writing i did was not very good most mild pop-theminism. when i think about the if comments i got back then. a lot of them were rooted in you sound like a crazy, sex-starved woman who's mad because men don't like you. when i was writing pop commentary about paris hiltedden. what the response was you're too angry for me to take your seriously. even when i was covering up the anger with jokes, and slyness and a general good cheer. >> watch afterwards sunday night at 9:00 eastern on book tv. >> that's all this weekend on c-span # 2's book tv. for a complete schedule visit booktv.org.

>> welcome to a special prevention of our c-span cities tour as we take you to hawaii, made up of eight islands in the pacific on the grounds, it is located 240 miles known for its landscapes, beaches and pearl harbor it's rich in native hawaiian sight tz helping to tell the story of a formerly independent nation went from a monarchy to becoming the 50th state in the union in 1959. first settled by paulnesens, hawaii's population today is

1.34 million and tourism is the number one driver of its economy. with the help of our spectrum cable partners for the next hour and 45 minutes we'll visit the island of oahu learning about the history of the state and taking you to places key to understanding hawaii's complex past and present. beginning with a look at former senator? personal book collection. >> i'm ted eno way. the lonnest serving senator in the state of hawaii, and as well as one of the longest serving senator in american history. he was the president pro-tem of the senate for some time as well. he started getting involved in hawaii tear torial politics almost as soon as he got back to hawaii from the war. he was part of a whole wave of japanese

american who served in the military who were returning home, who basically did not want to return to the same sort of world that they left behind. they felt they had paid their dues. they felt they deserved to have a slice of that american by that they -- and that american dream they fought for when they were bleeding in the battle fields in europe. so, he and a lot of his former brothers in arms, basically started getting involved in politics here in hawaii when it was still a territory. to me the most obvious landmark going chronologically would have been hawaii becoming a state. because that was something that he and a lot of folks worked

for. they felt that as a territory you -- they felt as a territory hawaii was not getting the kind of representation it truly deserved. and they felt in order for hawaii and the people of hawaii to be treated on an equal playing field and as first-class citizens and as equal americans to everyone else in the country that hawaii had to become a state. so given that i think the first real landmark probably would have been statehead. another landmark for him personally would have been when he received the medal of honor. that, any time someone says something that ask asks me about an event that

was significant to him, that is something i think of. because he that really moved him. that was something he did not expect to happen. and i've only seen -- i only saw him cry twice in my life. one was by my mother's bedside when she died, and the other was when he received the medal of honor. >> second lieutenant inoway's in keeping with the highest tradition of military service and reflect great credit on him, his uniand the the united unites army. (applause) it reaffirmed the belief in him that this country he always had a deep abiding belief that america -- well america is a country that has shall we say a

checkered past in certain regards, it is also a country that is will to recognize that and willing to try to work to make things right. a good example of that was during the reagan administration when ronald reagan did the reparations for japanese american enter hospital, and formally apologized for that act. and to him, for he and his colleagues in the 442nd to be recognized on that level, to getting the medal of honor, that's a pretty heavy turn around from initially being classified as enemy aliens. not being able to sign up, then being able to sign up to a

segregated unit, and then years later, being recognized officially recognized, for valor on the battlefield by receiving the highest honor a soldier can receive. that's a pretty heavy turn of events when you think about it. that was not lost on him. he was extraordinarilily moved when that happened. these collection of my father's books that were. >> that are here at uh west oahu, the interesting thing about this collection is they're saying that you find some books and then there are some books that find you. in this case i think it's safe to say the

majority of those books found him. because in his office collection -- they were largely primarily books that were sent to him as a result of his role as a senator. plus you have books that had in his mind direct relevance to what he was working on in the senate. and then also there were others that where he had a copy at the house but also wanted to copy in the office. for instance, this one here i recognize this immediately because i recognized that he had a copy of it and this is a book on there the history of the 442nd, and the 100th battalion, their involvement in world war ii. this was something definitely

close to his heart. as you can see he had multiple copies in the office. it probably looks like one of them was beat up. but he also had copies of it at the house as well. there are a number of books that probably fall into that category here. it's a very diverse collection. he's got everything from hawaii history, hawaiian history, native american history, a lot of books that were sent to him by the author. it's a very, interesting collection and pretty diverse. the thing that i found interesting is and i've pulled a few examples here is, like there's this book here. which is an example of hawaii history. it's the part of

hawaii history that's not discussed a lot but it really -- it was note surprise to me to find this in his collection because it's also in my collection. it's about the japanese american community in hawaii specifically and in the ala park area. this was for many years in the early part of the 20th century a hub of the community. it discusses -- it happens to be where my mother's parents had their store. my mother's parents had a jewelry store in, ha park. if you've ever stopped to think about how hard it would be to serve in an immigrant neighborhood running a jewelry store during the depression, and coming out on the good end of things at the end of the depression, that should give you an idea of how tough my mother's family was. so this book is

very interesting. holds a very special place in our family. the other thing -- this is a little bit different. this is a souvenir program for the 442nd carnival in 1947. it was like any other carnival, it was a an event where people could come together and have a good time. it's was also to help continue awareness for the 442nd now that they were back home. and i remember years later when i was -- i guess i was in college at that point. my father said something to me like, it was after i was out of college it was right -- when he received the medal of honor, and he said you know we had a private

moment. he said something to me something along the lines of -- you know you don't go into something like this -- you don't go into a war to get a medal. once you start, you go in there, you want to survive. and in order to survive a lot of it is instinct. you find out what you're about. you find out what your friends are about. and it really growing up this way it really sort of drives home to you the seriousness of armed conflict. it's not like when you watch the news and it's not just numbers or statistics or terms like collateral damage or friendly fire or whatever. it'h families, with dreams. and it'o

grow up, but an important way to grow up. that's one of the reasons why when i saw this i had to smile a little bit. you've got -- this one caught my eye. autobiography of georgia tekay. he became friends with mr. tekay as life would go on. as you know, mr. tekay has been involved in japanese-american community trying to bring awareness to the enterment experience. having been interned himself. the first time i ever had a chance to meet him, my father introduced me to him when he received the -- when my father received the medal of honor. he was mc at one of the

events. i have to tell you i don't get nervous meeting very many people. but the first time i met this guy, i was it so nervous. because you know this is sulu. i grew up watching this man. but he couldn't have been nicer. and i could immediately see how the two of them would have gotten along. the thing that blew me aways is he sounds that way in real life that voice. it was really quite something to experience. he's a really good guy. to senator inouyi. y your stellar leadership continues to inspire george tekai. some of the folks who sent him books were his colleagues in the senate and the

house. and the thing that struck me about these books, were that he always prided himself on being a bipartisan person. working with both sides of the aisle. he always used to say to me. i'm when i was a child, he said to me once, you should always try to make sure you have friends on both sides of the aisle. and at the time, i was in grade school i thought he was talking about church. it wasn't until years later i started to realize that he was talking about the political arena. and you know this is because -- i think in large part this is because he's a product of hawaii. in hawaii we do the best we can to try to focus on what brings us together rather than what keeps us apart. we try to focus on what our similarities are, rather than our differences. we aspire to

that. we try to do that. and i think that's what he always tried do to v do in his work. when you think about it, at the end of the day, if you only are going to work with people who you agree with 100% of their views, 100% of the time you're going to have a pretty small circle of folks you'll be able to work with. if you're able to work with people who may not necessarily agree with you on a lot of things, but you agree with you on certain things, you can get some remarkable things done. >> when these hearings began three months ago, i stated that we would examine what happens when the trust can, which is the bond between the branches of our government is breeched by hi officials. while there have been differences of opinion expressed by members from time to time. i will always look

back upon these hearings as a model i of how members of both houses can work together on foreign policy issues and a bipartisan spirit. >> i remember early in his career people had a hard time figuring out why he was able to get along with a lot of members from the south. because this is during segregation. a lot of that was because he worked to bond with them on issues they held in common. liking a ruculture. at the time hawaii had a lot of concerns regarding agriculture because we had a lot of pineapple, a lot of sugar copies, so forth. you work on what you have similarities on. and you know, when you work with people face-to-face on things that you do agree on, when it comes time to work on things that you don't agree on, it's a

lot harder for people to demonize each other understand those kind of circumstances. one thing that struck me looking through the collection here is the books that were coming from folks who were from both sides of the aisle. for instance you have harry read, who you expect because i remember when my mother was in the hospital and she had just passed, one of the first people to stop by to offer condolences was leader reed. as soon as he got the news, he made his way over to the hospital to give his condolences to dan my great friend, harry reed, majority leader. i could tell they were friends. it's -- the senate is an interesting place. in the sense that it is as

legislative bodies go it's quite collegial as a generate matter. but then again it is a legislative body. and you are going to have conflicts every now and then. but you know the trick is to as the saying goes, disagree without being disagreeable. and to do your best to aspire to that. i'm sure there were times that the two of them didn't see i did to eye. but i did certainly get the sense that there was a great deal of respect and affection there. another book we have here is john carry's book that he wrote with theresa heinz, on the environment and such. john carey, he and my father were quite good friends. they just

got along. mr. carey's a good guy. to chairman dan thank you for your many courtesies through the years for me personally. thank you for your partnership and leadership on so many issues. it is a privilege to serve with you, all the best, john. to show how he was able to work with some level of culeaningality on both sides of the aisle in both chambers, we have a book from newt gingrich, which is also signed as you can imagine there was no shortage of things that the two of them did not see eye to eye on. but having said that, i did get a sense there was a level of mutual respect there. if there was anything that maybe bothered

him, was mr. beginning receive's tendency to shall we say demonize the other side. because that was something that was kind of of athmuto my father. you don't demonize the other side because it makes the other side to be working with you when the time may present itself. there is a saying that there -- there's a saying you try not to have enemies. you try to only have adversaries. because an enemy is forever. an adversary is for this particular thing. so, it's a lot easier to end up having enemies if you end up demonizing the other side. i think if there's anything that probably bothered him, it was that tendency that mr. beginning receive had. to senator danny

your friend, newt. what this collection shows is that he had a very curious mind. he and he was also involved in a lot of -- in a wide variety of issues. i think it also says that he had rapport with people who were involved in a wide variety of issues as well. his stock answer to everything when it came to people taking note of him, or something he has or something he did, was to be -- he would always say, why the big fuss? but at the end of the day, he would sort of -- he would later on turn to us and go -- that was pretty cool hu? so i think on one hand if he could be here now he would probably say why the big fuss.

but oarched i think he would feel pretty good about the thought that this is able to. . [applause] - hawaii's gifts to the world. he was a symbol of how these

people lived in harmony with the ocean and nature. it goes back at least 800 to a thousand years. now it's an international sport. finally an olympic sport. now we are in the outrigger, resort. we have the iconic diamondhead in the background. probably one of the most famous landmarks. on the beach, an exciting day because we have oceans, every year they hold this event in honor of hawaii. olympic athlete of onawa who. it's a week of games and tournaments in our gears, paddling, surfing contests and a lot of fun. >> for my role, he was a famous hawaiian icon. in his mind, there is nothing more, nobody more famous.

so there was a famous surf contest, the most famous and professional, the duke. considered the father of surfing. he got to compete in the contest and in 1969, there was a fantastic picture of eddie meeting duke and getting this trophy and i always say it's like a passing of the torch of one generation to the next. just as duke was the most famous hawaiian, eddie became one of the most famous generations later. this beautiful picture because eddie is so thrilled to look

duke in the face because he's loved him so much. eddie came up around the 19, made 1960s and started competing and in 1967, he made a name for himself by surfing one of the largest waves ever ridd ridden. it was considered one of the largest swell the lion island has seen. they interviewed the servers and he was fearless. why all of us would hold back on the biggest wave, eddie would go. he would paddle on the biggest waves. that's partly where that saying, eddie would go originated. it started because he was working as a lifeguard on the beach, one of the first lifeguards on the shore. a number of people every year to

drowning in these massive waves. finally after eddie had saved a number of people on his own, they realized, this guy is the perfect person to hire. when the waves got too big, the captain would say i don't want you guys going out, swinging or paddling, call a helicopter at that. i don't want to lose more wives. i would have to chain them to the beach to prevent him from going and saving someone. the name, the phrase stuck. eddie was almost a full-blooded hawaiian, which was very rare in those days. he was quiet, small, the smallest member of his family, very dark. very dark skinned. so he was aware of the relations

and one of the stories that i loved is, in the 60s, the hawaiians were the bottom of the economic scale and here, this is their home. they offered their culture to all of these visitors who have taken over. there was kind of a stigma, a shame because their greatness has been diminished over generations. in eddie's time, he always, he and his family were proud hawaiians. so when he could do something like when the duke contest, it was all about emphasizing the hawaiians culture but the most significant thing in his life was hopefully a. it was a canoe, every creation of the ancient canoes that brought the first colonies into

hawaii. it's a fascinating story because they had sailed further than any people on earth. yet western science and anthropologist, the prevailing thing, especially with thor, these people couldn't have sailed that far. it's way too far. you're going to miss the hawaiian islands completely. they would've had the stars to guide them, they drifted. that's not right, we have stories, and chants about how armor ancestors came here. they voyage to so in 1975, they built this replica of the ancient hawaiian canoes that first came here. in 1976, they've failed to, using only the sales and stars. it was one of the great

navigational seats and modern history. they just used the stars in a way the ancient hawaiians did. there was a person who did it and he wasn't hawaiian. he learned the arts of navigation and eddie found out about this and he was like, i want to be on the next voyage. so he really just trained and in 1978, when they came -- when they came to select the crew, eddie was selected. unfortunately they hit a storm when they were sailing and the storm came and a wave came over the canoe and in the middle of the ocean, 15 miles from the

nearest island, the radio fell overboard, they are holding onto the canoe, they didn't know what to do. so they spent the night there, all bodies accounted for, struggling to hold on into this swell, crashing against them all night long. eddie kept asking the captain, let me go, let me go for help. i can paddle, he brought his surfboard on the canoe. i can battle to the nearest island. you never leave the ship, said no, i can't let you do it. morning comes around, two of the crewmembers are really sick. one, including the captain's sister, the only woman, got hypothermia, they had been in the ocean all night and the winds are howling, it's pretty cold out there. she's starting to go in-and-out of consciousness. the doctor who could help her is also in the same boat, in bad

shape. so eddie asked again a third time, let me go for help. the captain fearing for the lives of his crews, said okay, so they let eddie paddle off. the nearest island now was 16 to 18 miles away now. he paddled off into waves and winds, you can't see anything hardly. he took off and everybody was like, if anybody could do this, eddie could. he was a great surfer, water man and lifeguard. you have to remember they had been up for almost 36 hours. they were exhausted, they hadn't eaten so he paddled off on march 17. he paddled off looking for help. he was never seen again. it's a tragic thing and the rest

of the crew could have easily been lost and it's a miraculous that they were found. a hawaiian airlines plane was late and had diverted its course to make better time and with one of their last flares, they fired off and the pilot said, the smallest's mark out of the corner of his eye and even though he was late, that was something, that was an emergency flair. he turned around, they fired their last flair, he knows it's an emergency, flies over, blinked his lights and heads to honolulu and calls the coast guard, radios where they are. miraculously the rest of the crew was saved. everybody came in, where is eddie?

have you heard from him? did he make it? they didn't know what happened. for three days, they launched one of the largest land, sea and air rescue efforts in hawaiian history. people were coming the coastlines. everybody wanted to try to find and help out. on the third, excuse me, on the fifth or sixth day, they realized they weren't, people got injured looking for him so they called off the search. they had a huge memorial for him. in his honor. at that., he became a symbol of the hawaiian, the renaissance was a rebirth or rediscovery of hawaiian culture. it took place right at this time, right around the hopefully a because people like eddie

suddenly could say, we were hawaiian and proud because after that first voyage, they proved to the world that the hawaiians were some of the greatest navigators on earth. they sailed 2500 miles across open oakland just using the stars as guides. this wells and birdlife and, they could read features so well. it's hopeless in a big city, so you can imagine how these people were to their culture to be such great voyagers. that was a critical turning. eddie came to symbolize that hawaiian pride. before his passing, there were only a few schools where they taught hawaiian language or culture. now, it's taught in almost every school. they are proud to be native hawaiians. it's amazing how times have changed and there's been a renaissance of culture separate

liberation. representing the search and hawaiian. there is a big wave contest in his honor and it was held every year. they had the opening ceremony and the best surfers in the world. all of these different incredible individuals compete in the contest and the waves have to be a minimum of 20 feet, hawaiian which means 30-foot to 40-foot base if you can even imagine how big that is. that's bigger than the building next to us. it's incredible, the size of these waves. eddie felt a comfort there. so they have this contest in his honor because he was an

important part of hawaiian culture. it's not about the competition, who wins, it's about honoring eddie. even though it was a short life, he was lost at sea when he was only 32. he's like a stone in the drop of water, the ripple effect. keep on going and they are still going. it's amazing, there's a plaque dedicated to eddie. it says, from the bible, the greater love has no greater man than he who sacrificed his life for his friends. >> the north shore is nones for its big waves and feet surfing. a rich part of hawaiian culture and history. surfing also plays a significant role in attractive tourism here.

it's about 21% of the states economy. up next, we continue our special look at hawaii with local journalist, marcel. to learn about the new honolulu. >> we are at the newsroom for honolulu. it's an online news outlet that's been here in holland lu lulu. it is a nonprofit, to fill a need for investigative journalism in hawaii. i've covered everything from immigration to education to transportation, transportation is my main focus here. honolulu is building a 20-mile, 21 station rail project. elevated rail project. it's been very controversial around the island. the cost have continued to go up. you see this in other rail projects. out here it has a pretty stark,

it is currently projected the cost of $9 billion. it's just been, the cost has risen about $3 billion since the end of 2014. so residents have watched the cost of this process continue to rise. it's been controversial because it is an extremely expensive project. there has been a lot of skepticism as to how much of a dent it's really make in traffic. the what has the transportation officials say, it will be that much worse in the future, and future decades if we don't build this. it's not that it's going to get better than what it is at

existing levels but we do need to do something like this in order to at least contain the congestion to what we are seeing today. you will still see each freeway that goes that because across, that will be something that residents here will continue to grapple with the argument is, at the very least you will have this option. to get on a train that hopefully will be reliable and you will know that you can get on the strain. bypass all of the congestion and cut through downtown and get to where you want to be. the controversy has to do with the design and the fact that you have to stop at a lot of places, at most stations you wouldn't be able to kind of walk to the station like new york. or chicago or something like that. you will rely on some sort of a first step, dropping you off, parking, it basically you will

be fighting traffic just to get to the rail line. we've had a great bus system but we've never had a fixed rail transportation system. they are building this brand new from scratch. it's not something that people are used to and it was incredibly expensive from the get-go. it's only getting more expensive. you look at $9 billion and a 20-mile system, couldn't we have done something more cost-effective? the funding is by and large, it's estate tax, a surcharge on our general tax on the island. there is $1.55 billion in federal funding from the fda, the more expensive this project gets, the smaller of a slice,

the percentage that the funding is, the federal funding. so basically, the federal government, you've got your share. 1.55 billion. this is as much as you're going to get. you are on the cook to complete this project as you promised. that's been part of the issue and the dynamics here, hawaii would lose its federal funding if it doesn't complete the project the way it agreed to under its deal with the fda. every time it runs into a financial challenge where it runs over budget, they need to go to the legislature, he causes all sorts of political chaos when they have to go to the statehouse and say again, we need more money. even for the most supporters of the project, it's become a headache as far as trying to see it through the end. the real, main successful legal

challenge against rail would help delay the project for years, brought forward by a native hawaiian practitioner, a cultural practitioner. he argued that this project was being built improperly and they hadn't fully completed all of the archaeological surveys that they needed to do before they started building. it halted the whole project. one of the key issues are here, there's a lot of, the ancestral remains of hawaii from generations past. oftentimes what happens, you encounter as they are digging, bones and remains. so they did have to do a survey to find out where they were

going to put the pillars in the ground, they were not going to build on top of these ancestral remains, and if they did encounter them, there is a whole process that we have in the state where you either elect to put a protective coating, to leave them in place where you remove them and put them in an area where they will be protected going forward. the whole process is very unique here in hawaii. it something that's played out with the rail project. it helped to stall the project for about a year. until they were able to complete the full archaeological survey along the line. the other issue right now, they are building it, underway. they are talking about building the largest project in hawaii history. you are building what amounts to a second freeway that's

displacing businesses along the way, it's causing a lot of traffic headaches and they haven't even gotten into downtown at this. they haven't gotten into the heart of the city, the urban core. people are really bracing for the havoc that will be created when you have to build this massive project into what is already a crowded, congested city. >> it's about 24 miles from honolulu. it's a 4000-acre, private nature reserve. cattle ranch, tour attraction. it's considered one of the most sacred places on the island of oahu where an early times, native hawaiians would come and seek forgiveness. coming up, we continue our special look at hawaii with author, jonathan. to learn about the history and

future of native hawaiian culture. >> it's an important place. we come with a sense of urgency. social, economic and political systems are kind of spiraling out of control. less and less focus on things like planning, urban planning, important projects get derailed because of politics. they continue willing spiraling, cost-of-living, the fact that it's time, more than 90% of our food and the things that we need for survival have basically voted in, we didn't have any self proficiency here.

the number of people who are without shelter, growing and a lot of them are native hawaiians, already beginning to spend a huge amount of money on the prospect of this rail project coming through honolulu. there are deep cultural divisions that are also political, really powerful hawaiian movements, really an effort to inspire self-government again and among many of us, a desire to sever our political relationships with the united states. this is back in, more than ten years ago. it's been going on for, since the 1980s. we have environmental problems that are peculiar to an island.

they have to do with climate and weather and the quality of water and ocean. really, we are at the mercy of global warming, global climate change. all of these are conversations that we are having and we realize, we should just write a book. it was 2009, coming up on the elections, 2010 we would be electing a governor. the legislature, we should consult with all of the people that we know and have come to know through years and years of scholarship and political community activism. we should contact the people that we know who know a lot

about different subjects. they are really vital that present present vital issues. the entry into this modern world begins with a number of europeans and americans coming here through the latter part of the 18th and 19th century. the result of that, the hugest impact it almost immediately and dramatic drop in the population. we are looking at hundreds of thousands of people dying of diseases to which, our people had no immunity. this projector he basically dropped the population from 500

to 800,000 at this.of contact to less than 40000 by the end of the 19th century. about 120 years. we have somewhere between a 92 to 95% depopulation rate. the leadership, the chief, choose to modernize. we went from a country deep in this long traditional history of leadership and management of our resources, no capitalism, virtually no trade, very stable. we went from that to being almost unrecognizable from any other 19th century modern

country. by the 1850s, upper houses downtown, buildings, plantation economy and this is the thing, the native hawaiians were trying to manage all of this and also manage the ambitions of some of the ones who came to live here, missionaries and descendents of missionaries who had become powerful, very rich because of sugar. business people and lawyers decided to basically take that power away from the native hawaiian government. so there were two major events in 1887 when he was king and then in 1893 when she was queen in which this group of people, business people, attorneys --

basically backed by the friendship of the united states, moved to basically triple and modern themselves. the united states, after essentially pretending that it doesn't, it didn't have anything to do with it, from 1893 to 1898, eventually the united states territorial iced. people used the words and ask haitian but that's not a correct word. to annex a territory, according to the united states constitution, you basically have to submit this to the senate, two thirds majority vote. they were never able to do that. they tried several times. in 1897, they submitted this

administration, the senate was entertaining a vote to annex. they received from people to petitions. equaling close to 37000 signatures in all. men, women and children, old people and in both petitions, they were asking the united states not to annex us. we were independent people, we have our run country. we were recognized by the united states, great britain and france in 1843. we had multiple treaties with all kinds of nations. the u.s., the netherlands, britain, everybody. multiple treaties with them. we acted like an independent country. we were no different than any of

those other countries in the eyes of international law. yet, the united states has been able to pretend and i say successfully pretend, that they have some legitimate claim to these islands. as a historian, and as someone who has studied this for many years, i can say that the united states has only one claim to these islands and that is, they have taken is over by force. you can think about in every part of its history, terrible thing was happened to us. the depopulation, literally tens of thousands of peoples dying, families being ruined, the whole economic system falling apart.

get our peoples don't leave lose hope. they look to, the things they are learning about the outside world, about democracy, trust to the government, literacy the great many things present in the world and they reach for them. they reach for them. they say, if we have to change to survive, we will do that. we are here to protect this land, and the interpretation how you do this change, constantly. very few few people believe and go back to traditional practices. the numbers of people we have here and the reality of the world. all of us believe we can be more

self sufficient. we all believe our economy can be more sustainable and resilient. the educational system can change and be more accommodating of typical western ideals and all of us believe that this can happen because, that brings me to the final word. this book was an attempt to get people to take these elections seriously and to start asking what people who are running for office, really hard questions about what they intended to do to change the trajectory we were on. if you read through this, you'll see that some of the things -- we have come to some difficult places. numbers of peoples being, the state of our schools. whatever the topic, all of these are areas of crisis and we

demanded, we wanted people to start demanding change. most of the people i know are, that i like, are democrats, progressives, we don't truck with republicans. there's a good reason for that. it's a whole forty-year period, 50 year period between the takeover. where the old, they were all republicans in the controlled land and everything. they were racist and they held on to power. so that's one of the reasons republicans are not popular here. the democrats are not, they are not changing anything. the come into office, they

inhabit the house for two years, the senate for four years, the governors mansion for eight years and they don't change a thing. everybody talks about how we can't continue to have more and more tourists every year we get more and more tourists. everybody talks about the need to balance the military, military needs and desires with what is good for the community. we don't hold them accountable. everybody talks about the need to somehow or another slow the pace of land speculation and we do nothing about it. everybody talks about the need to protect the agriculture and just as fast, and the last two or three years, the state government basically approved the end of one of the last agricultural areas on this island. the awarding of a subdivision.

there is no real legacy of change or challenge in the democratic party either. you look at these two choices, nobody wants to go back to republican ever. but the democrats do nothing. then again, it makes you realize why hawaiian independents seems attractive. two more and more people. [applause] >> they continue to face issues of being disenfranchised within their own hope land when you look at statistics where health and education and all of the

usual social measurements, they continue to face challenges to the.where they have been swept aside. the overthrow, 125 years ago, but in hawaii, members of the community, it's like it was yesterday. it continues the conversation as far as land issues. as far as what is going on with the hawaiian island, the big island. there are two very large islan islands. i believe it's 12 or 13 existing telescopes and easily one of the best places in the world for astronomy and to observe the heavens but it's also considered a very sacred place for native hawaiians, traditionally. there are plans to build a

telescope, the largest telescope up there by far. it's been extremely controversial in hawaii. the most recent polls i remember seeing, it showed that a majority of native hawaiians opposed the construction of this. i know it's off and framed as a cultural issue, many hawaiians are irked by that. it's been a very controversial thing that we've been covering for the last several years. basically an injection by the supreme court to stop construction until labor have the proper permit in place. it's still continuing to work itself out. when the court order came down, it upset people that are

protesting the telescope. that's one flareup that has been a big part of the last five years or so. it speaks to a lot of the general undercurrent here of hawaiians and the issues they face historically. >> made up of eight islands, hawaii is home to about 1.4 million people. a lot who is the third largest and most populated island. about two thirds of the population. coming up, the continue the look at hawaii with the story of jo john. the first democratic governor of hawaii. >> john was the first democrat, they elected governor of hawaii. he was born on the mainland, a

child of the military. he was a jock, he played football, quarterback. somebody said he was always the quarterback. wherever, he was the quarter back. he's a smart guy, he confessed that he didn't study very hard and he caused his mom a lot of trouble. he got into drinking with the boys and even while still in high school and if he said it once, they opened the bottle, i was there. he went to the university of hawaii, thinking he was going to play football there. had been approached by the coa coach, they only stayed a semester. one semester. later when he was governor, he went to a local catholic college. he said, you are looking at probably the last man ever to be a governor of this state without a college degree. that's why you should study

because if you want to be governor someday, it's important to have a college education. i think he severed sometimes from a sense of, he was dealing with big people. i think his logic of an education bothered him. it may have resulted in some respects, and his need to lash out and so forth. anyway, when world war two broke out, that's where burns political career was really made. he had risen in the police department where one of the big things, what about these japanese americans in hawaii? at that., japanese-americans were close to 40% of the population of hawaii. these japanese, they came over to work on the plantation.

they had big families, many families who are on the plantations that those who came, were not american citizens but the minute they had a kid, i've always said it was a ticking bomb of hawaii politics. when everybody every time they had a child, if they stayed in hawaii, that child was a u.s. citizen. the second generation of japanese-americans were a force there were going to bring about big change in hawaii politics. but it was a difficult time for japanese. they were eager to prove themselves. they tried to form, doing a lot that some of the younger guys that word were doing a lot of different work. a lot of people were also being looked at about being interns. jack was on the committee that made those kinds of decisions. often because he was born here,

not born here but he had lived here all of his life, he was close to playing ball with his kids, he was in school, he was off often the guy who said, that's a good guy. he's no threat. he said, people who gave me so much credit for being good to the japanese community, they forgot. i voted more than a thousand people who were interned, he said, i voted to put some of them. i was a voice that said, that's not that kind of family. that's not kind of that guy, he's a threat. nevertheless, he got a reputation and if you want to find loyalty, you want it,

japanese america. they were loyal to jack. it was intense and they were intent in proving their americanism. they came back and the g.i. bill, you take a group of people who are very, value education to begin with. then you give them the right to go to college and they want, went to very good schools. university of chicago, but most of them were up at the university of hawaii. getting their degrees and they got out and there was this guy by this time, he got the job on the politics, jack worked through the city as a defense guy. he didn't have a lot of work to

do most of the time anyway. these guys started showing up in his office and he would talk politics. they were coming back from law schools, law degrees, some of these were sparking -- they were future governors, coming back. these guys were for real. they were smart and they had that bond. they just believed him. he showed him, you haven't got the money but you got the boat. if we organize a lot of them were back.

territorial senates, boom, boom, boom. democrats took control in 1954. the revolution in 1954, republican party has not except for two very brief periods, controlled the legislature since. he was elected as territorial congress of 56 and 58, the major thing was the struggle. when he got to washington, he looked around and said, who do we -- we got to get this to go through. he saw linda johnson on the senate side and he saw sam on the house side and he, as one of

the colleagues in the house, jack burns was always there. the delicate, the congress from hawaii before, they were more like a diplomat. jack burns, he was there, he was one that didn't make a difference. he was down there on the floor, he would show up. he said, he was a nice guy. he wanted statehood. that's what he went after. he was, i would like to think that's where he learned politics. legislative product takes, governing politics. lyndon johnson, one of the things was, the big thing alaska was going after two. they argued who should go first. johnson said, jack, a lot of people who won't vote for you

because he said, you are ready for state. you got a population, they vote well, you've got things to support your economy. alaska wants them to. they are not as prepared for statehood. their economy is not as strong, the people up there. if you let alaska in, we could get the votes to get you in. alaska, this was the interesting thing at the time, alaska promises at that time, promises to be a democratic state, you promise to be at him of republican state. that was the perception of the people. sure enough, burns said okay. this was and 58. it's okay. let's do it. sure enough, they kept their word. alaska went in first which

caused burns and the democrats because he's allowed that to happen. immediately after that, hawaii passed both houses. the elections were going to be held and burns was immediately, the leader of the party, there was no real question about that. he was going to run for governor. the difficulty was that alaska, he was a lawyer in town, kansas, i think originally. bill was an attractive guy, another catholic, and attractive family, a wonderful personality,

he didn't always have a nice personality. he could have conversations with him and wondered if he was going to say anything. the short answer. bill beat him. it was closed but bill beat him. all the other democrats were winning. but bill beat burns. republicans always had all sorts of ideas about how he was financed during the three years. actually two. he was campaigning right away. he was elected, he beat quincy, became governor and he was governor of the state of hawaii for the next 12 years although in the three terms. in his last term he became ill. after the first couple of years. it was cancer, he became an acting governor.

burns struggled with cancer and died soon after his term officially was over. burns was a proper kind of guy. he worked through institutions, a democratic party which had never any substance. he made something out of it, brought these people together, japanese americans put the two together and made it the dominant party which is still is overwhelmingly today. our four republicans in the legislature today, for, out of 76. that's part of jack's legacy. he gave a speech once about

inferiority of the spirit. you've probably heard about it. jack burns said he felt even after much had taken place in the 1960s, people in hawaii suffered from subtle inferiority of the spirit. they didn't feel they were as good as mainland or felt they couldn't speak up. i think the revolution which he pushed so hard from the democratic party, sent people like patsy and dan, danny of cocker, in some ways, he was the white father. they needed a guide to lead. i don't think that was what jack burns was, his wife used to say,

he understood, he was not a forward guy. he was a terrible speechmaker. he was answered in short, he didn't talk a lot. if you've got a meeting of a bunch of, many thinking they were second-class citizens, their mothers working for some rich person or garden guys, he said, this guy didn't tell you what to do. he listened to you. he listened. [laughter] you are interested in what he had to say. he was truly there, the father of the modern democratic party in a way.

there are people here who are very patriotic and proud and happy to be part of the united states. >> is wings entirely in the other direction, i think there's a unique undercurrent in these islands. you have a pretty significant swath of residents who don't even consider it a legitimate state. that's not something you really see on the mainland. there are people who say you shouldn't even save mainland. that's the mainland over there and what we? i people are starting to think about hawaii's role and the greater, united states, particularly after january 13 when we had a false missile alert that made headlines everywhere. we were fought to be a target of

a missile. many people were thinking, what is hawaii's role? the national security issues and in a way, military issues play out around the world. >> the state monument is one of hawaii's recognizable landmarks. a popular hiking spot can be seen from one of the busiest tour areas. coming up, we continue our special look at hawaii with author sidney. on the story of the last hawaiian monarch. >> my book starts and ends with the narrative of growing up in hawaii and trying to find out why we don't have land and so instead of feeling, having gone through the documents and being

immersed in that information, i feel more empowered to know that we knew what was going on then and we can figure out our way now. >> 1848, hawaiian king set aside 1.8 million acres of land on the islands known as crown land. to be managed by the hawaiian monarchs. a group of business and assisted by the united states military, they took control of the land in 1893. five years later, it fell under territorial control by the u.s. government. 1910, the queen sued the united states claiming her ownership of the ground lands. >> it is our last sovereign of the hawaiian kingdom. she was overthrown in 1893 and she passed away in 1917. i look at all of the legal

issues that she encouraged from after the overthrow, the incoming territorial government, her fight to get the revenues from the crown land which were rightfully hers. then up into the court case that challenged her trustees, which lasted after she passed away. i did my visitation at, i didn't know why i was doing a phd and then i ran across my great, great grandfathers archives and he was the queens advisor up until after she passed. he handled all of her private papers and was also one of the first trustees. he was monumental and having hawaii be recognized as a sovereign territory and

nationstate in his travels so he was the second hawaiian to go around the world, to negotiate plantation labor for the sugar plant. then later, during the queens rain, he was her right hand man in a lot of ways. then after the overthrow, the illegal overthrow in the occupation, he was still the agent for the crown lands revenue so he went to her to ask if he should, what he should do. incoming government asking the position. she's told him to stay there. then he was a part of the territorial government in many capacities. up until his death in 1940. so he played a large role in the kingdom, the territory and what would become the incoming employee. so i look at the queen's

narrative, after the territorial government, organic act in 1900s and backtracking a little bit to the land act by combined crowning government land within the cut kingdom, that was supposedly ceded to the united states. so i pick up her narrative as she goes to washington d.c. to fight for the revenues from the crown land. the crown lands were considered her private property. so i follow her narratives through that court case to see how she was set to get some of the revenue back. prince was a congressional representative in washington. so in his documentation, he told her he would do what he could to help with the return of the revenues. at the time, she wanted to be favorable to him but still stand

her ground. what ended up happening was the crown lands revenue did not return to her. it didn't become part of the public doctor and so combined with the government land and then it became public land a large military population. the large percentage became national parks for the united states. when the national park started in the early 1900s, we were one of the biggest national parks in the world. it had already begun national parks with yellowstone and you so many in the united states. so it was after removal native americans from the land base so they followed the same guidelines in that way. we still have one of the largest bases with national parks for the united states. >> after she lost the case regarding her rights to the crown land, she returned to court in 1915 to fight for her

right to decide ownership of her to personal properties. washington and -- >> the end result is that after the queen passed november 11, 1917, the trustees came together with he and his wife and they hammered out an agreement to stop the legalese from going on anymore. what occurred was that washington place, her home that she got from her husband, she wanted to go but it condemned property for the public good. : : with she

had two homes on that property, summer houses. that was the most -- it contested case that the prince wanted as a feast and full just as a life estate. and what ended up happening was that he got the estate as a fee simple. the name then changed to a hawaiian name, and then the territory was given to the territory in his death in 1921. so this was within relatively few years. today it's a park, and then with my last chapter looks at wikey key and the dredging of the canal, why they wanted the canal was to build we key key for a new and better class of people that envisioning was turn it into a monetary

site, occurred early. so canal was completed aren't 28, '29. and then the tourism industry begins after. so the idea that hawaii is just a place for visitors was put into play strongly. and done on purpose for monetary profit. the narrative of waikiki is it has a long history of the influence because it's so beautiful, this is where they play, surf, road the waves. for the queen this was her favorite space. disconnecting it from that was part of what we see today, which is mostly a consumer society. people coming with that expectation in a lot of ways that's to be expected, and that's what they will get is that one dimensional display of

culture on the planned when it's so much deeper: >> there's about a half a million people in urban honolulu, give or take, and there's just short of a million people island-wide. hawaii is facing many "the oath and the office" same issues you see on the mainland. it might be a little more pronounced because it's so small, and land is so valuable here. we have the highest homeless population per capita, but that is also reflective of a breurd housing crisis. there by far we don't have enough affordable housing in hawaii. the vast majority of residents out here are priced out of the local housing market it's up there, the market is up there with the new york and the san francisco's "the oath and the office" world, and it's really just a limited states, if you look at these islands on the

seman as small as they are to begin with, so much on it habitable area is around the coast because they're volcanic islands, and the mountains are the mountains. it's just a small amount of space, and i think that the state overall is coping with overcrowding. that's in honolulu is a congested city. parts of it were built haphazardly, and people are trying to get a handle on how we can all make this work better. honololu is hawaii's capital city, located on the island of oahu it's the largest city in the state, with over 3,000 residents. weectsplore hawaiian politics through the lens of race, gender, and class. in.

>> money color u and sex in hawaiian politics that's exactly what it was about. do we vote for people based on skin color, or ethnicity or background. why is it that women has not been as successful as men at the ballot box in hawaii. so that is in an essence what the book was about as a matter of fact 20 years ago i believe this month, race is i think something that underpins nearly everything that happens here. we have an indigenous population. the thattive when is, central to our understanding, it's hard to believe but this is actually once an independent kingdom. it was its own nation. we're sitting not too far from the only royal palace in the united states sits, and it was a fairly advanced nation. hi literacy rates, had electricity before many parts "the oath and the office" mainland u.s. had relationships with other

countries, once captain cook arrived in 1778 until inbeginning "the oath and the office" 1th, 20th century wiped out some people have estimated the hawaiian population may have been as hyg as a million people. i don't know if it was that hi but by the year 1900 it was down to just a fraction of that, and it was because of contact with westerners, and the diseases they brought with them. and it's amazing that they were able to rebuild themselves, but so i didn't think we start with that kind of context, and then the fact that you import all these people to work the plantation fields here, in particular. japanese, filipinos, coreens, to a lesser extent. and that created this multi-ethnic mix that we have to this day and informs everything that goes on here. it's a fascinating place to be. white people are a minority. they have been for a long time. having said that,

whites and japanese, in particular, and somewhat true of chinese americans tend to be the more well off. they hold the higher positions in government, business, media. the overthrow "the oath and the office" hawaiian coupled was led by white male leaders. all the governors with the exception of one or two who were appointed during the tearatorily period were white. i believe there was one or two with hawaiian blood. the first governor of hawaii was white, and i believe a second governor was hawaii was white as well. there are some cases where we have had diversity, but the governor right now is on japanese ancestry. he was appointed prior to him, the mayor of honolulu is white. the tom leendz r leaders "the oath and the office" hawaii state senate and hawaii state representatives are japanese americans. we had one filipino american governor. i believe

the only one in the united states. we've had one native hawaiian governor again the only one in the united states. now, just because you elect people of japanese ancestry, or white caucasian to positions of power and business doesn't mean they're favoring their people. i don't think anybody would say something like that. but perception is out there, and i think growing up if you look at who is in charge you can't help but say it's a coincidence that some of these other groups that are not represented well at the top levels of power in the state are not doing well because they don't have leaders of their same shared identity. reputable studies, government sponsored educational sponsors to studies have shown that native hawaiians are disproportionately overrepresented in the criminal justice system, and also fair less well when it comes to health. the numbers are not ambiguous at all. the data is clear, there has been response

from lawmakers to try and address that to direct more money to programs to help them out. remember this is a colonized people. this was a nation that was overthrown. it was an exed by the united states with the help of frankly, white business interests. they lost their language. they lost their religion. they lost their culture. you couldn't even do hula. it was bad. starting in the 1960s and 70s the language started to come back. hawaiian is now an official language along with english. can you imagine hawaiians being punished for speaking hawaiian back as recently as 70-80 years ago. people alive can remember those things. not being told about the overthroe, not being told what happened to the queen in 1893 when she was overthrown, or 1898 when the us ann exed hawaii. the martial law placed in world war ii. so these

things feed off each other. you are seep seeing the numbers rebounding. native hawaiians are one of the larger faster growing group. ironically a good many of them are on the main land. you'll find large native hawaiian populations in california and las vegas, because there's greater opportunity. it's expensive to live here. that's another factor that keeps people from advancing and veaflting their level of existence. there are programs at the federal livable v level designs designed to help minority groups. there is money from dc from the help of our congressional delegation. primarily for education, health, for other services as well. there's a concerted effort. native whins do not have the same status as native alaskans, and native americans. where there's a tribal status and relationship with the u.s. government, hawaii ns have tried

for that. there's been a push for federal recognize. there is currently a move to achieve -- obtain recognize. if that were to happen hawaiians could be given a more elevated status. they might be given their own land base, be able to tax themselves. to raise revenues. it's highly controversial, and i can tell you the hawaiian community is divided. i don't to get into sovereignty but there are some hawaiians who want hawaii to leave the united states. some whins believe hawaii never was the united states. some hawaiians are heavily represented among the homeless population. per capita it's worse here than it is anywhere in the u.s. the numbers are smaller, but per capita, compared to la, or san francisco, or new yorker or

seattle, it is unfortunate that out in wainai, that's out on the leeward coast on oahu, hawaii ns set up their own camp. it's nick named the harbor because it's at the boat harbor. they've elected their own mayor she runs the camp. their view is if you're not going to help us out we're going to create our own place to live. no surprise the state government tried to evict them. one might argue they're getting more hawaiians in leadership positions might push through to get something done. one p wonders if there were more whins running the government if that would help or not. having said that there are hawaiians that feel no sympathy whatsoever. do not want to divide a i hawaii based on rice they have directed more money to

try and help the hhl get more people but the waiting list is thousands of native hawaiians and it isn't getting taken care of. one of the most dynamic is the labor movement which began in the early 20th century and it started on the docks and started on the plantation camps and it was primarily japanese and philippineose, with some white leaders as well. our most revered governor, john a burns was a police cop. a heavily filipino community not far from downtown. and help with labor leader jock hall from the mainland there the movement help to overthrow the white olgarbingy that helped run the state.

people having coming back from world war ii, having fought in a segregated unit. came back and took control of a tear torial legislature, the house and senate. they called it the '54 revolution. that dominance has continued today, through statehead in 1959. labor united nations t has been critical in changing the structure of hawaii. and they remain powerful to this day. those numbers are drifting as well. union power is on the wing, but it has helped it a more the labor units will tell you it's made it fairer. a more equitable society. minimum wage has been instituted, prepaid healthcare. we were the first in the nation to have -- obamacare, pre-paid healthcare if you work for 20 hours or more. an employeer employer had to take care of that, we had that in 197 4, that's amazing.

with the labor or the class differential has come in and changed things there were a conservative view, republican view in the state of hawaii is nonexistent of the four delegates in congress nearly all of them including now has been democrats. we haven't sent a republican to congress since 2010, and when we did it was 7 months. of the 767 people that work in this building. the last one who was a republican last election two years ago. in the 51 member house, 5 are republican. a third "the oath and the office" vote went for dawn med trump. a third "the oath and the office" hawaiians voted for trump. per capita is was the smallest percentage to any other state in the union. even california. it is more than ironic the last leader of hawaii was a woman. the queen

was overthrown, we're not sitting far from her statue at the capital where she was horned and yet imprisoned when she was overthroand and the song-writer her songs are remembered to this day. an irony there, the most influential queen was the one who invented the system of taboo who separated men and women in eating places. essentially was a leader in switching hawaii to chris teante. hawaii being the first to raddify a equal rights event. abortion rights we were ahead "the oath and the office" curve in the 1970s. it was around the time of roe v. wade. women couldn't own credit cards as late as the 1960s so so much progress made. but there has not been as many women leaders in positions of power. only one

female governor since 1959. we have made significant progress on gay rights. with some terrible irony. hawaii was the first state back in 1993 i believe recognized that unless the state could show a compelling reason to discriminate against same-sex couples, then you couldn't deny them a marriage license. they came up with a reason to do it. they put into law, it was a constitutional ballot, and voted overwhelmingly decided in 1998 the legislature can write the law and sure enough they did, marriage shall be rerestricted to a man and woman. that was in 1998. many other states moved ahead of us in moving toward gay marriage. we went with reciprocal beneficiaries. you get the same benefits but nothing like marriage. we moved to civil union because as liberal as we are, as blue as we

are, the churches are very unusualal here. the mormon and protestants, the catholic church, there's still a conservative element on social issues. and finally we moved ahead with gay marriage and i think it was in 2013. i want to say it was a year or so before the supreme court finally took care of it. it's hard to believe it took so long. why did it take so long? when we were so advanced even native whins. even the hawaiian culture has traditionally recognized the role of -- someone who's in the middle, part female, part male, transgendered. they are considered important parts of the culture. and you're seeing more and more that's being welcomed. what changed the most in 20 years. gay marriage, a remarkable implement. we got a woman elected government. a

republican woman elected governor. the power "the oath and the office" labor unions has been checked. some for the better, some not so good. >> twice a month c-span take american history tv on the road to explore the liberate life of a selected city. working with cable partners we visit literary sites as we -- you can watch past interviews and tours online by going to booktv.org and selecting c-span city's tour from a series dropdown at the top "the oath and the office" page, or visiting c-span.org cities tour. you can follow the tower on twitter from behind the scenes visits. the handle is@c-span cities. >> here's a look at authors

recently feempled o on after words. the weekly author program includes best selling books and guest interviews. political columnist gave his thoughts on prow progressives influence academia, pop culture john carrie reflected on his life and career. and emery university african american studies chair provided a history of voter suppression. in the coming week on after words trump 2020 campaign media advisers and fox news guest analyst gina lauden will offer her thoughts on the current political climate. and this weekend new york magazines rebecca trace looks at how women's anger has brought through political momentsz through history. >> i'm a feminist journals, part of my work has obviously been rooted in anger. you wouldn't

be a journalist writing about racial inequality if you weren't mad about this inequity. so obviously there's been anger under girding my work for a long time. when i decided i was going to write this book on anger and i thought about how it has played into my work one of the things i had done was to see the pains in my career to obscure the anger. i absorbed the notion that if i was too angry i would sound radical, and it's funny some "the oath and the office" most baby feminist writing that i did 15 years ago was not very good. most mild pop-theminism. when i think about the comments that i got back then. a lot of them were rooted in you sound like a crazy, sex-starved woman who's just mad because men don't like you. when i was writing pop

commentary about paris hilden the response although was you're too angry for me to take your seriously. even when i was covering up the anger with jokes and slyness and general good cheer. >> after words airs saturday at 10:00 p.m., and sundays 9:00 p.m. on book tv on c-span 2. after previous after words are available to watch online at booktv.org. here are some "the oath and the office" current best-selling non-fiction books according to the los angeles times. topping the list is "fear." a look inside the trump white house from the washington post bob woodward. fold by entrepreneur kim perel's guide to success, the execution factor. after that, it's educated. terra west over's account of her childhood and introduction to formal education at the age of 17. next is

historian nova on the rise of technology in 21 lessens for the twufers century. and dear founder. ier self-help advice. our look at some "the oath and the office" best selling books according to the los angeles times continues with astrophysicist with neil degrass tyson who explore the relationship between the scientific community and military in accessory to war. mark manson's advice on leading a happier life. after that two self-help books. 12 rules for life, and rachel holts's girl, wash your face. and wrapping up our look at the books from the los angeles non-fiction befs-seller list is a parole of california governor jerry brown and his connection to the state the of the book is the brown's of california. some of these

authors will be appearing on book tv. after their programs have haired you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. c-span launched #booktv20 years ago on c-span 2. and since then we've covered thousands of authors and book fest criminals, spending over 1,000 weekend. pullzer prize winning author appeared on in-depths. >> and thought they probably wouldn't like some things but i always know there were some people out there very much like me, and in fact i never believed very much indifference. i always felt that people are really more alike than they are different. so, the artist in me wrote to that occasion that if i can create something that is so moving, and that permits the kind of distance that you need from what is painful, then people will understand and

understanding is based v basically what the fundamentallymal. >> you can watch this and all other book tv programs from the past 20 years at booktv.org. type the author's name and the word book in the search bar at the of the page. >> fall is a business time for book fairs and festivals across the country. here's a look at some that are coming up. next saturday will be live at the book festival in madison. our live coverage will include author talks and with governor tommy tosmson, african american studies chair carol anderson and many others. and that same weekend look for us at the 38th southern festival of books in nashville, as far as the book festival held at fairfax virginia. later in october, tune in for live coverage of the texas book festival in austin. and we'll

wrap up our fall book festival season in november with live author talks and call-in segments from the miami book fair. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals, and to watch our previous festival coverage click on the book fair tab on our website, booktv.org. here's a look at some books being published this week. historian michael b looks at the complex decisions a commander-in-chief must make while the country is at wr in presidents of war. president aid to president trump identified the threats that face our country in why we fight. in read and riot, noddia t shares her thoughts on political activism. yeal law professor recalls the life of her grandmother, and how she broke down barriers as a black female

lawyer in 1930s and 1940s in invisible. and the corrosion of conserve. it, the explains why he no longer identifies as a republican. our look at new releases continues with university of london professor sara church well's research on the historical use "the oath and the office" phrases the american dream, and america first in behold america. and in prits or pick up, mark h and jonathan weller give their take on partisan politics invade our lives. look for titles in book stores this coming week and watch for many thoardz in the new future on book tv on c-span 2. >> to be honest though, having a child hasn't inspired me to act with self-sacrifice in the service of doubtful goals.

rather the opposite. i've had to start thinking about schools, housing and investment in all new ways. i feel a deep obligation to provide for my child's future in the constraints to promptly american society which demands making uneasy peace with america's hierarchical racist culture. this is how radicals become hip countries. my love for my disawrp irrational. screaming in my ear if i don't do everything i can to make sure my child has more, the best whatever then she will fall behind. if i don't push her to learn her alphabet before the other kids she won't pass the test to get into the best kindergarten, and no college and wasting her life as a checker in the grocery store. if i don't bring her the organic pure a then i'm condemn b her to

failure and drug addiction. the immense engines of capital i have learned possess a formidable array of forces that only activate once you've had a child. then, they fall on you with the force of a thousand suns. it takes real effort to remember that my daughter's fate is not hers alone, but shared. inevitably, despite the fact the rich will be able to cope with climate change better than the poor. money means you can flee so you don't get stuck in the super dome. it means access to governmental resources hidden behind broadcasts. money means you can prep for disasters with insurance -- and second homes. money means you can rebuild. money won't stop the seez from rising or wind blowing. once the system starts falling apart, all those 1's, and 0's will

evaporate, and the goals you've hidden for the end times will be revealed for what it is, a not especially useful yellow rock. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> good evening everyone. it's great to see so many people here on a friday -- a beautiful friday afternoon in providence, rhode island. my name is richard lock, i'm a professor of political science in international public affairs, and serve as provosts. it's a great pleasure for me to welcome you to brown. back to brown. and all of you to tonight's lecture which is sponsored by the touseman center for american politics. before i