this is booktv on c-span2. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> the first book on my reading list this spring and summer was cleopatra by stacy schiff, and what a great insight in recounting her life. it was a book that was recommended to me, and so i decided to pick it up and read it and then continued with the strong woman theme, if you will, with elizabeth i. that's by margaret george, and that's on my ipad. i'm reading both of these as e-books. going back, doing these two -- cleopatra and elizabeth i -- it got me on to the historical and older novel type approach. and with my bible study group i'm rereading "pilgrim's progress," which is delightful to get back into that. it's been a while since i reread it. and then because because of a me coming out with my family, we're rereading atlas slugged was -- shrugged which is very timely, i'll have to say, for those of us that are here in d.c.. >> tell us what you're reading this summer. send us a tweet at book the. at booktv. >> if you have walked down the streets of philad

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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 online. go to booktv.org and chick -- click on after words on the upper right side of the page. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. we're here at the university of chicago to talk with several of their professors about books they've written. we're going to show you some of those now. professor scott allard, what's out of reach? >> well, this book was motivated by a concern about rising poverty rates in the u.s. over the last decade that occurred during a time when the way we helped poor people changed as well. what's out of reach now are the social service programs that compose a large share of how we help low-income americans, and the book is focused on where these programs are located and how difficult it might be for low income, poor families to access them. >> give us an example. >> typically, we think about welfare and food stamps, and those are really important, but we spend just as much money, if not more, on social service

. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, every weekend. >> former mexican foreign minister jorge castaneda has written a new book. i want to start with the subtitle, mexico and the mexicans, where you going? >> basically what i'm trying to do is tell the story of mexico and it's people for an american reader. although i'm also publishing the book simultaneously in spanish and in the united states for spanish-speaking readers in mexico. it's called manana or tomorrow? tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? it's also in mexico in spanish with another version with a different edition which has also just come out this very week in mexico. the purpose is to tell the story mainly to americans, but also to mexicans in the united states and to mexicans in mexico. what story in book? the story of mexicans, who we were, why we are are, and that doesn't work with what the country has become and why we have to change. >> what kind of change? >> basically, it's a national character change. what i try to do here in the book is to take four or five very well d

or send us an e-mail, booktv@c-span.org, or you can send a tweet, twitter.com/booktv, or at booktv is handle. you list as your greatest influence, professor posner, stephen chevelle and cass sunstein. >> well, steven shavell is a harvard law professor who i had in law school, and you know come in the first year of law school you learn a lot of law and it's not always clear why one rule makes sense rather than another rule. and i would just use a very simple example. in great britain, if you bring a lawsuit and you lose you have to pay the attorneys seize on the other side. whereas in the united states if you bring a lawsuit, you pay your own attorneys he and the other pot -- of the site pays their attorney fees regardless of who wins. a natural thing to ask is why, which rule is better? maybe the british rule is bad and we should accept it. i thought steven shavell was very clear about the different cost of benefits. he applied the kind of cost-benefit analysis. and he writes very clearly, so i modeled a lot of my scholarship after his, although his is much more mathematical and i ten

send us a tweet at booktv. >> up next on booktv, "after words," an hour-long program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week offer michael totten on his first book, "the road to fatima gate: the beirut spring, the rise of hezbollah, and the iranian war against israel." the freelance foreign correspondent who sort appeared in your times and the jerusalem post presents the first hand account of hostility on the ground in lebanon from the cedar revolution. he discusses hezbollah's history and a future with former u.s. ambassador to syria richard murphy. >> host: you got to lebanon i gather for the first time just after the assassination in 2005. thank you that's right. it just been assassinated and on march 14, 2005, more than a million people took to the streets all at the same time in a country of only 4 million. and demanded the immediate evacuation of serious military occupation. i've been wanting to visit lebanon for years, and this was the perfect time with the biggest story to come out of the middle east since the u.s. invasion of iraq. so i went there right a

twitter.com/booktv. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> hi.'m susan collins, senator from maine. i've always been an avid reader. i usually have a book going here in washington and one in maine as well. and the book that i most recently read was scott brown's memoir. he's my colleague, the senator from massachusetts. this truly is an extraordinary book. it's extraordinarily written and moves right along and it gives me a lot of insights about scott brown and his very difficult childhood. it's truly amazing that he's accomplished as much as he has given what an impoverished and difficult childhood that he had. anyone who loves sports will love this book because in some ways it was coaches and basketball that really saved scott brown. a book that i'm reading right now is michael connelly's the fifth witness. this is a series of books that involve a lawyer who largely practices law out of the back of his car, his lincoln. so they're often known as the lincoln lawyer series. it's just great fun. it moves right along. and it's a nice break from all

. >> james sparrow of the university of chicago where booktv is on location. here's his newest book, "warfare state: world war ii americans and the age of big government." >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 8 hours of nonfiction -- 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> booktv is on location at the university of chicago where we are talking with several professors of the university who are also authors. and now we're pleased to be joined by david strauss who is the author of "the living constitution." he also teaches law at the university of chicago law school. david strauss, how do you define a living constitution? >> well, it's a good question, and the living constitution is an idea that is controversial, but it really shouldn't be controversial. it's the idea that the constitution as it was drafted in 1787 and has been amended a few times since then, that that constitution has to evolve over time in order to keep up with changing circumstances and changing ideas about how society should be run. >> what would you consider to be an evol

it's booktv live from the roosevelt reading festival. .. used of all presidential libraries and this year's group of authors reflect the wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these works in book talks throughout the year especially at our annual reading festival. let me quickly go over the format for the concurrent sessions. at the top of each hour procession begins with a 30 minute of her talk followed by ten minute question and answer period. than the authors move to the tables in the lobby next to the nubile store where you can purchase your books and have the authors sign them. at the top of the next hour the process repeats itself. let me ask everyone who has a cellphone or other electronic device please turn it off or put the rigor off. there was an incident earlier today involving my cellphone so i am very conscious of that now. now is my pleasure to introduce professor mario dinunzio. he is professor emeritus of history at -- where he taught nineteenth and twentieth century u.s. history and surge as direc

you can also e-mail us, booktv at c-span.org. >> up next on booktv, author michael norris explores the relationship between physical bookstores and digital products and discusses the findings from be simba information's trade e-book publishing 2011. this is about 50 minutes. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> my name is michael norris, and i am a senior analyst at simba information. i'd like to welcome you to you bought your e-book, digital books and brick and mortar bookstores. i'm going to talk for maybe 20-25 minutes max, and then at the end i'll open the floor for questions, comments and, hopefully, a discussion. just to give you a little bit of background about simba, we're primarily known for our independent analysis of the book publishing industry through our monthly periodical book publishing report which has been around for the past 35 years. we've also recently introduce add web component with 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 if tradebook retailing and tra

send us a tweet at booktv. >> booktv has over 100,000 twitter followers. be a part of the excitement. follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> this, the panic virus is a book that i began working on because, because of a reason that very much relates to what we're talking about today. um, a little over three years ago which was before i had a child, um, i started noticing that in conversations with my friends when the issue of childhood vaccines, vaccine every catty and -- efficacy and safety started coming up, the answers i would get to questions about how people went about making these decisions were answers very much in the language of feeling for intuition. it feels to me like children receive too many vaccinations today. it makes sense to me that the number of antigenerals in vaccines overwhelm developing immune systems. and that was very antithetical to the approach and the language my peers used when it came to other topi

you can e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> booktv is that book expo america, the annual convention in new york city looking at some of the fall 2011 books that are coming out and we are pleased to be joined by george gibson who is cover of bluesberry press. let's start here with carl bogus's book on bill buckley. >> this is the first full biography of bill buckley. an icon of the conservative arena. he was the father of conservatism as it is known today. a remarkable man. very little has been written about him and this is the first full-scale biography. >> did mr. bogus have access to his library? >> he had access to every available resource. interestingly enough he is more liberal and his political persuasions and is an interesting balanced biography that will fascinate people on both sides of the aisle. >> someone not liberal in their persuasion is an offer we cover off and on booktv who is victor davis have been but now i see a novel coming out by him. >> this is his first novel and a remarkable lack about the great creek general and extraordinary battles he fought. it brings a lot

twitter.com/booktv. >> university of chicago professor james t. sparrow, what did world war ii do to the size of the federal government? >> >> oh, it increased it by more than tenfold. >> how so? >> well, the economic mobilization required a drastic increase in the presence of the government within the economy. the armed forces grew drastically as well, over 16 million people served over the course of the war, and roughly half of the economy was absorbed by the mobilization. so it was an unprecedented expansion, the scope of the government. >> how did it compare to the 1930s during fdr's first terms? >> yeah. well, the '30s, of course, were a period of dramatic growth, but the government of the '30s even at its peak was just absolutely swamped by the warfare state that came out of the second world war. and years after the second world war was over and before the korean war had begun, the government was still dramatically larger than it had been at it height in the 1930s. so it created an immentionly larger government and more intrusive government.

twitter.com/booktv. now on booktv, david sirota examines the cultural landscape of the 1980s arguing the social and political mores set the stage for the military is a canned narcissistic america. it is about an hour and a half. >> thank you. can everyone here me? here's how it is going to work tonight. thank you for being here. i am going to give a presentation about my new book "back to our future" which you can see right there. nathan and i will go back and forth on a few questions. i asked nathan to be here because some of his work has been an inspiration for some of my work so i appreciate you being here. and we will take questions from the audience but before we begin i want to do my own thank you. i want to thank "in these times" for organizing this at the university of illinois of chicago for hosting us here. i want to thank c-span booktv for covering this event and i want to thank nathan and all of you for being here and being interested in this book. the name of the book is "back to our future,

booktv wants to know. >> what i read recently is a wonderful book that i wrote. it is called the speech and i reread it. it is a good book and deals with the filibuster in december talking about a very bad agreement by repair -- president and republicans on extending tax breaks to the wealthy and also goes into some details about why the country is collapsing and also talks about the growing inequality in america and what it means for the future of the country. a little self advertising. it was my book and i did really did. there was another book i read recently which i would like very much called third world america by arianna huffington. it is a readable book. she is a good writer. she touches on the trends we have been seeing for a number of years in terms of our physical infrastructure, in terms of education, in terms of health care but frankly if we do not reverse and this is her point we will end up looking like a third world country. what that is about as a friend of mine came back last year from china. he was in an airport in china, flew into the united s

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send us a tweet at booktv. >> this is where it gets interesting. why does the individual -- this is my new hero. she was a young woman probably early or mid 20s who was mostly a slave to mark washington. he helped to address her and did cooking in households. and in 1796, that martha washington was planning to give her away as a gift to one of her relatives. what this meant was whatever promise to washingtons had made to their slaves that at some point you will be free when we die, going to be out the door. so she made her plans in and one night in spring of 1796 when washington was in the delivery room having dinner, went out the door. you can see where is the suit? she was gone. she had made contact with of the black community. and her personal possessions and vanished. it turned out accidentally she was discovered in new hampshire. found out through complete accident and decided to go after because even though as president of the united states who was declared and try slavery he would have thought she is gone, i am representing the country, let

twitter.com/booktv. >> booktv is at bookexpo america, the annual publishers convention in new york city looking at some of the fall 2011 books that are coming out and we are pleased to be joined by george gibson who is the publisher of bloomsbury press. mr. gibson tell us about some of your books and let's start here with carl bogus' book. >> this is the first full biography of bill but he, an icon of course of the conservative arena and he was really the father of conservatism as it is known today. but a remarkable man, absolutely remarkable man and very little has been written about him and this is the first full-scale biography of him. >> did mr. bogus have any access to his library? >> had every available resource. of this interestingly enough is more liberal in his political persuasion so does a interesting balance biography. >> somebody who is not liberal in their persuasion is an author we have covered off and on booktv who is victor davis hanson but now i see a novel coming out by him and this is his first novel. a remarkable at the base -- if it is. the extraordinary battle c-5

after words airs every weekend on booktv at 10:00 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9:00 p.m. on sunday and 12:00 a.m. on monday. you can also watch after words on line. go to booktv.org and click on after words in the booktv series and topics listed in the upper right side of the page. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> well, i'm reading a book about the coldest winter and quite frankly, i have not been wanting to open up the pages to it. it goes over the korean war and for most people who are familiar with the korean war said, you don't want to know. what do they mean by that? well, i was in korea when the chinese actually surrounded the entire eighth army and it was a nightmare. fortunately this was over 60 years ago and have suffered psychologically about that war. it pains me when i think of the number of americans that died in korea and it even becomes more difficult when people ask me to explain my heroic actions in a country i had no idea where i was and why i was there. so, i thought it would be better not to expose myself to any more of thi

booktv wants to know. >> send us a tweet at the booktv. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2.e are here at the university of chicago to talk with several other professors about books they have written. we would show you some of those now. in the shadow of two boy, published by the university of harvard press. the author is university of chicago professor robert gooding williams. professor gooding williams, why thisl

i would like to welcome c-span's booktv which is broadcasting this program this morning. franklin roosevelt planned for the roosevelt library to become the premier research institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. the research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this year's group of others reflects a wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these others's works at botox for route the year, especially at this hour annual meeting festival. let me quickly go over the format for the festival's current sessions. at the top of each hour a session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a ten minute question and answer period and authors move on to the tables in the library where you can purchase your books and have the author's son them. of the top of the next hour the process repeats itself. now is my pleasure to introduce todd moye who is sitting to my right. todd moye has been associate professor of history of the university of north texas and director of that university's history program. t

[applause] >> welcome to c-span2's booktv. every weekend we bring 48 hours of books on history, biography and public affairs by nonfiction authors. .. >> standard message and data rates apply. >> robert her hawaiist describes the autobiography of mark twain, volume one, published 100 years after the author's death. mr. hearst also discusses criticism the book has received. this was hosted at the lafayette library and learning center. >> robert came to uc berkeley in 1963. he was a student. four years later people seeing his promise offered him a job. he's been there ever since. in 1949 the granddaughter of mark twain gave uc berkeley the material that's in the mark twain archives. in 1980 robert became the chief, the general editor of these archives. and in 2005, um, they began the process of putting together the volume, the first volume that i know many of you have already seen. there will be three volumes, and there's a tremendous amount of excitement associated at uc press and with all of us who love the role that mark twai

/booktv, or our handle is@booktv. we'll be taking those call over the next couple hours and taking questions from our audience here in chicago as well. what do you mean by the term, "global legalism"? >> global legalism means the excessive faith with, excessive faith in international law as a solution to problems of international cooperation and security. >> host: is there such a thing as international law? >> guest: yeah, there is such a thing as international law. >> host: is it effective? >> guest: it's effective in limited circumstances. and the view that i call global legalism in which i criticize is a view which you see more maybe in academia and certain, and in europe, for example, more than in the united states which is that if countries would agree to more international treaties, problems like war and climate change and so forth would go away. and the argument in the book that i make is that there are basic problems of collective action at the international level which do not exist within countries, and it's

booktv wants to know. >> i'm reading it ulysses by james joyce.i started on january 1st it's a resolution through the book by june 16th that's bloom's day, the date the book is built around, the central character it's a classic but it's intangible, hard to read but i will get it done. also, i will be reading founder switches a book about those who are part of the american revolution and a lot of interesting stories, to books by patrick o'brien, master in command and far side of the earth which is what was put together to make the movie starring russell crowe. i love the movie and want to read the books now and the of a book i will be reading is called sword and honor which is a compilation of military stories, some commission and written at the time of the 19th century battles in the napoleonic war and the civil war. that's what i will be reading this summer. >> up next on book tv with a critical capitalism. this lasts about one hour and 20 minutes. >> my name is peter tebeau in the event coordinator here at city lights the store and i would like

. >> every weekend booktv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. 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. this is about 45 minutes. >> host: 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 a husband and wife team "this burning land" and jennifer griffin, his wife, national security correspondent at fox news channel, of course, the co-author of this book as well. greg, let me begin with you. let's start with why this -- the israeli-palestine conflict continues today? >> guest: well, it's been going on now for decades. we're talking six decades. and i think in 10 years ago in 2000 they were close to an agreement and they worked backwards and one of the things we wanted to emphasize in this book was the way they dug a deeper hole for themselves. you look at the things that have happened. hamas is

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> talk about the experience of two americans in china during the mid-20th century. lynn jorde is the author of "honorable survivor: mao's china, mccarthy's america and the persecution of john s. service," and lawrence kaplan is the author of "homer lea: american soldier of fortune." >> we are in for a rare treat. doctor lawrence kaplan's book, american soldier of fortune, tells the story of homer lea, a strong-willed person with wild imagination. despite his physical handicaps, he inserts himself first with the chinese reform movement, the late dynasty, and there became an advisor. ms. lynne joiner, her book, "honorable survivor," gives us story about john service, and idealistic american foreign service officer, caught in the political intrigues, and later faced character assassination during the mccarthy era. i find it fascinating, a little teaser here, that although lee and service were several decades apart, their respected fate was touched by another historical figure who was the benefactor for leaves a leg

back to booktv live coverage from the annual roosevelt reading festival hosted by the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum. coverage continues with weekly standard editor philip terzian and a presentation of his book "architects of power: roosevelt, eisenhower, and the american century". .. >> the library's research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries, and this year's group of authors reflects the wide variety of research done here. we're delighted to highlight these authors' works at book talks throughout the year, and especially at this, our annual reading festival. let me quickly go over the format for the festivities in these sessions today. um, at the top of each hour a session begins with a 30-minute author talk followed by a ten-minute question and answer period. then the authors will move to the tables in the lobby located next to the new deal store where you can purchase books and have the authors sign them. at the top of the next hour, the process repeats itself. and now it's my pleasure to introduce philip terzian.

send us an email at booktv@c-span.org. >> wildcard is the name of the book. the promise and peril of sarah palin. the author is mark joseph. mr. joseph, what do we learn new about sarah palin in your book? >> you know, i spend a chapter and a half on her religious background and the significance that this is the highest that somebody from pentecostal background has reached the heights of american power. i think that's one of the untold stories of the rise of sarah palin and not of the evangelical christian part of america but especially the pentecostal background of american politics. >> what's the significance of that background in your view?

. >> that was "after words," booktv's signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policymakers, legislators and others familiar with their material. "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. .. >> pride, how's it going? good. i should just begin by saying sometimes you just can't really trust the media. [laughter] >> i have no idea what you mean. >> and saying this for someone who comes from the media. we tend to oversimplify. i think we care more about -- we care more about the tension and conflict and last but not depth and complex. in saying this because judging by on 60 minutes -- a segment on 60 minute, you would think that, you know, your book is like something out of the social network of the 1980s or something. it is like a bill gates versus subfloor. i think someone said you're like a

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. >> host: james barrel for nabors year chicago where booktv is on location. the newest book, warfare state. >> host: on location at the university of chicago where we're talking with several professors of university who were also authors now we're pleased to be joined by david straus, author of the living constitution and teaches law at the university of chicago law school. david strauss-kahn how do you define a living constitution? >> a good question. it is an idea that is controversial but it should be. is the idea of the constitution as it was drafted in 1787 and has been amended since then, it has said it evolves over time in order to keep up with changing circumstances and ideas about how society should be run. >> host: what do you consider a current evolution? >> guest: there are several examples but here is one. throat the first 100 years through the late 19th century, the idea was the federal government could be very small and federal and state governments could play a limited role to regulate the economy progress the country became a less agrarian th

you can also e-mail booktv erik -- booktv@cspan.org. >> we have this view that we are divided cells and have reason over here and a motion over here and the 2rf war with one another if you are emotional your not rational and if you're a rational and you're not emotionally and society progresses to the extent reason which is trust were taken suppress compassions with our untrustworthy so this body is led to the human nature that we are fundamentally rational individuals who responded straightforward ways to incentives and its lead to a lot of academic disciplines that try to study human behavior using the method of physics, emphasizing what they can count and model and ignoring all the rest and its lead to an amputation of human nature where we emphasize things that are rational and accountable but ignore inarticulate about the things down below. and so it's created a culture in which we are good at talking about material things the bad debt talking about emotions, really good at talking about health and safety and professional skills but character and integrity we often have little to s

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send us is tweet at booktv. >> next on booktv, eric larson recounts the tenure of the first american ambassador william dodd and he became aware of jewish persecution. this is about 50 minutes.

booktv wants to know. >> the first book on my reading list this spring and summer cleopatra what a great insight of recounting her life. it was a book that was remitted to me so i decided to pick it up and read it and then continued with the strong woman theme, if you will, with elizabeth i that's by elizabeth george that's on my ipad i'm reading both of these as ebooks. going back, doing these to klepat roand elizabeth i got me in the historical and novel type of approach and with my bible study group i'm reading pilgrim's progress which is delightful to get back into that. it's been a while since we read it and then because of the movie coming out with my family, we're re-reading atlas shrugged which is very timely i'll have to say for those of us who are here in d.c. >> tell us what you're reading this summer, send us is tweet at booktv. >> our visit to savannah, georgia, continues. next take a tour of urban slavery sites in savannah,orn george with annette goodwalker quo author of "civil war savannah." >> we're standing in savannah's city mark. this would have been the place where th

next on booktv john miller recounts president theodore roosevelt's role in the real image of football which save the sport from being banned and led to the creation of the national collegiate athletic association, the n.c.a.a.. this is about 40 minutes. >> if you are wondering what kind of knucklehead puts out a book about football at the start of baseball season, the answer is the same kind of knucklehead who is a lifelong fan of the detroit lions. the good thing about being a lifelong fan of that detroit lions is the experience teaches important life lessons. for example, how to deal with severe and ongoing disappointment. i have learned that humor helps. who knows the difference between the 4 lions and a dollar bill? it turns out that from a dollar bill you can get four quarters. i will be performing all week. let's talk about football and theodore roosevelt. i would like to start with a statistic. 18 people died playing football in 1908. in 190518 people died playing football. we hear a lot today about the problem of concussions and head injuries and long term health impact. this

. >> author richard toliver, this is booktv on c-span2. >>> no on book tv chris discusses the founding rights with former economic analyst on the cia. columnist for forbes magazine and author of more than 25 books. this is just under 40 minutes. >> good afternoon. my name is alex and ideas as the publisher regnery and we are very exciting to announce the launch this year and is celebrating with a party in the booth right after this event in about 30 minutes and i hope you all can join us right after this. so let's get right to the event. we have our featured author is chris derose, the author of founding rifles medical verses monroe the bill of rights and the election that saved the nation. and he will be interviewed by founding father benjamin franklin. [applause] ben franklin will be portrayed by is six the generation grandson marrec skousen who's an economist, professor, financial newsletter publisher and an author of many books. and one of the books he is authored or compiled for the regnery is the completed autobiography of benjamin franklin. ben franklin wrote his autobiography a

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday, and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" on line. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the topic list on the upper right side of the page. .. >> your baby has a heart but she ignored her. this is propaganda up. your baby has fingernails. that was god. -- cod and she glanced around and could not help but notice everybody was playing with their fingernails to tap them lowered to one them and she thought fingernails? i have a life growing inside of me and walked out of the abortion clinic and that is the end of the story. how many of you remember this distance -- statistic it gave you a minute and a half ago? how many of you remember what prompted her to walk out of the abortion clinic where expect everybody remembers the fingernails i promise you one weeks from now the was 1,466,000 you will forgot that but remember the fingernails story. of narrative matters. conservatives have abandoned narrative as the emotional toll thinking intellectual argument

it 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 watch it online at booktv.org and click on afterwords on the upper right side of the page. up next, gretchen morganson talks about the 2008 financial collapse and the role bs played by -- roles played by fannie and freddy. this lasts about an hour. [applause] >> thank you so much, david. we are really thrilled to be here tonight at politics and prose, and this is an iconic institution in washington, and it's just a thrill to be here with you and engage customers as well. that's really fantastic, and it's wonderful to meet david and see in person this incredible institution that everyone loves so much in washington. now, josh and i have been a little bit on the book tour. the book came out may 24th, and among the questions that we always get or often get from interviewers, buyers of the book, e-mails, what surprised you the most about your reporting and the investigation that you both did to come out with this book? we all know that there's been a lot of books about

today's program will be broadcast live on c-span2's booktv. if there is time that the end for questions we ask you to use the microphone in the middle of the room so the whole viewing audience can hear your question. if you like to watch this program again our coverage will be aired again tonight at 11:00 p.m.. please welcome carolyn curiel and oscar hijuelos, author of "thoughts without cigarettes". [applause] >> thank you. >> we are thrilled to be here today. those of you who know oscar hijuelos know him best from one of his novels which won a pulitzer prize, the first for latino writer. he has had many milestones since then, has written the most beautiful fiction and now has written about himself in a nonfiction way. oscar hijuelos, thrilled that you are here. why now? why a memoir now? >> there is a short answer and a long answer. the long answer is in my first novel which was called our house in the last world, i talked about the influence on my life when i was coming up and call our house in the last world, that came down to this. i went

. ♪ >> send us a tweet at booktv to let us know what you're reading or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org>> coming up, discuss the authors who influenced how they write about women and touch on the role women play in the publishing industry. it's about an hour. >> hi, thanks for coming. i think we're going to get started. i'm john friedman, the editor of the magazine. i want to welcome you to the panel, feminism, the legacy, a discussion about women in power and writing, and it's on the occasion of the launch next week of granta's new issue due to the f-word, feminism. we're one of the oldest little rare journals in the world started in 1989 -- [cheers and applause] see that's what happens when you say granta. [laughter] it went out of print and it was brought back in the 1970s and been going ever since, four issues a year, and every issue is themed from death to money to sex, but we've never acknowledged that one of the most powerful matrixes within human life is the matrix between women and power. it felt long overdue for us to do this issue. we could have done it every year, but i'm ha

today's program is grued cast live on c-span2's booktv. we ask you use the microphone if you have a question so that the home viewing audience can hear your question. if you want to watch the program again, note the program is reaired tonight beginning at 11 p.m. central time. please welcome the moderator, gary johnson, and the author of indian voices. >> thank you very much. i'm gary johnson, president of the history museum, and with us today is our guest author, alson owinings. we meet a wide array of native people, and we hear them discussing their own lives. please begin the conversation. >> thank you very much, gary, and thank you very much for the chicago lit fest. i'm very happy to be herement i think i wrote this book initially because i was so appalled about theignorance of nonenative people about native people including myself. i set out to find out what i could to help destereotype as what i find as a bad problem for centuries and cooptses today, and initially my idea was well, i will just talk to a few native people and find ou

"after words" airs every weekend of booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" on line, go to booktvorg and click on the "after words" in the book tv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> i am a very hopeful person, and repentant idealist and i've come to understand hopefulness and idealism of strength as blessings and this is a gesture of gratitude to some of the people who have given me those gift of hopefulness and idealism, the teachers who gave me a reason to believe in a brighter future, the family and strangers 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 absence of faith, the voters for that matter who's given me a reason to believe in the politics of conviction, and many others. a friend of mine described this book recently as a love story which for me was the most powerful complement i could be given. i wanted to write about these people and the lessons they taught

watch key public policy events and the latest nonfiction authors on booktv. you can get our scandal that our web site at you can join in the conversation and social media sites. >> this year's commencement ceremony at colorado college. you would hear from the commencement speaker mark fiore, pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist. fiore is the first internet animator to win a prize for editorial cartooning. is animated cartoons are at the san francisco chronicle. his commencement address, just over 20 minutes. ♪ >> thank you very much for that kind introduction. thank you, president celeste, thank you to that jenna lee group of trustees out there somewhere. thank you, parents. and thank you, students. i am talking to you guys mostly. thank you for asking me to come here to be with you on this amazing day that you are going to remember forever as everybody will keep telling you. thank you for having me. the reason it is such an amazing thing and huge honor for me to be here as you just heard, 20 years ago i was right here with you guys. i was graduating b

it's booktv live from the roosevelt reading festival. we'll be back in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> what are you reading this summer? book become wants to know. >> who books, the storms of war, by andrew roberts, and a book called "1861." i think by jeffrey goldberg. anyway, it's about the beginning of the civil war. those are the two books i have been reading mostly. >> tell us what you're reading this summer. send us a tweet at book tv. >> booktv is in new york city at the annual publishers convention held every year here in new york city. we're reviewing some of the fall 2011 books and we're at the chicago review press stand with the publisher of the chicago review press. tell us what your organization is. >> we're a publisher, mostly nonfiction books. we have been in binssons 1973 and publish on a variety of topics, african-american interests, we have several different interests, and one of them does african-american interests, middle east politics, feminism. and chicago review press does an eclectic mix of nonfiction, popular science, travel, histor