and booktv.org. >> booktv is on facebook and twitter. light and follow us for book industry news, booktv schedule updates, behind the scene looks at author events and to interact with authors during live television programming. here are a few from this past week. we tweeted an article about authors including salman rushdie who has protested russia's stance on free speech. we tweeted information about this months of tv book club selection, women's history for beginners. >> the biggest challenge for me, let's say as an american educator is that women, women's studies frighten people because the assumption is all women's issues are about the body, therefore, all women's history will be somehow about birth control, therefore it's not appropriate for a kindergartner or a middle school class. >> you can watch this entire interview at booktv.org. on facebook we posted a link about the first degree in self-publishing to be offered at the university of central lancashire and to recognize the 10th anniversary of facebook we posted david kirkpatrick

look for the germans on booktv's author program afterwards on booktv on c-span2. and that is the top 10 best-selling books list according to the "los angeles times." >> next, history from pre-civil war to preconstruction. and we are automating large part of the boulevard. macon has its park. and they were laying it out with a load of cotton and headed towards the river to market downstream. right through what the engineers could lay down and they simply wove this road into the layout of macon georgia. in a lot of ways, it serves as that a metaphor, as i said. the history cannot be told when we are blind. so many things have happened here and it is really relating to our past and present and our future and that is the old dusty road where khan was taken to the river. this park is named after rosa parks. and now i would like to take you to some important places as well. and you can see the panorama of it and also to rose hill cemetery. a beautiful cemetery where things and people come together and in 803, when the lantana was purchased, president thomas jefferson sa

know, and they're not going to know it's you if you don't use your real name. >> follow us on twitter @booktv and like us on facebook. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. elizabeth colburn, a staff writer for the new yorker, reports on the history of extinction over the last half billion years and presents evidence for a sixth mass extinction in "the sixth extinction: an unnatural history." an iraqi interpreter recounts his work with u.s. navy seals in "code name johnnie walker: the extraordinary story of the iraqi who risked everything to fight the with the u.s. navy seals." journalist annie jacobson recalls the program that brought nazi scientists to the cus after world war ii to work on government projects in "operation paper clip: the secret intelligence program that brought nazi scientists to america." in "the twilight of the american enlightenment: the 1950s and the crisis of liberal belief," george mars den, a history professor at university of notre dame, analyzes the political landscape in a post-world war ii u.s. david lockbaum and edward lyman, member

weeknights watch key public policy depends a good weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website and get to join in the conversation on social media sites. >> women's history for beginners is the booktv book club selection for the month of february. go to booktv.org, you'll see right at the top there is a tab that says bookclub and you can purchase abate in our discussiodiscussio n at the booktv.org. we will be posting video and reviews and articles up there tomorrow. so the discussion will begin tomorrow. will also be posting on a regular basis discussions, question. hope you can participate. bonnie morris is women history for beginners is our february 2014 book club selection on booktv. >> we are spending a lot of money in this country to assist peace and reconciliation in israel. because that is the american goal. that is an american value. but it turns out that might investigation documents that taxpayer money is actually financing the flames of confrontation and even terrorism. i'm going to be briefing today on

all this and more on booktv on c-span2. the full schedule available on booktv.org. >> there are a hundred things i want to write about. it is hard work but it is a joy. i am not mahatma gandhi. i am a capitalist. what drives me is to get my books, my arguments into as many hands as i possibly can because my books are intended to affect people's thinking, to give them ideas, make them think they haven't thought about, and as i say i can't imagine other authors aren't thinking the same way but that is where i am coming from. i had one of the greatest editors in publishing. he really is terrific and he has and i for is this so he might say you might not want to use that sentence or you might want to reorganize this chapter or that chapter, but he is also gracious about how he does it, knowing full well i am a little stubborn like the thing most authors are but i certainly am. he might say may not want to include that and i will say i am, okay, or in a is a my not want to include that and i say you are right. i like to bounce t

think you for torrey the us on booktv. >> guest: takes so much. and makes it possible for washington to be away eight years fighting a war. >> something about abraham lincoln she saw the potential to encourage and develop it. >> lessons since the etiquette's dining room to prepare him for society where they invited important people so to talk with the wives of those gentlemen in she's a real little lots of power where he was going. >> the involvement of mrs. roosevelt is right from the beginning to make it much were active in her parole after 1921 when he contracted polio. she would encourage him to continue with his political ambitions. >> we're not in a post feminist era i am very concerned about the war on women rolling back access to reproductive rights there is no end to the statistics of violence against women in we have not stopped shaving girls about their bodies. so much sexism in the media that applies to have a certain shape to be loved or popular. of problem in defying the feminism it is true what unifies with the globally would have d

here are some of the programs you will see this weekend on booktv. steven jimenez argues the 1998 killing of that you sheppard was not an anti-gay hate crime but the result of a drug-related robbery gone wrong. phyllis chester describes her experience as a jewish woman in afghanistan married to a muslim fundamentalist. rich benjamin talks about his book

booktv is on facebook and twitter. like and follow us for book industry news, booktv's schedule updates, behind-the-scenes looks and author events and to interact with authors during live television programming. here are a few of booktv's posts from this past week. earlier this week political activist pete seeger died at 94. on tuesday we posted a link to a 2001 program on the late folksinger. booktv tweeted a new york times article about simon and schuster's plans to publish a book by former president jimmy carter on women's rights and on facebook we posted a portion of our recent interview with georgetown university law center's paul butler. >> if you listen to hip-hop you are reminded that there are 2.5 billion people locked up. you can watch all the reality shows about real housewives and all these movies about vampires and how that's and you will never know the we lock up more people in the united states than any country in the history of the world. >> you can watch this interview at booktv.org. week wheated an art

you're on booktv on c-span2. >> caller: hi. thank you guys for being there.my question is about, like, christian art? forgive me, i haven't had a chance to read your book, so i'm new to all this. but i just wonder especially in iraq and places where there might be more religious, you know, type p artifacts and so forth, if they were destroyed on purpose because of obvious reasons that people don't want the world to know that anything else exists besides what they believe in. i just wondered if your research has, you know, turned up anything about those kinds of issues. >> guest: well, one of the things that the monuments men foundation is doing, we're, of course, trying to raise worldwide visibility. that's why the george clooney film is so important, because no book can accomplish what this film can do. it's going to be opening in some 100 countries around the world. so that's a great chance for people not only to know the story of the monuments men, but also to know the heroic role that the united states-led effort played in saving some of these things. thi

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you're on booktv on c-span2. >> caller: hi. thank you guys for being there. my question is about, like, christian art? forgive me, i haven't had a chance to read your book, so i'm new to all this. but i just wonder especially in iraq and places where there might be more religious, you know, type p artifacts and so forth, if they were destroyed on purpose because of obvious reasons that people don't want the world to know that anything else exists besides what they believe in. i just wondered if your research has, you know, turned up anything about those kinds of issues. >> guest: well, one of the things that the monuments men foundation is doing, we're, of course, trying to raise worldwide visibility. that's why the george clooney film is so important, because no book can accomplish what this film can do. it's going to be opening in some 100 countries around the world. so that's a great chance for people not only to know the story of the monuments men, but also to know the heroic role that the united states-led effort played in saving some of these things. th

. >> you are watching booktv on c-span 2. we are talking with jerry muller, who is a professor at a catholic university. here is his book "capitalism and the jews" >> what do you teach here? >> statistic classess, sociology classes and a gender study class. >> and you are the co-author of this book. what is the american dream? >> that is the question we set out to ask. what is it and where does it come from and do people agree and how is it doing today? john and i had sense of concerns about cracks in the dream. and maybe the alarm clock ran out on the american dream. when you see middle class americans starting to be concerned about their opportunities and their children's opportunities you wonder if you are resilient identify enough to get through the great groups of immigrants and housing and health care and we sat out to see what it was and how enduring it is. >> how do you define it? >> what is in the interesting is it is very resilient. it is historic and codified in the declaration of independence. it has had to change

bonnie morrison's women's history for beginners in our february 2014 but club selection on booktv. .. process, and, you know, it's a convenient and attractive, sometimes, overly seductive tool in the president's foreign policy arse negatives -- arsenals go booktv.org and click on book club to enter the chat room. novel about life in see -- he was a child soldier in the civil war and he are wrote about his experience in the memoir "a long way gone." this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. i truly -- what i want to do borrow a book from somebody, is it possible? thank you very much. [laughter] i appreciate

follow us on twitter @booktv and like us on facebook, facebook.com/booktv for more news on the world of publishing and what's happening on booktv >> thank you, willie, i appreciate everyone coming out on a day like this. i mean, what are we doing here? [laughter] the sun in the sky and all of that great flying weather, which is why california became a mekkah for aviation. but here we are, and i'm happy, happy to have you all join me and thanks to willie for having me talk. well, i'm here today to talk about my favorite children's book author, and that's a man named hh arnold. here's a couple books. we have the pioneer aviator. we have bill bruce becomes and ace, world war i. a children' author in kansas, had time to write a half dozen books for boys in the tradition that were so popular in those days back when boys climbed trees and widdled with their pocket knifings, and had no video games. but young boys were also very interested in aviation, and which half was not as a young boy, and nor was he at west point, graduating in 1907, but when he got the aviation bug, he fell hard, and

[inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> although history might make only passing reference to the f1 hundred, it's not because they were not there in numbers. perhaps not as glamorous as other planes. their contribution to the war effort was a replaceable. >> beautiful, absolutely beautiful. this just seems so familiar to actually sit here. >> if we put it back together again you'll have to come see it. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> this was the airplane i flew in the am, this fairytale number. of the 226 combat missions i flew, i flew about 180 nations in this airplane. it's my titanium mistress. it's what brought me home at times when it probably shouldn't have. when i abused it, when i get things back in order to survive, punished it and it held together. it is an airplane that i have such strong feelings for. there's no way i could and bring it home, if i could. interesting story, i had a painting done by an aviation artist to paint my airplane in the battle garb and he asked me if i knew what happened to it and

>> booktv is on location in washington, d.c. joined by the under secretary of the smithsonian who has a new book out. s smith sonnian's history. first of all mr. kern, what's your day job? >> great question, peter. well, my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the american people give us. you know we host over 30 million people to the museum. my job is to help make the museums work help the directors do their job. i have to take care of budgets and politics and public relations and things but also the content of the work what we do what we show the kind of ways in which we want to help americans and people around the world understand the american experience. >> how long have you been with the smithsonian? >> i first worked here in 1976 for the bicentennial of the united states, and then permanently since 1994. >> as the under secretary, are you the coo in a sense? >> well, we have three under secretary, one a earth science one is finance administration, and i'm for everything else. i have a ph.d. i

and on booktv, executive power during times of crisis from washington to bush. sunday evening at 7 on c-span2. and on c-span3's american history tv, travel back 150 years to see how confederate soldiers spent the winter of 1864. join civil war reenactors from the grounds of james madison's montpelier, live saturday at 11 a.m. eastern. >> one of the concluding sections of the book is, in effect, on lessons learned about war. and one of the things that you'd think people would understand would be how frequently people who advocate going to war and people who make decisions to go to war almost always are convinced the war will be short. this year we'll celebrate the centenary of world war i which is a classic example of where everybody thought the war would be over by october or november 1914. problem many iraq in particular -- the problem in iraq in particular, and it's really true both in iraq and afghanistan, is what began as swift military victories quickly degenerated into long and grinding wars. in the case of iraq, it was always believed that it would be a sh

on his time with the cia. we'll have more from savannah georgia, in a few minutes. >> booktv is on facebook. ike us to interact with booktv guests and viewers, watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> originally i was writing as a philosopher, as a philosophy professor, and i was writing on sort of technical philosophical topics, and i became interested in more cultural social issues and would write about them when i found no one else was addressing them. and so, you know, i started to write about boys when i saw that it was a thing elected topic. i'm usually upset about something and think that this is wrong, and this is in the going the help people, and this is going to send us in the wrong direction. so i'm almost always motivated by a concern that it's important to get this down right. all of us are susceptible to confirmation bias. we are much more open to arguments and evidence that supports what we already believe. something that challenges it you resist. and i know that i have that. is i tried very hard to compensate for that. i know from people t

all this and more on booktv on c-span2 this weekend. the full schedule is available at booktv.org. >> most people don't understand how it works. a lot of people write books and spend the next two years trying to get somebody to publish their books. i have never experienced that. people say how do you get a book published? i say look, but i finally felt i had something. write books for the purpose of writing books. the first three, four books actually i did with a co-writer. basically i would dictate them to a tape recorder and sent them the tapes and they would transcribe things. i did myself with my wife, she did a lot of research and helped with editing and of course she is quick to point out this is the first one that hit number one on the new york times best-seller list. i enjoy working with my wife so certainly i will be doing that from now on. fortunately it does tend to come pretty easily. it is very much like speaking. when i give a speech i don't have a written text. i just go up there and survey the situation and ask what kind

you are watching booktv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup for tonight. >> that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> up next on booktv, afterwards with guest host tanzina vega, new times national correspondent. this week notre dame history professor felipe fernandez-armesto and his latest book "our america: a hispanic history of the united states." in it the oxford graduate look at the settlement and evolution of the united states from the perspective of latino settlers and discusses the modern-day hispanic resurgence in the united states. the program is about one hour. >> host: thank you for being with us. >> guest: thank you very much for taking an interest in my book. >> host: absolutely. it's quite an interesting one. we can start ou off by talking about the population of hispanics in the united states. in 1980 there were about 15 million hispanics in the united states. by 2012 nearly 53 million. by 205 2050 where expecting 128 million hispanic americans in the united states. your book helps give us th

here are some of the programs you will see this weekend on booktv. steven jimenez argues the killing of matthew sheppard was not an anti-gay hate crime but the results of a drug-related robbery gone wrong. phyllis cit led describes her experiences as a jewish woman in afghanistan married to a muslim fundamentalist. rich benjamin talks about his book down to the crossroads, civil rights, black power and the march against fear on

one group less involved. that faded over time, though. >> you are watching booktv on c-span 2 and we are talking with jerry muller who is a professor here at catholic university and here is hi >> host: joining us now on booktv is catholic university professor hanson. what you teach? >> guest: i teach sociology a family family, statistics class's and gender and globalization >> host: also the editor of this book the american dream in the 21st century. the co-editor. what is the american dream? >> guest: the question that we set out to ask. what is it? where does it come from? how is it doing today? because john and i had some concern of some? in the dream may be the alarm clock had run out when you see middle-class americans concerned about their opportunities we wonder if it is resilience of the great recession large

all this and more on booktv on c-span2. the full schedule available on booktv.org. >> there are a hundred things i want to write about. it is hard work but it is a joy. i am not mahatma gandhi. i am a capitalist. what drives me is to get my books, my arguments into as many hands as i possibly can because my books are intended to affect people's thinking, to give them ideas, make them think they haven't thought about, and as i say i can't imagine other authors aren't thinking the same way but that is where i am coming from. i had one of the greatest editors in publishing. he really is terrific and he has and i for is this so he might say you might not want to use that sentence or you might want to reorganize this chapter or that chapter, but he is also gracious about how he does it, knowing full well i am a little stubborn like the thing most authors are but i certainly am. he might say may not want to include that and i will say i am, okay, or in a is a my not want to include that and i say you are right. i like to bounce t

[inaudible conversations] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> women's history for beginners is the booktv book club selection for the month of february. go to booktv.org, you'll see right up there at the top there's a tab that says book club, and you can participate in our discussion at booktv.org. we'll be posting video and reviews and articles up there tomorrow, so the discussion will begin tomorrow. we'll also be posting on a regular basis discussion questions. so i hope you'll be able to participate. bonnie morris' women's history for beginners is our february 2014 book club selection on booktv. >> you're watching booktv. next, glenn reynolds argues that americans need to start looking for alternatives to our public and higher education systems which he argues are either subpar, too expensive or both. he proposes a multipronged approach made up of charter or private schools and online education. this is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. i've never

>> host: randy barnett is joining us on booktv. tell us about yourself. >> guest: well, under [applause] legal professor at georgetown law school, where i direct the georgetown center for the const to shame. a farmer criminal prosecutor put county illinois chicago and i had the medical marijuana case and i was one of the lawyers for the national federation of independent business when they challenged the affordable care act all the way up to the supreme court. >> host: given all that experience, professor barnett, what do you think of the constitution? >> guest: like the constitutional law. i like it more than those who want to change it by creating interpretations of what is supposed to mean by eliminating large parts of the constitution. >> host: here's your book, by the way, "restoring the lost consultation" the presumption of liberty. when we had that argument between a living document in a strict constructionist argument, looking at the constitution, is that a fair argument? >> guest: i wouldn't put it quite that way. i want t

for these titles and bookstores in the coming weeks and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and booktv.org. >> johnny walker is the codename of an iraqi translator who helped the navy seals root out terrorists in iraq following the insurgency. johnny walker accompanied the seals on over a thousand missions and is credited with saving dozens of them along with many iraqis. next, jim defelice and johnny walker talk about mr. walker's experiences. this is about an hour. >> first of all, thank you, everybody for coming out. we really appreciate the support and were going to kind of wing it a little bit, keep it easy and will just take it where it goes, right?

this is about half an hour. >> you were watching booktv on c-span2. we are on location at the catholic university of america and washington, d.c. where we're meeting some of the professors who also written books. joining us now is professor matthew green who has written in this book, "the speaker of the house: a study of leadership." professor green, what's the speaker of the house responsible for? >> a number of responsibilities. he or she is the top officer of the house of representatives and, in fact, the only one named in the constitution, and so there's an expectation that speakers are there to represent the house of representatives with the senate and the american people. the practical matter the speaker is responsible for ensuring that the house operates correctly, ensuring that legislation is enacted, helping to develop the agenda, interacting with the president, interacting with the american people, and ensuring that in general the house is working the will of the people. >> could anyone be the speaker of house? you have to be a member of the

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> next on booktv, hugh hewitt talks about the elements that go into obtaining happiness. this is about an hour. >> thank you, jonathan, quite a lot, actually. it is always great to be back at the nixon library, especially on the eve of the 101st anniversary of former or president nixon's birth, especially to celebrate with friends of the library who come often. as many of you know, in late 1988 the phone rang. i was working for president reagan in his administration, and on the other end was former president nixon asking me to come back to your baa linda to oversee the construction of this library for a couple of years. so i was very, very pleased to do so. it is a shining jewel, and anyone who is watching on c-span across the united states who has never been to the nixon library, you ought to come here. it's an extraordinary celebration of the american presidency, but also of an extraordinary life that began in this very small house that frank nixon built from a kit and continued through a life measured in decade

on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch it is and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. you are watching booktv on c-span2. on c-span2. here's our primetime lineup for tonight. >> that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> robert watson presents a history of the war of 1812. the author details the origins of the war, the principal players, and the battles that marked america's second war for independence. this is about an hour 15. >> can you all to me okay? that's good. maybe we will get feedback. karen, thank you. thanks to the hagen ranch road liber. i've had the pleasure of speaking at this library many times over the years with very spokeswoman. we also have brought booktv and c-span here before. i for the pleasure of a few dozen programs with american history tv and on to sure how my fans that c-span2 we have any audience? everyone. me, too. i love the. thank you to all of you for coming out. a beautiful day in palm beach county. we need your a lecture or your announce they're giving a t

here are some of the programs you will see this weekend on booktv. steven jimenez argues the 1998 killing of that you sheppard was not an anti-gay hate crime but the result of a drug-related robbery gone wrong. phyllis chester describes her experience as a jewish woman in afghanistan married to a muslim fundamentalist. rich benjamin talks about his book down to the crossroads. how george washington transformed the office of the president. all this and more on c-span2 this week and. the full schedule is by the way on booktv.org. sandra grimes talk about hunting down and capturing cia mole aldrich ames who compromise the second-largest number of assets in cia history. "circle of treason: the cia account of traitor aldrich ames and the men he betrayed" of five c i a principles test with crowding out aldrich ames and build it case against him. this is about an hour. >> host: we are very fortunate with us to have sandra grimes this afternoon. she has quite a remarkable story to tell, a story from inside the cia where she worked for years, hired by the cia

. >>> up next on booktv after words mac with guest host senior fellow and author of searching . the latest book down to the crossroads civil rights, black power and the march against fear. and it's the university of memphis professor tells the story of james meredith, the first african-american admitted to the university of mississippi who was shot upon his return to the state promote voter registration. the ensuing civil rights battle as meredith recovered about the black power movement to the forefront. the program is about an hour. >> was a pleasure to be with you today to talk about your book. you know, i looked at the cover and i was immediately intrigued by it. some say you can't judge a book by its cover but let's look at this cover. tell me about what's on it. >> guest: thank you for having me. it was quite a struggle to pick perfect image for the cover. it's a picture from the last day of the march, june 26 as the leaders lead the march the final leg of the meredith march into jackson insisted be. and it was kind of a struggle to pick the right picture because on the on

you ask send an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org or leave a comment on facebook.com/booktv. bonnie morris, where did you grow up? >> guest: i was born on mother's day in los angeles. i lived in west l.a. until from '61 to '71. until i was 10. a great time to live through the peace marching '60s. i had peace movement parents with a big paper sign in the front window. every christmas, and i went to a very international elementary school that was sort of the school for kids whose parents were married grad students at ucla. so a lot of people who are on citizenships from all over the world and various times i was one of a handful of, you know, american-born kids in my classroom. i thought it was normal that everybody came from japan and india and the philippines and. when i was 10 we moved to north carolina. what a wake-up call. i was in durham, north carolina. >> host: why did you move? >> guest: my dad left his job at the aircraft, he was asked to design an antiaircraft missile. he didn't want to be an arms designer. he was very much against the war, and he went back to grad sc

on c-span2. and online at booktv's book club, comment on last months into the guest bonnie morris. join the conversation, go to booktv.org and click on book club to enter the chat room. >> now on booktv, political strategist and consultant roger stone presents his thoughts on who was responsible for the assassination of president john f. kennedy. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you. thank you very much. first, let me thank books and books for this terrific opportunity. this is my last book signing up 2013, and it has been a tremendous experience. i have been to santa monica, california, new jersey, atlantic city new jersey, three different groups of new york, queens, brooklyn and manhattan. i have been to dallas on november 22, 2013, had a books on their on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of president john fitzgerald kennedy, then on to lyndon johnson's hometown of austin. i stayed in the driscoll hotel in the very room where johnson had thrifts with his mistress. and i was roundly ignored by this mostly texas media. the book has become a "new york times" bestseller. i

this and more on booktv on c-span2 this weekend. the full schedule was available at booktv.org. >> the career of have arnold commanding general of the u.s. air force during world war ii. .. >> and thanks to willie for invitig me to come and talk. well, i'm here today to talk about my favorite children's book author, and that's a man named h.h. arnold. here are a couple of his books. we've got bill bruce and the pioneer iowauateers. we've got -- aviators. we've got bill bruce becomes an ace in world world war i. so, yes, hap arnold was a children's book author as a young major at fort reilly, kansas. he had time to write a half a dozen books for boys in that tradition of books for boys that were so popular in those days back when boys climbed trees and whittled with their pocket knives and had no video games. but young boys were also very interested in aviation which hap was not as a young boy. nor was he when he was at west point. he graduated in 1907. but when he got the aviation bug, he fell hard. and he fell rather early in the w

one of the:editors. booktv on c-span2. accidental muslims because ultimately many of us are of a certain religion of the accident of birth. lee and not alone that way but that happened to many americans and it forces you to grapple with the idea to be muslim. because we were on trial. every pundit was the expert and we were told you needed to be liberated from the violence of islam that was apparent to the theology. of what was coming to me. as the mothe

follow was on twitter and booktv and like us on facebook, facebook.com/booktv for more news about whatare publishing and what's happening on booktv. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome to olympia on booktv. located at the south end of the puget sound, this city is known for its rich maritime history and being the seat of the state government. >> the original residents were the indian population, the tribal nations were here. the first british explorers came here in 1792. the territorial collection gives you a peak into the first things that people in this state, particularly olympia, were pulled off the shelves and reading. they came here because this was one of the first public libraries in washington. this is where people who lived in olympia came to grab a book. >> with the help of our cable partners, for the next and we will explore the history of washington's capital city with local authors beginning with chuck fowler and the role of the puget sound played in washington's development. >> when our nation was founded in 1776, only 16 years later where the first explorers exploring puget sound. so the

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. >> follow us on twitter @booktv and like us on facebook, facebook.com/booktv for more news about the world of publishing and what's happening on booktv. >> fred siegel argues that the roots of modern liberalism can be found in the writings of post-world war i figures like sinclair lewis, randolph bourne and h.l. mencken. he says they despised both the business class and main street american values and culture. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you. the you don't mind -- if you don't mind, i'm going to sit rather than go to the podium. i've had a few health problems, and i'd just as soon not test myself. thank you for coming tonight. in thinking about the problem of liberalism, i have to start off with the simple problem. most people, including most people who think they've studied the subject, have a very weak idea of the history of liberalism whether it be on the left or the right. there's an idea that you started with progressivism, you moved on to writing about -- no, i'm teasing. [laughter] you started with progressivism, you proceeded to the new deal, and then you went

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this weekend is a three day weekend on booktv and on american history tv. one of the features of this three-day weekend is a visit to macon, georgia by our local content vehicles. here is just a preview. macon is located right in the middle of the state of georgia. one of our claims to fame is that we are about six miles from being geographically center so we are real easy to find. i would say that macon's location and participation in the civil war are significant. there are a lot of stores but one of my favorites is a house known as the cannonball house. believe it or not, during the war, when general wilson's army was trying to decide whether or and burn it oron to go around, there was an artillery fight that ensued. there are two different versions of the story as you might imagine. one version is we fought them off. the other version is they decided we were not worth their time and trouble. the essence of it is that while they were shelling the city, cannonball literally hit the sidewalk in front of the cannonball house and the cannonball did not explo

sherman's appearance on booktv's author interview program "after words" airing in the near future on booktv on c-span2. and that's the top ten best selling nonfiction books list according to the los angeles times. .. otherwise, i don't feel that they really represent clinical approaches or ideas about illness that are grounded in science. c-span: well, you can see them on a regular basis on public television. first of all, what do you know about any of them? >> guest: i know that christine northrup did, in fact, have a pbs special and she wrote a book called "women's bodies"--my gosh, i'm blanking on it, but--and it--she had wide, wide viewership. and, in fact, all three of them, deepak chopra and i believe andrew weil as well have had specials on pbs. so that's a huge viewership. and their books are best-sellers. so clearly, they appeal to people. but some of the messages that they put out, i think are, as i said, not really grounded in experimental work. they talk about therapies that have not been proven. and christine northrup in particular is put forth as a women's health expert,

. >> all this and much more on booktv on c-span2 this weekend. the full schedule is available at booktv.org. >> next on booktv, peter mansoor, joe david petraeus' executive officer from 2007-2008 talked about the short and long-term impact of the surge in iraq. 20,000 additional troops were sent to the country in 2007 to stabilize it. this is about an hour and a half. >> welcome to the new america foundation. it's with great pleasure that i get to welcome peter mansoor, the author of a stunning new book, content which will be one of the key books about the iraq war. the deep research and, of course, colonel mansoor was there for so much of the key defense as he describes in the book combo the real history but also an element of memoir. gentlemen star is also professor at ohio state. he was executive officer to general petraeus. he has a ph.d, we are pleased to have you here. and after colonel mansoor cases presentation we're going to have -- produce some responses to it gentlemen stewart says. lieutenant colonel raeburn is leading operational stu

for more information on booktv's recent visit to macon, georgia, and many other cities we visited our local content vehicle, go to c-span.org/localcontent. .. as well as work on this book. i might as well mention that we started dating shortly to mess meeting here and now we work together. so hopefully this meaning does is cause that that one day. [laughter] though if it does say could be a little trouble later at home. [laughter] the book is "a curious madness: an american combat psychiatrist, , a japanese war crimes suspect, an unsolved mystery from world war ii. i'm going to work my way back from the psychiatrist in the war crimes suspect in an touch on the mystery just a little bit more at the hand and take any questions you may have. should you bother the nuremberg trials that followed world war ii, but you might not be aware there were several trials in japan after the war. because of the tokyo tribe. some people refer to them as japan's nÜrnberg. there were 28 classy defendants who are part of the tokyo tribe. these were former prime ministers, heads of state, military leaders.

you ask send an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org or leave a comment on facebook.com/booktv. bonnie morris, where did you grow up? >> guest: i was born on mother's day in los angeles. i lived in west l.a. until from '61 to '71. until i was 10. a great time to live through the peace marching '60s. i had peace movement parents with a big paper sign in the front window. every christmas, and i went to a very international elementary school that was sort of the school for kids whose parents were married grad students at ucla. so a lot of people who are on citizenships from all over the world and various times i was one of a handful of, you know, american-born kids in my classroom. i thought it was normal that everybody came from japan and india and the philippines and. when i was 10 we moved to north carolina. what a wake-up call. i was in durham, north carolina. >> host: why did you move? >> guest: my dad left his job at the aircraft, he was asked to design an antiaircraft missile. he didn't want to be an arms designer. he was very much against the war, and he went back to grad sc

historian peniel joseph we'll take calls, e-mails and tweets on booktv on c-span2. and online at booktv's book club, bonnie morris, read a woman's history for beginners and join the conversation, go to booktv.org and click on book club to enter the chat room. >> the context here is that leave enjoys a reputation in a modern-day of someone who counseled acceptance and submission and resignation to the situation. and that has always struck me as, it's a sort of series that doesn't add up in essence, that we no believe was most prestigious man in the south and we're told he cannot sufficiently know him at the south didn't sympathetic to the political will of the north, the southerners, ex-confederates began very quickly to contest the northern understanding of the meaning of war and peace in northern plans for reconstruction through political means and extralegal means. and violent means. what i found is that in the eyes of confederates, lee was not a leader of submission. he was a symbol of unbowed pride and a kind of measured defiance to rethink and grant and lee at a

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