part of booktv on c-span2. for march's book tv book club we'll be discussing the biography of stokely carmichael. go to book -- booktv.org to enter the chat room. >> here's a look at the fairs and festivals booktv will be covering in the upcoming mocks. the political conservative action -- in maryland. on march 15th and 16th, the tucson festival only books tapes on the campus of the university of arizona. you can watch our coverage of festival in the fear future. then from march 19th through the 23rd this 18th annual virginia festival of the book. book tiff will cover several author programs that will air the following weekend. on april 5th, booktv will be covering book festivals in anational miss and san antonio, and then out to the west coast where we're live from "the los angeles times" festival of books at the university of southern california on april 12th and 13th. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and we'll add them to our list, e-mail us at booktv@c-span2.org. >> cc pecknold sat do

booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> peter stark is next on booktv.he recalls the partnership between business magnate john jacob astor and thomas jefferson, creating a kohl think on the pacific coast -- a colony on the pacific coast in the early 19th century. the settlement, dubbed astoria, had a short existence in present-day oregon. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> well, thank you for that nice introduction, and thank you, powell's, and you all for being here. normally i have a more formal presentation, i have a video that i've shown at readings, but tonight's a special night, so i'm going to do manager a little different -- something a little different. and i'm going to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i'm going to do some reading as well. but it's special because, one, this is powell's, we're in oregon. astoria is very nearby. the center of this story. and also we're here with c-span booktv x so we have a national audience as well as a oregon audience. so i'm going to tell some stories, and you oregonians may know

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> which uses a colleges this year in particular are starting to see by resistance. people are thinking very hard about whether they really want to spend 50, $60,000 a year, and up. everton people find what tuition is, itself i can become expensive it is compared to lesser or five years ago. they are just not seeing that as a goodbye, specially if it's going to be financed by debt. right now a lot of colleges are dealing with this sort of prices, nation that's what financial aid is. it's priced this commission when they figure how much you can possibly afford to pay. that's what's going on. using some schools having their credit rating downgrade by moody's because moody's looks at the business model of high tuition accidents and doesn't think it's sustainable. you're saying enrollment drop across the board in lots of schools. and within colleges you are seeing humanities, the new york times had a piece recently come to manage department unhappy because they're losing the p

[inaudible conversations] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at book tv at c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> what we're told both as students and as a nation in terms of popular imagination is that there's all kinds of sit-ins and marches and demonstrations that occur, but they're really done by with famous, iconic people. basically, it's rosa parks who just was so tired that she refused to get up from the bus in montgomery, alabama, and sparked the bus boycott. and basically a young preacher who even the president referred to during the election as this young preacher from georgia which is dr. martin luther king jr. who sort of leads the masses of african-americans from racial oppression. so this notion that rosa sat and, you know, martin could to this stuff and jesse could run and barack could fly, all these things, they sound good, but they really, today really simplify a -- they really simplify a much more complicated history, and that really involves so many african-americans, women and men, who proactivel

>> booktv on c-span2 continues. myra macpherson recounts the lives of tennessee kennicott field whose professional and political pursuit good late 19th century. this is about 40 minutes. >> phil pavlov, one of my dear friends over here. he is a joke and say czerny said cements, any sex ms? a lot sollecito. sided sex and scandal. [laughter] i really hate -- used to be incredibly nervous. i still am. i got a lesson when i speak into the group, rather large group of this woman in the front and not faint. she just looked like this. i told myself, all of your member wonderful jack warden used to say you get 95% of the volume on always wonder who was the other 5%. as explaining to this woman because everyone is being kind of nice. so finite that so angry at the nsf, you know, maybe this woman in the front like to say something. two of the next or associates from germany. she has numbers that a word you said. [laughter] [inaudible] this actually does tie in, believe it or not but the scarlet sisters because they became the

and every weekend, booktv. now for 15 years, the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> alexander russo sat down with booktv at the catholic university of america to discuss his book, "points on the dial: golden age radio beyond the networks." this 25-minute interview is part of booktv's college series. >> host: and you're watching booktv on c-span2. we are at catholic university in washington, d.c. interviewing some of the professors who are also authors. and now joining us is alexander russo who is the author of this book, "points on the dial: the golden age of radio beyond the networks." alexander russo, who invented radio? >> well, that's a complicated answer, and, you know, the march coney often gets credit for it, but like many of these stories, there were lots of different actors operating and lots of different times. an

eastern this sunday on booktv. and "the tyrrany of experts", william easterly provides data that shows the best way to end global poverty is to preserve individual freedoms and prevent unchecked state powers. look for these books and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> i think there are some myths out there. they think it's some are actively preserved product and it's really not. and it's no different than the types of sulfites that you use in making wines. so i wouldn't call it a healthy product, but i would call it something that is a tasty treat. >> as you see, cherries and the various stages. even though we put them in water, they still have wine in the fruit. so they go through an extensive washing in the process of making maraschino is really basically taking that fruit in the brine and soaking it in a stronger sugar with a stronger solution. and part of that dental, you will see the color intensity picked up. so you can see here is some fruit that is very early in the pro

. >> welcome to salem, oregon, on booktv. located along the river, the city is home to the state's government. it's known for its cherry industry as well as its vineyards and is also home to the oldest university in the western united states. >> the funding of primarily catholic education in the 1960s was the issue. in fact, it was so crucial that it actually had its own name. people called it the school question, and everybody knew what that meant. that meant this question about how religious should public education be and whether we should be funding non-protestant alternatives to public education. it's not that i've set out as a mission to explore the deep, dark, unknown corners of american history, but as i've end countered these stories -- encountered these stories about oregon's history, i know they're not in oregon's history weeks, but they're an important part of our history. >> with the help of our comcast cable partners, for the next 90 minutes we bring you to this capital city to learn about its history and to talk

it's part of booktv college series joining us on booktv is catholic university professor of theology c.c. what do you teach at the university? >> i teach catholic theology and a range of courses related to this book that is called political theology so i think a lot about the relationship between the church and the state from its historical relationship and its theological and political importance. >> let's start towards the end of the book which is his democracy connected? >> at the end of the book i explore the democracy's restless desire. desire. does democracy have been in that what is the ultimate aim of democracy and i connect this idea to what the theologians talk about as the national desire that all human beings have this kind of restlessness. can that be true of politics, too the democratic restlessness does that also have a kind of restlessness built into it? so i ask about the restless desire. i want the question to work on us before i immediately answer it but yes the answer is that democracy is the desire to participate in power and he's onhe isone of the great inspiran

. >> up next from booktv's trip to salem, oregon, ron miner details the experiences of his father during world war ii. >> one of my earliest memories was a moment where he had taken me to the basement in a file cabinet, and inside of it he had a manila folder full of these exciting sketches of planes and judge les and soldiers and all this kind of thing, and they were all kind of tattered, worn pages. and exciting stuff for a kid. so i used to sneak down there with friends, and i'd show them these pictures, and we would just imagine what the stories were. and then one day i went down there, and it was locked. so he must have been on to me. anyhow, i never saw them again as a young man. so when he passed away a couple years ago at 92, i found the sketches again. we found them as we were going through some of his things, and we were relieved to see all in this world war ii art because it dates back to the 1940s, and e had done it on his -- he had done it on his down time between missions. howard miner was my father. he was one of the navy black cats, it was a group of navy military guys th

this 25 minute interview is part of a book tv series. >> host: you're watching booktv on c-span2. we are at catholic university interviewing some of the professors who are also authors into joining his alexander russo who is the author of the book point for mobile golden age of radio beyond the networks. who invented radio? >> that is a complicated answer. like many of the stories there were different actors operating in different times and that kind of institutional history is one of the reasons i wanted to write this book. the media industries to not turn on a dime to figure out what to make of digital convergence what struck me about the radio starting in the 1940s and 50s is how quickly it had adapted to the introduction of television. you had a pre- kerning profitability the radio industry as a whole that when i begin to scratch the surface reading different literature and looking at different archives i begin to see a lot of things that have been talked about at that moment seems like multiple radios in the house or local advertising sales kept being called new in the preced

contact us @booktv is our twitter handle, send an e-mail you can send n e-mail to booktv as well. and on our facebook page you can make a comment there. you will see it at the top on the facebook page. we will start with a call from howard beach, new york. burny is on the phone. >> they talked about going over in the book before the war to buy degenerative art. i believe it was before '39. maybe in germany or sweden. can you tell me about it? >> i don't know about that. i cannot help you on that one >> did the nazis take great care with the art? or were they careless? &% degree of care being shown for works of art for hitler's collection, certainly the things that were intended for gering's collection. but when the mass removals of works of art from people's homes in the east where things -- homes are destroyed, the cities are razed, no, i don't think there's care there. and, of course, in the west as jews' apartments are looted en masse, no, these things are piled up. i think there's -- it's one of the paradoxes of the war that a lot of these works of art survived because of a re

booktv guests and viewer, watch videos and up do date information on events, facebook.com/booktv. >> ain'tie jacobsen is next on booktv. recounting the u.s. government's clandestine program to employ german scientists following world war ii. the program, dubbed "operation paperclip" brought several scientists to the united states despites the fact many were accused of war crimes. this is a little under an hour. >> thank you so much. good evening everybody. i am ain'tie jacobsen. i want to thank book passage for having me. thank you all so much for coming. there's nothing that makes this author happier than meeting readers, so thank you. tonight i'm going to be talking about operation paper clip and i'm going to tell you about what the program was. i'm going to tell you a little bit about how i became interested in writing and researching and reporting pacing paper clip, and then i'm going to end by telling you some very -- what think are interesting ways in which the story gets reported. to start with, my book, these gentlemen are 21 of approximately 1600 german scientists who came t

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booktv. located along the willamette river the city is home to the state's government, is known for its cherry industry and vineyards and is also home to the oldest university in the western united states. >> the funding of primarily catholic education in 1961, it was so crucial to head to maine. it was called the school question and everyone knew what it meant and the question about how religious should public information be and whether we should be funding non protestant alternatives to public education. not that i set out on a mission to explore the deep dark unknown corners of florida history but as i encountered these stories about slavery in oregon and the massacre and mistreatment of the chinese these are not in oregon history books but are an important part of history. >> with the help of comcast cable partners for the next 90 minutes we bring you to this capital city to learn about its history and talk with local authors about their books. we begin with william that limited-willamett

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send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> next from booktv's recent trip to tallahassee, florida, learn about the rare books and manuscripts from napoleon and the french revolution. >> the special collections room in this library, this is our main reading room where researchers come to interact with our materials. special collections and archives maintains an extensive rare book collection spanning back to manuscripts from the 1400s through 20th century publications. manuscript collections, like some of the material we'll see today from the napoleon collection, as well as southern business history, scientific history, the contraction of -- the papers of paul durack, a nobel prize-winning physicist, as well as university history, our heritage protocol program documents the long history of florida state united states and its predecessor institutions. in about the early 1960s, the institute for napoleon and the french revolution was established here at fsu as a institute in the history department for the study of the french revolution and particularly th

this interview is part of booktv's college series. it's about half an hour. >> host: professor jerry z. muller, in your book, "capitalism and the jews," you write that discussions of jews and capitalism touch upon neuralgic subjects. what do you mean? >> guest: well, capitalism itself has often been a neuralgic project. it is, after all, a process that is a central one in the modern world. it's one that precedes by what was called creative destruction. so it's constantly innovating, creating new products, new ways of marketing things, new ways of life. and in the process it's destroying older ways of life and, hence, both attracts people and is sometimes a source of resentment. the jews have been intimately connected with the history of capitalism in a variety of ways, both in the ways in which people have thought about capitalism and in the actual practice of capitalism. so when it comes to the way in which people think about capitalism, one of the interesting themes is that i found that when pre-modern thinkers thought about commerc

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we will show you that this weekend on booktv. you can go to booktv.org to see the complete schedule. fifth, fox news host bill reilly recounting the life and death of jesus of nazareth in killing jesus. number 6 is charles krauthammer's collection of things that matter. three decades of passions, and politics. seventh is glitter and blew by kelly corrigan. watch the pulitzer prize-winning columnist's program from the george w. bush presidential library on booktv.org. facebook's chief operating officer cheryl sandberg with her book lean in and brian kilmeade's george washington's secret six telling the story of the colder spy ring in the revolutionary war. booktv covered the top of the computer history museum and brian kilmeade was featured on our afterwards program last november. wrapping up the list is one way out by alan paul, an oral history of the allman brothers band. a look at the current best-selling nonfiction books according to the new york times. >> megan mcardle argues the u.s. is unique in its willingness to let citiz

look for these titles in bookstores this coming week on booktv and booktv.org. >> now booktv's college series continues with interviews from the catholic university of america. her besser john kenneth white sits down with book tv to talk about his book "barack obama's america". in the book are besser white looks at the demographic changes in the west since the 1980s. this is about 20 minutes. >> the book is called "barack obama's america" how new conceptions of race family and religion ended the reagan era. catholic university professor john kenneth white is the author. professor lets begin. tell us about the cover of the book. >> the cover was done by an artist in ann arbor michigan and i had nothing to do with the cover but it works so well for the book because it is the photographs of people who attended obama rallies in 2008. you have a mixture of white, black, hispanic men, women you name it. there's even a couple of pictures in there i think of al gore. you have to really search for them. it describes visually the changes in the demography of the united states that led to barack

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starting now on booktv. >> welcome to the sixth annual tucson festival only books. i am melly, and first we reside just like to begin by thanking the city of tucson for sponsoring the venue and the medical system for sponsoring this particular session. and of course i want to thank all of you for coming, and afterwards there will be a signing that will take alan to a signing area, which is actually right across from the union in the u of a book store tent and we'll reminds you at the en, too. so. >> we're lucky to have with is alan weisman who has wherein for "new york times," orion, mother jones, the best science writing of 2006, and besides his award-winning articles he has also won awards for several of his previous bangs, including a bill to reinvent the world, and the world without it, which was named top nonfiction book of the year by entertainment weekly and time magazine among

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. >> booktv interviewed author eric metaxas about his book trend 11 out of 2014 -- "seven men: and the secret of their greatness." in the book, he profiles of seven men who he argues should serve as models for men today. >> "seven men: and the secret of their greatness" is the name of the book published by thomas nelson. the author eric metaxas. who are these seven and what do they have in common? >> i don't know, sir was written by a ghost writer. who are they? i have to tell you, these are seven great men. it doesn't mean that there aren't others who are great. this is come if anything, this is a subjective grouping but not entirely subjective. i said the reason i bought the book as i said there's a crisis of manhood in the culture in a way we shied away from the idea of saying this is greatness, or this is a great man, you know really since the '60s. we celebrated antiheroes and they feel like it hasn't done, it hasn't been so good for us. so i said, i think that this generation needs heroes but real heroes. and i had the privilege of running a book about bone bob hr of which i was

that all happens next on c-span2's booktv. >>> peter stark is next on booktv. he recalls the partnership between john jacob astor and thomas jefferson, creating a kohl gnu on the pacific coast -- colony on the pacific coast in the early 19th century. the settlement, dubbed astoria, had a short tenure. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> well, thank you for that nice introduction, and thank you, powells and you all, for being here. normally i have a more formal presentation. i have a video that i've shown at readings, but tonight's a special night, so i'm going to do something a little different. and i'm going to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i'm going to do some reading as well. but it's special because, one, this is powell's, we're in oregon, astoria is very nearby.

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. >> next from booktv after tallahassee we take it for of the claude pepper library. >> the recreated house of the exhibit. located in sea claude pepper museum. was a united states senator and united states congressman from the state of florida. in his early days in the senate he was first of proponent of the wage and hour bill which established fair minimum wage for american workers. 2 was also a proponent of the lease act which allowed the united states to send arms and material to the allied nations than fighting the axis powers at the very beginning of the second world war. he was also instrumental in social security reform in nearly 30s. was branded a warmonger by isolationist politicians and was hung in effigy outside the halls of the capitol building in 1941 by the congress of american mothers. they were convinced that along with other senators who were pushing for american involvement in the second world war were going to send their sons to war which unfortunately did happen, but claude viewed it as something necessary given the rapid expansion of the nazi regime and the japan

in march of 2012 booktv covered the discussion of his book. watch it at booktv.org. the former director of middle east studies at johns hopkins university for over 30 years said an exquisite book that i have read recently and will we read in the future is the forever war by dexter filkinfil. @boards in afghanistan and iraq and brings to readers the ordeal of war for the soldiers who fought it and the civilians who were caught up in it. he discussed his book at the 2008 miami book fair. you can find his talk on our web site. shelby steele specializes in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmative-action, recently reread abandon their river. he says it shows more graphically than anything else how many third world countries coming out of colonialism descend into chaos, corruption and totalitarianism and to wrap up our who reinstitution scholars reading list senior fellow and economics john taylor is reading why it grows matters:how economic growth in india reduced poverty and lessons for other developing countries. his presentation from the council on

booktv every weekend on c-span2. also this month join the online discussion of peniel joseph's new biography of stokely carmichael. look for the book club tap at booktv.org. >> we return now to afterwards with angela stent on her book, "the limits of partnership: u.s.-russian relations in the 21st century." >> host: when you talk to russian officials, they often would tell you that there is a tendency in the united states and more broadly the west, the west of russia. and sometimes without good evidence. you mention in your book and then who was a former agent of the kgb, the federal security service, who became a political immigrant, some side effect, lived in england and then was poisoned. as you describe in your book, a common perception in britain and the united states was that he was a victim of nuclear terrorism and begin a strong assumption is that it was arranged by the russian government. do you agree with that? >> well, i think the evidence from what i know and from what i've read is, first of all the polon

next weekend booktv and american history tv look at the history and literary life of bend oregon on c-span2 and c-span three. i have covered the media for a decade now and i've been fascinated by the intersection of the media and politics. i've covered "the new york times," "washington post," msnbc and i wanted to do a book about fox news because the network really revolutionized cable news and it was the most dominant network. the ratings were double. very early into the reporting of the book i realized the way to tell the story is through the life and career of roger because fox is a complete expression of the world view. the network is shaped in his image and without his talent i don't think that fox would be the success that it is so it really developed into a portrait of fox news as the culmination of everything that he had worked towards both in politics and show business and television. >> you said fox news is a political operation that hires journalists. can you tell me what you mean by that? >> of course it goes back to roger ailes, he is a political person. he got his start in tel

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[applause] booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with guests and viewers, watch video and get up-to-date information. facebook.com/booktv. >>> stephen talks about the life and lasting impact of dale carnegie author of how to win friends and influence people and a number of other books. how to win friends has sold over 30 million copies published in 1937 and was named the seventh most influential book by the library of congress. this is about 45 minutes. >> so tonight we are really happy to have steven watts back. steven watts has been called by a biographer of john v. plutarch of modern america because of his books on walt disney, his book on hugh hefner, which he talked about here in the library, and henry ford and now dale carnegie. he's a professor of history and of the history department. dale carnegie i have a lecture i gave periodically. people forget that i've given it before and then i get it. [laughter] in which the title of it is the center of the literary universe. we talk about t.s. eliot and mark twa

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. >> we've been talking here on booktv went david harsanyi. his most recent book is "the people have spoken (and they are wrong): the case against democracy." david harsanyi is also the author of the nanny state. thank you for your time. >> anytime. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs that you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar in the upper left side of the page and click on search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. the tv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors.

more nonfiction authors and books is booktv continues. the banking systems in the united states, the united kingdom, canada, mexico, and brazil, going back several decades to find out what makes banking systems unstable. he concluded that the deciding factor is political interference and this lasts about one hour. >> hello. i am from the hoover institution. welcome to this special edition and we are in front of a live audience here in front of the office area and we're talking about a weekly podcast on economics. a history, psychology, sometimes daily life. you can find us on itunes and archive is at talk ort. and so today is the very fifth, 2014. my guess our charles calomiris and stephen haber. charles is from colombia university's graduate school of business and he codirects the hoover institution's regulation and rule of law research initiative. and stephen haber is a professor in the university at the hoover institution. their book is "fragile by design: a memoir by minimalists" which is our topic for today's episode. welcome. >> it'

. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to salem, oregon, and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. at 7 p.m. eastern, joshua disiets describes president lincoln's secretaries. then at 8, learn the story of the subway system from doug most. at 9 p.m., annie jacobsen details operation paper clip. and at 10 p.m., "after words" with gabriel sherman, author of "the loudest voice this the room." and we wrap up at 11 p.m. eastern with christopher harmon and a citizen's guide to terrorism and counterterrorism. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> robert field talks about the long history of government involvement in the health care system. four key sectors -- pharmaceuticals, hospitals, the medical profession and private insurance -- were built up by the federal government, and he argues that this history must be understood before the possibilities of meaningful reform can be realized. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you, dan.

facebook.com/booktv. .. second generation to have a kind of interesting, creative destruction relationship between their culture and american culture such that immigration communities start very typically looking back at their parents and grandparents generation and saying we don't want to do successively us to. he said were the only one they make their decisions whether to be a standup comic for artists and yet what we found is aspirational he at least the same qualities can help them do that and achieve different kinds of goals.

in light of its release and the debates that followed, booktv presents portions of author talks on the federal budget process. in the next hour use eclipse with philip joyce, author of "the congressional budget office." david wessel, author of "red ink: inside the high-stakes politics of the federal budget," and oklahoma senator tom coburn, author of "the debt bomb" and breach of trust. we begin with philip joyce author of "the congressional budget office: honest numbers, power, and policymaking." the former cbo analyst and current professor of management, finance and leadership at the university of maryland recounts the formation of the congressional budget office in 1974. its internal operation and the nonpartisan economic and budget information it provides to congress. >> when was the cbo form? >> it was formed in 1974. it was, in fact, a reaction to some of the received deficits while they were accesses by the nixon administration it was part of an effort by the congress to try to reassert its role in the budget process. and as important that they created the budget committees and

and also we're here with c-span booktv x so we have a national audience as well as a oregon audience. so i'm going to tell some stories, and you oregonians may know some of the stories, and you may not know others. but i'll start with how i came to this story. and, actually, what's surprising about it is how this story was very well known in its day, in 1836 when washington irving was commissioned by john jacob astor to write the story of these events 20 years after they occurred. irving's book, also called "astoria," was a best seller of 1836. and those events have been largely forgotten in the american consciousness. i think you in oregon know a little bit more about them, or i'm sure some of you know a lot more about them. but in the national consciousness, they're largely forgotten except among historians and people who really follow western history. so it is a really important story. it's historically significant, and it's a great adventure story. and that's partly what attracted me to it. and it's also a story that i i feel needs to be told because it's had, those events have ha

that all starts now on booktv. >> hello? hello. let me welcome all of you here today to the panel on any quality. my name is john schwartz and i'm a faculty member and public policy at the university of arizona. and we have three wonderful authors here today. and i would like to introduce each of them to you from right to left and then have each of them talk in succession for ten to 12 minutes on a question that i will pose to them. and on my immediate left is a pioneer blogger and washington correspondent for the nation. and he's a disputed code contributing writer for the progressive and appears in newspapers across the country and he's a frequent commentator on msnbc and on the other radio and television venues. his latest book is an extremely thoughtful yet also quite troubling analysis of the demise of democracy in america today entitled dollarocracy how the money and media election complex is the striking america. to his left is barbara garson who has written among other books money makes the world go round, one investor trac

the triple package tonight at 9:00 on afterwards, part of booktv on c-span2. .. it's with great pleasure i get to welcome general peter mansoor, author of "surge" which would be one of the key books about the iraq war. deep, deep research and, of course, general mansoor was so

that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> iraq war veteran kayla williams is next on booktv. she talks about her and her husband's return from iraq and the major problems they faced reintegrating into american society. kayla williams' husband returned home after receiving a serious head injury, and both suffered from ptsd. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> first, allow me to express my most profound regrets for being late. i had an interview run late and then had the fun experience of traveling on the beltway which i think may be sometimes more stressful than driving in iraq because i'm not allowed to carry a weapon on the beltway. [laughter] so as my introducer mentioned, i am also a veteran, and before i get started, i want to take a brief moment to thank all of you for coming. i really appreciate you taking the time to get out before we are inundated with snow, have a little bit of fun before we get started. and to all the troops and veterans in the room, i want to say welcome home. and to all the military families, i want to say thank you for your service as well. s