is that how most americans are who are young strangely absolutist and pleurallist at the same time? my truth is the one true truth but i recognize your right to some wrong truth. i don't know the answer to that question. absolutely.

is that how most person -- americans are who are strangely absolutist and pleurallist at the same my truth is the one true truth but i recognize your truth to one -- i don't know the answer to that question. sunday night at 9:00 on after wards on booktv this weekend on c-span2. here are some of the latest headlines surrounding the publishing industry this past week. author and political journalist jack germond died on wednesday. he spent 48 years in journalism. he had just completed work on the fourth coming novel. a short story. he appeared on booktv to discussion his book "fat man in a metal seat" forty years of covering politic. you can watch it online at booktv.org. >>> on wednesday amazon publishing announced a new biography serious will be available through the kindle device later this year. they said it's working to hire celebrated authors to write about significant figures ranging from joseph stalin to edgar allen poe. the first publication "jesus" is set to be released in december of 2013. with other nine titles being released bimonthly in 2014. >>> according to estimates re

is that how most americans are who are young strangely absolutist and pleurallist at the same time? my truth is the one true truth but i recognize your right to some wrong truth. i don't know the answer to that question. absolutely. >>> now on booktv lawrence samuel exam the past, current, and future state of the american middle class. the author reports that a strong middle class emerged following world war ii in the 1950s. and began to eroded in the succeeding decades. this is a little over an hour. >> host: i'm going jump in. i took a chronological approach to the story. as you'll see. i went decade by decade. i picked up the story right after world war ii. i feel like that's when the middle class, as we know it, rose in numbers and power. then go through the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and up to today and wrap up. that's basically the approach i took to the book just track with the book. basically, why i wrote the book there's a lot of chatter these days about the middle class not surprising. someone talking about the middle class a lot, of course, is president obama like most bases.