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. >> every weekend booktv offers 40 hours of programming focus on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> next from liberty university, booktv talked to ken blackwell about "the blueprint," one of his two recently published boo books. >> ken blackwell, in your book, "the blueprint," you might of the constitution of the united states stands in way of what barack obama wants to do. what do you mean by that? >> well, president obama, a week before his election in 2008, said in his own words, we are a week away from fundamentally changing the united states of america. if you look at the constitution and its overriding purpose is as an instrument that structures, sort of check on the growth, power and intrusion of government, the way that you grow and expand the power of the central government is to change the constitution, or to ignore it. so what we did in "the blueprint," was to do an exposÉ on the activities of the obama administration. to fundamentally ignore, go around, over or under the constitution. so we saw and we see the constitution as being the big roc

[applause] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. the 2,000 of pulitzer prizes were announced at columbia university in new york city the past monday april 16th. the late manning memorable was awarded the pulitzer in history for his book malcolm x the personal life of reinvention. his biography of malcolm x has that author panels on booktv and you can watch these online at booktv.org. the pulitzer for general nonfiction was awarded to the swerve, how the modern -- the world became modern. he analyzes the ancient romans manuscript on the nature of things. it was the 2007 national book award for nonfiction. the pulitzer for biography was given to john m. lewis gannett for his biography of george f. keenan. this was awarded a national book critics circle award for biography this year. he appeared on afterwards to discuss his biography of mr. keenan. you can watch that on line at booktv.org. for the first time in thirty-five years and the eleventh time in history no pulitze

booktv. c-span2. . . >> guest: and the marine recruiter was out to lunch, and then in the strip mall all of a sudden there, you know, you've got the army recruiter, the navy recruiter, all coming out trying to be snipers themselves and pick you off and get you to come to them. i talked to each one of them, and the navy recruiter sold me on being a seal. >> host: and at that moment you knew you wanted to be a seal? >> guest: yes, sir, i mean, everything he was telling me which, of course, the recruiter built it up to where it was more of a jason bourne type thing, but he definitely sold me that the navy seals, they do all this stuff that you never hear about and all this great adventures, and you're going to be the most highly-trained person out there, you're going to be able to have all these skills shooting and hand to hand, so i thought, all right, that sounds great. if there's a best, then i want to be the best. >> host: what was your training like? >> guest: well, the initial boot camp to

takes our booktv and american history tv programming on the road. the first weekend of each month. this past weekend featured little rock, arkansas. with booktv at the high school collection at the university of arkansas. >> collector of photographs, and she he was particularly, again, interested in the 9th century. -- 19th century. these are two friends, union and confederate, who knew each other prior to the civil war, who fought against each other at the battle of pea ridge in 1862, survived the war, came out alive and remained friends after the war, and here they are at age 100 sitting on the porch, talking about the old days. >> and american history tv looked at life in a world war ii japanese interment cap. >> a lady wrote a wonderful book, and gaman meant surviving the unsurvivable. and she talks a lot about how the arts and the crafts were sort of how they kept their sanity, and it gave them something to do. and about how depression was so bad in a lot of the examples and that people -- there was a high incidence of suicide. so people would

booktv will bring you this event live online. at 6:30 eastern go to booktv.org and click the watch button under the event and featured programs. you can also check our television schedule at booktv.org for air times of this event. >>> and now knony darwish takes a critical look at the revolutions in the middle east and questions whether they'll lead to an expansion of democracy as many in the west believe. this is about an hour and a half. >> okay? good afternoon to those of you here with us at the capital hill club and to the c-span booktv audience across america and around the world. welcome to the luce policy institute's afternoon with an author featuring knownny darwish who will be discussing "the devil we don't know: the dark side of revolution in the middle east." my name is katherine, i am the lecture director at the clare boothe luce policy institute, america's leading organization for conservative women. our mission is to prepare women for leadership and promote leading conservative women. we do this through a variety of

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> and now more from liberty university and lynchburg, virginia. book tv interview professor brian melton about his new biography of confederate general robert e. lee. this interview was part of booktv's college series and is about half an hour. >> on your screen is brian melton's new book, "robert e. lee: a biography." professor melton, why have over 2000 books been written about robert e. lee speak what he such a fascinating man an integral part of american history. it's that simple. and then, of course, there's the fact that after the war was over with, when so many people, particularly south of the mason-dixon, were so desperate to revisit the war and try to scare out where could they run, leaking sort of epitomizes that idea. that only if lee been in charge whole time, if only lee been able to leave them better. then perhaps the south could have won the civil war. that would be a bit of a change to u.s. history. >> was lee a successful military

twitter.com/booktv. chris kyle, in your book you write that you were not the best shot at all. in your class. or at, before you went into the seals. >> guest: no, sir. i never claimed to be the great itself sniper. -- greatest sniper. i was, you know, through sniper school i was middle of the pack when we graduated, i almost failed out of sniper school. it's just everyone tends to think when you get these number of kills that all of a sudden you're this great sniper, and that's not the measure of a sniper. the measure of the true greatness of a sniper is to roll everything all in one. i mean, it's the stalking, the observation, everything. and that's why in my mind carlos halfcock who, you know, i think it's 93 confirmed kills, i think he is the greatest sniper ever in history. and not just america, all over the world. he's the guy that would go in by himself, you know, sneak in, take his shot with a lot less, you know, capable weapons than we have today and optics, but he would take that shot and then s

booktv every weekend on c-span2. >>> next on booktv, amy reading presents a history of economic cons in the united states, and specifically recounts the confidence game that left texas rancher j. frank norfleet penniless in 919. it's -- 1919. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] >> hello. thank you so much for coming. so, first, let's talk about the big con before i dive into reading from the book, um, because you need to know a little bit what happened to the main character, j. frank norfleet, before we get to the section that i'm going to read. so it's december 1919, j. frank norfleet is a texan rancher. he's 54 years old, in the prime of his life. he has made a bunch of money for himself, and he has made that money by huing to his principles which include doing business with a handshake with other honest, upright people. you can see where this is going. [laughter] he comes to dallas for a land deal, um, from the texas panhandle where he's from, and very quickly he is ensnared by a team of swindlers, five men, and they're headed by their ringleader, joseph fury. and they've done their

: the forging of arab and muslim identity in pluralist america," she said that with booktv talk about her book and her work at georgetown university. this is about 20 minutes. >> and now joining us on booktv is professor yvonne haddad, and she is the author of this book, "becoming american?: the forging of arab and muslim identity in pluralist america." this is published by baylor university press. professor haddad, when did muslims start coming to the u.s.? >> it depends. some people think they were here before columbus. some people think that at least one of them came with columbus, but major, concentrated group started coming in the 1870s. >> why? >> most from lebanon because there was famine, and the young people were looking for work. they were in lebanon engaged in raising silkworms for the silk industry, and there was a blight and the mulberry trees died, and so they couldn't raise any more silkworms. but the other thing that happened is that japanese silk begin to compete. and so the industry fell apart. so they started coming. >> what was the reaction in 1870s when arabs and

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you can freeze us, send us an e-mail booktv@c-span.org. all those ways to connect will be on screen during 30 minutes with our guest for your questions or comments. how did this book come about? co-wrote it with lisa pulitzer. you said there is a story here, how did you bring this story to this form? >> one of the things, i had so many stories i grew up in as part of my career and very dramatic stories. a lot of success in those stories and after i retired i started writing some of those stories and putting them to paper and it was a very interesting story to tell the american people. lisa pulitzer joined me. she was a great writer out of new york and a best-selling author with a number of books that she published her self. it was great being able to join up with a fantastic writer in telling our story. >> host: what did you learn about writing a book in the process? >> guest: i realize it is a tedious process and there can be a lot of emotions. when you read my book it tells a story how i grew up and tells a story of my family being very

e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> my connection to this foundation goes back quite some years. i have, with great honor, and posting, use a lot of the work of robert rector in my own research and in writing. his work has been particularly helpful for me in terms of my own attempts to think differently about both political and economic liberation for african-americans. the united states is an incredible place. it stands out among other nations and in the world. and i recently had an opportunity to be reminded of how great this place is at my family reunion and escambia county, alabama, in the city of atmore, alabama. escambia county is the county that my families citation was. and so i stand here before you as a descendent of

or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on booktv john stossel contends that the government and politicians, regardless of political affiliation, are incapable of addressing the political and social issues facing the u.s. the author, host of fox business network's "stossel," argues that americans need to think as individuals and stop looking to the government for assistance. this is just under an hour. >> thank you all for coming. i'm larry, the president. we're delighted to provide a forum for our good friend john stossel to talk about his new book, "no they can't: why government fails - but individuals succeed." and here to introduce john today is his colleague and intellectual collaborator, judge andrew napolitano. as you all know, he was a fox news judicial panels provide daily and houses on the fox news and fox business channel's. judge is the youngest life tenured superior court judge in history of the state of new jersey serving on the bench from 1987-95. he also served as adjunct professor of constitutional law at huntingdon law school for many years and is published six

@cspan.org or tweeting us at booktv. >> and now more from booktv's trip to little rock, the largest cityand the capital of arkansas. next we hear from ernie dumas. his book, "waiting for the cemetery vote: the fight to stop election fraud in arkansas," chronicles problems from the 19th century up until the 1970s when citizens banded together to fight a system that corrupt officials had perpetuated for years. >> the cemetery vote is a, is a name applied to, i guess, generically to election fraud. in a lot of places, particularly in arkansas and in southern states, one of the things that political bosses did was on, in close elections when you need votes late at night, you voted the dead people, the cemetery vote. that was called the cemetery vote. so you couldn't count the ballots, you couldn't call the election until the cemetery vote was in so, thus, the title of the book, "waiting for the is cemetery vote." election fraud in arkansas, i think, is kind of like election fraud throughout the south. and i think the kind of culture of election fraud probably can be traced back to reconstruc

send an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or two us at twitter.com/booktv. >> a silver 0. cars that everyone in iraq drives and no one in america knows about. but again the suspicion was raised when i realize the back of a car was a little lower to the ground than the front. given the rules of engagement you can't just shoot someone because they look suspicious. why did you shoot him? i got scared. you've got scared? so you killed a man? >> yes, sir. i have a gun. you can't do that. given the rules of engagement you can't just shoot someone unless they have a weapon and you know they are aiming or you know they have killed some one. for they are in the action. given the rules of engagement i couldn't just shoot someone that looks suspicious. i knew the best thing to do was to yell at him to get out of his car. i did and i was looking over my left shoulder facing him and the lead striker vehicle had metal up to my name and all around me. i was inside the striker standing up. i still have my m frames on and looking cool and had my cutler on doing everything i was supposed to

it airs every week on booktv on 10 p.m. saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. saturday, and 12 a.m. on monday. you can watch online at booktv.org and click on "after words" in the book and series topic list on the right hand side of the page. >> there was a plaza, and a day care center in the plaza, some killed, others injuredded, but during the recess period, they'd always play ear in the plaza, and you'd hear their voices, and that left a lasting impression when they were silenced. my son, a dear friend of his in high school, she just garage waited and worked in the social security office, and her father was a great friend of mine, and that morning i had three messages. first of all, wanting to find out about his daughter, and secondly, it didn't look good, and third message, he was crying. >> explores history and literary culture of oklahoma city with special airings the weekend of may 5th and 6th on booktv on american history tv on c-span3. >> next on booktv, former senator, arlen specter of pennsylvania talking his political career and split of the former party and members supported by th

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military history and we have been talking with the author, chris kyl on booktv. thank you mr. kyle. >> thank you, sir. >> coming up next, booktv presents after words, an hour-long program where we invite guest host to interview others. this week liza mundy's book, "the richer sex." and she says a growing percentage of women are earning more than their husbands and changing the social order where men are looking at marriage as a means of stability. the former "washington post" reporter discusses the long-term implications of this and other economy related role reversals with april ryan, american radio worldwide correspondent. >> host: liza mundy you have written a very savvy new book. if they read i think that needs to be put on a bookshelf and stored at the homes of women. we are talking about breadwinners come the social economic shift and just in reading this book, i saw something that said that in the 1970s, the single digits for women who ran the household to be the breadwinner and now, it's over 40% i believe, of women in this nation who are running households. talk to me

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> get back the last 10 years and draw three lessons. one, the most important lesson is that the most important thing to happen in united states in the 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 with the constitution on the very night of 9/11 which was to treat the i think the way we thought about it 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 we were at war. the only difference was that al qaeda was not a nationstate. only issue is could we be at war with a non-nation state. i think president bush made a decision for the country that night. that was an important decision becau

we are featuring a booktv weekend programs in prime time on c-span2. discussions about a writer's life that a:00 eastern, sonya sanchez discuss their eyes are watching god. after 9:30 charles shields on his book about kurt vonnegut and at 10:15 p.m. eastern a loaded joseph heller's novel catch-22 with christopher buckley. the book's editor robert gottlieb and the director of the film version. booktv in prime time this week on c-span2. >> several live events to tell you about on c-span2. the national network convention will hear about the criminal justice system from attorney-general eric holder and reverend al sharpton. the major league baseball association speaking and collective bargaining and owners labor agreements. this evening the supreme court historical society will mark the 30th anniversary of san read a o'connor's appointment to the supreme court joined by three justices currently on the court. ruth debater ginsberg and elena kagan live at 6:30 eastern. >> april 13th, 1912, >> caller: hundred perished on a ship called unsinkable. >> the look

>>host: you are watching booktv on c-span2 as visits to universities we're at liberty university talking with professors who are authors. adjoining us is david dewitt author of "unraveling the origins controversy" also professor of biology

you're on booktv with chris kyle. >> caller: hello? >> host: lisa, please go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: hello? >> host: we're going to move on. katie in nebraska. hi there. >> caller: i just wanted to thank you. i never call on the phone, and i was ready to hang up, but i just wanted to know that my dad was post commanderring and of the american legion, and on memorial day, we all marched out, out of town and went out to the cemetery to pay respects, and the guy shot off the gun, and it was just so awe-inspiring for me as a kid to see this. my grandmother was post commander of the american legion for women, and i just wanted to say that coming up now, and i'm going out there to march by myself, and just thank you very much. >> guest: thank you, ma'am, and thank your family for everything they have done and are doing. i really appreciate it. that's one thing that we do as a family on memorial day. there's a national cemetery out here, and we take the entire family out there, and we'll find a tombstone to lay a rose

/booktv. this e-mail from g.t. in new york city, loved this e-mail from j.t. in new york city. loved your pbs documentary on alexander hamilton. do true that madison and jefferson wrote the natural born citizen clause of the constitution in order to prevent hamilton who -- from becoming president? >> guest: no because the constitution says a natural born citizen or a citizen at the time of the adoption of the time of this document. hamilton could have slipped under the wire there. i never saw any evidence that he wanted to be president. never seen it. there's some talk from other people that he might do it but never from him. i think he preferred to be the prime minister rather than the number one guy. >> host: a comment from virginia. mr. brookhiser, don't know if you will receive this. moment ago someone phoned in and mentioned he liked your writing better than david mccullough. mr. mccullough wrote for the masses to the can't get involved in reading about our history and he did this so well

. >> and now from liberty university in lynchburg, virginia, booktv interviewed professor david dewitt about his book, "unraveling the origins controversy." it's about 15 minutes. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2, as part of our visit to universities. this week we are at liberty university in lynchburg, virginia, talking with some professors are also authors. now joining us here at the law school at liberty university is david dewitt. he is the author of this book, "unraveling the origins controversy." he is also a professor of biology. in fact, he is chair of the biology department here at liberty university. doctor dewitt, let's start with the basics. is there a fundamental argument to be made in favor of either evolution or creation, or is there compatibility in your view between the two? and how do you define the argument? >> first, creationists and evolutionists live in the same world. we have the same size. we have the same data. it's a matter of how that data is interpreted. evolution provides an interpretive framework for evaluating scientific data, and creationism really

>> you're watching booktv on c-span2 and we are on location as part of our series at liberty university in lynchburg virginia talking with some of the professor who are also authors and joining us michael babcock. his book and christian america living with faith and in nation the was never under god. professor, let's start with the subtitle, what do you mean by that? >> is a pretty pointed subtitle and speaking as an author at how the experience of riding titles that get changed along the way and that is one that developed in the course of presentation. it wasn't but the notion that america was and is in some way a christian nation is something that is to be challenged and i try to challenge it in this book and to drive to the heart of what does that mean to claim a america as cultural and as a christian nation, and malae end up with is it is christian only in cultures sometimes as christians we need to understand what that means if we are going to live effectively. it's a historical commonplace that this country was founded by and religious orientation and that's the story the we learn

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or please us at twitter.com/booktv. >> 16. sweeping the youth of america. >> just sign please. >> nice to meet you, young lady. hello. >> friends in seattle. >> nice to meet you. we love that. >> you wrote a new book. [talking over each other] >> by the book. when can we do that? >> you have your e-mail on this? ya mean in person? >> that would be [talking over each other] >> well. i am miking of the sound of that. >> really interesting because europe and france have two presidents. >> you read this book. france is all over it. we are going to try to do an interview. [talking over each other] >> can you call me? >> okay. >> i am just getting off [talking over each other] >> thank you. >> could i be the same as you? >> to get that -- >> the collections. >> oh! sir you are not in hiding. >> not any more. i am still doing volumes. >> what happened to that cartoonist? the witness protection program? >> could i be the same -- >> okay. >> thank you very much. hello. >> nice to meet you. >> viewing college? >> university of michigan.

c-span phone numbers are on the screen or tweet us at booktv or e-mail us at booktv.org. >> some things in us are set. my parents who were war protesters -- >> you couldn't have a toy gown as a boy -- toy yon as a boy. >> no, i had to make my own. i felt was it was inevitable, and i was testing the limits of safety, and those of us who play war, who are not serious about taking it to a professional level, but i always was, and being an artist and being a marine are completely impossible to put together into one person, and i fund them intertwined and interdependent and the disciplines of both were engrained in me when i was young. i knew i was an artist, and i knew in some ways i had to serve, had to be in uniform. >> dwight eisenhower was a writer and painter. >> painter, yeah. >> is this not uncommon for artists to become soldiers? not surprised you find yourself in both? what's the first word about the book that comes to mind? >> curious. you know, it's being curious about my surroundings, landscape, about my place in time, and i think everybody puts off the fact that we're terminal

you are watching booktv live coverage of the los angeles times festival of books. all day today and tomorrow we will have live coverage of nonfiction panel sessions and in between panel sessions, you will meet nonfiction authors and talk to them directly. first on our campus, hipolito acosta has a new book called "the shadow catcher". welcome and tell me the story of "the shadow catcher". >> thank you for having me here with you today. "the shadow catcher" deals with the 30 year career i had with the u.s. immigration service. it highlights the criminal investigation that i did in the united states regarding human smuggling illegal narcotics trafficking, a lot of stories that deal with immigration legally sensitive issue in our country right now. >> one of the review suggests and your own coverage suggests you have all kinds of emotions, your own heritage and culture whether or not our focus is on the right thing as we try to enforce our borders. talk to me about this. >> before we deal with emotions on want to make sure our readers understand there are is a questio

this is a booktv ad liberty university. >>host: "john f. kennedy: the new frontier president" published by nova of publishers and professor david snead terror of history department at liberty university is the author. what is the series of books? >> this is a serious started about six years ago the general reader or students' college could turn to to get basic in permission on the president's. >>host: why are you writing about john f. kennedy? >> it started with my dissertation that became a book starting with eisenhower. i got a taste of kennedy's late nineties that set my interest and when this series came out they asked if i would be willing. by a

tweak as your feedback at twitter.com/booktv. >> booktv attended the virginia festival of the book held annually in charlotte'sville. christopher phillips discusses his book "constitution cafe" and talks about reactions he received when he spoke to americans about revising the constitution. this is about our. >> we're talking to christopher phillips about "constitution cafe". make sure your cellphone they're turned off. before you leap wills -- please fill out the evaluation. it depends on how you do things and we always point out the virginia foundation festival of the book is free of charge but not free of cost. we hope you will go on line or make a contribution to the festival. when we had done a presentation we will still book "constitution cafe" and chris will be happy to sell it for you. let me ask during the question and answer period please raise your hand and we're going to give you a mike because we are being filmed by c-span and charlottesville. let me welcome christopher phillips and talk about "constitution cafe". chris has been working for a number of years to encourage ci

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. >> 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. >> and now, encore book notes. in the name of sorrow and hope noah ben artzi-pelossof's memoirs which details rabin's evolution from soldier to peacemaker. and interview was conducted in 996 and is -- 1996 and is about an hour. c-span: at the very beginning, let me ask you the correct way to pronounce your name. >> noah ben artzi-pelossof. c-span: where does it all come from. >> ben art si's my father's name, and pell soft is my stepfather's name. c-span: how old are you? >> guest: 19. c-span: when did you first think about writing this book? >> guest: i don't think any 19-year-old wakes up in the morning and saying, today i'm going to write a book. today's going to be the day that i'll write my book. obviously, i got an offer to do so, and i needed some time to think about it because it's not that easy. you have, you n

it twitter.com/booktv. >> my connection to this foundation goes back quite some years.ith great honor and boasting i used a lot of the work in my own research and in writing. his work has been particularly helpful for me in terms of my own attempts to think differently about both political and economic liberation for african-americans.g7 the united states is an incredible place. it stands out among other nations and in the world. i've recently had an opportunity to be reminded of how great this places that my family reunion it does give the county alabama in the city of at more. the county that my family's plantation was. and so i stand here before you as a descendant of slaves from the broadway plantation in alabama. reconstruction, the jim-crow, the civil-rights movement, this is my family's story of the struggling end fighting for humanity and freedom in a context and culture that was saturated with invested some and dehumanization. now, what is so amazing about this narrative, the story, not only does my family know where the plantation is, we noted to. and there ar

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on after words in the booktv and series list on the upper right side of the page. >> the idea that climate change, um -- when the greens use that phrase, what they want you to think is subliminally man-made climate change. and this is where we do dispute it, those of us on my side of the argument. um, catastrophic, man-made climate change, if you look at the intergovernmental panel on climate change's reports over the last 20 years, um, the ipcc has grown increasingly shrill in its prognostications about manmade climate doom. but in that period no convincing evidence has been produced to show that human influence on climate is so significant or dangerous that we are all going to fry. on the contrary, global warming actually stopped or flattened out, um, you know, over ten years ago now, um, we are entering a period of cooling, and i think we need to remember that if you look at human h

his many biographers everett @booktv evelyn -- inevitably.but qualifications. as he once said, whenever people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government. he also said if a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be. jefferson's concern about the ignorance and his belief that the people must be informed drove him to become the great proponent that he was for public education. his other projects vacation, free of the press was directly related. giffords areas dollars explain that he saw the press as an essential element in providing services the objective of information they needed to make a sound political judgment. those two ideas are tied together, and most journalists favorite jeffersonian. the basis of our government, the very first object should be to keep that right. that left to me to sign of the we should have a government without the press are without newspapers where newspapers without a government, should not hesitate a moment. here again jefferson and the qualification. i should be that ev

sandison e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. up next, stacy cordery recounts the life of juliette daisy gordon well. daisy gordon will eventually change the name to the girl scouts, and this year marks the 100th anniversary of the girl scouts of america. >> hi, everybody. >> hi. spend how are we doing? i'd love to see a sea of green out there. let's see, i'm going to hand these to the woman behind the curtain. magic. i'm going to put my water bottles of there. okay. i'm so excited to be here with you all today. we're coming up on an amazing anniversary, celebration, very excited. before they get i need to thank the founder and president of the national first ladies' library, museum and historic site, and all the wonderful staff members who help her here, including martha and the woman behind the curtain. so thank you for bringing me here. thank you for all the work. it's not an inconsiderable task. so, every girl scout has her own understanding of juliette gordon low and the rest of the world has never heard of her. today, i wan

booktv is "after words" talked with mr. abramoff about the book. >> host: the title of your book is "capitol punishment: the hard truth about washington corruption from america's most notorious lobbyist." a frank title for a frank book. and in this book you detailed events that do not always reflect positively on you, including specifics about the lobbying abuses that led to your felony conviction and imprisonment. what prompted you to write this book? >> guest: two things. first, i thought it was important that i present to the country and to the readers what really happens in washington. i had gone through quite a journey from the time i was a lobbyist to the time i landed in prison. in terms of rethinking the role i was in, my role in it, and he said that i was in prison that i should take a different approach to this world, maybe try to do something about it, and part of that would be to talk about, talk about the kind of things that most people kind of suspect but they don't really get to know because they don't get to

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send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. now booktv's coverage of the 2012 national black writers conference concludes with a panel discussion titled the role of social media. black writers take literature to the web. panelists include angela dodson, content manager and "kweli journal". troy johnson of the african-american literature book club. montague kobbe, writer and blogger. akoto ofori-atta, assistant editor at "the root". laura pegram, founding editor of "kweli journal" and joel dreyfuss, senior editor at large of "the root". this panel is an hour-and-a-half. >> thank you. at the sunday, everybody. wow. we are going to change that. i want to say special thank you to dr. brenda greene who has the remarkable job organizing this production. they have done the job of heroes. wherever you are in the audience thank you for putting this together. we are going to spend the next hour or so looking at how a committee of writers and publishers and journalists are using social media to amplify the voices and the work of black wri

look for these titles in stores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. >> coming up next, david campbell examines the current state of religious observance and interfaith relationships in the u.s. and how it's changed over the past 50 years. the author specifically focuses on the reaction to a republican presidential candidate mitt romney's mormonism and presents his thoughts on what it says about religious tolerance today. mr. campbell speaks and takes audience questions for about an hour, 20 minutes. [applause] >> well, thank you very much for those words and for the introduction, i appreciate it. it's nice to be here at usc, and as a notre dame guy, that's really saying something for you to say that. [laughter] i had to admit, i had mixed feelings coming here. i know all about this place because for one saturday every year, it's just usc all the time in south bend. but i was very pleased when i was in the bookstore today, i buy a t-shirt at every campus i visit, i was very pleased to see a table in the bookstore with a bunch of leprechauns for sale.

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the book series list on the upper right side of the page. >> it's been nearly ten years since the release of robert care row's third volume of the years of lyndon johnson. and in just a few weeks the fourth volume will be published. it follows 1982's the path to follow. here he is on "q&a" in 2008 with an update on how volume four was taking shape. >> this is really a book not just about lyndon johnson, but about robert kennedy and jack kennedy and the interplay of their personalities, particularly robert, i guess. and it's a very complicated story that i don't think people know of two very complicated people. and -- robert kennedy and lyndon johnson. and i had to really go into that and try to explain it because it is part of the story all the way through the end of johnson's presidency. that's done, and i suppose chronologically at the moment johnson is passing th

part of booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> "john f.kennedy: the new frontier president" is in the book the book. it's published by nova publishers, and professor -- professor david snead is the author. let's start by talk but, what is this series of books because this is a series that nova publishing certitude about six years ago. the idea was to get a series on a president that the general reader, advanced high school students could turn to to get basic information. >> why are you writing about john candy? >> well, started with my dissertation which became a book. i focus on the eisenhower presidency but cross over into the kennedy years, and so i got a taste of kennedy, and the late 1990s. and so that concept interested by all a bit more it more about him. industries came out, it offers don't ask me if i wanted to begin the book and i said sure. i do know a whole lot about him at this stage other than what i've read, but be a good challenge and a good follow-up to general eisenhower. it proved more challenging than i thought it would

booktv spoke to several authors and professors at liberty university this month. you can see a few of these interviews every sunday at 1 p.m. eastern and again at 1 a.m. eastern. first we talked to rena lindevaldsen about her book, "only one mommy: a woman's battle for her life, her daughter, and her freedom." >> professor lindevaldsen, who is lisa miller? >> lisa miller is a woman i met almost a decade ago, has been involved in a homosexual relationship, found yourself wanting to leave that relationship and essential if custody of her biological child who was born during a civil union relationship. she found itself in the midst of what was a case of first impression in the nation battling to keep her child for herself. and away from her former same-sex partner? >> what was the case? >> vermont courts treated it like come in this case to women. so the case came up, not for same-sex relationship and, her daughter at the time was an 18 month old. have been born here in virginia where i'm located. virginia doesn't recognize same-sex relationships. they entered into a

next on booktv. commission in 1938, the enterprise was involved in 20 battles in world war ii world war ii's pacific theater, which included battles at midway, guadalcanal, and iwo jima. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon. i'm barber. this is the poisoned pen in scottsdale, arizona. it's our pleasure today to welcome back barrett tillman who is a local author in some sense because he lives in mesa, arizona. it's all one big megalopolis, but he's actually from oregon. he was first published at the age of 15. he has written 45 books or possibly more, but the figure that blows me away is 600 magazine articles. wow. what do you do? right in your sleep? >> i've been told i laugh in my sleep. >> awesome. in any case, his works of fiction include collaboration with harold coyle and stephen coots, and he is one whole string of awards, and probably the most relevant to today is his 2091 the u.s. naval institute general prize. he has won awards from the air force for historical writings, the north americ

"after words" errors every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch authors on line. go to o and click on "after words" on the book tv series and topics on the upper right side of the page. >>> going back the last ten years and to all free lessons. one, the most important lesson is from the most important thing to happen in the last ten years was nothing to read the last ten years never saw another successful terrorist attack in the united states, and if the most important question to ask is why, and whether it was worth it. to me the most important decision is one that president bush made as the commander in chief and chief executive with the constitution on the very night of 9/11 which was to train the attacks as an act of war. i think the way we thought about it in the justice department of that time is that any country that had attacked us in the same way on september 11 does al qaeda no one would have had any doubt we've routt war. the only difference is al qaeda was that a nation state and the

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> tonight on booktv it's booktv prime time here on c-span2. all this week and next as congress is out, we're bringing you some of the books that you see on our weekend programming. tonight at 8 p.m. eastern, "the end of money." at 9, louis hyman, the author of "borrow: the american way of debt." and at 9:40 michael graybell on "money well spent: the truth behind the trillion dollar stimulus, the biggest economic recovery plan in history." that's tonight starting at 8:00 on booktv on c-span2. >>> and coming up in just over five minutes here on c-span2, the brookings institution hosting a discussion on drone surveillance in the u.s. president obama signed an aviation bill in february that allows flights by unmanned aircraft within four years. speakers will talk about the impact of the new policy on privacy, safety and national security. that's life at 2. >>> this year's student cam competition asked students across the country what part of the constitution was important to them and why. today's third prize winner selected the first amendment. >>

. >> next on booktv, bryce hoffman recounts ford motor company's business practices under ceo alan mulally from 2006 to 2011. mr. hoffman was given access to alan mulally's personal documents and interviewed over 100 people involved in the company's overhaul from executive chairman bill ford to the automotive company's employees, union heads and car dealers. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you all for coming and thank you for watching, viewers at home. i just wanted to start out by talking a little bit ant how this book came about. i've been covering ford motor company for the detroit news since 2005, and from the beginning when i started covering ford, i knew that i was really witnessing an incredible story. i didn't know how it was going to end, but i knew that what was happening here in dearborn was either the death of an american icon or its resurrection. and while i was privately rooting for the latter, i was going to write the story either way. so as i followed the day-to-day events of the turn around of ford for the detroit news, i also in the back

how many of you @booktv a list of you. the birth of a bridge is the a fresh cut to pay its.estoring the sea wall. $711 billion tickets were the subway, but the trade centerrish did anyone know that these are stimulus projects? some people love. one of the reasons, which couple of times people that really come to be other radio. the second avenue subway. and the order of the reasons that people don't think is because the way we fund infrastructure projects has changed. adelle have a formula that typically says 80 percent will come from the federal government and 40 percent will go from the state or lookout. make sure they have private sector funding. so they're is a mix and there is an intense number of years of planning that goes on. these things have been on the project which for years. in the community you take these examples. you have a hard time finding someone who will admit all recognize that because it is not that we go out and bill russell below those lines. >> in all fairness to a 79 million? navy from this stop to the next up. their pay for it. it's not -- in that