semi conduction embargo have probably passed people by because it's a bit technical although it's a huge deal, but maybe i give the american public more credit for understanding what's going on then you do. the public here has been great, thank you for coming. and thank you to the panelists. [applause] >> thanks everyone, the authors will be off wrapping books at the end of the hallway and the next session will begin in just a few minutes. >> manhattan institute senior fellow and author of criminal injustice rafael mangle argued that defunding the police and introducing more leniency in the criminal justice system would disproportionately harm black and brown americans. >> if i'm being honest, my

sense of accomplishment i think makes me a bit uneasy. and the reason for that is that its intention with the reality that is always animated my work on these issues. the ones that i am going to discuss and the reality is that this is not about me. tonight, this book, the debate that it contributes to, our first and foremost about the far too many victims of the sort of injustices that inspired my books title. injustice is like the 2019 murder detailed in the book's introduction of a young, unarmed chicago mother. allegedly shot by a parole lead with nine prior felony convictions including one for second-degree murder. injustice is like the boy who was forced to run for his life in that same city earlier this summer, backpack intel as he dodged bullets meant for the group of young men who made the mistake of walking past at the time. injustice is like the one woman police say was stabbed to death in her lower east side

apartment earlier this year, with a -- with three open cases. and finally, like the incredibly strong woman who was robbed of her husband, i meant many of us watched her eulogize after he was murdered by a repeat offender out on probation. i was tired of reading stories about the heinous crimes carried out by offenders who had no business being out on the street. stories that the data made clear are not outliers. and i wanted to do something about it. a desire that only grew as i watched 2020 unfold. in the wake of george floyd's murder and all of the unrest and political grandstanding that followed, it politicians and activists sought to the enacting of a wave of policy proposals that were explicitly aimed at systematically lowering the transaction cost of crime commission. and raising the transaction cost of law enforcement. according to the new york times, more than 30 states

collectively passed more than 140 police reform bills in the year following george floyd's death. this was an unprecedented acceleration of a trend that had been slowly taking shape since 2010 and to my mind, the acceleration of this policy agenda was going to do real damage to public safety. particularly in the communities that were -- with the push for dickerson ration and who it hurts most. what i was surprised when 2020 saw homicides spread across the united states, the largest increase in generations. between 2020 and 2021 more than a dozen cities set all-time records for homicides. more than a dozen more flirted with their 1990s peaks. over the last several years, serious violent crimes, homicides in particular became a much larger problem here in

america. not one who's effects are evenly distributed through society. it has long been, both geographically and demographically higher concentrated. in new york about three and a half street segments see 50% of the violent crime. for well over a decade, a minimum of 95% of all shooting victims in the city are either black or hispanic, the vast majority of them mail. uncomfortable as it may make people in certain circles, you will see similar disparities in the instances of shooting suspects. nationally, blackmails constitute between six and 7% of the population but makeup -- and crimes like homicide are tightly clustered in the relative handful of neighborhoods in american cities. for example, in 2019 the national murder rate was five per 100,000. the ten most dangerous chicago neighborhoods on the other hand, which i 95.7% black and latino,

2019 homicide rate was a whopping 61.7 per 100,000. as high as that number is it actually understates how dangerous some of those neighborhoods actually are. west garfield park for example had a 2019 murder rate of 131 per 100,000. my book highlights data like this for two reasons. first, i think a thorough understanding of how violence is and has long been concentrated helps us understand exactly who it is that will suffer the most should a particular policy program diminish public safety. and by logical extension, who it is that will gain the most, should a particular policy program enhanced public safety. which takes us to the second reason i highlight this data. the reality of crime concentration can help contextualize some of the disparities and reinforcement statistics that we hear so much. about disparities that are often seized upon to make the case for mass dickerson ration, and d policing. as a means of pursuing racial

equity. if in fact, the most serious crimes are occurring in very small slices of our cities, and affecting a particular demographic group more than others, than it is entirely reasonable for enforcement resources to be disproportionately deployed to these areas and by extension to see disparities arise from that uneven distribution of law enforcement resources. in other words, if we accept as legitimate, the decision to police neighborhoods for victimization rates are highest, we must also accept as legitimate, that police are going to interact disproportionately with the people spending time in those neighborhoods. to focus on the rate of interactions in a vacuum is to really ignore important context that when it counted for undermines the assertion that law enforcement disparities were driven exclusively by racial animus. another example of this very thing could be found in the studies of racial disparities in incarceration which show that when you control for the type and severity of the crime committed, as well as for the

age -- leading us to the same conclusion drawn by the national academies of science, as in a 2014 met analysis with the literature of incarceration. racial bias and discrimination are not the primary causes of disparities in sentencing decisions or rates of imprisonment. overall, one statistic controls are used to take account of defense characteristics, prior criminal records and personal characteristics, black defendants are on average sentenced somewhat, not substantially, more severely than whites. contextualizing the data that inform our criminal justice debate is a major theme of this book because placing the data in their proper context often mutes the impact of some of the harshest critiques of american criminal justice. >> watch the full on book tv

dot org. search where rafael mangual the title of his book criminal injustice. book tv has featured many politicians who are authors and who have won this year's midterms. -- appeared on book tv several times to talk about his book. >> 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 to things like law enforcement officers bill of rights? or qualified immunity? it's not stopping their. 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 with a very real sense of sincerity and a very real sense of activation and movement? >> republican senator tim scott won reelection south carolina. appearing on book tv recently

to discuss his book america, a redemption story. >> i think it's necessary for us to wrestle with some of the more foundational issues of who we are and where we are going, how we are going to get there, are we going together or not? i think the answer is we 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. that's not working well for us right now, we will try to figure it out. the truth is, all the tribes that we are putting together, democrat tribe, democrat, class, caste system, black or white, i think that will burn off and what it will produce is 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 reelected as governor. her recent autobiography is called, not my first rodeo. >> what i believe in republicans and the house and the senate need to do is custom vision for where we are going. not just be opposed to joe biden, even though so many of his policies are bad for our country right now, i do think that we also have to be pretty clear on what we are for. and be ready to take action should we have the opportunity to get congressional bills passed. and get them to the presidents desk. >> before his election to the senate from ohio, republican j.d. vance was known as the bestselling author of hillbilly algae. he appeared at the national book festival in 2017. >> i think we have a problem with the fact that, you are given a choice between going and working in a fast food jobs, or getting a four-year education. i think we should provide more pathways than that. when those are the only two pathways, that you see people

going in those two directions. but i also think we have to think a little bit more constructively about regional economic development. the way that this has gone for the past ten or 20 years is that i am a local municipality, i offer someone a tax credit to sit at a restaurant in my hometown. that is great, new restaurants are fantastic but that's not the sort of long term economic redevelopment that has to happen in some of these areas and i think it's something that basically, all levels of policymaking 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 my early twenties, late teens, it was when i was still trying to find myself, quote unquote. and i blamed myself.

i went through the next 20 years blaming myself every time it happened, 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, and i was dressed a particular way. that's why it happened. when they took me out on a day they assumed that's what i wanted. 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 her chiwaukum in the runoff election. he recently appeared on book tv to discuss his book, a way out of no way. >> my dad was like that and i talk about him a lot. it's because he had such an amazing impact on me. he was a preacher, but not with the credentials that i have been able to gain because of his sacrifice for me. my dad, born in 1917.

how donald or father. and he served during the world war ii era all stateside for about a year. and he used to talk about how he was on a bus. and was asked to give up his seat. while in his army uniform. to a white teenager. and he obliged but he never forgot. but 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 america until america learned how to lump him back. >> you can watch all of these programs online at book tv dot org and also tune in sunday's

on c-span two to watch all of your favorite authors. in his new book so help me god, former vice president mike pence discusses life and faith and reflected on his time in the trump administration. here's a portion of his top at the reagan library. >> it deals with my public life, my election to congress in 2000, and the tumultuous years that would follow that. i was on capitol hill on 9/11, i write about that in the book. my efforts that would result in me emerging as a conservative leader in the house of representatives, going home to indiana, to be governor of the state and then also having the great privilege to be your vice president during some extraordinary years of accomplishment for the american people. none of that would've been possible without my faith in god, my family and the support

and prayers of the american people. so let me just say from the outset, thank you for the privilege of serving as your vice president. it was the greatest honor of my life. [applause] but it's wonderful you brought up my dad. my dad grew up on the south side of chicago, he was a fast talking young man. enlisted in the army, went into the korean war. and came back and met my mom and they followed work down to a small town in southern louisiana, where i showed up. my dad has been gone since 1988. but sometimes i have to remind myself that our three adult children never met my dad because he continues to be such a great influence in my life. he was the best man i ever knew, and someone recently observed

that he is the secret star of so help me god. and that blessed my heart. but that story you referred to says a lot about my dad and the way he raised my three brothers and two sisters and i. in the chapter entitled climb your own mountain, that had built a successful business in a small town, a gas station business, i worked at a gas station to help my way through college. i was a gas station attendant. and for the younger people in the room i will explain later what that was. [laughter] but my dad was a man of strong faith, his most often repeated phrases where, that will be done and climb your own mountain. and he said they were on each side of his shoulder. he said i don't care what you

do every day but i want you to strive every day to do your best. i didn't excel greatly in sports in high school, but i had a lot of success in speech competitions and i remember coming home from an oratorical contest with a fistful of blue ribbons and i threw them on the kitchen table to died and told him i had had a great day, and the great part about it was, i really haven't tried that hard. i just kind of phoned it in, if you get my point. and dad looked up at me and i thought he would be pleased that i came back with a fistful of ribbons and he threw it back at me and he said, i don't want anything to do with those. and i said, why? what do you mean? i came in first. and he said, you just told me you didn't do your best. he said all i ever want from you is to do your best.

and every day of my life i try to live up to that standard. that combat veteran, that dedicated father, dedicated husband, one of my favorite memories in the book about my dad, as your vice president, one of my first international trips was to travel to korea and we were driving through the capital of seoul, and they had billboards at the bus stations. and it said, welcome, vice president pence. and right underneath it it said, and thank you lieutenant ed pence for our freedom. [applause] >> watch the full program online anytime at book tv.org. just search mike pence or the title of his book, so help me god. at the end of each calendar year many publications post their favorite books of the

year. here is a look at some 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, tie a myles, a professor at harvard university, one mcgill university history prize for her book, all that she carried, the journey of actually sack, a black families keepsake. 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 macy's raising lazarus with continues the award-winning look at the opioid and drug crisis facing the u.s.. also, scientist david romans breathless, chronicling the

fight to create a vaccine of covid. what like, comment, subscribe by mark bergen. >> i have been covering google since 2016 and then it became alphabet, and really it's an expanding business conglomerate and empire. during that time, the youtube media division became increasingly important for the company's bottom line. and also became increasingly important for the company's political hurdles. in some of the major business problems in the past seven years. i was reporting on a lot of the major crisis that youtube and its parent company dealt with. fire after fire, and what i saw was a really fascinating, in a short period of time, there was whiplash where you have these employees at google and youtube, who see themselves as an

underdog to traditional media, traditional corporate worlds in hollywood, and then within a few short years, google and youtube is viewed almost equivalent to big tobacco, you have seen the social media backlash, google has faced intense amount of political scrutiny. i thought this was a fascinating story about this media platform that despite its size and influence, just has not had the same level of attention as some of its peers. and i thought within that story, plenty of fascinating characters on youtube. an inside the company you have, this whiplash of going fromthe underdog toseen as big tech. d seen as something that i associated with a lot of problems in democracy. >>bookkeeping has covered ussions with all three of these amazon vest books of 2022 authors.

they are all available to watch online in their entirety a book tv.org. another best book list of 2022 was put out by the los angeles times. on that list, david marin us with his latest, a biography about the -- path lit by lightning, which was jim court's native name. jack davis, the bald eagle, how the bird became americas national symbol. and pulitzer prize-winning author stacey schiff was also picked by the los angeles times for a best book of 2022. her most recent, the revolutionary samuel adams. here is a portion of a recent author talk by stacey shift. >> samuel adams is an extraordinarily astute, very enterprising, ingenious, i guess we would say, america's first politician. a bit of a political operative.

an 18th century downwardly mobile brilliantly addict to, a graduate of harvard who has an exception with politics. a tremendous sensitivity to rights and liberties being infringed. we can talk about where that comes from. and who has at his disposal, to a rather unique qualities. he has a tremendously fluent pen and first he comes to prominence because he is largely burnishing other they know they can give their pages to adams, to be as they put, it burnished and polished. he is also a tremendous changer of minds. he is extremely good at, with or without brass in a call tactics, persuading people that their rights are vital and that they need to stand up for their rights. connecting people who would otherwise not be connected, into,