the magnificent ishmael beah! [applause] just a quick refresher on the line rules. once you approach the line, you should have your ticket in hand, your ticket which you got when you purchased a copy of of "the radiance of tomorrow." this enables you to get in line which allows you to meet our speaker and have anything you want signed. cool? let's do it, right here. [inaudible conversations] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at book tv at c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> what we're told both as students and as a nation in terms of popular imagination is that there's all kinds of sit-ins and marches and demonstrations that occur, but they're really done by with famous, iconic people. basically, it's rosa parks who just was so tired that she refused to get up from the bus in montgomery, alabama, and sparked the bus boycott. and basically a young preacher who even the president referred to during the election as this young preacher from georgia which is dr. martin luther king jr. who sort of

beat a day, sometimes even two or three if i'm into it. [ hip-hop music playing ] >> his name is ishmaelbeatz. that's the name he's making for himself in the music industry. he started producing hip-hop tracks at 15. with his parents' encouragement, he took his homemade beats to a competition in atlanta. >> it was basically like a beat showcase, and it was me and, i think, 25 other producers. and, you know, we were just all up there playing our beats, and mine got some of the big people's attention. >> he begins an idea and then starts building it into a signature sound. >> whatever's in my head at that time is what i put in the computer. if it comes out as a sound i like, i go with it. >> this is ism. >> the music we dance to next year just might be built on one of ism's tracks. and despite all the hours he spends at his audio board, ish doesn't let his school work slide. in fact, he's on the honor roll. >> you can do whatever you want. as long as you put hard work into it, put time into it, you can do it. >> and that's certainly a message you just can't "beat." >> that's our show for t

perhaps like so many other jewish dreamers, i yearned for mystical union between ihshak and ishmael, and i kept company with him for two and a half years. i was 18 but i wasn't a complete fool and i thought i knew him and we never once discussed religion or afghanistan and prided ourselves on being bohemian and free thinkers, beat knicks, artistes. he never, ever prepared me for what my life or his life would be like in kabul, and he never told me that his father had three wives and 21 children, and that i would be expected to live with my mother-in-law, and that women still were wearing burqas, even though there was reform underway. real reform, or i would bed to convert to islam. he never mentioned this. never came up. when we landed in kabul, indeed they -- an official smoothly took away my president -- passport. i said, wait a minute. that's my passport. i was told, don't worry. i never saw the passport again and that becomes the interchapter in the book, because at that moment i became a citizen of no country, with no rights, and the property of a very long and powerful polygami

perhaps like so many of the others, i'd yearn for a mystical union between isaac and ishmael. i kept company for two and a half years. but i was not a complete fool. and we never once discussed religion or afghanistan and we prided ourselves on being opinions and existentialists and beat max and artistes. and he never prepared me for what his life would be if you never told me that his father had three wives and 21 children, and that i would be expected with my mother-in-law. and that women were still wearing burqa is, even though there was reform underway and he never mentioned this and it never came out. when we landed there, they smoothly took away my passport. and i said that as my american passport. and they said oh, it's a formality, we will send it to your home. and i never saw the passport again and that becomes an entire chapter in the book because at that moment i became a citizen of no country with no rights in the property of a large and polygamist muslim family. and i thought the is would be romantic, we would travel throughout all of central asia. i found myself

it is ishmael issue that guided me to deal with the whole not just with the band members also detects which is i think overall parents have been very very positive force in the good and the women of the bantam and i think of him for the past decade eyes i see this huge change in the parents' involvement in the event will continue to use when i started teaching the band the parents really did not really care about their children they don't really care about what the band is still weak but gradually i see more and more parents getting engulfed and one reason that a lot of parents told me is because they really tears opportunity to grow up along side their songs because you know high school students and their age sometimes they can be very awkward and they don't really want to pass to be around them anymore so this actually offers a very good opportunity for the parents to release to all the quilts with their sons and had a lot of parents for this reason an old was their son team to join the marching band and hope that i really can be spent on great bunch of people there are a fascinatin

so if you read this book about everyone and if you don't have the epilogue you don't know that ishmael survived. so the reviews of him were just terrible. if it doesn't make any sense. how is everyone died. and this doesn't make any sense. well, in addition to violating the copyright of literary works, the american newspapers would pick up british book reviews. so even though the american publishers publish the whole moby dick, which explains everything, sort of, it certainly makes the book makes sense. even melville was the subject of having them reprinted in people at the time never found that book. this is the international situation. so here comes this on to the theme another one of the 19th century situations. it's not tenable and it does not cross borders. authors cross borders, across borders. we have to fix it. and there is one thing that was set up in 1886. and victor hugo was one of the major ones is behind that treaty and it was basically something that is overly simplistic and whatever you do for your own you do for a foreigner. so we've still been living under this regime.

when maintenance man ishmael strickland found the lifeless body of a boy. >> on the seventh day a maintenance down into the woods behind a parking lot at a suburban office complex. >> the bank was fairly steep. >> medical examiner joseph burton had to hold on to a rope to get down to the scene. >> he had a ligature mark on his neck like if somebody had a ligature and they were behind you or off to the side behind you and they closed their hands or fists together and pulled the ligature, basically. >> in other words, killed from behind. >> most likely, yes. >> all right. let me place another sample on this side. >> state crime lab scientist larry peterson attended the autopsy. >> i can recall at one autopsy pulling a fiber off of one of the victims. it was a green carpet fiber and mounted the sample on the slide went over and looked under the microscope and it's the same one. >> you knew right then? >> knew right then. >> apparent it's another victim of atlanta's child killer or killers. >> local television carried these pictures live from the crime scene. >> as it was studied it was apparent

next call is ishmael in maryland.washingto there are more drugs being consumed and sold in inner-city rather than in the suburbs. that really isn't true. a lot of studies have proven that out. on the issue at hand, i don't particularly believe in mandatory sentencing programs for small amounts of things such as marijuana. cocaine, heroin and all those other things are different. i think there needs to be interference and substance abuse programs and things of that nature. for marijuana, small amounts, i think it is ridiculous to throw people in jail for 378 910 years just for that. thank you very much. host: this is from the congressional research service. it goes on down. you can see that a lot of the maximums for drug kingpins, 20 years to life. george is calling from tacoma, washington. tell us about your experience. have had al, i couple different experiences. i have family that has been through the court system and everything because of drug with myself.long i am not a medical marijuana patient. is thati see it marijuana grows from the ground. it is just like a vegetable or whatn

[applause] >> well, let's keep it going for the magnificent ishmael beah! [applause] just a quick refresher on the line rules. once you approach the line, you should have your ticket in hand, your ticket which you got when you purchased a copy of of "the radiance of tomorrow." this enables you to get in line which allows you to meet our speaker and have anything you want signed. cool? let's do it, right here. [inaudible conversations] >> is there