booktv's ninth year on c-span2. james swanson's account of the assassination of president lincoln, "manhunt," was released that year as well as madeleine albright's reflections on the role of religion in world affairs, "the mighty and almighty." a sheave shay rinse, "imperial life in the emerald city." and juan williams gave his thoughts on issues that african-americans face in his book, "enough." >> there was a villain at the door, and we had to address it, and sometimes that villain was dressed in a white hood, michael. >> uh-huh. >> so now we come to a point we're at a different moment in american history. we have a stronger, more affluent, better educated black america, and yet we are at a point -- and this is where i say cosby was the bell ringer, and he is to be absolutely be heralded by our community for what he did that day -- he is saying you have a strong community, and yet what about our brothers who are not coming with us at a moment when american society is suffering a greater and greater class division

booktv's ninth year on c-span2. james swanson's account of the assassination of president lincoln, "manhunt," was released that year as well as madeleine albright's reflections on the role of religion in world affairs, "the mighty and almighty." a sheave shay rinse, "imperial life in the emerald city." and juan williams gave his thoughts on issues that african-americans face in his book, "enough." >> there was a villain at the

and on booktv.org. >> during booktv's coverage of this year's national book festival, biographer david nuzzo spoke about joseph kennedy. spent finally, kennedy couldn't figure out the mind games, whether churchill was teasing him or was so drunk that he forgot from the day before that kennedy didn't drink. they dislike one another intensely but the war was over. there had been an intense suffering, and churchill said the kennedy, he held out his hand and he said, i'm so sorry for your loss. joe, jr. had died during the war, and churchill was sincere. and he said to churchill, what good was it all? and churchill looked at him, and believing, world war ii had destroyed, and churchill's "mein kampf" hitler and mussolini and the dick daters. it had saved democracy. it had saved western civilization, so churchill thought. and kennedy blazed hatred at him. >> booktv is the only national television network devoted to nonfiction books every weekend, and this fall we are marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. .. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979,ro

>> this is booktv on c-span2. every weekend since 1998 booktv is shown over 40,000 hours of programming with the top nonfiction authors including dd myers. >> i thought that's the answer. if there were more women in politics, things would change. i called my editor. she basically said okay. >> all of us in the working-class are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored by the elite media, not getting any kind of special interest help in washington like the fat cats get. we're all in the same boat and that's the real problem. problem. >> where the only national television network devoted to nonfiction books. throughout the fall we are marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. >> kate brown writes about the two cities, richland in washington and ozersk in russia where plutonium was first produced. because the programs to produce the plutonium or highly secret, both communities were largely insulated from the outside world. the accidents and corruption that occurred in both places were unknown for decades. we learn abo

by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> this fall booktv is marking our 15th anniversary, and this weekend we look back at 2005. in 2005 the national book critics circle award for general nonfiction went to svetlana alex yo slip. her book, voices for chernobyl, recounts the nuclear reactor accident that in the ukraine in 1986. she talked about writing about catastrophes in 2005. spution. [speaking russian] >> translator: i'm not interesting in information which serves more and more as the foundation for our civilization. i think that information has discredited itself as a way of knowing human beings. [speaking russian] >> translator: what i'm interested in is human feelings and human turmoil. this is what interests me, is to be able to try and make some kind of a guess about what's going on inside of people and what has meaning for them can and what causes them to suffer. [speaking russian] >> translator: right after chernobyl happened when i was making my first trips to that region, i saw dozens if not hundreds of journalists there, and i said to myself, tho

booktv's seventh year on c-span2. >> the poorest county in america, which isn't in appalachia or the deep south, it actually happens to be on the great plains up in nebraska -- a region of struggling ranchers and dying farm towns -- and in the election of 2000 this county went for the republican candidate for president, george w. bush, by a part of greater than 80%. now, this puzzled me when i first read about it. as it puzzles many of the people that i know. for us, it's always the democrats that are the party of the workers and the poor and the weak and the victimized. figuring this out, my friends and i think, is basic. this is like part of the, part of the abcs of adulthood, if you will. [laughter] and when i told, when i told a friend of mine about that county that was so enamored of president bush, she was perplexed, and she asked me this: how can anyone who's ever worked for someone else vote republican? [laughter] how could so many people get it so wrong? i think her question is apt. in fact, i think it is, in some ways, the preeminent question of our times. people getting th

spent welcome to billings, montana, on booktv. with help of our charter communications cable partners, we bring you to the states largest city. nicknamed the magic city it's known for oil and natural gas production, and a strong tie to native american and cowboy cultures. for the next 90 minutes we explore the history of the region with local authors beginning with billings professor tom rust on his book "fort ellis" which exposes expls infantry and cavalry post built in 1857. >> fort ellis was the culmination of infantry and cavalry post which was two miles east of bozeman, montana, right at the edge of subtle and montana. it was settled from the west to the east. it was created in 18 cities have an to protect the settlers and the agricultural valley itself, the minefields in western montana. in 1867, there was a little bit of conflict between the native americans and settlers going along the bozeman trail. the bozeman trail was a cutoff called the oregon trail, kind of a shortcut from a gentleman named john bozeman who made a cu

eastern, booktv brings you some books on iran. visit booktv.org for a complete television schedule. >> pulitzer prize-winning biographer a. scott berg presents his book, "wilson." this 45-minute presentation aired during the national book festival on the national mall in washington d.c.. [applause] >> welcome to the opening event of the second day of the 2013 national book festival on this absolutely perfect first day of autumn. if you were here for the end ofc the program yesterday, you knoww what a contrast this is.og my name is jonathan yardley, i'm the book critic of "the washington post." [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. "the washington post" has been . charter sponsor of the national book festival since the festival's inception 13 years ago and plays an active and enthusiastic role in aspects of the festival's planning and promotions. ctive and enthusiastic role in many aspects of the festival's planning and promotion. i'm instructed to remind you this presentation is being taped and you should stay off of the r

booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> this weekend booktv is live from austin for the texas book festival, coverage starts today at 11:00 eastern and includes two panels looking back at the november '63 assassination of jfk. sunday's coverage starts at noon and includes alan wiseman on our future on planet earth and looking at the texas wind power industry. the texas book festival live this weekend in booktv on c-span2. don't forget you have a few days to post your comments on a book club selection walking with the wind, congressman john lewis on the early years of the civil rights movement at booktv.org/bookclub. >> marilynne roach write history of the salem witch trials from 1692 to may of 1693 in salem, mass.. the author profiles six of the 200 people who were accused of witchcraft which resulted in the execution of 20 people. this hour-long program is next on booktv. [applause] >> i am sure. thank you. thank you very much. great supporters all along. my new book "6 women of salem" focuses on six individuals whose collective experiences are a cross-section of what happened to people ge

here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. throughout the weekend, and booktv's recent visit to eat, pa.. also a 4:45 eastern a look at the smartest kids in the world with at 18. at 11:00 p.m. dumbing down the courts, how politics keeps the smartest judges off the bench tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern we bring you a collection of programs about the federal reserve chairman. at 6:45 from theec

joe you are on booktv. >> caller: good afternoon.s wondering to what extent the public records laws either new york state public records laws or -- [inaudible] >> guest: no role whatsoever because the nypd basically ignores the open records requests on a regular basis. new york public advocate scored and my pds terrible for responding to public record requests. you can't get a police report as a reporter. you can get a mugshot or 911 call. they have a pressroom at the nypd called the shack and they all have phones on the desk. if the nypd wants to feed you information they pick up the phone and they'll bring. they summarize the reports for you those that they decide are newsworthy. there's this incredible media machine that they run their witch mix it extremely hard to question what you are getting because you can get public records. the nypd created out of thin air something called nypd secret. it's stamped and it looks like a classified. says secret on it but that basically has the force of law but somebody writing no girls allowed

facebook.com/booktv. so what is your background?ry first job out of college was writing speeches for an individual known as doc hudson, who is the governor of maine, a democrat. he was one of last new england republicans. very involving cases about education on paper now. but fiscally conservative and perhaps hunted to extinction. after that i became a policy person i wrote for the economist and i would get involved in politics and i was watching it as an outsider. so thinking about everything with social security and so on. so i was in chicago for probably 20 years happily teaching and then more relevant, he points rahm emanuel as his chief of staff and he was my congressman. everyone thought that he would be there for a lifetime. the governor of illinois had just been indicted, which is relevant because all of the chicago politicians froze in place. there is no successor, no machine. on last season we just elected a guy that taught at the university of chicago. and he was great. so i decided i was going to care about this stuff, i

facebook.com/booktv. author an astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson on america's call for scientists and engineers. >> as nasa's future goes, so, too, is that of america. and if nasa is healthy, then you don't need a program to convince people that science and engineering is good to do. because they will see it writ large on the paper. there will be calls for engineers to help us go ice fishing on europa where there's an ocean of water that's been liquid for billions of years. we are going to dig through the swiss of mars and look for life. that would give me the best biologist. look at the nasa portfolio today. it's got biology, chemistry, physics, geology, aerospace engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, all the s.t.e.m. fields, science, technology, engineering and math, represented in the nasa portfolio. a healthy nasa pumps that but a healthy nasa is a flywheel that society casts for innovation. >> over the past 15 years booktv has aired over 40,000 programs about nonfiction books and au

facebook.com/booktv. >> this fall marks booktv 15th anniversary and this weekend we look back at 2006 the john grisham first nonfiction title which report on a murder case in oklahoma was on the bestsellers list that year as well as then senator barack obama spoke on national politics, the audacity of hope. >> i would like to start a conversation and this brings me to against the larger point, about what citizenship means. and what obligations to each other. and how do we create a stronger link between the decision-making in washington

we are marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. >> here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. all weekend we are live from the 2013 southern festival of books in nashville would some of the opera's featured are kitty but the run end of light care, the removal of tennessee governor ray blanton in 1979. and the jfk association. see a complete schedule of the day's events and also a look at a late alexander cockburn's book a colossal wreck. aero difficult political scandals and american culture at 9:00 on sunday. a:00 p.m. sunday your thoughts what does not apply here. >> up next representative john lewis, a democrat from georgia. the 14 term congressman talks about his role in the civil rights movement, race relations in the obama event political partisanship on capitol hill, he has written wind: a memoir of the movement," "across that bridge: life lessons and a vision for change" and "march: book 1". >> congressman john lewis, who is elwin wilson? >> guest: i'd met him in 1961. i was part of the freedom ride. we left washington d.c. on may 4th, 1961, at 18 of us, to test the d

facebook.com/booktv. >> booktv is live from austin. coverage starts today. and includes two panels looking at the november '63 assassination of jfk. sunday's coverage starts at noon and includes alan weisman on our future on planet earth. the texas book festival. and you have a few months to put fought dubdadash post your comments on working with the wind, congressman john lewis on the early years of the civil war on booktv.org/bookclub. >> i trace through the narrative of a woman's life. the book after a historical chapter looks at girls and how we raise girls and what expectations we as society are putting on girls and young women and looks at body image and our issues around body image are fundamentally different for women than men. sex, a painful chapter to right, look at marriage, babies, housekeeping, the workplace, aging. trying to follow through the arc of a woman's life. we don't have a lot of time. i want to touch on three issues that are capturing three chapters and chosen them at random. it might be nice to touch upon. the first is beauty and bod

>> next on booktv, thomas rid argues that while there are real security concerns related to the internet, the idea of a future cyberwar, which has been predicted since at least 1993, is wildly overblown. this is about one hour. >> thanks for that generous introduction. i will positively shortchange our guests tonight. thomas rid. he is the reader in war studies at king's college in london. and i must admit, there's a part of me that feels great risk to back, resisted the temptation to become department of peace and stability studies. as his fourth book, forth, isn't it? [inaudible] spink is produced strengthen which incidentally you'll actually be able to buy their afterwards. which is a fascinating assault off a whole series of the current cyber debate. and the current temptation to fight cyber on the front of every single other now you can think of and present it in apocalyptic terms. so we'll be talking for half an hour and half-hour for questions answered. we can keep it lean and pointed. so let me start with one of my basic questions. why did you feel this book needs to be written?

booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> booktv marks our 15th anniversary and this weekend we look back at2006. the pulitzer prize for biography or autobiography went -- to look at the life of robert oppenheimer, the physicist who alleges efforts to create the atomic bomb. >> you spend the rest of his life after hiroshima trying to contain the bomb. this book is relevant to our air. his life and work stands to a warning to us all. in the late '40s, we'll hear oppenheimer's voice, in the late 1940s he was invited to an executive session of the u.s. senate and he was asked by senator, this is about 1947, two years after hiroshima, would it be possible, doctor oppenheimer, for four or five men to construct a crude atomic device and put it in a suitcase or a crate and smuggling aboard a ship engineer barber? and oppenheimer said yes, of course that would be pretty easy. the senator, startled, said, what is our defense against this? oppenheimer could be rather rudely witty at times, and he stepped back, well, you could get a screwdriver and open up these crates and every suitcase and expecting.

the page. >>> all booktv is mark the 15*9 anniversary.is weekend we look back at 2004, our seventh year on the air. this was the best seller as well as "my life." also on the list was: this is the forward to america the book obviously by thomas jefferson. please excuse the imitation. when they first approached me about penning the forward. i was surprised. it's not my -- but rather the declaration. forgive my conceit. if one is looking to introduce a grand -- my declarative are second to none. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. going typical if you doubt the claim. also some concern i have been dead for -- as it really been 178 years? my goodness. time flies when you are no longer consigned to the earthly vessel. thank they sent my some gally and i have to say, funny. not john win throp comparative treaty on the most undwriewcial which the fair of species counter part funny. but funny. >>> that's some of the best sellers from 2004. visit our website to watch all the programs that aired on booktv over the past 15 years. >>> all w

you're on booktv in c-span two. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i would like to ask a question about thomas jefferson's position on the war of 1812. he had the embargo which was unpopular. trying to keep america from being involved in the that poll began wars that were going on. the administration and the embargo was listed america. almost dragged to the war. do you think jefferson thought the war was a better alternative than the embargo? what was jefferson's position on the war? and as when the united states declares war, jefferson is supportive and declares that the capture of quebec would be the matter of mere marching a couple of american regimens. so he thought that it made strategic sense the united plan was to take canadian territory and more or less use it as a bargaining chip to force great britain to respect american sovereignty. >> host: knick in dallas, texas. we're talking about the war of 1812. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. my question is about andrew jackson. i know, he became a military hero at the battle of or shoe ben

here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. throughout the weekend, and booktv's recent visit to eat, pa.. also a 4:45 eastern a look at the smartest kids in the world with at 18. at 11:00 p.m. dumbing down the courts, how politics keeps the smartest judges off the bench tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern we bring you a collection of programs about the federal reserve chairman. at 6:45 from the recent southern festival of books in the barnacle gives a history of the civil war battle. visit booktv.org for this weekend's television schedule. now on booktv, ilan berman predicts the collapse of russia due to internal social and demographic decline and external challenges from china. it is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you. i love that john is making his way off the stage so when you throw things at me you have an unimpeded view. thank you as always for your interest and thank you to the heritage foundation for hosting me. always nice to come out and talk about issues i work a lot on in the privacy of my office and share it with a b

thanks for being on booktv. >> guest: thanks for having me on. great conversation. >> paul cantor talked with booktv about the invisible hand in popular churl at freedom fest, a libertarian conference in las vegas. he looks at the themes of liberty and freedom that have appeared in movies and telephone shows over the past decades. -- television shows. >> host: and now we want to introduce you to university of virginia professor paul cantor who is also an author. professor cantor, before we get into your most recent book, what do you teach at the university of virginia? >> guest: i teach both in the english department and in comparative literature. for example, i teach a world literature survey course for the or fall semester, i teach a course called fiction of empire, people like rudyard kipling and all the books that came out the british empire. so a lot of different things. also shakespeare. i've written mostly about shakespeare. >> host: can you make connections between all of those authors you just namedsome. >> guest: oh, absolutely. that's

watch the rich and information on events, facebook.com/booktv. >> every weekend since 1998 c-span2's booktv has shown 40,000 hours of programming with top nonfiction authors including dd myers. >> if there are more women in politics, more women across public life, more women in power in the world this would change and so i am going to write a book about that and she said of day. >> all of us in the working class are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored by the elite media, not getting any special interest held in washington like the fat cats get. we are all in the same boat no matter what color we are and that is the real problem. >> we are the only national tussle television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books. jerrod the fall earmarking 16 years of booktv on c-span2. >> when i was in the fourth grade the little girl in my class got killed. a few weeks before wanted to ask her to dance but i was too shy. i show up monday morning and randy dugan was telling me all about it, did you hear about jenny sugar, she got killed in a car crash yesterday. tractor-trailer hit h

. >> now on booktv from the 13th annual national book festival on the national mall in washington, d.c., harvard university law professor kenneth mack presents his book "representing the race: the creation of the civil rightsr lawyer." kennet >> thank you. thank you to the library of congress for inviting me. and thank you to all of you for coming. what i would like to do today is talk a little bit about the bitt book, lived about how i came to little bit write it and i'll be just ae to little bit also. and then we will tak e questions. will take questions. so the book, the book is a biographical account of men and women to change america, men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic citizenship rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. is a collective biography of african-americans who practiced law during the era of jim crow. lawyers like thurgood marshall and lesser known figures like los angeles lawyer lloyd miller, paul e. murray spent a career in washin

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> a little bit, and it also tells you about his father who was a prominent freedom fighter who spent many, many years in jail, a cousin of roger's told me when i was in calcutta interviewing her in 2011, she said jail was like a house to him. so i'm going to start with that. ever since he was born, roger was likened to his father. he was as handsome as his father with the same strikingly chiseled jawline that gave both men a distinguished air, a sense they belong today a secret world of privilege that went beyond wealth, intellect or bloodline. in a society where skin color was a defining force, both roger and his father were fair-skinned, a clear advantage that afforded them a natural superiority. both were known for their generosity of spirit and obliging way that over the course of their lives would win them steadfast friends and loyal followers. but beneath the surface the similarities ended. unlike his son, he came of age in an occupied country, seemingly fated by his birth in 1908 to live in deference to a

marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. >> some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. throughout the weekend we bring you a few interviews and tours from the tv's recent visit to andy reid, pa.. at 4:45 eastern, a look at the smartest kids in the world with amanda ripley. at 11:00 p.m. dumbing down accords:how politics keep the smartest judges off the bench tomorrow at 5:00 eastern, we bring you a collection of programs about the federal reserve chairman and at 6:45 from the recent southern festival of books linda barnacle gives a history of the civil war battle. visit booktv.org for this weekend's television schedule. dr. james swanson is latest book is a history of the kennedy assassination for young adults is next on booktv. >> i am here to welcome you to this session of the southern festival of books and introduce you to our author for this evening's session. as you know our writer for this session is james swanson who is the edgar award winning author of the new york times best-seller manhunt:the 12 a case for lincoln's killer, as well as chasing lincoln's chemica

facebook.com/booktv or following us on twitter@booktv. if you missed any of the events from today you can watch the reair tonight. it begins at midnight eastern time. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i think that women are getting a very complex message. we're in the middle of a sociological revolution. young women are told they have to have a great career, have to be great mothers, have to be thin, have to be good look, have to manage a house well, and there's a sense of entitlement. i can do everything that a young man does, that includes having a glass of wine or two after work. drinking to wind down, and women tend to medicate depression, anxiety, and loneliness. i think there's a lot of anxiety in this generation, in sense of how die -- how do i manage it all? so when i look at who is drinking the most we're seeing the professional woman, the educated woman, and i don't think this is what gloria steinam had in mind. >>> book tv's online book club selection for october is representative john lewis' walking with t

plus right now online at our booktv book club, join other viewers reading "walking in the wind." see what others are saying and post your own comments. find out more at booktv.org/bookclub. .. >> hello, everyone. my name is chuck beard, i'm the sole proprietor and sole staff member at nashville's all local bookstore in east nashville. i'm truly honored and excited to introduce our next featured writer. she is a member of the authentic little independent bookstore and club. this woman, alongside her trustee husband jack, decided to change theirs and countless others' lives when they opened their own version of what a bookstore in a small town looks like. they moved to big stone gap, virginia, bought a house, then made that house into a bookstore called tales of the lonesome pine used books. a few years gone since that fateful decision, today haven't looked back since. ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome and round of applause to the author of the little bookstore at big stone gap, the one and only wendy welch. [applause] >> thank you, chuck. little bookstore owners hav

@booktv is our twitter handle, and facebook.com/booktv is our facebook page and finally, booktv@c-span.org is our e-mail address. mr. lewis will be with us for the next two and a half hours, so go ahead and we'll begin taking those calls in just a minute. august 28, 1963, what was that day like for you? >> guest: august 28, 1963, the day of the march on washington. for jobs and freedom. i remember the morning very, very well. i got up, i got dressed, and i left the hilton hotel at 16th and k, downtown washington d.c. i believe it was called the capitol hilton hotel. most of us stayed there except for dr. king who stayed at the woolard hotel. we walked up or someone drove us all up to capitol hill, and we met with the democratic leadership on the house side and the senate side. we met with both democrat and republican leadership, i should say. and it was a wonderful meeting. i remember meeting the republican leader from the state of illinois, dirksen, wonderful man. today in my office i have a photograph of him, meeting with him. we met with emanuel sellers who was the chair of the judiciar

every weekend since 1998 booktv has shown over 40,000 hours of book programming. there were more women on power it could change. that's the real problem. we've the only national television networking devoted exclusively to non-fiction books.his trilo >>> the day of beamght and the guns at last light was the third in the trilogy.may, you can see the phone number on the screen. if years old like to talk with him about world war ii and his trilogy. he'll be joining us in about twa minutes.l erg yoau have seen today it wilo reair this evening at 1:00 a.m.s eastern time in the overnight. you'll be able to see the whole thing. the but go ahead and dial in forg. rick atkinson. d he'll be over here in a minute. in the meantime, we're going jua take a call from fred ino pennsylvania. thank you for holding in plymouth, pennsylvania. what's your question for rick atkinson? >> caller: more of an assessment. my feeling is the great tragedy of world war ii was the entire camp pain, huge loss of life. i was wondering and the way he conducted the campaign and that's basically it.

e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> booktv continues now with mac griswold. he presents a history of a mansion on shelter island, new york, that was built in 1652 and owned by the same quaker family, the sylvester's, 411 generations. this is about 40 minutes. >> thank you all for coming. thanks, many thanks to those of you who are suffering in the sun. soon, the shade of copper beech will shade you gently. so i promise to speak long enough for that to happen. now, every endeavor like this that spans so many years is a collaborative effort, and we are very lucky you today to have richard rabinowitz they will come up and say a few words, because it is he and linda kaplan, both of the american history workshop, who pioneered the story of northern slavery, and particularly in new york, with the two great shows at the new york historical society. and so richard is going to set the context for just a minute, and then i'll come back on stage and tell you about the book. [applause] >> i'm thrilled to be here with you today. this is a great day of convergence. this is

[applause] >> 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. >> she was the power broker behind her husband's admission, and after he died and news of corruption began to emerge, she burned his letters and documents in an attempt to preserve his legacy. watch our program on first lady florence harding later today at 7 p.m. eastern on c-span. and live monday our series continues. >> this is the clark school for the death where calvin and grace met for the first time. she was a teacher living in a dormitory here, and he was a tenant in a boarding house on the property. >> we're now in grace's bedroom in her clark school dormitory building, and this window here is where grace would have looked out and seen calvin across the courtyard at the next building, and she would have put a candle in this window to signify to calvin that the parlor room below them was available for them to meet up in. in this room was where calvin a

[applause] >> you are watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> now, i've been trying for i guess the last 20 something years to stop writing books. [laughter] and i keep, you know, i totally get it that i worked for the ancestors. and i sometimes will feel very free that i finished something i remember finishing the color purple 30 years ago. and just weeping enjoy, i'm done. and i have had that scenario with myself many times, thinking i'm done. but anyhow, though this book, i'm going to read first from "the cushion in the road" and wanted to read a little bit about how that came about, how did i come to think of the life that i lead which is very, when i'm not on the road somewhere, it's so quiet. it's so meditated. it's so happy with me and my sweetheart who is a musician. one of the ironies of life, of course, is the i love quiet so much that i fell in love with a person who plays trumpet. [laughter] and so, you know, life, i'm sure -- life is always, you know, telling us who do you think is in charge? did you buy something, did you imagine that y

the 50-minute program is next on booktv. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, justin. you've got a very anglo-american crowd here. you know the whole phrase "you saito -- you say we actually say coburn. just a corp. russ that -- verse left out of the song. >> we're here to celebrate an extraordinary man. with keeping of the spirit of alexander. i hope that the crowd who were at the memorial last year will forgive if i begin the way i began then. which is recalling what you would hear every morning if alexander stayed with you in your home. you would be barely awaking -- at the crack of dawn thinking of all things that lay before you, tasks, trials, tribulation for the day. you would hear -- not from the bed in the guest room, alexander didn't really like sleeping in guest room bed. he much preferred laying on the couch in the living room. you would hear rising from the living room a voice. an unmistakable voice saying "so, are you ready to greet the day with unbridled optimism ?" i think we should all just meet him in that right now? are we ready to greet the day with

[applause] >> you're watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> booktv's online book club selection for october is representative john lewis' "walking with the wind: a memoir of the movement." >> as a young child, i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and racial discrimination, and i didn't like it. i asked my mother and my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, why segregation? why racial discrimination? and they said, that's the way it is. don't get in trouble. don't get in the way. but in 955 when -- 1955 when i was in the tenth grade, 15 years old, i heard of rosa parks. i heard the voice of martin luther king jr. on the old radio, and the words of dr. king inspired me to find a way to get in the way. in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and is some of my first cousins, we went down to the public library in the little town of troy, alabama, trying to get library cards, trying to check some books out. and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for coloreds. but on july 5, 1998, i went back to the public l

. >> host: booktv is on vacation every defense held in a loss vegas. the founder of freedom fest fest, a mark skousen. what is this event? limit those idea the largest gathering of three minds to put on a conference that is a renaissance gathering of freethinkers. my idea has been the freedom movement broadly defined. >> host: politically what does that mean? >> guest: economic and maximum freedom libertarians we are not anarchist although we do have some here and it is growing. the ada is most libertarians are like hertz of cats face seldom get together to conspire. [laughter] so my idea is they don't do any live streaming. you can buy the tapes after words but 2200 people and plan of a wide. >> organize libertarianism? >> is working. >> i am in economist growing up in portland oregon that is the intellectual town in the world's largest bookstore for i have been the intellectual type so the renaissance man is correct. and then to have a ph.d. of economics my family lives in death star. that is what we call it but we a got tired of the rat race we live

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books every weekend and we are marking 15 years of booktv on c-span this fall. >> " washington journal continues. joining us now is the acting president of the national parks association. she is to talking about the shutdown on national parks. let me begin with your group and what you do and how it differs from the national parks service. guest: thank you, with the national park observation service, we have been in existence for a most 100 years. we will celebrate our centennial in 2019 and we are a nonprofit, nonpartisan conservation organization that is dedicated to protecting our national parks. we are nongovernmental. we don't have control over the national parks, we have the ability to protect them and advocate on their behalf. you don't have control over the national parks but you can speak to the impact of the government shutdown on the part. what is it so far? guest: it's an incredibly awful situation. as your viewers know, the national parks have been suffering from under funding for several years. with the sequester, we have been seeing park closures, late openings, throughou

you are watching booktv. ..his early days as well as a reporter or editor of writer, washington court wanted it to the editor. i was a farmer's city editor, so we share a lot of the same friend memories. both adventures are john doe and author. callous newspaper to work for lamar alexander who successfully ran for governor tennis needs following the 1970s elections was appointed special assistant to the governor. he served as speechwriter and coordinator. since the 1960s than a speechwriter and public affairs consultant and is not writing about the column for us, monthly or weekly? so look for that on the op-ed pages. the book is "coup." today's democrats are lamar alexander and officer lynn stopped the pardon scandal. it is a fascinating book. we'll show you a dvd in a minute i will tell the story. the first of all, why did you write the book? >> well, let me say first i want to pay my respects at shira al-assad specialty o. p. a one is gail kerr. gail is a treasure in our city. i read her column this morning a

booktv visited the area with the help of our local cable partner time warner cable. >> the state park looking area, it was formed by a series of ponds that were connected back in late 1920s, early 1930s, and was originally meant to be a statewide world biggest fish hatchery. they connected all the ponds but they ran out of money before they could take it any further. the results today have been the fact that we still have a great natural fish hatchery that the semi-close to the public because the only transportation back here or by electric powered boats or kayaks and canoes. so the public is sort of limited consequently, it is a fairly natural area with all kinds of animals and birds and things populating it all summer long. presque isle is french for almost an island. that's because six times are in record history of the part history of the part it was an island but it broke through the peninsula and became an island. at one point the open, over a mile across and 20 feet deep. in the 1920s, the state turned it into a state park. it was the second state park in the whole state of pen

or collis andre utter at book tv is our trigger handle and also our facebook address, facebook.com/booktv. if you missed any of today's events, everything that you see today will air in its entirety tonight at midnight. you are watching book tv on c-span2. in october of 2006, henry louis gates described the creation of the africana the encyclopedia of the african and african-american experience which includes over 3,000 articles. you can watch this one hour and a ten minute program next on book tv. 2013 marks book tv's anniversary that debuted on september 12th, 1998. >> professor gates probably doesn't need an introduction to an audience of boston. but he's had an interesting history and i want to share a little bit of it with you. he is a summa cum laude the graduate of yale and received his m.a. and ph be from cambridge university. in 1981 he received the macarthur foundation genius grant to read and after teaching at yale, cornell and duke, he arrived in harvard at 1991. in 1998 he received a national humanities metal and in 1999 was elected the american academy of arts and letters. h

now on booktv robert wilson recounts the life of civil war era photographer mathew brady. the first war to provide a photographic history was covered by brady and his team of photographers who took over 10,000 photographs. this is a little under an hour. >>> thank you, bradley. it's a great honor to be in this bookstore. city of constitutions. it's one of the great ones. t so wonderful to see it driving under bradley and i hope we'll don't thrive for many years to come. i just want to say give a nod to one person in the audience, my great friend, pat ferguson, who wrote a wonderful book about the civil war "freedom rising." t a great book. if you don't know the book, you should. so i hope it's for sale here somewhere. [laughter] it occurred me to write about mathew brady about eight years ago as i was finishing the book about clarence king. after the civil war, king lead one of the great scientific surveys of the west, and one of the people he asked to accompany him was timothy o- sullivan who was becoming one of the important american photographers. this was the first tim

adventures on the road and in the markets" of jim rogers published by crown business you're watching booktv on c-span2. >> host: the name of the book is "conscious capitalism" co-author raj sisodia here at of freedom fest joining us what is "conscious capitalism"? >> the way of thinking we have for long have had a narrow ameritech's and definition of business with profit maximization for shareholders that is something in the economist created this is about thinking in a more realistic way and a successful a gray business with a maximum of higher purpose trying to do something in the world to pave the value in a certain way that only to customers with a society at large but with the value creation not just in terms of shareholders but think of all of the stakeholders for business focusing on creating values to earn a business focusing on creating values to earn a living but also for the customers with the policy of their lives. is for their lives and communities in the environment to do a for all stakeholders that doesn't require a trade-off that says you can simultaneously enhanced if you t

we're marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. here is some programs watch this weekend on booktv. all weekend long we're love from the 2013 southern festival of books in nashville. some of the authors featured are katy butler on end-of-life care. also james swanson on the jfk assassination. visit booktv.org for a complete schedule. also this weekend a look at the late alexander's book. "a colossal wreck." at 8:00 p.m. sunday. visit booktv.org for this weekend's television schedule. >>> now back to booktv. we will join our live coverage of the 2013 southern book festival of books in nashville, tennessee. we will come to author katy butler. she's already speaking. she's the author of the book " "knocking on heaven's door." it's a horrible situation. again, if we embrace hospice drn even inventing a new profession called decision coaches. they are not doctors but they are employed by hospital. you can get social work help to come to terms with difficult information you don't want to hear, you know. yeah. >> hi. >> my mom is a hospice nurse, and she has been able to guide her father t

you are on booktv. >> caller: yes, good afternoon.o what extent the public records law at the new york state public records laws planned two-year reporting on the book? >> guest: no nowhere whatsoever because the n.y.p.d. basically ignores open records on a regular basis. the new york public advocate scored the n.y.p.d. is terrible for public records. you can get a police report as a reporter for the n.y.p.d. he can't get a mug shot, 9-1-1 call. they have a pressroom at the n.y.p.d. called the shack and they all have phones on the desk. if the n.y.p.d. wants to feature information they all rank. they summarize the report for you. does they decide that are newsworthy. is this incredible media machine that they run their, which makes it extremely hard to question what you're getting because you can't get public records. the n.y.p.d. created out of thin air something called n.y.p.d. secrets. it looks like they classified it. it's a secret on it. but as a force of law of somebody writing no gross allow other treehouse. we are spies. when

the texas book festival live this weekend on booktv on c- span2. you have a few more days to post our comments -- your comments on this month bookclub selection. >> "washington journal" continues. host: thank you for sticking with us. how will the shutdown impact your vote in 2014? .epublicans, (202) 585-3881 (202) 585-3881. (202) 585-3880. independence, (202) 585-3882. 63% of those surveyed said that speaker boehner should be replaced. 30% said he should remain. let's get your comments. hostbetsy on our line for democ. morning.ood i want to thank you for taking my call. i have been trying to get in for the longest. my thoughts on the subject are that i felt that mr. boehner would be an insubordinate and not really fulfilling his job as speaker of the house. that he was me trying to manipulate the president into a certain situation based upon the tea party. that is very unpatriotic, if you ask me. i cannot see -- this was an act of terrorism from my point of view because we would not allow a cater to come in here and do to america with the tea part

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booktv -- now in its 15th year on c-span2 -- is looking back at authors, books and publishing news. and you can watch all of the programs online at booktv.org. >> next on booktv, war correspondent scott anderson talks about team lawrence and the involvement of britain, france, russia and the u.s. in the middle east during the middle century. this is about an hour, 20. [applause] >> thanks very much. thank you, sherman, for that introduction. >> and what i've asked scott to do is to give his own autobiography to ground us in the linear ethic of what the world is. >> yeah. i'll just talk briefly on that. my, i was raised overseas, and my father was with a.i.d. in east asia, so i actually grew up in asia, really didn't spend any time in the states until came here just to go to high school as a teenager. and i think that having with that background, the idea of having a conventional career, um, and basing in the united states was a little hard to imagine and with my brother also, john lee anderson. so we both immediately tried to figure out how we could get back overseas and stumbled in

you are on booktv. >> caller: thank you. quick comment. one of the enduring controversies for the war of 1812 is the surrender of detroit and the behavior of general william during that time. i've let a summary of the court martial that is in the library and the university of michigan and they describe him at the time of the british as virtually having a mental breakdown shoving one after what of tobacco in his mouth, juices running down his shirt and he's a absolutely oblivious to everything going on behind him. and then he unexpectedly surrenders. i also found a reference in another document that he suffered a stroke lead in the revolutionary war and the war of 1812. he was a hero in the revolutionary war. his brother was in the constitution, he had a sterling work in detroit. i would just like to know what your views are on him and dhaka court martial results that happen afterwards. thank you very much. >> guest: i think essentially he was having a nervous breakdown. he really wasn't expecting the situation he was facing. he lost his ne