expo america is spent book expo america is the annual tradeshow for the book industry and it is help at the jacoheld at thejacob javits cent side of manhattan. it's once a year and it's a place for people in the book trade not just in the united states but all the world to come together and find out what the hottest new titles are for the fall and winter and beyond, intimate and cultural exchanges. if you're walking afford to do you would have seen a very extensive booth from china because they are the special guest of honor. that in itself has proven to be controversial because an american center has held counterprogramming protesting china's presence here. that's also become speak of newsworthy stories, something that's been interesting to keep track of spent book expo america being a place for authors to preview the books coming out in the fall. of all been the busiest time of year and the publishing industry. fall and spring. twice a year your workplace put out your buzz book for the year. you have buzz pics 2015. folks can find online speak with yes. you will be able to download

a new book from stacy, she had written a book about cleopatra. it will be out, i believe, in october. it will uncover a whole new details that will change the way we think about the 1692 trials and how people reacted at the time and how that might be -- the lessons learned of what happened then from what happens now in our environment. >> you are an author of an upcoming book. >> in september i will be publishing a selection that i'm editing for the library of women. each value -- volume will have four novels. patricia smith, margaret and a couple of bookses by authors who have note seen in possibly more than 50 years. it's been a pleasure to make this may research, my passion and to be working with the library of america. i truly admire. >> if people want to follow you where with they go? >> if you want to download a free copy you can go and if you are a twitter user you can follow us at publisher. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> here is a look at some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to washington post. a first on t

this book was pretty much a whole some book. the story of a young girl who grew up in her mother's boarding house and reports on what is happening. the mother is booking guest that are crazy and asking for strange things to happen and the mother is always trying to appease the >> >> when they eat tin cans of rations and then read about the tantalizing tenders drove them crazy the city but the talk of ice water was enough to set him aquiver. reminded them of their own mothers and for many this book brought them back what it is like to be civilians. in many men rose similar things to her that reading the book took them home for a couple of hours to alleviate the homesickness. i lived in that marvelous house with all the wonderful people. >> a surprise favorite also told from the perspective of a young girl who grew up in brooklyn the odds are stacked against her living with the impoverished family her father is an alcoholic but then he dies when she is in high school she is the first to get out to help support the family by gettin

book club. though revenues start to talk about in the book, the first question is the old teacher of mine used to say in class. to say what species is this? >> but you don't want to judge your novel by the same standards that you judge the henry james novel. they have different goals to understand what they are then the book will make sense. so with those harlequin romance by zero local writer and might lead sentence was this is where i lose all credibility as a critic because they said they were quite wonderful for what they were ready like craftsman and fulfill all the requirements for this particular john roper ago they were successful but if i judged differently, i always think about what species that is. >> i am curious your opinion as to which journalists covering foreign affairs true they questioned the past 14 years ago heading off to war? >> i will dodge that question. i read "the wall street journal" and the "washington post" and i value the reporting that was their wish we did not get

book in such a short amount of time. so here, let me talk about just the main questions and the main arguments of my book. we focus on why it looks at why my book looks at the curkorean period and the examination of the korean war, change, challenge and change our conception, our understanding of the cold war. so, now the korean war is important for understanding, for the war, and i think it is. when i say this, i usually am misundersto misunderstood. yes, that's right. the korean war changed the course of the cold war. military started, and it spread it all over the world. so, korean war, indeed of the cold war. so this is first off, right? and the other is more like this. no, no, no. the tension between the soviet union and the united states is how it began, already, the events due to the decisive events in europe. lo look, for instance. so what the korean war did was inspiration, what it presented was an escalation of an existing threat. nothing is particularly new. so in other words, people assume that i'm entering t

a new book from stacy shift, she previously written a book biography of cleopatra, her new book the witches, will be out in october. it's about the salem witch trials. she will probably uncover a whole mess of new details about how we think about the 1692 trial of how people reacted at the time and how that might still be the lessons we need to learn then to what is happening now. >> you're part of the publishing industry, you're an author of a book, tell us about it. >> in. >> in september i will be publishing a collection that i am editing for the library of america, it's called women prime writers. each volume will have four novels, the first is the 1940s, that the second 1960s novel. as is the case with an anthology i edited a few years ago it will be a mix of people you know, and a couple of books from authors you have not heard from him more than 50 years. >> .. on saturday september 5th we are live for the fifteenth annual national book festival followed on sunday by live in that program with former second lady and senior fellow of the american enterprise institute lynne cheney. book

in more than one book. one member of the panel appears in more than one of the books and it's a reminder again of how we really kind of all together in this state. but beginning on my far right, we have k.c. morrison, professor of political science and public administration at mississippi state university, and the author of "aaron henry of mississippi," inside ang tater. next to him we have dennis mitchell, who is head of the division of arts and science and a professor of history at mississippi state university at meridian, and he is the author of "a new history of mississippi." in the middle we have don thompson, who holds not only a bachelor bachelor's degree but a masters degree and a ph.d in forestry from mississippi state university. how did all these mississippi state people get on our panel? anyway, don lives on a farm, and he is author of a biography of the late senator john seven sinness, plowing a straight furrow, and stuart stevens, not sure how to describe stuart but political consultant nation

or a baseball book, or football book. so that's the process. host: does your wife have a role question mark. guest: she has a big role in different ways, i bounce ideas off of her. will be watching a news show about a trial or issue and i will say what you think about this? twisted a little bit, would that be compelling, would that be a fun book, maybe maybe not. sometimes she says yes, sometimes she says no. when i'm writing i will show her the first 100 pages. she goes through, she doesn't really edit, but she has a good eye and year for what is working and what is not working. she will say this female characters really weak, or i can't stand this character, or whatever, this subplot is not needed, or that subplot is ridiculous. she can say those things and so we go through the process and she's the first reader, she reads the book and i have to get by hear her or its not going to work. their benefit couple of times in 25 years when i was writing a book one time, the story was great, she read a hundred pages and said sh

people who actually often like digital books as well as physical books. people who buy a lot of digital books buy a large number of physical books. the habits are changing. at the same time, publishers are worried about what their business model is going to look like. many publishers have not allowed libraries to license on the same terms as physical books as e-books. particularly the most valuable and sought after books. off the bat, librarians are in a difficult position. in a digital era can they do the same things they did in an analog area. you think about the role of a librarian of bringing physical objects to a place and lend it out. that is wonderful and important. once they bought the book under u.s. law you could tear it up, give it to someone else, sell it at a second-hand bookstore and librarians have broad rights to do what they want. in a digital world it is not so. librarians go from being owners of the physical material to leasers of the material. if they stop paying the licenses to the book sellers, the to publishers, they might not have

a lot of these books we use frequently as well as some of the books down in the library. we look for accuracy in books as well as the reputation of the authors though we do buy a lot of books by new scholars because there are a lot of new things coming out all the time and different interpretations of people. most of these books and on these shelves are not that recent although there are a few here by more recent scholars. plus we collect published papers of a lot of the people we work on, people like andrew jackson, henry clay, george washington a lot of their papers are published so we buy a lot of their works as well. this biography by john sugdon i found fascinating. i'm interested in american indian history as i started doing a lot of work with that. it's one of my favorite books. and then see if this one is actually here. yes, this one right here. this book right here is one of my favorites because it was one of the ground breaking pieces of scholarship done on the creek indians deer skins and duffles by katherine braun is an incredible book. i would recommend that

watch it now on book tv. c-span: don oberdorfer, author of the book "the turn: from the cold war to a new era", what's it all about? >> guest: well, basically it's a history of what happened between the united states and the soviet union from 1983 to the middle of 1990, the period when we went from an intense confrontation with the soviet union to almost a partnership with the soviet union -- how the two countries interacted, how the two leaderships interacted and what really happened. c-span: in your study, what's the most important date or event that changed it and created the turn? >> guest: well, i wouldn't say "date that created it," but if i had to pick one date as the epicenter, perhaps, of the turn, it would have been the reykjavik summit in october of 1986, just about five years ago from this fall. c-span: what happened there? >> guest: in this remarkable event, probably the most remarkable meeting of u. s. and soviet leaders, certainly since kennedy's meeting with khrushchev in vienna, reagan and go

i am someone who writes books. see myself as contributing to a healthy conversation in our society. but i am not so much of a raging narcissist to think that i am in control of that conversation. >> i know you are aware of the criticisms of your books. some people have said, unoriginal, obvious, the story comes first, the science plays a supporting role. overgeneralize, oversimplified to the point you are wrong. how do you respond to that. >> i don't really think of them as criticism. the story is first and the science is secondary, because i want the stories to come first. story is an incredibly powerful way to communicate ideas. are my books simplified? of course. they are supposed to be. i spend a huge amount of time simplifying. so, when someone says, as a way of criticism, you're simplifying, i put my head in my hands and say, that is my intention. if i didn't simplify them, people wouldn't read them. >> critics say, don't take him so seriously. >> i would say exactly right. chill out. ideas ought to be a sour

women's book. i am a single mother. my book -- i am also profamily. i am not endorsing single motherhood with my book. life sometimes throws you curveballs. there are statistics in the 2003 senses that 43% of mothers in america are single mothers. it is higher now. that is almost half of mothers in america doing it alone. that is a lot of mothers. the definition of single mothers is broad. it is a modern-day phenomenon. i believe that very few women really choose it and we should have compassion for single mothers. girls daydream that i am going to raise kids by myself, or i'm going to be divorced with four kids i am trying to feed myself. someone told me i should write a book. i thought how i should go about doing that. i have a daughter's privacy to protect. i was doing some research. i never really thought about it. it on on me that -- my publisher told me that was the story. go write it. i thought ok. i had never written a book before, but i always love to write. i started researching and went to the library and said how am i going to fill the pag

a book written from somebody like you about which are all sort of book about ray charles written his voice? i said i would much prefer to write in his voice and he said did you should write the book you want to to read not just the one the you should write to. so that changed everything and i discovered there was a musicality in his voice. as you know, relearn to speakers. if there is day musicality in his voice if i pretend i mgm then i am making music. there isn't anything i would rather do. but tutu his voice i discovered i have a gift and is about the approximation because if you do it - - just to a transcription and to read that, in the context of a book, that is that a good representation of my voice because one thing that i learned early is the eye is much different than the year. when you try to create a literary voice that is the half of artifice that the person is talking to you in a conversational way. so to do that you have to move from the liberal transcription to raise scoping or giving a person a literary voice. and that is art. as a function as i begin to do it. >> ho

also it's such a beautiful book that people will read it. it's a book about home. a book that we return to, and i think it's got its place and we will be reading it. and also the fact that she and truman grew up next door to each other, how do writers find their voices and the bravery it took for her to drop out of law school, one month before graduating to to go to new york and try to become a writer when alice and her father war saying, come home and work at the monroe journal. that -- i think finding voices, writers, and a sense of home, yes. >> i think mockingbird will be read 100 years from now. i think her her going is read. >> i think it will be read 100 years from now. one of my concerns, will americans be reading 100 years from now. [laughter] [applause] >> fair enough. so, we are going to open the floor to audience questions. the microphone is right there. so go up to the microphone if you have any questions of the panel. >> at the podium. >> hi. in "go set a watchman," we learned that tom robinson was actually acquitted, so it's kind of an alternate univ

the book shelves to select books and donate them. and then visited their homes nearby that they would have bookshelves and then to play an important role as the german army's spread across europe there was a concerted effort by the german army and then the ada says that existed that are considered dangerous some of libraries contained so many dangerous books they were locked nobody was allowed to go in to take them now. fdr did not think that was the best policy better than sked combat to read as many as they could so the victory bush campaign for those to face combat for the german army and with the power of books that had been a stress speech on it that we know books are weapons. after the speech there was a press conference tuesday mr. president what shot -- type of book should rigo day? fdr responded anything but algebra. but really any book you have read and enjoy. so with the president support the donate -- of - - they met their goal but the was a huge accomplishment but what about the books that were collected? they are all ha

i hope you read this book the book is half as good. if i have done the story justice is going to be a great book because it is a great story. i mentioned my mother, the best and most people. she always had a follow-up, but remember, crisis does not create ^-caret. crisis reveals character. was there, unrecognized, perhaps most unrecognized bias. but after the response of our people i can't tell you how many times i would here what i 1st heard the business council meeting organization ceos talk about how we were doing. a man jumped up. those are the kind of people i would suggest those people never thought of coming to mississippi. he would not wish it on your worst enemy. but having survived, having responded, having overcome, the truth is our response, the image of mississippi the image of us are people who revealed. the book. i am grateful. our politics are not exactly the same but a couple books. recommended. a great time doing this. we would not be here in the book, chapter is called them last. not going to go through the mall. if

this book was pretty much a whole some book. it was the story of a young girl who grew up in her mother's boarding house and reports on what is happening. the mother is booking guest that are crazy and asking for strange things to happen and the mother is always trying to appease the request. she happens to be a fabulous cook as well and there are descriptions of the mother's cooking and that is what did it for most men. when they are eating tin cans of rations reading about the dinners drove them crazy. one man wrote even the talk of ice water was enough to set him aquery. what was great was the very vivid images of mothers cooking reminded them of their mothers and what they cooked. this book brought many back to what it was like to be a civilian. one man wrote reading this book took him home a couple hours and alleviated my homesickness. a final book i want to highlight is betty smith's "a tree grows in brooklyn". this is told from per specspectf a young girl growing up with an imp impoverished family and her father dies in h

the book ends in 1782. nicole: you have mentioned so far -- you also mention it in your preface -- that alexander hamilton is the most workable founding father. what does that title mean to you? michael: we all know hamilton is one of the most important founding fathers, if not the most important founding father. beyond that, to be the most remarkable is something different. george washington in 1789, everybody knew he was going to be president. already franklin was famous. thomas jefferson had written the declaration of independence. yet here we have this kid in the 1772 coming to the united states, the american colonies. he is a nobody. he had very few friends. he had a cousin in the u.s., no family, no wealth. yet within a few years he is washington's chief aide. he is one of the leading politicians in the country. nobody else came from nowhere in such a short time to become a rounding father. that is only one half of why he is the most workable. the other half is, nobody contributed as much in such a wi

it would take too much time away from the novels, that kid books and the other books i enjoy writing. >> host: john grisham as always we appreciate you stopping by booktv.way >> guest: my pleasure, good seeing you again. >> host: bareback live on booktv for the first-ever mississippi book festival and jackson. the next panel beginning now is looking at the history of civil rights in america. >> welcome everyone to the inaugural mississippi book festival. my name is chris goodwin the mississippi department of archives and history. this is their civil rights history panel sponsored by the mississippi humanities council and the mississippi arts commission. we are being recorded live on c-span's booktv so if you have not already please silence your cell phones. if you have not purchased the books, the panels have written you will have an opportunity to do that after -- outside. the authors will also be signing immediately after this panel in the authors attempt. the moderator for today's panel is robbie luckett. robbie luckett received his ph.d. from the university offr l georgia with a f

university press book. african-american studies. [applause] >> last but not least michelle gainer who is the author of the beautiful vintage by clamor. butbut that oprah magazine named one of the ten best books to give and get. regarding the. lives in harlem and is currently completing vintage black grammar gentleman's quarters, men's edition. [applause] okay. i want to say a few words. i want to get into a conversation but it's important offer different frame the title of this panel is fashioning the self each word offer so much for us to consider and we consider. what do we mean? where the possible ways we can allow ourselves to see and imagine knew ways of creatively making ourselves. and then the word image. image is formed in our minds materialized in countless ways including the visual arts consumer and the rituals, representations of people so fees, academic research and our own everyday ways of being in the world that are publicly viewed and privately experienced. solidifying the stories we tell abo

he's a young physician who is a secondary character in the book. within a week of the bombing thousands of men, women and children and not as lucky and are of under the region began to experience - within a week thousands of men, women and children in the surrounding region began to experience inexplicable combinations of symptoms, high fever, dizziness, loss of data type, headaches, bloody stools, nosebleeds come whole body weakness and fatigue. hair hair felt wild in large clumps. burns and wounds created extreme amount into their gums swelled and became infected. purple spots appeared and at first about the size of a pin prick one doctor recalled growing within a few days within the size of a grain of rice. including the large intestine and the bronchial passages. they died in extreme pain. even those that have suffered no external injuries .-full-stop and the kind. some of the victims families that that had come into the area after the bombing also suffered a serious illness. many families turned away relatives and guests staying with them afte

and to help spread that i helped to found the texas book festival than the national book festival. but while i love reading i never thought i would write a book. search of the not one about myself. >> the goal that there is a sense of urgency to find the members say get the story before it is too late. a father and daughter in los angeles that both came together and after hearing about the book the daughter said i am taking you to the coffee shop now and you will tell me the story. >> with 30 plus million people with health insurance will be quite a change as the universe been slowly. that was bending towards justice there are things wrong with the health care bill but you know, with johnson would have said just like the civil-rights bill is flawed but it the important thing is to pass a you could always go back to fix

what happens next is that she'll be appear signing books, if you haven't purchased your book yet we stillave plenty. please take it to their register before you ask her to sign it. we also asked that if you would help us clear the area so we can have a nice organized signing line, will be more of a challenge with cameras but we always ask our to help just bolger own chair. you don't have don't have to do more than that, just you can put it up against history, or or romance, and will clear the space. thank you so much. >> book tv is on facebook, like us to get publishing news, scheduling, scheduling update and behind the scenes pictures and videos. author information facebook.com/book tv. presidential candidates often release books to introduce themselves to voters and to promote their views on issues. here's a look at books written by declare candidates for president. in his book immigration wars, former governor jeb bush, neurosurgeon ben carson calls for greater individual responsibility to preserve america's future in one nation. in against the type of our road out island governor chaf

[laughs] >> it's in the book. just read the book.aughs] >> there's a rit, a defendant or if he is defendant dead, a defendant's defendant, could go into the court, this new evidence changes everything. the heirs could come in and do that. i deliberately did not discuss that to them. they are reading the book for the first time just like you are. i don't know what they're reaction is going to be. they've suffered a huge amount already, expensive, time consuming, anxiety feeling to do this, but if i were to do it, if i were one of the descendants and know what i know, id come into court and file a petition and say you go investigate. this isn't my problem, this is your problem. you can get all the information that i can't get. you can put people under oath and i can't do that. .. >> >> i think it was a perjury trap for the prosecutor knows they cannot get you for the offense with the statute of limitations as the main witness is dead so they have a new offense to prosecute it is a delicious concept that nixon was pardoned but they coul

[inaudible conversations] >> the book we're talking about today is "augusta" then and now" a book that i wrote with the museum of history so no better place to talk about the book and what we weren't there and here in this award winning local museum. it is entitled adust does story so it tells us how agusta developed dedicated to be what it is now. 1733 james oglethorpe one of 21 trustees of a charitable trust like a nonprofit organization of today, came to savannah with a shipload of people who would start a new colony south of the savannah river in the area of the museum now to talk about this colonial era here in agusta. we have of picture of princess address the issue was the wife of frederick the prince of wales. think of them the william and kate of your day very to 1736 and when oglethorpe came back he said he wanted a fort built and was very aware indian trade was going on to protect that trade and the traders. support was named for the princess of wales and there was another for to build in the south part of the comedy that was named frederika after the of prince so a the roya

people who actually often like digital books as well as physical books. people who buy a lot of digital books buy a large number of physical books. the habits are changing. at the same time, publishers are worried about what their business model is going to look like. many publishers have not allowed libraries to license on the same terms as physical books as e-books. particularly the most valuable and sought after books. off the bat, librarians are in a difficult position. in a digital era can they do the same things they did in an analog area. you think about the role of a librarian of bringing physical objects to a place and lend it out. that is wonderful and important. once they bought the book under u.s. law you could tear it up, give it to someone else, sell it at a second-hand bookstore and librarians have broad rights to do what they want. in a digital world it is not so. librarians go from being owners of the physical material to leasers of the material. if they stop paying the licenses to the book sellers, the to publishers, they might not have

book. [laughter] my publisher also sort of times in, don't do that. well i can't help it. i needed to talk about these characters. if you know what i do, you know that what i don't do is write history books. it is not names, dates, places, fact and figures. i'm a storyteller, not a historian. that is a very important distinction to me. a lot of people say you are a historian. a lot of historians of say, no you're not. you don't have the phd. the bona fides. they are right. i don't pretend to. my job is to tell you good stories. that is the lesson i learned from my father, sitting around the dinner table as a kid listening to my father as the 12-year-old, 10-year-old at the table listening to the old man tell his story. that made an impression on me. i realized if i'm going to do this, it's not about the facts and figures, it is about getting you involved in the story with me. taking you with me back to the time. well, i had done civil war and left civil war and said goodbye to robert e lee

which is a book by a guy named delbert king. is about the life of thurogood marshall before he was ever anyone's judge but was mitigating cases in the south at tremendous risk to himself but basically fighting for justice. so those are just three of them and i'm reading at least two books at all times so that's what i will be doing in july. booktv continues with a look at the increasing importance governments and businesses are giving to the idea of happiness in order to increase economic performance. will davies author of "the happiness industry" takes a look at this trend and questions if it really is good for us. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> hello everyone. welcome to the powerhouse arena. this is your first time here i would like to say that this is the arena portion of our evening which is to say we have a great event for you tonight. we regularly have awesome events but we are very excited for this one, the book launch of "the happiness industry" with will davies and simon critchley. neither progr

>> well one of the books -- as you can see here, we have our four big books for the year. one -- for the fall season, i should say. one book that we're particularly excited for is american space coast. ned is a longtime author with chicago review press. history bereaves that the -- believes that america's wealth came from importing slaves and then slave labor and that was actually in south carolina. virginia was actually slave breeding and it became south carolina v. virginia for kind of where the slave industry was going to be, like where the power came from. and thanks to thomas jefferson virginia won. so this is actually, this is kind of an alternative history. this is something that a lot of people don't know about. so ned and constance have done years of research. it's the unofficial sequel to his book which new orleans a lot of slaves who were brought in from the kind of from haiti and cuba and also from africa. so that is one that we're very excited for. it's an october title. >> host: and are you going to send the author on tour one that booktv would look at coveri

you can watch on book tv.org. book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading the summer. >> just last weekend i finished a book about churchill and roosevelt during role world war ii the title is fords and war. by warren kimball i found it very fascinating because most of the books i've read our history and even though i was a teenager to you kind of livid again and you get into real detail when you read something about roosevelt and churchill. you think you know both of them because they are outstanding people but you really don't know much about their details until you get to reading it. >> yes. >> and that i want to say that i started now on a book called heart and american odyssey, by dick cheney and doctor reiner. reiner is the dr. who has been cheney's heart doctor for i suppose about 25 or 30 years and was involved with his heart transplants so in this book you learn about dr. reiner as an outstanding heart specialist and you also learn about doctor reiner taking care

i have them in the book. general consensus is that it was some kind of platform structure with wooden wheels and wooden axles and cotton bales on top that i would roll toward the enemy to protect them as the wasn't forward. unfortunately for the cotton bale and the boat, a soldier fired a piece of fuse from a smooth bore musket into it, and it burned down. well, they built another one but more traditional. that's what a sap roller is. i tried to make is at exciting as possible. let's be honest. >> tim, you had in your book about the secession convention, there was a picture, a guy from the new york tribune who talked his way into the secession convention. if you could tell us more about this guy. he fascinates me. >> albert richardson. albert richardson is an interesting character. in fact he wrote a book, i think 1865, 1866, got all of his adventures in it, and apparently he managed to somehow show up in jackson, right about the time of the secession convention, and didn't tell anybody who he was or where he

that was a scholarly book and this book is equally a scholarly book. the difference between a scholarly book and a book that is not a scholarly book i think in the modesty of the author and making them visible all at the incredible archival work that he has done all of the notetaking and the months and months of questioning and finding sources thinking critically about things. kevin has written a wonderful new book that is just now being published and i believe the hardback copies are out there which i think you should all buy buy. this book is called "buckley and mailer" the difficult friendship that shaped the sixties. it of course deals with the friendship between william buckley and norman mailer a friendship i didn't know existed until i read your book. so i guess i will start out by asking you how did you know this friendship existed? how did you get started on this book collects. >> thank you very much for coming and that generous introduction. this book was so much fun to write because they knew of both of these larger-than-life figures. norman

another book. a marriage and the question was can you pry it apart the lives of two people who basically spend their entire lives in a closed room together? it's an interesting marriage because everything, much of what he writes she edits and what she says he writes in foreign transit correspondent. you have is real melding of the twtwo personalities and and thit it to see if i could somehow akin to pride in a part. >> what is your background? >> i'm from a small then in massachusetts which perhaps explains and obsession with satan. i'm totally fascinated by insource multi-massachusetts life as you can see. i went to williams actually, so i was in massachusetts for many years and then i went into publishing when i finished school. >> into the business of publishing? >> exactly. >> do you consider yourself a historic? >> arrived of more than a historian in the sense my emphasis is usually on the narrative. the research is important i want the reader to want to turn the page so i'm not interested so

poplar books had waiting list. so you could sign up to be the next person in line to read a specific title if you heard it was a good one. now the books are incredibly popl poplar. i like to have the men themselves tell you how they felt about the bkthha me >> >> so the first broke the one to start off with is the very first armed services addition to be printed it you know, that because the a series was the first day of the book number one. basically it has the bunch of short sketches not difficult reading but meant to entertain to talk about what they admit to the unit and i want to figure profoundly for myself and more importantly for the men here is in this godforsaken parts of the world. we fly by day near the persian gulf no one knows. last week we received your book i read it in and roared with laughter as experiment i read it one night at camp fire in the men were calling for cry have not heard such laughter in months now they demand i only read one story a night it is a ration on pleasure. for the men who

that's not said in the book. that's my interpretation of what's in the book. final point, the all volunteer force. i agree with senator warner on this and reading this book i would argue that chapter 14, the chapter on the all-volunteer forces is worth the price of the book undo itself. that chapter, i think, provides the best account i have seen of the politics behind the creation of the all volunteer force. i learn so much reading that chapter alone. it shows how crucial laird was in managing the gate commission which is, of course, the blue ribbon commission created to look into the all volunteer force. it shows his role working with martin anderson and the white house. george schultz, milton freedman and others, things you would not expect the secretary of defense to do. it shows quite inclusively how important the pay increase was, the 20% pay increase that was given to military service men and women. the lottery, use of the lottery and the end of draft calls on july 19th, 1973. the volume shows that laird recognized senator warner said so well that the a

very good book. i recommend those angry days which is about to lead up to world war ii here in the united states and the time between isolation and others, which is sort of similar of what's going on today. i just am not too long ago read six more row. you know, i love to read so i'm reading something else. i just finished reading man in profile which is the biography of mitchell. so that's a few. so anyway, that's a few. >> it's reading poetry night at the ballpark and other scenes from an alternative america by bill cosman. tweet us your answer at book tv or you can post it on our page facebook.com/booktv. >> missouri senator shares stories from her time in politics. senator will be on book tv's afterwards program in the near future. reports on urban police. also being published vice president of foreign policy council officer concerns and sanctions on iran and iran's deadly ambition. to mark the upcoming tenth anniversary of katrina several look back in the storm and the after math. he'll discuss

e-mail us at book tv at c-span.org. >> now joining us on book tv is philip kotler, prof. at northwestern university. prof. what you teach and how long a few been at the university. >> believe it or not i've been here 50 years and i and i have taught all of the mba students. more recently i am confining my teaching here at northwestern to the executive programs where we get business people who come for a week to learn about pricing or advertising or finance and so on. >> what is your background, how did

the national book award for 2000 nominated for the book critics circle award. in 2002-2003 was awarded a guggenheim fellowship for his book obsession a history. davis has been a guest on npr and articles have appeared in "the new york times," the nation, "chicago tribune" and the chronicle of higher education. please join in welcoming lennard davis to the national archives. [applause] >> thank you for coming. there was interest in. when doug introduced me he said that it was the hidden history and is thinking today what i wanted to focus on is the difference between a story in the history. that was a fortunate alteration. let's see. i just did something totally wrong. so that's the book. in the u.s. in many places around the world, the heroes and narratives of the civil rights act of 1964 are well known. images and events are emblazoned in the imaginary world history minds. we know little about the civil rights act of 1990 also known as the ada. i wrote this book to talk about that history. you know, the images we have from the 1964 civil rights act are emblazo

so that was the backdrop to my book, but it was not the book. but you could see 50 years ago a lot of the elements of what -- of the troubles that were to come. alwaysnomy is then and too based on cars. the political leaders in 1963, the heart of the book, understood that they had to change that. they are trying to get defense technologies and adjusted not happen. the auto industry was leaving detroit. which was a long, slow process. the detroit suffered from its its own success. it is this huge geographical .ity, 25 miles across it was built on a prosperous -- whenmiddle class that industry left, you -- and the jobs were gone. i would drive through the area as a little boy. and three out of every eight houses leveled or burned or abandoned. so it has the difficulty of all of this lost land and property. >> how did it change? when did it start changing? david: it changed over a very long period of time. i found a very interesting document as i was researching the book. the tendency is to say that detroit collapse is caused by a series of events,

[laughter] so that book, that book has done well.t the moment i am writing a memoir, which is the hardest thing i've ever written. it's called "old in art school." t because i was old -- because i was old in art school. [laughter] and people say, well, why do you use the word "old"? can't you say older? [laughter] no. say it loud. i'm old and i'm proud. [laughter] [applause] >> i want to go to q&a, but can you give just a few sentences on the transition to art school from being a historian to -- >> yeah. so it started with sojourner truth, the sojourner truth photographs. i didn't know anything about photographs, so i went over to mark han which is the art a history library of princeton which is, it's just -- it's heaven. so there are all these books on everything on art. the only problem is you can't take them out. so i would just sit there and is read and read and read and learn about photographs and images and the rhetoric of the images, and i just loved it. so that started me. and then i thought -- my mother, actually, started a

at 8:15 congressmen talks about recent book, guardian of the republic. followed at 10:00 with charles thoughts on how to reduce the power of the federal government through the use of technology and at 11:00 a look at japan as tomorrow marks the anniversary of the u.s. bombing. >> the corner and joining us right now is one of the actors that's exhibiting and talking about his book. he's the author of gas money. >> it's a little small town in virginia. >> why does it matter to you? >> it provided me with the foundation that i ended up with, it's the place that made me me. all of the people that changed my life, that's where everyone organize -- when i left in 74 the population has doubled. it's a very small town. everyone knows everyone. that makes it kind of unique. it's pretty much small-town america. yes, sir. i agree up going to segregated schoolsment we intergrated in 1969. when the changes were taking around the country they were also taking place in s -- >> how many schools were there? >> one black elementary school and one white elementary, one bla

rick perry has a book called fed up. he explains that government has become too intrusive and must get out of the way. in american dreams, marco have enough spare can sees but haven't released books. released this past july. this is live coverage of the inaugural mississippi book festival in jackson, mississippi. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. we welcome you to the mississippi book festival, to our harper lee panel. the rules the we have up in esre, there will be no if you actually made it in youe. with beverages and would like ty ask you to go to a garbage can and places in the garbage can. the next thing, please everyone silence your cell phones.hones. we need everyone at this particular moment to please silence your cell phones. i would like to introduce the moderator amanda nelson. she is the managing editor of a riot the largest book site ink north america. she's also a judge of theal 2016th translated book award and is an expert on the topic she is about to lead on thehe discussion

any history book -- non history book is definitive. it's always a work in progress. i am quite prepared to revise my views in view of criticism, in view of new evidence, particularly in the area where you are dealing with in conclusiveness. you have to engage in speculation. you have to engage in speculation, and i think speculation is a very legitimate area of the historical profession. patricularly, for instance, the emperor -- a series of conversations between the emperor and his most important advisor. those conversations are not recorded, and who played the most important role in this whole thing on the american side? that's byrnes, and byrnes and truman, after many, many numerous conversations, byrnes was the most important person on the uss augusta on the way from the united states to potsdam. those conversations are not recorded. right? so we have to of course speculate. you can accuse me of the speculations being not plausible, but you cannot really tell me or tell anybody to produce the evidence, the smoking gun, because there is no such thing. it's very un