wrapping up our look at the most popular nonfiction book according to the chicago public library is arley hoekstra fields the political right, strangers in their own land. many of these authors have or will be appearing on book tv. you can watch them on a website booktv.org. >> the publicity manner at johns hopkins in baltimore, maryland. what are some of the things you have coming up with mike. >> sharks of the shallows. it's coming out right after shark week which is a huge thing for the general public and it's an unofficial oversized coffee table books heavily oversized and riesling price and work in a handful of

wrapping up our look at the most popular nonfiction book according to the chicago public library is arley hoekstra fields the political right, strangers in their own land. many of these authors have or will be appearing on book tv. you can watch them on a website booktv.org. >> the publicity manner at johns hopkins in baltimore, maryland. what are some of the things you have coming up with mike. >> sharks of the shallows. it's coming out right after shark week which is a huge thing for the general public and it's an unofficial oversized coffee table books heavily oversized and riesling price and work in a handful of them and the dinosaur book we now have a short book coming out. we have a book that tongue-in-cheek is about the remnant minus the bear, the story of the western frontier in for trapping and three guys whose lives intersected at a place called lake house that's coming out. then we have a book called uncompromising activists about a gentleman who was the first black graduate of harvard college and so, that the biography for us which is somewhat unusual but kind of a nice story

well, he went back to being captain arley nixon at $140 a month.n he arrived in frankfurt which was in the american zone and on the first what turned out to be the first day of the airlift went into a local cafÉ. and as he did, every german in the cafÉ -- and they were the only people in there -- stood up, left their food and drink and walked out. two weeks later and when we talk about how the germans view all this, arley nixon went back to the same place. and as he walked in the door, all of the germans stood up, went to the bar, each ordered a stein of beer and brought them to his table one at a time. more, he said, than he could drink in a year, and these guys were known to drink a bit. and you would too. they were living in barns, tempts in the mud, sleeping under their planes. there were no preparations at all for any of this, and they were flying in the worst fog in european history was that winter. and the fog in northern europe is such that their visibility was zero-zero. when we finally got the thing organized, which took six to eight week

those same words spoken by arley pratt used to describe washington county also use to describe the yearholding the torch for so long. sometimes it feels like her hands and hours came down but over the course of this past year we've learned some valuable lessons. with a global pandemic raging we have learned that our people are smarter than we ever could have imagined as scientists, chemists and professionals develop master new technologies to create multiple life-saving vaccines in record time. and yet at a time when we have more knowledge at our fingertips than ever any generation in history we have somehow become more susceptible to disinformation , conspiracy theories and lives. as too often we all struggle to find accurate sources of truth and unbiased information. we have learned that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever imagined as individuals, countries have found ways to adapt and innovate through impossible circumstances. to restore critical supply chains and keep businesses open and friends and family sick employed. and yes, we have also seen real weaknesses as too

from 52 to 113 and every one of those destroyers is called an arley burk class destroyer, built along the lines of the very first one. so it's wonderful to have a ship named after you for anybody. it's a deep honor, but a particular honor to be the lead ship of the class and that honor was bestowed on admiral burk the greatest of our destroyer officers, the most impactful surface line chief of naval operations. he was the cno for six years, an iconic naval figure and all the ships in that class are ar leey burk class destroys. i'll close by saying mine this, second of the class, was named the barry after john barry who is not terribly well-known, revolutionary war navy captain, a contemporary roughly of john paul jones, and was a superb naval officer. those who served in the barry are very proud of that and proud to be the barry just like my wife is proud to be the sponsor of 113, the john finn, named for a medal of honor winner at pearl hash per, and all of white house served in any of those destroyers are very proud to be destroyer men and women, and to serve in an early burk class

who was not trapped in the past he was interested but as arley and me as i was in him.nk the realness of the friendship help me with the book. >> as you said at the beginning the central theme is change and adapting to change. for the careless six over charlie that helped him adapt? few things i will focus on. he was naturally in stoic philosophy has absolute terrible pr department. it's being stoic, repressed, types, unfeeling, unemotional, distant. that is not at all. the great stoics of the 20th century. it is a simple idea in life there are things we do not control. we just pretty much everything people ifontrol other you've raised teenagers you know that. we don't control the government does we don't control the weather we do not control how fast the light and we are in at the grocery store moves compared to the line next to us. i may control that actually because i'm always in the slow line. we spend so much time grinding over. why are this people like that? why is this person driving so slow?an we have no control over it. we have control over one thing. it's a ge

zumwalt and before that, admiral arley burk was elevated as a three-star. so, the advantage of doing it is you really get a fresh set of eyes and no one, who is elevated, has any baggage to pay off. you get a clean break. that can be very advantageous and i would argue as the navy goes into this turbulent 21st 21st century, we would be well-serve to do at lower deep sleek. >> gives me the perfect transition to a clean break. now my pleasure to turn the stage over to admiral stavridis to give you a presentation. hope your clicker there is. >> it is. thank you very much. well, first and for most i want to say thank you to hugh and to the nixon library, and i want to also just sort of spend a moment while the furniture is moved -- which it is -- so thank you above all, hugh, betsy, greet have you oh, are hugh lazy lovely wife, navy mom, nave ya daughter, a lot of navy in the house tonight. that was a wonderful introduction, and normally when people hear that introduction, supreme allied he commander and all that, then they actually see me and typically have re

wrapping up our look at the most popular nonfiction book according to the chicago public library is arley hoekstra fields the political right, strangers in their own land. many of these authors have or will be appearing on book tv. you can watch them on a website booktv.org. >> the publicity manner at johns hopkins in baltimore, maryland. what are some of the things you have coming up with mike. >> sharks of the shallows. it's coming out right after shark week which is a huge thing for the general public and it's an unofficial oversized coffee table books heavily oversized and riesling price and work in a handful of them and the dinosaur book we now have a short book coming out. we have a book that tongue-in-cheek is about the remnant minus the bear, the story of the western frontier in for trapping and three guys whose lives intersected at a place called lake house that's coming out. then we have a book called uncompromising activists about a gentleman who was the first black graduate of harvard college and so, that the biography for us which is somewhat unusual but kind of a nice story

it is happened before, admiral arley burke was elevated as a three-star. the advantage of doing it is you get a fresh set of eyes and no one who was elevated has any baggage to pay off. you get a clean break that can be very advantageous i would argue is the navy goes into this very turbulent 24th century, we would be well served to do a little more selecting. so that gives me a perfect transition to a clean break i can turn my stage over to the admiral to give your presentation i'll be back at the end of it. so thank you sir very much. well first and foremost i want to thank you to hugh and the nixon library. i also just spend a moment while the furniture is moved. which it is. so thank you, above all hugh, it's good to have you here as well, he was loving wife, navy mom, navy daughter. got a lot of navy going on in the house and that, i see that. that was a wonderful introduction. normally when people hear that introduction, supreme illini commander and all of that they see me they typically have two reactions. one is wow i thought you would be taller. [

he started over 50 years with admiral arley burk and to years we were at 18th and k, and less opulent surroundings to sale the least. >> that's putting it mildly. >> we would have doing this book talk in basement with no windows and would never heat gotten here with pture -- an -- and to have the james james kitfield here whos wherein another remarkable book. you know his bio. one of the best, best military reporters to ever work in this town. he is one of the best authors. he has the respect of the people that he interviews and writes about, and the respect of his readers and the respect of fellow journalists. >> thank you for saying that. >> and certainly of the policy community, who consider him to be someone of just impeccable talent and character, and we have all learned quite a lot from james kitfield over the years. the book is terrific, and i know that all of you, the holiday are coming up so don't buy one, buy two. for those of you at home who are watching on the webcast or c-span, they're available on amazon, available wherever they sell books. it's a marvelous book, and i s

, and it ones -- flies the face of a lot of the conventional wisdom, including our colleagues like arley at berkeley, katherine kramer who is at the university of wisconsin, who wrote a book called the poll sicks of resentment and, oh, yeah, how can i forgetter. j.d. vans, so it's not to say that economic anxiety has nothing do with bus here's the thing. how can be account for long about 40% of college educated whites voting for trump? i don't think you can tell me, convince anybody that these people are economically anxious, right? in the same way working class whites are supposed to be. so one of the rumors or one of the conventional wisdoms we want could disspell with argue that trumps rise was fueled by sense of existential threat, the belief that real american culture is under siege. siege mentality. americans -- the real americans -- i'll put air quotes -- real americans, the america that they've come to know and love, is changing too fast and is going away and they'll do anything to retain that. so, when i gave this talk at bates college, in maine, and i didn't realize there war s

other finalists for this year's national book award in nonfiction include arley russell hartfield for a report on the alienation felt by many on the political right in strangers in their own ran. nothing ever dies, being on when lays on on the can the vietnam war and kathy o'neill's weapons of mass destruction argues that big data and computer models can be used to discriminate against people. i look at these visitors finalists for the national book award continues with andres resendez and a look at the enslavement of native americans in the other slavery. american history professor diminishes sent documents the influence of the haitian revolution on abolition in the slaves cost. finally heather and thompson reports on 19th-century uprising at new york's correctional facility in blood in the water. watch the announcement of the national book awards live on c-span two on november 16. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on book tv, you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> it's worth considering that as things stand right now on the prevailing relationship b

my amendment provides the balance of funding necessary to fully fund an additional arley burke class destroyer and replaces fund for a third combat ship in the next fiscal year. this amendment supports the recommendations of the national commission on the future of the u.s. army. in order to support combat aviation across the total army, including the guard and reserve, the amendment includes funding for 36 additional uh-60 blackhawks and 17 luhlakotas, chinooks and h-64 helicopters. it also includes advanced procurement funding for ten more apaches. despite the fact that our troops are still in harm's way in afghanistan where the taliban is making steady gains and isil is now present on the battlefield, the president's budget request funds less than two-thirds of the current level of u.s. forces in afghanistan. both republicans and democrats on the armed services committee have recognized that u.s. troop levels in afghanistan should be based on conditions on the ground. that's why this amendment provides full funding for the current level of 9,800 troops in afghanistan to help our a

arley goes by that i don't mention the chesapeake bay would to thank my colleagues for their support we've increased authorization for the chesapeake bay program of the resources in the chesapeake bay program or under senator stabenow's leadership we've gotten help under department of agriculture pruitt who got help from other of our programs. there is a committee that you'd youchairs not been reconstituted recently. which is coordinates the federal agencies. the federal leadership committee. i understand and conversations with senator ben holland we have both expressed to you the advisability of reconstituting that committee with your leadership as chair. considering we are reaching 2025 which is the next plateau on the commitments made by the states for what they can do and reducing the challenges in the bay enforced by tmv ills. so, can you just assure us that will beat reconstituted or reinstated to coordinate the work of the various federal agencies? >> absolutely. thank you for your leadership on getting historic investments to the chesapeake bay. we have been digesting all the

[laughter] he said, it is a sense arley impaired cell phone.laughter] and there is not a teenager in the area that would be seen dead carrying itself on like this. i just thought it was amazing. so, okay, so 80% and 90% of you have cell phones with cameras, right? how many of you have some kind of pda, either, not text messaging because we already do that. how many of you have an iphone? this is the starting wage of the future. my wife has an iphone. hd3 iphone. this is truly amazing, 83 iphone is the 2003 laptop computer. that is the level of computing power. so my wife picks up livestream ng tv on her cell phone. and i'm looking at this stuff thanking-- i remember my and wilma was the first person in our family that had a television. when we get the first tv in our family, a couple of you were nodding yes in some of the younger ones are staring saying, this can be true. with this back in the ice age when they also had al funds? go killey cave bear and watch your first cd. but she had a 13-inch screen black-and-white television, that got, an a

reasonable people will disagree about the politics of the aggressively seeking to prosecute those tat arley sponsiblefr e stlo o nacu ima. i hope to convince you of the two related poin that will transcend politics at the moment. first, national security leaks or in many ways only a symptom ofhe much rger disease that has already been alluded to is morning vercici ola ngss quon hn r not always the information to ameliorate. second, even if the subcommittee believes that national security leaks by themselvesre a problem with a solution, and that this administration rely agsiti ut faed prosecute the leakers as we have been discussing is terribly ill suited to the task. instead, if the congress wants to pursue reform in this field, it mustfundamentally revisit asarh emicy idfare arotailored and carefulld sanction specifically targeted at government employees who intentionally disclose properly classified information to the public without any intent to unanlerfrms eonal seriy. a neak t onsety leaks looker regardless with a democrat or republican is in the white house. what's more, given how man