this book that i've interviewed him about. it's quite a book good book. i look forward to that as well. i am also interviewing second mountain. i haven't interviewed him before in the book. that's a book i am looking forward to doing. andrew roberts about his book on churchill. which may be the definitive walt one volume book on churchill. i have interviewed him before. i am interviewing to other people about economic related people. what about asian and one about the us economy. i'm looking forward to that. >> peter slen: you've interviewed several supreme court justices about their books. define that there's a uniqueness to that group? >> david rubenstein: i've interviewed the chief of justice, not about his book but about his life. i've interviewed mayor, ginsberg and will do so again shortly at the 96 second white in new york. recently i interviewed justice thomas, this is spring historical society event. all of them are very intelligent people they love the law and they live the law. they really are quite articulate and they really are quite good int

hitler persevered in 1928 he wrote a 2nd book that became known as hitler's secret book. the sequel was also a barrel and lee aggressive work but it remained unprinted during hitler's lifetime the publisher turned it down citing the poor sales of mine can. mine come might also have faded into obscurity. but history was about to take a fateful turn. in 1929 a severe economic depression hit the united states by 930 its impact was in full force in an already economically weakened to germany by 932 germany had an official unemployment rate of almost 30 percent. in the 1930 elections traditional parties saw fallen support hitler's nazi party went from just under 3 percent to 18 percent of the vote. sales of mine can't suddenly so worth. its salt 54000 copies in 1930 alone. people wanted to know what hitler was thinking. what he wanted he had now become part of the german political system. the book also helped to boost hitler's image in his quest for power. sas walked into stablished hitler's credibility now he was no longer regarded simply as a political agitator an orator but

>> damn books. why do they banned a book if they do not believe that it will change a mind and heart in the ways people banning don't want to have happen next >> me and a couple of others, and i also covered the iranian resolutiorevolution so i wasn'ta position to promise they never read the book. he never did. some idiot from his circle read the book and published a review in a non- islamic reviewer pointed out it's being challenged in the form of satire and they decided to go ahead. thousands were banned by a movement i was proud of being stupid and haven't read very many books. with the exception of hitler he read a lot but didn't understand a lot. just as it is impossible to understand my lifeless changed and to come back to what's going on now in america, i promise you do you think that henry miller would find a publisher in america today or would there be a hash tag so how does this happen quite out of the attitudes change and improve it remains a mystery and put a lot of sociologists. >> i wo

he doesn't just write books, he writes books that matter. books that people read and people absorb and pay attention to. he didn't just say something, he had something important to say when he was writing and speaking. he showed he still had an important role to play as an outside counselor. he read the real work in 80 and was inspired by and carried it around with him at one time. in many ways, this led him to have an even closer relationship with nixon. nixon relished the chance. the only power he had left, his mind and ideas to influence policy. it gives counsel the influence with his ideas on things big and small. let me give you an example of something small. shortly after reagan becomes president, he wants ways to take advantage of reagan's ability. nixon said, i have a great mind, reagan has a great gun. he's a guy with tremendous ability, he can speak to the country, rally the country and nixon sees this and wants to take advantage of it. early in the reagan administration, nixon sends memo to reagan's longtime communication advisor,

can i borrow someone's book? [laughter] i forgot, i left my book in there. yeah, i should know this book by heart. [laughter] thank you, i'll give this right back. so if i could set this up, you know, it was what was known as a nasa ice bridge flight. and i ended up, you know, with this team for about a week, and what you would do is you would show up in this town, and the nasa team was there. it was a team of technologists, and they had outfitted a special plane that was a c-130 military plane. the inside was pretty much emptied out of seats, but they had put, you know, all sorts of special equipment within the inside of it. and this plane was sort of a state of the art vehicle to measure the ice from above. and you would wake up in the morning, and then you would follow a certain route on any particular day, and the plane would measure the ice from above in a variety of different ways, by radar, by laser and photography too. so i'm going to pick up with that first day, i think, if i could. it was on my first flight for, with the nasa team on the c-130, and

we loved the book. when i finished it i called elizabeth and she said have you run out of hideous men? is the book done, so she understood. we just thought it was a merry romp. we thought it was so fun. the dog was hilarious and the people are hilarious and i had this fabulous list of hideous men, each one more hideous than the last, a serial killer and just really great hideous men and dorie knew this was going to make a bit of a thing, so she made the book embargo. i was pretty surprised, yeah, the moment i was surprised lori abraham, a great editor at new york magazine put together next her and i went into new york magazine for the program and jodi the art director said e. jean this is amanda and she did a great cosby photo. remember with the 35 women? remember that? amanda is there and that's when they said this will be the cover and that's what i told dorie, really that's the moment because i said don't tell me that, yeah. >> as we talked about as i hope you will see in the book you are literary fi

his book includes brain, safari and tonight's book is all substation. if everyone could give a round of apostle commack. >> hi. again thank you for coming. thank you for showing up, we want to think diane for organizing this event along with kim peart who is here in spirit if not a person into the bookstore in los angeles. erica's had an unbelievable literally and metaphorically career and for we get into this true story of spy craft which is an amazing book which is even better if you buy more than one copy. the book gets better with every copy that you buy. i want to begin by asking you, what did you do at disney imagineering and how did you end up there? and how did that take you to the nsa? >> disney as executive vice president of engineering and we design and build theme parks but we also had a broader mandate under michael eisner to invent new technology for the whole copy. themepark rights, new broadcast technology, internet games, consumer products. >> and how did that, what made that make the in assay say we could use a buddy like you. >> that

thank you for your book.for what you've done in your writing and how it will continue to drift into the minds of many people. but even so i hope that it will be the spur that many need in order to vote and make the difference. thank you very much. [applause] works he only had time for one more question. one more question. >>. >> i was going to do to but. >> just one. [laughter] >> miss purdy, this is for you, i've had the pleasure of having you as an educator when i was in eighth grade, seventh grade 8th grade, now you are here. could you explain your journey from being a school administrator and an independent school here in mississippi to a writer? >> two minutes. >> thank you john. that's john sand who now works at the mississippi civil rights museum, we are very proud of him and the work he's doing. . thank you for that question. don is correct. as i mentioned i grew up attending st. andrew's episcopal school graduated there what they call alpha omega graduate. i went there from kindergarten and 12th grad

and in this book why did you decide to write this book. that is a story of our political transformation. at what point did you stop describing yourselves as a marxist. when a woman that i have accrued it to for the black panty panther party was murdered and that was really the end of my career in the left. on the white power structure. it is what they do today. only they blame it on trump a lot of people don't remember at this time the violence of those years. before we get into that new book mortality and faith and in faith and it picks up your story with your seminal book i was raised by communist card-carrying, our whole community. where were you raised and raise and what is that community. the upper west side of manhattan yes. but sunnyside, i lived in the development of world houses. eleanor roosevelt broke the ground there. the backyards they have a comments and the interesting thing was when that forty-year easement was lifted everybody extended their backyards into the center. that's what they left as always fighting. that's where

the key chapter of the book may be the key chapter of the book is about the late 19th century strugglewhite southerners to win the battle for historical memory. that is to define how the country was going to remember slavery and the civil war. in the aftermath of the civil war. the struggle for what they called the movement. to commemorate what they called the lost cause. william logan, the father of these three sisters had been obscure private in the actual war that he made his name as a colonel in the united confederate veterans. he devoted his life to this project. most important for my story he also inculcated his three daughters with his devotion to the cause he trained them in what was then the male identified art oratory and deployed them around the south as girl orators and veterans reunions. needless to say, this upbringing had a profound impact on their lives. each of the sisters groveled with the legacy of that upbringing in a different way. elizabeth the oldest was pushed at the boundaries of womanhood in her own way but she did not stray very far from her father's teaching

for the los angeles books awarded the national book award and the pulitzer prize. she had a hell of a year. victoria johnson holds a degree from yale and sociology from columbia and is an associate professor of policy and planning at hunter college degree of she speaks tonight of course with jojohn a frequent contributor. she writes on science, nature, technology and the best-selling first book the idea factory published in 2012 posts a story of the research wing of at&t and its impact on american innovation throughout the 20th century. of the new book usa today writes a review that cannot five minutes ago the ice at the end of the world offers a compelling narrative about the intrepid human beings whose curiosity about the world worse then to forbidding places and you will also find it when they go there they bring hot chocolate. elizabeth was at a gripping and important book. we will open the floor to questions from all of you in the program. meanwhile please welcome victoria johnson. [applause] >> i want to begin by congratulating you on the brilliant and import

good book tv .org. >> we don't do many children's books on book tv but we are going to feature yours. apply now. why do you think were going to talk about your book. >> is an adult children book but it is perfectly good for children but is also high political and what i really appreciate including you having me on the show. if you recognize the it is a political book for grown-ups. when it first came out, he was never one new release on amazon three weeks in a rope in both children's environmental books and adult political book. it has humor. people get this. it is all about environmental issues. it is basically beginning with a father reading to his terrified child. terrified about global warming and just one by one, go through and i studied the political. i go through all of the fairies apopka .-ellipsis is, my made up plural for apocalypses. the irony is, you can't have more than one apocalypse. and not even once, all the way back to when i was a child, when they first threatened global cooling and freezing. after the there was a hole in the ozone the was going to get us. after the

, great book. aggregate help you figure out these books. >> before i was those things, i was looking at anything in the arctic when i decided to become a writer. >> we hear that all the time. >> and that science background helps a lot of when i decided to get off that track. i got to sports illustrated as a checker about six years older than the people i was checking for but soon realized that what i would say in my ordinary science were totally extraordinary in the context of a sports magazine so i started zooming from fact checker to youngest senior writer in a few weeks because of taking something like intellectual arbitrage of taking something ordinary in one area and putting it toward the extraordinary a the most useful thing for my books in a lot of ways. the sports gene and sports illustrated was obvious, i was a science writer for sports illustrated and have these questions about the balance of nature and nurture in sports from my own sports participation and viewing and i wanted to investi

expressed in his book. there he spoke of war not peace with the reply that he had changed on this just as any politician would do when confronted by a texan who painted in his youth he said if not change so you can read all the book from jail and anger and now he was chancellor 2 more just one more law. the interview appeared on the front page of the matter one of the largest circulation french newspapers of the day it included a reassuring quote from headline or. war it would settle nothing it would only make matters worse for the world. but in germany the ideas contained in the book continue to gain traction in public sentiment and on the streets. propaganda minister yourself goebbels read excerpts of mine come on the radio. and high degree seems even developed enough. horrible radio in order to disseminate its propaganda into every home in schools some teachers literally sang hitler's praises on the head was or. was. yes yes was was that. yes. by now hitler was putting his manifesto into practice his ant

a good book one is in cold blood. why? >> it is a really good book. [laughter] >> it michael is a teacher of high school students. >> as we look at this list look at the purpose we are assigning any of these books and at the undergraduate level has to be with building community. if you look back at the first book that you mentioned it is a very privileged position to be a college freshman and getting reminders of the forgotten workforce that is a problem at your front door or whether you are just walking by somebody who could be on staff and you forget about that every day when you walk back to your dorm. that is a powerful reminder but secondary school is perspective and looking from one single act to see from a variety of viewpoints and with a group of girls at that age i am thinking what was dominating the news cycle last september and october that has a lot to do with perspective, memories and how you experience events. trying to gain the experience and the know-how in an academic setting to separate yourself from the primary situation on the page

>> watch book tv for live coverage of the national book festival. today starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern, our coverage includes author interviews with justice ruth bader ginsburg on her book my own words. david sawyer, his book is the heartbeat of wounded me. sheriff robinson talks about her book, child of the dream. rick atkinson author of the british are coming in thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book super mice. the national book festival, life today at tenney and eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> david rubenstein, how did you get involved in the national book festival? >> it came about through serendipity. i had been involved in the madison council which is the support arm of the labor of congress a number of years ago led by jim billington. i said for 28 years for the library congress and retired a couple years ago. he told me that the national book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked jim billington around the time of the inau

that's the end of my book. what we need to do. but dahlia the important thing is, you and i have just had this important discussion. had i not written the book we wouldn't have the discussion i've traveled around the country and "newsweek" but the book on its cover, because of el paso and dayton and things have not changed. you don't want chicago to fade interest the enemy -- want charlottesville to fade into the memory. wedded a tragedy in virginia beach. people don't remember the 12 people killed in virginia beach. we can't let all of the lessons and the thing that occurred in charlottesville be froggen. i wam to memorialize that and it's important to have the conversation and we're having this conversation today, conversation on race, and it's important. racism exists. we have to defeat it. we have only made some progress. we have a long, long way to go. >> host: that's the perfect place to end this, governor and i want to thank you so much for your time and for this book and for helping us remember a day that was -- two days t

not because they have a great book idea but because they always assume that i write cat books. [laughter] not that there's anything wrong with that. [laughter] my facebook page is basically cats. so immediately of under the impression they don't take me seriously as the adult human being. that's why don't tell people of a writer. and then rewrite series - - serious characters i just can't listen to them because the reason they like the books they are surprised. >> that's all i care about. >> he don't ever hear of a representative sample of your audience but the extroverts. they are a tiny fraction. if somebody goes up to they don't know i like you i don't like something that you wrote is not normal. [laughter] it is a tiny snippet of humanity or they write letters to the editor or comments. spec if you hear 400 comments in a row does that come to your mind at all quick. >> i think it is key and i don't want writers writing what they think they want to read. and then and also the same about any artist. and then to start writing about the committee that loves your work the most,

to write books and that's exactly what we've. during that time he's written 7 novels 5 short story collections and a memoir and become world famous his best known character is named frank bascombe he 1st turned up in a sports writer in 1986 back then bascom was a divorced failed writer in his late thirty's he became the hero actually the antihero of 3 further books bascom changed careers battled cancer and fought about life and the state of the nation his observations were ironic conic and grand. we catch up with richard ford in hamburg he's come here to accept a literary award for his life's work. it's a thrill to interview this renowned author but nerve wracking too as ford has a reputation for getting unpleasant when he's annoyed. with course the next question these have to be better than that. for instance when fellow writer alice huffman wrote a negative review of his novel the sportswriter for it got a copy of one of her books picked up his gun and so he says shot it. then he mailed her what was left of it. so let's focus o

and i knew gunter so i'm embarrassed to say i knew him and his books but i did he read your books of course not going to ask you know he didn't. want to read. what a laughable faith. and i don't hold it against him i mean some young american writer really doesn't know you know stealing away the audience from that might be his books i don't blame him i wouldn't read me. is richard ford really that self-deprecating or just trying to be funny. if there are any literary wish one burning desire that you have not fulfilled yet i never had it to begin with so. all i ever wanted to do was my best. and i've done that i've written some good books i've stayed married to the girl i loved all these years i this. i have in my brain and then my notebook all kinds of things that interest me i have another frank bascombe book not written but more or less ready to be written so if the book that i'm writing now doesn't succeed in my own terms i have something else to do. i try to make it be. wife. thank you with the fork you very much it's a pleasure you know where the pleasure of to me if you're a cou

i want to read more books off your books. i love talking to authors and i love interviewing them about the books and how they came about to write these books. >> cochair of the national book festival a big room and sign, we will see him on labor day weekend. >> david rubenstein: thank you very much. >> watch book tv is alive coverage saturday august 31st starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern, our coverage governs author my own words. david trier, his book is the heartbeat of wounded knee. sharon robinson talks about her book child of the dream. rick atkinson author of the british are coming. and thomas malone, sounding director of the mit center for collective intelligence. discusses his book super mines. the national book festival. life saturday august 31st at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span two. recently on book tvs author interview program afterwards, cnn's interviewed former trump organization executive vice president george soja on his time working for donald trump. there's this misconception out there that president tr

we have the book. if you would like to purchase one, they are available. >> history bookshelf features the best known american history writers of the past decade talking about their books. you can watch more here on american history tv on c-span three. tonight at 8:00 p.m., female activists and the 1960's civil rights movement. >> while women were instrumental in helping to put the marches together, the event was purely dominated i men. sunday, the global significance of the declaration of independence during and after the american revolution. -- many of the made their way to columbia, venezuela and ecuador. this half-century known to scholars as the age of revolution. >> at 6:00 p.m., eyewitness account from inside the white house during the apollo 11 lunar landing. >> we really staked ourselves into the cabinet room. windowsd see that the were dark into nighttime. at 4:15r module landed p.m. and the astronauts did not walk until later. ,> next on american history tv four former apollo era flight cont

so my book wild bill i had no intention to write this book it snuck up on me. ai couple years ago i wrote about dodge city and dodge city kansas it when the book came out it was successful higher than a world war ii story but my editor said is there another iconic western figure you can think of that deserves to have treatment? and the name that popped up right away was wild bill because it's a name we all whack it - - recognize wild bill hickok but also was a gunfighter. so let me do some research. so yes he was a gunfighter and during the civil war the deadliest martial of abilene kansas. he was a broadway performer and a star in theater and gambler was in deadwood south dakota but one of the joys of working on the book so with that did associated with calamity jane with a big love affair but actually the love of his life and the woman he married one of the major of the barnum & bailey. and then to fell in love and took a few years with those unexpected places turning into a remarkable person. thank you. >> first i would like to give a shout out and then to a

for some books we have as many as seven book manuscript versions. a lot of evidence of the writers process, medical records. we will talk about all of that. one thing that stayed steady all of his writing life was that he loved manual typewriters. we have many, many photographs of him in the archive at a different model of manual typewriter. not electric. i have a couple of them hear from -- that are in the archive, that were gifted to us. what is a desk model. you know, it is a standard royal typewriter. that we know he used in stationary settings. we also have one of his portable typewriters. this is my favorite. it tells a lot about ivan doig himself in my opinion. look at this and thank, if you owned this you might actually throw it out. but what it tells us is that ivan was incredibly frugal. he used everything, this is his bungee cord, by the way. he used everything until it fell apart essentially. cover --ve an already cover on a 1950's portable olivetti typewriter. is held together with duct tape, it has a correcting tape still in it. we hav

>> when you get into that, people have the need -- first of all this book is not a political book and there is politics and it but it's out of. a level. i think this might be the best book i've written and people who have read it certainly feel it in the writing and so forth. >> the writing is very beautiful. i have read parts of this book all the way through -- it's a joke, i read parts of this book all the way through. it is very beautiful so you're right -- >> the mortality that were thrown into this world and people have a great need to think of their lives as meaningful, the idea that we are all going to disappear someday and be forgotten is very hard for people to take. so they develop various kinds of faiths. in their faith because you cannot know that god exists. you can know -- i quote stalin in this book and you can know through the heart but you cannot know with your intellect. nobody can prove that god exists and that he does not exist or she. >> with interviewing you -- >> your man of religious faith but this is my perspective. >> so people develop the faith, it can be a

. >> watch book tv every weekend on c-span two. sumac up next on book tv. casey kept takes a look at author harper lee's attempt to write it true crime book. and later, columnist george will shares his thoughts on the state of american conservatism with his latest, the conservative sensibility. [inaudible conversation] >> can you hear me okay. my name is rebecca and i'm on the events team and tonight we are really excited to have [applause] [inaudible conversation] this is not his first thing he has given us to write. casey has been writing for new yorkers and new york times, for others for many years now. many of you probably noticed because you are here but in all of her work she has been superhuman ability to make everybody else fascinating. it's a clear and this could not be more true for this book. in this one, casey marks to intertwining mysteries. one is a story of reverend billy maxwell in his trials and the other unfinished work of character. stories with contagious dedication to seeing them through and doing them as must --dash justice is possible

effective durational book.it couldn't have been written 20 years ago because i can now search databases to find them. one of the things i can do is to re-create their social lives. the black community in the early 1900s since updates. the white newspaper didn't put their stories in the newspaper. i can search it, i find what they are doing and going to church and participating in reading groups. it's something very exciting about writing applicant american history we can recover what was erased because they are included in newspapers and archives. >> are to open up for questions from the audience. if you do have a question for our panelists, i'd like you to go to the microphone at the podium. any questions for our panelists? >> is this on parks. >> yes. they can hear you with that one. >> i am patricia, i'm the legal project director for the mississippi immigrants rights alliance. i have more of a comment than a question. i enjoyed listening to all of you talk about your books. but i didn't talk about the raids

please go buy a book. read it. it is a wonderful book.one way linda taylor was very lucky that she found you to write about her. and it's an extraordinary book and congratulations. >> thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> the new c-span online store now has book tv products. go to c-spanstore.org to check them out, see what is new for book tv and all the cesium products. here is a look at her life tuesday coverage on c-span oppressed converts on the senate to take action on gunfire contracts legislation by the house. at 230 eastern, chronic presidential candidate pete buttigieg speaks of thigh was safer. on c-span2, we will hear from the defense undersecretary for research and engineering on what the pentagon is doing in the areas of 5g, missile-defense and other technologies. at 1230 the senate hold a session during august recess window as they do business schedule. at ten eastern officials from microsoft and facebook during the discussion on the campaigns and how to counter them. >> walked book tv for live coverage

so many boring books i quote. and then using the curiosity the 1890s, i'm not going to read the whole part because he would die and there is a baby crying. [laughter] he basically says that it is a tough become an emblem of mortality. death and life all in one tree, but i wasn't thinking of all this when i picked very. i was thinking about the broken pieces of my life i would have to pick up. i was longing for a way ou way i squished the seed out of the dairy into the ground and immediately regretted it. for the rest of the day nostalgia works like this. it's a protection of poisonous. it offers a shield in the weaponry that often turns on those who touch it. it's both everlasting in harbinger of death. they memorialized it writing social plant that loves to dwell with the shades beneath the cold moon as the same reports for the mystic realms no other tree. what a burn. i imagine blair writing this and shaking his fist, his face also probably aching with allergies within eternal battle. when i see mark i feel the

i wanted the book to be democratic. i wanted to look at their lives and take their stories seriously because without them, there would be no story to tell about harper lee in this book. and without their stories too, there would not be a satisfying explanation for why it was so hard for her to write like interested in religion and all it takes and so those two characters are every bit as interesting to me but i tried to be democratic not only in the writing but in the he researching. and thinking through the structure of the book so i'm going to go with all three equally which is to say i refuse to answer the question . >> and in panels like this they call it pocketing the tennis ball, he threw me something nice but i pocketed the tennis ball. >> i would say george remus was by far the most bizarre character i've ever come across in history and i've come across a few but the person i think i was most amazed by on several different levels was the mabel walker will grant was also a character on boardwalk empire named esth

best-selling author of several books. her newest book is amazon's best book. maybe some of you read this, it captures the bill of that age and its gangsters. they also call her book a well researched and highly engaging work filled with intriguing infidelity, murder and headline catching courtroom drama. glad to have you with us. casey is author of curious hours, which recent reviews in the commercial described as her ravishing debut. casey lives in the eastern shore of maryland. she is a graduate of harvard and one in advanced degree in theology. she's already winning all sorts of commercial appeal. the pacing of a thriller, serious hours reveals full possession of her gilts. then we have those of us were old enough to remember the tv show, the untouchables. [laughter] some of us remember that and more recently the film. he worked as co-author with max of scarface. another era, it features a couple of familiar characters for those of us old enough to remember that. it's one of my favorite cities in chicago. no class of authority then. they call the book of gr

doing my work on my book about americans, which is the book that preceded the wright brothers, i had been researching into which americas were in france at the turn-of-the-century and deciding whether to continue my book audience of the 20th century. and lo and behold iran into wilbur wright thought what the hell is he doing in paris. he is supposed to be in ohio. and then i read what he was writing about, there was letters back to his sister,t and father in which he described as a excitement overseen the great paintings. he went every chance he had and he went to study the interiors of the great gothic cathedral which are reaching up into the sky which is exactly his ambition. and i thought, this is not the way most of us think of him. and i will pursue this and then i found out about catherine, his sister who is one of the most remarkable americans i have ever come to know. and of course she went to overton and one of the first women to go there and her letters to them as well as of others letters were extraordinary. one of the greatest lines in my view of everything the great brot

and people who have written books by journalists. i'm a fan of many science books that are written by either group i've been thinking about what are the differences. one that comes to mind is journalists seem to really like to write about the science life along with the science. sometimes it's really useful and sometimes it seems like too much information. but i wonder. >> i think we have crossed the tmi barrier already. stay neck and just wondering if you had any thoughts either about that part of it like why you think it's valuable to have a graphical information or a book written by a scientist versus a journalist. >> i guess i'm the scientist. i am very grateful for those who can delve deeply into topics and bring them effectively to attention in ways that scientists aren't often very good app. on the other hand i think it's really important for scientists to become better communicators and writers. i think we need both in people who come from outside the sciences it can sometimes be difficult for those inside. there is definitel

send them books. send my book. i am biased but is a good book right. [applause] [laughter] i believe my story will resonate with at least some of these people behind the fence. how you could support, you can sendd some books to some folks. you should read it, it's a good book, then send it off. put it in the hands of people who my story willes resonate wi. it's an excellent book. >> i will vouch for that, it is an excellent book. >> while why were you not allowed to use primary colors in prison. >> chris wilson: someone has read the book. [laughter] followed me on social media. in prison, at least in the state of maryland, the primary colors are gang activity. that wasn't allowed.us it was gray and may be like some but everything else is forbidden. you see my art, monday motives, picasso and stuff i use a lot of vibrant primary colors my work because i was deprived of it so much. >> chris wilson: they did allow us to use some primary colors but you couldn't do a red truck or redshirt. you just weren't allowed to use the vibrant colors like that. >> thi

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and an opportunity to write a book. can you give us a sense of what's next if you write a proposal or find a publisher, how do you take this idea from your mind and turn it into a finished product? what are some of the steps that go into that? >> it was very fortunate i was working with an editor at scribner who i had worked with on my two previous books and so i didn't have a contract with him but i was speaking to him maybe once a month about the fact that i had been invited into this classroom and how it was going in at the beginning, my phone calls went something like there is no way i could possibly write a book about this classroom, nobody is saying anything. i can't get to know the students died on stories where they are from. there'there is no dialogue, no character development, there's just a nice teacher going around saying basic things like how are you, what is your name, where are you from, and very basic questions and i thought this would be a terrible book. and my long-time editor said this is really unusu

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writing about in the book about piracy in the 1800s my next book is on hurricanes. although my next book is 500 year history of hurricanes actually mentions the à brothers fairly extensively for another reason. you'll have to read the book to find out why. [laughter] >> thank you. >> come on up. >> for each of the three authors the subjects of the books we been talking about today what do you think would be the best american movie that accurately portrays what you found in your research? >> stomped. the muppets treasure island. [laughter] the close second being the donees. captain blood is very good. i like the pirates of caribbean moving's but their little light on some of the real history. >> i'm not a huge movie guy but the closest thing that the bank robbery i write about harkens back to is the gangster arrow. where they go in with guns blazing or end up with guns blazing. anybody remember a name of a gangster movie? [laughter] >> unfortunately when it comes to cops and robbers shoot them ups and things like that most of them are terribly inaccurate and a little

i chose to tell the story of my publishing travails on my last book in my current book which is much more personal than my prior writing in part in order to inspire all the struggling writers out there who are facing rejection after rejection of whom there may be a few in the house. and i did resist the impulse to topple over the exhibit by all of the houses that rejected a problem from hell as i was, but you know. >> the chip is still there. >> i think fundamentally, to write a book which is such an unpleasant experience, it requires having a question that you are burning to know the answer to. so for problem from hell, it was why do we think we stop genocide and yet when it happens we have a hard time recognizing it? what's up with that? what are the mechanics of how that works but it was simple, it was a question i was posed and being posed all the time which is what did you learn when you went from being an outsider and a critic to being inside and what would you tell young people now that you wish you had known when you started off? so when you ask how you keep going, i think if

the type of books that i write are books of comparative history. most historians write a single case studies, they write about one country so to get a book about the late 19th century germany. writing both single case studies allows you to do that all 499 pages of the book to germany which you can discuss and lots of detail. i don't write that sort of book. it has its value tha value diret comparative histories comparing different countries. if you compare different countries, then you can devote fewer pages to the country, but comparisons allow you to pose questions and add the questions you would never raise and could better address in a single case studies. for example, there are so many books on the american civil war with an entire book on the american civil war you can devote six pages to the second day of the battle of gettysburg, but the books on the american civil war never notice or discuss one of the most striking facts of the american civil war, which was at the end of the war the victors did not kill the losers, only one person on the

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discusses his book super mines. the national book festival, five saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. on the tv. on c-span two. there is no book tv coming up next with surprise swimming george well, sharing his thoughts on the state of american conservatism and in an hour jared diamond takes a look at how successful countries recovery from crises in the book of people. >> next on book tvs afterwards surprise moment george will authors his thoughts on american conversant his him. afterwards, is a weekly interview program with relative guesthouse interviewing top notch authors about their latest work. >> so, george will. i'm going to call you george if that's okay. soon i think you. >> i'm gonna get there in my life. of all things, the university's very large in your book, princeton. three princeton's. can you explain what you're getting out there? >> all of american thoughts as an argument between madison, the class of i think 1771 and thomas what is wilson, tommy aziz was known at princeton. in 1879. madison being the giver of our madisonian institutional architecture and would world

that's how i and the book. do something words matter has a hatred we have seen the folks you are watching today you have to do something about it just say we will not tolerate this anymore program optimistic about our future and 2020 you get the country back together and end the racial divide on education and sentencing reform. we have a lot of issues but we can fix it. don't let donald trump get you down every single day. get out of bed and fight for all of these haters out there we have to do a better job to monitor the web and get the weapons out of the hands of those who should never own weapons. >>host: my very last question. one of the things i noticed post charlottesville was a sense of whose story is this? of this tiny town that felt it was misunderstood what people would say was that like crystal meth? what was that like rex there is an urgency to tell the story and make sense of the story and not impose meaning and that what trump said is not the same thing and to think about how you navigate the prob