it's available as a hardcover or an e-book from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. be sure to order your copy today. announcer: all weekend, "american history tv" features worcester, massachusetts. c-span cities tour staff recently visited many sites, showcasing the city's history. learn more about worcester all weekend here on "american history tv." >> abby kelley foster was a women's rights, human rights, and abolitionist was born 1811 in palace, massachusetts. at six months old, she moved to worchester. this is where she had her career. she went to an anti-slavery meeting and william lloyd garrison was the speaker. she was 21 years old at the time and it was then that she decided she had to do something for the cause. and she did join the female anti-slavery society and raised a lot of funds and took petitions around to be signed and was very active on behalf of the abolitionist movement. she became a radical abolitionist, unlike a lot of abolitionists at the time. she felt that, not only should slavery be ended, but people should be treated equally. so she then

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it is available in hardcover or as an e-book. be sure to order your copy today. week, american history tv brings you archival films that help provide context for today's public affairs issues. terrorism, a personal threat, is a 1986 u.s. air force the that document several terror attacks, including the october 1983 suicide truck bombing in beirut, lebanon, that killed 241 american serviceman and french paratroopers, including interviews with survivors of attacks in greece, italy, puerto rico, and lebanon. the film encourages service members to be more aware of their surroundings and the potential for terror attacks when stationed overseas. >> in athens, greece, if you have ever been, the motorcycles never stop. they always zoom right between the cars. they stopped in front of the traffic. you might have 15 or 20 of them at one time in front of all the traffic. atthis particular afternoon about 4:20 p.m. in the afternoon, i heard a motorcycle coming. is slowed down. its slow down too quickly. me being the third car from the front. i turned to watch it. they slow d

book tv? send us an e-mail, book tv at c-span.org, tweet is a book tv, or post a, on our wall, facebook.com/book tv. >> i think we have a lot of misconceptions about the middle class, i'm not going to go through all of on but one of them is that we take the middle class based on income and that ain't true, one of the ways we know it isn't true is because since 2008 a lot of people who earned a lot of income found themselves in the dumps and that took place 15 years before and during the depression so that a 1938 a writer named louis corey wrote a book called the crisis of the middle class, 1938, it became a bestseller for about three weeks, but it was on the list and the thing that is interesting about it is that corey had a definition which i think still works i'm going to say, the middle class are people either have an independent professional or property basis to the economy, that is one definition of middle-class, there's also a second definition which is less understood which is a cultural middle-class, we have a cultural middle-class in the united states and that cultural middle-class are

she was bitten by the history bug after buying an e-book manga for her young daughter. >> translator:t could be more enjoyable to read these as an adult because we've learned many things since we last studied history. in this sense, i'm more into reading manga than my daughter. >> reporter: manga has already made its mark in world culture. if they stay true to history, publishers of this popular art form say they can do the same in education. >>> in this segment, we feature women in japan who are challenging prevailing norms and influencing society. today, we take you to the race track. she isn't letting gender steer her away from her career of choice. she is one of female drivers racing in international competitions. nhk world talked to her about her success and how she is also mentoring others who want to follow in her tracks. >> reporter: this is what the world looks like at 300 kilometers per hour. keiko is one of the top drivers in endurance racing, working in a team of three to complete six hours of total time. the winning team is determined by the number of completed laps. her

c-span booktv first ladies is available as a hardcover or an e-book from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. be sure to order your copy tod today. >> now a hearing on state health insurance exchanges under the affordable care act. house energy and commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations heard from the acting administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. a hearing is just under two hours. >> good morning your this subcommittee will now convene. the oversight investigations subcommittee of energy and commerce and this hearing today is to continue the examination of the state health insurance marketplaces established under the aca. on september 29 the committee heard from a panel representing six state exchanges. attempted to paint a rosy picture it is clear that our serious short-term and long-term problems with state exchanges. one of our main concerns we will address itself centers for medicare and medicaid services, or cms, is conducting oversight over the billions of taxpayer dollars invested in establishing the state exchanges. today we expect

c-span booktv first ladies is available as a hardcover or an e-book from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. be sure to order your copy tod today. >> next we go to australia for highlights of question time with prime minister malcolm turnbull. he added questions on combating terrorism, climate change, tax policy and mental health issues. this is a 30 minute portion. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> alone. i'm david come at you from parliament house for question time wrap and we bring you the final sitting fortnight of the australian parliament for you. the prime minister had just returned from a series of global summits held in a shadow of a terrorist attack. he was asked how world leaders plan to respond to the growing threat of islamic fundamentali fundamentalism. >> turn one. my question is to the prime minister. will be prime minister have a collective response of global leaders to the recent terror attacks around the world? >> thank the honorable member for his question. mr. speaker, the international response to the terrorist attacks in paris and elsewhere, by root, ankara, russian airliner in the

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inaudible] [inaudible] >> it is their nonfiction author book you would like to see featured on book to be? send us an e-mail, book tv at c-span.org. tweet us apple tv. or post a comment on our wall, facebook.com/book tv. >> george, how many books have you written. >> guest: 17, if if you count that is 18. >> host: what are the topics. >> guest: the topics have been politics, marriage and families,'s tax, fcx, technology, microchips, life after television, the telecoms on, knowledge and power which i really think is a book of a few years ago that summed up all of these various subjects through the exposition of information clearing which i think is the major scientific breakthrough of the century. behind all of our technology and i believe it is best explained in our economy. >> host: you identify as an author or what. >> guest: i'm i may be the 27th most influential but i am a writer but i also have been an investor. i'm a venture capitalist. i am really serious about that at work which has supported me as much as my books over the years. what has been your bestseller. >> wealth and poverty. >> as a ve

toward the end of his life but this is just one of the -- of the little clips that i thought in an e-book why not, so they're there as a bonus. anyone who cares to book one of these today i have a stash of dvd's with all of the segments and i will give you one. you pop it into your computer and it tells you what page in the book everything is correlated to. i thank you and we should have some questions and then we have to exit the building according to our voice from the cloud. [laughter] >> all right. are there any questions? thank you, thank you. [applause] >> does he get to make his trip? excellent question. he does make his trip. here is the problem, between the time he ordered his boat and the time-finished the great san francisco earthquake of 1906, april 1906, it created a terrible shortage of wood and other supplies so the custom yacht, 45 feet long that had supposedly water-type compartments, everything just right, it leaked, the food was ruined, all kinds of problems, jack london did make it to hawaii and there for several months the boat was repaired. they sailed to the south s

joe: you recently discussed a concept of stagnation and he an e-book if the u.s. has a stagnation it will reflect the country's failure to adjust infrastructure, education, and trading needs. these are policy problems with concrete solution. in your view, we will make a blunder by not making a fiscal stimulus in recent years and spending money to rebuild key parts of the country. >> i do think we have an opportunity to invest in infrastructure. zero interest rates do not come around every day. they are not entirely healthy for financial markets, but they create an opportunity for the --lic sector to provide provide infrastructure, research, education, which is all the economy needs. the things that determine whether productivity is going to grow robustly in the future. scarlet: may be released is on the way, because the federal government and state governments are starting to increase spending. it is nothing like what we saw before the financial crisis, but you are looking at that there is a recovery. this is stabilizing. it will that be enough to support the econ

look at format, e-books, audiobooks, books that fell across platforms. >> how is an e-book phenomenon affected your world? >> not a lot honestly. i think there is a fear or excitement, depending on your perspective that e-books would overtake traditional carbon -based books, as their call. i don't think that has happened. the growth took off and then started to taper and stabilize. a lot of people who read e-books are hybrid readers. they might take their kindle on an an airplane or my is their tablet reader for romance novels or erotica they don't want anyone to see what they are reading. or books that read in huge amounts very quickly. or a book that is really too heavy to carry. then other books they want the print edition of. they want want to pages, take notes, put it on display, have on their bookshelves. what it has done is expand the opportunities for the ways in which people read. i don't think it's fundamentally altered reading. >> how to your request mark. >> i read in print. i am old-school. 100% in print. i love the book as a physical object. i collect collect them, i'm c

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book shelf, the shelfie app scans titles and checks on whether any of those books are available as an e book if so you will get a message. any free or discounted e book versions will be sent directly to your e-mail. >> that sounds too good to be true. >>> all right. move over, emma watson is there a new. >> hermine. >> who. >> hermine. >> whose hinie. >> controversy surrounding the harry potter character. >> yes. >>> ♪ >> look at her. >> what about her. >> that is megan trainor, all about that base. that sock skyrocketed to the top of the charts, in the summer of 2014. megan trainor is music billboard's, quite an accomplishment for the young lady. she turns 22 today. >> i didn't know she was that young. >> yes. >> erin is eight. when this song came out she would sing all about that base. if you only knew what it was all about. >> don't hate. >> megan trainor was a national, since 19 and she has written song for sabrina carpenter. >> oh, her. >> come on, be nice. >> be nice. >> now i will let sue go on. so we will just hold our breath for the next big hit from that talented young lady. >> oka

josh: curling up with an e book shouldn't keep you from falling asleep any more. jean: up next how the newest e readers make sure you still get a good night's sleep. tom: coming up at 6:00 tonight, citing concerns over inappropriate behavior, exeter high school puts an end to student dances. what recent court case sealed the decision. and with no snow and above normal temperatures, winter tourism still expected to be strong. the conference held today that is predicting a solid season josh: am amazon and google have >> studios show blue lights keep people from relaxing into sleep. the new apps will fitter out the blue light waves as the clock changes. josh: one family has the ultimate 21st century light display, they've made it a family tradition to connect their lights to the internet on their web page. you decide which ones to turn off and on and which can make some crazy displays when there are a lot of people clicking. this is a live picture of their home in fairbanks, alaska. jean: wow. josh: to join the fun, just go to christmas in fairbanks.com. jean: our pr

. >> tillman found an illustrator and turned that idea into an e-book series and believes his late brotherld say being a children's ought saar natural fit. pat is known for walking away from an nfl career to serve his country after the 9/11 terror attacks. he was killed by friendly fire in afghanistan in 2004. >>> whether they are naughty or nice, bay area kids who write letters to santa should get a reply. the u.s. postal service is recruiting volunteers to help santa reply to all that fan mail through its letters to santa program. starting tomorrow volunteers will be allowed to respond to letters from various santa stations including one in san francisco's processing and distribution center. we have information on how you can get involved at abc7news.com. >> such a special event every year. >> it is. >> let's talk about this very chilly weather forecast. >> spencer christian is here with our accuweather update. >> it has been quite cold during our overnight and early morning hours. chilly again tonight. clouds around right now though that will keep it from getting tootoo cold. live doppl

hardcoverlable as a or an e-book from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller.e sure to order your copy today. before heading to hawaii for the holidays, president obama held a year-end news conference friday at the white house. he talked about several issues related to isis, the syrian civil war, and the criminal justice system. this is 50 minutes. obama: good afternoon, everybody. clearly, this is not the most important event taking place in the white house today. there is a screening of "star and" for gold star families children coming up. so i will try to be relatively's is synced. -- relatively's is synced. our early actions to -- the early actions to rescue the economy set the stage for the longest streak of private sector growth with 13.7 new -- 13.7 million new jobs in that time. and our unemployment rate has been cut down to 5%. and most importantly, wages grew faster than in any time since the recovery began. so over the course of this year, the decisions we made early on have paid off. and the steady implementation of the affordable care act helped to

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c-span's book is available as a hardcover or an e-book from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. be sure to order your copy today. year, afterhis leaving his position at cornell university, becoming the smithsonian secretary. he spoke about the smithsonian future and support for the arts at a luncheon hosted by the national press club. it is one hour. ne of the smithsonian institutions, museums, art galleries, or the zoo. they are so well known to some any of us, they provide a window into the past. they also help us anticipate a future. the overseer of all of this is rton.avid scored in -- sko smithsonian,g the he served as president of cornell university for nine years. new to the museum world he has said i have served and education my entire professional life. he is an accomplished flutist, and he once accompanied billy joel on stage. the smithsonian was celebrating year.0th birthday next in addition to those 30 million visitors that come to the smithsonian each year there are thousands of employee use even more thousands of volunteers, and scores of exhibits and projects, an

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c-span's book "first ladies" is available as a hardcover or an e-book from your favorite bookstore or online book seller. be sure to order your copy today. >>> and coming up live a look at the 1987 u.s.-russia nuclear agreement and whether russia has violated the agreement. also on capitol hill both the house and senate are in the senate working on repealing parts of the health care law. you can watch the senate live on c-span 2 and the house working today on getting rid of epa rules on emissions and the clean power plan. we spoke with a reporter on capitol hill for more details. >> as president obama meets with world leaders in paris for the climate talks, the house is debating climate change and also energy bills, and joining us to talk about u.s. energy policy environmental reporter antho anthony adgrana, let's start with what the administration's climate goals specifically to reduce greenhouse gas initiatives. >> president obama has done several things to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's power plants and pursued international agreements with china and india and other

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c-span's book "first ladies" is available as a hardcover or an e-book. from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. be sure to order your copy today. >> c-span takes you on the road to the white house. best access to the candidates at town hall meetings, speeches, rallies, and meet and greets. we're taking your comments on twitter, facebook and by phone. and always, every campaign event we cover is available on our website, c-span.org. >> speeches wrap up from the republican jewish coalition with chris christie and jim gilmore. both speak and answer questions for about 30 minutes. >> jeff, thank you for the introduction and to all of you, thank you for the invitation to be here today. thank you for your patience and endurance. put up with 14 candidates for president of the united states, but the role that you all will play as we move forward both through this primary process and through the process of electing a new republican president next november will be absolutely vital, so thank you for your willingness to be involved. this entire campaign ch

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available as either a hardcover or an e-book from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. be sure to order your copy today. next, on american history tv, former nbc news anchor and author tom brokaw told the stories of the greatest generation, a term he coined and his 1998 book. he goes on to discuss the greatest generation and their big ideas including the marshall plan, the civil rights movement, president kennedy's commitment to landing on the moon, and president nixon's opening of china. this was hosted by friends of the national world war ii memorial. >> ladies and gentlemen, my name is josiah bunting. i am with the friends of the national world war ii memorial. it is a wonderful privilege and pleasure to welcome all of you here this morning, at a time in our national history which we commemorate with great feeling. my mission this morning is to introduce our introducer -- [laughter] josiah: if you will give me just george marshall had a friendship through the douglas freeman. freeman was recognized then, and probably still is, as our foremost historian of the civil w

an e-reader like the kindle. first did you know you can e-borrow an e-book from your local library all remotely and free. and another trick, if you see a long article online you can send it to your kindle to read later even offline. you just install this browser extension and then start sending those tldr, too long to read, articles to your device. whether you got a new tablet or a wearable you want to set up your charger now and think about it a little bit. do it neatly or else, it'll look like that by valentine's day. oh, so much better. saa. two words for you, parental controls. i have programs, ourpact for ios and dinnerti for andreis to give you a kill switch remotely. my most controversial advice ever, you do not need the manual. i am giving you permission, you can take this thing and throw it away. all that stuff is online now and you need the extra space. happy holida america. go forth and get geeky. informatioion on all that is on our website and merry christmas and have a great day, guys. >> how much wouould famies pay to that becky in their home right now to help out? >> on speed dial. >> well

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book tv? send us an e-mail, book tv at c-span.org, tweet is a book tv, or post a, on our wall, facebook.com/book tv. >> i think we have a lot of misconceptions about the middle class, i'm not going to go through all of on but one of them is that we take the middle class based on income and that ain't true, one of the ways we know it isn't true is because since 2008 a lot of people who earned a lot of income found themselves in

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the book is available as an e-book or hardcover from your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. to order your copy today. washington journal continues. we will roundack, out our conversation this morning with your thoughts on what the president had to say last night in the oval office address that he gave to americans. a rant about 15 minutes or so, where he talked about the threat of terrorism and at the california shootings were an act of terrorism and he called the -- called on the u.s. to pass the resolution to fight isis. he don't about cracking down access to guns to prevent terrorist from getting them and he talked about how we treat muslim americans and the religion of islam. getting a reaction to all about this morning. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. first call from david, a democrat. caller: thank you for taking my call. i think as a people, we would probably the helped emotionally if we had a different mental model for approaching terrorism. i think a more medically -- something derived more from a medical sense.