send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >>> 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? >> guest: 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. >> host: what would you consider to be an evolution of the current constitution? >> guest: well, there are several examples. here's one. throughout the first hundred or so year of the republic really up until the late 19th century, the idea was that the federal government co

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and as an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org.or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> here at the national press club, authors night, senator joe lieberman with his most recent book, "the gift of rest." senator lieberman, where is the public policy in the? >> yeah, this is very different. i've done six books before this. they've all been about history or politics or law. so this one really comes from inside. i've observed the sabbath, according to jewish tradition most of my life. i consider it to be a gift, something that anchors my life, helps me re-energize, reconnect with my family, my friends, myself, my spiritual side. and so i am essentially offering "the gift of rest" to the reader. what ever your religion, hoping that they will see something here that will lead them and want of a little more sabbath in their own life. i think we're all busy, all very connected by our electronics 24/7. unique you create create some fences inside which we can take a break in eccentric on what is a typical sabbath for your? >> well, according

booktv@c-span.org is her e-mail address. at booktv is our twitter handle. angel in farmington california you're on with chris hedges. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. can you hear me? >> host: we are listing. please go ahead. >> caller: good show, mr. hedges did you and others like you, -- [inaudible] can you be so kind? who is constitutional attorney is disheartening that -- [inaudible] can you lend an opinion please? it is very, very disheartening. thank you. >> guest: well, i think one of the tragedies of the obama administration is that you have a chief executive who is clearly intelligent. he is trained as a constitutional lawyer, and yet he's done so little to not only defend our constitutional rights, but reversed the assaults against constitutional rights that were put into place by the previous administration. obama clearly understands where the centers of power line. he knows that in order to remain in office he must serve the centers of power, but sadly it's opportunism. it's careerism. he has decided to betray the majority of the citizen

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org.or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> i'm terra-cotta and had a special collections for lsu libraries but today we're in the special collections. special collections has a variety of different parts to it. but today i'm going to be talking about an item from the louisiana and lower mississippi valley collection which is kind of our premier collection year in special collections. it documents the history and culture of louisiana and a lower mississippi valley from the colonial era on up to the present day. it includes both publish materials like books, journals, newspapers and the kind of thing as well as unpublished manuscripts like this point i have here which is one of our jewels, the way in claiborne later book. this book was kept away and claiborne who was appointed by thomas jefferson to receive louisiana from the french from the louisiana purchase. it's amazing that he was only 28 at the time, and he had been governor of the mississippi territory. this is the correspondent that h

/booktv as their address. patrick in a london connecticut, you run booktv. >> a question for you. we are an author and screenwriter, what is the difference aside in the obvious consolidated out into a two-hour format. does he get frustrating? it seems to me whenever you watch a movie actio credit the coming 89% of the time you can say there is something left out. i just went to the movies by movie and theaters and read a book. but i was amazed that important things get left out of a screenplay that were in the boat. i understand you can't fit it all in, but can you talk about that at all? >> first of all i am not a successful screenwriter. i have done one or two screenplays. i did one adaptation of ugly americans that didn't get made. so my books usually bring in someone else that they process. screenplay is a different animal than a book. all the dialogue and motivation often movies are not as good as the book. i've been very lucky. social networks is a phenomenal movie. you know, they have to pick and choose

you can e-mail chris hedges at booktv@c-span.org or send a tweet@booktv, twitter.com/booktv. chris hedges has been writing nonfiction for about ten years. he began with his national book critics circle award finalist book "war is a force that gives us meaning" which came out in 2002. "what every person should know about war" in 2003. the 10 commandments in america" in 2005. "american fascists: the christian right and the war on america" in 2006. in 2008, originally called "i don't believe in atheists" clippers that is now called when a season becomes religion. that is in 2008. "collateral damage: america's war against iraqi civilians" also in 2008. "empire of illusion: the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle" in 2009. "the death of the liberal class" was also a best seller in 2010. and his most recent compilation of his columns came out last progress". "american fascists: the christian right and the war on america" and "i don't believe in atheists" or when atheism become religion. where did those books come from? >> guest: from the same place actually. my frustration

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on march 10th and 11th, booktv will be live on the campus of the university of arizona. our festival coverage includes numerous author talks and poets ranging from the great depression to forensic science. then in late march booktv visits char lotsville, virginia, for the virginia festival of the book. for a complete list of upcoming book fairs and festivals, visit booktv.org and click on the book fairs tab at the top of the page. also, please, let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv at c-span.org. >> and now charles shields recounts the life of author and satirist kurt vonnegut. mr. shields reports on the prolific writer's time in indiana, his time as a prisoner of war in dresden during world war ii, his efforts to break into the publishing world and his struggles with alcoholism and his mother's and his own attempted suicide. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] >> well, thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for coming out. um, let me preface my talk about kurt vonnegut by reading you just the first page of t

hedges at booktv@c-span.org or send a tweet at booktv is our handle twitter/booktv and we'll get to those calls in just a minute. mr. hedges has been writing nonfiction now for about 10 years. he began with his national book critic circle award finalist book, war is a force that gives us meaning, which came out in 2002, what every person should know about war 2003, what moses learned on the freeway, and then in 2008, a book came out. it was originally called i don't believe in atheists. it is now called when atheism becomes religion. that's in 2008. collateral damage also in 2008. empire of illusion, a bestseller came in 2009. death of the liberal class was always bestseller, 2010. and his most recent, a compellation of his columns from truth dig came out last year, the world as it is. american fascists and i don't believe in atheists or when atheism becomes religion, where did those books come from? >> guest: i think from the same place, actually. my frustration -- part of my frustration with the liberal church is that they didn't call out the proponents of the gospel of prosperity. the

booktv on c-span2. winston groom recounts stephen watts kearney's to thousand american soldiers who marched from fort leavenworth to california in 1846. this is an hour and ten minutes. >> i am extremely flattered on this stormy night. you are finite for a murder. i am glad to be here. "kearny's march". never could figure out how the man pronounced his name. various possibilities but i often wondered. it might be kearney. i would like to be able to report that i came to this subject in a very academic way that i have been pursuing this question of conquest of the american west, 25 years and exploded onto the scene but it is not so. the way i got into this book is i was looking at general philip kearney or kearney or kearney, a civil war general for the union who was killed early on in the civil war. i stumbled across to the wrong kearney. it turned out that this kearney, stephen kearney was the uncle of philip kearney and i saw a little tagline in boldface that said "kearny's march". what a wonderful ti

twitter.com/booktv. >> now on your screen on booktv is keni thomas, and he has written this book, "get it on!: what it means to lead the way." keni thomas, tell us about your experience with your connection with "black hawk down." i was part of the 75th ranger regiment and we are part of the guys who went in on that mission. >> ninety-four? >> ninety-three. it was initially a raid. everything changed when the first helicopter got shot down, just like that. the course of our lives changed. so when i get from that is in way that will make it out of some to come you spend the rest of your life thanking the people that were on your left and you're right that day. because i know by the grace of god that's why i'm still here. you will use every opportunity to tell their stories, whether i do it through music or in the book i'm going to tell their story. >> keni thomas, walk us through the day. >> there is documentaries on that, we be her for hours but i can tell you -- >> your experience. >> my experience. we came in on a nation and every thought it was going to be a normal thing. daylight r

this interview is part of booktv's college series. this week we're at the university of texas at austin. >> host: 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're be talking with him about. professor levinson, do americans have too much faith in the constitution in your view? >> guest: yes. um, i think that one of the exceptional aspects about the united states is the 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 its national constitution, and it's also interesting to compare the united states constitution with the 50 state con

send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> i.d.believe that the west for all of its historical shortcomings, and i'm skating in my book in discussing the shortcomings, they have to be admitted. for all of the shortcomings you ask still today -- the u.s. represent the most acceptable and workable university, universal political culture. spain now on your screen on booktv is sought by then he has written this book, "get it on" what it means to lead the way. keni thomas tell us about your experience and your connection with blackhawk down. >> i was part of the regimen and we were part of the guys to win who went in on that mission initially arrayed. >> 94? >> 93, close though. was initially rate and everything changed when the first helicopter got shot down and just like that the course of our lives change. so what i get from that, anybody is going to make it out and others didn't he will spend the rest of your life thanking the people for that day. i know by the grace of god that is the only reason i'm still here so you will ever use

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> uncompromised is the name of the book, nada prouty is the author, the rise, fall and redemption of an arab-american patriot in the cia. first of all, nada prouty, when and how did you serve in the cia? >> well, i originally started working for the fbi as a special agent, and i worked with them for a little less than five years, and i there ared from the fbi -- transferred from the fbi starting in 2003. i worked a number of high-profile cases such as the uss cole, the bombing in riyadh, the complex bombing, the assassination and murder of the u.s. diplomat in 2002. and i was exposed to working with cia officers overseas, and i -- they valued the cultural and linguistic abilities, and i transferred from the fbi to the cia, and i was dispatched immediately to work in baghdad. so i was involved in the hunt for saddam hussein. obviously, that was a successful operation. but i detail a lot of other cases that i worked for for the cia. >> how long were you with the cia? when did you leave? >> for a little less than f

booktv every weekend on c-span2. o c-span donated 801 books to george mason university located outside washington d.c.. the university is currently cataloguing the collection at the fed wick lit book notes. an hour-long program hosted by brian lamb aired from 1989 to cerac4. gm than university librarian shows us the collection entitled teeyond the book. >> in the mind of brian, this book is the genesis. all the books on this program of c-span. he decided he wanted to interview the authowhicand that gave him the idea of book notes. it would be worthwhile for him to read a lot of books and talk to the authors. >> 801 total episodes of book notes. all the original and this was the first official book notes. correct? >> exactly. he was seeing the chair of the security coung wil for the cart administration. >> when you pick the books to go in these display cases--who carries this? >> several of my colleagwer s i the spewith fal collection data archive. they made the selection to be highlighted and the annotations on each

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

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweak as at twitter.com/booktv. >> next on booktv, paul barrett talks about the ubiquitous use of the glock kissel. it is about an hour. [no audio] >> editor at business week. he is the author of american is long:the struggle of the soul of a religion and a true story of race in america. he also lives right around the corner from book court. please welcome paul barrett. [applause] >> thank you very much for that lovely introduction. i am extremely pleased to be here for a number of reasons. all these wonderful people, friends, family and to be in the neighborhood makes it more enjoyable. before i get going, for the benefit of your neighbors, turn yourself phones off and all are handguns are unloaded and safely secured. let's begin with gaston glock, the gentleman mentioned in the introduction. after 30 years in manufacturing, gaston glock's industriousness yielded respectable industrial station and without elevating him to the higher ranks of austrian commerce. he dreamed big. the son of an austrian railroad worker managed an inconspicuous car rad

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> well, here's a book withan unusual title, but it's also part of a series. "obama on the couch" has been written by justin frank who also wrote "bush on the couch." dr. frank, first of all, what kind of doctor are a you? -- are you? >> i'm a psychoan analyst and a sigh chi chris -- psychiatrist. >> how do you get inside the minds of presidents? >> you take psychoananalytic principles and apply them to people you could never get in your consulting room. so, for instance, freud did that, he was the first one to do that with people like leonardo da vinci and even moses, and then fdr hired somebody to do that with hitler during world war ii, and it's a very well-established technique of studying famous people by using analytic principles. obama wrote two autobiographies, so that made it very interesting to see what he put in, what he left out and then how it relates to his behavior as president. >> what's one thing we're going to learn about president obama in your book? >> he is deeply obsessed with uniting the c

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> well, on your screen is the newest book by long-time washington foreign correspondent georgie ann gyer, anticipating the impossible. georgie ann guyier, what is this book about? >> well, this book is a compilation of my poems since the onset of communism. and i have thought for many years that what we have to do, those of us in the foreign field, we have to anticipate things. we have to predict them. and that's what this book is trying to show. >> throughout your years as a foreign correspondent, where have your travels taken you? what are two or three of the most exciting places you've been and situations you've been in? >> oh, i've been all over the world. egypt, israel, all over latin america, vietnam -- not so exciting. cuba, i've done interviews there many times, and really almost everywhere. i can't think of places now. [laughter] >> so if people sit down to read "predicting the unthinkable," what are they going to find in there? what would you like them to take away from that book? >> the parts of the wor

or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> now on booktv, laurie sandell recounts the fallout from berniemadoff's ponzi scheme and the effect it had on his family. the author was given access to all members of the nato family and reports of mr. made's two sons, andrew and mark, and his wife, ruth, reacted to bernie madoff illegal activities. this is about half an hour. >> hello. i'm diane leslie, and i am here to welcome you to diesel, a bookstore. when the information broke, i guess i saw it in "the new york times," about, i don't even know what to call it, the, the madoff debacle, the madoff scandal. it was so shocking and so fascinating. and i don't think since watergate was i rushing to get the paper every day to read the next episode of what had happened. so, as the story unfolds, i was thinking this looks like a greek tragedy. this is amazing, and you know, only if we had that skill is here to write about it. and then later on as we got more and more information, and the victims we started seeing what happened to some of the people who invested with the made off. i started thinking

this interview, part of booktv's college series, was recorded at the university of texas at austin. >> dr. steven weinberg is a professor of science at the universe of the texas. e. as a nobel prize winner in physics, the national medal of science winner, and he is also the author of this book, "lake views: this world and the universe." first of all, dr. weinberg, what is this picture on the front of your book? >> that's a picture of lake austin as seen from our boat dock. i do most of my work at home in an office overlooking the lake, and so i have, i have a certain feeling of connection with lake austin. >> so why would a nobel prize-winning physicist, science guy, put a lake on the front of his book? >> well, it is what i look at while i'm working, but also, you know, being a scientist, especially theoretical physicists, it's a little unworldly, and the sounds of delay, especially in summer, the boats going up and down the lake, playing music, brings me back and little bit to the real world, the world of human affairs, which is i think healthy. >> well, -- >> that's what i was tryi

send us an email at book@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com booktv. >> next on booktv, jeff girl talks about the death and nature of religious belief in the united states. this is about an hour and a hal half. >> thank you. thank you and thanks for coming out and joining me. it is a pleasure to be here at porter square books. i used to live up the street and so this was my bookstore for a while. i spent a lot of money so i'm getting a little back. and little i like to give sort of plugs for independent bookstores. i'm sort of coming to the end for this book tour, sweet heaven when i die. i decided when i did this book, which is published by norton, one of the last big independent publishers that i didn't want to go to any chains and conveniently borders went out of business just in time. they were so crushed by my refusal. i hadn't thought of that. and i only wanted to go to independence. and which can be sort of wonderful and it's great to be in sort of a thriving independent bookstore like this but there's also a feeling going around the country, that some of the great independence s

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 click on "after words" in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. .. i had a friend who was working in the international committee which settled refugees are and the country and i was looking for a volunteer opportunity because in addition to more investigative journalism i do a lot of celebrity profiles, spiegel, mariah carey, and i wanted to do something different. i thought i would volunteer my time. i heard about the program we could work with rescued use that one of these international high schools. the more you learned about the school, the more i decided this is something i really want to write about these kids and so i volunteered to the ice on the high school that was in my neighborhood and went over there and spend some time. >> host: when did you get the idea to write the story? >> guest: it started with an article i wrote "the new york times" and i.t. wrote about the kids putting on the first ev

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 to ride a bicycle by watching someone else ride it, you learn by getting on. so these students are 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 be a kid from senegal in the same group as a kid from haiti. perhaps they share a common language of french because creole has its roots in french and, you know, the students are able to tutor and help each other so that the on

. >> coming up on booktv, charles mann discusses his book, "1493" about how the arrival of europeans changed the new world. tha the. >> now that the iowa caucuses are over, the presidential campaign moves to new hampshire which all the nations first primaries next tuesday. today at 4 p.m. eastern, jon huntsman holds a town hall meeting in manchester, new hampshire. at 7:30 p.m. rick santorum is in new hampshire. you can watch both of these events live on c-span and c-span.org. >> you're watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs weekdays feature live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy defense, and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs into their schedules at our website, and you can join in on the conversation on social media sites. >> in his book, trenton, charles mann examines how the new world was changed by the arrival of europeans and the plants and animals they brought from your. he talked about the book at the los angeles public library. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> he will

." >> and snell from george washington university, twitter.com/booktv talks about his book, "the making of modern afghanistan." >> professor benjamin hopkins, what is the east india company? >> the british east india company was a semi commercial company founded in the year 1600 by royal charter by queen elizabeth, which gave it the exclusive right to trade with the indies, english merchants. over time that transformed into a kind of peer saddle juggernaut and the myth that is extremely complex and difficult to understand, but the key thing about the east india company was that after the mid 18th century these to the company came to rule over much of the south asian subcontinent, which included most of modern-day bangladesh, india, and pakistan. the east india company was rolled up in 1858 following the great beauty of 1857 and 1858. control of the south asian subcontinent passed directly to the british crown. >> how did this to its charter? >> its charter was granted to a group of merchants who have petitioned the elizabethan court for the exclusive right to trade, and it was actually

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> and now on booktv, james farwell talks about pakistan's political dynamics and the forces that shape the way pakistani leaders or act. this is -- leaders or act. this is about an hour and ten minutes. in. >> it suspect there's some of you here who may have been, as i have, a reader of the new york review of books, what we sometimes call the new york review of each other's books. but the current issue has an ad from the johns hopkins press about some of their recent publications. and it's entitled, "confronting history." not the easiest thing to do. and history is not really an exact science. in my relationship with contemporary students, i'm learning that they are quite, they have quite a different perspective than i had growing up in school when i was assigned a history book. it was history, i was reading history. and now questions are being asked because history is not an exact science. history evolves and shifts and changes over years particularly, i guess, with respect to wars. we see them early and in a

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> get back the last ten years and draw three lessons. one, the most important lesson, is that the most important thing to happen in the united states in the last ten years was nothing. the last ten years never saw another successful terrorist attack in the united states, and one -- and i think the most important question to ask is why and whether it was worth it. to me, the most important decision was one that president bush made as commander in chief and chief executive on the very night of 9/11 which was to treat the 9/11 attacks as an about of war. as an act of war. i think the way we thought about it in the justice department at that time was if any country had attacked us on the same way as al-qaeda did, no one would have had any doubt that we were at war. the only difference was al-qaeda was not a nation state, and the important legal and constitutional issue was could we be at war with a non-nation state, and i think president bush made that decision for the country that night. and that was an important dec

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 week on "the communicators," senator ron wyden talks about anti-piracy legislation in congress including his own proposal to discourage counterfeiters and others from selling bad products or products that are not their own over the internet. >> host: well, there are a couple pieces of anti-piracy legislation working their way through the capitol hill process as we speak. the author of an alternative to that legislation is senator ron wyden, a democrat of oregon, who joins us on "the communicators." senator wyden, first off, what are your issues with the protect and the sopa anti-piracy legislative pieces? >> guest: both of them are, essentially, using a bunker-buster bomb when what you need is a laser beam. look, there is no question that there are some bad actors out there. there are people who sell tainted viagra or fake roll lexes or movies they don't own, and as far as i'm concerned, you ought to handcuff them. but these bills go way, way beyond that and parti

[laughter] and i was on the booktv one time it was a event in new mexico that i thought went pretty well then a couple weekse later the event was on tv so itunes did and pretty nervous because although on calst of -- television a couple times not in a sustained way and about five minutes into aa realized every other sentence i realize that i say uhhh like an idiot then i got an e-mail from somebody in hawaii that said i wanted very much to hear what you had to say however your habit of interjecting uhhh is so distracted even your humor and pleasant voice did not help. thanks a lot. [laughter] that was a nightmare. what i want to do today is to explain to my book is about "the odd clauses" in one to explain why i wrote the book and why i think it is important to know about o the odd clauses. i will read a short bit andt you have questions andand answers and we will sign books if you are interested it does make a terrific stocking stuffer provided the stocking is on the large aside and nothing else is in the stocking because then it will not fit. the book is about the 10 clauses of therst

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. >> this weekend on "after words" on c-span2's booktv, power and corruption on capitol hill. once the most influential lobbyist in washington, jack abramoff was equitied of mail fraud and conspiracy in 2006. his story tonight at 10 eastern. also, juan gonzalez and joseph torres on the role segregation play inside the way news was reported sunday at 2 p.m. and marji ross on what it takes to be a successful female publisher and author sunday at 11:15 p.m. booktv, every weekend on c-span2. >> up next, tony horwitz recounts john brown's raid on a federal armory in harper's ferry in west virginia. mr. horwitz reports on john brown's early exploits to abolish slavery pronounced by acts of violence in kansas. his court trial following his capture and how his acts of defiance contribute today the national discussion of secession. this is about an hour. >> good evening. thank you all for coming. our thanks go to the historical museum for hosting us, to booktv for recording this presentation and especially to maggie richards at henry holt publishing for arranging this return visit by t

send us an email at booktv.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on booktv, jeremy rifkin suggests internet technology and renewable energy could lead a way to a new industrial revolution in the u.s. and help the country's gain its economic foothold in the world. he speaks for about an hour. >> good evening, everyone. thank you for coming out tonight. we had two seminal events in the last three years, which i believe signal the endgame for the great industrial revolution based on fossil fuels. the first event july 2008. do you recall that month, oil hit $147 a barrel on world markets, and the prices for all things from grocery to gasoline went through the roof. purchasing power plummeted. and the entire economic engine of the industrial revolution shut down in july, 2008 at 147 a barrel. that was the economic earthquake. the collapse of the financial markets 60 days later was the after-shock. my colleagues in governments and a lot of industry around the world are still dealing with the after-shocks and haven't gone through enough of a crisis. and until we understand this c

larson was recently on "booktv". you wan watch the program online at "booktv".org. coming in third, unbroken by laura hillenbrand. followed by david mcullough's book, the greater journey, americans in paris. tina fey's bossypants. jaycee dugard recounts, 18 years in captivity, a stolen life. number seven, nothing daunted. howard wasdin seal team six is number 8. lost in shangri-la at number nine. completing the list this week is reckless endangerment. how outsized ambition, greed, corruption led to economic arm ma get son. you can watch the authors present this book at booktv.org. for this information and other best-selling books go to indie-bound.org. here's a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals over the next few months. on september 2nd, decatur, georgia, hosts the "atlanta journal-constitution" book festival. the brooklyn book vest al begins on september 15th. it includes curt anderson, paul bergman and walter mostly. the baltimore book festival starts september 23rd. also on the 23rd, st. augustine, florida, will host the florida heritage book festiva

. >> welcome to c-span2's booktv. every weekend we brung you 48 hours of books on history, biographies and public affairs by nonfiction authors. >> i do believe that the west for all of its historical shortcomings -- and i am scawting in my book -- scathing in my book in discussing these shortcomings because they have to be admitted -- for all of these shortcomings, the west still today represents the most acceptable and workable, universeally workable political culture. >> in 1991 the united states was the only global superpower. today how to restore its status in the world from former national security adviser brzezinski on his strategic vision, tonight at 10 eastern on "after words." also this weekend on booktv, did fdr use world war ii as a cover to create a more powerful executive branch? burton and anita folsom later as 11. and sunday night at 10, the new privacy is no privacy. lorry andrews on how your rights are being eroded by social networks. booktv, every weekend on c-span2. >>> up next, william doyle tells

booktv streams online every weekend for 48 hours, booktv.org. >> up next on booktv, from politics & prose bookstore here in washington, simon sebag montefiore talks about the 3,000-year history of jerusalem. [applause] >> thank you, that's very nice. thank you so much. um, and i apologize so much for keeping you waiting. thanks for, um, thanks for waiting for me. i had no idea that the traffic on connecticut avenue. so let's go straight to jerusalem. um, i've been going to jerusalem all my life, ever since i was a little, little boy, ever since i was a baby. and ever since i've been a writer i've wanted to write, basically, this book that i've now written. and i've been thinking of a way to write about jerusalem. the trouble with jerusalem is, as you know, there are millions of books about jerusalem. all of them are about the israel-palestine conflict, king david, the crusades or jesus. and there's nothing, there's very few books -- there's only one book in print, in fact, in english that is a sort of parallel history to this which is karen armstrong's book which many of you may have seen

>> coming up next on booktv, "after words," an hour-long program where we and i just post to any office. this week the news hours "after words" and his new book, "tension city: inside the presidential debates from kennedy-nixon to mccain-obama," the better news man i prolific writer discusses some of the more memorable moments of televised presidential debates since 1960. he shares how he developed his questions and kept them secret, and reveals which he believes were better left unasked. he talks with cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. >> host: welcome to "after words." i'm gloria borger of cnn, and with me is the executive editor of the "newshour," "after words," was just written a fabulous book called "tension city." my view from the middle seat. it's all about the presidential debate. in we will watch the presidential debate, some of us cover the presidential debate. but you're the only person i know who has moderate presidential debates. how many of them? >> guest: 11. >> host: and your the man, as you say, in the middle seat, at the center of the stage. you've written fict

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> and now catherine crier argues that partisan politics are hurting the united states. she discusses a range of issues including the economy, health care, and political debate. catherine crier speaks for about 50 minutes. >> [no audio] [no audio] >> covering the days front page stories, catherine crier, a texas bred independent with a spirited passion for justice, released several books on high profile cases, such as the scott peterson case and the susan polk murder case. catherine has hosted episodes of prime time series, the system, and numerous other specials such as the jury speaks with dominick dunne, osama bin laden on trial, and safe pass, voices from the moon school park of the network's public affairs initiative choices and consequences. prior to joining court tv, catherine anchored the crier report for fox news channel. alive hour-long nightly program during which she interviewed the leading newsmakers of the day. catherine currently manag

tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> on your screen is the newest book by longtime washington foreign correspondent georgie anne geyer, predicting the unthinkable, anticipating the impossible. georgie anne geyer, what is this book about? >> this book is a compilation of the soviet communism. and i thought for many years that will we have to do, those of us in influence, would have to anticipate, have to predicting. they predict that that very easily. >> throughout your years as foreign correspondent, where half your travels take and you? what are two or three of the most exciting places you have been in situations you have been? >> egypt, israel, vietnam, that's very exciting. cuba. interviews many times. and really everywhere. i can't think of places now. >> so if people sit down to read predicting the and thinkable, what will they find in the? what would you like them to take away from that book? >> the terms -- [inaudible] we have great diplomats, and military men who have predicted. it never sort of gets to the upper regions of the white house, at the state department. >>

[laughter] i was on booktv one other time before, a connection with my first book. it was an event in new mexico which i thought went pretty well, and then a couple weeks later the event was on tv, soi pz tuned in. i was pretty nervous although i had been on television a couple of times, not in a sustained way. and about five minutes into it i realized that every other sentence i say uh like an idiot, so i'm hiding under the blankets. [laughter] and 15 minutes into the talk i looked at this e-mail, and i got this e-mail from somebody in hawaii, and it said i wanted very much to hear what you had to say, however, your habit of interjecting uh repeatedly is so distracting that even your humor and pleasant voice did not help. [laughter] thanks a lot. that was a nightmare. what i want to do today, tonight is to explain what my book is about, "the odd clauses," and i want to spend most of my time, i think, explaining why i wrote the book and why i think it's important to know about the odd clauses of the constitution. i'll read a short bit or two, not that much, and we'l

. >> up next on booktv, henry louis gates talks about the 16th century to present day. this is about 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] six >> good evening. is it on? i couldn't tell. welcome to the atlanta history center. i am president and ceo of the history center. we are delighted you are here this evening. please join us on december 15, a couple nights from now in the 20th as we celebrate the season with two evenings of a new program we call holiday spirit. this is a new, interactive and immersive holiday program will be delighted with. to purchase tickets with more information, please visit our website at galante history.com. two nights lecture is an a-10 history, which are made possible by the generous support and funding from the trust of lucy rucker akin. henry louis gates junior will speak for 30 minutes this evening and then sign books in the lobby. tonight's program is being recorded by c-span, so everyone will be on their best behavior right now. you will all turn off your cell phone, your beepers -- who has beepers anymore? [laughter] seriously. please

tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >>> and now paul farmer talks about the devastation caused by the earthquake in haiti that occurred about a year ago on january 12, 2010. dr. farmer recounts the involvement of the united states and other countries in haiti and argues that they've contributed to making the impact of the earthquake worse than it may have been. this is about an hour. [applause] >> i guess i'll just start it up. first of all, thank you so much for inviting me, and i'm honored to come down here and leave my patients up in new york wondering where i am for the day. >> sure they're going to be upset about missing their endoscopies. [laughter] >> it's having done the prep without the procedure, what they're going to be really irritated about. [laughter] it's all right. no, they all know. they all knew. i'm also, i'm keenly aware that we have about 0 minutes -- 30 minutes, and that you're here to listen to paul, not to me. so i'm going to be a facilitator or paul talking. and on a personal note, i want to thank you for one thing which was for entitling chapter two "p

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sent us an e-mail at the tv at c-span.org or tweet is at twitter.com/booktv. >> joining us on booktv is ronald kessler. his most recent book, "the secrets of the fbi." mr. kessler you have done a whole series of books along this line, correct? >> i've done a lot of fbi related intelligence related book's. i like to go after secrets and i even did a book on palm beach because there are a lot of secrets there in society. we call that a midlife crisis but you know i think people especially with the internet and tv want to get new information about important subjects and then that is what i try to do with these books. >> so what are two things that are revealed in this book that we should know about? >> one is how the fbi breaks into homes and offices with bugging devices. courses all quarter of rice but the incredible stories before they do a break and they will conduct surveillance of the premise. they figure out who goes in and who goes out. on the night at the of the break and they watch everybody who might go back to the premises and they do. they will divert them. they will stage a

and then it describes it as somebody who does not have a month @booktv of the motions. i think he understood his nature and that was a part of who he was. having said that i forgotten the second half of the question. >> how did he engender such creativity. >> when you are creating a machine as insanely great is that, even if you are in the middle of the night saying this code is -- this socks. by the time you have created as an engineer in the original macintosh you are loyal to the genius and the vision -- vision. people who have strong personalities can turn people off or they can say, hey, i got inspired and got to be on a team the proof is -- i hate cliches, the proof in the pudding, but as the team he even had to be if he is that bad of a boss why this so many players stayed with him? oh, they like to work on the team. the fee ran awful lot of players that does not mean that that team and apple, you know, they're quite loyal to him. >> talk a little bit about the relationship. the pope described each other. >> a best friend. it was, you know, a deep and friendly re

saturday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. john roberts on beaumont's literary culture and the challenges of running an independent bookstore. beaumont author j. lee thompson on teddy roosevelt's yearlong presidential expedition to africa and europe. on american history tv on c-span3 january 11th, 1901, the lucas gusher change the economy of texas and helped usher in the petroleum age. with the oil came the roughnecks and vice. through the dixie hotel. and infamous brothel on buckets tree. decades of gambling and other crimes thrived until 1960 james commission. obama, tx next weekend on c-span2 and 3. >> c-span donated the book's cover on book notes to george mason university located just outside washington d.c.. the university is currently cataloguing the collection at the fed will climb very. book notes. an hour long interview program hosted by brian lamb from 1889 to 2004. john zealous, university librarian shows us the collection entitled beyond the book. >> in the mind of brian this book is the genesis. by reading this b

next on booktv. joe hill was a member of the industrial workers of the world and he was over his outspoken politics and the many songs he wrote and performed championing workers rights. mr. adler examines joe hill's political life and his death by firing squad in utah for the murder of a salt lake city grocer, a crime the author contends joe hill did not commit. this is a little under an hour. >> welcome everyone. good afternoon. thank you for coming out on this beautiful saturday and joining us. a.q., c-span, who is recording us today, this wonderful event we have at book passage with william adler. i am your host and as always i like to begin by thanking all of you for supporting your local independent bookstore. [applause] >> today i'm very pleased to be introducing our very talented author, william adler. author of the land of opportunity and trent will. his work has also been published in a variety of periodicals including "esquire," "rolling stone," and the "mother jones." in addition to our fa