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e-mail the name, date and web site of the event to booktv at booktv@cspan.org. >> for the next threehours, author and historian pauline maier, the mit american history professor and expert on the revolutionary period has written several history textbooks including american scripture: making the deck la haitian ration of indepence, and her most recent release, "ratification." >> host: professor pauline maier, what was the glorious revolution of 1688? >> guest: it was the occasion when the british threw out james ii and brought in william and mary and reconstituted their government. >> host: how did we get from the glorious revolution of 1688 to the american revolution of 1776? >> guest: you just lost et out. [laughter] well, these ideas that informed the glorious revolution that were cited to justify it were, basically, those that continued and were used by americans to justify their revolution in 1776. so there was real continuity. the ideas that were expressed by, well, to name a familiar person, john locke or algernon sydney, other writers of the 17th century and popular writers of

twitter.com/booktv. >> hi, mr. gingrich. can you tell us about your latest release and what your next writing project might be? >> the latest thing we did was a photo book on ronald reagan called rendezvous withny, and calista came up with the idea we ought to do a book in honor of his 100th birthday. we were at the reagan library for the 100th birthday, actually lasted three and a half hours. so we were thrilled and there seems to be a lot of interest in it because of the renewed in president reagan. >> and what comes next for you writing wise? >> um, well, i have a book out this summer on american exceptionalism from regnery. we don't have a title for it yet. and i'll have a civil war novel out in the fall called the crater. and we're looking forward to both of those. .. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. if we could remember to turn off our cell phones, that would be excellent. this is not only one of arizona's most important cultural event, but as many authors will tel

twitter.com/booktv. >> hi, mr. gingrich. can you tell us about your latest release and what your next writing project might be? >> the latest thing we did was a photo book on ronald reagan called rendezvous with

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send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on booktv a program that originally aired live on booktv.org. three former high-level pentagon insiders take a critical look at how the defense department operates. thomas christie, franklin spinney and pierre sprey are all contributors to the book "the pentagon labyrinth." this is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. thanks for being with us tonight. i'm drew, the executive vice president for the world security institute. the institute is the nonprofit organization that's home to our center for defense information and our strauss military reform project whose latest work "the pentagon labyrinth: ten short's essays to help you through it," is the reason we've gathered here tonight. the goal of the project is to transform u.s. national security to meet the missions and threats of today. and it believes that it's essential that we consider both the fiscal and the strategic implications of defense programs. and it promotes informed oversight of pentagon activities. the pentagon labyrint

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you can send an e-mail at booktv, booktv@c-span.org or send a two to twitter.com/booktv. you can send a question as well to professor maier. september 17th, 1787. why is that date important? >> guest: what some people call the philadelphia convention adjourned. and told the country what it had been doing. [talking over each other] >> host: what did they do? >> guest: they were supposed to propose amendments to the articles of confederation which had been called and authorized. what they did instead was to write an entirely new type of government which is of course our federal constitution. >> host: if there's one person responsible for going amendments to articles to a brand new constitution who is that person? >> guest: the virginia delegation was the most important. included george washington. i am doubtful whether the convention would never have met. the fact that his name was on the virginia delegation, the convention was going to be an event of significance and that encourage other states to send important delegations as well. george mason, one of the leading constit

up next on booktv, historian john mcmillan recounting the underground newspapers of the 1960s and their effect on the political movements of their time. according to mr. mcmillan, the fbi began monitoring underground newspapers in 1968, and they placed obstacles in the way of their continued publication. hes the book at -- he discusses the book at city lights bookstore for about 45 minutes. l. >> i'd like to welcome you all to city lights bookstore, a literary landmark since 1953 here in the city of san francisco. we're very, very delighted to have john mcmillan here with us tonight. john teaches history at georgia state university in atlanta, he's also taught at harvard in the committee on degrees in history and literature and also in the undergraduate writing program. 's also the founder finish he's also the founding editor of the '60s: a journal of history, politics and culture, and tonight he's going to be discussing his new book, "smoking typewriters." published by oxford university press. it examines the question of how the new left uprising in the '60s emerged, and i think it was

[applause] >> booktv is on twitter. follow as for regular updates on our programming on nonfiction books and authors. twitter.com/booktv. >> president obama issued a proclamation that this is read across america day. [cheers and applause] >> all right president obama! there we go. we are grateful that he did that and especially grateful that secretary duncan and mrs. obama are here. let's hear it! [cheers and applause] >> suggs like you are pretty excited. what are you excited about? thank you. we are also excited about reading right? in our hearts we read all the time. the president -- he reads of much he knows facts about everything. so you want to be fact people? you have to read in order to do that. we will start by reading something fun. secretary duncan and i were big dr. seuss fans. do you want to talk about your reading exploits? >> we have two children at home who are older than most of you guys. every dr. seuss books we read, we would be rich. it is a great book and the more you are reading for fun at home, tu

you can also send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or send us a tweet, twitter.com/booktv. next call for professor maier comes from william in manhattan beach, california. william, thanks for holding. you're on the air. >> caller: thank you. and, professor maier, and i want to know how you say your name, that's first. [laughter] you're a national treasure, thank you, madam. >> guest: well, thank you, thank you. i say maier because i inherited the pronunciation from the family of my husband to whom i will soon be married for 50 years. so, you know, at this point it would seem to me to change the pronunciation would be an act of hostility. however, i will say i answer to meyer as well, and two of my daughters have chosen to pronounce it meyer, so it gets a little confusing in this family. >> caller: maier it is, and i have two quick questions. on booktv a year or two ago i saw a gentleman talking about his book that put the american revolution as much on the -- [inaudible] and the constitution, he put it in perspective worldwide and said that the american revolution was small

. >> this weekend on a booktv, reuben carter spent time in prison. he'll discuss that and his activist work. also, scott brown on his troubled childhood and rise to public political figure. get our schedules by e-mail. sign up for our booktv alert. >> health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius testified thursday on her department pottery 2012 budget request and the health care law. the house energy and commerce subcommittee on health is chaired by jim pitts. this is 2.5 hours. >> the chair recognizes himself for an opening statement. i would like to welcome our distinguished witnessed today, the hon. kathleen sebelius, secretary of the u.s. department of health and human services. madam secretary, thank you for your time and testimony today. the department of health and human services is a large department with broad authority and jurisdiction. with the enactment of the patient protection and affordable care act, we have found there are several sections of this new law that require mandatory funding. hence, bypassing normal appropriations

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senate and weekends, booktv. 48 hours of the latest nonfiction authors and books.nnect with us on twitter, facebook and youtube, and sign up for schedule alert e-mails at c-span.org. >> here's a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. >> is there a book festival happening near you? e-mail the name and site of the event to booktv at c-span.org. >> about five years ago i got a letter from a teacher that i had in eighth grade in chicago. she had saved one of my papers that i had written about thanksgiving -- >> she must have really liked this paper. >> she really liked this paper. and she mailed it to me, and she said, i've kept this all these years because it was up with of the best paper -- one of the best papers i had gotten from a student. and i read that paper, and i was going, hey! [laughter] i was really good. [laughter] >> what was the paper about? >> thanksgiving. >> the blessings of thanksgiving. >> kind of what it meant to me, i don't know. >> is it on your refrigerator now i at your house? >> it's in some box wit

can the complete schedule on booktv web site. signup for our booktv alert. >> now we go to new york city 40 annual women in the world summit. you'll hear from tina brown, the editor-in-chief of "newsweek" as well as from facebook's chief operating officer sheryl sandberg. anpour moderates poo the panel. this portion is an hour. >> just jump on it. do it. it will be gone tomorrow. [drums playing] [applause] >> thank you for that gramm warm-up -- great warmup. i am tina brown and i am thrilled to welcome you to the second annual women in the world summit. we have assembled so many freethinking firebrands, social revolutionaries, outside agitators, rabble-rousers' in this theater tonight and for the next two days, he should take got hold different insurance policy. the green room itself a major insurrection is happening. these are revolutionary days, and the observable facts, the amazing facts, the exhilarating fact is that our tv screens showing us that in the middle is, women are on the forefront on a fight against oppression, aff

twitter.com/booktv. >> coming up on booktv william coo and recalls the publishing career of jacqueline kennedy onassis who worked as an editor for doubleday and flaking. she never wrote a memoir of her own but her project selections as an editor mirrored her own personal interests. from among these were a history of thomas jefferson and his relationship with sally headings. a book on the assassination of john lennon and an effort to convince michael jackson to write a memoir. .. and it's true of jacqueline kennedy onassis. and think she may not have been willing to tell you herself about the 100 books she brought into print when she was an editor first of viking and then at doubleday for the last 20 years of her life, from 1975 to 1994. if anything, editors books are more indicative of her personality because they include what she has selected, invested time and. so what i'd like to do is tell you a story of those 100 books in a little bit about how they connect to her life in who she was. the first -- there are two things i'd like to say about jackie's personality, which i think you m

booktv will record several programs at this event. to find out when the events will air check booktv.org. from march 17th through nineteenth, the sixteenth annual patchwork tale storytelling festival will happen in south carolina. is there a book festival near you? e-mail the web site to booktv-c-span.org. also visit for more 2011 fares and festivals. pulitzer prize-winning author gordon reed present a biography of the seventeenth tuned

this weekend booktv is live from the tucson festival of books. visit booktv.org for a complete schedule of events. virginia fest call of the book is taking place in charville. simply visit booktv.org any time of any live online program and click the watch icon to view the event. for the schedule of programs live on booktv, check the upcoming schedule on the page. also in march, the patchwork tale story tells festival. that begins on march 17. is there a book festival near you? e-mail a name, debt, and website of the event to c-span -- booktv@c-span.org. >> called eye of the hurricane, with a forward of nelson mandela and the coauthor. >> that's correct. >> host: you say here my main purpose in writing this book is to share with you that i have discovered the truth. >> guest: to be the truth. >> host: the love of truth is the spirit of men, given where i was and for how long i was there, this is incredible. i have no business at all being here now. >> guest: that is absolutely correct. >> host: now, you say you were in jail 40-something years. wha

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10:00 pm on saturday. 12:00 and 3:00 pm on sundays. you can watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the book series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> now, on booktv, kay says that new details their 20s and 30s prefer to put off adulthood while women partially driven by their biological clocks are driven as ever. this phenomenon has negative implications for our society. this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york city. it's about 40 minutes. >> many of you have seen the movies i'm going to be discussing before and those who haven't might want to get out a little bit more. >> [laughter] >> this is a shot from "sex and the city." "sex and the city" as most of you was a television series as well as the subject of two movies. there have been many spoken on the foursome but i want to draw one topic that has been less topic. this is the highest educated group to appear on television, right. we have a harvard-educated corporate lawyer. we have a art detail -- gallery, a

and once again booktv is live for our second day of coverage from the 2011 tucson festival of books on the campus of the university of arizona. here's a look at our schedule today. >> mark -- but now the 1960s.

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with the top nonfiction books and authors.booktv.org. >> with you at cpac talking with a kenneth timmerman about his new book, "st. peter's bones." tell us what this book is about. >> this is a war novel, a book about the persecuted church in iraq. my narrator is an iraqi christian interpreter who has worked for special forces in iraq. this came out of my work as a journalist in iraq. i spent a lot of time in the north of iraq with the persecuted christians. i've also drawn -- on many times to jordan and lebanon to speak with iraqi christian refugees. i just felt as a journalist the message wasn't getting out. so i wanted to write a novel that would give people a human side of this story. so they could understand what's happened to the syrian chaldean industry it christians in iraq who happened to be the indigenous people and they're being forced out by a high muslim. >> were the people that you met what you were there as which also inspired some of your character of? >> yesterday we are calling this a historical novel. there

professor pauline maier is on on booktv's in this sunday. she has written several books on the american revolution, including from resistance to revolution, the old revolutionaries, american scripture. in her latest, ratification last year. joiner three hour conversation with pauline maier, taking phone calls and no country, sunday at noon eastern c-span 2. watch previous and that programs at otb.org, where you can find the entire schedule. .. >> did actually start from a family -- two family stories. and so if we can look at the world map, marina and i were in jerusalem, in israel, visiting with my family, and i learned -- i asked about the story of one of my aunts, a mysterious aunt of mine, a nonjewish woman who had married into our jewish family, and i wondered about her, what's the story about her? it turned out that her grandfather had been a serf in russia. do any of you remember what a serf is? hold on, you in the back row. could you hand this to him, and -- >> um, i think it was a slave. >> a serf was very much like a slave. he was

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send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. publishers weekly has announced the nonfiction books that will be released this spring. here are ten books in the category of history and military history in order of release date. >> to find other books that'll be released this spring, visit booktv.org, and check out the news about books section. >> seth mnookin looks at the 1998 study by british researcher andrew wakefield linking childhood vaccinations to autism. the wakefield report has led to a movement in the u.s. fueled by celebrities like oprah winfrey and jenny mccarthy to stop vaccinating children which mr. mnookin says is aou

. >> booktv is covered over 9000 nonfiction authors and books since 1989 when it all began with book notes, c-span's original hour-long author interview program. you can watch these programs online at booktv.org. now i'm booktv, kay hymowitz says that males in the '20s and '30s prefer to put off adulthood while women, partially driven by their biological clocks, are as driven as ever. she says this phenomenon has negative implications for our society. this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york city. it's about 40 minutes. >> many of you have seen the movie i'm going to be discussing before, and those who haven't, might want to get a little bit more. [laughter] >> this is a shot on in the city. and the city as most of you know what the television series as well as the subject of two movies, the title of two movies. there's been oceans spilled on the topic of this for some. but i want to draw your attention to one fact about them that has been much less commented on. this is probably the highest educated group ever to appear on television. we have a harvard educated c

"after words" airs on booktv. >> siddhartha mukherjee event a history of cancer. the author talks about and profiles the first patients who received radiation and chemotherapy treatments. this is about an hour and a half. >> at the very personal relationship to this book story. i was a student very close by here, an undergraduate from a foreign country. and when i could get my spirits up, i would take to this bookstore and spend time here. and there's something wonderful about things coming back. and so, thank you very much for having me here. and thank you for those really wonderful words of praise. i must say though, my favorite praise that i received for the book came this morning when i was reading through my e-mails and someone sent to me a note from some blogger who says, either close note for "the emperor of all maladies"? [laughter] has been my lifelong ambition to have a book which there are cliffs notes. if anyone is inspired, please let me know. i'd be delighted. i thought i'd begin today, rather than talking about the content of the book. i thought i w

. >> mit american history professor pauline maier is on booktv's "in depth" later today. she's written several books on the american revolution including "the old revolutionaries," "american scrip stature," and revolution written last -- ratification, written last year. today at noon eastern on c-span2. watch previous "in depth" programs at booktv.org where you can also find the entire weekend schedule. >>> journalist, lawyer and trade union leader steve early will be our quest live online on booktv.org on march 8th at 6:30 p.m. eastern. the author will be discussing "the civil wars in u.s. labor" at busboys and poets here in washington d.c. in the his book, mr. early details the struggle within the labor movement and offers strategies for moving forward. simply go to booktv.org on tuesday at 6:30 p.m. eastern, click on the watch icon in the featured programs section of the page. ♪ >> coming up next, booktv presents after words, an hourlong program. best selling author susan jacoby tackles the myths of old age in her new book, "never say die." she claims that american cul

>> next time booktv, encore book knows what george soros. mr. soros talked about his book, the bubble of american supremacy, correcting the misuse of american power. he spoke about economic trends and advocacy for open societies and decency in world politics. it's about an hour. .. bubble of american supremacy." what does that title mean? >> i draw a comparison between the stock market bubbles and the -- let's say america getting off the rails under the bush administration after the terrorist attack on september 11. >> do you remember where you were on september 11, 2001? >> yes, i was in beijing, coming from monogolia. my son told me, turn on your television. i actually saw the second plane crash into the tour. even though you're in beijing, it's like being there, so that's the -- it has the same impact. >> what was the reaction of the people in beijing? >> they were polite, but sympathetic. >> what were you doing in beijing? >> delivering a speech on china's future and it was reconciliation with the chinese administration. neca the chinese adm

. >> up next on booktv, former arkansas governor and republican presidential candidate mike huckabee gives his opinion on the current state of politics here in america and presents his plan to simplify the government. he speaks at the national press club here in washington for about half an hour. >> so i want to thank you for coming today. i was almost late. i was detained for a few minutes, had a phone call from david koch and that lasted nearly 20 minutes. [laughter] but i was finally able to break loose and get here today to be with you. i do want to correct one thing, bob. i was actually not third in the republican primary, i was second. yeah, i want to get that -- that has been a story that is often told, so i've worked really hard to be second. not that it means a darn thing because when you come in second place, there is no prize. or third, or fourth. one of the realities of politics. i think all of you have a copy, at least i hope you do, of the book, "simple government: 12 things that we really need from washington and the trillion we don't," and i'm hope you have a chance t

. >> now, on booktv, kay says men in their 30s and 40s prefer to put off their adulthood and women pushed by their biological clocks is as driven as ever. this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york city. it's about 40 minutes. >> how many of you have seen the movies i'm going to be discussing before and those who haven't might want to get out a little more. [laughter] >> this is a shot from "sex and the city." "sex and the city," as most of you was a television series as well as the subject of two movies or the title of two movies. there have been much spilled on this topic of this foursome but i want to say something about what's less commend. this is probably the highest educated group ever to appear on television. right? we have a harvard-educated corporate lawyer. we have a art gallery manager. a public relations consultant. and a journalist -- well, a sex columnist. [laughter] >> they represent what i call the new girl order. now, let's go to the next image. [laughte [laughter] >> whoops. more of the same and more of the same. could this be the new boy order? i call

e-mail the name, date, and website of the event to booktv@c-span.org. you can visit c-span.org for more upcoming fairs and festivals. >> it looked as it not just president ford, but history itself was telling new york to drop dead. [laughter] the city seemed mired in crime and disorder. the decline of that garment industry felt that it had left the city essentially unmourned. now, that situation was not unusual for new york. they were going through a deindustrialization. that was common for all older cities. one of the themes in the book is that the american dream doesn't have to lie behind the white picket fence in the intubs and cities have been as intrinsic to our experience as a nation as any place else. the very birth of america has roots in the cities and john hancock who wanted the political change to be created by a mob and sam adams who like many proveighers of liquor could conjure a mob. [laughter] it changed america and helped create this great country of ours. in the 19th century, the great problem was making the wealth of the american inter

booktv will be airing several events live online on thursday the 17th and friday the 18th. simply visit booktv.org at the semid time of any live online program and click the watch icon to view the event. for the schedule of programs that'll be live on booktv.org, check the upcoming program section of the page. also in march, the 16th annual patchwork story telling festival happens in rockville, south carolina. is there a book festival happening near you? e-mail the name, date and web site of the event. you can also visit booktv.org for more upcoming 2011 fairs and festivals. >> about five year ago i got a letter from a teacher that i had in eighth grade in chicago. she had saved one of my papers that i had written about thanksgiving -- >> host: she must have really liked this paper. >> guest: she really liked this paper, and she mailed it to me, and she said, i've kept this all these years because it was one of the best papers i had gotten from a student, and i read that paper, and i was going, hey! [laughter] i was really good. [laughter] >> host: what was the paper about?

[applause] >> booktv is on twitter. follow us for great updates on our programming and news. on nonfiction books and authors. twitter.com/booktv. >> in about an hour we're going to cover several thousand years of world history and touch every part of the planet are you ready to roll? are you ready to go on the journey? and this is a journey that as we touch all these places did actually start from two families stories, and so if we can look at the world map, marine and i were in jerusalem, and israel, visiting with my family. and i asked about the story of one of my aunts, a mysterious and of mind, a non-jewish woman who admitted into our jewish family. and i wondered about her, what's the story about her. it turned out that her grandfather had been a surge in russia. to any of you remember what a serf is? hold on. you in the back row. could you hand is to him? >> i think it was a slave. >> a serf was very much like a slave. he was a person or a woman who could be bought and sold with the land. so my aunts grandfather was a serf, but he had invented a process are working with

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >>> that was william kuhn on booktv. for more information, visit williamskuhn.com. >>> up next on booktv maya jasanoff presents a history of about 60,000 americans who were loyal to the british empire after the revolutionary war. hearing retribution many of these loyalists fled to canada, jamaica and other locales then under british control. this is about 50 minutes. >> hello, everyone. my name is alex meriwether on behalf of the bookstore i am pleased to welcome you to this afternoon's friday for rahm with professor maya jasanoff come here to discuss her newest book, "liberty's exiles." before we get started i just want to take a moment to mention a few of our upcoming author talks, upcoming events include james carroll on march 11th discussing his new book, jerusalem, jerusalem how the ancient cities ignited our modern world. and unger on april 4th for american tempest, how the boston tea party sparked a revolution. upcoming ticket events include james klick, billy collins and governor deval patrick. for the complete c

e-mail the name, date, and website of the event to booktv@c-span.org. >> why are white people called caucasian? have any of you asked yourself that? do you know why? no, and this was why? no. that is when it is still happening the russians and in chechnya the caucuses were having a tremendous struggle. why are white americans called chechens? i did find the answer. the answer took me to germany in the 18th century. of the idea of reyes was invented in the 18th century it does not go back to antiquity. there were not white people in antiquity. but since so many people thought that i thought i should address it. my book actually starts with the greeks and romans. and there commentary on the people who became of them. and what they discovered were people who live to in ways.s they talk what we call a culture and for those because the romans were imperialists and were very interested. >> i followed a german idea into the united states from a french intellectual and thomas carlyle who was a british intellectual and brought -- ralph waldo emerson price spent a lot of time with him, who was

more booktv ahead. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight beginning at 7 p.m. eastern. republican senator scott brown of massachusetts on his personal and professional life, including his election to the u.s. senate to fill the term of the late senator ted kennedy. at 8, richard whitmire examines former washington, d.c. school chance michelle rhee's efforts to reform the school system. on after words, rubin carter talks about the 20 years he spent in prison and his work for the innocence since his 1935 re-- 1985 release. we conclude with mr. west who served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs durgd reagan administration. he argues that a reliance on counterinsurgency strategies has led the u.s. astray in afghanistan. >> in this time we win, senior editorial writer robbins argues that the tet offense offensive was a failure for the vietnamese. from san diego, this is about an hour. >> thanks, t.j.. good morning, everybody. happy to be here. thanks for inviting me. i'm r

. >> booktv is on twitter. follow us for regular updates on our programs and news on nonfiction books and authors. twitter.com/booktv. >> according to a list from publisher's weekly, here's ten business books due to release this spring. march 22, thomas sowell is releasing economic facts and fallacies. the thank you economy by gary vaynercheck and cure ration nation also comes out in march. financial origami, how wall street bock. april 26, the next american economy, blueprint for real recovery will be available. douglas looks at how to benefit business in pulse to track threats and opportunities and that's released mai 3. may 31, age of greed, the triumph of finance. available june 13, douglas edwards gives an insider view in i'm feeling lucky. michael louis, the author of money ball and the blind side has a new book called boomerang, travels in the third world. the deal from hell, how wall street plundered great american newspapers will be in stores june 28. for more spring 2011 nonfiction books, visit booktv

this weekend on booktv we take you to downtown indianapolis for a look at the new kurt vonnegut memorial library. >> kurt vonnegut was, perhaps, the greatest american writer. he was a world war ii veteran. he was a hoosier. he was a satirist. he was a political activist. he was a husband, he was a father, he was a friend. he was a prepped to his fans. -- friend to his fans. he would write back to his fans. he wrote more than 30 pieces of work including plays, novels, short stories, some of his more familiar books are "slaughterhouse five," which is perhaps his most famous. "breakfast of champions," "cat's cradle," and many other books. vonnegut always brought in his midwestern roots and often wrote about indiana and indianapolis specifically, and if i may read a quote, many people ask me why should this vonnegut library be here in indianapolis, and i have many different answers, but then i found this great quote that says, "all my jokes are indianapolis, all my attitudes are indianapolis. my adenoids are indianapolis. if i ever sever myself from indianapolis, i would be out of business.

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senate and weekends, booktv, 48 hours of the latest nonfiction authors and books. connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube. and sign up for schedule alert emails at c-span.org. >> yesterday in the canadian house of commons, finance minister jim flaherty delivered the annual budget statement. all three opposition parties have already said they plan to vote against the budget. this could lead to a vote of no confidence and force the government to dissolve parliament and call an early election. courtesy of the canadian public service channel, this is a half hour. [applause] >> speech, speech, speech. >> mr. speaker, today our government presents to canadians the next phase of canada's economic action plan, a low tax plan for jobs and growth. [applause] >> since 2006, our government has worked hard to deliver real benefits to canadians, real support for the challenges of the real world. we cut the gst twice from 7 to 6 to 5%. [applause] >> we introduced the $1200 per year universal child care benefit. we established the tax-free savings account. we removed mor

[applause] >> frank brady discussing the life of bobby fischer on booktv. to see this and other programs on line go to booktv.org. watch robert and data bear talk about the comedy routine online on booktv.org on march 11th. the authors are both former cia agents and are married. they tell the story of their experiences in the cia in washington d.c.. at noon on friday go to booktv.org and click the watch button above program information and the featured programs section of the page. >> we are talking with jessica hughes about her book revolt. tell us about it. >> it is a book i wrote as a team party activists to give a good lehmann's explanation for why freedom is always the best choice in economics and personal liberty. i started out -- my problem is i had the secret service come to my house and i was not politically active until then. they came based on an anonymous complaint and i was kind of stunned. i was raised to believe america is a free place and they came questioning my thoughts and my feelings and it really disturbed me and so i started looking in

several events will also air next weekend on booktv. >> afternoon. i'd like to welcome all of you to this session of the virginia festival of the book, "voices from the middle east." i will be moderating the panel. i want to thank the city charlottes vol for hosting the festival, and thank c-span and book tv for covering it. we're on the air now. before i get underway, i also want to ask you, as always is, to turn off your cell phones. i want to introduce the publisher of just world books, the company that put out the books of these three authors and one other, and then i will take over after she has said a few words. >> thank you so much, bill i'm really delighted to be here this year, just world books, i tunneled it a year ago and we already have four fabulous books and we have three of the authors here this afternoon. i want to thank the virginia festival of the book for letting us have this panel, which my company is cosponsoring, and the virginia festival is the principal sponsor and brings a tremendous amount of wonderful things to the city eve

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in some sense we may expect your booktv the untold story of an american family but an african family. why you choose to focus on this side of the family heritage and what is the significance? >> guest: when the american people elect a president they also elect the leader of the free world. you only have to see what is happening this weekend in cairo to know the decisions made now in the white house will affect the lives of millions of egyptians. and i sometimes think the american people did not fully appreciate how big a deal is when a new american president has a very powerful influential position over the world. that is the first thing that he is an important man to everybody but with barack obama he is fundamentally different from any previous president for obvious reasons and came up very quickly from relative obscurity and the podium once said give me let the generals and they had their lucky candidate and he made it to the white house. and he is half black and have flights that made him very different. >> host: one of the things that seems very powerful and interesting about oba

. >> you are watching booktv on c-span 2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> and "the bee eater," said to examine school chancellor michelle rhee and her three-year effort to reform the school system. this event is 40 minutes. >> the question that i get asked most about this book is how did i get started on this? it's kind of an interesting story because i finished the book and i knew if i was going to write another book, that it shouldn't be another issue. people love issue books, but they don't actually buy an issue book. [laughter] i wanted to write one that a reason to turn the page. my wife and i were out biking and all of a sudden i realized i ended up asking michelle to cooperate in some way the book. she eventually -- she give me some access here -- enough obviously to the book, which is great. everyone also asked me what my favorite michelle story is. the problem -- there's another one i'd love. in may that might -- when the girls, when the daughters were much younger, kevin and michelle went to the original pancake house for a special meal. and there