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, the latest book reviews, and we'll talk about the current nonfiction books featured on c-span's booktv>> host: and joining us now is new york post columnist miranda i think vine who is the author of this book as well, "the big guy," how a president and his son sold out america. miranda devine, this is a complicated story you're telling in this book in 3000-plus -- 300- plus pages. what's the simple explanation? >> guest: thanks, peter. look, it's the story of the cover up of joe biden's family corruption. i wrote the first book, "do the laptop from hell," which was basically the tale as told by snippets on hunter biden's abandoned laptop but also that wasn't new. i e also relied on -- wasn't i enough. i also relied on whistleblowers and also congressional pointigations up the that that had been done by senators johnson and grassley. but as soon as our first stories in "the new york post" were published about the laptop and showing specifically documents that suggested that joe biden was involved in his son hunter biden's influence peddling particularly with the ukrainians, our stories

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and now joining us on booktv is george landreth, the. his book is called let freedom ring again. ken, self-evident truth, save from future decline. let's start with your subtitle, landreth. what do you mean by self-serving? well, i'm kind thinking of the idea that, you know, all men are created equal, endowed by their creation and the rights among these are life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. getting back to these ideas that every american, every human being actually has inalienable rights. and we to respect those rights and our government ought to be organized in way that it's focused on protecting rights and and not necessarily them. and i think as government has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, it sometimes transgresses that principle. so then it starts to order us about and treat us like we're subjects rather than citizens. and so i would argue that we went from 13 what i would call fairly insignificant colonies to militarily and, economically compared to the rest of the world, to being the world's sole militarily economically. we were the shining city on the hill and i

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