send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> so you arrived just -- time frame. the shooting happened at 2:27 approximately. six shots got off in less than two seconds. how long before the hospital was dealing with this? it was just a matter of a few more minutes. >> that's right. i mean, he came right to the hospital. he walked and then collapsed. they brought him into the resuscitation area. ordinarily, for most traumas we're notified that a trauma patient is coming and the trauma team assembles in the resuscitation area waiting. there was very little time to do that because he was so close, but they were there. they got there, they put him on a gurney, started inserting ivs, examining him and did all the right things. it was a flawless resuscitation. >> so reagan walks in, right? jerry parr's in the limousine, and jerry tries to get his hand to help him out. reagan says, no. and jerry thinks, he wants to be a cowboy, i guess. reagan hitches up his panels like he always does, and his aide right behind him goes, oh, yeah, i think he's going to be okay. th

e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. you can also visit booktv.org for more upcoming book festivals. >> after 20 years of operation, the independent washington, d.c. bookstore politics and prose has been sold. we're taking this opportunity on booktv to talk with the new owner, formally owner of the "washington post". mr. grahm, congratulations to you. what made you buy an independent bookstore in 2011? on the phone: thank you very much. we are very excited about taking over as politics and prose and in author's case and former senior government staff member, we are very -- we are very involved in contributing in various ways to the washington community, and we see this move to politics and prose as part of the same sort of thing, and it's another way for us to continue to contribute to the community. beyond that, we really believe in what the store's mission has been. you know, it's much more than a bookstore. it is a community institution. it is a forum for debate and discussion, and we are believing in the need for suc

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. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. .. >> host: kevin williamson, what is socialism? >> guest: social and some is two things. is the public provision of nonpublic goods and the use of central planning to get that done. is that general enough for you? >> host: host both the public provision of nonpublic good. can you put that into english? >> guest: in economics there is a specific definition of what is the public good and the public good is something that is non-rival rest and non-excluding and consumption so rival remains if they ruddock is rival if i consume one unit of if there is one unit less for you to consume. if i eat a mango there is one less mango in the world to consume but a mile of highway is like that. for tribe down a mile of highway there is still a smile of highway free to drive over. there may be congestion but there is still the rival. exclude ability meese do we have the ability to limit to consumption for people to pay for it? manco is

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tuitele at twitter.com/booktv.. >> things didn't always look pretty new york city. when i grow the 1970's it looked as if not just president ford but history itself was telling new york to drop dead. the city seemed mired in crime and disorder, the decline of the garment industry felt that it left the city essentially on board. now, that situation is not unusual for new york because what york was going through was a process of the industrialization in the continent of all of america's older cities. one of the themes of this is that the american dream doesn't have to lie behind a white picket fence in the suburb and the cities have been intrinsic toward american history and our experiences in the nation as anyplace else. the birth of america has its roots in urban interactions in boston and the 17 seventies between john hancock who badly wanted the political change that could be created by a mob and sam adams, who like many purveyors of looker knew how to conjure a mob and the connection has created by the city of boston changed america, create

." >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2's booktv. >> sophia rosenfeld, what's the definition of common sense in politics? >> guest: good question to start off with. the one thing we never talk about common sense, we refer to it all the time, but it's not something that gets defined very often. common sense is supposed to be, at least, the kind of thing you don't have to talk about. it's the wisdom everybody has, it's the obvious, the self-evident. and it's something politicians refer to a lot. if you ever note that democrats or republicans, they love to talk about a common sense solution to health care or common sense solution to the problems of the environment. but nobody ever actually sits down and what is common sense, what would it be? it's the everyday, ordinary wisdom, reasoning about everyday, ordinary matters that we're supposed to, basically, agree upon without discussion. >> host: when did it enter, that term enter the political kiss course? >> guest: well, it's a very old term. the term goes all the way back to aristotle in different forms. i

izzeldin abuelaish here on booktv. you can find out more about his work by visiting daughtersforlife.com. >> is there a nonfiction author a book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/a booktv. >> so you a ride, the timeframe, the shooting happened at 2:27 approximately. six shots got off in less than two seconds. how long before the hospital was dealing with this? it was a matter of a few more minutes of? >> we came right to the hospital. he walked in and class. divided into the resuscitation area. most promise were notified a patient was coming and atomic came was a something israel time to do that. but they were there. they got evicted put them on a journey. it took all of his clothes off, started ivs and it all the right things but it was a flawless resuscitation. >> so reagan walks in, jerry is in the leading and jerry tries to get ahead to help them out. reagan's has no. jerry thinks he wants to be a cowboy i guess. and he gets out and he hitche

it air every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on after words in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >>> and now on booktv, carla peterson recounts the leaves of african-american elites in new york. she examines african-american new yorkers, some of which are her descendants prior to the civil war who were afforded upper-class status under the constant threat of racial violence. this is about an hour, ten minutes. >> um, i want the start out my talk with two quotes. um, they're both from the prologue of my book, and i'll give a little explanation for them, um, but they introduce why i decided to write book. write the book. so the first quote is in my own prose from the prologue. we still hold certain truths about african-americans to be self-evident; that the phrase 19th century black americans refers to enslaved people. that the, that new york state before the civil war denotes a place of freedom, that blacks in this

we'll put the phone numbers on the screen, and our twitter address is at booktv. so get involved with this discussion about the role of the fbi and national security, and we'd very much like to hear there you. first, a detailed question. the fbi director is a ten-year term. what was the thinking on that? >> guest: this was a decision congress made after hoover died in 1972. and hoover just had, as everyone knows, this incredible term. he was fbi director for 48 years from a period three years before charles lindbergh crossed the atlantic until a period three years after we landed on the moon. i mean, just a quarter of all american history he was the fbi director. and after he died there was a decision by congress that no one in a democracy should be able to amass the power and the longevity that hoover did. so they instituted this ten-year term. what's been interesting is that since hoover no fbi director has hit that ten-year limit. and i think with robert mueller what we're seeing right now is an almost cal ripken-like record that we have never seen since hoover

live coverage begins on booktv's coverage of the festival of books. >> it is on me. i am jim rainy, media columnist for los angeles times. file so blonde for the times and tweet and do all the editing of we have to do. a couple announcements to start out. please silence your cellphone. we don't want to pick up a lot of weeding. there is a book signing following the session. you make 17 left. and a right. and your maps should have that. and you are not supposed to be recording this because c-span is recording this and you can get what you need from c-span. what i am going to do is introduce our speakers, get the discussion going and if everybody looks like they are with us we will take questions for the last 15 minutes or so of the session. we have got a really interesting panel here and a really interesting topic. the title they have chosen is "inconvenient truths". i have three books we will be discussing. we are coming to this panel at a time when with the internet we have unprecedented access to information, the ability to obtain knowledge and disseminate knowledg

[applause] >> your watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> host: kate, who was jim thorp? >> guest: probably the greatest multisport athlete of all time, and native american, one of our earliest greatest athletes. he's at the dawn of american organized sports, and he set a model, the gold standard for athletic achievements which still stands today. >> when did he live? >> born in 1887 in oklahoma, died in 1953. >> did he play professional sports? >> oh, gosh, yes. >> for whom? >> well, both nonprofessional and professional. he played for the new york giants who are now the san fransisco giants. he played for the canton bulldogs which is why the hall of fame is in ohio is because of jim. if you walk in the front door, the only statue you see is thorp. >> in his time, was he as well known as a michael vick or a brett favre is today? >> oh, many, much, much more. he was a multisport athlete, football, baseball, track and field, won medals in the 1912 olympics. he could do all of that which is why he still retains this status as the greatest

up next on booktv, recounting julie and paul child's careers in world war ii. the cookbook author and television personality began her service as a file clerk in 1942 and later stationed in india and china. the author recalls the couple's travels as part of the clandestine office as well as the interrogation of paul child on allegations of communist sympathies. [applause] >> thank you. for venturing out on this rainy spring evening. and i am going to start this off by quoting groucho marx to the effect that before i begin talking i have something to say. first thing that everyone asks me is how julia child, 6 ft. ii with that distinctive operatic voice ever managed to slip incognita behind enemy lines. the answer is simple. she didn't. we will get to that later. the other thing is despite what you may have read this morning in usa today bigger subtle but appetit was not a secret code. more serious note. the most common question i get is what brought me to this topic? how to come to read about julia child and how did i know that julia child, popular french chef

tweet us at twitter.com/booktv >> tomico brown is-magin is the author, and that was the importance of the civil rights movement? >> it's not discussed often, but it was the home to several national civil rights organizations, and it's the place i wanted to explore because i thought that it would be a success story. it's usually considered of interest only because it was the home of martin luther king, j.r., but i wanted to explore atlanta because i knew it was a home to a sizable african-american middle class, many black college, and i thought that in part because the white city fathers always considered it a place of racial moderation that it would be a good place for dynamics and the rights movement. >> what did you find? was it a success story? >> well, in some ways it was a success story including for many members of the black middle class who came of age after the land moshing civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but the story that i tell in my book is a little bit more complicated. it also shows that for many african-americans in atlanta, a city that one would think would be a

[applause] >> this weekend on booktv on c-span2, panels on science. american history, climate change and the constitution and call ins with walter mosley. just a few of the highlights from live coverage of the los angeles times festival of books. get the entire schedule online at booktv.org and get our schedules and to your in box. sign up for booktv alert its. >> how would time travel intersect with these ideas? i will simply say this. one of the big puzzles with time travel is you go back in time and affect things in a way that prevents your own existence. kill your parents before you were born and a logical paradox. we saw this in back to the future. hollywood loves this idea. variation on the paradox which comes from the following idea. imagine you travel to the future. imagine i travel to the future and i want to see what happened in string theory, it has been proven or not or go to the library or the floating internet stagehands surprisingly low theory has made a major advance and the author of that paper is my mom. that is weird because she doe

tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. up next on booktv, myra gutin recounts barbara bush's four years as first lady. she was more political aought to and political than her first husband and her understanding of public relations. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you, felicia. good afternoon, everyone. thank you for being here. i was listening to something that someone said as i was coming in. i've been teaching about first ladies now for 30 years. and i occasionally will teach a semester-long course but i also teach two various groups in my community and other communities and i just wanted to share one quick anecdote with you. one morning i came in to a room and barbara bush was prominently featured in this and a woman said to me, i'm wondering -- i see that you're going to talk about first ladies. i can hardly wait to hear when you have a to say about princess diana. [laughter] >> and i said, well, actually, she's not someone that i'm going to talk about. she's part of the british royal family and this woman looked at

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> who is owen sullivan? >> owen sullivan was one of the most notorious counterfeiters in colonial america. he came to this country in the 170s from ireland -- 1740s from ireland, and he ends up in boston as a silversmith, and that's where he begins to counterfeit colonial massachusetts notes and over the next five or six years builds a huge intercolonial network that spans from rhode island, new hampshire, massachusetts, all over. >> how easy was it to counterfeit at that time? is. >> well, the printing quality of the bills is fairly primitive by our standards, but it did require tremendous skills as an engraver. one of the things you see in the early period most counterfeiters are former silversmiths or engravers because it takes tremendous physical dexterity to engrave a copperplate in reverse, because that's what was required. >> how much -- well, first of all, was there a national currency? was there, were there 13 different types of currency that were official? is. >> in the colonial era there was 13 di

. >> now on booktv, walter olson, the author of "schools for misrule," in which he argues that poor policy ideas born in law schools have migrate today the status of national policy. the discussion takes place at the heritage foundation in washington, d.c. and runs about an hour. >> what is taught this law schools in one generation will be widely believed by the bar in the following generation, unquote, said one great law professor. and he might have of added that it will also, because it is widely believed by the bar, it will wind up being believed by much of the press and public. this was not a new story to me. i have written several books about the he tick juiceness of our legal system, and in more cases than not, that can be traced back to academic origins. if you have a beef with the tort system, for example, in the unite, you should -- in the united states, you should take it up with dean prosser of berkeley. if you think our system of sexual harassment law is less than ideal, your problem is with professor katherine mcken non. so it is with class action law, civil procedure, employm

." >> now on booktv, brian christian looks at the state of artificial intelligence today and reports on the annual loebner prize event where the turing test is administered to the most advanced computer programs in the world. from seattle, washington, this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thanks so much to elliott bay for having me. i've lived in seattle for the past four years, and so this is my neighborhood haunt. and thanks to you guys for coming out. this is awesome. um, so the book really tells two stories. the first story is about how the computer plays in to this really longstanding philosophical narrative which is that humans have always been sort of obsessed and fascinated with their unique place in creation. what is it that makes us different and special and unique? and to answer this question we've typically, if you go back to aristotle and plato and these guys, we've typically tried to benchmark ourself against animals. so what i think is so interesting about the 21st century is that the benchmark that we're using to figure out who we are has changed. we're much more in

booktv streams live on-line for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> up next christopher strain looks at why american society is so violent. he talked about his book at the west palm beach public library in florida for 40 minutes. >> i am glad to be here at the west palm beach public library. appreciate the opportunity to speak with you all. about my latest book. at like to think are the rizzo for coordinating this and making it happen. i would like to talk about the genesis of this book. how i came to write it. i have some selections that i will take you through in the book and leave a little time for questions and answers in this end. but this book grew directly out of my work in the classroom. often times with professors, research and teaching are two different things compartmentalized without much to do with one another. this book derived from a course that i talked originally at the university of california and florida atlantic university on violence. the class began as a class dealing with violence in american history. it dealt wit

you could also send an email booktv@c-span.org or a tweet twitter.com/booktv. ishmael reed, when did you first start writing? >> guest: oh, i think when i wrote my name for the first time i ran all the way home. i was so excited about writing my name. and that was the beginning. i wrote things in second grade. and then i started really writing in high school. and my tutor was a right wing teacher. that's amazing because i think most people put me on the radical left side. but my teacher in high school, annette lancaster, and she used to give me all these america first pamphlets things and john birch things at first. i'd read them at breakfast and leave syrup on them and she didn't mind. she inspired me to write essays and inspired me to learn theater. i think the reason that i probably wrote plays was because of annette lancaster because have to study theater. the other great teacher i had was hortense nance. the only black teacher i ever had. >> host: growing up in buffalo. >> guest: most of the women teachers said i was a discipline problem, you know? i mean,

sign up for art booktv alert. >> next highlights from question time in the australian parliament when prime minister giulio ago large answers questions about the carbon tax to cut greenhouse gas emissions. she is accused of breaking a promise not to levy a carbon tax. she answered questions on board for solace and communities affected by recent floods. this is 40 minutes. >> over the next half-hour we will bring highlights of the australian parliament sitting in march. prime minister giulio gillard unveiled her plans for a carbon tax to combat climate change. this is resisted by the opposition leader on the conservative side. in march the government had to defend its border protection policies for riots on christmas island where the detention center houses 2,000. during march the government and opposition also declared support for japan after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. >> deputy leader of the opposition. >> i refer the prime minister to the conference on the 24 of february where she committed the government to a, quote, full cap and trade in mission. is the prime mi

you can also send an e-mail, booktv@cspan.org, and a tweet, twitter.com/booktv.fort mojave, arizona, mike, you're on with author ishmael reed. >> caller: good morning, gentleman. peter, ishmael, i'm really digging your conversation. just a little background, then i have a question for you. i'm a veteran of the summer of, of -- summer of love. my wife taught mostly handicapped children, and i was outside the alameda county courthouse the day, excuse me, that huey newton got out of prison for his illegal conviction. about your statement, ishmael, that the congress was a coin-operated organization, i agree with you there. but that doesn't mean that they're the best legislature that money can buy. now, i have a question about president obama. to e me -- to me, he seems to me as being unable or unwilling to argue a case dramatically and emotionally. and just as an example, the tax for people making over $250,000. he should have got on that thing and rid it through the waves. i mean, but he just, to me, he seems to be too polite, too intelligent, wanting to have someth

[applause] >> welcome to c-span2's booktv. every weekend we bring you 48 hours of books on history, biographies and public affairs by nonfiction authors. .. >> i used to be a journalist for 30 years and then high got right with myself and my family and their work for animals. i want to introduce wayne pacelle in the briefest possible way. when i met him in 20 years ago slow the ideas he had were on the edge of our society and he has led those ideas into the mainstream. there was a time when there were people who comfortably hold the middle ground in american society and wayne move them off of the middle ground. those of us in this room who know wayne now represent the middle of america and animals count now more than they ever have in our hearts and minds and public policy and thus they this sincerely. wayne doesn't pay me the enough to say this. he is the guy more than anybody on the plan has led us to that view. wayne pacelle, we are starting tonight. [applause] >> there are some seats up here. i will speak for does three fo

watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. >> next on booktv, howard schultz, chairman and ceo of starbucks. he recounts his return to a leadership position in the company in 2008 after an eight year absence. mr. schultz explains some of the setbacks that the company faced during the economic recession, his thoughts on starbucks' deviation from its original concept and his decisions that returned the company to profitability. [applause] >> thank you. >> well, it's not much of an overstatement to say that greater washington is powered by starbucks. that's, that really is the key. i've shared over the years that while we're one of the more highly educated regions in the country with all of the attainment levels, pretty good on the household income because the nine of the top 15 median household incomes are here. more starbucks per capita in washington, d.c. proper than any place in the country, so my shorthand of how i pitch greater washington is highly educated, highly compensated, high

booktv prime time starts tonight at 8 eastern. >>> this weekend on booktv on c-span2, panels on scienceican history, climate change and the constitution. and call-ins with larry flynt, sally pipes and walter mosley, just a few of the highlights from our live coverage of the los angeles times' festival of books. get the entire schedule online at booktv.org and get our schedule sent directly to your inbox. sign up for booktv alert. >>> and now to new york university law school in the new york city for a symposium on public corruption. you'll hear from former new jersey attorney general anne milgram. she stepped down when current governor chris christie was elected. in her speech she asks if new jersey is the most corrupt state in the country, and if not, which state is. her address is just over 30 minutes. >> now, i was so pleased to have here today in our two keynote speakers anne milgram and neil barofsky, two of the leading public servants in their generation and both nyu graduates of the school of law. i have the privilege now of introducing our first keynote speaker, ann mill gram. a

booktv that has come to p & p that have seen it on the channel, come to visit politics and prose, will they be able to meet you. will you be on the floor? >> sure. listen, i intend to be at the store full time. but, you know, one of the other great strengths of politics and prose is it's staff. we are inheriting a tremendously talented, very deep bench of experts about books of all kinds. and they have participated in introducing a number of the authors. they are the reason that so many customers come to the store seeking their advice. we are counting on many of them if not all of them to remain and carry on. now mr. grimm, do you see a need for politics and prose perhaps to move into the selling of digital books and enhancement of the web site. >> we are looking at enhancing the web site. i think that will be important. we realize the threat from ebooks, but it's not a threat we are going to run away from. we are hoping to provide an opportunities for self-publishing and we're looking at print on demand machine like a number of other stores that have acquired around the country. there

send us an e-mail at booktv/c-span.org. up next, phyhllis schafly and suzanne venker discuss "the flipside of feminism". women have more power, freedom and education but are less happy. they believe men have been miscast as obstacles on the path to equality for women and contend both sexes have been hurt by feminism. >> i had an interesting and fun life and i don't owe any of it to the feminists. feminism has become a very hot topic. i suppose the reason for that is sarah palin. a feminist cannot resist attacking sarah palin. it is not just because she is a republican and a conservative but because she is a successful woman. she has a cool husband, a great career, making lots of money. she is by any standard a success and they can't stand it. and she is pretty too. feminists don't believe what women can be successful in the united states. they think women are oppressed by the patriarchy. they are held down by mean men. they need the government to rescue them and give them more advantages. that is very unfortunate but you ne

it is a great team which tonight includes christine taylor from booktv at c-span. i want to thank her for doing the video work. it's going to make the proceedings more formal than when we were at the 14th location and did an open number with the microphone floating around with a question period mainly. going to talk for 15 minutes so they have a tape of something, and then we do the questions union convention style. you have to line up at the mic, and you won't get a chance to speak unless you see the green light go on, and i have my finger on that control, but i hope that when we get to the question period, it will be lively. i know it will be. this new labor series that busboys and poets has initiated i believe with an event involving barbara ironwright. it's no coincidence that don allen, the busboy's manager, is so committed to puts on programs that's going to enable us to showcase labor related books, cultural events, photography events. he's the son of a striker who 30 years ago this summer was fired along with 12,000 of his coworkers, and growing up in that

we're also pleased to have c-span's booktv here taping today's event.hen asking questions, please know you're recorded, and please wait for a moment for the microphone to come over to you before asking your question. finally, now is a great time to make sure you silenced your cell phones. this afternoon, on behalf of harvard bookstore, i'm pleased to introduce mya here to discuss liberty exhyls, she is an award winning historian bringing us a largely untold story, the story of 60,000 men and women who remained loyal to the british empire at the conclusion of the revolution. they left their home and became refugees elsewhere and left the american world. historian joseph jay ellis says losers seldom write history, but these loyalists got their historian. she tells the story with uncommon style and grace. she's an associate professor of history at harvard university. her first book, "edge of empire" was awarded the 2005 cooper prize and was a book of the year selection in the economist, the guardian, and the sunday time. we're pleasessed to bring here -- p

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if booktv viewers who have come because they have seen it so often on the channel, come to visit politics and prose if they are in washington pouring will they be able to meet you? .. >> and they will, we are counting on many of them,not all of them, to remain and carry on. >> host: now, mr. graham, do you see a need for politics and prose, perhaps, to move into the selling of digital books or an enhancement of the web site? >> guest: we are looking at enhancing the web site. i think, i think that will be important. we realize the threat from e books, but it's not a threat we're going to run away from. we are hoping to, to provide opportunities for self-publishing, and we're looking at a print on demand machine like a number of other stores have acquired around the country. there are a host of initiatives, i think, that you'll see beginning to take shape at politics and prose. >> host: well, bradley graham is the new co-owner, along with his wife, of the well-known washington independent bookstore, politics and prose. mr. graham, good luck to you, and booktv looks forward to continuing ou

[inaudible conversations] >> coming up tonight, booktv in prime time begins with "afterwords."hurricane" carter talks about his work for the innocent since his 1985 release. he talks with juan williams. at 9 p.m., edward glazer argues the city is the salvation for our future. and then at 9:50 eastern jennet conant. that's tonight on c-span2. >> this weekend on booktv on c-span2 panels on science, american history, climate change and the constitution. and call-ins with larry flynt, sally pipes and walter mosley, just a few of the highlights from our live coverage of the los angeles times 'festival of books. get the entire schedule online at booktv.org and get our schedule sent directly to your inbox. sign up for booktv alert. >> and now former republican white house deputy national security adviser elliot abrams discusses policy towards israel with robert wexler. they also talk about recent events in egypt and syria. this event took place earlier this week here in be washington, it's about an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, please, welcome to the stage o

twitter.com/booktv. .plead >> feminism has become a very hot topic. i suppose the reason for that is sarah palin. feminists cannot resist attacking sarah palin. it's not just because she's a republican and a conservative, it's because she's a successful woman. she has a cool husband, a lot of kids, a great career, making lots of money. she is, by any standard, a success. and they can't stand it. and acid in their wounds is that she's pretty too. [laughter] so the feminists don't believe that women can be successful in the united states. they think women are oppressed by the patriarchy. they are held down by mean men, and they need the government to rescue them and give them more advantages. and that's very unfortunate. but you never hear them talk about really successful women; margaret thatcher, condoleezza rice. what about all the wonderful women who were elected last november the 2nd, 2010? well, it turned out they were all republicans. in fact, they were all pro-life. and that wasn't what the feminists planned at all. they simply do not recognize

booktv streams for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. this weekend on booktv on c-span2 new york times op-ed columnist david brooks on how our unconscious mind shapes character, intelligence and biass from the social animal. what house correspondent ken walsh on a long history of

. >>> coming up next on booktv, hampton side recounts the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr and profiles his assassin, james earl ray. mr. sides beat il's the seascape from the missouri state penitentiary in 1967 and his travels throughout the south, mexico and los angeles and his assassination of dr. king. the library of philadelphia is the host of this event. it's about an hour. [applause] >> thank you. >> it's great to be back. i think that all writers he eventually want to go back to the place they came from. in this case, it was for me to go back to memphis tennessee where i grew up, where it was warm and try to understand this pivotal moment in american history and to try to understand and sort of de construct the most controversial, the most tragic, the most and many ways complicated even in my city's history. my father was a law professor and a lawyer until a law firm in memphis that has represented the garbage workers and represented the team on behalf of the garbage workers and so i've got a lot from him about this event. but you're always sif

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> up next on booktv, bradford martin presents a history of political activism during the 1980s. he explores many of the decade's political movements from aids activism and the nuclear freeze campaign to the denouncement of american corporate recommendations with south africa's apartheid government. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. so i want to thank books on the square for having me here and my publisher, hill and wang, for helping put the event together. and i was encouraged to do some readings from, from the book. and what i'd like to do is a couple, couple readings from the introduction and then a couple from inside the book. and i think a good thing to start off with would be sort of the story of the book's origins, and happily enough, the very first paragraph tells that story, so i'm just going to start with that. this book started with a challenge: discussing the modest output of historical literature on the 1980s. an editor friend of mine announce

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up next on booktv, encore booknotes. from 1999 elizabeth norman talked about her book, "we band of angels," the untold story of american nurses trapped on the tanned by the japanese. it tells the stories of army and navy nurses who were caught during the bombing of manila in the philippines by the japanese and their establishment of the jungle hospital for the numerous casualties. this lasts about an hour. c-span: elizabeth m. norman, author of "we band of angels," who are you talking about? >> guest: i'm talking about the army and navy nurses who were in the philippines when world war ii began, who surrendered to the japanese and are the largest group of american women pows in the history of our country. c-span: where's this picture from? >> guest: that's the picture taken of the army nurses when they were liberated from santo tomas interment camp in manila. they're on their way out of camp. c-span: and where did you get the idea for this book? >> guest: it grew out of two sources. my mother served in the spars in world

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"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. click on after words in the series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. .. who would shape them archways by my catholic faith, but also by my experiences as a son of an air force officer. i came of age in east five, germany, which was less than 100 miles from the early 1850s and 60s and i would define by a sense of the evidence of the soviet threat, understanding our place in the world of the american forces in germany, including the american independence. we were in effect -- i didn't know to think of this symbolic language, we were in effect on the altar. we were the true player also that if the soviet moved into west germany, the first thing they would do is hit us, which would immediately require the united states of america's involvement in resisting the soviet move. we were the guarantee for europe that the soviet union could not move to the west without bringing down the wrath of american

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later tonight watch c-span's "booktv" online. webcasting live from busboys and poet's cafe with black tide. book about the 2010 deepwater horizon oil rig explosion. the author remembers the 11 men who were killed on the rig and millions of barrels of oil that spilled into the gulf of mexico. that is live "booktv" webcast starting at 6:30 p.m. eastern at booktv.org. >>> tonight on c-span2 a discussion about investigative journalism from long island university. a group of reporters discuss how they break down the wall of secrecy. we'll hear from "rolling stone"'s michael hastings and ac to. son and others on topics from police shootings to prison live life and the article that led to the dismissal of general stanley mcchrystal. that is tonightite eastern on c-span2. >> 2/3 of the american people depended own the network news of those three networks as their primary source of news information about the president of the united states. all were hostile to richard nixon. >> go inside pivotal moments inside american history on-line at t

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twitter.com/booktv. >> coming up, lawrence goldstone recount supreme court's announcement of the civil rights act of 1983. is deemed the act unconstitutional and by doing so needed the protection of the fourteenth amendment. >> before we get to the serpentine dealings of the supreme court. many begin with an assertion. they will discover some wonderful formula to explain human behavior. and a field in which truth is quantifiable seems to have more help than one in which basic concepts will be elusive. you can never prove categorically that you are right. i remember when i was in graduate school aid debate raged fiercely. may be social science could be value free. could we take the human value out. and subjective removing sort of in a laboratory. could a historian create the equivalent of newton's laws of motion. and this argument seems to have receded. academia talked itself out. he was not really a scientist at all but throughout a hypothesis which they hopefully had supported and which other social scientists could then hurled bricks that. what does this have to do with us. the peopl

. >> welcome to booktv. every weekend beginning at this time here on c-span2. over the next 48 hours we bring programs on nonfiction books, authors and the publishing industry. four in.. >> naomi author of an "the white house doctor" located south and west of the student union. it's truly an honor today to introduce two women whose books and stories can inspire all of uso >> our power to make a difference in our communities and countries. their lives show pursuing a passion for equal justice and for service can truly change the world.he dr. connie mariano is a woman of many first and first military woman to be tysic chosen as the white house physician, the first woman director of the white house medical unit in the firstto b filipino american to become the admiral -- admiral in the navy. she started as aunn underdog always being under estimated because of her gender comment ethnic background and appearance and her new book "the white house doctor" dr. connie mariano shares herd turning a little th growth in the philippines came to america to become a physician

booktv streams for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> up next, the winner of the 2011 pulitzer prize in general nonfiction present a history of cancer. it recounts the earliest documentation of the disease and profiles the first patients receive chemotherapy patients. this is an hour-and-a-half. >> very personal relationship to the bookstore. i was an undergraduate from a foreign country. when i could get my spirits up i would write for this book store. and spend time here and there is something wonderful about fein is coming back so thank you for having me here. and thank you for those wonderful words of praise. my favorite phrase that i receive for the book came this morning, someone send me a note from some blog her who says are there cliffs notes? it is my lifelong ambition to write a book where there are cliffs notes. if anyone is inspired to write them please let me know. i would be delighted. i thought i would begin today rather than talking about the content of the book i thought i would begin by talking about the

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