send us a tweet at booktv with your favorite booktv of program from 2010. from now until december 10th, we will select one tweet per day at random to receive booktv swag and, and the tweeted program will be included in our holiday schedule over the december 24th-26th weekend. we look forward to seeing your favorite booktv programs from the last year. thank you for watching. >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of history, biography and public affairs. here's a portion of one of our programs. >> i'm going to continue to work our way around the room. >> is the motivation for women going into the military, did you find it any different than the reason that men go into the military other than nurses? >> well, i think there are a whole range of reasons. some women told me, you know, it sounds very much like cara's nurses, that they really wanted to escape their small towns. they didn't want to live like their friends who were marrying young and having lots of babies. other women wanted adventure. they wanted to go to war. they really wanted to fight. i ta

send us a tweet at booktv with your favorite booktv program from 2010. from now until december 10th, we will select one tweet per day at random to receive booktv swag and the tweeted program will be included in be our holiday schedule over the december 24th-26th weekend. we look forward to seeing your favorite booktv programs from the last year. thank you for watching. >> here at the national press club's book and author night talking to eugene robinson about his new book, "disintegration: the splintering of black america." can you tell me how you came to form four groups? >> it just seemed to work out that way. four seems like an arbitrary number, it just seemed to be the way it worked out. it was clear there was, you know, one group was the mainstream of the middle class black america. it was clear that one group was the abandoned non-middle class black america. and then the other groups were, you know, i did think that the existence of a small but very powerful elite was something new. and so i called that the transcendent group. and then i needed a c

twitter.com/booktv is our twitter address. jenn risko, as a stick with local books here to start, and other political memoir came out 30 years after u.s. president and mrs. jimmy carter's white house diary. and this is quite a thick book and very comprehensive, a day to day accounting of his life in the white house. do you know how this one did? >> guest: yeah, i saw the numbers were about 180,000, which is very nice. he did an incredible job to rain for the pope. in fact, just when i was sitting in the city, bob and the control room told me that jimmy carter sat in the sea. i was happy about that. he did an incredible job touring and at one point he got a stomach flu or something and landed in the hospital and is maybe 11 or two days. but otherwise he toured everywhere with us and he's such a charming, engaging, lovely guy. this diary is the first time the public has seen it in every day of his administration he wrote in his diary. and as i mentioned before, you know, we'll think pitching is quite a bit of a poet, so it's a p

send us a tweet at booktv with your favorite booktv program from 2010. from now until december 10th, we will select one tweet per day at random to receive booktv shawag and the tweeted program will be included in our holiday schedule over the december 24th through 26th weekend. we look forward to seeing your favorite booktv programs from the last year. thank you for watching. >> host: salman rushdie, who is gunta. >> guest: he's one or two of the greatest novelist. and he's the greatest german novelist who had the most remarkable life really in the sense that he grew up in germany at the time of the nazi period -- rule. in a family -- in a home which believed that the nazi lies were truths. and discovered at the end of world war ii, when he was interned briefly, that not only were the things he'd been told untrue, but that they were immoral. and kind of vile. and this created in him a storm, a need to recreate his entire world view out of which has come some of the greatest literature of the 20th century. and i think certainly his novel of tim drum is th

you can send an email, booktv at c-span.org or send us is tweet at twitter.com/booktv. richard from wellington, florida, you're on with salman rushdie. >> caller: excellent program. i would like to ask mr. rushdie this, given the huge commitment of the united states in troops and financially in afghanistan and the billions of dollars recently increased in both military and nonmilitary aid to pakistan, what are his thoughts of the unrestricted ability of the taliban to operate from sanctuaries in pakistan's northwestern frontier district and the tribal areas to strike directly in the afghanistan including at american troops? >> yeah. well, let me just preface by answer -- by saying that just remember that i'm a novelist here, you know? but i'm happy to talk about these matters. but my expertise of military strategy is about what you would expect from the average novelist. having said that, i find it very worrying that the taliban can have such safe haven in pakistan and it's quite clear that they can only do so because of the assistance they receive from at least element

the booktv bus is is here as well, and now we're pleased to be joined by another author. her book, "intelligence: a novel about the cia," susan hassler is our guest. susan hassler, what's the storyline on your book? >> guest: well, it's the next big terrorist attack. it hearkens a little bit back to 9/11 in flashbacks, but this is the next terrorist attack and what happens in the cia counterterrorist center before, during and after that attack. >> host: who is maddie? >> guest: maddie james is a counterterrorism analyst. she's been in the agency for 15 years, and she's, she's probably been there way too long. [laughter] >> host: really? why do you say that? >> guest: well, she's angry, and she -- her personal life has fallen apart, and her entire life is her job, and she really needs to probably get away from it for a while, but she won't. >> host: well, susan hasler, you spent 21 years working at the cia in various positions. are you maddie? glg i'm not maddie. there are a few differences. she was a tiny little ballerina, i'm not. she spent 15 years in the counterterror

. >> bolo booktv on twitter. send this to tweeted otb with your favorite booktv program from 2010.from now until december 10, we will select one tweet for day at random to receive booktv swag in the tweeted program will be included in our holiday schedule over the december 24 through 26 weekend. we look forward to seeing your favorite tv programs from the last year. thank you for watching. >> neal wilson is a lutz or prize-winning naturalist and we are here to talk to him about his first novel called "anthill."l". how did you come up with the wit titleth of your book?tle oyour >> because there are a lot of van till senate. it is really a coming-of-age on on the whole about a young boy who grows up in the deep south deep south and becomes the enamored, in love, a rare package, end begins to developed special liking and understanding and that he will do anything when he grows up to save from developers in that part of the south. i saw things like that under threat of developers. in the course of studies of natural history he focuses on and -- ants who make up two thirds of the weight

and simon winchester appeared in booktv. his most recent historical book, atlantic: great sea battles, wrote discoveries, titanic storms. christina and bloomfield, new jersey, you're on the air with jenn risko of shelf awareness. go ahead. >> caller: hi, how are you? good, i was just admiring jennifer rice said she is so pretty. but no, this has to do with books. i just read almost 600 pages in the last two weeks, a week and a half and i'm like really high on the power of books. it's a form of entertainment. you know, i like tv, but this is even better because it ties tv to books. >> host: what book are you currently reading? >> guest: i'm reading packer toll as he wrote two books that i have here. one is the power of now and i finished that one and a new orders. and as their various virtually motivating book. he talks about some form of spirituality to stay in the now. and you know, i think it's very powerful because with the many changes on the planet and in the world, this gives you a little bit of basic information on, y

the senate coverage preempt our regular booktv programming. solomon rushthey isn't on booktv for his novel the satanic versus. he will discuss his lesser-known nonfiction works like imaginary homelands. do in our three our conversation sunday at noon eastern on c-span2 and watch previous programs on booktv.org where you will also find the entire weekend schedule. this week russian president dimitry medvedev gave his annual state of the nation address. topics include relations with nato and proposals to diversify the economy away from oil and commodities and stem russia's population decline. this is an hour and 10 minutes. [speaking russian] >> translator: the president of the russian federation, dimitry medvedev. ♪ >> please be seated. >> translator: dear citizens of russia. esteemed deputies and members of the council of the federation. it was a year ago in this very room that i presented my political strategy to rely on the values of democracy and modernize the economy and incentive progress to raise a generation of individuals who would be

[inaudible conversations] >> this weekend on booktv rose mary looks at the history of women serving in the u.s. armed forces. the life of a lutheran pastor and allied spy executed following a failed plot to assassinate hitler. on afterwards, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff on his new book without hesitation:the odyssey of an american warrior. he is interviewed by former defense secretary william cohen. find a complete schedule at booktv.org and sign up to get our schedule to your in box with our booktv alert. the united states versus richard nixon today on c-span radio's went work supreme court case. >> what are want to do is simple but important, 8 issue the administration of criminal justice which the president can withhold material evidence from the court. the assertion that the evidence involves confidential communication. >> listen to the arguments on c-span radio in washington d.c. at 90.1 fm, nationwide on 132 end of line on c-spanradio.org. >> on thursday the federal reserve proposed the fees charged to merchants to accept credit card payments even if it is $0.12 f

. >> booktv is on twitter.ollow us for regular updates on our programming and news on nonfiction books and authors. twitter.com/booktv. >> capitol hill cooks is the name of the book, the author is linda bauer. booktv usually doesn't talk about cookbooks, but why would we want to talk to you? >> this is cooking for a cause. 50% of all the proceeds and the royalties and advance goes to homes for our troops, so it builds homes for the veterans who lose limbs in the war free of charge. they give them a wheelchair-accessible home, and who wouldn't want to know the favorite recipes of george washington to president obama with notes about why they like the recipes and this congress? >> what is president obama's recipe in this book? >> he has a mac and be cheese and a shrimpling winny. >> how did you get the access? >> i was an intern during watergate, so i knew a lot of the folks, and i'd done three recipe book bees before, the american sampler series, and given them to chairty. so this is two books in one for the sam

. >> booktv is on twitter. follow us for a regular update on a programming and news on nonfiction books and authors. twitter.com/booktv. >> michael mandelbaum director of the american foreign policy program at johns hopkins school of international studies finds that the era of expensive u.s. foreign policy is coming to an end due to financial constraints. he talked with foreign affairs editor james hoge at new york university several global affairs for just over an hour. >> thank you, and welcome. nice to have you back. michael is also a repeat offender. is the program before because mike was always writing a book. i think we're up to 12 now, 11 at 12? anyway come in that range. he is a good friend. is also someone i admire greatly. he is not only a wonderful analyst for affairs, global affairs, but he's a beautiful writer. and i was telling him earlier today and we chatted that the book has got all sorts of wonderful ways of some of them quite funny, of addressing one or another of the problems we deal with in

. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. forty-eight hours of nonfiction books beginning every saturday at 8:00 a.m.. here is our prime time lineup for tonight's. starting at 7:30 p.m. paul kantor, political science professor and gross city college says new york progressives have assisted america's adversaries. the profiles high-ranking government officials that he says were duped by foreign governments. at 9:00 p.m. republican gov. rick perry of texas argues against national government intervention and what the governor contends are issues that can be better solved by individual states. in his book fed up, our fight to save america from washington. at 10:00 p.m. afterwards with no loss altman on the career of franklin roosevelt and supreme court appointees. robert jackson and william douglas. mr. feldman talks about his book scorpions, the battles and triumphs of fdr's supreme court justices with the senior editor and supreme court reporter for slate. that is all tonight, prime time on booktv. ..

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eet scene here at the book fair and booktv is now joined bytwo ars. >> we are now joined by two authors. the book, "seagullk, one" the amazing true story of brothers to the rescue. lily prellezo in collaboration with jose basulto. they both join us here in miami. lily prellezo, what is brothers to the rescue? >> brothers to the rescue is an organization formed by joseo is basulto and a friend and many pirates of many nationalities that rescued the cubans escaping communist cuba in the 1990s. >> why did have to be.oesn't >> when government does notand u provide, then you have immunityd or necessity. you have to take an option on their own and this is something, it is called self-help so i organized a group of pirates to go through the straits of florida and flyfl missions in te tandem so that we would locateua their rafters coming out from cuba seeking freedom in the united states and fleeing the>>s disaster that i've been.policy t >> what was the government reue in policy that sent brothers to the ere was rescue in motion? >> well the government, there in was no government that set them

. >> follow booktv on twitter. send us a tweet at book tv with your favorite book tv program from 2010. from now one till december 10th we will select one tweet per day at random to receive book tv swaggart and the program will be included in our holiday schedule over the december try for free 26 weekend we look forward to seeing your favorite booktv programs from the last year. thank you for watching. >> secret historian has been nominated as a finalist for the national book award of the nonfiction category. the subtitle of this book is the life and times of samuel steward professor, tattoo artist and sexual renegade. the author is justin spring. that is quite a subtitle. who was samuel steward? >> it's quite a life, a secret life i brought to life for the first time. sam was a university professor who dropped of being an academic to become a tattoo artist in boston and later on a road the trail blazing hotel arabic pornography. >> how did you find this guy? >> i came across this treasure trove of boxes that had b

someone else who has appeared on booktv. now, patti smith won the national book award this year for just kids. e.g. read it, jenn risko? >> guest: i did not read it and i have to tell you i'm sad that i haven't read it because it's totally my kind of book. i know that john mutter, our editor-in-chief read it and he said that he was just entranced. and i've spoken to the folks at atco a number of times. what a cool thing for patty smyth, write? just amazing. >> host: we have a tweet here that is related to the last caller's question. how will the rise of e-books -- it will give you a chance to talk more generally about the industry. how the rise of e-books affect the future for editors, authors and book sellers and publishing overall? if you would come and take the e-mail and talk about the changes in 2010 and how it affected the industry. >> guest: there has been a lot of change. i was thinking recently another book that hit the times list was the sir palin book. an interesting thing about this was that last year when pearla

by the way, we'll resume booktv when the senate has finished its business today. live senate coverage, now, on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain dr. barry black will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. we wait patiently for you, eternal god, for you have been our help in ages past and our hope for years to come. you listen to the voice of our intercession and permit us to feel your presence, just when we need you most. cultivate in our lawmakers a great trust in you. turn them away from false solutions, as they seek your wisdom and obey your commands. lord, make them your instrument of wisdom, justice, courage and moderation, so that your will may be done on earth. give them a passion to accomplish your purposes. we pray in your sacred name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

>> you've been watching booktv, 48 hours of book programming beginning saturday morning at eight eastern through monday morning at eight eastern. nonfiction books weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. .. >> this week on "the communicators," a discussion about the collection of sales tax on internet purchases. our guests are scott peterson of the streamlined sales tax governing board and jerry of the direct marketing association. >> host: well, one of the policy debates happening in washington and in state capitals around the united states is the issue of internet sales tax. that's our topic on "the communicators." we're joined by scott peterson of the streamlined sales tax governing board, he's the executive directer, and senior vice president for government affairs. gentlemen, thank you very much for being on "the communicators." >> guest: thank you. >> host: mr. peterson, if you would, tell us what the streamlined sales tax governing board is, and what's your position on taxing sales on the internet? >> guest: we are a nonprofit association of states, all the hebbs are state gov

. >> you've been watching booktv. join us again next weekend for 48 hours of programs about nonfiction books. all weekend, every weekend. beginning saturday morning at 8 eastern here on c-span2. >> this weekend the senate voted not to advance two democratic amendments to extend the bush era tax cuts. no official floor action is scheduled this week, but negotiations continue as senator reid has called the legislation a top priority. the senate gavels in today at 2 p.m. eastern for general speeches with no votes expected. later this week they'll take up impeachment proceedings against federal district court judge thomas porteous. also votes on the dream act, to give student illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, and a measure giving seniors receiving social security payments a cost of living adjustment. live senate coverage here on c-span2. >> this week on "the communicators," reaction to a draft proposal on net neutrality from fcc chair. juliet: jus genachowski. -- julius genachowski. that proposal is set to be vote

. >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of history, biography and public affairs. here's a portion of one of our programs. >> i'm a child of globalization. i was born at a time when large numbers of african countries had just gotten their independence or were getting their independence or were independent for a while, and that entailed in africa, in the context that i was born in and later i found out, places in asia that there were these coups, despots that took over power very quickly. and people in -- i don't want to use the word class because we hadn't reached in africa the level where we could call ourselves class. but let's say clans, groups of people were either persecuted or they were persecuting others. and those of us who felt persecuted by those in power started to move around. we left our countries of origin and went elsewhere. and that was easy to do, and that means i had lived or was born into globalization without even realizing that that was, that i was in a globalizing world. when i hear people use the word multicultural, i think back to my schooli

[applause] thank you also two booktv for r. coming tonight to record this.e if you are joining us from how come you can learn more about her public programs atd.c. met www.archives.gov. if you're in the washington d.c. metro area code con please visit us to explore our new exhibit ie the documents we hold upstairs,i the charters of freedom. thank you all for coming. th of. stahr will be available in the lobby to sign copies of his book. thank you all. [applause] >> this program first aired in 2005. to see more events from petitti's archives, visit otb.org. >> were here at the national press club talking with marine beasley about her new book, "eleanor roosevelt" transformative first lady. can you tell us what aspect of her life you concentrated on? >> yes, this book concentrates on the way owner roosevelt wrote the script for first lady. now, every first lady since eleanor has either follow the script or hasn't all described, but at least they had she read the script. they've had to know about it. there are lots of books on oliver roosevelt. but what this bo

. >> host: welcome to booktv "after words" im dahlia lithwick from soleil.com and i am here with noah feldman to talk by his book "scorpions" >> the premise of the book is that there were four great justices appointed by fdr and i want to start with the definition question which is a great justice? there were nine but there were force what makes them the super justices? >> these are great people and great men and also great justices we'll make some great is they have a lasting major impact on the constitution as we know it. day roach hugely important decisions but defined for new ways of thinking of the constitution that today dominates the field of constitutional thought if you ask the justices today of your philosophy they may think it is my philosophy but expressive loss of the first stated by one of those four men. also good men that they were deeply ambitious and participated in world events and affairs not just on the supreme court and in some cases taking a leave of absence. in that sense, they mattered, household names and the impact on history is meaningful. >> in the interes

twitter.com/booktv. >> up next, bruce fleming, a columnist from military.com discusses the recently published book. what each side need to know about the other and about himself. mr. fleming explored the misunderstanding between civilians and the military, the roles and missions, and what the military and civilian communities need to do to narrow the divide. bruce fleming appeared on c-span's washington journal where he takes fewer phone calls, e-mails and tweets. the program is 40 minutes. >> professor bruce fleming is a professor of english at the u.s. naval academy. he joins us for the last 45 minutes on the memorial day as we turn our attention to the military categories. we asked professor fleming to be with us for a piece that he wrote about the academies in the new york time "the academies march towards mediocrity." how anapolis and others lost their way. why do you think that? >> guest: i've had constant contact with my students, organization, approaching 3,000 students. i've had time to test the waters, call it that way. the problem with the military academy, they burn out their stud

welcome those who join us on our heritage.org web site as those who will see us on a future occasion on booktv. we ask everyone in house to check that cellphone have been turned off and for those viewing us online questions or comments can be submitted at any time by e-mail and thus. hosting our discussion is heather sexton this serves as director of our young leaders program. she oversees heritage's outreach efforts to the next generation of political activists, grassroots leaders and public policy professionals. among the programs under her oversight are our internship program outreach activities, student group briefings and young leaders program, virtual think tank. before serving as director of this program she was our in turn coordinator as well as having served as a heritage in turn herself. graduate of the university of michigan, get that clear, university of michigan earned her bachelor's degree in english and political science. join me in welcoming heather sexton. [applause] >> thank you. i am delighted to introduce paul kengor today, prof. of political science and executive director

[laughter] as richard of booktv brooch i always appreciated her fierce honesty especially in retrospectlaughter] writers are desperate for evidence that the written word matters. specifically the words they write. our presence here our gratitude to barbara and carl law is evident the written word matters. carvel believe in the written word she was passionate about the written word, and she believed mauney written words mattered and that as the poet said has made all the difference. so often when i come and many riders will tell you the same story carlo would agree to me with such enthusiasm and her smile, house the next book coming? we can't wait to read it. if i was drinking coffee with a friend she would urge me on so good to see you. when your done here, go home and write. [laughter] the idea that a reader is waiting to receive your work is enough to make you throw your coffee down and get back to your desk. her encouragement that the world to me. after my first novel was published, they celebrated the 50th anniversary of the public library and i was happy to be invited and get to li

and i want to make a special thank viewed to booktv for helping us spread the word about the long buried treasure of america's military women were. this program has given us an opportunity to tell you about a national treasure which has been all but completely absent with leave from america's historical memory. even when united states history was required as a subject in high school and colleges and many university textbooks and courses had very little to say about women were, how they had contributed to the winning of world war i, world war ii, the war in korea and vietnam. as the writing team of anderson and a psychologist co-authored dr. sullivan evelyn lenihan we have a combined 50 years experience with the department of veterans affairs. now he may be as surprised as we were at to learn that the agency and the majority of the employees knew little if anything about the surface of america's military women any more than the average person on the street. this is undoubtedly the main cause that in 1989 the fda published a bulletin for veterans day that had only one male veterans on the

it is a three day holiday on "booktv."ook the man he changed the world. if you have heard of him prepare -- few have heard of him. >> next, a discussion about women working in the national security every now -- area. it is hosted by the harvard university kennedy school of policy. this is one hour and 15 minute. -- 15 minutes. >> good evening. it is an honor to welcome three remarkable public servants who are also great role models for students on how thinking individuals can have impact on issues of war and peace. president obama was last week in india. he praised the founding leader. ghandi' observation that is seared in my soul, i [unintelligible] our guests tonight demonstrate in their lives the fact that hard-headed analysis is not incompatible with an empathetic haert. our speaker is the third ranking official at the department of defense. to the conflict in pakistan, and nuclear weapons, china, haiti. it of an issue where military forces are taking action and michelle is a person responsible for formulating the policy in place. we are proud of mich

as richard of booktv wrote i also appreciated carla's fierce honesty, especially in retrospect.laughter] >> writers are desperate for evidence that the written word matters. specifically the words they write. our presence here, our gratitude, to carla is evident that the written word matters. carla cohen believe in the written word. she was passionate about the written word. and she believes my written words mattered, and that as the poet said, made all the difference. so often when i come in, and many, many writers would say this exact same story, carla would greet me with such enthusiasm and a radiant smile, housed the next book coming? we can't wait to read it. if i was drinking coffee with a friend she would urge me on, so good to see. when you're done here, go home and write. [laughter] >> the idea that a reader is waiting to receive your work is enough to make a swig of coffee down and get back to your desk. her encouragement really meant the world to me. after my first novel was published, december the 50th anniversary with a shindig at the new public library, and i was h

. >> well, booktv is talking with ben, the accidental billionaire. on the air. go ahead. >> caller: i wanted to find out do you participate or do you have a hand in making the movie, social nerks, and i want a book signed by you. >> you've got a website. >> just go to ben and e-mail there and i'll sign books for people that way. the movie. what happened was aaron, a brilliant screen writer, he wrote the west wing and a few good men. he found my book proposal when it leaked and he came to boston, and i handed him the book. i wrote a screen play, and i was on set. absolutely genius. i've been a part of the movie from the beginning. scott is an unbelievable producer, kevin spacey, and i hope they all win oscars. >> how accurate is the movie? >> i think it's very close to the book. i know i've read a few articles here and there that say they are different, but every chapter in the book is in the movie. what aaron did very brilliantly is also add the courtroom scenes. you go back and forth from the chapters of the book into the courtroom where the kids are arguing. i

. >> we are postponing a regularly scheduled booktv programming today as the u.s.ate is holding a rare saturday session to discuss tax cut legislation. we will discuss two propos. l concerning the bush era tax cuts. amendments by senator muss bd and charles schumer will be debated for two hours this morning and following that ds 10:30 eastern. live coverage of the ogrs. senao on cphpan2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. please me in inviting chaplain, dr. barry black, who will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal lord god, source of our joys and all our abundance. as we convene for this rare saturday session, we acknowledge that no problem is too difficult for you. lord, we bring you our needs and difficulties, asking you to take over the things that are more than we can handle. give the members of this body the patience to live bravely with life's challenges, knowing that you are the author and finisher of their faith. use our lawmakers this day to bring healing where there is pain; hope where there is despair; and pea

. >> coming up next, booktv presents "after words," and our long programs where we invite guest hosto interview authors. this week, former president jimmy carter discusses his new book, white house diary:.the india recounted the events of this administration as they occurred. the 39th days, the nobel peace prize winner effects on the players and controversies of the late 1970s, more than 30 years after recording his account of the facts. he talks about his time in office with historian douglas brinkley. >> host: welcome to washington d.c., mr. president. it's wonderful to see you. i was wondering when you fly in here and go over all the arguments coming up over the potomac river and the tidal basin, what do you think when you're flying into this town? >> guest: i was like at the white house and i think about the wonderful times we had at the white house in referral to the sea in a canal this afternoon. as you know, founded by william douglas, one of our great justices of the supreme court. > as for easter brunch every afternoon. i used to run about 40 miles a week, which is a lot, in

[applause] 2 [inaudible conversations] >> welcome to c-span2's booktv. every weekend we bring you 48 hours on books, history and public affairs by nonfiction authors.

booktv joins mr. peck to see how the temperance movement led to probation in 1920 and why prohibition was repealed in 1933. the tour begins at the little-known temperance fountain near pennsylvania avenue. >> the favor sending on right now is seventh in pennsylvania avenue, halfway between the white house in the capital, where the temperance fountain once stood. they moved in the 1980s about 100 feet north of the theater. it is very strategic here in washington d.c. because it's halfway between the white house and the capitol. right across from a very what once was a very bad neighborhood called murder row. the statue itself once stood right in front of this building right here, at the base of it was a store called the apex liquor store, kind of ironic statue itself, which meant may temperance from abstinence alcohol altogether ended up a liquor store. the mac user that originally the statue is right here, where the statue is now? >> correct, that is now the grand army of the republic. it stood here f

. >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of history, of one of our now star programs. >> thomas, what do you think about hip-hop now?eople >> it's sunk to new lows.>> the inspiration for this book,n. started thinking about the idea -- >> sunk to new lows he says. book - >> i do. i started writing this book -- i wrote the op-ed in 2007 and i believe the dominant artist at the time, not a soul artists with the artists that weree really driving the media coverage of the genre and that were really setting the culturea and i think if you compare that even to like the so-called gangsta rappers of the early if y '90s, jay-z rbd, that such ake e decline in artistic quality of the loan even as a message. jay-z or biggie that's such a decline in artistic quality. >> so you're cool with biggie. >> i have problems with biggie but i think he had a lot more complexity than what you see right now. i am kind of interested in watching -- in watching a guy like drake. but i don't think that, you know, one artist guides an entire culture. >> so you say it sunk to new lows. explain to me why you fee

booktv usually doesn't talk about cook looks at why would we want to talk to you? >> this is cooking for a cause. 50% of all the proceeds and the royalties and advance go to homes for our troops so build homes free of charge and gives him a wheelchair accessible home and who wouldn't want to know the favorite recipes of george washington and president obama with notes about why they like the recipes? >> what what is president obama's recipe in your book? >> he has a running in cheese and shrimp linguine. >> how did you get access to those recipes? >> the beauty of that was my husband was the longest-serving aide in history and i was an intern during watergate so i knew a lot of the folks and i godfrey recipe books books before the american series and given them to charity so this is two books in one or the same price. is a great organ and it is the best charity you could ever ask or. >> here's one recipe you have for club cake. theodore roosevelt. >> that's right. right. it is a healthy state. it is heavy and it is great. it is delicious. >> what other recipes do h

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people to phone we owe a great dad and who we admire going forward scene here at the book fair and booktv is now joined by two authors. the book, "sea gull one: two brothers to the rescue." lily prellezo with jose. who is this book? >> it's a book that rescued the cuban rafters escaping communist cuba in the 1990s. >> why did it have to be formed? >> well, when government doesn't provide or suffice, then -- and you have a community oriented necessity, you have to take action on your own, and this is something that is called -- i organized a group of pilots to work in the straits of florida and fly missions in tandem to locate the rafters coming out from cuba seeking freedom in the united states and fleeing the disaster of that island. >> what was the government policy that said brothers to the rescue in motion? >> well, the government -- there was no really government policy that set them in motion. what happened that called motion? >> well, it was all result of cuba's failed policies probably and people left by any means they could possibly come up with, and there was all of sudden a sur

"booktv" is on twitter. follow us for a regular updates on our programing and news on nonfiction books and authors. twitter.com/"booktv". >> we're here at the "national press club" with diane reams, npr host and honorary chairwoman of the press club book and author nights. she is promoting her new book, "life with maxcy". can you tell us what the book is about? >> maxie is a little long hair chihuahua who came into our home seven and a half years ago when we had a big home with a a big garden and then he had to move to a condo. it is all about life with maxie and that move and the impact he has had on our lives. he is such a special dog. >> what are some of the changes that maxie had to become accustomed to? >> for one thing, he wouldn't walk, he wouldn't walk on a leash. so i had to push him in a stroller before we left the house. he was king pasha, you know? and i was the one getting all the exercise, but since we've moved into the condo, he finally learned to walk. he has become friendly. he used to nip a

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. ♪ >> coming up next, booktv presents "after words" an hour-long program where we invite guest hostso interview authors. this week pulitzer prize winner john dower examines military talks in his new book, "cultures of war." the former mit professor explains the attack on pearl harbor, the bombing of hiroshima, the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of iraq, finding commonality in these major events at an institutional level. he discusses his findings with institute for policy studies sanho tree. ♪ >> host: professor dower, it's an honor to be here. i've an admirer of your work for two years now. your work is so sweeping and so impressing and i want to thank you for sitting down to be able to have this conversation. >> guest: thank you. >> host: could you start by telling us how -- you're a historian of japan, both imperial and post-war japan. how is it that you came to write this book that links both pearl harbor, hiroshima, 9/11 and then the iraq war. what made you give those linkages. >> guest: i think it was that moment that all of us remember exactly where we were. it was 9/11. i happ

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. >> new orleans, you are on booktv. get on with your question for sebastian junger. >> caller: i left a message for the congressional depart -- the defense to guard the opium trade is in the hands of the taliban. suggested why couldn't we bombed the poppy fields and maybe the taliban would be interested at all? >> the poppy fields are very extensive. i don't think there are enough bombs to do that. it would be like bombing a week in kansas. in addition, people who are farming the poppy are very poor people. it is the only way they can make a living. it is a very poor country. they are not making much money. the money is made at higher levels. higher levels of management levels. that is where the money is made. you would actually alienate the poppy farmers who are growing poppies just to survive that you would be touching the people who are at the root of the problem. >> next call from hartford, connecticut. >> caller: 9 name is from pakistan. i haven't read your book. i have been falling pakistan for while. biases and i

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." >> salman rushdie is on the booktv this sunday did his best known as the author of "the satanic verses." join our three-hour conversation sunday at noon eastern on c- span2, and watch previous "in depth" programs on booktv.org. >> on "after words," former president jimmy carter looks back on his presidency with "white house diary." he is interviewed by historian douglas brinkley. and george w. bush's denmore "decision points -- now more open court decision points." your questions and comments. >> according to the associated press this morning, the nation's unemployment rate climbed to 9.8 in november, a seven-month high, as hiring slowed. employers added only about 39,000 jobs last month, a sharp decline from 172,000 last october. president obama is scheduled to address those numbers, but we've learned that he is an afghanistan a visiting troops could expect to have remarks from him today. commissioner gave the joint economic numbers -- if the economic numbers to a joint committee. here are his remarks. >> ok. today's hearing with the commissioner will mark the last hearing that i will

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