it's not a book mind you, but it's a vast spotting. take a book and read it. les gone by" or just start with a collection. there's a new one after he died with the buckley-like title, half a century of i lym nations. if any of you have watched firing lines, you understand why that's bill buckley like. it doesn't do it justice. it's very, very easy to read one essay at a time. read books, i remember -- rebooks about people you add meyer, people you think you admire. read books about people who are admirable and you know nothing about. i'm thankful for my friend for writing a biography of of bonehoeffer. this won't come up on a reading list, but i knew little about the lutheran pastor who was billed by the nazis. i know a lot about him now. don't buy a self-help book. just read good books about good people. take in good influences. don't read books you know you agree with either. one of my favorite books is john williams books. i was more interested in the one sections i didn't agree with. what's keeping him from being a conservative. read books that challenge yo

it is a book by dr. george nash consider the conservative movement biographer, wrote an unbelievable book called a conservative intellectual movement in america since 1945. somebody asks you what book changed your life? in america if you pay attention to politics seven minutes week you are not normal. the average person pays attention to politics less than 7 minutes week. i have a theory about that. people who are trying to get to espn on their television pass through fox, cnn or ms nbc. each count for one minute. probably four minutes. this is one book that when you read the first six chapters in particular is what i require for my class talks about the intellectual foundation of conservative thought. government? why are low taxes good? why is a strong national defense a good thing? this is a book that will help answer that and give you a background in where those ideas come from. a good book that complement's it very well is a book by dr. lee edwards is a heritage scholar at the heritage foundation for

and pat buchanan's newest book, "suicide of a superpower." what can you tell us about these two books, gentlemen? >> can i can take pat buchanan is an apocalyptic book. i haven't read it yet, but he's really taking the view that our country's in trouble, which we are, and kind of saying he's going to be looking toward the tea party and the conservative movement as a way to get us out of this. um, i think it's going to be taking a lot of shots. i think it's going to be trying to stoke the fires that push the division that we're seeing right now in our country and kind of deepen that divide which i really feel is not the appropriate way to, i think we need books that can bring us together a little bit more right now. and his book seems like it's going to be quite a polarizing tome when it comes out. >> mr. minzesheimer? >> i would add there's another title that might fit into that category, it's by tom brokaw. i forget the title now, but it addresses all three books from different perspectives are addressing this sense that this country is sort

it's a great book. the second book is called "the conservative mind." it was written by russell kirk. he provided heritage of conservatism in america. you can link it all the way back from ed burke, the original god father of the conservative movement to ts elliot, but talks about john adams being a modern day conservative in many republics and other americans who plays a big part in the conservative movement and links it. it's hard to get through and long, but he provides a link. third is 5 book not often talked about, but it's my favorites. it's "the quest for community and identity. " and he talks about what richard weaver does with nominalism and the ideas of getting away from universal truths. that's for the social conservative wing. if that's not enough, the anticommunist defense wing, two individual books that i think are readable. someone who doesn't get enough credit is a man by james burnam. he wrote three books that supplied the movement in regards to foreign policy and pretty much defeating c

book, suicide of a superpower. what can you tell us about these two books conventional? >> pat buchanan is an apocalyptic book. i have not read it yet, but really taking the view that our country is in trouble, which we are. kind of saying he's going to be looking toward the tea party and the conservative movement as a way to get us out of this. i think it's going to be taking a lot of shots and tried to stoke the fires and pushed the division that we are seeing in our country and deepen the divide, which i really feel is not the appropriate way. i think we need books that can bring us together a little more right now, and his seems like it will be quite a polarizing town. >> you know, i would add, another title that might fit into that category by tom brokaw. i forget the title now. it addresses all three books from different perspectives that are addressing the sense that this country is a draft. we are not addressing fundamental problems in an era which is a little harder to define. world war to end the new who o

but a book like herman cain i am sure he did not write that book to make much money are may not make anything hardly at all. that is an attraction they don't have to pay the author very much money. >> this is a booktv on c-span2 2011 fallbrook preview show. bob minzesheimer book critic for "usa today" and jason boog is with "galleycat" which is the web site devoted to publishing news and book reviews. one of their political book is just recently announced gabrielle difference. >> i put that up earlier this week's people circulated that people are very excited to see what happened in her life sense that tragic shooting when also her husband just a good trip to space it is such a powerful combination would be hard pressed to find a more exciting them more. >> host: coming out in november anita hill has a book coming out this fall. >> this is her second book. if you don't have a long memory, she was a witness against clarence thomas in the confirmation hearings 1991? sometime around them. she wrote about that experience in her last book and trying to get to beyond that he said/she said.

crossandra singh wrote a book that came out to in july and added a chapter at the end and the essentially seems to contradict the rest of the book to save three is not the answer. the recession that began late 2007 was a wake-up call for a silicon valley and peoples digital world to realize you make this a mistake the broadcast networks made and you relied on a source of revenue that was shrinking. advertising and had to figure out some way. "the new york times" has to figure out another source of revenue. my last visit the coming downstairs offices cafeteria 43? the chairmen who went to see eric and the founders. is there some way to pump more advertise same dollars so far the danger is if they create a payroll what if newt -- of the newspaper is it not have a similar payroll? they given permission from the wire service since o were "christian science monitor" six-- per week online. january and fruit-- reinforce the notion and the other problem is how do you change the culture that basically says information should be free? then the haq question. i read what murdoch said to sky tv we wil

by the way, in prison he was also writing a book called "ethics," it's a very important book that people still read. and how can you do this? you're a pacifist, you don't believe in killing, and yet you are in on this plot. and he said, if you were in a street and a madman were coming along in a truck and you had the chance to grab the wheel even though it's going to kill him, you'd do that, wouldn't you? i like to quote paul, a professor in paris from chicago some years ago who said sometimes you live by what you call an ethic of distress. you don't say what you're doing is right, you're saying the circumstance in which you have to do something as one novel in world war ii said, you must do what you must do and then say your prayers. [laughter] so he had a theology and an ethic, and then he had to interrupt it for this and then go back to it. and i think the chronicle of that, you don't find that in the book of his letters because he knows he's doomed at the end. but these letters are written for different purposes. he has a fiancee, a very young fiancee, writing love letters to her. he

i just finished a monster of a book it's a huge book, set in japan and covers the earth from 1939 and 1966 about 2 brothers and the title is a street of a thousand blossoms. if you haven't noticed we are talking about themes that run through my book. one of the things i like a lot is exploring subcultures. the lepercy. the silk working women. i like to write about groups of people who persevere and make a life on their own aside from what the general culture is doing. i find that i don't consciously sit down and do that but it happens. in this particular book something that has fascinated me is sumo and sumo wrestlers and how they get so big and what it's like in

i just finished a monster of a book it's a huge book, set in japan and covers the earth from 1939 and 1966 about 2 brothers and the title is a street of a thousand blossoms. if you haven't noticed we are talking about themes that run through my book. one of the things i like a lot is exploring subcultures. the lepercy. the silk working women. i like to write about groups of people who persevere and make a life on their own aside from what the general culture is doing. i find that i don't consciously sit down and do that but it happens. in this particular book something that has fascinated me is sumo and sumo wrestlers and how they get so big and what it's like in their culture. one of the brothers becomes an sumo and that's why it's a big book! [laughter]. >> do you think that -- being a woman who is in women have been oppressed -- i don't know if they are now or not, dou think that has stimulated you in your writing coming out of that? you specifically and in general, do you feel like a lot of women have been stimulated by being part of an oppressed class? >> good question. >> very m

>> guest: when i finished a book called the idea of poverty, which was a very large book and a very fully researched book based upon archival material and so on and had masses of footnotes, when i finished that book i said i'd never write another book because i'm an obsessive reviser and rewriter, and so i would keep putting in footnotes in the middle of the chapter that had already been completed and then i would have to renumber all the footnotes, and it drove me absolutely mad. i said i'd never do it again. then the word processor came along, and it did it all for me, and i must say it makes for someone like myself who is, as i say, a compulsive rewriter, it is absolutely heaven. c-span: this is a relatively small book. it's about 300 pages, but it's still a small book. who's your audience in your opinion? who are you writing for? >> guest: i would like to think that i have a general audience, not merely an academic audience. i think my style is that. i think it's not at all an academic style; i think the academic style today is almost poisonous. it's almost unreadable by an ordinary l

month and a half to write half of a book. you know in the first half took a year and a half. i was teaching simultaneous, i was writing on the weekends and trying to write as fast as i could but it was researching. i was trying to learn the culture and understand it enough so it would be part of the book. i began -- i rented a place in lake tahoe and sat there for the entire month of august. it was september ninth or something. i had summer break from teaching and i just sat down from the time it was morning to the time it was cocktail hour. i always say this because cocktail hour got earlier everyday because it was so hard to write this book when i had to write it in a certain period of time like that. what i had done finally, in the end, when it's done i thought it was the perfect situation. i had to be in that situation to write this particular book because that was the situation that the character steven was in. he was in a place he didn't want to be. he was far from people he wanted to be close to. he was not in his terri

book? [laughter]. i'm always feel aembarrassed because i looked back and i kept think thanksgiving book was published in 1993 who wants to hear about it now? i feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunny. it's the book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. i will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be they wouldn't publish. my very first book was women of the silk. i knew that i was writing about something that was a little bit different because i didn't know about the women of the silk until i wanted to write something telling their story much the second book is the test book for us writers you hear that a lot where the publishers are wondering if the author has a second book. everybody here i feel sitting here all of you have one book in you. whether it's a family story or your story whether it's ancestors whether it's your history you want to write about. but it's the second one that's hard. i felt that when i turnod the computer and thou

i'm going to do a book tour this fall. it actually clears the deck for the fall and i'm going to travel country and do what i think will be an interesting book. the last one i did was, it was a lot of larger readings, and we had -- i mean it was an amazing to her. we had people at the university of florida in gainesville, like 14,000 people showed up to hear me speak. and, it was very humbling on some level, but so i'm going to do a little bit about this year but i want to hit the back roads. i want to go to places that normally don't get authors. i might just get a camper or something and some kind of mini-bus or whatever and do libraries and some bookstores, a little bit off the beaten path. and i like going to places that are not the typical ann arbor, madison, berkeley, where there is an echo chamber. i like going -- i like going to places down south. i like going to military towns. i like talking to people who maybe disagree with me or think they disagree with me and it is good for me to listen to them. i want them to

book. it was wonderful. it really was a terrific book. i must be a little bit slow about things because it was only when i was about a third of the way through the book i realized we the net effect lead in their 1933, 34, actually in 34. he had come to berlin in 1934 and pretty much stayed as a correspondent until kicked out when the u.s. entered the war. and so i started to think what would that have been like? >> these people face-to-face. he met hitler and all these people we know today to be monsters. only he met them at a time and nobody knew what the ending was going to be. he met them at a time when nobody had an inkling that the holocaust was coming out of the second world war was in the relatively near future. so i started thinking wouldn't it be interesting to try to capture a sense of that time? through the eyes of a couple of characters who were new to berlin outside, ideally outsiders and americans because they are from the american audience. so, i very deliberately began to read. i went to my library, my favorite library in t

a mockingbird." and what that book meant. you wrote an article about it, john. as a law professor it was something you focused on as part of legal education. how did you choose that and why? wow. i just want to say, it was wonderful seeing the actor portraying atticus finch. as i watched that i thought to myself, and i want to know what tony thinks about this, i thought there is no chance that tom robinson is going to get off. you know, that was such an ineffective appeal. now, is it a wonderful speech? it's a wonderful speech. is it beautiful? it's beautiful. is it incredibly well-written? yes. is it going to work? there's no chance. tom robinson must have been listening to that and saying, oh, my god. you know. there's a trick that's being played on you in "to kill a mockingbird." atticus finch represents the last republican lawyer. and i mean republican in the sense of the republic, of thomas jefferson, those kinds of people. the last lawyer who really believes that to enunciate the important principles of america is going to work. this is in a town where thei

if can be said you can fall in love with a book about the third reich. it was a terrific book. i must be a little bit slow about things because it was only a third of the way through the book that realized, wait a minute, william shearer had actually been there in 1933-34. he had been, actually in 34. he had come to berlin in 1934, pretty much stayed there as a correspondent until kicked out when the u.s. entered the war. so suddenly i started to think, wow what would that have been like? he met these people face-to-face. he met hitler. he met gehring, him letter, globals, all these people we - dgoebbels all these people we know as monsters. he met them at a time nobody knew what the ending would be. he met them at a time no one had inkling the holocaust was coming down the pike. the second world war was in the relatively near future. so i started thinking, wouldn't it be interesting to try to capture a sense of that time? through the eyes of a couple of characters who were new to berlin, outsiders. ideally outsiders and ideally americans because i write for an american audience

you can talk about writing a book. that is the easiest thing but actually getting it done is just a huge undertaking. it really is. >> i would like to thank all of you for coming to our house tonight. dr. ben carson and his wife candy, and my husband morty and i, are happy to have you in our home tonight for our friend, armstrong williams' book signing. we met armstrong a number of years ago at then alphonso jackson's and alphonso jackson was a secretary of housing at the time. we became instant friends and still are great friends today. armstrong gave me his book two months ago. i read it. i feel that it is philosophical. it is his biography. i have some issues with some of his comments. [laughter] i won't elaborate on any of those, but the important thing, what made me realize that he had something very important to say, and that is we have a really great country, and we really were great. we really are grades. but our accomplice broke somewhere along the line. and it needs to get fixed. it needs to get fixed both pol

a book was found inside. a book that appeared to light the fuse to the deadly brutality. the book is called "to train up a child." it's author is this man on the tractor, michael pearl and his wife, debbie. they consider themself observant christian who run an organization called no greater joy ministries from their tennessee farm. >> well, i'm a preacher, minister of the gospel. >> their book and others they've written stacked in a warehouse on their farm. all of them guided, they say, by the teachings in the bible. >> it says if you spare the rod, you hate your children. if you love him you chase in him timely. >> a rod according to the pearls' manual can be a tree switch to a spatula. in the book they describe it as a magic wand. god would not command parents to use the rod if it were not good for the child. they say parents should stay in control, but they declare any spanking to effectively reinforce instruction must cause pain. let's say a 7-year-old slugs his sister. >> he would get a -- a 7-year-old would get 10 or 15 licks, and it would be a formal ling. in other

would you rather be reading a book or watching a movie? >> reading a book. you know, i'm sad in a way that i like the kindle. [laughter] you know? and that it is a great device. >> right. >> because books are so wonderful, and i read all the time. and i watch a lot of tv, and i watch a lot of movies. and i kind of consume all forms of entertainment. but books are great. i mean, i grew up with books, and i wish that they could last forever. >> right, okay. the hollywood aspect has, obviously, been very good to you. i think you had said that you went to the golden globes as kevin spacey's plus one. >> yes, it was amazing. it was a weird experience because, you know, normally someone like me would not be sitting anywhere near actual celebrities because i write books, and in the hollywood that means you're down here. sort of up there. but my table was kevin and nicole kidman and keith urban and megyn fox and brian austin green and scarlett johansson and then right behind me was bruce willis, and it was crazy. >> you find yourself -- >> i had to go to the bathroom

she has written a book, ellen and edith woodrow wilson's first ladies and then we will do a call-in segment with her. adam goodhart. his book this year come 1861 about the start of the civil war. he will be presenting here in the tent and then we will do a call-in with him as well and we will wrap up tomorrow with the historian and another pulitzer winner, david mccullough. he will be here in the history and biotens and he will, on stage as he did here today with isabel wilkerson, david mccullough to continue the conversation. thanks for being with us. enjoy the rest of your weekend. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> next on booktv, encore booknotes. in this booknotes presentation from july 2002, beppe severgnini discussed his memoir, "ciao, america!' in which he compares his experiences in italy and america. it is about an hour. c-span: beppe severgnini, author of "ciao, america!" how do you translate that from italian? t >> guest: originally, it was "un italiano in america," which -- "an italian in america." but i have to say, i like "ciao, america!" better. "italian in america," yo

a book was found inside. a book that appeared to light the fuse to the deadly brutality. the book is called "to train up a child." it's author is this man on the tractor, michael pearl and his wife, debbie. they consider themself observant christian who run an organization called no greater joy ministries from their tennessee farm. >> well, i'm a preacher, minister of the gospel. >> their book and others they've written stacked in a warehouse on their farm. all of them guided, they say, by the teachings in the bible. >> it says if you spare the rod, you hate your children. if you love him you chase in him timely. >> a rod according to the pearls' manual can be a tree switch to a spatula. in the book they describe it as a magic wand. god would not command parents to use the rod if it were not good for the child. they say parents should stay in control, but they declare any spanking to effectively reinforce instruction must cause pain. let's say a 7-year-old slugs his sister. >> he would get a -- a 7-year-old would get 10 or 15 licks, and it would be a formal ling. in other

person and wanted to translate that into a book. when i thought i would write about the care taking situation and wanted to write about a mother and daughter and i thought was there an aging disease? where children grow old quickly. by the time they are 7 or 8 they look like little old people because they age so quickly. the first thing i asked myself is there a version of this disease for older people. does it start later in a person's life? as i'm researching i discover warner's syndrome and that's how it came to be that particular disease in the book. i thought this works because she would have a life before the disease started to age her in the 20's as opposed to being very young. more i researched the more i realized that a large population of japanese people seemed to have this genetic defect. it brought me back to the japanese culture even though i was not looking for it. what happened was if she was half japanese. here again you will hear the writing process. as i'm thinking about this and thinking about story line and her pa

book did quite well. it was the number-1 bestseller for essence magazine and it was -- it became a very popular book among its target audience which was the audience of young african-americans and what i found is a lot of black parents -- a lot of black mothers bought the book for their sons or for young men. >> host: where did the title come from? >> guest: it is from a book by toni morrison. there's a quote in the beginning of the book which i won't repeat from memory where she talks about how black black men are perceived and reviled by much of society. >> host: here's the quote. i don't know what the fuss is about. everything in the world loves you. white men love you. they spend so much time worrying about your penis they forget their own. white women chase you all to every corner of the earth, feel for you under every bed. colored women worry themselves into bad health trying to hang on to your cuffs. even little children, white and black boys and girls spend all their childhood eating their hearts out because they think you don't love them. if that ain't enough, you love yourself. nothing in the wo

exactly a sequel, it certainly is, in some sense, a follow-up book. the central message which was there were many african-americans who were angry and very frustrated at their inability to get beyond a certain point in american life,r to get beyond a certain point in corporate structures. they were frustrated about the glass ceiling. and in a phrase, what happened. is that the glass ceiling shattered. we saw shortly after that book came out we saw the rise ofthe colin powell, he became a possible presidential candidateb we saw a number of corporateaw a titans ascend, at least a few.. we saw richard parsons at time warner, ken at american expressn and a handful of others who suddenly cracked the glass ceiling in corporate america. il. we saw the rise in the huge sense of opera who has certainly been a factor back and became much more of a factor later. so we basically saw a whole new dynamic capitalist campaign to end in the elections of president obama, which whatever else he said, said clearly to all americans that there is no longer any seat that is

there's other books i've been reading about the financial crisis, and i have a whole list of other books that i have up here, and i'm getting ready to crack them open. actually, hopefully, august, i hope to reread a few books too. you know, there's a book i read years ago called "100 years of solitude," and i love that book, enr and if i get my vacation in august, i'm going to crack that book open and read it. i have a history on the ottoman empire that i want to read. they are not currently being read, but i hope to get to them. >> send us a tweet @booktv. >> senator mike lee, a senator from utah is reading "it's dangerous to be right when government is wrong". >> visit booktv.org to see this and other summer reading lists. >> host: in your book you talk about one of the life changing moments. you're watching the justice thomas and anita hill hearings. what happens to anderw breitbart? >> guest: i just graduated from college where like it was my bar mitts. i left feeling empty because i just learned how to chapter. i felt -- i was open for a spiritual experience. i didn't get it. i felt

a mockingbird." how many of you have read the book? seen the movie? i think everybody has seen it. well, this tribute features not only a great clip from "to kill a mockingbird" but atticus finch himself played by julian lopez-morillas who is one of the finest actors in the bay area. so let's go back to memory lane and enjoy this performance. >> ladies and gentlemen, gregory peck. >> never seems as fresh and wonderful, as good and evil as it does when seen through the eyes of a child. trying to capture that is remarkable and perhaps that is why one look and the last few years has been so warmly embraced by tens of millions of people. "to kill a mockingbird," winner of the pulitzer prize and just about every award a book can win and now happily "to kill a mockingbird" becomes a motion picture and its memorable characters become vividly alive. some people call him jane louise finch. but she insists on scout. and that's her brother, gym. just a boy until the day he learns there is evil in the world. and atticus finch, the father, whose devotion of justice places him and his children in

a book was found inside. a book that appeared to light the fuse to the deadly brutality. the book is called "to train up a child." it's author is this man on the tractor, michael pearl and his wife, debbie. they consider themself observant christian who run an organization called no greater joy ministries from their tennessee farm. >> well, i'm a preacher, minister of the gospel. >> their book and others they've written stacked in a warehouse on their farm. all of them guided, they say, by the teachings in the bible. >> it says if you spare the rod, you hate your children. if you love him you chase in him timely. >> a rod according to the pearls' manual can be a tree switch to a spatula. in the book they describe it as a magic wand. god would not command parents to use the rod if it were not good for the child. they say parents should stay in control, but they declare any spanking to effectively reinforce instruction must cause pain. let's say a 7-year-old slugs his sister. >> he would get a -- a 7-year-old would get 10 or 15 licks, and it would be a formal ling. in other

and a what happened was the class shattered. we saw shortly after the book came out, we saw the rise of colin powell, and became a possible presidential candidate. we saw a number of harper titans to send. these are a few. we saw time warner, american express and a handful of others who suddenly cracked the glass ceiling in corporate america. we saw the rise in the huge sense of opera who has certainly been a factor back and became much more of a factor later. so we basically saw a whole new dynamic capitalist campaign to end in the elections of president obama, which whatever else he said, said clearly to all americans that there is no longer any seat that is reserved solely for whites only in this country when it comes to seats of power and influence. that had a tremendous impact. i think part of the result was that many african-americans perceive that we admit a once in a several generations shift in terms of the opportunity structure in this country. and so i was intrigued when i began work on this book by a series of polls, by everybody from harris the

a month or so. what are you reading this summer? book tv wants to know. >> i have a whole wall list of books that some hour own financial and some are new. the first book i'm working on is monsoon, which is a book by robert kaplan how about the whole issue of central lisa where i think most of the politics of the next years are going to occur and i have read chapters of it when i traveled to various parts like indonesia but i want to read the whole book. i started in february. another book that was given to me by a fellow in my office from the american academy of mechanical engineers who worked with me on the question of water. i said to him tell me what the problems with water are going to be over the next 20 or 50 years and this book he gave me and he said i want you to read it. i never was able to write a perfect report but it's a good book to read about the whole question of water and it's an issue that in congress we really do need to think about in the future. george friedman wrote a book called quote code the next hundred years,"

one of the brothers becomes an sumo and that's why it's a big book! [laughter]. >> do you think that -- being a woman who is in women have been oppressed -- i don't know if they are now or not, dou think that has stimulated you in your writing coming out of that? you specifically and in general, do you feel like a lot of women have been stimulated by being part of an oppressed class? >> good question. >> very much so. i will try to answer a, b, c. for me, i know that the first thing i began to think about when i thought i wanted to write a novel was that i wanted to write about my culture. and because i had grownup in the chinese culture i wanted to write about china. i wanted to find out more about myself because of i was raised in the bay area and because i didn't know culturally a lot of things i wanted to know. i knew i wasn't going to write about myself and knew that i was not going to write about my family. but i wanted to write about an aspect about china and women. those were the 2 things i knew when i began the first book. i was fortunate enou

for example, we have a new book by michelle alexander, the new jim crow, which makes a good case for stice. >> guest: i'm familiar with michelle's book and i think it's a vital contribution, and i think, but it's not an examination of the tea party. it's a look at what is happening in our society that has caused us to start incarcerating and keep incarcerating so many african-american males. and i think that is a serious problem. i think a very strict problem that we need to be focused on as a society. the problem with categorizing the tea party is you cannot categorize them simply because it's just too white of an umbrella. there's lots of people who are drawn by various parts of tea party rhetoric who decide that they're sympathetic to the tea party, or even declare themselves the tea party members. clearly some of these people are not at all racist. i would suspect that many of them are, in many of them have issues that have little to do with race. they have also come together under the rubric of the tea party which was considered a grassroots movement. that is pretty much open to

[laughter] >> and mary is the author of a book about "to kill a mockingbird" that a she wrote last year, "scout, atticus and boo," and she's directed and produced a film about "to kill a mockingbird." we're going to watch a clip from that in just a moment. next, we have john j. osborn. if you went to law school, the one book you would have read before going to law school was "the paper chase," and this is a book that john j. osborn wrote. has really become a classic. and it, of course, spawned an oscar-award winning film, same name, and also a television series. he's also written an incredible article about "to kill a mockingbird," so we're going to ask him about that. next we have paulette frankl. and paulette is a courtroom sketch artist. now, how cool is that? that's a pretty cool job, and she spends a lot of time in the courtroom and that's how she came across tony serra. and she spent 17 years, 17 years compiling the incredible book that she's put together that just came out and is called "lush for justice," and it's a book of incredible illustrations, artwork as well as a narrativ