little bit more less entertainment, more kind of miami-dade college. like, it's an education. [applause] >> well, thank you all, that was a wonderful conversation. another round of applause for our authors. [applause] that concludes this session. the next session will begin in a few minutes, thank you. >> but tv has featured many politicians who are also authors who won elections in this year's midterms. democrat wes moore became maryland's first black governor, he has appeared on book tv several times to talk about his books. >> it isn't just about, can we make sure that police officers have body cameras? it's not just about how do we add on clauses two things like

the law enforcement officers bill of rights. or qualified immunity. it is not stopping there. the demands that we are seeing right now are actually dealing with structural racism. and how exactly can we deal with all of these various issues and away with a very real sense of sincerity. and a very real sense of activation and movement. >> republican senator, tim scott, on reelection in south carolina. he appeared on book tv recently to discuss his, book america, it redemptions tory. >> i think it's necessary. i think it's necessary for us to wrestle with some of the more foundational issues of who we are and where we're going, how are going to get there. we're going to go together or not? i think the answer is we are going to go together or not at all. i think it's interesting and, frankly, helpful for us to go through this tribal conversation, to see how hard it is. to try to make up for past discrimination with future

discrimination. it's not working really well for a start, now but we're going to try to figure that. out we're going to figured out quickly. the truth, is all the tribes that we're putting together, whether it's a republican tribe or democrat tribe or a black one or a white one, a class system or a caste system. whether it's centralized control or, not i think all of that will burn off. and what that will produce as an american family that has more respect and appreciation for the necessity of pursuing the american dream as one family. >> in south dakota, kristi noem was free elected as governor. her recent biography has called, not my first rodeo. what i believe, republicans in the house and senate needs to do is cast a vision for where we are going. not just be opposed to joe biden, and even though they policies are bad for our country right now, i think we also have to be pretty clear on what we're for, to be ready to take action should we have the opportunity to have congressional bills passed, and get them to the presidents task.

>> before his election to the senate from ohio, republican j.d. vance was well known as the bestselling author of hill barry elegy. he appeared at the national football league festival in 2017. >> i think we have a pretty significant problem with the fact that you are effectively given a choice when you graduate from high school between going and working in a fast food job, or going for a four-year education. i think we should provide more pathways than that. when those are the only two pathways, it's not surprising that you see people going in those directions. i also think that we have to think a little more constructively about regional economic developments. the ways that this is gone for the past 20 years is that i'm a local municipality, i offer someone a tax credit to set up a restaurant in my hometown. not as great. new restaurants are fantastic. that is not the long term economic development that has to happen in some of these areas. i think basically all levels of policy makers have to be thinking differently than they

are right now. >> democrat cori bush was reelected in her st. louis area district. she recently appeared on book tv to discuss her book, the forerunner. >> the sexual assault that i experienced before, most of it happened around, it was like my early twenties, late teens, early twenties. it was when i was still trying to, find myself, quote unquote. i blamed myself. i went through the next 20 years blaming myself every single time it happened. oh, it was because my shirt was cut short and my shorts were really short. it was because i was out walking with friends when i met them. i wish dressed a particular way so that's why it happened. they took me out on a date, they assume that that's what i wanted. you know, i made, all of these excuses for what happened to me and all of the blame fell on me. >> democratic senator, raphael

warnock was reelected in georgia, defeating republican challenger, saoirse walker in the runoff election. he recently appeared on books fee to discuss his book away out of nowhere. >> you know my dad was like that. i talk about him a lot. it's because he had such an amazing impact on me. he was a preacher but not with a credentials that i've been able to game because of his sacrifice for me. my dad, born in 1970, he wasn't old, i don't older father. he served during the world war ii era, stateside, for about -- he's to talk about how he was on a bus. he was asked to give up his seat. while in his army uniform. to a white teenager. he obliged, but he never

forgot. the thing that was remarkable about him is that he would tell that story, but he never allowed anger or bitterness to overwhelm him. it deepened his resolve. he's a part of a generation that loved american till it learn to love him back. >> you watch these programs online a book tv dot org. also tune in sunday's on c-span two to watch all of your favorite authors. >> mark moreno, publisher of -- argues that the science on climate change has not settled. legislation like the green new deal will do more harm than good. his book is green fraud. here's a portion of his interview at freedom dust. >> author mike maranhao, in your book green fraud, why the green new deal is even worse than you think, you write that the green new deal is an all

encompassing transformation of society. what do you mean by that? >> well in the book i lay out that the vision of the green new deal is not chiefly about climate or energy policy. what they're trying to do is remake society, why literally, every aspect of society. that would include everything from a health care, housing, racial justice, identity politics, on down to our energy structures, climate, transportation, your home heating, your ability to travel. the entire spectrum of human life, they want to re-engineer to make it earth friendly, and this vision, if you will, of equity. that's going to require people turning over decisions that were previously held by the people, to essentially unelected bureaucrats who will be managing every aspect of our lives. i mean that. i like that in the book. down to what your thermostat can be added through smart meters, down to all your

appliances. we are already seeing what's happening with dishwashers, washers, dryers. even shower heads. every aspect will be regulated. beyond that, it goes much deeper as well. there is calls for ending private car ownership. roving fleets of rental electric vehicles. assaults on private homeownership. assault on the suburbs. all of this is built into the vision that the green new deal. it means all things to all these progressive, so whatever branch of the progressive wing that's pushing this it's going to be pushing different aspects of it. that is why people are realizing, this is not a climate energy bill. that's great, i care about the. earth let's support the green new deal. there is much, much more and it then -- >> and let's start with some of the environmental factors. you describe the green new deal as an ultimate wish list of the progressive environmental agenda. how specifically with the green new deal change our lives?

>> well the first thing that's going to do is make energy more expensive. we're actually already seeing that here in mid 2021 because energy markets go by signals. who knew things up with the same initiation as they set a signal to the energy marketplace that we are going to do the keystone pack, land we're not going to do drilling on federal lands, we're going to be going after fracking with a death by thousand cuts. we are essentially shutting down fossil fuel energy, which in america, in 2019, pre-pandemic, we were leading the world's. we were the largest producer of oil and gas. we had actually been the biggest energy producer as opposed to use our, since harry as truman was president. more energy exports than imports. we were not even energy independent. you could argue we were energy dominant. one of the first things we do is in january 2021 is start shutting down this amazing

american energy renaissance, if you will, at the last decade and a half. chiefly led by fracking. the way it's going to change our life almost immediately as higher energy costs. potentially inflation related to those higher energy costs. we're already seeing the effects of this and gas prices, and other factors. we have a city president begging opec to increase oil production. this is a shock because america was the world's largest oil and gas producer, energy dominant, just prior to all this. now where -- we have russian oil imports reaching record levels. so this is shocking. who are going to be turning over our energy dominance in under the green new deal for reliance on chinese miners -- this is going to be done by slave labor in china, and human rights abuses in africa when they do mining things like mining coal, metals, things like solar power, electric car batteries. the green new deal is the, lose lose, lose proposition for

americans, and they will do nothing. it will do nothing not only for the climate and extreme weather, as it's being cold, it will do nothing for co2 emissions. it is literally failing cost-benefit, a sniff, testa fails logic test, it fills the signs, testicles the public policy test. that is when a book goes through. it is perhaps one of the most ill-advised plans ever devised and hoisted upon the american people in decades, at least. >> are we face sane climate catastrophe? >> no, that is one of the things i say in the book. i have a chapter dedicated to the science. nails a have a chapter dedicated to a climate emergency. so starting out, one of the ways they claim there is a climate emergency, in this is very well, even mainstream climate scientists are now rebuking things like the national climate assessment, which was done during the trump administration, but it was done by president obama holdovers.

it included activists from environmental groups like the -- like kathryn hale, don -- they used extreme model scenarios to scare the public. now these model scenarios, by the original architects of this, they are saying they never meant to do. at one current climate reality fails to alarm, what they've done, embedded in these reports, is using extreme model scenario that has now been wholesale rejected by the climate community, and they use those scenarios in order to scare the public into public policy. no, we have seen the four dissing possible from a climate emergency. and the book, if you go behind the headlines, you look at the u.n. press release, the summary were policymakers, it's dire, scary, all about political lobbying. they use science to lobby for political action. the u.n. reports are -- in order to get policymakers

attention. not just the u.n. reports, but national climate assessment. as well as other government reports like that, including the eu reports, uk government reports. if you look deep within the reports, and i do in my book, i show you the floods, hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes, wildfires, sea level rising, even according to these reports, that the people cite as evidence of a climate emergency, the promise of your question, show there's either no transport declining trends on climate time scales, so people can say california has evidence of a climate emergency, or the heat wave in the northwest, or evidence of nonsense, nonsense. he shows up to the 1930s, with the hottest heat wave in the united states. if anyone is claiming that the northeast wave is evidence of climate change, or below the 30 year average on satellite. the u.s. is less than 2% of the earth surface, so if you look at all of these factors, there

is no climate emergency. >> watch the full program anytime online at book tv dot org. to search mark moore rhino or the title of his book, green fraud. >> at the end of each calendar, year many publications post their favorite books of the year. here is a look at-ism for 2022. the financial times announced that chris miller won its business book of the year award for his, book chip war, the fight for the world's most critical technology. and from the world of historical literature, ty miles, a professor at harvard university, one mcgill university's condole history prize for her book, all that she carried, the journey of actually sap. a black families keepsake. that is about the seventh major award that all that she carried has one. and here are some other notable books of 2022. amazon's best nonfiction books list includes beth mead seeds

raising lazarus, which continues her award-winning look at the opioid and drug crisis facing the u.s.. also on that list is scientist david -- breathless, which chronicles the fight to trace and create a vaccine for covid. and mark bergen's like, comment, subscribe, about the creation of, youtube it's also on amazon's list. here's a portion of a recent top mr. bergin gave for book tv. >> so, i have been covering kabul since 2015, then it became alphabet. really, it's an expanding business conglomerate empire. during that time, youtube, it's media division, became increasingly important for the company's bottom line. and also became increasingly important for the company's political hurdles, and some of their major business problems in the past seven years. during that, time i was reporting on a lot of the major crises thank you to ben's

parent company dealt with. sort of fire after fire. what i saw was really fascinating, in a short period of time. this whiplash, where you have employees i can go and youtube see themselves as an underdog to traditional media, to traditional corporate worlds and hollywood. and, then within a few short years, google and youtube is viewed almost equivalent to big tobacco. you've seen the social media backlash, google has faced intense amounts of unprecedented political scrutiny. i thought this was a fascinating story about this media platform that is, really despite its size and influence, just not had the same level of attention as some of its peers. i thought, within that story, you have plenty of fascinating characters on youtube and inside the company you have this iplash of going from the underdog sort of being seen

as big tech. and seen as something that associateda lot of problems and mocracy. >> now, book tv has covered discussions with all ree of these amazon best books of 2022 authors. they are all available to watch online in their entirety at book tv dot org. well, another best book list of 2022 was put out by the los angeles times. on that list, david marin is with his latest, a biography about the native american athlete gin fort. it isn't titled path lit by lightning, which was jim thorp 's native name. also on the list is jack davies is the bald eagle, about how the bird became americas national symbol. and pulitzer prize-winning author stacey schiff was also picked by the los angeles times where a best book of 2022. her most recent, the revolutionary, samuel adams.

here's a portion of a recent author top by stacey schiff. >> samuel adams is an extraordinarily astute, very enterprising, ingenious, i guess you could say sort of americas first politician. he's a bit of a political operative. 18th century downwardly mobile, brilliantly educated double graduate of harvard, who has an obsession with politics and a tremendous sensitivity to rights and liberties being infringed. which we can talk, about where that comes from. and who has at his disposal to rather unique qualities. one, he has a tremendously fluent pen. in fact, he first comes to prominence because he is largely burnishing other friends pros. they know they can give their pages to adams to, be as they, put it burnished and polished. he's also a tremendous changer of mind, i guess i would say. he's extremely go