my first book was for yale university on dean acheson on the bookstore until a really nice home party for me in the new york penthouse. again condemn my first book and lo and behold with walter cronkite in line. a guy watched in ohio has come into my book signing and i can't deny them so they came up and when he got up to me, that was a wonderful time we had sailing together. i was david's son. you're always put in that position to correct them a little. >> i was onstage recently with a very prominent person interviewing them and they kept asking me, as you wrote about graham, your hamilton's point. [laughter] i like my rock music. >> how many of you have had somebody that airport and commenced or some other person. i used to be somebody who nobody pays attention to. i got such great treatment. nobody really cared when the show went off the air. >> baker ran for attorney general of texas in 1978. the only time he was on a battle and lost. he ran out to the ranch that friday to his wounds. filling up his truck with gas at all by walks up to them and says that anybody ever tell you you

politics and prose has managed to turn a profit in the time when the bookstore industry has taken a beating. >> from jail to yalehat's the name of actor charles dutton's new one-man show coming to the kennedy center tonight. the duke ellington school for the performing arts were treated to a special preview on monday. it chronicles dutton's journey from the streets of east baltimore to becoming an emmy award winning actor, director and broadway star. proceeds from the show benefit the u.s. dream academy and duke ellington school. >>> the barry bonds perjury trial resumes monday. a former mistress discussed the physical changes she said happened to the former slugger when he started taking steroids. she says his head grew significantly. and she also says bonds became angry and irritable from the drugs. >> lawsuits and late night comedians are the focus of our look at entertainment news. >> as sandra hughes reports, a former rock front man is suing for an accident that almost took his life. >> former poison front man and reality tv star bret michaels is suing cbs and organizers of the tony awards because of an acc

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

. >> 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 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

bookstore. and i'm pleased to introduce william nelson cromwell at yale university. talked for over 30 years and served as a law clerk for thurgood marshall, received eight honorary degrees delivering the web du bois lecture. he is an author of 15 books of nonfiction and fiction which includes violence abuse, confirmation mess, new england and emperor of ocean park. and the bestseller list. he is here to present his new book invisible, the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down america's most powerful mobster. it is brimming with intellect and grit and new york times best-selling author walter isaacson, praises it as a riveting and moving story with enormous residence. and we are pleased to have his other with us tonight. please join me in welcoming stephen carter. >> thank you for that reduction and thanks for coming out. last time i was supposed to be here there was an illness in the family, couldn't make it in the bookstore said we will reschedule and 3 years later, it is a pleasure, you know me much better for my fiction. this is a book that had

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

bookstore in waco texas. >> to see more reading lists and ruben information visit our web site at booktv.org. bookexpo america and new york city, 20 or nine at yale university press with the director of yale university press. mr. donotich what is coming out this fall? >> and number of great books starting with the making of americans by e.d. hirsch who wrote a best-selling book called cultural literacy and he cares very much about what role education has and actually defining what it is to be american, and this book is sort of fighting a capstone of his career which has included many best sellers and decades of activism and education to talk about the centrality of information and knowledge and what it means to have a shared corpus of knowledge and how important it is to the national identity and how it is being threatened by the way education seems to be splintered across the country so it is a book that has a lot of argument and efficacy and ways to look forward to what the new administration can do about education. >> the other but you have brad shaw elephants on the edge, what relevance teach about humanity. >> yeah, this is a marvelous book.

yale university. please welcome walter shapiro. [applause]. >> while. first first of all, i really want to thank politics and prose which is one of the world's great bookstores. i love independent bookstores. independent bookstores. i particularly love that politics imposes driving. now looking around i don't how many many of you are old enough to remember, the old, old 1950s tv tv show, this is your life. clapmac, will that is a little bit how i feel looking around the room is seen so many old friends. so let me start off by, this book really starts with my father. my father died in 2004 and he and he was a connecticut city planner. a mild-mannered city planner. in suburban connecticut who went to the zoning board meetings in the evening. were talking about a racy upbringing i had. but my father kept talking about his uncle, his uncle freeman. my grandmother's older brother and he kept saying he was a really big and vaudeville, he knew people like sophie tucker, he married a showgirl and ultimately he cheated hitler on a nickel deal. wait a second. we are in a suburban connecticut living room, this makes no sense. it was like my father taking me my father t

bookstore. so thank you. finally, a quick reminder to silence your cell phones for the talk. now, i'm very pleased to introduce two nights speaker, stephen carter, the professor of law at yale university where he has taught for over 30 years. he served as a law clerk for justice thurgood marshall. received eight honorary degrees and recently delivered the debbie-- he has books that are fiction and nonfiction. -- the emperor of ocean pike one that was on the new york times bestseller list. tonight he is here to present his new book, "invisible". the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down america's most powerful mobster. and it is your market is brimming with intellect and quit. and new york times best-selling author, walter isaacson praises it as a riveting and moving story. one with enormous revenues for our own time. we are so pleased to have this author here with us tonight. please join me in welcoming, stephen carter. [applause] >> well, thank you for the kind introduction and thank you all for coming out. i think -- i think the harvard bookstore for having. i had to cancel last time and they said don't where we will reschedule. now three years later we are here! h

yale. not the city. but i'm talking about acceptance into the college. the focus is on a bookstore just outside and the language the workers speak. >> a new policy on the books there for hispanic workers that they only the employer only wants his workers, he or she, i'm not sure if it's a man or woman, only wants them to speak english so when you have a customer who comes up to get something at the cafe in this bookstore, you should only be having your conversation in english. now, when you're in the back doing dishes and stuff like that, you can talk whatever language you want but apparently, causing a lot of controversy. a lot of people saying they don't want to go to the bookstore anymore. >> it's the atticus bookstore not too far from yale and the owner is a fellow by the name of charles nagaro and he says, you know, english is helpful to our customers but we also try to help those employees who speak english as a second language by helping them improve their use of english. that's why they said if people come in, let's talk english to them. a number of the yale students and pe

bookstore. thank you. finally, a quick reminder to silence your cell phones for the talk. now i'm very pleased to introduce tonight's speaker stephen oh carter william nelson carver professor of law at yaleuniversity where he taught for over 30 years. he served as a law click for justice marshall and received eight honorary degrees and recently delivered the w eb the boys lectures at harvard. he is the author of 15 books of nonfiction and fiction. which include the violence of peace, the confirmation mass, new england weight and the emperor of ocean park. a novel that spent 11 weeks on the new york times bestseller list. tonight he is here to present his new book "invisibles" the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down america's most powerful mobster. it is brimming with intellect and grits. and new york times best-selling author walter isaac says raises it as a riveting and moving story, one with enormous revenues for our own times. we are so pleased to have its author here with us tonight please join me in welcoming stephen carter. [applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction and thank you all for coming out and i want to thank the harvard bookstore for inviting y

on monday we will be at the harvard bookstore in cambridge massachusetts to hear who the yale law professorer recalled the life of his grandmother eunice hunt and carter. and the barriers she broke down as a black female lawyer in the 1930s and 40s. on tuesday at the free library philadelphia, pollutes or plies demo prize winner historian joseph ellis examines the political thinking of four founding fathers and how it relates to our current social and political issues. then on wednesday in new york city ben mcintyre reports on a high ranking kgb spy who worked for british intelligence at the height of the cold war. and on thursday we will be at politics and prose bookstore in washington dc to hear nathaniel philbrick provide a history of the revolutionary wars battle of the chesapeake. that's a look at some of what booktv will be covering this week.many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> good afternoon folks, thanks for coming. governor thompson will be here momentarily. if you can believe it this isn't the first time i'v

i would go into bookstores to buy their t shirts they wouldn't let me in. i applied to yalelism from these guys, these cloistered guys, they have been elites their entire life from the time they stepped into their first ivy league school to the time they graduated from their last ivy league school. it's never enough to go to just one ivy league school. if you're ted cruz, you have to go to princeton, then go to harvard. it just goes on and on. and the populism is so phony. and it really, i think again, willie and me are going to set up this like go fund me website just for acting classing for them. because they're such bad phony ivy league boys. >> remember in the debate when joe biden was asked about where he went to school and he just got so defensive. >> they said -- by the way, not being defensive here, i love alabama, i'm glad i went there, i love florida, i went there. i will say one of the highlights of the campaign when joe biden -- somebody said you'd be the first non-ivy league person to not go to -- to be president if you'd be elected. joe biden got mad. it remind

bookstores? >> sure. every now and then somebody will ask for a copy i don't think there's any book you cannot find. >>cspan: where will your papers be kept? >> yale>cspan: you have reconciled with yale after all these years? >> you don't have to reconcile. there is a repository. yale is terrific about it. you don't have to take an oath of allegiance to yale. >>cspan: which library? >> university library. >>cspan: long island. >>caller: mr. buckley. my feelings on the relationship with stall and is not exactly correct. prior to world war ii was the fascist government of mussolini and after the war there certainly was an attempt to reconcile the stall and and roosevelt in fact there is a saying it will not be capitalism and fascism that capitalism and socialism. the original agreement to build the german economy up to build those reparations they did most of the fighting and dying. and the united states and the conservative dixiecrat's voted against the agreement and therefore isolating with this insane cold war lasting 45 years and we are responsible for that in that direction. >> are we responsible for the stall and hitler packed? >> in a way we

a bookstore, atticus which serves yale students is enforcing a new policy for its workers. only. the store states that the rule is to make customers feel welcome and comfortable but is this new policy fair or discrimination? right now, we are joined by someone from the new haven workers association and jane from the english advocacy group, pro english. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> winn, as i understand it, the policy of this bookstore owner is that if you are in the public eye, dealing with the, you know, a member of the public who is there to buy a book, front of the store in the restaurant or something, speak english. >> that's right. that's the policy. >> and you got a frob wiproblem that? >> yes, i do. most of the employees of this particular bookstore speak spanish as a first language so obviously, when you have people dealing with customers, it makes them speak english because that's the official language of the country. >> not only that but it's good for business, isn't it? >> sure. >> if you speak english. >> yeah. of course, new haven is a parti

bookstore's? >> guest: oh sure. i have a lovely ingenious -- and i don't think there's any book you can't find. >> host: where the william f. but we paper's? >> guest: at yalest: sue have reconciled with yale after all these years? >> guest: you don't have to reconcile with the republic. gail was terrific about it. you don't have to have an allegiance to yell to have them handle your papers. >> host: long island for bill buckley. >> caller: my feelings on a relationship with stalin and your disk should have stalin is not exactly correct. prior to -- it was the capitalists that brought in the fascist government of mussolini and overthrew this country using -- [inaudible] and after the war there simply was an attempt to reconcile with roosevelt and stalin on socialism and the fact there was a thought that it is not going to be capitalism and fascism but capitalism and socialism and the original agreement was to -- germany under the ford palace in build the german economy up and pay the russians for war reparations because they did most of the dying in most of the fighting. they lost 300,000 it was the united states that the conservatives and the dixiecrat wen

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