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tweet us @booktv, post it on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> the famous passage in one of william faulkner's novels, he said for every southern boy 14 years old or older, it's still 1:00 in the afternoon on july 3rd, 1863. picket's charge hasn't happened yet. it's all on the line. and they can, in their imagination, say this time, maybe this time victory, independence. so in the minds of, i think, both northerners and southerners, northerners at the time but southerners more in retrospect, this payment the mythic moment -- this became the mythic moment of victory and defeat. >> the 150th anniversary of the battle of gettysburg live all day, sunday, june 30th, on american history tv on c-span3. >> are you interested in being a part of booktv's online book club? our selection this month is sheryl sandberg's book, "lean in: women, work and the will to lead." in "lean in," ms. sandberg, who's the coo of facebook, discusses why it's still difficult for women to achieve leadership roles in the united states. she also talks about her own career choices and exper

post it on our facebook page, or send us an e at booktv/c-span.org.watching weak booktv on c-span2. starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern watch an interview with canadian historian. ralph needer talk about are you interested in being a part of booktv's online book club? "lean in" in the book, she's the coo of facebook discusses why it's difficult for women to achievement roles in the cites. she talks about her own career choices and experiences. you with watch it at booktv.org. as you read the book this month, post your thoughts on twitter with the #btv bookclub. write on facebook. at june 25th at 9:00 p.m. eastern join our conversation on both social media site. if you have a suggestion for next month send us via twitter, facebook, or e-mail@booktv/c-span.org. >>> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> two books. the first by an author and investigative journalist hendrick smith "whole stole america." it's a real eye opener. anyone that wants to, i think, really understand america how we got where we are today, where the average american

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post it on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >>> "norman rockwell: a life." the author describes the artist as a complianted man who -- and earned millions of dollars is now seen in a more positive light by a new generation of critics. laura appeared on book notes in 2001. when did you get interested in the artist? >> 1994-'95. i went to cooperstown, the baseball hall of fame with my children, and i got very bored at some point looking at all of this baseball memorabilia. but in the room there's an exhibition of good art on different sports subjects, and there was one that i had never seen before, but i just it rivetted my attention because of the striking color and the use of form. it was norman rockwell's "calling the game" i started thinking, mcgee, it's something i don't know about because the image of norman rock well. >> what is your image of norman rockwell now? >> that's an interesting question. as a person, since it's a biography, as a person of highly intelligent and shrewd. depressive, honorable, deeply honorable, very, very talented. i would say

senescent e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> an insider's history. richard baker and the former chief congressional correspondent for "time" magazine ended up providing a history of the united states senate. a continued economic growth and shows that it is a historical anomaly in the collapse is imminent when the money runs out. the end of western influence. and across the pond, terry eagleton provides a look at american culture. and eisenberg argues that wyatt earp's reputation has been distorted and provides evidence that he has a vigilante life. jerry dewitt recounts his struggle with identity after being shunned by his community. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> now on booktv, a former writer for national geographic magazine accounts of emergency landing at nazi occupied albania in 1943. this was the secret rescue. this is one our. >> hello, good evening. it is a pleasure to be here tonight. ..

send us an e-mail@booktv@c-span.org. >>> upnext after words with guest host kimberly. the founder for the institute of the study of war. victor davis hanson and the "the savior generals: how five commanders saved wars that were lost -- from ancient greece to iraq." profiles five generals that he says single handedly turned around wars that they were losing. the program is about an hour.

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books you think we should include in our online book club on twitter, facebook or e-mail us booktv@c-span.org what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> let us know what you are reading, tweet as at booktv, post it on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at bonet tv@c-span.org. >> i was interested. >> we always said -- so many years. the right to know. [inaudible conversations] >> i put stephen in of bad because i read over it, not that i have any personal friendship, i didn't do it out of i know don, it is a case i read. i read mr. chairman, i read that book and tried for the life of me to figure out how he went to prison and the rest of the place in the post office scandal. i read it. i read what he did, and the feeling is especially the fact that it refused to give information. >> i don't know why -- >> somebody couldn't tell at that time if it was the legal case. a very disappointing deal. and the money rate. >> $12 million. speaking -- >> think about -- [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> in a lottery in the midst of ca

check us out at booktv@c-span.org. .. i had been a nun when i was a young girl i looked to have nothing to do with religion ever again. then a series of career disasters occurred when after the letter and i found myself much to my surprise on television presenting some programs, rather controversial programs quite angry about religion when it was just opening and then that career folded and i went off and wrote to the history of god. in the process of writing "a history of god" i was on peanut butter sandwiches, virtually no money but it was a formative period because in that time, the experience searching that dhaka, completely changed my outlook on religion. >> host: in what way? >> guest: well, for one thing, i was alone. and i -- all of my television friends melted away with my leaving the tv world. i was on my own head in silence. theology is poetry and it really can't learn to read a poem with a whole lot of malaise you need to put yourself in a certain kind of zone and often receptive. so the silence helped. i foun

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tweet us @booktv, post it op facebook, or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> the book was called "if you knew me, you would care" everyone thinks as women in war as victims, but i did not, actually. none of us wanted to convey the victim story. there is victimhood in the story, their story is so far more than just a victim story. they would not be defined by the actual story. what they are defined is by what they make out of the story. claudie is an example of a woman who wanted to be a doctor as a kid, had an aspiration, everything is good until her father dies at 13 years old, has to leave school to work and support her mother. what she went through, i can tell you, when she was 16, she fell in love with a young man. she saw him into the church, glanced at each other, and had crush on each other, and they giggle and until today she golf course les talking about how she fell in love. they got married at 18, for those of you who are young in here. they got married later op, and they had a happy marriage and had kids and they had a house, and it was a happy marriage, until the war, on

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suggestion which books you think which included online book club on twitter, facebook or e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> when you talk about transparency to the american public you are going to give up something, you will give signals to our adversaries what our capabilities are and the more specific you get about the program and the more specific you get about the oversight the more specific you get about the capabilities and successes, to that extent you have people sitting around saying now i understand what can be done with our numbers in yemen and the united states and consequently i will find another way to communicate and keep that in mind and so there's a price to be paid for that transparency. where that line is drawn in terms of identifying what our capabilities are is out of our hensley you tell us to do it when we will do it that way but there's a price to be paid for that transparency. >> this weekend on c-span ongoing fbi director robert muller makes his last scheduled appearance before the senate judiciary committee at 10:00 eastern on c-span2's booktv, books and issues in the news to

send us an e-mail@booktv@c-span.org. >>> upnext after words with guest host kimberly. the founder for the institute of the study of war. victor davis hanson and the "the savior generals: how five commanders saved wars that were lost -- from ancient greece to iraq." profiles five generals that he says single handedly turned around wars that they were losing. the program is about an hour. >> host: congratulations. >> guest: thank you. i'm glad i wrote it. a little dpimpt than past books. i'm excited it's finally done. >> host: tell me, how to you define a savior general? >> guest: ambiguous. they not only save things to save something has to be lost to begin with. savior would be -- means that it should be saved. whether it's great generals, we're not sure they should saved they should have done. i was trying to do two things. generals nut a position where they didn't go too good. and the cause was worth saving. >> host: tell me a little bit about what inspired you to write a book about savior generals at this moment in time and history. >> guest: we had these -- 19th ce

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posted on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> up next on booktv, "after words" with guest host neela banerjee, energy and environment reporter for the "los angeles times." this week award-winning journalist laurence leamer and his latest book, "the price of justice: a true story of greed and corruption." in it, the new york times best selling author tells the story of the legal battle to hold massey energy accountable to the west virginia communities that it dominated while supplying almost half the nation's coal-generated electric power. the program is about one hour. >> host:

what you are reading this summer, tweet us @booktv, post on facebook, or e-mail us at booktv booktv@c-span.org. >> here's a look at books published this week: >> at the political conservative action coarches in washington, d.c. with the author of "return to order: frenzied economy to an organic christian society," tell me about the book. >> it talks about the lack of restraint in modern economy, and how it became frenzied and out of control. we talk about the need to return to the fundmentals of family, community, and faith that normal keep a economy in balance. that's what "return to order" is about, a look at the present crisis, and we propose real solutions based on timeless principles. >> how do the social parameters affect the economy? >> oh, definitely, it does affect the economy. what we've lost in the economy, and what i say in the book is that we've lot that human element that creates the bond of trust and confidence that makes free markets poll. what the sociologists call social capital. those necessary bonds of trust that make and create prosperity for happen. >> what's the thought

> let us know what you read this summer, tweet us @booktv, post on facebook, or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> host: well you spent time in the book on israel, iraq, and islam, and one of the isms you talk about is islamism. the real reason the islamists declared war on the west, that is embodies the freedom of the individual and the negation of thee karattic authority. in a globalized world, this is a con they onthat threatens islam everywhere. >> guest: yes. this is preoccupied me for several years and preoccupies all of us more and more, and i do think, as i said, there's a problem here with the islamic world, and with the religion at the root of the islamic world, and it's very, very important to understand, i think, in all of this, that when one talks about the concerns, one is not talking about all muslim, on the contrary. there are, i mean, just to the point of view of britain, there's have many muslims who are immigrants to britain, precisely because they wanted to sign up to britain, western values,mented to live in freedom, to prosper and have good jobs and live in freedom becaus

books you think we should include in our online book club via twitter, facebook or e-mail us, booktv@c-span.orgere's a look at some books that are being published this week. >> susan dunn, humanities professor at williams college details the 1940 election and the debate over isolationism in "1940." in "brainwashed" psychiatrist sali satel and scott lilienfeld. jeffrey sachs discusses president john f. kennedy's campaign for sustainable peace with the soviet union in "to move the world: jfk's quest for peace." in "men on strike," psychologist helen smith argues that men are reacting to the anti-male bias in our society by increasingly rejecting the traditional roles they once played. and bloomberg view columnist jonathan alter has a new book titled "the center holds." mr. alter says that the result of the 2012 election demonstrates that the public wants american politics to be pulled back towards the center. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> first on my list is a book that i've already read the first chapter of, it

tweet us at booktv great post on her facebook page and send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org ours is not a caravan of despair. come if you have even broken your vows, calm yet again. a couple of reasons that this is meaningful to me. it is in the books and i say that whenever i look at the statue of liberty, this great and beautiful woman of welcoming. the inscription is bring me your huddled masses to break free. it is this notion of america, a radical welcome, plant the seeds in american soil. let them grow into institutions and congregations that are welcoming and open to us. i need to confess that i get emotional when i talk to people like this right after 9/11. right after 9/11, a lot of us got into usc and we went to a mosque or at an eckerd sentence that changed my life. it is that dedication that draws me a lot with the way he thinks one of the great moments in this book is the way he tells about the genesis moment. >> yes, this is actually run on 2010. it is august of that year. i'm waking up at 4:00 a.m. it is additional time of centering and meditation. i have a right wing

posted on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. in light of recent revelations about the nsa's domestic surveillance program booktv has put together a collection of clips from programs we have featured on the nsa and the topic of publishing government secrets. over the next hour we will hear from authors james bamford, matthew aid james keefe and dana priest. up first is the author james bamford whose first book about the nsa the puzzle palace was published in 1982. he spoke about the follow up to that book "body of secrets" in 2002 at the independent institute in oakland, california. >> the nsa is an extremely secret agency and when i wrote the book he it was the first book written about nsa today never thought i would have to read a second one but after i wrote puzzle palace no one came along and followed in my footsteps so i ended up writing "body of secrets" 20 years later which is only the second book written on the nsa so i sort of have a monopoly on that topic at this point. the government was not very happy that i wrote the

posted on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org.g up next, just under an hour, matthew hancock who is a member of british parliament argues until we have a better understanding of human nature we will inevitably experience another economic crash. [applause] >> thank you very much indeed. is a great honor to be here speaking at the appropriately named margaret thatcher center for freedom at the heritage foundation and the sad passing of baroness thatcher reminded conservatives on both sides of the atlantic of the values we hold in common and delighted to be contributing in my own small way to the great dialogue of ideas which has always existed between our two big countries and it is relevant today because margaret thatcher's view of capitalism has a very contemporary bearing i feel on the debate about how we fix the relationship between the financial system and the economy that it exists to support and this is at the center of "masters of nothing: human nature, big finance, and the fight for the soul of capitalism" and the book we'r

send us an e-mail at the booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> cathryn prince recounts the sinking of a former cruise ship turned escape vessel in world war ii. the wilhelm gustloff was transporting close to 10,000 german children, women, elderly and wounded soldiers in the baltic sea on january 30, 1945. the author writes the ship was torpedoed by a soviet submarine causing the deaths of over 9000 people. this is about 50 minutes. >> good afternoon, and it's a real honor and privilege to be speaking with you here today. several years ago, my father told me about a german ship sunk at the end of world war ii. he didn't know much about it, other than its name, and that it was incredibly devastating. and so i decided to look that up. and what i discovered, it was, in fact, the worst maritime disaster in peace or war. more than 9000 people died on january 30, 1945, when a soviet submarine attacked the wilhelm gustloff, which was a former cruise liner turned escape ship. so to put that into context, that's about

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. >> tweet us @booktv, post it on our facebook page, or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> now on booktv, jeremy talks about the secret war against terrorism being fought around the world by elite soldiers serving with the cia's special activities division and joint special operations command. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> i'm pleased to welcome you all and introduce our guests this evening. how is it, you may ask yourself, that a constitutional law scholar and nobel peace prize winner can have individuals kill that he and his personal advisers deem threatening to u.s. security? decisions which are made in your name and hidden from the light of day. in his new book, "dirty wars," jeremy tells the story of how president obama came to wield this power, how covert government forces carry out killings, and what these secret operations mean for our democracy. he's the best selling author of black waters, the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army, twice won the coveted polk award for writing and reporting, and the national security correspondent for the nation magazine. h

posted on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> up next on booktv, "after words" with guest host neela banerjee, energy and environment reporter for the "los angeles times." this week award-winning journalist laurence leamer and his latest book, "the price of justice: a true story of greed and corruption." in it, the new york times best selling author tells the story of the legal battle to hold massey energy accountable to the west virginia communities that it dominated while supplying almost half the nation's coal-generated electric power. the program is about one hour. >> host: welcome to "after words." today we're fortunate enough to have laurence leamer, best selling author who has recently published a very engrossing book called "the price of justice." on its face the book is about supreme court case that was decided at the end of the last decade. but it's much more than that, and if you could just bring readers into the various things that is covered and it's a 14 year struggle to to pittsburgh lawyers. take on this case of the small mine owner in western v

books you think we should include in our online book club on twitter, facebook or e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> i was worried people in business, very few people in government have ever been in business because it is hard. it is easy for an academic to go into business, they can leave the come back, easy for lawyer to go into government and come out, very hard for a business person. if they are small business person it is their business, they have to be there. it is a larger corporations they get knocked off the ladder and they are out and it is very hard to reenter and as a result you have people in business, i will admit it, confession is good for the soul my wife tells me, if you are in government looking at business you understand it intellectually but it is one dimensionally. you don't have any idea what delay does. if you're in government, what government delay does to business. you don't have any idea what uncertainty does to business. you don't really feel the impact of the regulations. i spend my taxes every year and always add a letter to whom it may concern, i want you to know i

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> malcolm balad welshing what's david and goliath, and it's about underdogs. i got really interested in telling the stories of people who seem weak and powerless and yet go on to accomplish great things. and i, that was a puzzle of how they managed to do that that i thought was worthy of a book, and so this is my latest. >> host: well, back in '09 you wrote a piece for the new yorker. >> guest: yeah. >> host: david v. goliath, about -- and i'll let you tell the story, but is that when your interest started? >> guest: yeah. i wrote a story, although weirdly nothing in that article i wrote for the new yorker made its way into the book, but it was what got me thinking about it. it was an article i wrote about a guy, started with the story of a guy who, he's an indian, indian immigrant living in silicon valley. he starts to coach his daughter's basketball team x they're all 12, 134. and they're all the daughters of software engineers from silicon valley, and they can't pass, shoot, dribble, they can't do anything that r

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books you think we should include in our online book club via twitter, facebook or e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. up next, deepak and sanjiv chopra talk about growing up and becoming doctors. then at 8:30, corey shock key sits down with booktv to discuss her book, "state of disrepair." at 9 on "after words," carl hart talks about his book, "high price," with juan williams of the hill and fox news. at 10 p.m. eastern, gary greenberg gives a history of the controversies surrounding the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. and we conclude tonight's prime time programming at 11 with khalid hosseini. that happens next on c-span2's booktv. >>> and now on booktv, deepak and zahn vive chopra recount their immigration to the united states, their entry into the medical profession here and the differences between eastern and western medicine. this is about an hour, 15. [applause] >> thank you very much. before we get started, i just want to tell everybody a quick story. as many of you know, you can only come t

♪ ♪ ♪ >> let us know what you're reading, posted on our facebook page or send us any mail at booktv@c-span.orgspecial place, it opened in the 60s ten years ago and it went from 2500 feet to 8500 feet in ten minutes. think for a minute of the united states, from baltimore all the way down around florida along the gulf coast to texas, that will be a foreign territory, that will not be part of the united states, with jefferson davis being the president, become a nation to the south of the united states of america and that opens up a whole new world. >> welcome to palm springs on booktv. would help of our time warner cable partners for the next 90 minutes we will take you to the palm streets of the city known as the playground of the stars. we begin our special look at palm springs with the story of vyola ortner, chairman of the

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a comment or question for her and send in a tweet @booktv is the twitter handle, and e-mail, booktv@c-span.org. guardian angel, who published it? talk about that a bit. >> guest: oh, this is frightening for me because i published it. that is to say it is one of five titles published this weekend because i turned myself into a publisher of electronic books, and this is going to be a platform, not just for me, but for authors who think broadly like me, to say they connect with reality too. publishing books in electronic format, and the reason for this is, you know, publishing is changing, and so many more people now have e-readers, download book on kindle, the ipad, and the capacity therefore to reach so many more people is enormous, so i have formed my own imprint, and there's five books published this weekend to which my memoir, guardian angel, you refer to is but one, and i hope that they will bring my view of the world shared by so many to a large audience who want to find out more with the aim to expand public debate. my aim is to put into the public domain a load of information or opinions

and finally an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. melanie phillips is the author of nine books, the most recent is has just come out today. it's called "guardian angel." she began writing in 1980. "the divided house: women at westminster." "doctors' dilemma" came out in 1985. "the sex change society, ""feminized britain and the neutered male," 1999. america's social revolution came out in 2010. "the assent of women," 2003. "how britain has created a terror state within" came out in 2006, and "the world turned upside down: the global battle over god, truth and power," 2011. by the way, if you'd like to see melanie phillips talk about that book, that particular book more in depthly, you can go to booktv.org. we covered an event with her when that book came out. and finally today, "guardian angel" comes out, and that's an e-book on her new imprint m books.com. melanie phillips, who were al fellowed and mabel? >> guest: they were my parents. i loved them very much. they were the formative influences on my life, particularly my mother to

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tweet us at otb, posted on her face with page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> the book is called if you knew you would care. when it comes to women at war everyone thinks of them as the dems but i really, none of us wanted to tell if it him story. although it is victimhood in the story their story is so far more than the victim story. they are not defined by the actual story. what they are defined by is what they take out of the story. claudine for example is a woman who wanted to be a doctor when she was a kid. she wanted to have an exploration and tell her father died when she was 13 years old. she had to leave school so she could work and help her mother support her. i can tell you what claudine went through but when she was 16 she fell in love with the young man. she saw him on her way to the church and they would glance at each other and they had a crush on each other. until that day she talks about how she fell in love. they got married when they were 18 for those of you who are young here. they got married later on and they had a happy marriage. they had kids in