source, a same place that we come from and to which ultimately we will all end up. how do we do that. what kind of language do we come up with? how do we expand empathy and allow each and every one of us to be able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes and see ourselves and other people. because it strikes me that that is the only way that we will survive as a planet. and, so, and very abstract terms , what the theme of this book is about. >> did you know all 92,0 plus book ours is available online? just visit all my two watchful programs of your favorite authors. ♪♪ >> on about books we dove into the latest news with interesting

insider interviews with publishing insider experts. we will also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books. the latest book reviews and we will talk about the current nonfiction books featured on c-span book tv. ♪♪ >> welcome to about books. this week we are focusing on some of the most anticipated nonfiction books being released this fall. in a few minutes we will chat with theut tampa bay times book editor about what she is looking forward toew in the coming mont. first, here's some news items from the publishing world. the national book foundation has rescinded actress drew barrymore 's invitation to serve as host of this year's national book awards. this is after miss barrymore announced she would resume production of her talkshow despite the ongoing hollywood writers strike.

her announcement was criticized by writer union groups who promised to picket outside of her production studio. the national book awards is an evening dedicated to celebrating the power of literature ending and comparable contributions of writers to our culture. they said that in the statement on twitter. our commitment is to ensure that the focus of the awards remains on celebrating writers and books and we are grateful to miss barrymore and her team for their understanding of this situation. the national book awards which book tv will be covering will take place this year in new york city on november 15. and another book news, a pulitzer prize has expanded eligibility for its book awards beyond current u.s. citizenship requirements. going forward, permanent residents of the united states and those that have made the

u.s. their longtime primary homes will be eligible for the prize in writing. but there is no change in the requirement that entries be originally published in english in the u.s. now, this change will go into effect with' the 2025 award cyce here is a look at some of the offerings that are said to at the bookstore shelves this fall including several from current and former members of congress. kentucky republican senator rand paul is set to release deception , the great covid cover up that is coming out october 10 exploring the origins of covid in funding for bioengineering and gain of function research. senator pauldo is also doctor pl medical doctor and ophthalmologist i graduated from duke medical school and of course you remember his high-profile clashes with the doctor during the covid crisis.

this is doctor paul's sixth book also landing texas republican senator ted cruz latest book unwelcome. how to defeat cultural marxism in7t america. that comes out november 7. according to the publisher's blurb in this hard-hitting new book, senator ted cruz deliversi a realistic battle plan for defeating the locust on america. senator b cruz fourth book in second in the last two years. he released justice corrupted how the left legalize our legal system last year also through the same publishing. two former members, republican liz cheney and adam kissinger also up new books this fall. they served together as the only republicans on the house januar. oath and honor a memoir and a

warning will d be released on december 5. the publisher describes her book as a first-hand account of january 6, 2021 and its aftermath by the house republican leader who dared to stand up to it. defeated in the republican primary for her wyoming seed in 2022. adam kissinger is an air force veteran who held a seat in the house for six terms until he decided not to run again in 2022 his new books titled renegade. defending democracy and liberty in our dived country. . kissinger's book will be released october 17. it is being published by the penguin imprint the open field which is ran by former california first lady and journalist maria o shriver. speaking ofry former president donald trump in the house january 6 select committee,

cassidy hutchison, the former assistant to the president will soon release her memoir enough. she became a key witness during the january 6pe hearings. her book is expected to be a tell-all about her time in the white house and her decision to testify on capitol hill. that is coming out september 26. that is a same day that another high-profile trump administration staffer will release a book. an advisor to president trump and chief of staff to the secretary of defense. his book is entitled to government gangsters. the deep state, the truth in the battle for our democracy. two more high-profile figures out with books in the coming months. democratic presidential candidate robert kennedy junior is releasing the wuhan cover up in the terrifying bio weapons arms re october 10. form washington state high school football coach joe

kennedy will release average joe on october 24. joe kennedy was at the center of the supreme court case after losing his job following his on-field prayers with players. mr. kenned won the case and reinstated in a six-three decision. he stepped down from coaching earlier thisor season. former president trump is the subject of several other books coming out this fall. abc news chief washington correspondent jonathan carl is releasing tired of winning, donald trump in the end of the grand old party. he has written two other books about president trump entitled the trail and front row at the trump show. former washington post executive editor will release coercion of power, trump, pesos a washington post, that comes out october 3. msnbc anchor is releang a book

that compiles the charges former president trump faces in his for ongoing criminal cases and it is entitled the trump indictment, the 91 criminal counts against the former president of the united states, september 25 visits release date. well, as we continue to look at some of the fall books that are coming out, there are several as well. on october 3, editor-in-chief alex marla will release breaking biden, exposing the hidden forces in secret money machine behind joe biden and his administration. radio hosts a political commenter will release his latest the democratic party hates america on september 19. other members of the news media are coming out with books this fall. october 10, fox newsost

releasing to rescue the constitution george washington in the fragile american experiment. october 17 msnbc host has her latest out prequel and american fight against fascism. the atlanticc journalist is releasing a book on the political career of retiring utah republican senator mitch romney.ed it is called romney a reckoning. two books about the media are coming out soon. both about fox news. journalist michael wolf is releasing the fall. fox knew and the murder dynasty. releasing network of life the epic saga of fox news, donald trump in the battle for american democracy. that comes out on november 14. here are a few other nonfiction

books to keep an eye out for this fall. journalist walter isaacson is out with the book about tesla founder elon musk. historian hw releasing his latest book on november 7 entitled founding partisan hamilton, jefferson, adams and the brawling birth of american politics. journalist kim albert does releasing the kingdom, the power and the glory, america evangelicals in an age of extremis that comes out in early december. its on november 14 that journalist latest ufo, the inside story of the u.s. government search for alien life here and out there will b available. that same day historian jennifer byrne said to release milton friedman the last conservative and the blindside autho michael lewis lest book will focus on the rise and fall of billionaire sam batemanfr freed. it is entitled going infinite.

coming out october 3. finally, as we previewed some o the books coming out this fall, is want to tell you about one that is comg out september 26. it is called american gun. the historytr of the ar-15. it is by two wall street journal reporters. watching about books on book tv. we are giving you a preview of some of the books that are coming out this fall. joining us now is colette. the tampa bay times book editor since 2007. joining us on book tv is colette bancroft. she is the book editor for the tampa bay times. miss bancroft, we just listed a whole lot of political books coming out this fall. many dealing with the 24 election and former president trump, et cetera. do you look at political books

down in florida? >> yes. fwe are sort of a wash in politics here in florida. i do. i have one book that is definitely on my list that i'm looking forward to. and that is more in darren's book. collation of power. trump, pesos in the washington post. a farrand retired recently as executive editor of the washington post. he took on the job not long before jeff bezos fought the paper. shortly thereafter, trump became president. i am really looking forward to an inside look at that, that political era which of course continues into the present day from someone that is that kind of an insider. and a legendary journalist as well. and i am also very happy with my newspapers book event in november to talk about the book.

but that is totally, of the political books i'm looking at that is the one that i'm most excited to start. s >> do you sponsor book festival? >> we sponsor a book festival. it is in its 36 year. this year we have nine authors did besides marty bearing we have michael connolly and dave barry and lauren groff and a number of other really terrific authors. i amwa really looking forward to it. i do a lot of the onstage interviews with those authors. a ton of work, but also the highlights of my years. >> that is something that book tv should look at coming down to but, one of the authors that will be on the book festival circuit, i think, is walter isaacson with his new biography

of elon musk. have you had a chance to review that? >> i have not yet appeared i am both really interested in it and really, i am not sure how much of that i will enjoy it. i am not sure if i will love it or be kind of scared.re he is a very controversial figure. but he is a very powerful figure an old pro at handling that kind of person. and looking at their lives and their impact. i am looking forward to reading it. as i said, it is a fascinating subject. musk is a fascinating character. >> how long have you been doing this and b how did you get into the business? >> the book editor at the times for 16 years. before that, the book editor at the morning newspaper in tucson,

arizona daily star for a few years. i had many other newspaper jobs in between. before i was a journalist, i was an english major and in english teacher and universities and just, you know, i'm the kid's mother said put the book down and go outside and play. i have always loved books. it's sort of, eventually, lead me into this path of journalism of being a book editor book reviewer. i am very lucky to have this job >> i was going to say, i think we should applaud the tampa bay times for maintaining a book section and its newspaper. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> there are two other books coming out this fall that i wanted to ask you about. ruth simmons, former president of brown and smith and prairie

view university and the former president of harvard. both came out with memoirs. is that something that you will be looking at? >> yes, it is. they are both, you know, the cliché of o the glass ceiling, t they broke a lot of those. again, having an insiders view. they have just had extraordinary lives, both of them. yes, i am looking forward to reading both of those. i think that they will be, you know, not only am i interested in women in education, but education as a subject is compelling at the moment. >> :, what is on your list to review this fall? >> well, i am interested in cap

mohan and spoke. how the female body grows 200 million years of human evolution. she said that the idea of the book sort of sparked when she talked with a friend about scientific research and learned that in all kinds of scientific research, whether it is with human research subjectsm, or animals, the norm is male. how does this affect men or mail , you know, lab rats or whatever. what we have discovered recently is that that is not a great way to approach scientific research because women's bodies, females bodies are so different in so many different ways. looking at human evolution, there is evidence that women use tools before men did. of course, producing milk is

what defines mammals on human evolution. in all sorts of things. i am interested in looking at evolution from that physical point of view. that is one that i am excited about and looking forward to reading. i am interested in the new biography. one of my long-time favorite novelists some people put it on the great american novelist. it is the great american novel. also, so prolific. but outside of writing novels, he had an extremely interesting life. as a screenwriter, as an antique

bookok stealer, all kinds of things. i am looking forward to that biography. i am looking forward to a new book by benjamin mosher. mosher won the pulitzer prize a few years back. he has a new book called the upside downch world. meetings with the dutch masters. he lives in the netherlands and team moved there when he was quite young, in his early 20s, i think. he iss an american. i believe that he grew up in texas. he moved into a culture in a language that he knew little about. he found himself increasingly engaged with a huge collections of old masters paintings and dutch museums. he kept going back to them and back to them. this book is both a memoir about

how that sort of helped him find himself, but also, kind of a group biography of those painters. from a kind of new perspective. i love art, i paint myself, i particularly love some of those painters so i am really looking forward to this especially because he isea really excellent biographeran appeared so that is another one that is on my list. >> you have listed three books that you are looking forward to. have you ever been disappointed in the book that you have been looking forward to and had to review it at the same time? >> yes. of course. that happens. i will not name names. but, usually it happens if it is

an author who i have read before and whose work i have liked before into as kind of a reputation or standing. sometimes, you know, not every book is a great one. especially for people who have long careers. i have had that happen. i have had to write negative reviews about them. i tend not to write negative reviews about baby books or, yor know, books by authors that are not already familiar to people. if somebody is really well known and it is a let down, i feel an obligation, you know, to write a negative review. so, yeah,om i do have to do tha. >> what are some of the reviews

and what is innovative review that connects with your readers. >> i think, that there is so much from reader to reader. one thing i've learned is that everybody's approach to books is different. there is no such thing that a book everybody loves. there just is not. i find it hard to recommend books to individual -- individually to people. i can recommend them to people at large, but it is hard to do one on one. but, i think people like, i think that they like a sense of voice. if you are either praising or criticizing the book, i think that people like to know why. and i do my best when i review books to give the reader a sense of what kind of book that this is.

so that they can decide whether they want to read it or not. whether i like it or not, to me, that is kind of secondary. it is more important to give the reader a clear idea that this is this kind of book. a very scientific analysis or this is a hilarious light novel to read at the beach. and to kind of judge books on their own terms. i tell the reader, this is a book that is trying to do this, x, y, and z, and it does it well or it does not. but, description to me is as important, it may be more important than prescription and a book review. >> colette bancroft of the tampa bay times, we have one more book that you are looking forward to reviewing. >> i am looking forward to tracy k smith book to free the captive a pleaa for the american soul.

this book is prose. a combination of memoir. her own family history. and the history of racism in america. and she is so brilliant as a writer, her language is so beautiful and so thoughtful about culture that this combination of memoir and cultural criticism into history really sounds intriguing to me. i am looking forward to that. >> i love -- i like nonfiction. >> colette bancroft is a book editor at the tampa bay times. thank you so much.

you ared watching about book the programming produced by c-span book tv. coming up our weekly afterwards program. her new book journalist lauren detailed the history and experiences of the six women selectedrs 1978 to become america's first female astronaut she was interviewed by former nasa deputy administrator lori garber. here's a preview. >> when i think about women in this industry was kind of drawn to the women that came first. who are the first space reporters in this field and also who are the first women in the space industry. that ultimately led me to this group of six women. i think i was like most people in the public, i had known sally ride, obviously, because she was the first american woman in space. i really did not have much of a sense of who the other five

women were. when i learned more about them adjust how easily could have gone to judy or anna or any of the other six women, i was very fascinated by their stories. a lot of what-ifs kept popping in my head of thinking what if it had been somebody else. what if it had not been sally and how that would've changed the history books. it really was a way for me to learn morey about them as it ws towa tell their story to everyoe else. >> and a reminder that. afterwards airs every sunday at 10:00 p.m. on book tv. thank you for joining us for about books. a programming podcast produced by c-span tv. book tv will continue to bring you publishing news and other programs and a reminder that you can get this podcast on the c-span now at the you can also watch all book tv programming online anytime on my netbook tv .org.

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there things that a mother can only tell a daughter as opposed to a son? or are there things that only a daughter can hear from a mother? why a daughter as opposed to a child? >> i think that with my son, i hope, i hope i raised a person, a man who knows how to treat a woman. that is very important. [applause] i was a single parent, most of the time. and then he saw me as strong and also we. opinionated. ready to be convinced. i loved him, i was never in love with him. it is very important for a parent because people who are in

love with their children also decide that they can be described by their children. that is not true. i love him. he has his own life. i have my own. i knew that, i don't know how, but i knew that early on. that led him to see that i respect a male point of view so when he was about eight, i said, i would like you to think about this. we have $46. we have rent and telephone in this to pay in food. would you like to think about, how do you think we should spend it? >> he did not know i left him no chance. there was no out.

[laughter] he would say i will go to my room and think. [laughter] he would come back and say, mom, i think we ought to pay the rent and get some food. >> great idea. [laughter] he felt that being male was important. but no more important than being female. and that is a way that i raised him. >> all 92,000 plus hours a book tv programming is available online. just visit booktv.org to watchful programs on your favorite authors. >> you been watching book tv. every sunday on c-span2. watch not fiction authors discuss their books. watch them although my netbook tv.org. you can also find us on facebook , twitter and youtube apple tv.