. >> on sunday, september 4th, booktv is live from hillsdale college in michigan with dennis prager on in depth. his recent book examines how the ten commandments are relevant today and writes about good and evil, racism, the holocaust and other things in this book. in his 2013 book, still the best hope, he lays out why he believes american values must triumph in an uncertain world. here is here from a los angeles time festival of books. >> if everybody lived by the ten commandments you would not need an army, a police man, no locks on the door. this is all humans need. it is amazing. sunday, september 4th from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> up next on booktv on c-span2 investigative journalist seymour hersh talks about his newest book called "the killing of osama bin laden"challenging the facts made by the obama administration and others about bin laden's capture and death. >> host: let's start by talking aboutin

the best-selling author, talkshow host dennis prager on in depth. alive monthly call-in program. his recent book examines how the ten commitments are still relevant today. he writes about good and evil idealism and extremism, racism, the holocaust and other topics in his book think a second time point he contemplates the pursuit of happiness in happiness is a serious problem. in his 2013 book, still the best hope, he lays out why american vial values must trump in these critical times. >> it simple. if everyone lived by the ten commandments, you would not need one army or missile or policeman. you would not have to put locks on your doors. this is all humans need. it's amazing. >> he is taking your calls, emails, e-mails, tweets and text messages live on book tv in depth from hillsdale college in michigan sunday september 4 from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> here's a look of the books that president obama's reading the summer summer. the list includes two nonfiction titles, barbarian days in which they recount his life as a surfer in the 1950s and h is for haunt. an account of

it's amazing. >> dennis prager taking your calls, e-mails, tweets and text messages live on booktv's "in depth" from hillsdale college in michigan sunday, september 4th from noon to 3 p.m. eastern. [inaudible conversations] >> okay. good afternoon again. max rodriguez, founder of the harlem book fair, and this is the fourth of our discussions. following this presentation by our author, we will, of course, have the tea here which is a online video book discussion program. and we have the presentation of the annual wheatley book awards. so we hope that you'll stay. i have the honor of presenting mr. eddie glaud conscientious who -- glaude who is the author of a new book titled "democracy in black: how race still enslaves the american soul." i'm going to come to that in a second. eddie glaude is a professor at princeton university teaching in the religion department and department of african-american studies. he writes for "time" magazine and "democracy now." this book i have read, it intrigues me. it's very thought-provoking, very provocative, and the title itself says that. it's actua

it's amazing. >> dennis prager taking your calls, e-mails, tweets and text messages live on booktv's "in depth" from hillsdale college in michigan sunday, september 4th from noon to 3 p.m. eastern. >> host: colleen boyle is a publicist at princeton university press. what is coming out this fall from princeton? >> guest: so we have some great titles. our lead title is the curse of cash by kenneth rogoff. he makes the case for phasing out paper money. he argues that the economy would benefit for getting rid of cash, so think large bills, $50 and up, and his reasoning is twofold. he says that, first, people who are involved in crime and corruption choose cash as their payment of choice. and then he goes on to argue that economies would benefit in times of financial crisis by being able to lower interest rates to be negative and with a cashless economy, this would be more possible. so he goes on to address the challenges that go along with switching to electronic currency and makes a really great case for it. >> what else have you got coming out? >> in terms of science, we have welcome t

it's amazing. >> dennis prager taking your calls, e-mails, tweets and text messages live on booktv's depth" from hillsdale college in michigan, sunday, september 4th from noon to 3 p.m. each. 3 p.m. eastern. [inaudible conversations] >> and the second annual mississippi book festival continues live from the state capitol grounds in jackson. starting now, a an author panel on presidential politics. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome, everyone. can everyone hear us? everyone can hear us? we'll keep at it until you can, i promise. everyone here? everyone ready? everyone have a chair? mostly? [inaudible conversations] i know, i don't think it's on. do we have microphones? [inaudible conversations] >> all right. do we have seats? all right. welcome, everyone. i am chris goodwin with the mississippi department of archives and history. we're going to given the final panel here in the old supreme court chamber. i want to thank the state legislature for letting us use once again this beautiful state capitol for this book festival. and we thank taggert, rhymes and graham who are the sponsors

it's amazing. >> dennis prager taking your calls, e-mails, tweets and text messages live on booktv's "in depth" from hillsdale college in michigan sunday, september 4th, from noon to 3 p.m. eastern. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to can ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> well, reading is such an exciting thing. i read about a hundred books a year, and i've done a book report on every one of them since i got out of graduate school. and it makes a nice reference for going back and finding some other reading occasionally. one of the things i'm doing now is re-reading some of the mystery books that i have read before. there's an author named c.j. box that writes phenomenal stuff about joe picket who's a game warden in wyoming who winds up solving some outstanding mysteries as well as acquainting people with wyoming and some special things there. i get advance copies of his book usually. in this one's "free fire" which is about yellowstone park. and on that one i actually got to be involved before he wrote the book because there was ason in wyoming, well

. >> let's bring in dennis, the nationally syndicated talk show host, also angela rye and senior media correspondent brian, the host of reliable sources. it's you first, mr. prager. why is donald trump pushing out questionable claims and conspiracy theories by citing, many people to back it up? >> i have no good answer for you. that is the way his brain operates. i am stuck with the 17th of my choices. any of the other 17 would have been preferable to me. that he comes with baggage. but i think i'm going to say something that will sound shocking but it is not meant at all to shock. i would say that all of them put together are inconsequential compared to the president and many, many, like at the "new york times" and democrats generally, who pervade the notion, many say that police disproportionately kill blacks because they're black when, in fact, that has been shown to be false even in a "new york times" report just for a few weeks ago with a black professor of exhibiti economics at harvard who studied the whole issue and found that, in fact, blacks were disproportionately less killed. so, when we talk about purveying conspiracy theories, the left has it over t