mrs. alexander is also a reader. >> guest: a time. she loves to read. we went to a discussion recently in nashville, and she was talking about the best, list of the best books which she done for parade magazine. as she went through them i found my wife to almost everyone of them. i knew very few of them. >> host: senator lamar alexander, former governor, army university president. we appreciate your time on booktv. >> guest: thank you. >> here's a preview of some of the books being published this fall. >> look for these titles in bookstores in the coming weeks and months, i want for the authors on booktv. >> we are living in the moment when a man who is in the white house right now is a constitutional lawyer by trade, and training, who won the nobel peace prize, who was portrayed as a transformative figure in american politics, and is presiding over a global assassination program. is presiding over the most intense, presided over the most intense persecution and prosecution of whistleblowers in u.s. history, has used the espionage act more during his tw

mrs. alexander, we don't have library card for three years old. she said you should. and i got one. so i give her some credit. >> host: rookie feature books today? >> guest: i buy them. people send them to me. dianne feinstein a big this cesar book. i bought jon meacham's book. i ago, david rubenstein has some things in the library of congress where he interviews authors. these into giving jon meacham about his franklin and winston books so i would get a book out of that. basically i buy them. if i hear about them. and then i give them away. like i gave the alex stewart book away to three or 400 friends for christmas when you. just because a lot of tennesseans are interested in alex haley. >> host: a couple of centers have mentioned this library of congress series david rubenstein sponsors and to bring in office. have you tried to attend a? >> guest: opcode to four or five of them. i think he does a terrific job with it. i will say this to you and you did a good job with it if i may say, but he knows the subject and asked questions, he brings out the author. the office to do the bes

mr. alexander left. so he came and visited with them, and they just were in awe of, first of all be, that he could recite so much poetry from, you know, on command. and they just fell in love with him because they loved his book. i mean, i was constantly, constantly putting his book into the hands of my students x. they would devour it in 4 hours and be -- in 24 hours and be like, where's the next one? they were thirsty. they wanted to see themselves, and they just wanted a good story. >> guest: thank you. >> guest: you're welcome. [laughter] >> host: kwame alexander, how did you become a writer? >> guest: how did i become a writer? so it started with my parents. my parents were my first librarians and teachers. >> host: besides reading the encyclopedias, what else? >> guest: i can't believe that. >> guest: yeah. so that's the foundation. [laughter] but, ultimately, it was girls. [laughter] i don't know, can we talk about that on c-span? >> host: sure, we're c-span. you can talk about that. >> guest: wil

the alexander hamilton awareness society hosted this event. this is about 45 minutes. mr. scholet: welcome, everybody, to the celebrate hamilton 2016 events. 12th anniversary of alexander hamilton's passing that happened in 1804, at the young age of 47. i am rand scholet, president of the alexander hamilton awareness society. but for short, the a-ha society. we have had many discoveries, and we just revealed three new ones this past thursday at liberty hall. so, check online for that. the a-ha society needs to give a special thanks to a number of organizations that made this program possible today. especially trinity church who hosted us with great support. alexander hamilton was a congregant. the u.s. coast guard and auxiliary, as you heard mentioned, alexander hamilton was the founder of the u.s. coast guard. and the members of the a-ha society and the board of directors all worked hard to bring this together. we had 32 events in 20 locations over 10 days. and it took everyone's support and encouragement. society joins with you to honor alexander hamilton's life and his l

if you can tell alexander all of thelife in dimensions of it in 220 pages, it is magnificent. and the other thing that we really appreciate about mr. brookhiser, it really gets the true hamilton. and going to the primary sources. it has been really helpful to the cause of looking for people to learn about the accurate characterization of alexander hamilton, where many of us did not hear about him a couple of years ago because of the mischaracterizations. so, we thank them for the book. really quite a compliment. is ar two, mr. brookhiser historian curator for alexander hamilton, the man who made modern america, which was displayed at the new york historical society of 2004. how many able to see that? good. the institute,h then there were these alexander hamilton exhibit panels that were produced.it was so excited. we went to the caribbean, there were those panels. we were just at the paterson sorry,yesterday, no, i'm sunday. there were the panels, just so articulately telling the stories of all dimensions of his life. number three, mr. brookhiser with the pbs to write and host an innovative documentary called "rediscovery," in 201

mr. alexander and his family will continue their charitable work there.will see, though, whether he would have to do some of that in pris prison. he will argue we are told for bail when he appears in front of the judge on wednesday. but this scandal ten years in the making, now coming to a close. guys? >> we know you've been following it all along and will continue to. scott cohen out west, thank you. coming up we'll take a look at where the hedge fund money is going this election cycle. all those numbers after the break. plus today on the halftime report, corvex's keith meister, a lot on the agenda including miss battle with williams companies. more "squawk on the street" after this. discover how a lexus master craftsman turns an ordinary experience into an extraordinary one. get great offers at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. lease the 2016 es 350 for $329 a month for 36 months and we'll make your first month's payment. see your lexus dealer. mapping the oceans. where we explore. protecting biodiversity. everywhere we work. defeating malaria.

mr. alexander to come to the united states after spending ten years in namibia to plead guilty and only thenhis attorney benjamin bratman said on monday. the government will oppose that request, but the defense will argue that kobi alexander fought his extradition in good faith. he didn't violate any court orders when he went to namibia because he hadn't been indicted and did charitable good works and settled every civil suit including paying $53.5 million to the securities and exchange commission one of the largest ever. of course the government is looking at someone who left, did not face the charges at a time when the government was trying to crack down on this type of thing, now kobi alexander coming back to face the music but wants a little more freedom at least for now. carl? >> scott, that's going to be something to watch. we'll be checking in with you throughout the day. scott cohen. we will get stop trading with jim in a moment, dow in a narrow range down 28. don't go away. mary buys a little lamb. one of millions of orders on this company's servers. accessible by thousands of suppl

alexander hamilton came to the country as a very young man, but he was the illegitimate son of a woman who had taken up with another man not her husband. by the judgment of mr. sedgwick, the young alexander hamilton would not have been a candidate for entry into the country. yet, his military service earned our appreciation. the blood of immigrants shed for our freedoms is no less red than that of the nativeborn. perhaps they are ready or two -- readier to offer themselves. they appreciate what they are defending than we. i disagreed with mr. hamilton on other aspects, but i admit today that the programs of financing and economic development in our nation are remarkable achievements that we literally to her credit. we debate even now, the bank balance in our economy in the face of response abilities. the model for this new bank proposed is that of 1791, with lessons we have learned in the establishment of that bank. this immigrant strengthened us in war and peace. but he was merely the first of four of the first six secretaries of the treasury, which at this point, that was not born in the country. hamilton, myself from geneva, mr. george w campbell from sc

he starts by ridding his cabinet of alexander hamilton's influence. >> mr.s throat ] i know that you are merely the pawn of alexander hamilton, a man devoid of every moral principle. and to think i was saddled with you and the rest of his creatures as my cabinet! now leave! >> adams finally takes charge of his administration, dismantling hamilton's army and pursuing peace with france. but it may already be too late. jefferson has the southern states locked down. but to win decisively, he needs a northern state, as well. jefferson targets new york and an influential former senator named aaron burr. >> aaron burr had a lot of allies in the state legislature. he had a lot of friends in new york city. if jefferson could get aaron burr and his new york friends on his side, aaron burr might well be his ticket to winning the election. >> once we fought to rid ourselves of unjust taxes and tyranny! now we have a president who levies taxes for a federalist army! is this not tyranny?! >> yes! >> but we have the means to defeat it! vote, gentlemen, vote! serve your cou

eneral alexander and mr. scott will be held at our benefit held in november in washington, d.c. our program will be thought-provoking and eye-opening. despite the serious subject of our conversation this evening, this is not intended to invoke fear in the audience. our goal is to have a fact-based discussion on the vulnerabilities in infrastructure and to discuss how we must respond to this threat to protect what many consider to be the most critical infrastructure of our country. before we get started, i want to announce the date and topic of our next briefing. they will be entitled hacking hospitals, an analysis of deep web market places for electronic health records. we put our original paper this year. now we know the health sector is a vulnerable in a multiple number of ways and many layers of vulnerability with each hospital acting as its own microcosm of vulnerability. this phenomenon has been reported heavily but the coverage seems to focus on reporting the breach and possibly talking about the attack sector that was used in the incident. what we believed to be missing f

general alexander and mr. scott will be held at our benefit held in november in washington, d.c.. our program will be thought-provoking and eye-opening. despite the serious subject of our conversation this evening, this is not intended to invoke fear in the audienc.e e. have a fact-based discussion on the vulnerabilities in infrastructure and to discuss how we must respond to this threat to protect what many consider to be the most critical infrastructure of our country. before we get started, i want to announce the date and topic of our next briefing. they will be entitled hacking hospitals, an analysis of deep web market places for electronic health records. we put our original paper this year. now we know the health sector is a vulnerable in a multiple number of ways and many layers of vulnerability with each hospital acting as its own microcosm of vulnerability. this phenomenon has been reported heavily but the coverage seems to focus on reporting the breach and possibly talking about the attack sector that was used in the incident. what we believed to be missing from this con

the alexander hamilton awareness society hosted this event. this is about 45 minutes. mr. scholet: welcome, everybody, to the celebrate hamilton 2016 events. 12th anniversary of alexander hamilton's passing that happened in 1804, at the young age of 47.

mr. miranda was born where? >> guest: he was born in new york i assume on the upper left side. >> c-span: "alexander hamilton" was born where and raise? >> guest: he would on the island of -- in the caribbean. he sent his spent his adolescence on st. croix. on the age of 17 a hurricane at the island, he wrote a brilliant letter that was published in the island newspaper describing the shakespearean terms this hurricane. he was in the gentleman or friend and impoverished. at that point merchant recognize that they had a young genius in their midst and picked up a collection to send him to the north american colonies to be educated. he came with few introductions but he did not know a soul. so hamilton's not only be original immigrant, but a completely self-made, self invented figure. all of the other founding fathers are either virginia planters or boston lawyers, there were born in the original 13 colonies. hamilton was the outsider. so he had many disadvantages as most of those figures had advantages. it's an amazing story. >> c-span: obviously we can only use a little bit of music but hears about 20 seconds. it

mr. chernow's work with lin-manuel miranda on the pulitzer prize winning broadway musical "hamilton" which was inspired by his biography of alexander hamilton. annette gordon reid is the charles warren professor of american legal history at harvard law school and a professor of history in the faculty of arts and sciences at harvard university. she won the pulitzer prize in history in 2009 for "the hemmings of monticello, an american family." her fourth coming back "the most blessed of patriarch, thomas jefferson" we all look forward to. jon meacham is a presidential historian, contributing editor at "time" and executive vice president and executive editor at random house. his book "american lion, andrew jackson and the white house" won the pulitzer prize in biography in twine. most significant to this audience may be his just-published book destiny in power, the american oodsy of george herbert walker bush." and our moderator is the director of the lbj presidential library in austin and author of four books on the presidency, he's an analyst for abc news on matters relating to politics and the presidency and he's written for countl

alexander mccoy, a former marine force sergeant from rhode island. he served in saudi arabia, germany and honduras. he is now a student at columbia university. he is leaning toward supporting hillary clinton. mrraka is the only person who served in the armed forces in the race right now. >> you said that you oppose the use of u.s. forces overseas. u.s. forces are currently engaged in air strikes against isis and other military operations. my question to you is, do you consider isis to be a threat to the u.s. or to use allies or partners in the middle east? if so, what would you do to defeat isis that the obama administration is not doing? >> so, you know, there are rules of engagement, international rules. if you're going to attack another country, you need to be at imminent threat of being actually attacked by them. clearly, that threshold has not been made. isis is not about to launch a major attack against our country. and we have a track record now of fighting terrorism. not only isis but al qaeda before that and the taliban before that. this track record is not looking so. good we have spent $6 trillion, according to a recent harvard study when you include the costs, the ongoing costs of