. >> welcome to the yale bookstore. tonight one of our ongoing author event series and in conjunction with the law library we are pleased to have with us oona hathaway and scott shapiro, the authors of "the internationalists." a look at provocative history of the main who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928 was among the most transformative events in modern history. oona hathaway is a professor of international law and counselor to the dean at the jail law school. she is professor of international law in area studies at the yale university mcmillan center. in 2014-15 she took leave to serve as special counsel to the general counsel for national security law at the u.s. department of defense where she was awarded the office of the secretary of defense award for excellence. professor halfwit earned his ba at harvard in 1994 and her j. d. at yale law school. she served as a law clerk for justice sandra day o'connor and for d.c. circuit judge patricia law. she has published more than 25 la

bookstore at all the staff thank you very much for coming. we are very excited to have amy with us thisnk evening. walt professor at yale who's written and spoken extensively on matters of culture and identity. her new book political tribe addresses the theme that has become topical these days but has little interest in compromising or even try to get along. one of the founding notions was a democratic system in which the differences of race, ethnicity, religion and so on would be taken up in a shared identity but these days messages that appealed toh the shared values seen repeatedly trumped by messages intended to exploit narrow group identity. she argues those in the international affairs and our domestic dealings, americans have fallen prey to tribalism as we've often been blind to it and we have a debilitating tendency to revert to its. a number of positive reviews, one of the "washington post" insightful, disquieting, hopeful because they are trying to break out of their political tribes. whether the amount of a definite seismic trend is debatable, but at least they are encouraging and psychological research shows

i think they're going up to thousand bookstores, harvard yale . stores. >> exactly. 1,000 college bookstores . stuart: my take away from what you just said is that book sales are actually doing very well. i thought they were falling like newspapers and going down all the time. >> no. sales are stable. it's a stable business. entertainers and noble is barnes & noble is a big sale that's appealing to investors. . stuart: phil, always a pleasure. thank you for being with us. >> thank you stuart. . stuart: back to that breaking news we brought you last hour, the tsa who hired workers who were on a terror watch list. >> this is an internal report of the department of homeland security that basically these 73 workers were on terror watch list but yet were employed in airports across the country. whether they were either employed by vendors food vendors for the airports or by the airlines themselves, which was a troubling side of the story because frankly if you have an airline id, you get access to the tarmac. 83 people missed by the tsa. these people sh

in dreaming in french, yale university professor examines the influence they had on women's rights. another pic from iowa city's prairie life bookstore is consumed in which political theorists argues that capitalism has gone awry and in overproducing global economy. military historian max hasting provides a history of world war i in catastrophe 1914. in spies and commissars, they profile some of the major players in the early days of the russian revolution. former british ambassador recalls the soviet war enough afghanistan. some of the staff picks from. life bookstore in i was city iowa. many of these authors have appeared on book tv. you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> good evening. welcome to the richard nixon presidential library. just a few announcements before we introduce our special guest. please join us for the reopening of the new nixon library on october 15 and 16th. it will be spectacular. the exhibits will be a must see. they tell president nixon story in a new and exciting way. it will be an unforgiving experience for all visitors. please check that out. now to our distinguished speaker , president richard

not just in mosques community centers bookstores sharp's any place that you know muslim americans might be including campuses my campus address those university yale university and so on student groups of these campuses to collect information from them so we know for a fact that this has been happening and right now there is that lawsuit as you mentioned that was brought out by the e.c.l. uni and why c.l.u. and another group and it's so all fascinating to see the defense that the n.y.p.d. is putting up against this kind of systematic racial profiling if you read their griots what they're seeing is that a violent act committed by muslim anywhere in the world and keep in mind there are one point five billion muslims around the world is grounds enough for them to racially profile or religiously profile muslims in new york city so let me repeat that. it's because it's almost on the show that it does bear repeating go ahead. this is their legal defense that an act of violence this could be a crude test in pakistan or in egypt or in syria a demonstration there or stay where there's some violence that happening gives the n.y.p.d. grounds to surveil musli

. >> i'm not lying my first book was through yale university of press on dean acheson and someone i knew owned a bookstore they threw a nice party for me in their new york penthouse. i was a young kid in my first book sitting at the desk of my signing pen on dean acheson and lo and behold in a tuxedo was walter cronkite in line. i thought wow the guy watched in ohio is coming to my book signing on dean acheson. i kept an eye on him and i was talking to other people. when he got up to me he said that was a wonderful time we had sailing together. [laughter] he thought i was david's son. you are in that position to say well you know. i corrected him and i watched them slink out. >> a whole category on this i was on stage with a varied prominent person interviewing him and he kept asking me, as you wrote about your hamilton point. you think i am -- how did you handle that? >> something like this happens. how many of you have had someone walk up to an airport and they are convinced you are some other person? i used to be someone -- phil donahue. i got such great treatment. the show went off the air but i got g

not just in mosques community centers bookstores sharp's any place that you know muslim americans might be including campuses my campus address those university yale university and so on student groups of these campuses to collect information from them so we know for a fact that this has been happening and right now there is that lawsuit as you mentioned that was brought out by the a.c.l.u. the and why c.l.u. and another group and it's all fascinating to see the defense that the n.y.p.d. is putting up against this kind of systematic racial profiling if you read their griots what they're seeing is that a violent act committed by. anywhere in the world and keep in mind there are one point five billion muslims around the world is grounds enough for them to racially profile or religiously profile muslims in new york city so let me repeat that. it's because it's almost as though there does bear repeating go ahead. this is their legal defense that an act of violence this could be a cruel jest in pakistan or in egypt or in syria a demonstration there or stay where they're some violence that happening gives the n.y.p.d. grounds to surveil muslim americans

bookstore, and all of the staff here, welcome. thank you very much for coming. we are very excited to have amy chua with us this morning. she's a law professor at yale written and spoken extensively on matters of culture and identity. her new book, political tribes addresses a theme that has become especially topical these days. with many the splintering of america into groups of one sort or another. but seemed to have little interest in uniting or compromising more even trying to get along. one of the founding notions of america of course, was as a democratic system. in which differences of race, ethnicity, religion and so on would be taken up in a shared identity. these days messages that appeal to shared values seem repeatedly trumped by messages intended to exploit narrow group identities. amy argues that in international affairs and domestic dealings, americans have fallen prey to tribalism. abroad we have all too often been blind to it. and at home, we have a debilitating tendency to revert to it. among a number of positive reviews of amy's book, one of the "washington post" quoted quote - compact and insightful, yet ultimately hopeful. hopefu

it was no use trying to rush this when yale university pressed rightly wanted to get copies of this at the front of of you know, barnes and noble bookstores and that was impossible so we held on and that gave me the chance to go back to the manuscript and go through its sentence by sentence and try to trim it down. it's a very large narrative in any case and to try to get official sufficient and wonderful number of statistical. tables and data and the maps by mapmaker down in maryland mr. wilson all put into this complicated book. i was trying to do if you like. what historians might call a broad delian approach to the naval history of the second world war brodell and his magnificent books on the mediterranean in the age of philip ii said there was an underlying or basic level of causation geography the climate and everything else. there was a middle level of technical technical and technological trading change which affected things. and there's a top level the history of events lee strava anymore, which was that of you know battle of lepanto or the spanish armada. could you try and do broad dell in the mid 20th century? i was going to ha

it was no use trying to rush this when yale university pressed rightly wanted to get copies of this at the front of of you know, barnes and noble bookstores and that was impossible so we held on and that gave me the chance to go back to the manuscript and go through its sentence by sentence and try to trim it down. it's a very large narrative in any case and to try to get official sufficient and wonderful number of statistical. tables and data and the maps by mapmaker down in maryland mr. wilson all put into this complicated book. i was trying to do if you like. what historians might call a broad delian approach to the naval history of the second world war brodell and his magnificent books on the mediterranean in the age of philip ii said there was an underlying or basic level of causation geography the climate and everything else. there was a middle level of technical technical and technological trading change which affected things. and there's a top level the history of events lee strava anymore, which was that of you know battle of lepanto or the spanish armada. could you try and do broad dell in the mid 20th century? i was going to ha

guest: yeah, it started when i was traveling to massachusetts, and i stopped by a use bookstore, and i came across the yale class of 194250 year reunion book, and a lot of members of the class of 1942 wrote stories of what they had done since they graduated 50 years before. some were fascinating as people went through amazing things they did. a couple were boring. a guy, you know, took a guy at a law firm, stayed at that law firm his whole life and said it's boring, but too late to change it now. i became fascinated with the people looking back, so i wrote a column about the book and asked my readers saying if you're over 70 send me grades about how good or bad you did and what can we learn? we got several thousands essays, some were a page or 25 page, and they make for addictive reading. if you go to my blog on the new york times, there's a number of them online so you can read them yourselves. they were addicting. there's one up there on the web page by a guy named neil who, you know, he just gave himself an f saying i didn't lead the life i should have, and i know how to do it now, but i wish i had know

traveling to massachusetts on my way to new hampshire for a thing, and i stopped by a used bookstore, and i came across the yaleclass of '42 50-year, um, reunion book. and so a lot of members of the class of 1942 yale had written 50 stories of what they'd done since they graduated 50 years before. and some of the stories were fascinating as people would go through amazing things they'd done. a couple were boring. a guy, you know, took a job with a law firm or something, stayed at that law firm his whole life and said, you know, this is kind of boring, but it's too late to change it now. so i became fascinated with these people looking back. so i wrote a column, and i asked my readers. i said, if you're over 70, send me something appraising your own life, send me some grades, what can we learn? and we got several thousand essays were sent in. some of them were a page, some of them were 25 pages, and they make for addictive reading. i've put a number of them online so you can read them directly yourselves. so reading them was addictive. some people, i have one up there on my web page now by a guy named neil who,

communities to monitor daily life in bookstores, cafes, nightclubs and even infiltrated muslim student organizations in colleges and universities such as columbia and yale university. when we tolerate this type of racial profiling and the guise of promoting national security, we jeopardy guise national security and compromise the basic set forth in our constitution. policing base on stereotypes remains an entrenched practice in routine law enforcement across the country. the tragic story of ray von martin garnered national attention and raised questions about the role of race in the criminal justice system. while we don't yet know how this heartbreaking story will end, we do know that stereotypes played a role in this tragedy and yet they have no place in law enforcement. racial profiling undermines the trust and mutual respect between police and the communities they are there to protect, which is critical to keeping communities safe. additionally, profiling deepens racial in america and conveys the suggestion that some americans do not dee serve equal protection under the law. racial profiling is exploding. state intrusion to federal immigration author