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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv. >> hello, thank you for joining us tonight. rod pyle is award winning author, document men tearian and inside look at mars rover mission, and people who made it happen. he is author of destination mars, the best recent overview of mars missions by "the washington post." and the mission to the moon. documentary for "the history channel" and discovery communications including the widely praised modern marvels, apollo 11. has been a professor at a university and lecturer with johnson space center. he presents amazing stories of the space age which features 20 of his favorite films from the golden age of space exploration. join me in welcoming rod pyle. [applause] >> thank you very much. normally i kind of dance around a bit while i'm performing these things but because they're taping tonight and we have kind of a weird microphone setup, i will sort of stay with the podium. i will go back to my professorring days at university of laverne. i know it is rough getting her

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tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> up next on "after words" syndicated columnist naomi klein discusses current politics in her book "no is not enough: resisting trump's shock politics and winning the world we need." she's interviewed by medea benjamin cofounder of code pink. >> so lovely to get a chance to interview you on a book i found a fantastic. i read it voraciously i think in one long sitting and found it absolutely fascinating. and my first question to you is how in the world we able to write this so quickly? you reference things that just happened in april, may and the book just came out. >> guest: thank you so much. great to speak with you. i'm glad you enjoyed the book. it was a bit of a frenzy, writing this book. i usually take about five years to write books. that's been my average. i published a new book about every seven years. i give myself a little break, but 54 years. this book, i just wanted to get it out as quickly as possible. though i couple of chapters in the book that are focused on what we should expect i

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> up next on "after words" motherboard online magazine senior editor brian merchant retraces the creation and development of the iphone in his book "the one device." he's interviewed by new times reporter steve lohr. >> host: brian, i read your book and a fastening what it is, to creation stories. one is the apple, the trauma they went through to what in sophistication of the iphone in 2007. and the other is his integration of each one of the technologies. and those two stories come together. why did you take that approach and just take us back to the start of the book project itself. >> guest: yell. well, so the idea for the book really kind of began with sort of the start was a ship that this thing that is so fully integrate itself into a lease my own life and the life of my peers and so on and so forth with something that it really didn't understand particularly well. a lot of us had that moment i think when we are abruptly and suddenly to go without it for a second when in this case i locke

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> how is everyone doing? are you excited? this is amazing, right? andre dornier has read all his books, i hope, correct? so i'm professional troublemaker for those who don't know me, people that i worked with a few

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> how is everyone doing? are you excited? this is amazing, right? andre dornier has read all his books, i hope, correct? so i'm professional troublemaker for those who don't know me, people that i worked with a few years know that is certainly true and as a great example of that i open my big mouth a few months ago and said paul, i should be introducing you. suddenly i am not introducing paul. [laughing] so that was not planned but the truth is it's a great honor and a real pleasure to do so. i've known paul for quite some time, and he knows this but i'd like to try to bear sin. he doesn't and bears easily enough i found that paul is truly one of my heroes in life and has them or to influence my thinking that just about anyone on the planet, and you know some of people that i've worked with as well. so paul, you've just been an amazing part of my life, and thank you for everything that you done for all of us in the green building, in the environmental world so thank you, paul. i had an opportunity when

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> up next on"after words" syndicated columnist naomi klein discusses current politics in her book "no is not enough: resisting trump's shock politics and winning the world we need." she's interviewed by medea benjamin cofounder of code pink.

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv. >> hello, thank you for joining us tonight. rod pyle is award winning author, document men tearian and inside look at mars rover mission, and people who made it happen. he is author of destination mars, the best recent overview of mars missions by "the washington post."