in. >> for more information about the booktv-bus, visit our web site at booktv.org/booktv-bus. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> my name is amy walter, editor in chief of the hotline, unlike most people i have dreams for what out like to read this summer although i don't know how many will get red but top of my list is john mecham, his new book american lion about into jackson. i love to get at least one good political biography in a summer and believe it or not sitting on the beach with truman one year was quite lovely. it seems odd but it is true. i have started but not yet made its as much of a event in the new book breakthrough and so that is another goal of mine as well. if we are going into the fiction category, although this is non-fiction fiction, quirky, some people don't necessarily appreciate his sense of humor. i personally find him hysterical. when you are engulfed in flames is a book that came out i think probably a couple years ago that has been sitting on my nightstand, that one will get red especially. a good play in a book or a pick me up for t

there are lots more books and authors every weekend on booktv.ur web site has the entire schedule and great new features including streaming video, archives that easy to search and simple ways to share your favorite programs. booktv.org. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> my summer reading, the first half of my summer reading is going to be to catch up. there are two books i haven't finished. one is the team of rivals, the abraham lincoln book by doris kearns goodwin and the other is by eight jon meacham, "american lion" which is sitting at home. to history books of a need to read, want to read and in one case need to finish. the third book i want to read is written by a friend of mine who used to work at dow jones, which owns the "wall street journal" and it is called a restless genius. it is the story of a famous and very influential american journalist, barney kilgore, who was the editor of my newspaper, the "wall street journal" for years and years and treated the modern "wall street journal" and in many ways modern jou

. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> bob schieffer, whether you reading this summer? >> well, i just finished a book called big rich which is about the great oil fortunes that were made in taxes and it is by a writer named brian burrough, a writer for "vanity fair." is an absolutely terrific book. the best book i have read this summer and one of the best books i have read in i don't know when is a book called the held by katheryn stockish. and, it is the story of two black made and a young white woman, who lived in jackson mississippi in 1963. and it tells you more about the relations between blacks and whites come with what was going on in the south, the year that james meredith was enrolled at the university of mississippi, the first big story that i covered. this is a wonderful book, and i just recommended. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information visit our web site at booktv.org. >> here is elected some upcoming book fairs and festivals over the next few months.  >> da capo press is one

. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> i am amy, a reliable source, is for the washington post and i'm looking for to my summer reading list. a lot of people think that summer is the time for light reading and as far as i'm concerned is the time for reading the heavy books. last year i tackled the fountainhead of a ricin vacation. it this year i am looking forward to pushing anna carona, i tried to read it 15 years ago and could not do it and came up with a new translation would just aren't on vacation in february from a chipping away at it but i'm half way through and probably on vacation will be able to finish most of it. with the new pulitzer prize-winning novel by elizabeth strauss the, i will take a look at that, and i will finally read the manhunt, the lincoln history by jim swanson which has been up for a few years now, and a couple other things a the story of address i tell which everyone else in my family has read and raved about or america by, and some light reading is called for and i hope to finally tackle t

. >> host: a little bit more than halfway through our in depth on booktv with bill ayers. we're going to take a short break. we're live from chicago with a studio audience, and we'll be back your phone calls and more questions from the audience. >> when i arrived here and was looking for your office, someone told me that it's easy to find because you have all of these things attached to your door. >> guest: well, they tell a lot about my interests which are eclectic. and ever-changing. so this wall here next to my office and that wall what happens is that as things strike my attention and i put them up here, eventually this wall will be covered by clippings and things that i find that i think are worth sharing. my students who are waiting for office hours will sit out here, and i figure i'll give them a whole, you know, political education. some of it, of course, is just personal stuff. this is my son's, one of my sons' plays that was at julliard. he's a play wright, and so i have -- >> what's his name? >> his name is zade. here's a very powerful quote from may 1967 and so

. >> the booktv bus traveling the country visiting bookstores, libraries, festivals and authors. here are some of the people and places we've visited. >> we're here with aidan delgado, what does your title, the sutras of abu ghraib mean? >> for me it represents the lessons or teachings of abu ghraib. for me it's something not only the lessons we learned as a nation, but what i personally learned about myself serving at abu ghraib prison. >> what promised you to -- prompted you to write this book? >> i was reacting to what i perceived as other war novels out there, and i wanted to write a different war story that was about the moral or internal struggle that goes on in being a soldier, especially in the controversial war like the iraq war. >> why did you join the army? >> for a lot of reasons that were nebulous even to me. i think i wasn't fitting in very well at college, it was a bit of a culture shock to me coming from egypt, and i wanted to feel more american, more part of this american project. >> you mentioned that you grew up in egypt. how did that affect your choices to joi

but july 4th weekend in booktv, discovered an unfamiliar sight of our nation's first president, live from george washington's mount vernon state with an author, and the success of toward washington. join our 3 our conversation and in depth, on c-span and booktv. >> barack obama announced today a step in changing the health care system. drug companies have pledged to spend $80 billion over the next decade to help reduce the cost of drugs for seniors, to pay for some of the president's health care plans. he is introduced by the new head of aarp. >> aarp is proud to stand with you, chairman max baucus, chairman dodd to announce the gap in medicare, the drug coverage gap known as the doughnut hole will be substantially filled for millions of middle income americans as part of health reform. i want to applaud chairman max baucus, senator dodd, who have been champions in this issue. we are honored to stand with both of you. senator max baucus, with your strong leadership on the senate finance committee, with the creativity that led to the development of this very unique solution. we will a

join us live on c-span 2's booktv. host: our guest now is dave camp, republican of michigan, fourth district, a 10th term. he's also ranking on ways and means, so he plays a key role in health care legislation that is expected to be coming up in weeks and months ahead. so your side will come up with its own outline. tell us about it. >> this is obviously a critical issue, and what we will announce today at 10:30 is a summary. i have been part of a working group for many months and not too long ago we announced our principles, those ideas we thought health care reform ought to adhere to. today, it will be a summary, and ultimately, legislation will be introduced. there is the reason health care has not been done before. it is a complicated issue. that is why there is this rollout process. but we have an american health plan today that will really emphasized affordability, accessibility, and availability. we think it is important to be part of the debate here, and the ideas we have can be incorporated in a bipartisan bil

how is this booktv looked at?ple who were in the african-american study, the people of who are in american studies, a cultural and women's studies, a sociology, gender, and they want to take a look at this book women specializing biography right thing. how do they write? but people remember that. the women out of africa addressed the first lady your excellency and it was a salutation. we say the greeting is a salutation and that the african american women had many years ago. i cannot say what exciting experience it has been an also we have at least hundreds of pages now of comments that you have made to us and we are working to document that for historical preservation of what women thought it was what they were doing or saying and it seems like a good time to those who have contributed to come up to the microphone and say a few words about what this has meant to them and what motivated them to do this. would you like to start? >> greetings to you all. is such a wonderful honor to meet you to personally. i feel th

. >> tonight poncy c-span2's booktv, after words and dispatches from the war room, stanley greenberg on advising bill clinton, tony blair and nelson mandela. >> sunday on washington journal author richard wolf and his new book renegade, the making of a president. it is a biography of barack obama based on interviews conducted during the 2008 campaign. it begins live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span and we will show it to you again at 10:00 p.m. eastern here on booktv. >> booksellers convention at the center in new york city, he was stacy lewis the director from city lights booksellers san francisco. would you have coming out this fall? >> will come of this fall we have a couple books coming out from angela davis. we have a collection of essays. it is our first book that has been published in about four years that covers the emcee is particularly interested in, racism, sexism, the prison industrial complex and particularly interesting but we are publishing with angela is a new edition of the narrative of the life of frederick douglass and american slave which contains douglas's narrativ

. >> right now online, look for our redesigned booktv web site, and every weekend, stream booktv programming right to your computer. it is also easier to search for and watch videos with the redesign video player. you can share the videos with everyone you know. the redesigned booktv.org, look for it today. >> the state department released a report today saying the global economic downturn has driven an increase in human trafficking. the report lists 17 countries that have failed to make progress in preventing human trafficking. now secretary of state hillary clinton talks about that report. she is joined by members of congress and the state department's and the trafficking coordinator. this is just under an hour. >> in morning. we are delighted to have with us some keen members of congress who have cared about and work on this important issue for a number of years. mrs. the first time we have in should -- this is the first time we have introduced this report in this way because we want to demonstrate this truly is a partnership between the state department and the congress. if it were not f

this summer booktv is asking what are you reading? >> i'm carl:, the co-owner of politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c.. then and got into the business because i love to read more than anything. you can see i don't do too much exercise come instead that lie on my sofa and read instead. so i want to tell you about the books, this is such an incredible year for reading and for books. i am happy to have the chance to talk about this on c-span because i think c-span. i think it to the themes of this year our immigration and south asia. i am not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own and they really don't need me to support them, but i will tell you what they are. one is another land which is received all kinds of awards. it is by joseph o'neill who is part of dutch and part irish. is a book that takes place in new york post 9/11. the second book is the currency literary and i always have to stumble over the name, the currency literary and the potato peel society which is in epistolary book about ala

every weekend is filled with books and authors on "booktv." look for our schedule online at booktv.org. >> you're watching c-span. "washington journal" is next. that's followed by live coverage of the u.s. house. today they're scheduled to work on a tobacco regulation bill. .

. >> host: welcome back to booktv after words, i am a nancy maclean, historian of the 20th-century united states at northwestern university and the author of a book called "freedom is not enough: the opening of the american workplace". which looks of the struggles for equality in the workplace by various groups after world war ii beginning with african-americans, mexican-americans and women in the conservative responses to those and looks at how those really reshaping of politics over the last 50 years. and i think through the research on that but i somehow came to be sitting in this chair having the chance to encounter a wonderful new book by bethany moreton who is here to talk about her book "to serve god and wal-mart: the making of christian free enterprise". which is just now been published by harvard university press. and one of the things that you touched on in the earlier half of our discussion that we didn't really get into in depth but i want to focus on now is this whole issue of religion. it this was news to me, this association between wal-mart and religion and just how powerf

booktv live coverage from the 2009 chicago tribune printers row lit fest will continue after a short break. coming up next, authors kim bobo and jon jeter talk about workers and the economy. >> we are heading over right now to the in iran institute which is always set up here and for some reason we're going to find out why and talk with jeff of here. what is your name and position. >> i'm archivist at the ayn rand institute. >> why is it that ayn rand always seems to bump up in sales when there's a lack of a crisis of blacks. >> the sales of "atlas shrugged", up and that is directly result of the story and the ideas in the book. this is a book about the not too distant future when of the creative people of all stripes come all talents and all liability is the side to go on strike against a world that does not appreciate their value in their contributions and a world very much like the one we are currently facing economically. >> what do you think of the current response of public policy response to the abdomen situation we're facing? >> total disaster. the whole premise behind the re

. >> coming up next, booktv presents "after words," an hourlong program where we invite a guest hosta elementary schoolteacher tierney cahill discusses her book "ms. cahill for congress" the story of her and probable campaign for u.s. representative on a dare from her sixth grade students. with only $7,000 in campaign staff of 12-year-olds, she won the 2000 democratic primary and nevada's second district. she discusses her book with district of columbia delegate eleanor holmes norton. >> host: welcome to c-span cahill welcome to washington. >> guest: think you so much. >> host: this is the book, "ms. cahill for congress," and the subtitle, one phyllis teacher, her sixth grade class and the election that changed their lives forever. let me ask the obvious question. ms. cahill, how does a divorced mother with three children, no house, two bedrooms, one bath, how did you figure that out, apartment, two or three jobs, one cocktail waitress and where you sometimes get helm or galt home mabey 2:00, 4:00, who's counting, in the morning, extra curricular activities for students -- how does s

them every weekend booktv has the latest nonfiction books and authors on the cspan2. saturday on afterwards, writers and artists from the garden of eden to today. the history of the world through a collection of 600 short stories. afterwards also airs sunday night at 9 eastern. books on the economy, a former investment banker exposes the mess of the recession and what it will take to recover. and why capitalism is the way to ease poverty.

what watch booktv on primetime all this week on cspan2. tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern, ben jones at the great color -- green caller economy. and joe scarborough, the last best hope and travel writer with the opened right -- opened road. >> washington journal continues. host: peter brooks is a national security fellow at the heritage foundation, there is a report looking at the commission of prevention of weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism. this commission was put together in 2008. guest: i am not a member of this commission. it is -- headed by bob graham. in the standard commission has been extended. they have been extended for a few more months. host: they deliver their report to president bush last -- late last year and testify before congress early this year. what is the focus today? guest: they are doing a great job. the commission has been extended, both senators will join us today to talk about their finding. they will also talk about their recommendations that they made to the president and congress last year. what is interesting is

on booktv, the midwest's largest literary event. saturday starting at 11 eastern and drop the day. panels and others on the economy, globalization and the american worker, homosexual rights, former illinois gov. robb book which, -- gov. plight of iof illinois. and last sunday come in depth, univ. vilma professed professor and former weather underground member. he will take your calls as well as questions from the audience. for complete schedule, go online to booktv.org. >> there's still time to get your copy of cspan22009 congressional directory, with information on house and senate members, and the nation's governors, plus the district maps and how to contact caucuses and committees. it is $16.95, online or call the number on the screen. >> and now a house hearing on the fiscal year 2010 budget, such as navy seals and are the rangers. adam smith chairs the subcommittee on terrorism and unconventional threats. the hearing is about one hour. >> i have an opening statement that i have written. i will submit it for the record. i just briefly want to say how important the special opera

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we begin our prime-time booktv schedule with a man jones, the white house special advisor for green jobson his book, the green color economy. how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations i have no idea. >> government. >> c-span gets its funding to the taxes. >> federal funding. >> public funding think. >> may become i don't know give balckout a c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies greeted c-span as a public service, a private business initiatives. no government mandate. no government money. >> next a senate hearing on the hurricane is preparedness with the head of a fema and other officials. the reason forecast calls for 14 tropical storms in 2009, seven of which could become hurricanes. barry landrieu of louisiana chairs the subcommittee on disaster recovery. is an hour and 50 minutes. >> the hearing will come to order anthony welcome everyone that has joined us today for what i think is a very important hearing and what is one of a series of hearings that will have happened or happening today and will continue to happen as we strive to get our nation's respon

. >> this summer booktv is asking what are you reading? >> i'm marsha blackburn and rep. to the seventh congressional district. this summer i am going to really do a lot of reading and i am looking for a two reading liberty and tyranny, or tear in the end of liberty. i think that that sounds like it and fantastic one. what i also want to read it is one second after which is about the electromagnetic pulse and that is something being on energy and commerce and protecting the grids, something that is important to us. the accidental guerrilla is also one of that is on the list that i plan to read this summer. so that is one a book each month and i'll probably and some others to that as i go through the year. >> if you want to see more program information and other bidding less go to our website at booktv.org. >> after words with eduardo galeano and john dinges continues. >> host: i'm john dinges and i am talking with eduardo galeano and we are talking about his book "mirrors". he is particularly important in on america because he has captured a long history of repression and

you can watch the entirety of the booktv coverage from the 2009 "chicago tribune" printer's row starting 11 tonight eastern and watch tomorrow at noon eastern for the author interview and call in program and debt. this month the guest is bill ayers former member of the anti-war group the weather underground. >> john catipano is editor-in-chief of illinois press. what books does the university have coming out this year? >> actually all of the posters on the table top display, these are all brand new books and as you can see we have a series of books coming out african-american history including this biography of sojourner truth, a biography of t.r.m. how word. >> who is t.r.m. howard? >> he was actually a conservative civil rights advocate that doesn't get the sort of attention and respect he should but was instrumental in moving forward a lot of black agendas in the south. >> and why did you decide sojourner truth needed another biography at this time? >> the author has a new and unusual angle different from some of the ones published recently and is a substantial biography so she touche

per >>> coming up next, booktv present "after words," an hourlong discussion between a guest host and the author of a new book. this week, nicolas schmidle, fellow at the new america foundation, talks about his book, "the live or perish forever." it's an account of the two years he lived in pakistan beginning in 2006. mr. schmidle discusses

next weekend for the holiday, 3 days of booktv including historian and author john furling live sunday from mount vernon estate on in-depth. the entire schedule this on line with great features including streaming video and easy to search archive. booktv.org. earn..

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. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading?i and several books, that i am reading and i intend to read over the next several weeks. but, right now i am just about completed with with wings of eagles i michael korda, which is the battle of britain actually from both sides of the english channel, the raf on one hand and the german lufafa on the other en

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every week and is filled with books and authors on booktv. look for our entire schedule on line. >> here is our present policy. we are ready, anxious, willing, eager to stop the bombing, just as we are eager to stop the war. >> telephone conversations from the final months of lyndon johnson's presidency, for on vietnam, un appointees and troubles over his pick for supreme court chief justice. saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span radio, in the washington-baltimore area and 90.1 fm, online ad c- spanradio.org, and on xm satellite channel 132. >> how is c-span funded? >> private donations? >> taxpayers? >> i don't really know. >> public television. >> donations. >> i don't know where the money comes from. >> contributions from donors? >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies predecease ban as a public service, a private business initiatives. no -- america's cable companies created c-span at a price that service. host: joining us from the white house domestic policy adviser to the vice-president, jared bernstein

he joins booktv for an in depth interview from the printer's row lit fest in chicago. >> host: bill ayers, in your book "to teach," you talk about teachers having a moral choice. what is that moral choice? >> guest: i think that teaching is profoundly ethical work, and the moral choice is to take the side of the students, see them as three-dimensional people with hearts and minds and spirits, and to see yourself as somebody who is in the position of shepherding the choices of others. and that gives you a very profound, i think, ethical responsibility. so part of it is to see the students whole, to see them as human beings, not as little inteha

. >> this summer booktv is asking what are you reading? >> i'm carla cohen. i'm the co-owner of politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c., and i got into the business because i love to read more than anything. you can see i don't do too much exercise. instead, i lie on a sofa and read instead. so i want to tell you about the books. i think this is just such an incredible year for reading and for books, and i'm happy to have the chance to talk about this on c-span because i think c-span doesn't bring enough fiction to you, and i think fiction can often be more true than books about policy or history. the -- my two themes this year are immigration and south asia. i'm not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own they really don't need me to support them, but i'll tell you what they are. one is netherland which has received all kinds of awards by joseph o'neill who's part dutch and part irish, and he has -- it's a book that takes place in new york post-9/11. the second book is the guernsey literary, and i always have to stumble

. >> coming up next booktv presents after words, an hourlong program where we invite guest host to interviewhors. this week, nevada elementary school teacher tierney cahill discusses her book, "ms. cahill for congress" one fearless teacher, her sixth-grade class, and the election that changed their lives forever on a dare from our sixth grade students. with only $7,000 in a campaign

every weekend is filled with books and authors on "booktv." look at the entire schedule online. >> here is our policy. we are anxious, willing, eager to start the bombing, just as we are eager to stop the war. >> the final months of lyndon johnson's presidency -- vietnam, un, and his pick for justices. on c-span radio, and in the washington-baltimore area at 90.1 fm, and and nationwide on xm satellite channel 132. >> how is c-span funded? >> private donations? >> taxpayers? >> i don't really know. >> public television? >> donations. >> i don't know where the money comes from. >> contributions from donors? >> how is c-span funding? 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private business initiatives. no government mandate, no government money. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are joined by congressman steve scalise, republican, talking about the energy bill republicans unveiled. first-come a clip from congressman pence on the bill. >> today house republicans are introducing the american energy act

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. >> booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> former house historian, race moc, what are you reading? >> right now i am reading richard bernstein's book on the founding fathers, the founding fathers reconsidered which is a new book that is just out and richard is a wonderful writer who characterizes the founding fathers of this country, looks at them with a fresh eye and it is just a wonderful book. another one that is closely related is by richard beeman, delancy new book out on the constitutional convention and the men of the constitutional convention, so those of the two books i would read simultaneously right now. >> rett perlstein author of nixonland, what are you reading? >> i am reading the culture of narcissism which is a classic of the came out in 1979, a surprise bestseller even though it was the dense piece of intellectual argumentation sapota insley read by president carter. supposedly informed a speech he gave in which argued that america was suffering this crisis of confidence, and i'm reading it because i'm doin

. >> this weekend on swrks than 2's booktv, live. the midwest's largest literary effect, "the chicago tribune" printers row lit fest. panels and authors on the economy, globalization expht american worker, homosexual rights, former illinois governor rod blagojevich. civil rights and sojourner truth. the mob and counterfeiting and a look at the graphic adaptation of studser the cels working. later on after words, stanley greenberg on advising tony blair and nelson mandela. he's interviewed by mary madeleine, former counselor in the bush/cheney white house. and live sunday in depth with bill ayers, university of illinois professor and former weather underground member. his latest is race course, against white supremacy, and he'll take your calls as well as questions from the audience. for a complete schedule of this weekend's programs and times, go online to booktv.org. >> now a hearing on the fiscal year 2010 budget for the military's special operations command. including navy sales and army rangers. this is about an hour. >> it's rig

the c-span 2 booktv civics bus is visiting libraries, bookstores, festivals and authors. here are some of the people and places we visited. >> we are with mark bauerlein, author of a "the dumbest generation". you also have a a title that says or don't trust anyone under 30. you put a lot of statistics in your book. a pull out the one statistic you like the most when you have to talk to groups about this particular book. >> i think one thing that happened was the speech i gave at the university of maryland a few years ago, there were about to and 50 students in the audience and i cited a statistic for them that came out of a civic knowledge of young adults and the statistic was that roughly 18 to 26 year olds were six times more likely to know who the american -- the latest "american idol" winner was then there were to know who the speaker of the house was just 2 miles away from the university of maryland. and what i can add to that statistic is that a young woman in the back yelled out, it is more important to know who the "american idol" is. and the thing that was import

. >> host: welcome to booktv after words, i am nancy maclean, historian of the 20 of such a dash 20th-century northwest and i am interviewing bethany moreton professors sp 13 as the town and author of a "to serve god and wal-mart: the making of christian free enterprise" which is published by harvard university press. first of all, i want to say congratulations, this is an extraordinary work of history. i have read a great deal about wal-mart's over the last decade or so and i have picked up your pocket transformed might understanding of this phenomenon. the story that you tell is rich and gripping and the details are sometimes amazing, there are surprises. all throughout barrett in the analysis is bold and original so i think which you have here gives us all a lot to think about and i think this is going to be a rich discussion today. this is a book ranges through southern history and the development of capitalism in the ozarks and religious revivalism and women and changes in the family economy, the expansion of free enterprise, like america and the '70s and '80s so there is some much going

lemme think c-span and thanks booktv. i am cliff may for the and the foundation for intensive democracies -- again, thank you all of you. [applause] >> jonathan schanzer is the deputy executive director of the jurors policy center and a former counter-terrorism alice for the treasury department, the author of "al-qaeda's armies: middle east affiliate groups and the next generation of terror". for more information visit schanzer.pundicity.com. >> de capo press is one of the imprints of the perseus books group annalisa wharf is vice president at de capo press, what are some of the titles coming out from your imprint? >> we have a wonderful biography of james monroe coming up by a washington d.c. writer and is called the bill last founding father because he truly was one of the last xiaoning brothers emanation. >> what another biography of james monroe? >> this is one more complete than many of the others, new information has been found through all the archives and letters and records and we are finding that there is still a

. >> host: that was the condition in which i agreed to take this on camera coming up next, booktv presents after words, an hourlong program where we invite guest hosts to interview all others. this week that an elementary school teacher tierney cahill discusses her book, "ms. cahill for congress", the story of her improbable campaign for u.s. representative on a tear from her sixth grade students. with only $7,000 and a campaign staff of 12 year-old, she won the 2000 democratic primary in nevada's second district. she discusses her book with district of columbia delegates eleanor holmes norton. >> host: welcome to c-span and welcome to washington. >> guest: thank you so much. >> host: this is the book, "ms. cahill for congress", and the subtitle: one fear was teacher, her sixth grade class, and the election that changed their lives forever. let me just ask the obvious question, how does a divorced mother of three children and no house, a two-bedroom one bath, apartment coming to three jobs, one cocktail waitress and it shall we call it where you sometimes get home or got home and two or ma

distinguished professor of education as you university scholar at the university of illinois at chicago joins booktv for an in-depth interview from the printer's row of little vest in chicago. >> bill ayers, in your book "to teach" you talk about teachers having a world choice. what is that moral choice? >> i think that teaching is profound ethical work in the moral choice is to choose to take the side of the students, to choose to see them as three-dimensional creatures with hearts and minds and spirits, that somehow have to be both martian challenged and to see yourself as something which is in the position of shepherding the choices of others and that gives you a very profound i think ethically responsibility so part of it is to see the students whole, to see them as human beings not as interchangeable cog in a machine, that is infinitely manipulable but see them as human beings much like yourself and to open your eyes to that. >> is individuals? >> and as members of the committee both and that is one of the tensions of teaching is your teaching third grade and have 25 kids and you have a respons

. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> senator mitch mcconnell, what is on your summer reading list? >> well i have just finished a couple of books i would highly recommend, jon meacham's by accuracy of andrew jackson, which was fairly recently out. fabulous, a different blood at andrew jackson. previous biographies that i have read of him, and i have read sobel, he focuses mostly on his presidential years and a good deal about his personal life, how important his family was. his wife died right after his election so was never in the white house but he had a collection of relatives who served as advisers and supported him and this is really delves deeply into their relationship with him and also the infamous what was commonly referred to as the peggy eaton matter, which was the wife of one of his cabinet members who had been maligned. he defended her and made it into a really big issue, so meachem is a good writer and is a good read. i also have finished a book actually since than that is older, been out a couple of yea

>> for schedule and descriptions of our programs log onto booktv dugger. you can click on the viewer input tab and e-mail us, tell us what you are reading and what you think of our programs. >> a clan fotopoulos at ayelet waldman response to the public outcry that branded her a bad mother for declaring in a "new york times" essay that she loves her husband more than her children. dsa began a national discussion on stereotypes about motherhood. barnes & noble tribeca in new york city hosted the event. it is 40 minutes. >> hi, i am just going to launch into this. we are going to rita little and then we are going to ask questions. i want you to be thinking of your questions right now. there are stephen this prizes for those who ask questions. really, chromatically appropriate prizes and you want to win a prize, you know you do. so, i know there is someone lactating. excellent. i am going to read an essay called is best.