in one sense this book which is still one of the best selling books in american history, some people rank it among the top three or four best selling nonfiction books still in our collective lives. in a certain sense of carnegie in his book i think operator in the tradition of franklin and alger, but as we'll see here and a little bit he also recast i think their instructions to reflect many of the issues and conditions that were in modern life. "how to win friends and influence people," in fact, i argued is the kind of brilliant reflection of deeper values that americans have come to embrace in the 20th century. but carnegie, i was shocked to discover a few years ago, has never had a full-scale biography. and so explaining his work is sort of a burden of my book trend in which came out last october -- "self-help messiah," i would know this book is essential reading for everyone who does not want to be an abject and miserable failure in modern america -- [laughter] it also along those lines i think makes a wonderful inspirational gift for graduation, bar mitzvahs, wedding showers, ch

and be whether it's a fictional novel or a kids' book or a comic book or a nonfiction book, to me a good story is a good story. and, in fact, there was a study done last week that said when you hear a story, your brain works differently than when you hear a fact. if i say this is a fact, your brain hears it and is throws it away with. if i tell you a story about running, the part of your brain that works when you're running starts firing. the sigh happens ins start firing because it starts living that moment of the story. so when you hear a story, your brain works in amazing ways you don't realize. that's the power of an amazing story. it lights up your whole brain, and i think it's why it gets the reaction it does. to me, great stories are not what did happen, they're what could happen. and i love that power. so, yes, the man in the tie in the back, the young man. last question for you. >> [inaudible] >> okay, good. so you're going to be a writer, right? you want to write a book? i'm serious, when you write the book, i'm buying the the first copy. very fair question. after you write the

book tv.org. the citizen campaign saved the old capitol and had prevailed and the two buildings were going to coexist and one capitol complex, but how exactly the historic capitol would be restored to was then the debate. it wasn't whether we save it or not, it was what time period to we restore it to. 1902 version offered great benefits because all three branches of government won this one building and a the goal of the department of state was to turn it into a museum and use it as a teaching tool for school children and being able to come to the one site and see the supreme court, governor's house and house and senate chambers understand the three branches of government and how they work together. reallies was the benefit -- >> next weekend book tv and american history tv look at the history and literary life of florida state capitol tallahassee on c-span 2 and 3. >> when i went to germany, and i went through a lot of different archives i was fascinated reading some of these original transcripts

ever a lot of children's books, 30 children's books over the years. another genre was planned to step in this lifetime, but i love writing for children. one of the most fun things you can do. some of my heroes, c.s. lewis wrote children's books. i really do enjoy it. my children's books are usually also for adults. i hope. miserly aspires to. a double lot. and the roots of the call socrates in the city speaker serious. a lot of people that you might have heard of and might not have heard of. it's a lot of fun. i really enjoy doing that. anyone can see it online. >> we have been talking with eric metaxas, most recent book seven men in the secret of their greatness. watching book tv and c-span2. >> next from the 2014 conservative political action conference book tv talk to richard minotaur about his new book guys on target. in the book he chronicles the history of the navy seals and discusses steel operations going back to the vietnam war. heels of reports and the actions of two seals in paris during the attack and the american diplomatic mission in ben

ever a lot of children's books, 30 children's books over the years. another genre was planned to step in this lifetime, but i love writing for children. one of the most fun things you can do. some of my heroes, c.s. lewis wrote children's books. i really do enjoy it. my children's books are usually also for adults.

know i chose to publish the book and i chose to write the book so it wasn't like i was hiding under arock for seeking anonymity. i accept the good, the positive reactions with the negative reactions. i have learned from it believe it or not. so, that's about it i'm thinking in terms of the formal. i am more than happy now to entertain any questions. >> mr. rizzo has agreed to in sir questions and we would ask the come up to the microphone. form a line right behind me and use the microphone to ask questions. i also need to remind you that he will be available for book signing at the tenth so at the end of the session please give him space and time to get out of the building. sometimes they can get to the book signing tent so that you said, have at it. >> thank you. during your tenure which president and which cia director had the most favorable impact in your view on the agency's success? >> in terms of cia directors you know, this may sound surprising but for reasons that left me amazed the obama administration when he came into office in january of 2009 allowed me to stay as the cia

& books about the border and books about families and books about the hardships oftentimes that are part of the stories as people encounter some of the hardship that we read about in the newspaper including the violent outcomes of some of these that were more recently produced. >> one of the questions that we face as researchers, and it's a tough one is so wet? so what if you do a research project? so what if you write a book? so what if you write an article? how is that going to lead to some of the critical changes that are needed to protect people's lives will bring them to another level of social justice? these questions are very legitimate and the authors of the chapters in this book grapple with the so what issue on different levels. and research does give knowledge, give power and does lead to challenging unjust policies. we could be here for weeks arguing how they are doing that but for us putting together a volume of this nature, that is a haunting question and it's a haunting question if you do research people. the people we are working within interviewing say okay, what di

i want to write a book not a policy book, not a book with any kind of agenda. i'm not out to say the war is good or the war is bad or the surge was a success or the surge was a failure. that's not the point. it's not a first person book. i just want to see what happens to you guys. i want to write about your corner of the war. the far end of policy. he said, all right, if that's your deal, if you promise me you really don't have an agenda, come along, and my promise to you is you can have full run of the place. and he was good to his word. so away went 800 members of the 216 infantry battalion out of fort reilly. pardon me. this is a group, or most of these guys were, what, 19, 20 years old, firstdeployment, and there's this line somewhere that war wouldn't be possible without the 19-year-old male. well, this was a battalion of 19-year-old males, and they had a young man's invincibility, and they were going to go, and they were going to be fine, and they were going to win the thing. and then what happened is what happened. war happened. they lost their first gu

so i sold a lot of books. [laughter] >> and speaking of mother nature, you provide some really good examples, some juxtapositions of how local-growing p populations are affecting local species such as mountain gorillas in uganda, the african giraffe in niger, elephants in india. so, and you also point out that it's really hard to tell when we've overrun the species and animals are going extint, at what point does it become important. and if you don't mind, i'd like to read a passage from your book, and i think it shows nice detail that i've been highlighting here. >> go ahead. >> this is in china, in the mao generation. during the great leap forward, chairman mao declared war on china's tree sparrow because with it ate grain. for four years people tore down their nests and banged pots and pans when they alighted to scare them back into the sky until they finally fell kid from exhaustion. only after millions were exterminated did anyone connect the swarms of locusts to the missing sparrows. eurasian sparrows we

books, okay -- their books, okay? and the program today is called african-american stories of work, change and dispossession. and this is featuring m.j. o'brien, tammy ingram, steven a. reich -- is that correct? >> reich. >> ike, okay. -- can reich. okay. pete daniel, and i am the moderator. we'll begin with pete daniel, he has been both a professor of history and a public historian. he has served as the president of southern historical association and the american association of historians, and he currently lives in washington d.c. this is his seventh book, "dispossession." let's welcome him, please. [applause] >> thank you. how many farmers do we have here? one farmer? two, okay. in "dispossession," i analyze discrimination that drove black farmers from the land and record the story of the stalwart brach farmers -- black farmers who fought back. it was an unfair fight. from top the bottom, the u.s. department of agriculture, usda, was run by white men, many prejudiced against african-americans, women, indians, hispa

this book is a bit different. we feel this book, and we hope you feel, it is an untold story until now about how one man created an embire in the high plains -- empire -- red cloud territory contained 1/5th of what is the united states. and no one knew what was going on in that territory. early explorers labelled it the great american desert. this red cloud story and narrative fits with so much that we didn't know what was go -- there were no newspaper american and no one knew what was going on from the 1830s-1850s. no one knew how red cloud conso conso consolidated this. he was the only indian to win a war against the united states. not a battle, but a war. we found it a hoot and holler to research and write. we spent a lot of time out west. the historical cites and libraries from nebraska up east of the dakotas and north of montana. we were trepdacious when we did this. there were sailiors to interview last books and marines alive who kept the road open to allow the fist marine division out. and obviously there

what was your first book? >> the conservative intellectual movement in america since 1945. >> and this book had a tremendous effect on many conservatives are free marketeers. i remember as a young writer at the "wall street journal" learning about it. you did in the vision of it of sorts. what to you think -- what did you say back then and what changed? >> i kept the initial book in print as a history of the conservative rise after world war two. more recently have done a book of writings call reappraising the right in which i bring up today some of the more current happenings. while doing that i worked as a historian and biographer wrote several volumes produced on the life of herbert hoover. it was not something i expected to do with back after getting my dissertation completed and looking for a job and the academic job market. i was commissioned to write a biography. i felt it made sense because as you mentioned who was a friend and patron and kind of the saintly figure for many of those embattled and belea

and books about the border or books about families and books about the hardships oftentimes that are part of these stories as people try to cross and encounter some of the hardships that we all read about in the newspaper, including the violent outcomes that some of these more recently produce. >> one of the questions that we face as researchers, and it's a tough one, so what? so what if you go do a research project? so what if you write a book? so what if you write an article? how is that going to lead to some of the critical changes that are needed to protect people's lives or bring about another level of social justice? and these questions are very legitimate, and the authors of the chapters in this book grapple with the kind of so what issue on different levels. can research, does knowledge give power? does research lead to challenging, unjust or uneffective policies? and we could be here for weeks arguing if they do or not. but for us, putting together a volume of this nature, that's a haunting, a haunting question. and it's a haunting question as you do research with people, be

tim crosses book in 1972, the joe mcginnis book. there was time for probably a decade in which publishers were very reluctant to assign authors up to write a book like this. a feeling was with some legitimacy we know everything that happened. the press is covering this in such minute detail that we know the whole story and there is not enough left to tell. therefore we will deal to sell these books and they are worth doing. that began to change. to some extent that began to change in 2008 because there was so much interest in barack obama and particularly the race between barack obama and hillary clinton. but in both the 2008 book, my late friend, one of the things that not only as things now cover in great detail but they're covered in such minute detail that move so quickly that we don't know for a moment to moment. the press to my god bless us all, we seize on everything. you know, were like the little kids of the soccer match. we know stay in one place. we go wherever the ball is. and in two minutes later were doing something el

the latest of those four books. i have it here in my hand. it's entitled the pows who endured vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them and the one who never came home and the subtitle the pows who endured vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them and the one who never came home -- "defiant" the pows who endured vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them and the one who never came home. he's going to tell us about his book and then he is going to answer some questions and then he will be available to autograph copies of that book if you would like to see them. now we are privileged in the course of his presentation to also have some of the pows that are mentioned in the book with us here today. we have ross. who is sitting right over here, sir. we have ralph gaither who is sitting over here and scotty morgan. where is scotty morgan? scotty morgan right over here. are there any others? we also have a plan. any others? [applause] listen, gentlemen. [applause]

policy and we have maybe not a rash of books but a series of books that claim u.s. policy is dominated by the jewish lobby israel lobby zionist lobby and i have found them all quietly unconvincing. you seem to be bringing the polar opposite accusation that there is an islamist lobby and perhaps with all the noise of the israel jewish lobby it's very saudi authority for someone to raise the question of the islamist lobby but is it really a dominant force in u.s. decision-making? >> guest: i even taught a course on how foreign-policy -- we don't even call them lobby. that is what they do. that is what every group does for a particular cause. you're talking about the big ones, the ones that have been criticized maybe the islamist lobby but there's the armenian lobby in the fiji lobby had a specific interest so it's not a notion that it always has to be negative. people and pressure groups. i remember from my old days in the 90s they wanted syria to get out but there is a difference between conspiracy lobbyists and control of government which of course i oppose and a lo

books. okay? and the program today is called, african-american stories of work, change, and dispossession, and this is featuring m.j. o'brien, tammy ingram, steven reich, pete daniel, and i am the moderator. so, we'll begin with pete daniel. he has been both a professor of history and a public historian. he has served as the president of the southern historical association, and the organization of american historians, and he currently lives in washington, dc. this is his seventh book. dispossession. let's welcome him, please. [applause] >> thank you. how many farmers do we have here? one farmer? two. okay. in dispossession, i analyze discrimination that drove black farmers from the land and record the store of the farmers who fall back. it was an unfair fight. from top to bottom the u.s. department of agriculture, usda, was run by white men. many pledge deed against african-americans, women, indians, hispanic, anyone who was not a white male. recall that by 1910, african-americans held tight

some of my hero seven children book writers. cs lewis wrote children's books. and i really did enjoy it, and my children's books are using the men's also for adults. i hope there's a sophistication and a witness some of the best children's writing has. mine aspires to have that. i do love children's book writing. i run something in manhattan, it's a series. five interview the people that you might have heard of

for march's book tv book club we'll be discussing the biography of stokely carmichael. go to book -- booktv.org to enter the chat room. >> here's a look at the fairs and festivals booktv will be covering in the upcoming mocks. the political conservative action -- in maryland. on march 15th and 16th, the tucson festival only books tapes on the campus of the university of arizona. you can watch our coverage of festival in the fear future. then from march 19th through the 23rd this 18th annual virginia festival of the book. book tiff will cover several author programs that will air the following weekend. on april 5th, booktv will be covering book festivals in anational miss and san antonio, and then out to the west coast where we're live from "the los angeles times" festival of books at the university of southern california on april 12th and 13th. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and we'll add them to our list, e-mail us at booktv@c-span2.org. >> cc pecknold sat down with book tv to talk about his book, christianity and politics. the irinterview was

and that's not what the message of in this book is. and is -- of this book is. and as i go on, you know, talking about the book -- which i think will continue because the paperback is coming out in the fall -- that i will really emphasize that point. but i would just like to make one additional comment, and that is that, you know, this was a horribly violent, a grotesquely violent crime. but it is, you know, the easy way out. we can feel heroic by feeling sad about what happened to matthew shepard. it takes more courage, okay, to look at the complexities of this and to understand what really happened here, to try to understand who was matthew shepard, who was, who is russell henderson, who was aaron mckinney, and how did this horrible tragedy happen? again, if we're soars about preventing these -- serious about preventing these thing, we need to understand that. so part of my message is let's be courageous. let's look at the complexities of this. and there's a tragedy here, but it's not just matthew's tragedy. as i've pointed out, there's a tragedy for russell h

a prominent book.t in those days there were not many important books like that. what has always bothered me was you are divided both and defending slavery and fighting for emancipation. of course it's abhorrent to me that the bible defend slavery. on the other hand there's no question that those who were for emancipation did use the bible. you mentioned a few individuals and i'm wondering, i have read your books but i would like to read this one too. in your judgment what is the weight of the bible in that particular balance of the struggle to defend slavery or to fight against it? what is the role of the bible and i think personally it played a very important role but i would very much like to hear your voice. >> that's a very very important and extremely complicated question because the bible of course has all kinds of conflicting messages. in fact in the bible study group tony and i had just been reading parts that call for and justified genocide. it's pretty shocking to see the lord is calling for

megan, i read the book. i love the book. i thought there were a dozen interesting things in here more than that stories from all sorts of things ranging from bad dates you had to failed companies to drug addicts. my favorite line i think i can remember off the top of my head is if you don't already have trouble with the delayed gratification, the best way to get there is to develop a drug habit. i am probably misquoting. no end of interesting stories in the book but for this crowd, we have a washington crowd what do you think is the most interesting thing you came across while writing it or what they will come across while reading it? >> we all know failure is a learning opportunity and often we learn things by failing. failing. starting with we would learn to walk which is mostly a tale of tripping and getting up and going over all the way up to how the economy large. most products do. most companies fail. even a successful entrepreneur who was done this before as a seven out of 10 chance of filling the next time he tries t

his book the naked socialist to read the book completes the trilogy that was started by his father >> host: what's the connection between those three books? >> it finishes up the trilogy. my father was trying to explain and show and describe the powers that a moving through the world causing a little bit of grief. intended to do one of socialism but died before he could finish. i went ahead and did that for an. a great name. you strip communism of all of its fakery in lies and fraud. you ought to call it naked communism. so did his. >> it was your father? >> former fbi and chief of police of salt lake, terrific, writer, a national best seller. the naked capitalist was a national best seller in each over a million copies. that's a lot mid-1950s. >> so why then make a socialist? >> there is an underpinning for some work that was not described in fleshed out in the other books. that's what i did. socialism is more than a political party, more than just a name. we tell people is a word that is fairly modern. but it rests upon seven really bad ideas. those ideas are as old as humanity. we

the book, mr. friedman discusses economic and financial terrorism and suggests ways for americans to protect themselves. >> kevin freeman, what do you do for a living? >> time and money management, investment management. >> were he writing books security? >> in 2008 when to stop rocket start to collapse, my clients were losing money and i wanted to understand why, so i started digging into it. i found evidence of financial terrorism in the 2008 collapse. i shared it with friends connected to the pentagon and the guy in the next thing i knew i was a government contractor doing research, which came out in 2009, found unequivocally evidence of foreign terrorism, financial terrorism in the stock market crash. >> resulted in her first book, which came out in 2012. what is the thesis of this book? >> basically when we were doing all sorts of crazy things in our housing bubble and so forth, enemies of the united states, particularly radical islam, elements in russia noticed our vulnerability, economic ama

i talk about them in the book., you know, we really need to take that incredibly seriously, because the last tame this happened the way we fixed it was world war ii, and i don't think that's really a good plan. we really need to be thinking of this personally. the main thing to do is just keep moving and do something, it doesn't matter what it is. take a job at wal-mart, get something that is going to get you connected to the labor force and then work from there instead of waiting for manager to happen. and on a policy level, this should be our number one priority right now. this is a phenomenally stupid waste of human capital. unemployment is about worst thing that can happen to to you in a modern society short of death or dismemberment, but it's also for the economy. we're losing labor force participation, we cannot afford to have these people out of work. >> i want everybody to come up with a question in a minute, but my last question for you now, meg, so everybody contemplate, mull your questions. you talk abou

say in your next book? [laughter] >> you look like weekend. now, here's the thing. he has taken on these huge issues and they are still obvious he would mr. reagan is the key was that the secretary of state. even partway through the book of the text is a nice of be the next secretary of state. part way through the reporting, barack obama asked hillary clinton to stay on the secretary of state for another year. you can find out how that turned out by reading the book. but i think john kerry is taking on some of these big issues. part of it is being the continuation of what was going on before it went tensions led arenas come to the table. he picks up on that. some of it is his own stuff. trying to get rid of chemical weapons there. his workmanlike effort in the middle east to try to get something done there. he has taken big risks and we don't know how those are going to turn out. one thing that can be said about john kerry as he wants to make a mark while he's there. he wants to make the world a better plac

c-span: why did you write the book? >> guest: well, i wrote the book, i think in retrospect, because i was grieving for my mother. my mother and i were very close. i come from a very close family, but my mother and i were particularly close. and she died in 1987 and, you know, contrary to what people say, the grief didn't go away. it became muted, it assumed other forms, but it didn't go away. i really missed my mother. and the older my daughters got, the more i missed my mother, the more i understood as a parent what she and my father had done, things which had made me angry or which had hurt my feelings, which had confused me. and i always wished that she was still around so i could call her and say, "hey, mama, you know, i remember -- now i understand why you did this. now i understand why you did that." so i wanted to write the book as so these became our canonical stories, and many of the stories in "colored people" are my father's stories. so i was imitating that voice. i was hearing my father's voice. and i think

plutarch of modern america because of his books on walt disney, his book on hugh hefner, which he talked about here in the library, and henry ford and now dale carnegie. he's a professor of history and of the history department. dale carnegie i have a lecture i gave periodically. people forget that i've given it before and then i get it. [laughter] in which the title of it is the center of the literary universe. we talk about t.s. eliot and mark twain, talk about things people don't know, the best-selling cookbook of all times of course written in st. louis. i always like to refer to the first sentence of the first edition of the greatest sentence in american literature: code stand facing a stove. [laughter] but as a part of the lecture i always tell people that one of the greatest self-help books ever written was written by a missourian who always identified himself come as you read a steven watts's excellent biography you will always find out identifies him as a missourian and that is dale carnegie born in a small town in northwest missouri and has built an increasingly not so small to

but our new book is not a how-to book, it's a why-to book. while josh and i wanted to tell our stories with this book, we also wanted to help people bridge the gap between a discontented life to a meaningful life. not a perfect life, not even an easy life, but a simple one. so that is, that's our story. i'm going to ask josh to come up -- well, i guess he'll read sitting down, but thank you so much. [applause] >> hello. wow, thank you all for coming out. this is really awesome. i tend to skip past the first two chapters of the book whenever i read aloud, because i can't get through them without crying. it's a very uplifting book. [laughter] actually, it is. but as ryan mentioned, i was kind of at a low point in my life with my mother passing away and my marriage ending, and actually the book starts in, the first chapter starts in the corporate world which makes me want to cry for a completely different reason. but, yeah, and i was at this place where i had to start reassessing my life with those two traumatic events. so i'm going to skip ahea

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in your book, the problem was slavery was of course a prominent book.in those days there were not many books like that. what has always bothered me is the use of the bible both in defending slavery and fighting for emancipation. of course is abhorrent to me that the bible was to defend slavery. on the other hand, there's no question that those who fought for emancipation did use the bible. you mentioned a few individual spirit of quite sure they also did that. i was wondering -- i have read your books, but in your judgment what is the weight of the bible in that particular balance of the struggle to defend slavery or to fight against it? what is the role of the bible? >> that's a very, very important and extremely complicated question. the bible, of course has all kinds of conflicting messages. in fact in the bible study groups we have been reading parts call for and justify genocide. .. the great narrative is extremely important in the sense that the children, the people, the jews are freed from slavery in egypt. brings them 40 years out of egypt, and

instead ofg book.ing up with the last part of figured it was time to make a grand statement for this type of book. your fans, is there something linear about the short stories, or is it -- >> it's a little different. in the first one i divided them into love, death, and everything in between. this one is more traditional where it is basically chronological. you come up with these first 14 stories, which i have written since the last time i saw you. it is whatever i feel like writing. for instance, there is one that happens to be in harpers this month. my wife and i moved into a neighborhood in santa barbara, and we would walk to our favorite restaurant. nice houses. one house you couldn't see. it was completely overrun. there was an old american car in the driveway, and i said, probably some old person there, and once they are dead they will clean this up. they came in with old those are zen took this whole persons -- life, car, house -- gone. i wrote a story about that. so go the glories of the world.

be you had to write the opposite book, where would the opposite book land? >> guest: i think that's a totally fair question. number within, as we all know, the murray hypothesis was an iq hypothesis. now, we refute that in the book. let's just be very clear. i already mentioned about third generation asian-americans which really undercuts the iq hypothesis. people have studied chinese-americans, so they've done iq studies, and the finding is that the iq is not different, okay? so we look at that. book excludes this, in my view, pernicious iq explanations which is unfounded, okay? now, we look at a in our book at the amish. that's a group that's poor, and is we try to show how they don't have the triple package. it'd be interesting to talk about that, if you want. we look at appalachians, rural whites and we try to show how they don't have the triple package. i think you could look at, if you're interested, studies that compare mexican-american immigrant communities in los angeles with some of the east asian immigrant communities in los angeles. and we look a

sat down with booktv to talk about his book christianity and politics. this was conducted on the campus of the catholic university of america. it's part of booktv college series joining us on booktv is catholic university professor of theology c.c. what do you teach at the university? >> i teach catholic theology and a range of courses related to this book that is called political theology so i think a lot about the relationship between the church and the state from its historical relationship and its theological and political importance. >> let's start towards the end of the book which is his democracy connected? >> at the end of the book i explore the democracy's restless desire. desire. does democracy have been in that what is the ultimate aim of democracy and i connect this idea to what the theologians talk about as the national desire that all human beings have this kind of restlessness. can that be true of politics, too the democratic restlessness does that also have a kind of restlessness built into it? so i ask about the restless desire. i want t

some of my hero seven children book writers. cs lewis wrote children's books. and i really did enjoy it, and my children's books are using the men's also for adults. i hope there's a sophistication and a witness some of the best children's writing has. mine aspires to have that. i do love children's book writing. i run something in manhattan, it's a series. five interview the people that you might have heard of and might not have heard of, but that's a lot of fun. i really enjoy doing that. anyone can come or anyone can see it online spent and we've been talking with eric metaxas. his most recent book "seven men and the secret of their greatness." you are watching booktv on c-span2. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. you can share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and

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if you had to write the opposite book, where would the opposite book land?>> guest: is a totally fair question. as we all know, the hypothesis was an i.q. hypothesis. we refute that in the book. it's be very clear. third-generation asian-americans which undercuts the i.q. hypothesis. people a steady chinese-americans. they've done the i.q. studies and may find that the i.q. is not different. so we look at that. the book excludes, in my view, pernicious i.q. explanation, which is unfounded. we look at the ominous, a group that's poor, try to show how they don't have the triple package. we look at appellations. we try to show how they don't have the triple package. i think if you're interested, studies that compare mexican-american immigrant communities in los angeles with some of the east asian communities in los angeles. we look a little bit at that. our book is not about by mexican-americans aren't as successful. many of them assimilate into the culture and group which has been for 200 or more years in this country said it to discrimination, second-class ci

her book is so beautiful. just want to open up the discussion so that you can make comments or ask questions of laura about what she just talked about, about her book. i think, michael, you had a question. yeah, go to the microphone so people can hear you. michael's got a good question for you. >> hi, i'm michael, a graduate student, and one of the things that i am looking into is infant mortality in charlottesville, virginia, and in the white population in charlottesville is 4.9, about five babies before a thousand die before they're first birthday. in the african-american population here in charlottesville, virginia, it's 20.2. when i was looking into the causes and conditions it goes beyond a waive of housing that you talk about. it seems to go back to the cause of the conditions that led to the caprini green. what we have here in charlottes vim in 1960, prior to 1960, we had the vinegar hill neighborhood, which were standing on the former vinegar hill neighborhood, and the city needed i-644 and highway 250

if you had to write the opposite book, where would the opposite book land? >> i think it's a totally fair question. number one, as we all know, the murray high possession sis was an iq hypothesis. we refute that in the book. we talk about third generation asia americans which undercuts the hypothesis. people have studied chinese americans and the fining is the iq is not different. so, we look at that, the book excludes this, in my view, pernicious iq explanation which is unfounded. now, we look in our book at the amish, a group that is poor, and we try to show how they don't have the triple package. we look at plame -- appalachians and show how they don't have the triple package. you can look at -- if you were interested, study the compare -- mexican-americans immigrant communities in los angeles with some of the east asia immigrant communities in los angeles, and we look a little bit at that. our book is not about why mexican-americans aren't as successful. many of them assimilate into a culture and a group which has been for 200 more years in this country,

>> you are have to read the book -- you will have to read the book. [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> i got my afghan passport, you'll read the book, you'll see. you'll see how. [inaudible conversations] >> well, it's in the book. [laughter] >> if there are no more questions, a reminder -- [inaudible] a reminder for our interwith net audience at home, if you'd like to purchase a copy of "american bride in kabul," please, call the number on your screen. dr. chesler will sign that to you, we'll mail it to you wherever you are free of charge. there's a link to the live stream, and in the event that we live stream, you can watch at any time at your convenience. for those of you here in the house, we have "an american bride in kabul with," and we also have a selection of dr. chesler's other books. she will be signing here at the table to my left. this was fascinating. please give her a big hand. [applause] >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> is this out of everyone's way? [inaudible conversations] >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see

he died, he published seven books.not including the two -- >> host: did he turn to the phone? >> guest: every end he wrote with a pencil. he was senate to a typist in the draft would finally we get to the point where he touted by to see what it looks like, so many have it set up and keep tinkering with that peer by delete? >> guest: partly was perfectionism. he wanted not only his style to be perfect, but also he won at the facts be perfect because he saw both of these books as having a purpose. freedom betrayed in this one the crusade years, which is his account as a crusader against the new deal socialism and regimentation and all of that. he regarded these as having great value for people to learn lessons from. so he also thought because of its unique stature as the next president and the resources he had come in the access he had as many people with inside information, he thought he was a unique position to bring out to the american people some very, very important lessons about the recent history. so i think that

book covers boston and new york. because they are very different projects. one boston opened its subway was about a mile off track. a tiny section of track when new york open its subway, exactly 20 miles prieto is a much bigger project when they opened and of course some people like to joke that boston stopped building after they opened open up that 1 mile and never improved upon it. they are still riding on what they would have back then. new york certainly did expand and grow and sort of expand. and so briefly how the book came to be. when i first started, i used to be a transportation reporter in new jersey. and when i covered transit i was fascinated by trains and transportation issues. and when i was in boston it was a fun experience. as i started looking for a book idea i started looking at the idea of the boston subway. one of the things it is interesting is as i looked at the history of it i discovered no one had written the true story behind how the subway came to be. but then i was really interested when i

and as i started writing the book, i realized there are two other very important characters in this book and one of them is the one i was most determined to keep out of the book on john adams. and i think so much has been said dave: has written a book about david adams who needs me to add anything. i needed me and he needed me because so many of the great events that happened not only in abigail's life, but in the lives of the other two sisters revolves around with john adams is doing. so, i thought okay i am going to take them on and i don't think that he has overwhelmed the book but i feel like he is a very important part of it and i also hope that he has added something fresh to what we already know about john adams because we know what a wonderful husband he was and how devoted he was to his children but i hope they give you a feeling for what he was like as a brother-in-law particularly to the married husbands who was a very close friend of his and new richard before he knew abigail. he isn' is someone that would do favors. can you give me some kind of a little job in government cra

books are for sale and wine and cheese are for free. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> it is truly an honor to be here at a decision that has done so much to increase public understanding not only of the experience in the united states but also asian-americans and that haitian diaspora. i am particularly, i am an editor at "the new york times" said the mostly traffic and words with careful editing. i tried to be to the nuances of diction, syntax, and also meaning. but i and very aware of the acute and injuring power of images. and looking at these two books the immense visual of re that has been amassed that is quite distinctive i don't think in any of the books i have read arab or asian americans have such a visually rich and frankly disturbing collection of images. i will briefly introduce because the biographies are in the program our speakers and they will proceed to give a brief presentation about why they decided to write their books for their documents. these are facts. then moderate q&a then get some questions from you. to

book tv every weekend on c-span2 . >> book tv continues with so the and desk. she represents a history of people who escaped slavery and traded self sufficient communities in desert regions of the south. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much for the introduction. i am delighted to be here to play the role of questionnaire. the marvelous new book "slavery's exiles". at the end we will have zero little time for questions from the audience. they're is a microphone over there for the purpose. keep in mind as we finish our conversation. just to remind you what was said, you can purchase are but outside as it is well worth doing. i think to begin sylviane diouf wanted to read a passage from the book. we would like to start that way. >> actually, at the end. >> at the end. okay. so we will blend right then. actually, let me just ask uses the term ruin is maybe not totally widely known what exactly is marin? >> yes, and around, actually the term comes. at the beginning it was somewhat used. by a extension it was used for runaway slaves. in spanish

c-span: have you ever done a book like this before? >> guest: no. i've done 11 other books. i've done a book on the navy, and i've done them on the capitol and supreme court. but this is the only photojournalistic book that's a pure photojournalistic book that i've done. c-span: here's a double-page photograph; john ehrlichman in the center, other aides off to the left there. the second man on the left, peter flanigan. where is this? >> guest: this is in--i believe it's called the roosevelt room in the white house. i got to get access by virtue of getting to know ehrlichman and haldeman, photographing them privately in their offices and with their aides. and i was told that i could come to this meeting at 7:00 in the morning and i would be able to get some photographs. well, i appeared at the gate. of course, the guards had to do an awful lot of double checking to find out why a photographer was at the northgate at 7:00 in the morning. but they finally gave me access, and i went in and there was this meeting in full swing. and the--the clock, i still remember, said--when i d

to go about writing and researching the book? >> guest: eyes of the structure early. is starets one place it moves and there are stories and it ends. it is like a biography. then there are stories to tell so that i can see from the beginning that what developed is that with each chapter with a key instance was an opportunity to talk about another dimension of the broader civil rights. at 1.with the first voter registration i can talk about within mississippi what is the struggle the political dynamic but also was in black politics flows through the naacp that are more established you want to ally with the whites and the mississippi freedom democrats but running in the democratic primary as well. its animates that discussion. there is a demonstration they put the american flag on top of the statue of a confederate soldier they talk about the desecration. it gave the opportunity to talk about visions of the civil war they still an inmate in the different definitions shape how they see it as citizenship in america. when they get to

what was your first book?>> guest: the conservative intellectual movement in america since 1945 was my doctoral dissertation. >> host: this book had a tremendous effect on many conservatives or free marketeers. i remember is he a writer at "the wall street journal" learning about it. lately you did a revision of that of sorts. what do you think, what did you see that than what changed? >> guest: the initial book is a history of the conservative intellectuals after world war ii and more recently i've done a book of writings called reappraising the right in which i bring up to date some of the more current happenings. while doing that i worked as a historian and biographer on several volumes produced on the life of herbert hoover. i got into herbert hoover by invitation. it was not something i expected to do after getting my dissertation completed and looking for a job on the academic job market so i was commissioned to write up other fee of hoover. i thought it made sense because hoover as you mentioned was a f

the book was fact checked. i did team up to fact checkers who spent more than 2000 hours betting every word of the manuscript. just going back to roger ailes. i reached out to have a dozen times in person and rating. i traveled states to see him in person where he was giving speeches at public events. i wrote to his public-relations advisers. i would sit down and discuss every fact in the book. he denied every request to participate. >> host: how did you ascertain the truth if you are in at? >> guest: rechecked documentary record and ultimately in the end, i feel confident of the veracity of the importance and it's been out now and all the revelations of the book. it is not challenged one single point in the book. >> host: an anti-semitic remark maliciously reported. he has denied some gain. so it's not true that they haven't tried. >> guest: they've tried to. but that will distract from the record because the specific episode is based on a documentary record from nbc from an internal investigation that nbc hum

his book capitalism and the jews. this interview as part of book tv college series and is about half an hour. >> professor, in your book capitalism for the jews you right that discussions of jews and capitalism touch upon now around six subjects. >> guest: well, capitalism itself has been a project. it is a process that is a central one in the modern world. it is one that proceeds by what is called creative destruction. so it is constantly innovating, creating new products, new ways of marketing things, new ways of life. and in the process it is destroying all the ways of life and bofa tracks people and sometimes as a source of resentment. the jews have been infinitely connected with the history of capitalism both in the ways in which people of thought about capitalism. so when it comes to the way in which people think about capitalism one of the interesting themes is that i found that when pre modern thinkers thought about commerce and especially about finesse and money-making they often connected it with the issues