this is what started the change in edward curtis. m running short on time, so i will summarize here. over time as curtis lost everything, his wife and his family fell apart. four children -- the children later sided with him, but it was a terrible divorce. his wife got most of his studio work and many of those great masterpieces were broken up in his studio, smashed in the midst of a divorce. he is living in a men's club in seattle. for the last 10 years of his time. he is living and in details all the famous people to address me at my usual way. so if you go to the club in seattle today, it is likely we would see edward curtis staff. that is how he paid his friends. in the 1920s, he disappears entirely. he has a deep depression, checked into a sanitarium, he stopped drinking with people. it looks like he won't finish this. but he gets revived in late 1920s with the help of his daughter. he goes to the far north for his final shot of this north american indian. i really love this picture. he is a bear society priest as well. so he goe

weekend on booktv starting today at noon eastern with author timothy egan on the photography of edward curtis. at 4:30, katherine bower on what animals can teach us about health and healing. and tomorrow starting at 1 p.m. eastern, rajiv chandrasekaran on afghanistan. panels and authors from the tucson festival of books, part of booktv live this weekend on c-span2. >> up next, historian and author larry schweikart. the university of dayton history professor talks about america's wars, the founding fathers and key events in u.s. history. "the new york times"' best-selling author has written, co-written or edited more than 20 books including "a patriot's history of the united states," "seven events that made america america," and "a patriot's history of the mold earn world." >> host: author larry schweikart, why do you use the term a patriot's history in a series of your books? >> guest: it was a direct play on howard zinn's people's history. if he can say this is a history for the people, this is a history of the patriots. who doesn't want to be a patriot? >> host: who are the patriots? >> gue

starting today at noon eastern with timothy egan on the photography of edward curtis and katherine power's and barbara madison horowitz on what animals can teach us about health and healing and tomorrow live starting at 1:00 eastern, afghanistan, followed at 2:30 by erik larsen on social security, panels and authors from the tucson festival of books, part of book tea on c-span2. you're watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. weeknights what the public policy events and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get scandals on our web site and you can join in a conversation on social media sites. >> at a summit on childhood obesity, first lady michelle obama, mayor cory booker and eli manning talked about how the private sector could encourage children to adopt healthy habits. this is posted by the partnership for a healthier america in washington d.c.. >> how is everybody doing? hello! i am going to run a mile you got me so excited. i am never going to get invited back becaus

live on the photography of edward curtis. on what animals can teach us about health and healing. sunday, rajiv chandrasekaren on afghanistan. it is live this weekend on c- span2. next, at the funeral of a venezuelan president hugo chÁvez. he died from cancer this week at age 58 after 14 years in power. according to venezuelan officials, his body will be embalmed and put on display permanently. nicholas mindoro and reverend jesse jackson jr. spoke at the funeral. this is 45 minutes. >> let us join hands and our heads in prayer. keep your seats. i want to thank the family for allowing us to share a prayer on this occasion. today we are here not because hugo chavez has died but because he lived. death is certain. life is uncertain. thus, a life of service matters. we pray to god today that the soul of the hugo chavez will find peace, and acceptance for his service in the kingdom. grant him mercy and grace. the chavez family mourns today. comfort them. venezuela cries today. reassure them venezuela is not left alone. for madura, grant him wisdom and support as he keeps hopes and drea

that starts saturday at noon eastern on the photography of edward curtis. at 4:30, what animals can teach us about health and healing. sunday, live at 1:00 p.m. eastern, afghanistan, followed at 2:30 at about social security. panels and authors from the tucson festival of books, part of ""book tv," live on c-span2. >> next, frogs used to lure consumers. this panel includes speakers from the federal trade commission and federal financial protection bureau. this is about 40 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> good morning. i'm an assistant director at the federal trade commission. at the next panel will discuss several schemes that target consumers in financial distress, including debt relief schemes, and some online payday lending schemes. in many ways, there is no real common thread between all of the schemes other than a target consumers who are in financial distress, but for small subset of consumers looking for payday loans, they could run across all three issues. ve

weekend on booktv starting saturday at noon eastern with author timothy egan on the photography of edward curtis. at 4:30, katherine bowers on what animals can teach us about health and healing, and sunday live starting at 1 p.m. eastern, rajiv chandrasekaran on afghanistan. panels and authors from the tucson festival of books, part of booktv live this weekend on c-span2. >> the united nations security council may vote tomorrow on a resolution to um pose stronger sanctions -- impose stronger or sanctions against north korea because of recent nuclear tests. many return north korea is threatening to cancel the 1953 ceasefire that ended the korean war. this week the house foreign affairs committee held a hearing on north korea's nuclear program and the effectiveness of u.s. and u.n. sanctions. this is two hours. >> this hearing on north korea will come to order. on february the 12th, north korea conducted its third test, its most powerful test to date, a nuclear weapon -- a smaller weapon because north korea is working on miniaturizing its weapon in order to place it on the head of an icbm. this fo

festival of books this weekend on booktv starting saturday at noon eastern, with the photography of edward curtis and 4:30 katherine power's and barbara or a list of what animal contagious about health and healing, and sunday, live starting at 1:00 eastern, afghanistan, followed at 2:30 by erik larsen on social security. panels and daughters of the tucson festival of books, part of booktv live this weekend on c-span2. >> british foreign secretary william hague told members of the house of commons the u.k. government defense armored vehicles and protected bodysuits for the syrian opposition forces. secretary hague announced a $13 billion package of logistical and humanitarian support to syria. to stay comes one week after meeting with syrian opposition leaders. secretary of state john kerry and others leaders in rome. after his statement before secretary took questions from the opposition and other members in the house of commons. >> statements, the secretary of state, foreign and commonwealth affairs. secretary william hague. >> with permission of will make a statement on the crisis in syria. the

weekend on book tv starting saturday at noon eastern with author timothy egan on the photographer of edward curtis. at 4:30, katherine and barbara on what animals can teach us about health and healing and sunday, live starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern, afghanistan, followed at 2:30 buyer rick larson on social security. panels and authors from a tucson festival of books, part of book tv, live this weekend on c-span2. >> i believe that the united states has many fantastic qualities. i do believe that maybe many people have the possibility of pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. i think every year that is less and less and less probably, but the united states, especially in the foreign policy, which is what i have worked on for years and years is not the great nation. spit is an interventionist state. it is extremely aggressive militarily. we mess with other people's politics in ways that i cannot imagine americans tolerating. imagine if some country invaded us to bring their system of government the way we did in iraq for example. can you imagine americans sitting there and thinking that is okay. an