send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org or four us at twitter.com/booktv. booktv talk with georgetown university professor nancy sherman about her latest book "the untold war". nancy sherman was interviewed as part of booktv's college series. it is about half an hour. >> host: what do you do for a living? >> guest: i have the glorious job of being a professor. i teach at georgetown university and this year i am at the woodrow wilson center so occasionally i write books. i talk to veterans and soldiers about going to war and coming home. >> host: what is your connection to the naval academy? >> guest: i used to teach at the naval academy. 4 two years. i was there inaugural distinguished chair in ethics. they have a cheating scandal and they are in the limelight being near washington and they needed to brainstorm about how to teach ethics and so they called me in and -- i have taught ethics for years at georgetown for 20 years. some of that before, yale and as a graduate student. they were surprised that there had been people teaching ethics as part of the cu

booktv is live all weekend from tucson, arizona. >> booktv has over 150,000 twitter followers.follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> recently, booktv visited bookhouse, a used bookstore in arlington, virginia, and spoke to co-owners edward and natalie hughes. >> edward j. hughes, born april 17, 1920. >> and they want your title. you're an owner. >> a handyman. [laughter] >> all right. >> yeah, i do handyman work. i wrap books, i move books. [laughter] >> natalie hughes, and i'm 80. i've enjoyed running a book shop all these years. i like being behind the counter. edward likes to buy books. >> so why did you start selling books original hi? [laughter] >> because i bought 3,000 books for $40 thinking i was buying them to read, and then i discovered when we went to the -- i took the children to the library, and i was waiting for them to get finished looking at their books because the books i had bought were so old, they were just old reading books fro

twitter.com/booktv. >> and now more from shreveport weekend here on booktv. >> i'm laura mclimore, i'm an archivist here at the library and the noel at lsu shreveport. we're specializing in the history of documenting the history of northwest louisiana and the red river region. we have here today some of the, um, things that we consider the stars this our collection -- in our collection. one that we're proudest of that kind of the opening of what one can consider modern northwest louisiana, i think, is the clearing of the raft of the red river in 1873. this volume is a collection of 107 photographic plates that were taken by r.w. kalfort to document the progression of the clearing of the raft in the red river in 1873 between nagadesh and just above shreveport. it was particularly important, it was the last most successful clearing of the red river raft, and it enabled shreveport to become a really important trading port for the rest of the 19th century. unfortunately for some of the crew of the aid with the army corps of engineers, their visit to shreveport coincided with the yellow fev

enough's @booktv done. [inaudible] >> this, but i believe the benefit of what's happening although i am worried about the contents. especially the prediction. we say when you predict those who predict the future there, in particular the middle east, through a crystal ball. so, you know, i'm not worried about this, but my memory is that libya, egypt, syria has into from any positive contribution. i do you are in their regime. there is no colors. so this is worried about the presence. and will worries me more,. [inaudible] >> okay. that's fine. that's fine. >> an agreement. but the sense that idc -- and as i said, i don't end with, you know, roses and strawberry fields. i do and where fessing your seat belts. i see that it is going to be a speaking of the flights, this is going to be a lot of disturbance up in the air in the arab world. yet i see how they emptied the political life and how they put together a political parties creating a civil society of sorts. i see that. but what i also see is that for the

booktv continues on c-span2. .. finish >> we, of course, welcome those who join us on our heritage website on all of these occasions. we would ask everyone here in houston should be so kind to make that last is a check that your cell phones have been turned off as we record the program. we'll post the program within 24 hours on our website for everyone's future reference as well. as you notice we do have copies of "the politically incorrect guide to the presidents," partisan at least. available in the lobby if you would like to purchase them. we, of course, this is part of a long-standing series the publishers have done various aspects on issues of interest to all of us we encourage you to consider them. hosting our discussion and it is our special guest will be edwin meese. he served as the ronald reagan distinguished fellow in public policy. he's also chairman of what is now the edwin meese center for legal and judicial studies here at the heritage foundation. please join in welcoming the 75th attorney general of

[applause] >> booktv is 150,000 twitter followers. follow booktv on twitter to get publishing new the, scheduling of dates, author information and talk directly with doctors during live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on book macgillis discusses "landmark: the inside story of america's new health-care law and what it means for us all". a series of essays written by the staff of the washington post. it is about half an hour. >> we turn our attention to the new health care bill that was passed into law recently and joining us at the table is alec mcginnis of the washington post. here to talk about a new book. the washington post put out a book "landmark: the inside story of america's new health-care law and what it means for us all". you can see my note attached to the book. there are a couple stories in the paper about this health care bill. this is one from the washington post. 18 states the kline to run for high risk insurance pools. what is going on? >> guest: one of the first provisions in the bill across the country, s

for a complete schedule of booktv's programming this weekend, visit booktv.org. >>> up next on booktv, trita parsi looks at the obama administration's diplomacy towards iran over the past three years and argues that domestic politics in both countries have negatively impacted the chances for relations. this is about an hour, 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much. it's always a great pleasure coming to busboys and poets. i'm forever indebted to andy and his fantastic team not only for this invitation, but all of the fantastic work that they've done for peacemaking in these last decades. one day i know andy will get the nobel peace prize -- [laughter] and he will fully deserve it. [applause] as will his entire team. thank you, also, for that introduction. as it was said, i'm here to talk about the obama administration's iran policy. we've seen this issue come up once again on top of the agenda, and the perception that perhaps existed someplace is that the risk of war had been essentially eliminated by the election of barack obama, clearly has turned out not to be true. so we're in

also this weekend, on booktv, they turn the network into the extension of the republican party. and mark levin's "the unmaking of america." booktv, every weekend on c-span 2. >> i was quite a radical as a young person and i was the one that thought we should overcome and not a way of gaining civil rights and i thought more confrontation was needed. >> economic professor, columnist, walter williams, on being a radical. >> i believe that being a radical is any person who believes in personal liberty and individual freedom and limited government. that makes you a radical and i've always been a person who believed that people should not interfere with me. i should be able to do my own thing without -- so long as i don't violate the rights of other people. >> more with walter williams on c-span's q and a. >> now, a senate finance committee hearing on trade relations with russia. the committee discussed proposals to repeal an amendment passed in 1975 to put pressure on countries with nonmarket or communist economies by restricting trade with the u.s. this part of the hearing is an hou

-- twitter.com/booktv. i got all of that mix the. only done that once or twice. in your most recent book "the persistence of the color line: racial politics and the obama presidency," you right opposition to anti-black racism generates protectiveness. even if black vehemently disagree with obama on important matters subordinate their misgivings out of a sense that racial loyalty demands solidarity with the nation's first black president. >> guest: yes. there are people who are critical of the president with respect to various issues who have to make a calculation over and over again with this they want to publicize their criticism. on the one hand they have real disputes with the president and therefore want to relay -- disagreement to him and others. on the other hand they recognize the president of the united states, barack obama, is going to be facing opposition not so much based in an authentic disagreement with this or that policy but rather an opposition fuelled by anti-black racism and people even if

. >> and now booktv presents the 2012 national book critic circle awards from the new school in new yorkcity. the awards are presented annually by the nation's critics in six categories, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, and poetry. this year's award ceremony also includes the presentation of the ivan sandroff award for lifetime achievement to robert silvers editor of the new york books. this is just over an hour. >> so good evening, i'm director of the new writing school program. it's my pleasure to welcome you on the occasion of the award ceremony of the national book critic circle awards. we want to welcome everybody back who attended last night's powerful evening of readings by the nominated writers. >> those of you who are here will readily admit that you experiences something stylish, wonders are and rare. we'll want to welcome other critics and reviewers who come from new york and magazines from all across the country. the graduate writing program cosponsored with nbcc. they are the only literary honors that are bestowed by practicing critics and reviewers.

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. up next on booktv the author of king larry recounts the life of the co-founder of the shipping company dhl the disappeared in 1995 in the western pacific. this is just over an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much to book people and c-span and thank you for coming to the talk about king larry:the life and ruin of the life of a billionaire genius which business week has compared both to and leonard caper and trashy analog to walter isaacson's biography of steve jobs. king larry begins on may 21st, 1995, which if you were in the state was heavily from the adjacent and murder trial. but with a beautiful sunday morning hand a small plane who took off from the airport with two important people on board. one was the speaker of the house of the commonwealth of the northern mariana islands and the other was mary home better known as dhl. .. >> so a number of his friends had declined to make the trip with him that morning, and no one was terribly shocked that this plane had also

. >> follow c-span's local content vehicles throughout the weekend as booktv and american history tv explore the history and literary culture of little rock, arkansas. saturday at noon eastern on book tv on c-span2, the little-known rights and killing of at least 20 african-american sharecroppers. >> you had calls going all up and down the mississippi delta and saying that blacks were now in revolt, and the next morning between 601,000 men, white men, pour into the county to begin shooting down blocks. >> on american history tv on c-span3, sunday at 5 p.m. former student bruce lindsey on integration and north little rock high school. >> they know what's going to happen but we don't know what's going to happen. we don't realize what's going to happen when we go up the steps, but they seem to. because the crowd is with us now. the momentum is behind us, and they're pushing us up the steps. >> these stories and others on c-span's local content vehicles in little rock this weekend on c-span2 and three. >> you're watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs. weekdays feature live cov

send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org or sweet as at twitter.com/booktv. .. >> this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> hello, good evening. so, i wanted to introduce the writer, jamal joseph. i met jamal and long time ago. he used to be the chair, he used to be the chair of columbia university where i went to graduate school. and long ago, i had a friend at new line cinema, sort of a big company, makes big movies, and i was saying to her one day that i was working on this movie about the black panthers and i was doing all this research, and our berlin wanted to talk to someone. and she said, well, i am working with this fabulous screenwriter. she loves the work is minted. she was just like, he's incredible. and you should talk to him. and i thought that's so odd, you know? i didn't fully understand, was he black panther party was he a friend? it seemed very strange, two very separate things, screenwriter for big hollywood company and black panther. that was my first meeting of jamal. i found him to be incredibly soft-spoken and gentle man, and i think that was in many ways one of the fi

>> for more information on shreveport weekend on booktv, visit c-span.org/local content. up next on booktv, jean baker recounts this life of margaret sanger who became a proponent of educating women on big concepts of contraception after watching a woman dais self-induced abortion in 1912. this is just over an hour. [inaudible] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] and then this era as we all remember when abortion was illegal and dangerous. now she has septicemia, as staff a cockeyed infection, and in a few hours she was dead. this event was told and retold by margaret sanger was the transforming of that inner life. and the founding moment of what became one of the most successful and indeed after writing this biography i would say the most successful advocacy in american history. that may quote from her autobiography about this epiphany that she had. when i finally arrived home, i looked out my window on the dimly -- c., technology really does -- [laughter] okay. when i finally

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> several years ago when the queen was at one of her yearly garden parties at buckingham palace making her way through a crowd of nearly 9,000 people and greeting a selection of guests, she was asking such standard questions as, have you come far? when one woman looked at her and said what do you do? [laughter] several days later at a friend's birthday party, the queen described the exchange and confessed, i had no idea what to say. it was the first time in all the years of meeting people that anybody had ever asked her that question. [laughter] well, my job in writing "elizabeth, the queen "was not only to explain what she does, but to tell what she's really like and to take the reader as close as possible to elizabeth, the human being; the wife, the mother and the friend as well as the highly respected leader. today i'm going to talk first about what it was like to write about queen elizabeth and, second, i'd like to share with you some of the man

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. tweaked us at twitter.com/booktv. >> jim blakely is the communications director for the institute. first of all, what is the heartland institute. >> the heartland institute is a premarket think tank based in chicago, illinois recovered domestic policy in her mission is to discover, promote and say no to the public free-market solutions to social and economic problems and we've been doing that for 28 years. >> who founded you quick >> were funded by chief h. patton who is a bigwig at the cato institute and really giant in the free-market movement. and our president of the heartland institute has been just as bad since 1984. >> you also publish books. i want to ask you a couple. let's begin by herbert walker, school choice paintings. >> one of the issues at the heartland institute has pushed for decades now his school choice in having many followed the parents and having when that happens the student achievement does rise. so her blog colliver senior fellows and board members is very an

. >> booktv attended a book party for the publication of "shooting from the lip: the life of senator al simpson," written by his former chief of staff, donald hard key. among those -- hardy. this is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> well, have you -- >> we're coming to you. >> i can't believe it. what are you doing here? >> well, we're here to celebrate your book. ann, hi. >> you're very dear to do this. it's not my book. it's the most heartbreaking -- you met don, the author -- >> you could still write one. >> oh, man, took him six years. [inaudible conversations] >> senator, how are you doing? >> jimmy. >> how are you? >> i haven't got my good shoes on, but i'm here. there was a big delay. [inaudible conversations] anyway, you're dear to do this. >> you look great. >> they picked up a little extra down there, could we get our 20%? [inaudible conversations] >> has my wife arrived yet? >> don't believe so. [inaudible conversations] >> can i say hi? my name is don hardy. >> he's the author of the book. >> oh, wonderful. so modest. >> oh, here you go. [laughter] >> hi! >>

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tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> booktv to her to shreveport, louisiana, recently to get a feel for the local literary culture. in coordination with comcast cable, our local cable partner. we interviewed several local authors and tour the archives and special collections of louisiana state university shreveport. the city originally founded in 1836 has a population of over 200,000 is the third largest city in louisiana. next front our time in shreveport an interview with gary joiner, the author of "one damn blunder from beginning to end: the red river campaign of 1864". >> the red river campaign was the only campaign in a pivotal year of 1864 that the union lost. and they didn't want to write about. it was an embarrassment. and the south was in no position to brag because they were in the process of losing the war. so it sat for about a century. only the locals appreciate it, and then research really started picking up with the centennial of the war. and a few historians have touched -- i spent a lot of time on it just trying to figure out the nuances of it. and it's a cam

twitter.com/booktv. >> up next, set down with book tv at georgetown university to talk from his book. ethics and policy in atlantic democracy. just over 15 minutes. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2. every month we visited different university to talk to professors who are also authors. john joining us on book tv, thomas been shot, the author of this book, embryo politics. professor benjamin, what do you mean by andrea politics? >> politics centered on the critical of the question. when human life begins and deserves protection about when india's might be sacrificed. a parent's to medical knowledge. it's something we are familiar with in this country, of course, the context of systems of the bay for the last decade. passionate debate. what i do in the book is i go back for decades, the beginning, show how it develops to the point it has reached today, but also president broader international context there an examination of france, the u.k., germany as well. >> why did you choose those? the subtitle also refers to atlantic democracies, but why did you choose as this is? >> well, se

. >> we are watching booktv on c-span2, and every month we visit a different university to talk to professors who are also authors about their looks and now joining us on book tv is thomas banchoff, and he is the author of this book, and brio politics. professor banchoff, what do you mean by embryo politics? >> it is said to turn a critical ethical questions about when human life begins and deserves protection and when embryos might be sacrificed in scientific experiments for knowledge. it's something we are familiar with and in the context of the stem cell debates of the last decade, the passionate debates, what i do in the book is go back for decades at the beginning of this controversy, show how it's developed to the point is that today but place it in the broad international context through an examination of france, the u.k. and germany as well. >> why did you choose those and the subtitle refers to the atlantic democracy but why did you choose those nations? >> several reasons. i'm a european by training, political scientist and i've lived in europe for six or seven years, so i know the

tv explore the literary culture of shreveport bleeders the louisiana starting at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2 author gary joyner and the union army's fell year in louisiana from one dam blunder from beginning to end. then a look at the 200,000 books of the collection housed at the lsu shreveport archived. they walking tour of shreveport with neil johnson and on american history tv, at 5:00 eastern clippers the look at the base's role on 9/11 plus the history of a b-52 bomber and the founding fathers autographed collection at louisiana state executive museum and from the pioneer heritage center medical treatments and madison during the civil war. shreveport, louisiana next weekend on c-span 2, and 3. next on booktv diane brady recalled the efforts of reverend john brooks who traveled the east coast recruiting african-american students to the college of holy cross in the hope of realizing martin luther king jr.'s goal of an integrated society following his death in 1968. reverend brooks introduced several students to holy cross that year which included future supreme court justice cl

. >> now joining us on booktv is professor yvonne yazbak and sheila author of this book becoming american the forging of arab and muslim identity in pluralist america published by baylor university press. professor, when did muslims start coming to the u.s.? >> it depends. some people think they were here before columbus, some people think at least one of them came with columbus. but major -- amine in the 1870's. >> why? >> mostly lebanon and people are looking for work in of lebanon engaged there was a blight in the mulberry trees died and so they couldn't raise anything but the other thing that happened is the japanese silk began to compete so the industry fell apart. estimate quote was the reaction when the arabs and muslims started coming to the u.s.? trade industry that they began to sort of poll little trinkets to farmers. we have documents that showed they went into connecticut and springfield and there was this woman who ran away from lebanon to avoid being married to an 80 year old man, so she opened a store and they knew no arabic they would have her name and address and they co

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> and now kitty ferguson talks about physicist stephen hawking's life and work at princeton university in new jersey. it's about an hour. >> well, it's a pleasure and a privilege to have been invited here to talk to you about stephen hawking and be about, um, my experiences writing a book about him, "stephen hawking, an unfettered mind." some of you may already know hawking's science well. nearly everybody knows something about him as a person. his disability, his legendary courage, his unlikely celebrity, and then a few ugly rumors about him as well. but he's more than a legend or a celebrity, he actually is a real person. and it's been my luck to get to know him just a little bit. i wouldn't claim, it would be inaccurate to say that i know him well. in fact, i think it might be inaccurate to say that more than two or three people in the world know stephen hawking well, and even they have their doubts. the way he communicates through his computer using very few words whi

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> so my job in writing this book was to actually give people a readable story of the constitution and not just that, i went through clause by clause, and i broke it out so that students of the constitution, whether they're at cvcc or whether they're in california or maine or hawaii or washington, d.c. or across the country would know what it meant to read the constitution and what the founding generation said this constitution meant. and i also was motivated to write the book because of the charge in the constitution itself. the founding generation left this constitution to their posterity, and that's often a word we don't use, but that's to us. and we have a sacred trust to know what that constitution means, to understand it, to read it, to digest it. and so, again, by doing this i hoped the american people would do that. if they were students of the constitution. now, often times you hear different ideas about the constitution. well, some will say the constitution's an elastic document. you can read into it. i

>> for more information on shreveport weekend on booktv, visit c-span.org/localcontent. >> next from the u.s. holocaust museum in washington, dc, a panel discussion on war crimes tribunals. both past and present. it's about an hour and a half. >> my name is kevin. and on behalf of the united states holocaust memorial museum and its committee on conscience, the aspen institute justice and society program, and the united states institute of peace, i'm pleased to welcome you all here this evening. as a member of the museum's lawyers committee, i've had the pleasure to be associated with this institution for quite a long time. like you, i am moved by the force of will of the survivors and the compelling nature of their stories. and i'm struck by the museum's many partnerships and educational programs that allow it to reach a wide and diverse audience. but perhaps most important impressive is the extraordinary relevance that this one horrific historical event has for so many people who seemingly have no personal connection to it. in fact, with the millions of people that the museum reache

's for more information on shreveport weekend on booktv, visit c-span.org/localcontent. >>> coming up next, booktv present "after words," an hourlong program where we invite guests to interview authors. this week, john lewis gaddis and his latest book, george f. kennan and american life. he tells the story of a man who many consider to be the most influential u.s. diplomat of the early cold war period. kennan leader became his story and an outspoken critic of the u.s. diplomacy. mr. gaddis discusses kennan's life and career with susan glasner, editor-in-chief of foreign policy magazine. >> host: i'm susan glaser editor of foreign policy and talking today with john lewis gaddis about his book, george f. kennan. as you've already heard, kennan was a diplomat, scholar, a prize-winning author, historian john lewis gaddis has spent 30 years writing his biography. it's just out in the last few months. he calls kennan's and american life, a subject we are discussing today. he will talk even more about the 700 page book, one whose grand sweep runs all the way from princeton on the eve of worl

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> you've been watching booktv, 48 hours of boom programming beginning -- book programming. nonfiction books all weekend, every weekend right here on c-span2. >> here's a look at some of what's happening today on the c-span networks. over on c-span, we'll have live continuing coverage relating to today's supreme court oral argument on the constitutionality of the health care law. our cameras are

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors.hing this book was that not only was garfield's life and nomination and brief presidency full of incredible stories, but the people who surrounded him were also unbelievable. you just couldn't make them up. first, of course, charles few toe, garfield's would-be assassin. he was a deeply, dangerously delusional man, but he was intelligent and highly articulate. if you read nearly any ore account of garfield's assassination, he is described as a disgruntled office seeker, but that doesn't cover the smallest part of it. he was a uniquely american character. he was a product of this country at that time. a time when there was a lot of play in the joints, and there was no one to really understand what he was up to. and hold him to account for it. giew toe was a self-made madman. she was smart and scrappy -- he was smart and scrappy, he was a clever opportunist, and he probably would have been very successful if he hadn't been insane. [laughter] he had tried everything, and he had failed at

"after words" errors every weekend of booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday at 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch afterwards that online. go to book tv dvorkin click on afterwards on the series and topic list of the upper right side of the page. >>> hear the conservative political action conference is author josette fera with the tea party manifesto a vision for a american rebirth. i want to ask about the size of this book. >> well, you know, it's a compact little book. it's the shortest book i ever wrote under 30 tells edwards for the tea party movement when i wrote it, and i didn't think i needed to labor over any more words. >> what was that message? >> i noticed a trend in the tea party movement where some people were starting to devotee party movement of advice about limiting the scope of interest, and the biggest one was the key party movement should only be about economics, shouldn't venture into any other subject matter whatsoever. but meanwhile explore in the tea party manifesto is the idea that there's no distinction between economics a

. >> next on booktv, diane brady recalls reverend john brix to recruit african-american students to the college of holy cross with a hope of realizing martin luther king junior of an integrated privacy following his death in 1968. reverend brooks coming future president of the college introduced future supreme court justice clarence thomas and future winner of the pulitzer prize in literature, edward jones. it's about 50 minutes. >> good afternoon. i'd like to welcome everybody and start the program if we could. >> good afternoon and welcome. this is certainly a wonderful turnout and were very, very happy to have everybody this afternoon. on behalf of the college as well as the holy cross public radio of austin is like to welcome you to this very special monthly lunch. i'm the class of 1981. thank you for being here as we celebrate the publication of fraternity with author diane brady. an exceptional and accomplished journalist, diane has done all of this a great game and telling the story of father paroxysmal is an extraordinary group of lax student and how their time together a holy c

[inaudible conversations] >> is there nonfiction operable to like to see feature on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> up next author sally pipes argues against president obama's health care initiative and present her own plan to restructure the american health-care system. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome to the heritage foundation and the lewis lerman auditorium. we welcome everyone who joins us on our heritage.org web site on all these occasions and would ask everyone in house if you will make the last courtesy check, we begin a program. we will post this event within 24 hours on our web site for everyone's future reference as well. hosting our discussion today is nina owcharenko who is director of health policy studies and also it past recipient of heritage's rita ricardo campbell award for her outstanding contribution to the analysis and promotion of a free society particularly in her work on the s shipped debates. before joining heritage she served on capitol hill working on the house side for then representative jim demand

you have been watching booktv, 48 hours about programming beginning saturday morning at 8 a.m. eastern through monday morning at 8 a.m. eastern. nonfiction book so we weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. >> coming up next on "the communicators," joseph lieberman and ranking member susan collins. .. >> host: this week on "the communicators" we are going to be looking at cybersecurity or legislation which is currently working its way through the congress. coming up this just a few minutes, an interview with senator joe lieberman who is chair of the homeland security committee and senator susan collins who is the ranking republican on that same committee talking about their specific legislation on cybersecurity. but joining us first is brendan sas sew of the hill newspaper. what is the status of cybersecurity legislation in the senate? >> well, right now the lieberman-collins bill is on a fast track to the senate floor. they just introduced it a couple weeks ago, but harry reid has already said he's putting that straight to the floor without markups in committee which is f

. >> that was after words, booktv signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policy makers, legislators and others familiar with the material. after words ears every weekend on book tv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday at 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch online. go to booktv.org and click on after words in the book tv nseries topic list of the upper right side of the page. .. >> i absolutely and could not resist. michael sean winters is an extraordinary figure. getting impatient with progressives talking of our religion, a catholic who gets impatient with the church and a christian who believes having a role to play in public life. i could imagine him taking the five minutes with the rationale. [laughter] but we here to talk about his book. how on a non way jerry falwell could have secularized christianity or politics but i do want to start with two questions. why does the catholic boy cried about jerry falwell? and coupled with another question putting aside your. t, have you feel about him as a human

or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> laurie andrews examines the way social media are surveyed by a host of parties. they range from employers to data servicesers and how personal information is collected and sold. she argues that a social network constitution is needed to protect privacy rights online. this is a little over an hour. >> as we tackle and timely thorny topic in the age of individual freedoms. our founding fathers protected individual freedom, right to privacy, the right to a fair trial but now online social networks are creating an entirely new set of questions and challenges. colleges and employers reject applicants because of publicly available information and photos found on social networking sites, jurors post details on a case and ask their friends to vote on whether a defendant should go to jail. marketing companies are facing lawsuits for allegedly collecting information on citizens based on our travels on the web without our knowledge and consent. how would our founding fathers would handle this? we have a fantastic group of experts with us tonight to delve in

. >> today starting at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2, author gary joiner on the union army's failure in louisiana from one damn blunder to beginning to end the red river campaign of 1864 and then a look at the james smith null book and then a walking tour of shreveport and boshier city and on american history tv on c-span3, tomorrow on c-span, a look at the base's role on 9/11 plus a history of the b-52 bomber, has visit the founding father's exhibit from the museum and from the pioneer heritage center, medical and medicine during the civil war. next week on c-span2 and 3. >> even a person who's a senator, even a person who now is president of the united states faces a predicament when they talk about race. they face all types of predicaments. they face the fact there are a some appreciable numbers of americans who are racially prejudice. they face the fact that a much larger portion of the american populace wants to deny the realities of race even now. >> sunday, harvard law professor and former law clerk to justice thurgood marshall randall kennedy, on racism, the process. and he'l

. >> next on booktv, film maker oliver stone and author and film maker tariq ali present their thoughts on what they consider to be hidden aspects of american history. their discussion ranges across several topics from american involvement against the russian revolution to a profile of the labor union, the industrial workers of the world. this is about an hour and a half. ♪ >> hi, everyone. thanks very much for coming. i think me many of you know, it's oliver who's the problem. [laughter] so in order to introduce oliver, we're going to see, initially, a four-minute film reel of his work just to acquaint you. prepared by the savannah film festival. okay, guys. one. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> timing. ♪ ♪ >> you don't want the war, we don't want the war, the vietnamese don't want the war.a% so why does it go on? >> sir, do you intend to cooperate with senator irvin's committee? >> mr. president? >> mr. president? [gunfire] >> i didn't kill my pop. >> evenny, meanny, mineny -- >> we've got to position it. >> yeah. i buy. >> the point is, ladies and gentlemen, greed is good, and greed -- you mark my words --

us on booktv is professor maurice jackson at georgetown university. he is the author of this book, let this voice be heard, father of atlantic abolitionism. professor jackson who is anthony ben bennett say? >> thank you for having me. he was born in france in 1713. because of religious and toleration the edict giving non-catholics religious freedom. is revoked in 1865 and people are forced to leave, he e. third lieber conferred so his family chose to leave. his family was a very prominent family in the north of france. his father left france to go to the border to try to pass through holland and the guard tried to stop them. and so, his father said in his hand i have a pouch of money in this hand i have a pistol, you take your choice in the card did what i would do, took the cash in the family fled to france that way. he went to england and remarkably studying at the same school learning english and the greek voltaire was far from a quaker or religious tolerant. he was a man of great abundance of material goods and things like that but he became fasci

current health care legislation constitutional court cases being heard by the supreme court next week booktv will be airing several other programs related to health care. at 1:00 a.m. easter and we will bring you linda greenhouse giving a short introduction of the supreme court. alice mcgillis is on discussing a series of essays written by "the washington post" on the recently passed legislation. .. a >> >> [applause] thank you very much. it is seth zero to be here in this beautiful stark hall. this is a very short introduction into the u.s. supreme court. not the type of book to do reading from. it is not bad dramatic novel but it is said dramatic story if you think of the supreme court over the century. many are probably hear because the supreme court three days of the health care case argued on the court is more visible than it has been for quite some time. of baidu one to talk about and frame the story of the supreme court. in 19 the book, i try to put myself in the position i assume many if you are myself before i a attended law school spending next 30 years writing about madonna databa

thinks to c-span and a booktv, be sure to check out the schedule to find out when this will be held or telecast. he will offer remarks then take questions and will happily sign copies of his book. also copies are available on our website to. the book loft.com if you have questions remember to wait for the microphone. the entire staff are very pleased to welcome our friend and neighbor, 89. [applause] >> hugh howard. >> good evening. wonderful to be here thank you for those kind words. also markets and alec and all of the other folks here. independent stores are becoming more and more important in this world. for those of us to enjoy the process of browsing for books it has the special place. i think them for being here tonight. to begin, the question that comes to mind why a book on the war of 1812? partly because i can recount. this is 2012 there for the bicentennial of the war. anniversaries have they doppler effect. you don't hear them much. then they stay away. i was hoping they could catch the moment. maybe it is working. another reason for the book of 1812 is my curiosity. it is

[applause] >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2's booktv. >> now from shreveport, louisiana, learn about shreveport's history as we visit neighborhood and business districts with with the help of our local partner comcast cable, we visit several areas. here's neil johnson on shreveport weekend here on booktv. >> >> we're down in shreveport and i love this place because it's a bright spot in our economy. it's a huge successful port that's growing great guns. they're moving things out of train, highway and water. here we are on the red river and shreveport was founded because of the red river and had river boats coming up and down filled with the brim with copper, and lumber and supplies to build the new city and then after the trains moved in and the river boats kind of went away and then the river sort of got unnavigable. the government turned this red river turn the navigable again. we have barge tanks bringing coil steel and jet fuel from the refinery taking it to the gasoline, all kinds of things coming in and out of this mortgage and it's just -- it

c-span's 2012 local content vehicles cities for take our booktv and american history tv programming on the road the first weekend of every month. march featured shreveport, louisiana. >> a local man who was born here and make the most of it and he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80s. over his lifetime he accumulated 200,000 volumes. if we have a jam in the collection it is probably this one. one of the books we are most proud of. it is in the 0 original binding from 1699 and it was once owned by a very famous scientists. you can see he has written his name, i newton. we are not without some much anymore because it is starting to flake away. >> american history tv lookit civil war medical practices that the pioneer heritage museum. >> a long stretch from what it is today. you consider that, the things we take for granted when we go to the doctor, things like the instruments being as term free as possible. for the doctor has washed his hands before he decides to work on it. we use the term loosely for doctors when talking early medicine

. >> next on booktv jennifer talks about both the left and right of the united states. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >>> linus op east to welcome my friend, jennifer ratner-rosenhagen come to the new very deceiving. jennifer is the associate professor of history at the university of wisconsin madison. she earned her ph.d. in history at brandeis university and her b.a. from the university of rochester. prior to landing in madison, jennifer taught at the university of miami in the street where we were colleagues of so many years ago. jennifer took american legion a history of; and his ideas were just published by the university of chicago press. in the book jennifer examines how the philosophy he found a home in america. the writings about the death of god and the challenge to the universal truth of inspired american thinkers. journalists, academics, philosophers, theologians, poets and others have drawn for inspiration that we learned an american. already it's been a nobody to help the readers think deeply and more historical about neitzsche and american intellec

so i went to school the next day and announced to my friends @booktv now was a hallway monitor. i announced to them, you know, as clear as day that i, in the joseph, am going to be a black militants. one of my good friends, white kid, a jewish kid like to put me and said, 80, i don't know if you could announce it right to be a black militant like it's a career choice. it's going to be a bad doctor or lawyer. he wants. then i had to, as must approve to paula's to myself i said, find the most militant organization. and believe me, i didn't really know what was going on. and so there would be reasons, you know, to look at organizations and rejected just on the surface level. it was like -- i don't know ties. it would be like a snake. they ran a news report, the rising militancy in america. it was a story about the black panther party. they ran the footage where the panthers stormed the state capitol in sacramento. and for folks who don't know, the panthers started patrolling the streets of oakland, california with shotguns and lawbooks and forcing one of the aspects of the ten-poin

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the @booktv to interesting. senator corn and as well as senator grass and myself. probably know that we have a number of hearings going on and around the capitol involving members of this committee. this is an area, we had a great deal of interest. the senators of both parties have talked to me about this. i have said many times and under a lot of different contexts that the criminal-justice system is the envy of the world for. our constitutional framework provides all individuals and guarantee of the right to fair treatment, fair trial, but in order for our criminal justice system toward the courts must assure adherence to the rule of law. have to be afforded vigorous and competent counsel. i feel, and i think senator corn in as a former prosecutor would agree, they very -- bear a varies powerful position where it comes to us determining when to withhold the charge. plea-bargain, trial, prosecutors have to uphold the law. they have to adhere to the highest ethical standards. they have to seek justice. the integrity of our criminal justice system relies heavily on

tweet us your feedback, tweeter.com/booktv. >> go back to last 10 years and draw three lessons., the most important lesson is that the most important thing to happen in a safe in last 10 years was nothing. the last 10 years never saw another successful terrorist attack in the united states. 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 act of war. i think the way we thought about in the justice department at that time was that if any country had attacked us in the same way on september 11 as al qaeda did, no one would've had any doubt that we were at war. the only difference was that al qaeda was not a nationstate. and the important legal and constitutional issue was could we be at war with a non-nationstate? and i think president bush made that decision for the country that night. and it was an important decision because once you make that call, then the united sta

. >> welcome to c-span2's booktv. every weekend we bring you 48 hours of books on history, biographies and public affairs by nonfiction authors. .. kennecott eastern on afterwards linda killian rights the swing vote, most powerful marketing independent voters and they have the side in every election since world war ii. tonight at 8:00 eastern david brock and roger nails turned in a working to an extension of the republican party and sunday night at 10:00 syndicated talk radio host marc levin and his thoughts on merit cobia, the unmaking of america. >> kitty ferguson talk about stephen hawking's life and work. did is about an hour. >> it is delightful to talk to you about stephen hawking and my experience writing a book about him. "stephen hawking: an unfettered mind," "stephen hawking":his life and work. some of you already know his science well and everyone knows something about him as a person. his disability, his legendary courage, is unlikely celebrity and a few ugly rumors about him as well. he is more than a leg