post them to our wall at facebook.com/booktv or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> this is a booktv live coverage of the 29th annual book fair, a full weekend of mar their panels, call ins and other events. here is the lineup for today. in just a minute dave barry, humor columnist will talk about his book lunatics. >> join be joined by will tracy of the onion, the onion book of no knowledge is their latest volume. after that naomi wolf will talk about her latest book called vagina:a new autobiography. we want -- a call in with lila quintero weaver, an argentinian immigrant who has written about her experiences growing up in the american south. a memoir in black and white is what it is called. michael sandoval talk about his book what money can't buy:the moral limits of markets. we bring that to you live in two hours. after that national book critics circle award winner will join us for her most recent book so spoke the earth. she writes about those issues. in a couple hours, lori andrews, hannah rosen and joan welch will be on the same panel live from chapman hall from miami dade college

this is just under half an hour. >> and you're watching booktv tv on c-span2. we are on location at george mason university. university. every fall for the book festival called fall for the book. one of the authors who was speaking at the book festival is brooke stoddard, and here he is this book, "world in the balance: the perilous months of june-october 1940". brooke stoddard, world war ii started about six months prior to your book. what was happening in europe in june 1940? >> the war had started in september 1939, peter, and germany had overrun poland. hitler's idea at this point was to invade france and knock britain out of the war thereby. with the intent later on to invade the soviet union. he hated communism. this is one thing that was really part of his agenda. he was actually going to invade france in the wintertime, in november-december. he had to put that off because -- >> of 1939? >> 1939. because of the invasion plans fell into the hands of the french and the british, so we put off the invasion until may and he came up with a new plan. the old pl

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. us at twitter.com/booktv. >> america ranks 29th in the speed of internet behind bolivia and ukraine. obey the. >> we pay 38 times with the japanese pay for information. you pay on average with taxes $160. in france you pay her $8 and you get worldwide calling 70 countries, not just the u.s. and canada. you get worldwide television. not just domestic. enter internet is 29 times faster uploading and downloading. and you're paying less than 25 cents on the dollar. all of these other countries understand a fundamental principle. in the 19th century, canals and railroads were the key to economic growth of industrialization. you had to move heavy things like steel. the 20th century came on. it was highways and the interstate highway program, for example, and airports that were crucial to economic growth. now if the information superhighway. what is the does the industry say? don't call it that anymore. >> david johnson on the ways corporations try to rob you blind tonight at 10:00 p.m. east

twitter.com/booktv. cary goldstein and the nominees this year for 12? >> noma 90s for 12 it's an incredible book though. i was very excited to see it rise to the top and i think it will be tough for the judges. christopher was very fond of saying that he in fact -- grew up together and he would say that the launch of his network coincided with his arrival and my being here as an ambassador would have meant a lot to him. >> of course christopher hitchens you can type that in to the c-span archives are booktv archives and hundreds of pro--- programs will come in. we have done an in-depth with christopher programs. cary goldstein is the publisher of 12. >> thank you thank you so much. >> backed to the red carpet here at the national book awards, 63rd annual. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> joining us here at the national book awards is well-known reviewer and critic for "usa today." i'm going to get you over here. you are in a better light. i don't need to worry about that. how import

post them to our while i facebook.com/booktv or e-mail us at tv at c-span.org. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. here's a look at our lineup for tonight beginning at seven eastern. wayne carlin discusses his book, wandering souls. with booktv from george mason university. at 730 eastern, beatrice hopman over the last 80 years. at 830, thomas stanton and why some firms thrive why others fail. and at 10:00 p.m. eastern, we conclude the prime time programming with our "after words" program. david cay johnston discusses the fine print. he talked with reporter jayne o'donnell. visit booktv.org for this weekend's television schedule. >> in her book, "pat nixon", mary brennan discusses the use of mrs. nixon's private documents. this is just over 60 minutes. >> welcome. i'm the acting director of the library and i appreciate all of you coming to our continuing author copies and patience. today, we are very fortunate to have the leading scholar on pat nixon was 100 years ago this year. mary brennan, who did much of her research here for her book is the chair of the department at the universit

>>> booktv recently sought with michael skerker of the u.s. naval academy to talk about his book an ethics of interrogation. this interview is part of book tv's college series. it's about 20 minutes. >> you are watching book tv on c-span2. one of the things we do in booktv is visit campuses around the country. it gives us a chance to talk with professors who are also authors and today we are at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis maryland and joining us is the author of this book, michael skerker an ethics of interrogation is the name of the book. published by the university of chicago press. professor skerker, what do you do with theb academy? >> i teach the ethics class all the youngsters have to take and a number to loss of one studies to request to reduce the ethics of interrogation in your book is the philosophical books worth how to interrogate?y >> guest: >> it is the principal question number one circumstances can the state asked.yyyyyyy then there are some practical dos and don'ts as well. >> what is the geneva convention tha

booktv.org. >>> booktv will be live with the miami look for international help on the campus of miami dade college over the november 17th and 18th weekend. we will bring you ten author talks and panel discussions, seven author interview segments and your chance to participate with facebook, et rhetoric come your calls and e-mails and also keep an eye on the facebook page for life author chaz throughout the weekend. feature authors include bill o'reilly the co-author of killing kennedy, the author of the end of men, gerald walsh, the author of what's the matter with white people >>> callamore from booktv college series. brian vandaemark talks about american sheiks, beirut and its founding families. this is recorded at the united states naval academy. it's about ten minutes. on your screen now is brian vandeemark.j) his most recent american sheiks) to families, for generations an) the story of america's influence in the middle east. professor, who was daniel? >> he was the founder of what became the university of beirut. >> how did he go about doing that? >> a lot of american on to the

watch it here on c-span2. >>> you're watching booktv on c-span two. and joining us now in the sphiewd koa why malcom the founder and chairman of the foundation of the american writers museum. mr. o'hagan very quickly, what is the american writers museum. >> guest: it may be a future home for the booktv studio among other things. seriously, it will be a place where people will come and engage with writers and writing. in ways they never been able to do before. it will be the first national museum dedicated to celebrating our bringers and helping people understand the impact they've had on the culture and history, our daily lives. >> host: we spoke to you about two years ago and the concept was getting off the ground. what's the progress you've made. >> guest: let me thank you for having you back on. i appreciate that, and have welcomed the opportunity to bring people up to date on the project. we have made lot of progress. and i really judge that not by what we saw but others say. they are impressed. we have started off we have pretty much established

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us@twitter.com/booktv. >>> novellest james patterson is speaking at the miami book fair. he talked about the reading program that he has personally started. we wanted to look at some of the other reading programs that are available in the united states and see what the efforts are. i want to begin with jane robinson. the chief financial officer of a group called first book. if you can describe what first book is to start? >> yes, hi, peter. i just want to say thank you to c-span for all the incredible support you have given to the entire industry and the entire concept of reading and literacy, c-span has been a leader on that and it's wonderful just to -- [inaudible] first book is the non-profit that provides books and educational materials to programs, serving kids in need, classrooms serving kids in need across the united states. >> and how did you get started and where do you get your funding from? >> we started twenty years ago, in fact, we are celebrating our 100 million

: booktv, nonfiction books, every weekend. on c-span2. >> here's a look at some books being published this week: a scholar whose work focus 0 probability and uncertainty, provides a followup to his best selling back, i "the black swain" titleed "antifragile pie "historian james c. patterson talks about 1965

judge jim gray. >> who we also talked with here on booktv. here is the covenant -- cover of governor johnson's book, "seven principles of good government" liberty, people in politics. out in august of 2012. vermont became a state in 1791 and became the largest producer of maple syrup in the united states and one of the largest granite producers in the country. the areas also rich in history and literary culture. over the course of our recent visit with the help of our cable partner comcast booktv brings you many interviews of local authors and tours is significant locations. you can watch a few of them now. >> the book is titled "freedom and unity" and the authors are me, michael sherman and steve jeffrey hob lashed. we worked on it together. we thought of it as a conference of history of vermont, comprehensive making a going more than one volume and it starts with the formation of the mountains and it goes -- right before he published in 2004, so it has got a lot of information jammed into it about people, but politics and social movements a

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a total handle is@booktv. go to facebook.com/booktv and you'll see kenneth davis' picture at the top of the screen and you'll post a comment and we'll get to those as quickly as possible. you can also of course send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. kenneth davis, two american families donate car trips to historic places you are referring to? >> guest: just, they do. i've really been pleased to learn over the years and i hear from so many people who say we read your book were on the family car trip to gettysburg and listen to it on tape. so that it's been a wonderful thing for me to hear as a writer, the idea people use my book because the only way i'd think that we rarely get to understand history is if we have a conversation out of around the dinner table. it's one of the reasons i started pretty children books 10 years ago to do with my adult books and i've heard from parents to see the kids i taught that way. i read the adults first monday with the kids version. we have to have this conversation around th

of the page. >> booktv is on facebook.like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> it really was scary before we liberated. let's say, baker county. but to have this happen, to have a blogger, i mean, you were only trying to the best that you can for everyone, and that someone take your words to use the equipment that they have today to cut and splice, to make your message appear to be the exact opposite of what it was and it is. is just an unbelievable situation. and it is a way to terrorize someone. because you don't know that you will ever really be able to get the truth out, but i was determined, even if i had to tell one person at a time, you know? speak so then it makes me think the whole media kind of energy around this book, for the last time there was this kind of media and was back on his july 2010 when it went down. we're going back to those places who interviewed you who are making those accusations, calling you a racist bigge

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> growing up in the nuclear shadow is a book about my childhood and -- i grew up about seven miles from the rocky flats nuclear weapons plant. and actually our first house is about seven miles away, and then in 1969 we moved to a subdivision which was closer to the plant, about three, three and a half miles away from the flats. my sisters and brother and i, we had an idyllic childhood in since we had horses and dogs and with a lot of time outdoors riding our horses in the field around the plant. and swinging in a lake. we never knew what went on at rocky flats. but we had no idea what it really was. and we had no idea of environmental contamination that was happening in the area. for toning and tritium, a number of different things in the environment that we had no idea. later, like many kids in my neighborhood, i worked at the plant myself. and got a sense of what it's like to be on the inside of the plant. there was one evening when i came home fr

. >>> you're watching booktv. and now rachel cox recounts a decision by five men, including her uncle, rob cox, to leave their ivy league schools and join the british army in the spring of 1941. six months prior to pearl harbor and america's involvement in world war ii. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, shep. thank you for that kind introduction. thank you for introducing me to bill lewis who's made the northshire bookstore, as far as i can tell, the end center of sales of "into dust and fire" in the entire united states. [laughter] thank you to c-span booktv for making me feel like oprah winfrey f only for an hour. and it's wonderful to be here. isn't this everything that a bookstore should be? many really, i'm thrilled to be at the northshire. i'm also happy to be in vermont because i have longstanding family ties with the state. am i being -- am i -- can you hear? yeah, talk louder. okay. i have longstanding ties with this state, and my book really got started here in vermont. when i wa

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booktv -- at booktv is our twitter handle. and facebook.com/c-span. -- actually,/booktv.sorry about that. we will have a chance to get to them when we are joined by carol blue. now joining us on our center in miami is a familiar face you watch the history channel. a familiar name if you like thrillers and novels, and that is brad meltzer. sir, it's not often that we talked to authors about lisa simpson and dolly parton and the three stooges. why are we talking to you about this? >> because i bring only the highest of high wherever i go. [laughter] .. the things you keeping your car that the movers can't touch, that's your life. those are things no one can touch. remember, we move, mom and the front seat to my dad and the front seat, sister and i and then back. behind this had rest were two bottles of champagne. and that was that clear sign to us. we were their lives. i remember driving from brooklyn to miami. they're rolling back and forth in the florida sun. my family knew nothing about how to care champagne. when my daughter was born i said, i'm going to write a book th

you can tweet us at booktv. comment on the facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. booktv, non-fiction bocks every day weekend on c-span2. >>> joseph recounts the life of union philip -- robert e lee. the author recalls the military tactic and the postwar career which included command of the u.s. army. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] >> i want to thank coral ridge boobs for inviting me back and all the people to come out and hear about general fill sheraton of the try -- civilling war he was probably the least known of them. the other being grant and william sherman. in 1937, the three generals appeared together on a commemorative postage stamp, as part of a series honoring great u.s. military commanders. in the center grant to the right is sherman, and sheraton on grant's left. this is a appropriate because by the time civil war ended, sheraton was sometimes referred to as the left-hand of grant the left-handed. he was ten years younger than grant and sherman, he was a dynamo inspired his men with the intensity

you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> washington post correspondent and author, his newest book "little america: the war within the war for afghanistan." rajiv, when you talk about little america, what are you talking about? >> guest: i'm talking about this remarkable community that the americans built in the deserts of southern afghanistan. not in the last couple years, but six decades ago. back when unknown to most of our countrymen there was dozens and dozens of american engineers there. this is back in the '40s and '50s digging irrigation canals, helping to nation build in afghanistan. and the very same terrain that president obama's troop surge unfolded in over the past couple of years. in my history of obama's surge, in my examination of it, i actually start back in the 1940s in this remarkable period of american assistance to afghanistan, a period of great optimism when we built this town there that the afghans started calling little america complete with a co-e

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> we don't know whether franklin roosevelt ever heard about florence greenberg's unprecedented call for health care as a right. because even though he had endorsed the conference, he chose that time to go on vacation. fdr was action on a cruise. i guess we can't really blame him, probably a pretty well-deserved vacation, but three years earlier fdr had refused to include medical coverage as part of the social security act because he did not want to antagonize the american medical profession. he did send a message of support to the health conference, but not long afterward the outbreak of world war ii forced the president attention elsewhere. five years later on january 11, 1944 in his state of the union address, roosevelt spoke to the american people about the war and especially about the kind of peace the allies plans to establish after the defeat of fascism. he said that the one supreme objective for the future can be summed up in one word, securi

send an e-mail at book tv@c-span.org tweet at twitter.com/booktv.rachel cox recounts the decision by five men in putting her uncle to leave their ivy league schools and joined the british army in the spring of 19416 months prior to pearl harbor and americans' involvement in world war ii. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for that kind introduction and for introducing me to bill lewis has made the north shire books enter the epicenter of support and sales of "into dust and fire." [laughter] thank you to c-span booktv for making me feel like oprah winfrey if only for an hour. it's wonderful to be here. isn't this everything that a bookstore should be? really i am thrilled to be at the north shire. i am also happy to be in vermont because i have longstanding family ties with the st.. can you hear -- talk louder? okay peery i have longstanding ties with the state, and my book really got started here in vermont. when i was a little girl i used to spend my school vacations with my grandmother who lived in a wonderful big white fede

you can tweet us at booktv. , got a facebook or a singing the. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. >> up and next on booktv, "after words" with guest host u.s.a. today's money reporter jayne o'donnell. this week pulitzer prize-winning reporter david cay johnston's new release, "the fine print." in his latest exposÉ, the best selling author of "perfectly legally" and "free lunch" deals with ways corporations systematically exploit their customers and the government. >> host: it seems to me the basic intention in your book is we're all getting taken by

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booktv will be live next weekend for more of the festival. those are just a few of the programs we will bring you this weekend. visit booktv.org for complete schedule. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. bill haas surprise when another request president jefferson's political process and thomas jefferson, the art of power. in the patriarch, the remarkable like and turbulent times of joseph kennedy, david nasa chronicles the life and career of the political dynasty. judge andrew napolitano, senior political analyst for fox news argues presidents theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson disregarded the constitution to promote their own political agendas in theodore and woodrow, how two american presidents destroyed constitutional freedoms. in far from the tree parents, children and the search for identity, national book award winning author andrew solomon examines how parents are challenged and changed by exceptional children. fox news host greg thatfelt presents his talks on political debate in the joy of hate, triumph over w

facebook.com/booktv. we will try to get to those. with several we want to ask are already. but if you have one we will try to take a minute and get that comment look at and answered as well. a lot of moving parts so it's a little difficult to check the social media sometimes while in the middle of an interview. but go ahead and give it a try and will try to get to it. reminder that we will be live all day again tomorrow here at miami, and you can check that full schedule at booktv.org. the full schedule for tomorrow, and everything you seem today by the way will be re- aired at midnight tonight. we will be back on the air at midnight. we are very pleased now to be joined here on booktv by carol blue who is now joining us to answer a couple of your comments. and we will put you right there. we appreciate it. perfect. just talking to come and that's great. we really appreciate your time. i want to begin with some facebook comments that we have received. and this is -- [inaudible] spent about you and christo

this is booktv on c-span 2.n it comes to your career you give credit to do joanne davis. >> guest: that is my wife. she is not like me to tell list tory but unfortunately she will have to this one. halfway through college dollar was a classic liberal arts kid i did not know what i was doing and decided to drop out of college and work in a bookstore. to that point* a was a great reader and very interested in history but the notion that i could be a writer never occurred to me just like an astronaut or rocket scientist or neurosurgeon. i did think i might be a teacher. working in a bookstore i remember very clearly the day this woman i worked with read this stuff i was riding in college, class work and the newspaper and honestly said you're wasting your time selling books. you should be writing them. she was so smart i married her. ben a few years later encourage me and my writing career. she went to work as a magazine editor and i got my first assignment with caris assistance. then eventually she said you love th

[inaudible conversations] we like to hear from you twitter.com/booktv. this book deals, i think, at the heart with -- looking at the way the economy affects our lives and gets in to our bodies. it's a book that i wrote because i -- body arrived in the desert under particular circumstance in the winter of 1997, when i was broken and on drugs. i was in mexico city. i had been lucky enough to go around book contract from new york. get an advance from a new york publishers to write a book, it was a dream come true, and in mexico city, november of 1997. i had crossed the deadline. i didn't have a word written. i was broke, and i called the only friend that i could count on at that point because my lifestyle has lead me to destroy a lot of my personal relationships. i called my friend from costa rei can that lived in the united states for many years. i met through the solidarity networking. politics in the 1980s and i said, [inaudible] she happened to be live nghts village in california. that the particular time. there's a whole set of circumstance that lead h

you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail.ooktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> so i, our book is science left behind, and it's about the rise of the anti-scientific left. we call it feel-good fallacies and the rise of the anti-scientist left. as ken said, my name's alex, and i've got my ph.d. in microbiology from washington. just a little bit about me, my background is entirely microbiology. a friend of mine said i look like an ubergeek in that picture, so i thought i'd put it up there. we grew all sorts of extremely smelly bacteria in that thing. i went to the university of washington in 2004, and i got my ph.d. in 2010 and immediately became editor of real clear science, so i've been in the real world for two years. so my personal science philosophy is rather straightforward and simple. if you're not an expert, it is best to accept what is considered mainstream science. science should always come before politics, and that means ideology or political parties are not beyond criticism. so in my, in my view here

facebook.com/booktv. >>> now on booktv, chris anderson contends that america is on the -- computing the author profile a selection of start-up descrailist had he did call "makers" who are using social media to redefine american industry and manufacturing. this is just over an hour. [applause] >>> thank you, it is my honor to be here on stage with you and here for the opportunity. this book came about by accident. i didn't set out to write, i didn't set out to become part of the maker movement. it sort of washed over me as i -- in the exercise of parenting gone hosh belie wrong. i have five children. i'm trying to get them interested in science and technology. i always think of projects question do together. i started a site called geekdad. they are fun for you and the kids. and i failed in getting them interested perhaps because i'm try soggy -- so hard. one friday at the office, we got two boxes that came in. and the first was a lego robotic kit it was cool. it is lego with the censers and stuff built like a robot. and the other box was a remote control airplane. saturday we'll build a

this part of booktv's college series. it's 20 minutes. >> host: jeffrey macris. permanent military professor at the u.s. naval academy. what does that title mean. >> guest: well, we represent the permanent military professors, a hybrid, a joining of the professor officer corps and professor and the professional educators here at the naval academy. i spent the first half of a naval career flying aircraft for the u.s. navy, and about ten years ago made the transition to academia, where the navy provided an outstanding opportunity to go back to graduate school and get a specialty in a geographic part of the world where i specialize in middle eastern history. >> host: and now an author. "the politics and security of the gulf" is the numb of your book. that's kind of a big topic. >> guest: it is. it's part of the world where the united states has been involved in three hot wars in the past generation, the iran-iraq war, desert shield, desert storm, and operation iraqi freedom. it's a big topic, and it needs to be discussed, and investigated, which is part of the reaso

booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guest and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information and events. facebook.com/tv. ..ear me all right? some buddies waving their hands in the back. could you wave your hand? thank you very much. welcome to this session of the texas >> welcome to this book festival. 15 minutesr guest, h. brand, and bill will be signing books read it is down the street. please patronize the book signing tens in the bookstore, as you know, and buy his book. >> this is the book. b "the man who saved the union." it will go to support texasit i libraries. and it is for a worthy cause.ind h.w. brand, bilbray on the, isn a professor of history at the c university of texas here in austin. man his focus has been on american history and politics and it num includes a number of tremendous books he has written of which this is the most recent. there are books and biographies of frank roosevelt, a biography about andrew jackson. the age of gold is about the american gold rush in the 1840sn the first american, benjamin frankl

booktv@cspan.org is e-mail address. wit -- twitter handle is@booktv. we'll take the calls in just a minute. mr. johnson, you mentioned twitter, am i right you were the first person on twitter to have over a million followers? >> oh i don't know if that is exactly true. i have a lot of followers on twitter. >> host: you were one of original users. >> guest: right. what happened was, i, early on i decided when facebook and twitter were kind of starting i decided i could only have one social network in my life. so i decided to invest in twitter and throw my eggs into the twitter basket. so i think i was one of the first authors who was really using twitter. i think actually for the invention of air tour, i. it is wonderful thing as author because there are all these things when you have a book out don't really warrant on a a blog post but it's really helpful to say, hey, i'm reading tonight. here is review of my book. something, an article i just wrote. i was really using it a lot and getting a lot out of it. at that point twitter, it was early in the ser

booktv@cspan.org is e-mail address. wit -- twitter handle is@booktv. we'll take the calls in just a minute. mr. johnson, you mentioned twitter, am i right you were the first person on twitter to have over a million followers? >> oh i don't know if that is exactly true. i have a lot of followers on twitter. >> host: you were one of original users. >> guest: right. what happened was, i, early on i decided when facebook and twitter were kind of starting i decided i could only have one social network in my life. so i decided to invest in twitter and throw my eggs into the twitter basket. so i think i was one of the first authors who was really using twitter. i think actually for the invention of air tour, i. it is wonderful thing as author because there are all these things when you have a book out don't really warrant on a a blog post but it's really helpful to say, hey, i'm reading tonight. here is review of my book. something, an article i just wrote. i was really using it a lot and getting a lot out of it. at that point twitter, it was early in the ser

sent us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org, or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. [applause] >> well, good evening, everybody.>> >> hello, everyone. >> i'm mitchell caplan. ca >> i'm -- [inaudible] >> welcome. [applause]on b on behalf of all of us with thee miami book fair, we want to welcome you to the 29th book fair, believe it or not. [applause] this is a remarkable undertaking.it it takes the work of literally hundreds and hundreds of volunteers. we have a remarkable board of directors who work extremely hard at doing this year round. . none of this at all could happen without the good, good support of everyone here at miami-dade college, and let's give them a huge round of applause. [applause] >> and we're particularly appreciative of the sponsors. without the sponsors and the funding from foundations and governmental agencies, we would not be able to bring you all this wonderful literary extravaganza. >> and, of course, our friends. many of you are friends to have miami book fair. and a way that you can support this book fair and make sure that it goes on for

>> booktv sat down with philip auerswald at george mason university to discuss his book, "the coming prosperity." professor auerswald was in attendance at the fall for the book festival held annually at the university. this is about half an hour. >> now joining us here at george mason university is professor philip auerswald, whose most recent book is "the coming prosperity: how entrepreneurs are transforming the global economy." here's the cover of the book. professor auerswald, what role does fairplay and economic development? >> guest: well, that's a great question and maybe i'll talk about what role does fear play in our conversation about development and our conversation presence? so when we talk about our reality and share our ideas in the marketplace, we are competing with other ideas. we know three things about marketplace ideas. short-term sells better than long-term. fear sells better than hope. negative sells better than positive that is to say exaggerated flows better than moderated. to receive disproportionate number of short-term narratives of negative, exaggerated stor

you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail at booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> you are watching booktv. now william chafe examines how bill and hillary clinton's personal relationship has affected their political lives. mr chafe recover their turbulent marriage and describes the elite parter assisted in the other's career gains. it is about an hour. [applause] >> good evening, everybody. thank you all for being here. i am the director of the public library and it is a great pleasure to have you here and have william chafe here to talk about his excellent new book, reflective, raunchy and ripping. i want to write a book that gets that kind of press. i try to live a life like that. this book and tonight's topic will remind us we have a presidential campaign going on in which there is a human cry about what is truth and what is fact, what is fiction, what is a lie and it reminds us most of this is rhetorical exaggeration but there was a time in american history when there were really great liars. we are reminded of that tonight. remembe

this is booktv on c-span2. >> booktv has over 150,000 twitter followers.follow us on twitter get publishing news and scheduling updates and author information and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> novelist james patterson is speaking at the miami book fair and he talked about a reading program that he has personally started. we wanted look at some of the other reading programs that are available in the united states and see what their efforts are. we begin with jeanne robertson. she is the chief financial officer of a group called first book. if you could describe what it is to start with? >> yes, i just want to say thank you to c-span for all the incredible support you have given to the entire industry and the entire concept of reading and literacy. c-span has been a leader or not. and it is a wonder to meet you. it provides books and educational materials to programs and across the united states. >> how did you get started, and where you do you get your funding from? >> we started 20 years ago. in fact, we are

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. for tweet us at booktv.com. >> on the screen now is brian vandermark. he is a professor of history and the author of several books, including his most recent.j)j)k) families for generations and the story of america's influence in the middle east. professor, who wrote this? >> he was the founder of what later became the country of of the root. >> having people by doing this? >> he had a lot of entrepreneurial spirit. he also had the financial backing as well. >> as in dodge cars? >> is in the conglomerate which made him quite wealthy in the 19th century. what was his goal and funding the american university in beirut? >> i think it became his life's work. he was determined to convert muslims to christianity and very quickly realized that wasn't going to happen. another way to make a connection was not to convert them, but to educate them. and to improve it. because that is what they respond to positively. once he had that insight, he developed the heart of thex middle east. >> was it

send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweak as at twitter.com/booktv. >> on your screen is a professor of history at the u.s. naval academy, author of several books including his most recent, two families, generations and the story of america's influence in the middle east. who was daniel was? >> the founder of the university of beirut. >> how did he go about doing that? >> he went to a lot of american entrepreneurial spirit and the financial backing -- >> dodge cars? >> a copper conglomerate which was built in the nineteenth century. >> what was reverend louis's goal in founding the american university? >> it was different from his life's work. he determined to convert muslims to christianity, very quickly realized that wasn't going to happen and the way to make a connection was not to convert them but to educate them and improve their lives in tangible, concrete ways because that is what they responded to positively and once he had that in sight, he ran with it and developed what later became and remains the greatest university in the middle east, a harvard of the middle east, and it

twitter.com/booktv. >> what i discovered is that jefferson and appears to be a man of contradictionscome by when you do something rather simple, which is to put him on a time line and examine all of his sayings and actions in an excellent chronological order, certain patterns emerge, and things simultaneously get a little bit more complicated, but a lot simpler. and we are actually dealing with to jefferson's. the young jefferson was a fiery radical emancipation, and there was the older jefferson who really embraced slavery. the year in jefferson on the enough has not been studied all that much. as a newly minted member of the house of burgesses he made a proposal to immense apace slaves in virginia. he made on the sly, shielding his intensity using relative to submit the bill, which is a good thing because is relative was denounced as an enemy of this country, and the bill was summarily dismissed. and later under his own name as the revolution approached he floated a more explosive plan that actually might have changed the course of our history. if only the country would stop the sl

. >> up next on booktv, "afterwords" with guest host, the president of the national alliance of public charter schools. this week, sol month and his book, the one world schoolhouse. in it, presenting the benefits of online universal education for primary and secondary school students and discussings his career change to public educator. >> host: hi, sal, tell us about the book and the journey you went that led you to writing the book? >> guest: the book is about the journey, but how that informed what khan became and how that could inform what learning could become, and not just in a pies in the sky way, but this is really happening and feels like we're in this inflection point in what's going on in classrooms. you know, the whole adventure for me started somewhat inadvertently. it was 2004. i was working as an analyst at a hedge fund at the time. just got married. family from new orleans visiting me in boston after my wedding, and one cousin, nadia, was having trouble. 12 years old, a bright girl, share some of the beauty, and when i asked her, her mom told me, and nadia said she was

tweet as your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> this book is about liberals, not democrats, who are often not that much different from republicans in many respects. this book is dedicated to that peculiar brand of american who self identifies as a liberal, live life as a liberal and which is more of us in america were liberals, think michael more, think nancy pelosi, think your local college professor. think of the driver of that crazy car with all the bush is hitler bumper stickers on the back of the car. think the checkout help with the master's degree in gender studies wearing the head band at your local whole food store. you get the picture, right? they dominate professions that we've a very large cultural imprint in this great country profession like journalism, the arts, academia, the music industry, america's fastest growing band of entertainers, sec this l.a. acrobats. who are these people who call themselves liberals? how does such a small tiny group leave such a big impact on our culture and lives? what motivates them? i am in an excellent position to answer these deep questions

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tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. for the next 45 minutes, larry schweikart presents a history of america's global participation and influence from 1898 to 1945. the author posits that during this time the united states introduced numerous political, cultural and economic ideas to the rest of the world. >> good afternoon. thank you for joining us here at the heritage foundation in our louis lehrman auditorium. we welcome those who join us on our web site on all these occasions. if you'll be so kind to check cell phones one last time and see that they're turned off. thank you, larry. amazing how many speakers actually start doing that when i say that. we will post the program on our web site within 24 hours for our future reference and, of course, our internet viewers are always welcome to e-mail us with questions or comments, simply writing those to speaker@heritage.org. our guest today, dr. larry schweikart, is a native of arizona. he earned his bachelor and master's degree at arizona state university and received hi

you can tweet is at booktv, comment our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> joseph wheelan recounts the life of union general philip sheridan whose cavalry corps forced the surrender of robert e. lee at appomattox courthouse. the author recalls general sheridan's military tactics and his postwar career, which included command of the u.s. army. it's about 45 minutes. >> i want to thank quail ridge books for inviting me back, and all you people for coming out to hear about general philip sheridan, who, of the triumphant union generals credited with winning civil war, he's probably the least known of them. the others being the seas as grant and william tecumseh sherman. in 1937, the three generals appeared together on a commemorative postage stamp, as part of a series on ring great u.s. military commanders. in the center is grand, to his right is sherman, and sheridan is on grants left. this is appropriate because by the time the civil war had ended, sheridan was sometimes referred to as the left hand of grand, l