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[applause] >> welcome to c-span2's booktv. every weekend we bring you 48 hours of books on history, biography and public affairs by nonfiction authors. .. >> sign up for booktv alert. >> up next on booktv, jennet conant recounts julia and paul childs careers in the office of strategic services during world war ii. the cookbook author and tv personality began as a file clerk and was later stationed in india and china. the author recalls the couple's travels as well as paul childs' interrogation charges of commune sympathizer. -- communist sympathizer. this is about o 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you for venturing out on this rainy spring evening. i think i'm going to start us off by quoting groucho marx to the effect that before i begin talking, i have something to say. the first thing that everyone, absolutely everyone asks me is how does julia child, of-2 -- 6-2, ever managed to sneak incognito behind enemy lines. the answer is simple: she at no didn't, but we'll get to that later. bon appetit was not a secret code. now, m

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> well known author kitty kelley has written about frank sinatra, nancy reagan, the bush family among other topics and now oprah. kitty kelley, does oprah have a role in the political world? >> oh, no question. being probably one of the most powerful women not just in our country, but globally, she has immense power. because she's a communicator, and she influences millions and millions of people. just ask president obama. [laughter]

phone numbers are on the screen and you can tweet us, it's at booktv. loathes of ways to get -- lots of ways to get involved and look forward to your questions on this. one of the things i learned is some of the interesting cross roads for the development of american health care, and just as a way of teaching people about how our system changed over time, i want to go through a couple with you and you talk about them. >> sure. >> one was as you point out october 26, 1943irs ruling, and can you talk about how that reenforced the current health care system? >> well, you know, during world war ii when raging price controls were in, employers had a hard time attracting new employees because they couldn't give them wage increases and the government decided they would give employers a benefit if they offered health care, and employees, of course, would get their health care with pretax dollars, so the government got us into this mess in the first place, and now they are getting more and more into it, and i would like to see that changed. you know, we don't ge

[laughter] >> booktv has over 100,000 twitter followers. be a part of the excitement. follow booktv on twitter to get news, scheduling updates, author information, and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> this one came out, and they exhausted their inventory of it, and nobody was back as far as i know. >> oh, okay. >> they're doing an electronic version of that, i don't know. >> sure. >> it's a transitional time period for the book. the nature of the book is changing in our culture, and we are -- here we're committed to the printed word. we have not engaged in selling the e-books or electronic things at all. we like to think that there's probably going to be a happy medium in years to come, but there will still be a need and a demand for the bound and printed book as well as the convenience and so forth of the e-book. we -- it may be jeep rational, but there's just something about having a book in your hand. it's not going to change. that book that i bought, that cash register that day, that i have in my hands right now, those

twitter.com/booktv. >> this weekend booktv in partnership with brighthouse networks is taking viewers on the road to florida for a look at the literary scene of the tampa st. petersburg area. here's a video shot by our local content video crew. >> how do you think the industry has changed? >> i would have to say former book editor is one of the saddest words i know because there's so many of us. there's so many of newspapers who have dropped their book pages. i'm very proud of what they do after i retired. but what is changing both the way people are reading in other words, the vehicle. and i think to some extent what they're reading. but mainly how they're reading i think is what's changing. we emphasize -- when book editors always covered the latest books and they were tied into the publishing industry in bookstores and so on and i think one thing that is happening is people are kind of disassociating themselves with the usual traditional vehicles. and so they're looking for -- people love books and i don't think that's ever changed but they're looking for other ways of reading in a

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

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org, or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> i began two years before the bombs begin to fall onto the. exactly two years to the day. april 15, 1959, that evening fidel castro arrived in the united states for a visit. this was his first visit to the united states. dwight eisenhower was still president. richard nixon was vice president. kerry was still a junior senator from massachusetts. castro came to deliver his speech to newspaper editors, but the visit was something more like a charm offensive. he and his bearded entourage arrived in washington loaded with cuban cigars and cases of cuban rum, and castro spent most of his visit hugging and smiling and saying all the right things. there were some americans comically some in the eisenhower administration, including dwight eisenhower himself, who had some pretty serious concerns about castro, maybe maybe he was a kindness in making. me found in charismatic. after a few days in washington castro trained in new york city. for the moment he arrived at penn station where he was greeted by 20,000 people, he

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m.n sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. also watch 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. >> c-span's local content vehicles partnered with brighthouse networks in tampa/st. petersburg, florida, to check out the local literary scene. here's a short video from that trip. >> we're standing at the site, well, the former site of the el dorado gaming club. now, a parking lot. although its sister building is across the street. you can get an idea of what the el dorado used to look like in the 1930s. it was one of the largest gambling clubs in town, and you would go there to play roulette, play some of the local games of chance, and you would also play bolita which was the real big moneymaker for organized crime here in the 1930s. and bolita was, basically, like the florida lottery where i yo had a -- where you had a number of balls, they would throw them into a sack, and people would pick out a number or they would

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> well known author kitty kelley has written about frank sinatra, nancy reagan, the bush family among other topics and now oprah. kitty kelley, does oprah have a role in the political world? >> oh, no question. being probably one of the most powerful women not just in our country, but globally, she has immense power. because she's a communicator, and she influences millions and millions of people. just ask president obama. [laughter] she really back in 2000 when george bush was running against al gore, gore's poll ratings were much high or than bush's. but after bush appeared on oprah, she baptized him with her female audience, and his polls went up. and look what happened. in fact, chris rock kids her all the time and says you're the one who elected george w. bush. so, yes, she has immense power. >> and, in fact, george w. bush for his "decision points" just went on oprah recently to talk about it. >> it was a safe berth for him. i saw a little bit of it, and it was a very receptive audience for bush to put forward

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> next on booktv jennifer griffin and greg myre appeared on c-span's "washington journal" to talk about their new book "this burning land," and take questions from viewers. his is about 45 minutes. >> we're back with husband and wife reporting team. greg myre is the senior editor at national public radio, co-author of the new book, the new book by the husband and wife team here, "this burning land: lessons from the front lines of the transformed israeli-palestinian conflict." and jennifer griffin, his wife, national correspondent at fox news channel. the co-author of this book as b well. gray, let me begin with you. let'seg start with why the israeli-palestinian conflict continues today. guest: it has been going on for six decades. tenures ago, they were close to an agreement. but they have worked backwards -- 10 years ago, they were close to an agreement. we wanted to emphasize how they dug a deeper hole for themselves. hamas is in control of gaza. relish solomons have expanded from 100,000 to 300,000 today so. a lot of the problems have mult

twitter handle at booktv. lots of ways to get involved. we look forward toker why -- forward to your discussion on this. one the thingies learned in the course of reading your book is some of the interesting cross roads for the development of american health care. just as a way of teaching people about how our system changes over time. i'd like to go over them and have you talk about them. one was as you point out in october 26th, 1943 irs ruling. i was wondering if you could talk about how that reinforced the current health care system. >> guest: well, you know, during world war ii, when wage and price controls were in, employees were having a new time attracting employee. they couldn't give them wage increases. the government decided they would give employers benefit if they offered health care and employees would get their health care with pretaxed. the government got us into the mess in the first place. now they are getting more and more into it. i would like to see that changed, we don't get our long-term care, house insurance through

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> thanks did look so bright in new york city. when i was a kid growing up here in the 1970s it looked as if not just president ford but history itself is to new york to drop dead. the city seemed mired in crime and disorder, the decline of the garment industry itself had left the city essentially unmourned. that situation was not unusual for new york because what new york was going through was a process of de- industrialization, common to all of america's older cities. one of the themes of this book is that the american dream doesn't have to lie behind a white picket fence in the suburbs. and that cities have been as as an intrinsic to the american as it myself. the very birth of america has its roots in boston in the 1770s between john hancock who badly wanted the political change that could be created by a mob, and set and select many purveyors of flickr not to conjure a mob. and their connections as graded by the city of boston changed america, c

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweak us at twitter.com/booktv. >> "climatopolis: how our cities will thrive in the hotter future" is written in a breezy popular style and has a sort of breezy optimism to it. you right at one point, quote, the innovative capitalist culture will allow us to make a houdini style escape from climate change's most devastating impacts. what makes you so sure of that? >> my mother always told me to avoid wishful thinking and i always try to be provocative to see if folks are awake. i take climate change very seriously. now that my two minutes is up. i love good jokes. i take climate change very seriously. my optimism is really -- the core of my optimism and i don't want you to walk away thinking i may not even optimists. when we anticipate a challenge, in a world of seven billion people or perhaps nine billion people, if enough of us are scared and aware of the challenge climate change opposes the beginnings of addressing do in head on is anticipating a problem and give our best minds mark zuckerberg and a few ucla faculty, in a world where we have sev

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10:00 pm on saturday, 12:00 and 9:00 pm on sunday.nd 12:00 am 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. >> this june on "in depth" the balance between security and liberty. and the limits of international law. your questions for author and university of chicago law professor eric posner, his book includes >> women in hezbollah, that is one of the most interesting aspects of the society has hezbollah has managed to create. i like to say that the women of hezbollah are really the cornerstone to the movement and are what has turned into something that has such an enduring and resilient bedrock. so each time there's a war, and i mean 1993, 1996, 2006, there's massive amounts of destruction. people's homes are destroyed every time. people's kids get killed. and for it to happen once, anything can happen for instance. for people to be willing with good cheer and high energy to volunteer again and again for this req

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10:00 pm on saturday, 12:00 and 9:00 pm on sunday and 12:00 am 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. >> on the go, "after words" is available via podcast through itunes and xlm. visit booktv.org and click on podcast on the upper right-hand side of the page. >> and now holly tucker provides an account of the first blood transfusions which took place in france in 1667. and the fallout from those experiments. >> all right. well, we are going to get started very shortly. holly is going to get her computer plugged in and i'll do an introduction while she's doing that. i'd like to welcome you to the national museum of health and medicine's first science cafe. we called it the medical museum's cafe and we were really thrilled to do this. this is one of our outreach programs that we're doing sort of in conjunction with opening up a new building. so if you're from silver spring -- i think we've got a lot of people who a

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twitter.com/booktv. here's a short video from c-span's recent trip to florida where local content vehicles partnered with bright house networks and tampa st. petersburg to give you a closer look at the local literary scene's. >> who was allen dawson? >> allen dawson was a mother born in scotland in 1900 who comes to the united states in 1921 when she comes a leading communist labor activist and is the first woman ever elected to a national leadership position in a merit -- she was born in scotland in 1900 a place called bar hand which is an industrial village on the outskirts of glasgow. working-class poverty. i mean, her family is at the lowest level. her mother's family to give you an idea in 1890 there were 12 people living in a two room house, and this kind of poverty is difficult for us in the united states to even imagine today. but that is the kind of poverty she came from. it was normal in britain at that time for children to go to school until they were 13 years old and then when i graduated fro

up next on booktv, president obama's sister, maya soetoro-ng reads her children's book to a group of kids here in washington d.c. her book, "ladder to the moon," was inspired by the wish that her late mother, ann dunham, had lived to meet her grandchild. >> greetings, one and all. and on behalf of our chief librarian, jenny cooper, welcome to the d.c. public library. my name is wendy lukehart, i buy the children's and teen books for the library system. i'm thrilled to have this special children's author with us tonight. let me tell you how thinked. not only -- thrill t. no only is maya soetoro-ng an amazing person who has written a book you are sure to love, but this moment is all the sweeter due to the let's call them district administrative obstacles -- [laughter] that threaten to derail these efforts during the last eight months of planning. we nearly had to concede defeat and cancel the program when told last thursday that it was a felony to work or even volunteer our time during a federal government shutdown. happily, that situation was averted, so if you're happy and you know i

." >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. starting at 7 p.m. eastern, the sister of president obama, read her book "ladder to the moon "to a group of children in washington d.c. >> we're at the conservative political action conference talking with author mark joseph about his next, upcoming book. please tell us what it's titled. >> "wild card: the promise and peril of sarah palin." >> and tell us about the book and how you came up with the idea. >> sure. i wrote it during the '08 campaign and continued to write it since then. my publishers didn't think it'd get out in time for the campaign, so it gave me the chance to update it over the last two years. you know, it's really an overview of her life, politics and since then, of course. >> so with all of the books that have come out about her since '08, what do you think is going to be new in yours that we haven't heard before? >> yeah. i think that our book or my book has a chapter on her faith that is, i think, unique among the

on weeknights latchkey public-policy events in every week in the latest nonfiction authors on booktv. you can see past programs and schedules at our website and you can join the conversation on social media sites. >> nathan hodge is the author of "armed humanitarians." >> nationbuilding is one of those tricky terms that are never wants to own and that is one of the reasons i chose to write about it. i am not using it as a political science of the development. i'm using it in the way that people like george w. bush, barack obama or even petraeus would use it, which this is a way of describing the mission of our nationbuilding that were involved in. it has been described in some ways as the armed social work. and i am trying to really describe this phenomenon to the ordinary reader. when they look at the news and they see what journalists call the bang bang from places like iraq and asking if tnn show them another picture of what goes on, sort of the three cups of tea cited the war. that is what the military calls an academic side of things. what i really wanted to get out was the very

sign up for our booktv alert. >> i am a very hopeful person, an unrepenitent idealist. and i've come to understand hopefulness and idealism as strength, as real blessings. and this book, a much as anything, is a gesture of gratitude to some of the people who have given me those gifts of hopefulness and idealism, the teachers who gave me a reason to believe in a brighter future, a family and strangers too who gave me a reason to believe in the power of kindness. the church ladies on the south side of chicago who gave me a reason to believe in the essence of faith, the voters for that matter, who have given me a reason to believe in the politics of conviction and many, many others. a friend of mine described this book recently as a love story which for me was the most powerful compliment i could be given. i wanted to write about these people and the lessons they taught me for two reasons. first, because they've done more than help me succeed, they've helped me want to be better, to be a better leader, a better husband and parent, a better citizen. and, secondly, because i

[inaudible conversations] >> welcome to c-span2's booktv. every weekend we bring you 48 hours of books on history, biographies and public affairs by nonfiction authors. .. >> noah webster published the "american dictionary of the english language" in 1828. up next on booktv, jushua kendall, author of "the forgotten founding father" reports on mr. webster's political career, his circle of friends and his tenure as editor of "american minerva," of the first daily newspaper. this is a little under an hour. >> it is my pleasure to welcome you here this evening. we are happy to have this jointly sponsored program by the american historical society. it is a natural fit for this evening's program. i am very pleased to introduce crist of the, executive director to introduce our speaker this evening. >> thanks to all of you for coming out tonight. what a pleasure to have joshua kendall with us and to be able to collaborate with the historical society. i would like to thank the greater arts council which has allowed me to do this collaboration tonight

go to booktv.org and click on afterwards in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> up next on booktv, david goldfield examines what led to the start of the civil war mimic the role that religion played. he reports on how evangelicalism provide a backdrop of good versus evil between the north and south. and argues that the politically mediated resolution between the two sides became unrealistic to do the inclusion of religion in political affairs. this last about an hour. >> 150 years ago today the firing on fort sumter in charleston harbor launched for bloody terrible years we know as the american civil war. we realize the impact of that conflict has been felt in almost every area of our culture since. it has shaped our nation in ways, good and bad, and remains a focal point for controversy, discussion, and dispute for millions of people. if you have any doubt about that, consider that just yesterday the placement of a historical plaque denoting the union and burning of atlanta during the civil war was protested by the naacp because its location in t

. >> that was "after wards" booktv's authors inte -- interviewed with others familiar with their material. >> the cookbook author and television permty began service in 1942 as a file clerk and later stationed in india and china. the author recalls the couple's travels as well as the interrogation of paul child. this is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for venturing out on this rainy spring evening. i think i'm going to start us off by quoting to the effect that been i begin talking, i have something to say. the first thing that absolutely everyone asks me is how julia child at six foot two, that incredibly distinctive voice slipped behind enemy lines. the answer is simple. she didn't. we'll get to that later. the other thing is despite what you read this morning, bon apetite was not a secret code. the most common question i get is what on earth brought me to this topic? how did i come to write about julia child, and more to the point, how did i know the popular french chef of cookbook and television fame worked for the intelligence agency? well, i read it in the "new

[applause] >> booktv is on twitter. follow as for regular updates on programming and news on nonfiction books and authors. and now on booktv cbs news senior political correspondent jeff greenfield explores three moments in u.s. history. the near assassination of jfk by a 73-year-old suicide bomber in december 1960, the assassination of robert kennedy on june 5th, 1968, and the presidential debate between gerald ford and jimmy carter in october 1976. instead of recounting the record, he opined on what might have happened had the participants made different choices. >> i should tell you at the outset that you are living proof of an old advance in the first rule of politics. that when you book your candidate you always book and intimate, he is forced to speak to a steady moment and we are here. c-span is here and it brought to mind as a kid i had two passions. one pretty predictable and that was baseball and the other was politics. it occurred to me over the years that if when i was a kid c-span and espn existed i would ne

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> tomiko brown-nagin is the author of "courage to dissent. " professor, what was the importance of atlanta in the civil rights movement? >> guest: right. well, atlanta has not been discussed very often in the civil rights movement, although it was the home to several national civil rights organizations and the place that i wanted to explore because i thought that it would be a success story. it's usually considered of interest only pause it was the home -- only because it was the home of martin luther king jr. but i wanted to the explore atlanta because i knew that it was a home to a sizable african-american middle class, many black colleges, and i thought that in part because the white fathers always considered it a place of racial moderation, that it would be a good place from which to explore dynamics in the civil rights movement. >> host: what did you find? was it a success story? >> guest: well n some ways it was a success story including for many members of the black middle class who came of age after the

-- >> an active part of the day so we like to have your questions by phone or send us a tweet at booktv. 202-585-3886. 3886. what is the history in this book? >> all the way to bill clinton, putting the monica lewinsky scandal in historical conquest. the political party throwing dirt at each other, turns out not to be true. >> to be included in this book, over the course of nation's history. >> we were asked to show, what we consider personal and important in the grand scheme of the political story. >> we talk about a couple of them. american society which are loosely translated as grow up. can i tell you what you are going to say about the way few sex scandals and politicians? >> i have been in the -- a huge effect on our live and we use this to communicate -- and recommendation to our own age. a much different reaction than we do. we have a very knee-jerk reaction. and politicians have a message -- and don't mean to sound facetious but it is true. and -- career as are destroyed, i don't think fat will happen. it is very dangerous. it would indicate the president was good or bad becaus

. >> next on booktv, a discussion on the 2008 presidential election, politics and religion with kate kenski author of "the obama victory" and kevin coe, author of the "the god strategy." >> good afternoon. i want to welcome you and our viewing audience. i have always wanted to say that. to our closing session of this truly remarkable third annual festival of looks.tival of is really been extraordinary, hasn't it? [applause] our session which will close ino one hour and are c-span producers will make sure that, is covered on booktv so you can quickly texture family and friends and tell them to tune in life but then put away your cel phones, thank you very much. we ought to to thanking acknowledge our venue sponsor university medical center.meca my namel is stuart mallon and im excited to be moderating the session be moderate in this session called "obama, politics, and religion." it occurs to me that "obama, politics, and religion" might be the three topics that my wife and i would decide not to bring up at the dinner table if we had guests who saw the world differently than we did. s

twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on booktv, joseph nye, a former dean of the kennedy school of government at harvard university, talks about the changing nature of power in the global affairs. this hourlong program was hosted by the center for new american security here in washington. >> let me tell you a couple of things about why i wrote this book and what i think it says to at least start the conversation. the book summarizes work that i've been trying to do for 20 years or so about how do you understand power and america's position in the world. and it goes back to the book "bound to lead" which was publish inside 1990 which was a period when americans believed they were in decline. and in trying to answer why i didn't think the americans were in decline, this is when i coined the term, "soft power." i looked at american military power and economic power, and i said, you know, but this' not all there is -- that's not all there is. there's also the ability to get others to do what you want because you attract and persuade them besides coercing and paying them. and that, as they said, t

. >> now on booktv from the annapolis book festival, a panel on civil war perspective. it's about 15 minutes. -- 50 minutes.l >> please take your seats, andpv welcome.esseats h last countr . of no .. perspectives. today we have two outstanding folks. the first, the new york times -- "the new york times complete civil war 1861-1865" compiled and edited by craig symonds and harold holzer. and we have "andrew johnson," a presidential biography by annette gordon-reed. one would think >> as i read through them, itmu became apparent to me that they had an enormous amount innt common. andrew johnson, of course, was a southern unionist, and the war was over the union. furthermore, there are huge constitutional issues, huge race issues in both books, and sormor they do have tail nicely.ge r dovetail nicely. let me introduce our authors, and the authors will speak, and we'll have a question and answer session. we will have a question and answer session. hopefully there will be lots of times for questions and answers and i expect you to participate. when we begin i remind you this

. >> up next on booktv, ha-joon chang takes a hard look at capitalism. this takes about 20 minutes. >> my name is peter. i'm the events coordinator here at city lights bookstore and i would like to welcome you all to city lights, a literary landmark since 1953. we're very delighted, very happy to have with us ha-joon chang. he teaches at the faculty of economics at the university of cambridge. and his books include the bestselling bad samaritans, he's also the recipient of two very prestigious awards, the 2003 myrtle prize and the 2005 lee & trees for advancing the felon tears of economic thought. we're happy to celebrate tonight, 23 things they don't tell but capitalism. his new book out on bloomsbury books which is really kind of a forensic study of our ideas about capitalism. it aims to equip the reader with an understanding how global capitalism works and doesn't work. professor chang offers a surrealistic appraisal and many fresh insights how to swift from a more plucratic to more humane academic agenda. so please join us in giving him a very warm w

ah tv features 48 hours of people and events that help document the american story. >> get the booktv schedule e-mailed to you. to sign up, use our web site, booktv.org, and press the alert button. or use your mobile phone. text the word book to 99702. standard message and data rates apply. >> next on booktv, a program from the tennessee williams new orleans literary festival. a panel on real life drama, creating compelling nonfiction. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> well, we're here to discuss the genre of nonfiction writing, and we have three practitioners of that art form with us, so allow me to introduce them. immediately to my right is patricia brady. she is a social and cultural historian who has published extensively on first ladies, women, free people of color, cemeteries, literature and the arts of the south. a texan, she came to new orleans in 1961 and has live inside the city ever since. she received a ph.d. from tulane and taught history at dillard university. she founded and was director of the publications department at the historic new orleans collection for 20

booktv streams live online for 40 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> this inherited the view that we are divided to the way of reason over here and emotion over here. and the two are at war with one another, they're like a seesaw. if you're emotionally then you're not rational. if you're emotional then you're not rational. the reason which is trustworthy can suppress the passions which are untrustworthy. so this bias has led to a view of human nature that were fundamentally rational individuals who respond to short straightforward way to ensue. that little lot of our academic discipline to try to stick in behavior using the masses of physics. emphasizing what they can count and model and sort of ignored all the rest. i think it's led to a indication, i shall be of human nature would emphasize things that are rational and countable but ignore it or ticket about the things down below. and so it's great a culture in which we are really good at talking about material things, but bad about talking about emotions. really good at talking about

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> up next on booktv, a panel from the 2011 los angeles times festival of books titled "history, identity and purpose: california, chicanos and beyond," with mario garcia and sal castro, daniel hernandez and miriam pawel, author of "the union of their dreams." this is about an hour. >> um, hello. thank you and welcome to usc and welcome to the los angeles times book festival. my name is hector tobar, i write a column for the los angelesmes, times. and, um, and i'm here tote moderate the panel, "history,id identity anden purpose: califora chicanos and beyond." and for this panel we have three authors, three books.. our fourth panelist, i'll tell, you a story about him in a bit, but he's missing right now inht action. we know that he's somewhere right now talking to somebody. [laughter] he's somewhere trying to convince someone of what's right and what's wrong. our three panelists here haveere three very, very different books that are about journeys throughg 20th century and

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be in los angeles where booktv has the los angeles festival of books. we are taking advantage of this beautiful location to do our monthly index program. our guest this month is tibor machan who is an ethicist and political philosopher and author of more than 30 books legal scholar papers and regular blotter. we will introduce him to you on our in-depth program for the next three hours. thank you for being here. let me start with people not familiar with your work. i described you as a political philosopher but tell us about your core philosophy. >> my area of specialization is political philosophy but also do ethics and general philosophy. like many classical philosophers i think you need a comprehensive approach to make a case for various branches of philosophy. over the years i have come to believes that the classical liberal social political stance which associates with john locke, john stuart mill, thomas jefferson and so forth is the sound position to take on political issues. on ethics and a pathology and ascetics is another story. if you talk ab

[inaudible conversations] >> welcome to c-span2's booktv. we bring you 48 hours on history, biography and public affairs by nonfiction authors. >> this weekend on booktv on c-span2, gaithersburg book festival on wall street, the universe, america's largest slave revolt leader in india and the middle east and a panel discussion on the book industry and the former ambassador to yemen on the u. s counterterrorism efforts. .. >> under the constant threat of racial violence. this is about an hour and ten minutes. >> um, i want to start out my talk with two quotes. they're both from are the prologue of my book, and i'll give a little explanation for them, but they introduce why i decided to 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 new york state before the civil war denotes a place of freedom, that blacks in new york city designates harlem, that the black community pos

>> you've been watching booktv, 48 hours of book programming beginning saturday morning at eight eastern through monday morning at eight eastern. nonfiction books all weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. >> next on c-span2, "the communicators" talks with the director of the national institute on drug abuse. .. >> don't miss any updates from washington journal. start your twitter account today at twutter.com -- twitter.com/c-span wj. >> this week on "the communicators," several bear spectives on a study that measures how brain activity changes due to cell phone use. >> host: joining us on "the communicators" is dr. nora volkow who is the director of the national institute on drug abuse, and recently dr. volkow, you conducted a study on cell phones. what was that study? >> guest: the study was to try to find out the human brain is sensitive to the electromagnetic radiation that is emitted by cell phones which is not an obvious answer because this is a very low intensity. and prior studies that have been done to address that question have provided very inconclusive results. some sho

you've been watching booktv, 48 hours about programming beginning saturday going at eight eastern through monday morning at eight eastern. nonfiction books all weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. .. >> this week on "the communicators," our guest is intel corporation vice president peter cleveland who talks about the obama administration's efforts to improve american innovation by assisting the u.s. technology community. >> host: well, we're pleased to welcome to "the communicators" peter cleveland, vice president of the intel corporation, and he's also in charge of their global public policy group. mr. cleveland, if you could, start by giving us a snapshot of what the intel corporation is, what it makes, where it's located, etc. >> guest: intel corporation was founded about 40 years ago in silicon valley, and we are primarily a microprocessor company, but we're getting involved in all sorts of products, software solutions, hardware solutions. we produce the chips inside of netbooks, servers, desktops, but our chips also run medical devices, they also run gps systems in cars. you

this is booktv on c-span2. good to be with you. >> we conclude our coverage of book expo america in new york city with author michael nouri. .. >> i'm going to talk for maybe 20-25 minutes max, and at the end i'll open the floor for questions, comments and, hopefully, discussion. just to give you a little bit of background, we're primarily known for our independent analysis of the book publishing industry through our publishing report which has been around as bp report in some form or another for the past 35 years. we've also recently introduced a web component with some content, but also searchable archives for subscribers. we also do a number of syndicated research reports, and some of the ones you've probably heard of include trends in trade electronic book publishing, and we also do some consulting and specialty research on a very limited basis. if there's anything i want you to remember about simba is we are truly independent. we don't have any backing from any publisher group, any retailer group, any soft

[applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an email at booktv.org. or tweet us at booktv@c-span.org. >> cynthia stewart was a mother in ohio, a small town who was a mirror of one child of an eight-year-old daughter nora. she lived with her partner in a little farmhouse outside of town. cynthia was a passionate photographer and she become a passionate photographer after her daughter had been born. and she decided to document her daughter's life in great detail and she rel wished doing that and she took pictures of nora all the time. by the time nora was 8 she had taken 35,000 photographs of nora. these are not digital. these are rolls of film developed at discount drug martz processing lab. all of those pictures were numbered and filed and archived in cardboard boxes in her dining room stacked up on her dining room wall and she wanted some day to put together a book. but she was going to have a lot to choose from. on july the 6th, 1999, cynthia scooped up 11 rolls of developed film and took them to the discount drug mar

>> you been watching booktv, 48 hours of book programming beginning saturday morning at eight eastern through monday morning at eight eastern. nonfiction books all weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. .. >> and a procedural vote on president obama's nominee for deputy attorney general. >> this week on "the communicators," representative mary bono mack talks about the theft of millions of consumers' personal data through computer hacking into sony's playstation network and what she'd like to see government do to protect consumers. >> host: congresswoman mary bono mack, one of your key questions yesterday at the sony data breach hearing was, why weren't sewn customers told earlier? are you satisfied with the answer that sony provided? >> guest: not yet. and i think sony, of course, has some legitimate concerns and questions. but for me as a policy maker and a consumer, also, i think the consumer always should be alerted first and foremost on any data breach like this because only they know what data might have been exposed. so, you know, i think if sony would have come out and t

up next on booktv, president obama sister research children spoke to a group of kids in washington d.c. her book latter to the moon was inspired by her wish that her late mother had lived to meet her grandchild. >> remains one and all. on behalf of our chief labor income and jenny cooper, welcome to the d.c. public library. my name is wendy lou carter. i buy the children and teens books for the library system. i am thrilled to have a special children's author with us tonight. let me tell you how thrilled. not only is my site tarot and amazing person who has written a book you're sure to love, but this moment is often sweeter due to the look of an district administrative obstacles that threaten to derail peace efforts during the last eight months of planning. we nearly had to concede defeat and cancel the program when told last thursday was a felony to work or even volunteer our time the government said town. happily this settlement was averted. if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. [applause] before introduce our guest, the two highlights and individuals and share a few det

we welcome c-span's booktv and viewers across the country. if there's time for audience questions please make sure to use the microphone so everyone can hear you. tom shroder will be signing books after this presentation and his book is on sale at barnes and noble. tom schroeder -- tom shroder has been writer and editor for many years. he was at washington post magazine which won 2008-2010 pulitzer prize for feature writing. in addition to be an auditor and editor he is one of the foremost editors of humor in the country. he has edited humor columns john barry and launched the syndicated comic strip cul-de-sac by richard thompson. his latest book with captain john konrad received upstanding reviews, "fire on the horizon: the untold story of the gulf oil disaster" published by harper collins this spring. in april of 2010 we watched media coverage of the deepwater horizon oil rig explosion and and and check flow of crude oil into the gulf of mexico. the environmental impact is unfathomable. 11 people died and thousands more have their lives and

. >>> that was "after words," booktv signature program which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policy makers, legislators and others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every weekend on book tv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday at 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. gough to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the book tv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >>> up next on book tv, brad martin presents a history of political activism during the 1980's. he explores many of the decades political movements from aids activism and the nuclear freeze campaign to the denouncement of american corporate relations with south africa's apartheid government. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. i want to thank you for having me and my publisher, hughford lang. i was encouraged to do some reading from the book and what i'd like to do is a couple of readings from the introduction and then a couple from inside the book, and i think a good thing to start off with

now on booktv, from inc. would books, del quintin wilber reporter from "the washington post" recalls the assassination attempt on president ronald reagan on march 30, 1981. >> the author of this book, "rawhide down" the near assassination of ronald reagan and as you can tell a lot of people ask me, where did this idea come from? you must he must have remembered it. no i didn't. i was six. i was six years old at the time and i don't have any recollection of the day of the reagan assassination. i'm going to stand up actually. is right with you guys? so i have actually no recollection of this day. in fact i came across this book quite by accident. i covered the federal courthouse for "the washington post" and in covering the federal courthouse for "the washington post" i got to cover hearing for john hinckley jr.. as we all know john hinckley nearly killed reagan and three other men on march 30, 1981 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity. he has been housed at saint elizabeth hospital ever since and bei

we welcome booktv and reviewers. if there is time during the presentation for audience questions please make sure to use this microphone here so everyone in the television audience can hear you. anand giridharadas will be signing books immediately after this presentation. his book are on sale in the barnes and noble tend which is right over there. my first fascination with india came from reading of the raj quartet in the 1970s. in the closing years of the occupation but the indians and british had strict rules for behavior and the book explored the consequences for ignoring the rules. the british left in 1947 but it has taken a long time to reverse some of the rules and effect of their presence. our offer, anand giridharadas, grew up in suburban cleveland. his parents came to the u.s. after their marriage in 1979. he attended the university of michigan at st. edmund hall. he frequently visited his extended indian family and periodically immersed their life in india. like his parents he thought leaving india was a go

we welcome c-span's booktv and their viewers across the country. there's a time for audience questions. use the microphone so everyone can hear you. daniel rasmussen will be signing books immediately after this presentation and his books are on sale at the bonds and noble tend. i am honored to welcome daniel rasmussen to the anand giridharadas -- gaithersburg book festival. he has already achieved honors surpassing his age. tea won catherine nantuckhe wo prize and thomas oomf prius what would become "american uprising". it deals with the slave uprising in new orleans. the largest slave revolt in american history. yet very few people know about the events that transpired there. new orleans is shrouded in mystery and history often ignored in textbooks and idealized in cultural interaction but in the past six years alone new orleans and the mississippi river areas have been central to our most significant current events. the history of the city and surrounding areas contribute much to america as a whole. and even after its americanization remained lar