or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> and now robert auerbach talk to booktv about his book, "deception and abuse at the fed." this interview, part of booktv's college series was recorded at the university of texas at austin. >> welcome on your screen out is professor of robert auerbach. is a professor of public affairs at the university of texas lbj school. professor gould is also the author of this book, deception and abuse at the fed, henry b. gonzalez battles alan greenspan's bank. first of all, or faster auerbach, who was henry gonzalez, for those who may not don't? >> he was the first mexican-american to be elected from texas to the u.s. congress. he was also in the senate here, and he is from san antonio. spin and he was chairman of the house banking to me for a long time, greg? >> chairman of house banking committee, that's correct. >> what was his relationship with the various fed chairs? >> he was cordial, but he kept them at arms length, because he believed that the banking committee has a duty to oversee the federal reserve. so he would not go to lunch with them or dinner, b

you can send an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweak twitter.com/booktv. patrick in new london, connecticut. you are on booktv. >> question for you. when you are an author and become a screenwriter too what is the difference aside from the obvious having yet consolidated into a two hour movie format and does it get frustrating? seems to me whenever you watch a movie after you read a book 99% of the time you can always say there was something left out. i just saw a movie in theaters and read the book, not yours, but i was amazed important things get left out of a screenplay that were in the book. i understand you can't fit it all in but can you talk about that? >> i'm not a successful screenwriter. i have done one or two screenplays. i did one adaptation of "ugly americans" that didn't get made. when i sell my books they bring in somebody else who does it. it is a process. screenplays are different from a book. all of the interior dialogue and all of the motivation that all that gets left out and they have to write it very succinctly, very action driven usu

twitter.com/booktv. mr gleick is the author of several books. he has been a finalist for the national book award and a finalist for the pulitzer prize as well. do you have to be a scientist or mathematician john read and understand this book? >> guest: lord, no. i believe that a reasonably intelligent teenager can read my book. i would say that but at least i hope that is true. i am not a scientist or mathematician myself. when i write about science and math and there is definitely science in this book but also part of this book that have nothing to do with science. when i write about science and math i approach it as a journalist. hy interview wise people and ask dumb questions and i do that until i finally feel i have some understanding of the subject myself. on the one hand i hope i am writing about the esoteric subjects in a way that is not just meant to explain them. i am not trying to popularize them but report with the news is and why they matter but on the other hand i can just write about amusin

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this interview is part of booktv's college of series. this month we visit the university of texas at austin. >> professor lewis gould on the cover of a book you edited this past year is a picture, who is in that picture of? >> the picture shows president william howard taft and his wife helen herron taft in a limousine. the task were one of the first presidential amnesty is the automobile. i was chosen to illustrate how close and loving this couple was and why president tapped wrote her one of 13 letters while he was in the white house. >> who is now a? >> nellie was her name, her affectionate name within her family and then by the president. he always addressed her as my dear nellie or my dearest nellie. that's how her intimate new herb. >> where did they need and how did they meet? how long were they married, et cetera? >> they both grew up in cincinnati. and knew each other early on, but they didn't really start dating, they got to know each other in the 1880s after taft had come back from yale, was at the cincinnati law school and th

this is about 20 minutes and is part of booktv's college series. >> and you're watching booktv on c-span2. and we're at the university of texas in austin interviewing professors who are also authors. and now joining us is ami pedahzur. he is the author of this book, the israeli secret services and the struggle against terrorism. professor, first off, what are the israeli secret services? >> well, the israeli secret services is a very illusive body of various organizations including the branches of the military, the internal security service, the equivalent of the fbi in the united states. the mossad which is the equivalent to the cia and within the army, we have the intelligence branch, which is doing pretty much whatever nsa is doing here in the u.s. >> how -- what is their working philosophy when it comes to counterterrorism? >> well, that's a very interesting question because it's a working philosophy of trial and error. and terrorism -- unlike other types of warfare is very, you know, surprising. and it's not the kind of threat that militaries are using to deal with. what happened in

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tweet as your feedback at twitter.com/booktv. up next booktv interviews rich bragg in birmingham, alabama. looking at the literary landscape of eight southeastern cities. he reports on the millworkers of the appellation should -- foothills of northern alabama. >> those people on the cover our workers from the dark age of the cotton mill in my home town. those are folks who survived the 20s 30s and 40s into the 50s in the breakup of summertime when the air was thick with flying cotton that filled their lungs with cotton fiber. they would hang out windows trying to get a breath of air. kids would ride by in cars and wagons and it would scare them to death. these were people that lost their fingers, hands and arms to the machines and were grateful that they had to work. they came down out of the mountains walking barefoot, came down with all their children in a line. and they hired men and women and babies because the children were valuable. their hands were small and they could reach into the gears and unclog them and and foul line

you are on booktv. go ahead with your question. >> caller: thank you for taking my call and foresees band. i am an older white woman. i live in the east coast in areas that is much more conservative listening to tv a lot but at a time when everything is so volatile, the voices like oprah winfrey and david appel and other media people are not there to stand by my president and help them and be with him and to speak with him. the own democratic party is not there. with the media is viciousness and allies. we have laws if you say a curse word you get a fine but if you tell the untruths that does not cost you. there is no consequence. >> host: we got the point* think you. dr. kennedy there was something a wanted to pick up on that you can answer whatever you want but talk about the democratic party not being fair to support her president. >> a couple of things. first of all, the job of the president of the united states is incredibly difficult. the president of the united states can expect to be criticized

hi, diane, you're on booktv. >> caller: oh, hi. i want to make one statement if you'll let me, please, before i get to the issue that i called about. don't cut me off, if you will. i, i think it's just a shame that with all the information we have out there with our media, the internet and everything why more people, why we really even hardly have to have debates in this age and time. because there's so much out there, it's not like it was in the years before tv and all. and why people don't, why they don't know the candidates before. that's just a statement. i think it says something about either our schools don't get the people, children civics-minded or whatever. >> host: okay, diane, we got that, now, did you have a question as well for mr. lehrer? >> caller: this has bugged me for almost 20 years about president bush looking at his wash during the debate. i took it that he was saying how much time do i have left to get to the issues i want to talk about, or have i stressed enough? i didn't want take it, him looking at his watc

booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] >>> that event were part of the 2011 national book festival here in a washington, d.c.. to find out more, visit loc.gov/bookfest. >> so my friends this is not just another straightforward chronological biography of davie rocket cradle to grave nor does it focus on one slice in the pie, the callow. there is much more to crooked than the last few weeks of his life and it's not a regurgitation of the many myths and total lie is perpetuated by crockett over the years. this is a book for people interested in learning the truth or at least as much else can be uncovered about both the historical and the fictional crockett and held it to often became one. hopefully the readers will gain some new historical insight into the actual man, and how he captured the imagination of his generation and leader one as well. now a few spoonfuls from crockett, the lion of the west. the first is a graph or two from my preface. the authentic davie crockett was a three-dimensional hum

this discussion is part of booktv's college series. >> the predator state is the name of the book an economist and professor of government in public affairs of the university of texas is the author. professor galbraith what do you mean by the predator states? who are the predators? >> the predators are attempting to take advantage of the programs that were created for the benefit of the middle class, the programs that, in fact, made the middle class in america, social security, medicare, the housing finance programs and to essentially divert part of the revenue stream from those programs to private benefit. >> so who would be the predators? >> well, in the case of the -- of the housing finance sector, one could talk about the banks that took advantage and mortgage originators that took advantage of the political desupervision of that sector over the last 15 years to write massive amounts of essentially fraudulent mortgages and peddle them to the world investment community. that was a very predatory act which contributed massively to the financial crisis. to the retirement programs th

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> on your screen is the power and the center of the university of texas at austin campus. booktv has been on location you're at the university of texas conducting interviews with some of their professors who are also authors. every sunday during november we will bury bring you those introduced at 1 p.m. eastern time as part of our university series. >> next on booktv at amanda smith recounts the life of cissy patterson, the 20 century's first female publisher and editor-in-chief of a metropolitan daily newspaper. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you very much. if it's all right with you i thought i would read from a few passages from the book and explain to you a little bit more about who cissy patterson was, and then i would be happy to take questions. so, this is from the prologue, overview of her, and it opens with the joe medill family motter. when your grandmother gets raped put on the first age. our patient has come to the breaking point, on

if you stick with us on booktv on c-span2 you will be able to talk with author, john avlon next about his new book, "deadline artists" america's greatest newspaper columns. we will be right back. on your screen as the tower in the center of the university of texas at austin campus. booktv has been on location here at the university of texas conducting interviews with some of their professors who are also authors. every sunday during the month of november we will be bringing you those interviews at 1:00 p.m. eastern time as part of our university series. >> so my differences is not just another straightforward chronological biography of davy crockett, cradle-to-grave. nor does it focused us on that one slice from the big crockett pie, the alamo. there is much more to crockett and the last few weeks of his life. it's not a regurgitation of the many myths, many many myths and total lies perpetuated by crockett over the years. this is a book for people interested in learning the truth, or at least as much as can be uncovered about both the historical and the fictional crockett. and how th

eric, you are on booktv with professor leslie brody. >> caller: good afternoon.i'm looking forward to reading professor brody's look. by chance i am now reading the new book called all in one basket. i just picked it up yesterday. they were a fascinating family. i wonder if you could go do a little more into the relationship between the sisters. they remain possibly with the exception of diana, very very close, jessica or just as she was called in the family i guess, with all the sisters and how diana divorcing ryan dennis and marrying moseley affected the relationship between the sisters and again i am really looking forward to reading her book. >> professor? >> thank you very much. i would say that she did remain close to her sisters most of her life. she tested herself against nancy. nancy was the great lady writer, the lady author who lived in paris and published many novels, and jessica often felt that she wanted to keep up with nancy. as far as diana, here is a good story about them. when diana and moseley were about to be released from prison in england, j

. >> thank you. >> .net, booktv interviews rick bragg while touring birmingham, alabama as part of our cities tour of the king of the landscape of the southeastern cities. airports are not workers of the foothills foothills of north alabama. >> those people in the cover her workers from kind of the dark ages of the cottonelle in my hometown. those are folks who had survived the 20s, 30s, 40s and into the 50s when it is a brick oven and summertime, when the air was safe pick with fine cotton, that would fill their lungs with cotton favor. they would hang out the windows, trying to get a breath of air. kids would read by in cars and wagons and he is and it would scare them death. these were people that lost their thinkers, hands and arms to the machines and work for it. they had to work because they came down out of the mountains, walking barefoot, came down with other children and mine. and hired men and women in the bbs because the children were valuable. their hands were small and they could reach into the cares of the machine and unclog them. >> how long are you talking about? >> eig

this interview is part of booktv's column series. this week we're at the university of texas at austin. >> and you're watching booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction books every weekend. and we are on the campus of the university of texas in austin as part of our university series here on booktv. and we're pleased to be joined by sanford levinson who is a professor of law here at the university of texas and the author of this book among others, "constitutional faith," is the name of the book that we'll be talking with him about. professor levinson, do americans have too much faith in the constitution in your view? >> yes. i think that one of the exceptional aspects about the united states is a great deal of discussion these days about american exceptionalism is the veneration directed at the united states' constitution. there is no other country in the world i'm aware of that has such veneration of it national constitution. and it's also interesting to compare the united states' constitution with the 50 state constitutions. um, th

. >> here's our lineup on booktv on c-span2. in just a minute we'll be joined by toure whose most recent book is called "who's afraid of post blackness?" then in about an hour james glick will be here. he's a technology writer, and he's written a new book called "the information." you'll be able to talk with him as well. in about two hours, we'll show you an event with condoleezza rice. it's the second half of her memoirs. she was in conversation recently with donna she lay who is the president of the or university of miami. in three hours we're going to introduce you to author leslie brody who has written a book on jessica mittford, and then we'll be joined by john avlon, newspaper columns and their impact on american politics. and then in about four hours we'll wrap up live coverage from miami with jim rasenberger who's written a new book on the bay bf pigs incident in the early '60s. that's our lineup on c-span2, but you can also watch author events on book the.org. booktv.org. here on the campus of miami-dade college. so if

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> here's a short author interview from c-span's campaign 2012 bus as it travels the country. >> karen beckwith, "political women and american democracy." how did you decide which essays to include in this work? >> my co-editors and i organized with a grant from the aaron berg foundation, the project on american democracy at the university of notre dame that we would convene, um, by our stilt the best scholars on women in politics in the u.s. not only in the u.s., but scholars who were working on u.s. women in politics. and so we brought together a range of people, um, whose research we knew well and, um, convened for a two-day conference at notre dame after which -- at that conference we discussed all the manuscripts that constitute the chapters of these books, of this book and had some commentary about it and discussion and then put it together as an edited collection which cambridge university press published in 2008. >> describe the role of women described in this book. >> well, there are several emphases in the bo

well, one more call-in segment on booktv on c-span2 coming up, and that's with jim lehrer. recently, mr. lehrer sat down for our "after words" program with gloria of cnn to talk about "tension city." here's a little bit of video, then we'll be back live with mr. lehrer. >> guest: presidential debates have become the only time with with -- where the candidates, usually two, sometimes three, are on the same stage at the same time talking about the same things. and they come usually in october with the election pretty close, maybe a month or only a month or less away. the polls show that in up in probably 90% or more of the people have already made a decision as to who, for whom they're going to vote. but for whom they're going to vote decision, some of them are leaning, some of them are not, and mostly what they want to do, the issues are pretty much on the table, and people have decided whether they're in favor of lock boxes for social security or debt ceiling -- >> host: al gore. [laughter] >> guest: right, whatever. all those decisions have been made by the voters. what st

e-mail us at booktv@ booktv@c-span.org. >> host: it's fun to be here with you as we spent a lot of time talking in the past about your grandfather and my great grandfather's relationship, and you just wrote a new book that as a book drop, the truman library has 13 letters that your grandfather woes to bess, but in response, they only have 184 letters that bess returned to harry. what's the story? >> guest: my grandmother was a very private person. grandpa was an open book, asked a question, he had an answer. he saved everything, scraps of paper, gas receipts, anything he thought -- i think he was a natural pack rat anyway, but he was mindful of the fact that the american people should be able to learn from the mind of their president, so he saved most all important papers and he didn't mind that people would read these things and know what he was thinking and what he had said. my grandmother, on the other hand, had not been president and figured her business was her own damn business and nobody else's. he came home in 1955 around christmas, found her in front of the fire tossing in stac

twitter.com/booktv. is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> this man will tell you how his brilliant new book, "1493" actually originated with a question about an heirloom toe may toe plant -- tomato plant. i'm going to let him tell you that story himself. but his story will make you think about so many things, about people, food, diseases, trade, and how a template for event was set as the global network has become the subject of a furious intellectual battle, and i don't think anyone here would disagree with that. charles mann, is a great scholar and questioner. he sint theses the latest research by archaeologists and historians to uncover the germ of today's fiercest political disputes, all the things that we are roiling and talking about and you see in the op-ed pages. and he always finds a great way to tell the story. and in his new book, you'll find him an authorrive and engaging guide. you may already have read charles mann's other sweeping portrait of american

>> next, professor sanford levinson sat down with booktv to talk about his book, "constitutional faith" arguing the u.s. constitution is worshiped to a degree that's unhealthy for our democracy. this is part of booktv's college series, and we're at the university of texas at austin this week. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction books every weekend, and we're on campus of the university of texas in austin as part of our university series here on booktv, and we're pleased to be joined by sanford levinson, who is a professor of law here at the university of texas and the author of this book "among -- among others, "constitutional faith" is what we're talking about. do americans have too much faith in the constitution in your view? >> yes. i think that one of the exceptional aspects about the united states is a great deal of discussion these days about american exceptionalism is the attitude directed towards the united states constitution. there's no other country in the world i'm aware of that has such venneration to their constitution, and it's interesting to com

>> next, jeremy suri talked to booktv about his new book, liberty's surest guardian. the interview which took place at the university of texas at austin is part of booktv's college series. >> professor jeremy suri, what is nation-building? >> nation-building is the effort to actually get involved in another society and help that society improve itself as you improve yourself as well. >> who does the nation-building? >> well, a variety of actors but one of the points i make in my book is that part of nation-building is actually being a part of a process that involves bringing americans to another society, not dictating to another society but working with people in another society. so it's americans and citizens of another society working together. >> liberty's surest guardian is your most recent book and i want to read just a portion and get your thoughts on this. nothing could be more american than to pursue global peace through the spread of american-style institutions. nothing could be more american than to expect ready support of this process from a mix of local po

. >> booktv talked with julia about her book, "tales for little rebels," and the interview was conducted at the university of texas as part of booktv's college series. >> we are here at the university of texas in austin talking with professors who are also author, and now we are joined by julia mickenberg, co-editor of this book, "tales of little rebels: a collection of children's literature." what are these tales for little rebels? >> what are these tales for little rebels? well, my co-editor and i, phil nell, we tried to find a balance of pieces that would represent works of literature created for children by representatives of radical movements throughout the 20th century, so we have things from the socialist movement in the early 20th century from the come mewist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and we have stuff representing the new left, feminism, and kind of the whole range, and we could have started earlier. there was chirp's literature associated with the abolitionist movement basically. if you get a political movement, you find there's an interest in getting children to underst

>> now more of the talks with booktv about her book naturalizing mexican immigrants. the professor was interviewed at the university of texas at austin as a part of book tv's series. >> and now on your screen is the university of texas professor martha whose book is called naturalizing mexican immigrants. one of her books i should say is called naturalizing mexican immigrants. she teaches anthropology here at the university of texas. professor, when were the first large-scale immigration of mexicans into the united states when did those ocher? >> since 1848 when the board was formed there was always an ongoing movement of mexican people, but it's not until 1910 that we have the large scale immigration basically due to the mexican revolution. but even then it had already started in the late 1890's due to a lot of economic agreements the u.s. had with mexico that really impoverished the mexican people and when the econ money begins to migrate. >> what was the reaction -- and you focus on texas. what was the reaction in texas to the large scale immigration? >> in 1910 wa

[applause] >> up next on booktv, juan williams appeared at the 2011 texas book festival in austin to talk about his book, "muzzled". he talked and took questions for about 20 minutes. >> here on the show, bill is going to one of his riffs about muslims and 9/11, and you weigh in. >> right. >> and you basically sort of had two lines, two things you were trying to get across; right? i mean, first of all, you describedded how you, yourself, did feel uncomfortable sometimes getting on the plane and people would muslim garb, and then what did you follow that with? >> just to set it up, the context was an argument he had had on "the view" about the location about a mosque near ground zero, and that's when he made that statement that muslims killed us on 9/11 that prompted two of the cohe'ses there -- cohosts there to walk off the set. he said i'm just talking about radical muslims and islamists, and then they came back, but that gets attention in the paper, and then when bill had his own show, i was his lead guest and said basically after showing the tape, he said, show me where i went wro

booktv. neil? >> caller: yeah. i just wanted to say that i don't really think you should be using the word nonfiction for his books. i think they're non-nonfiction -- >> host: what does that mean, neil? >> caller: it means that the research isn't very careful, and there's lots of mistakes, and why doesn't he just call them fiction? i mean, you know, he can write thrillers and not make a claim that he can't really substantiate. >> host: could you give an example of what you think is not accurate? >> caller: you say that when zuckerberg started face match he crashed all the computers at harvard. it's just not true. >> host: well -- >> guest: he crashed his own computer. >> guest: okay. >> host: now, i mean, neil, where do you get your research? >> guest: my son was at harvard at the time. he started a web site that zuckerberg was aware of -- >> host: your son did? >> guest: r. >> caller: yes. that had numerous features of use to undergraduate students start inside august of 2003 months before face mash or facebook. h

you can send an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or send a sweet, twitter.com/booktv. i want to ask about the process of turning a book into a movie. have you been actively involved in the two books that have become movies? >> i have no power. i do involve myself as much as they can handle it. as much as i can get there. it has been two very different movies. "21" was a very fun retelling of bringing down the house. kevin spacey and dana burnetty were my first people in hollywood became my brothers in hollywood and they brought it into sony. and mike deluca was involved with "the social network". scott rudin and stacey and dana. i have been with sunni both times and had great experiences but mine are not normal experiences. i have been lucky. they have allowed me to be part of it. from the very beginning. it was the kind of thing. i met about of the blue. i had written an article about the mit kids in wired magazine. i got a random phone call and it was a message from a guy who said kevin spacey wanted to talk to me. i didn't believe him. i remember hanging up and call

here's the lineup on booktv on crrksz-span2. we'll be joined by an msnbc cricketer who has "who's afraid of post-blackness"? then the technology writer who wrote "the information. in two hours, we'll show you an event with condoleezza rice, the george w. bush years. she was in conversation recently with the president of the university of miami. in three hours, we'll introduce you to leslie brody. then we'll talk with john avlon and the impact on american politics. in four hour, we'll wrap it up for today with jim rasenberger who wrote about the bay of pig incident in the 1940s. that's the lineup, but you can also watch author events on booktv.org. we'll be live web casting the events from chapman hall here. in just about two and a half hours or so, teray will be talking about his book and talking about that book with the audience. you can watch that on booktv.org. andy, the comedian, will be talking about the 50 funniest american writers also live webcast, and then stanley and pete will be joining our call in guest, john avlon t

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> wednesday on booktv online, watch live streaming coverage of the annual national book awards from new york city, red carpet interviews with the nonfiction finalists and the awards ceremony starting at 6 p.m.

and us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org.or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> next from birmingham, alabama, an interview with warren st. john, author of "outcasts united." booktv visited birmingham as part of our cities tour explaining literary culture of eight different cities across the southeast. >> the foodies are a soccer team, refugees boys from 15 or more countries around the world that have experience conflict and they live outside of atlanta, georgia, a little town called clarkson. they are from mostly african countries but not entirely countries like liberia, burundi, sudan, but also in my book as a young boy from kosovo, bosnia, from iraq and afghanistan. they come through normal refugee reseller programs come united nations, and then they are passed through to the care of resettlement agencies that handle their relocation and help them get a foothold in this country. there are organizations like the international rescue committee, and other nongovernment organizations. >> how do those programs work exactly? >> b

in the center of the university of texas at austin campus, and booktv has been on location here at the university of texas conducting interviews with some of their professors who are also authors. .. social security, medicare, the housing finance program, and to essentially divert part of the revenue stream from those programs to private benefit. >> so who would be the predators? >> in the case of the housing finance sector, one could talk about the banks that took it vantage and mortgage originators that a good vantage of the political the supervision of the sector over the last 15 years to write massive amounts of the essential fraudulent mortgages and peddle them to the world investment community. the was a very predatory act which contributed massively to the financial crisis. in the case of the retirement programs to privatize social security one can talk about the way the drug benefit and medicare was initiated and administered that benefited the pharmaceutical companies far more than i should have this is the kind of thing that i am referring to. >> the subtitle is how can conse

. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's a look at our prime time lineup for tonight beginning at 7 eastern. steven pinker presents his book, "the better angels of our nature." then at 8:30, condoleezza rice details her tenure in the bush administration. at 10 p.m. eastern, "after words," corey robin discusses the reactionary mind with s.e. cupp. that all happening tonight here on booktv. >> i want the start by talking about why i wrote the book and what i hope to accomplish with this book. i wrote the book because our party is certainly at a crossroads, and there's a division. and going forward, i truly believe we have to unite. as a matter of fact, i extended on one of my fox interviews an invitation for karl rove and i to kiss and make up. [laughter] we can go forward a united party, but i wrote, i do talk a hot about the cronyism of especially the republican party in delaware which those leaders have been ousted. but the reason i bring that up is not to perpetuate it or to fan the flames, but to put it to rest. an

you can also send a tweet, twitter.com/booktv. brooke hauser, which language -- was english used as the teaching language in this school? >> guest: yes. the goal is for the students to learn english, but the executive director of the international network for public schools which oversees many of these high schools in new york and a couple in california, she likes to say that learning english is kind of like riding a bicycle. you don't learn by watching someone else riding it, you learn by getting on. so these students are really thrown into learning english. they're brand new to the country, you know, they're put into classes where the lessons are being taught in english, but they have training wheels, and those training wheels are their native languages. so students work in groups. there might be a kid from senegal in the same group as a kid from haiti. perhaps they share a common language of, you know, french because creole has its roots in french. and, you know, the students are able to tutor and help each other so the ones wh

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> next, roya hakakian talks about the 1992 killing of four iranian-kurdish dissidents in germany and the trial that followed. this is about 45 minutes. >> good evening. what a lovely place. i think this was or could stein's concept that they brought to life here at this bookstore, books & books in miami. a cafÉ and restaurant and courtyard. magnificent. thank you so much for having me. this is an absolute pleasure to be here in this wonderful, beautiful place. so, this will not shock you because you don't know me, but i started out as a poet, and the idea of writing about a crime is the farthest thing that has ever been from my mind. i have never pictured myself in any way, shape, or form interested in guns, dead bodies, and i tried to stay away from them for as long as i can and as far as i can. and usually even when we are watching tv at home and someone draws out the gun, i'm the first person to reach for the remote control and change the channel. so, this won't surprise you the fact that it ended up writing

you can also send us an e-mail, booktv@cspan.org, or twitter.com/booktv is our address. patrick in new london, connecticut, you're on booktv. >> hi, guys, how are ya? >> good. >> ben, a question for you. when you're an author and then you become a screenwriter, too, what's the difference aside from the obvious having to consolidate down into the two-hour movie format? and also does it get frustrating? it seems to me like whenever you watch a movie after you've read a book, 99% of the time you can always say there was something left out. i mean, i just went to the movies, i just saw a movie that was in theaters -- not yours, by the way -- but i was amazed at, i think, important things get left out of a screenplay that were in the book, and i understand you can't fit it all in, but can you talk about that a little bit? >> sure. first of all, i'm not a successful screen writer yet. i have done one or two screenplays. i did one adaptation of ugly americans that didn't get made. so when i sell my books, they usually bring in somebody else who does it, and it's a process. scre

thank you for being on booktv. booktv's live coverage from miami book fair international continues. we have several more call ins coming the. we will lock you to lesley brody. she has a new book about women muckraking journalist named jessica midford. we will talk to john avalon about newspaper columnists and jim rats and burger about the bay of pigs. and on booktv.org you can also watch web cast of some of the author events going on live at the miami book fair. so we have two separate tracks going right now. booktv on c-span2 live from the fair and live from the fare on booktv.org showing you different events. booktv.org. you can get the full schedule. it is a beautiful day in miami at the book fair. there's a great crowd on the campus of miami dade college. it was almost hurricaney when we flew in but today it is gorgeous, 85 degrees. a little breeze. if you are in the area come on down. the c-span bus is passing out book bags and booktv hands. take a tour of the bus as well. we would love to see you down here. in about an hour we are going to be back live with our call in program

you are on booktv. go ahead with your question. >> caller: thank you for taking my call and foresees band. i am an older white woman. i live in the east coast in areas that is much more conservative listening to tv a lot but at a time when everything is so volatile, the voices like oprah winfrey and david appel and other media people are not there to stand by my president and help them and be with him and to speak with him. the own democratic party is not there. with the media is viciousness and allies. we have laws if you say a curse word you get a fine but if you tell the untruths that does not cost you. there is no consequence. >> host: we got the point* think you. dr. kennedy there was something a wanted to pick up on that you can answer whatever you want but talk about the democratic party not being fair to support her president. >> a couple of things. first of all, the job of the president of the united states is incredibly difficult. the president of the united states can expect to be criticized

[applause] >> booktv live coverage from the miami book fair international continues to #2 of a 2011 miami book fair. it is the big street fair here on the campus of miami-dade. of three events still happening we have another call and with jim lehrer. we still have some webcast happening at booktv.org isabel wilkerson will, then chat -- jeht mahal to talk about herblock you may remember her at the national book festival and then jim lehrer will be speaking in chapman hall as well and in the miami book fair 2011 concludes with author michael moore at 6:00 p.m. eastern that is nine booktv.org as well. one of the co-founders is ms. caplan and he joins us now on our set. how did this get started and when? >> this is the 28 the book fair and it was started because the president of miami-dade college called a number of us together in an attempt to bring life back to downtown miami was suffering from rough economic times and it is thought if we could bring literary culture to downtown we might be able to unite the community at the same time to bring some focus. >> host: the owner of books & books

side of the page. >> now more from booktv's city of tours.this weekend we visited birmingham alabama could. coming up an interview with the author of while the world watched, the birmingham bombing survivor comes of age during the civil rights movement. see what i remember when a bomb the bomb exploded, i remember not really thinking that it was a bomb. the first thought that i had was maybe that it was thunder or something. the sound made me think of thunder but as quickly as i thought that, the window came crashing through. i heard someone inside the church say, hit the floor. when i fell on the floor, i could tell after a few seconds, get here feet. i could tell people were getting up and running out, so my first thought was for those two younger brothers that i have wrought with me. i knew that before i could leave. to safety, i would need to figure out where they were. so i went outside and searched downstairs and upstairs and was never able to find my brothers there at the church. we would find it later to different part of the communit

national mall in washington is -- >> before we continue with booktv live to the u.s. senate. pro forma session. live coverage on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., november 25, 2011. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable patrick j. leahy, a senator from the state of vermont, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate this is to keep the president from making recess appointments. senators return to capitol hill monday and will resume on defense programs and policy for next year. also a vote on the judicial nomination, our live coverage when the senate returns here on c-span. now back to her booktv schedule. >> that is why it spoke to me and if this book were a human being, it would be in highg. school and dating which is quite frightening but there you have it. [laughter] the reason

know but for "the new york times" to describe him as >> and now on booktv, robert jay lifton talks about his life and his work on subjects such as the nazis. the dropping of the atomic bomb on hiroshima, the communist revolution in china and the vietnam war. this is about an hour and a ha half. >> okay. we can begin. i'm bruce shapiro, executive director of the dark center for journalism and trauma here at the columbia school of journalism. welcome, on behalf of both the center and columbia. the center is an ideal lab, resource center, networking mechanism for journalists as well as clinicians and scholars and others concerned with news coverage of violence around the world. everything from street crime and family violence up to work line -- were crying and human rights. i'll talk more about the dart center in a few minutes. we are here tonight though for a conversation and a celebration, a conversation with robert jay lifton, psychiatrist, public and election, historian, activist and a celebration of his wonderful and beautiful new memoir, "witness to an extreme century." this event is

book i use public sources that are available to anyone >> host: las vegas good afternoon you are on booktv with randall kennedy a. >> caller: professor i'd like to bring up the jeremiah wright issue again i heard the pundits bring that up again. i think he is a wonderful man of god what he says is scriptural the correct, will not bless america but what he said was very easy to mou explained instead of letting them hammer the man in making the president run out of the church. why doesn't somebody bring this up? he is a wonderful minister now all these years let him act like that he can live anywhere in the world. why do we accept this? is pure racism and no other reason and you can stop it. >> guest: thank you for your call. picked up my book there is a chapter in my book about reverend wright. and it is called reverend wright and my father because my father's views were very similar to reverend rights. probably a more extreme frankly in the criticism of the united states. one of the things i tried to do is to show that the views the reverend wright had do have a place in black america and