this weekend on "afterwords." this was something that was swept under the rug, and kept not only from the american people and the mexican people as well and there are faceless mexican citizens that have been murdered as a result of this, but the only thing we knew outside of the government program was that guns from american gun dealers were going into mexico and causing all these problems with the cartel when the government was sanctioning these sales and sending them to mexico. >> the white house correspondent major garrett sunday night at 9:00, this weekend on c-span2. >>> house democratic leader nancy pelosi said today that wednesday's vote to issue a contempt citation for attorney general eric holder is, quote, a shameful display of abuse and display of power. house republicans are looking to hold them in contempt. representative pelosi accused house republicans of diverting attention to jobs and said it would hinder the passage of the transportation bill. current funding for transportation expires at the end

. >> that as afterwords, book tv's signature program in which authors are interviewed by journalists, and others familiar with their material. after words airs every weekend at 10:00 p.m. saturday, 1:00 a.m. on monday. you can also watch after words juvenile, go to become tv.org ask him on after words in the become tvs series and topics list. >> richard john talked to book tv about the history of the telegraph and telephone in the u.s. the interview was recorded in the kings college room in columbia university's library as part of become tv's college series. this is half an hour. >> you're watching book tv on c-span 2. on a regular basis, we go to universities to talk to professors who are also authors. right now we're at columbia university in new york city, and we're joined by prefer richard john, who is the author of this book, network nation, inventing american telecommunications." so professor john, samuel morris invented the telegraph. ey yes or no? >> guest: no. >> host: why are we taught that as school children? >> guest: well, we love tales of heroic inventors. and it turns o

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front row will be mclaren's lewis hamilton while pastor maldonado off williams will start in third afterwords vettel was quick to praise he stayed. in the last qualifying i knew that going at the end of the track comes in a little bit more and tying them up together than yeah should be good enough maybe to to have a look at the pole in the end it was. surprising but all in all i felt very well this week and the boys have been working incredibly hard in their garridge all the people in the factory as well to make sure that we bring a couple of new parts to the car so they seem to work and i'm looking looking forward to the race tomorrow. elsewhere in motor sports a time defending the world rally champion sebastian loeb has triumphed in new zealand to claim his third straight victory and further straight she is in the driver's standings the frenchman did not win any of the seven special stages on the final day but he was still almost thirty seconds faster overall than his teammates because you've been in a village no ways better solberg completed the podium on his ford twenty one year old russi

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in the afterword you quoted him at the tail end of the book about how, and that he himself said thatepancy turned out to be a blessing in disguise for him. >> yeah. it forced him to dig through old shoe boxes and look at old records. it forced him to ask for questions than he had been asking, and i'm -- i'm glad to t you noticed that in the book because i want the book to be a fair take on senator rubio who is an important figure in american politics right now. i'll lay out everything for people to make their -- their own judgments. i think that the reference that you're talking about which is a statement that he made in his speech was really a sign of him trying to embrace that controversy and turn it into a positive which is something that he's been very good at throughout his political career. >> greta: and tomorrow night, senator marco rubio goes on the record from his family's journey from cuba to america to his own political journey. you'll hear senator rubio's rubs story firsthand. we catch up with him while riding a the senate train. >>> straight ahead, he's known for winning

and publication by bernice king, there is an afterword by mr. cain. does it rose, the life and legacy of corona scott. >> well, one of the largest publishers in america is harvard college. we are pleased to be joined here at book expo america by one of the senior editors. i want to introduce you to build strong, an editor at harpercollins. what does that mean? we say you are an editor. >> we acquired the books of the publishing house will publish and see them through. so you edit the books. authoress advocate within the house and a sense and the house advocate to the author, so that is what we try and do. >> you start with the original idea as well? >> in some cases you do, but in those cases i do only nonfiction. so it is a little bit -- come up with an idea of proposal and then go from there. in the case of desperate signs, this is actually my idea. >> what is desperate signs? >> as word sons is a book about the sons of liberty, pre revolutionary war grew that were sort of our original occupiers. they decided that there were going to make life miser