you know, heather was talking about the loneliness and like, you know, you hear about it's so, you know, uncollaborative.

it's not. these women were work together, they were being introduced to investors, advisers, mentors. she said it built her confidence, she said she got back home, and her husband said, oh, my gosh, who are you? this is the new carrie. she also met fran meyer, a co-founder of match.com who was one of the advisers at the women's start-up lab, and she and fran -- fran saw her vision and said is, carrie, i want to partner with you, i want to scale it, i want to make this into a billion dollar company. so now fran meyer is her co-founder and ceo and actually carrie, who's the techie one, is the cto. and they've spread this company now into 40 different markets across the country, and it's booming. so again, going back to the collaboration, the sisterhood of, you know, finding the people who are going to help you to not just scale your business and find investment, but to build that confidence that you can do it, you're not alone and you

have this network of support. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> a look now at some of the authors recently featured on booktv's "after words," our weekly author interview program. talk radio host mark levin warned against federal government expansion. "wall street journal" writer and former editorial page e to have george malone -- editor george malone. and former breitbart news editor milo yiannopoulos explored the limits of free speech. in the coming weeks on "after words," progressive policy institute senior fellow david os to -- osborne will offer his outlook on the pooch -- on the future of the publication. susie hanson. investigative journalist art levine will report on the mental health industry. and this weekend on "after words" or harvard university

professor danielle allen will discuss how mass incarceration has impacted her family. >> like, you can't see that, i don't think, the degree of difficulty issue and the amount of luck involved in relationship to the sort of hard path through adolescence unless you put yourself back in each of those years and think about where -- what did your bedroom look like, who were the kids you were hanging out with, what were the dangerous choices you were considering? look at michael at the same moment. put those things side by side. >> i remember someone asking me is it personal responsibility or is it societal responsibility? >> right. yeah. >> what's your answer when people ask you that question? >> double helix, my friend. [laughter] you cannot separate those things. because collectively we build the world that we live in. we build, you know, we build the ton patterns -- the opportunity patterns. it's us. we're building it. it doesn't just fall out of nowhere from mars. and in the world that we live in, there are very different degrees of difficulty confronting young people

depending on where they happen to be born, the context into which they happen to be born. >> "after words" airs on booktv every saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. and you can watch all previous "after words" programs on our web site, booktv.org. >> and now, booktv's monthly "in depth" program with author and radio host eric metaxas. mr. metaxas is the or author of many books including "everything you wanted to know about god but were afraid to request." and "if you can keep it: the forgotten promise of american profrty." >> host: eric metaxas, in your current book, "if you can keep it," you talk about the golden triangle of freedom. what is that? >> guest: you're just leapingta right in, aren't you? hi, peter.