e-mail us at booktv at booktv@cspan.org. >> booktv asked, what are you reading this summer? >> well, i'm going to read, basically, two books. i'm going to finish the warmth of other suns. i got about halfway through that book before i stepped away from it to finish my own. but i'm going to go back to it because it's a book about three families in search of a better life leaving the south and where they went and how they experience -- how their experiences were. so i'm going to finish that book. isabelle wilkerson, i think, did a great job. and then i'm going to turn my attention to this book, the south carolina roots of african-american thought, because it's a book of speeches and writings of south carolinians, most of whom i knew and still know. i've been amazed, my heroes' pictures are up there. jesse jackson jr. so i'm going to read this book and see exactly what has gone on today compared to what a lot of them saw. and still see. >> now, you recently published a memoir in may. can you tell me about the experience of writing that? >> where well, that book, "blessed experi

booktv host of your call in program with mr. lewis last month that can be viewed any time at booktv.org. in a fighting chance by massachusetts senator elizabeth warren cover the senator's talking washington d.c. earlier this month. look for it to air in the coming weeks. good morning america and robyn roberts comes in third with her memoir everybody has got something followed by french economist thomas piketti's capital in the twenty-first century. for arrived, by the president and editor-in-chief of the huffington post media group, area huffington. nightline a anchor dan harris's 10% happier is in sixth. seventh is political commentator bill o'reilly and historian martin deuteride's killing jesus. next, the divide. american injustice in the age of the wealth gap by matt taibbi. booktv recently covered a talk by the investigative reporter at the louisville free public library. look for it to air soon. ninth is a collection of essays and stories by marina keegan, the opposite of loneliness with wrapping up the list is the confide

an e-mail, booktv@c-span.org. >> booktv covers hundreds of author programs all year long and here's a look at the events we will be attending this week. look for these programs to air on the near future on c-span2. on wednesday we will be covering michael waldman, president of the brennan center for justice in new york university law school talking about his book the second amendment:a biography, speaking at the national constitution center in philadelphia. thursday night booktv will be in colombia, and missouri at the daniel boone regional library hosted a talk by travel writer william moon discussing his writing and best selling book blue highways. the same night, covering civil war historian teams oaks on his book the scorpion sting:antislavery and the coming of the civil war and the new york historical society. on sunday, june 8th, the center for african american history, art and history in south carolina, to record south carolina congressman james cliburn talking about his memoir. that is

tweet us @booktv, post it to our facebook page or send us an e-mail, booktv to the c-span.org. booktv at crushes span.org. >> one of the stories that i, that resonated with me was the moment when they're dithering about whether or not they need to inject seawater into unit one. and it's a matter of, the clock is ticking, and they're just about down to the wire. and yushida, i think that's how you pronounce his name, the plant superintendent -- who, in the end, would have to make the final call -- knows that it's desperate. they need to get water in there very quickly. and meanwhile, everybody wants a say. and the tepco officials and japanese government officials are all just kind of hemming and hawing, and yushida gets an order from one of his supervisors at tepco that the government hasn't signed off on this yet, he's got to hold off. well, he's already started! >> uh-huh. >> and so he basically calls one of his staff people over and says, okay, i'm going to give an order, but ignore it. so he very loudly proclaims so everybody in tokyo can hear, we're going to, you know, halt

e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> coming up next on booktv we will show you a couple panels from therginia festival of the book. up next we show you a panel on the vietnam war followed by discussion on world war ii and a presentation by dr. brolly on the current state of health care in the united states. first, jan herman, ira hunt and frank leith jones talk about the vietnam war. >> you see something good happening in the country there's the inference that the leader must be a good guy because good things are happening. a strong development. even if you have direct evidence of a leader that is not such a good guy. somali was shining his autocratic credentials and a variety of ways over a number of years prior to bill gates's statement, his security forces killed peaceful demonstrators in the street after rigged elections in 2005, manipulated famine relief in 2010, only willing party supported and deny it to the opposition in which he was caught and handed human rights laws but there is sort of this same sequence i described, a promise to investigate and the investigation was quietly

spent welcome to ogden, utah on booktv. located between the mountains and the great salt lake, all done is the site of the first settlement in what is now utah. nicknamed the junction city, alternately became the junction location for the union pacific and central pacific railroads. and is now considered one of the top 10 cities in the country to raise a family. by "forbes" magazine. with help of our comcast cable partners for the next one hour we will learn the history of the city from local authors. >> today when people think of utah they primarily think of two things. obviously, the mormon church and its influence but also lyrically speaking they think of the republican party as one of the strongest republican states in the country, both in terms of the presidential election and in terms of local office. for us particularly we were interested in whether or not a socialist or a leftist radical movement that existed in utah and we discovered in fact that it had. >> the big misconceptions that is only a child emotion and is

you can watch authors such as mark leibovich and anna holmes live on booktv on c-span2. may 29th-31st booktv will be talking with authors and publishing executives at the publishing industry's annual trade show, bookexpo america, in new york city. we'll also be live from "the chicago tribune"'s printers row lit fest on june 7th and 8th. then on saturday, june 23st, the fdr presidential library will be holding the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. there will be 12 authors who have recently published works that draw upon the archives. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@cspan.org. >> great to hear from my son. we went true a lot -- through a lot. being a father is, it's a hard thing in our culture because i don't think we remember what it's like. we don't know, we forget. and i have to give him credit, because he, he says, well, i didn't give up on him, but he didn't give up on me either. even when he was in prison, i remember one time he called and was jumping on me for being such a terrible da

that's next on booktv. [applause] >> wow. thank you. this is a big crowd. i was actually at a -- i did a speech for a law firm in new york about a month ago, and the crowd was way bigger than i expected, and i was about to go up to the podium and i asked the partner at the firm, how did you get so many people to come to this thing? and he said that's easy. we told them you were ben bernanke. [laughter] >> so i don't know who they told you was coming tonight, but my name is matt taibi. i'm a reporter formerly of "rolling stone" magazine and now first media. i obviously just want to thank all the folks who brought me here, kay, and bert, and craig from library, and everybody who had hand in helping me come here today. is that better? all right. so, i have knew speech for you all tonight. i had a speech i hat written for this book tour, actually used it's few times, and i am -- i threw i

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you're watching booktv from can do university -- duke university. >>> booktv asked what are you reading this summer? >> i think i'm doing a catchup summer. reading a lot of things that are not particularly new but i have meant to read and not gotten done. so i ticked off also list of them, and they start with two sort of real life rescue stories from world war ii. one i'm reading now, the book, "frozen in time" about some american aviators who crashed in greenland in the second world war. then the rescue mission that went after them and also went down, and another one that disappear, and they finally did rescue these guys, who lived for months in the tail of an airplane. a gripping story. then the second part is about an expedition to go back and find the people who were lost trying to rescue the original crew, and they located aircraft and all kinds of things. so it's a great story. in reading that, of yours you read the book jacket and he has another one, "lost in shangly law" about a mission that went wrong. was supposed to be a joy flight over new guinea in 1945 and the plane went d

booktv@cs[apan.ne booktv@cspan.net, booktv on twitter is the handle. you write about a lot of personal things. is it tough in >> guest: the hardest thing and most people won't -- why whei d it, i don't know. i took a risk and revealed personal life and it hurts families. i will be the first to admit it and asked my family to forgive me for that. i did it not to hurt anyone but to heal. there are so many families going through there work at home, the physical and sexual abuse, the abuse women go through and it doesn't get brought up especially in this community where people silence things. i took a risk to help others. and now i realize it is worth it. but my family didn't like it. i have a lot of families that didn't like it. i have enemy gang members that will never like what i wrote about. but it is needed. 500,000 readers out there. i get kids telling me the book changed their life. i was getting 200-300 letters a year when it first happened. people telling me -- all positive letters. i found a book i can relate to. i go to the schools and kids say

tweet us at booktv. post a -- posted to her facebook page or send us an e-mail. >> is a look at some books that are being published this week. >> look for titles of these bookstores in the coming weeks. spin deborah hicks sat down at duke university to discuss her book than 10. in the book she talks about her efforts to transmit her love of learning and literature to a group of poor girls in cincinnati, ohio. the 30 minute is part of booktv's college series. >> booktv is on the campus of duke university endure of north carolina where we're talking with professors and scholars about some of their books. joining us here is deborah hicks. her book, "the road out: a teacher's odyssey in poor america." deborah hicks, what do you do here at duke, first of all? >> i have a couple things that i do. i am part of a research social institute and that is a unit that is composed of people who are doing research in the social sciences, different disciplines. i do a lot of research and then am also a special entreprene

twitter.com/booktv. >> booktv covers hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long, and here's a look at some of the events we'll be attending this week. look for these programs to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. on tuesday and wednesday, we're at the new york public library for an author panel on long form journalism. followed by a presentation of the helen burn steven book award for excellence in journalism. on thursday, former treasury secretary timothy geithner covers his tenure at an event in santa clara. on thursday and running through saturday, booktv is at the annual publishing convention, bookexpo america, in new york, where we'll be with talking with authors and publishers of forth coming books. and that's a look at some of the programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to our web site, booktv.org, and visit "upcoming programs." >> some people in the movement decided to take the cause of marriage equality to the united states supreme court. and that's really what i chose to write about. and i'm really gratified, you know,

of january so if you are a booktv watcher and wants to read along with other booktv viewers go to booktv.orgtoring the american republic" and read along and post your comments at booktv.org. it is very simple, click on the ballclub tab at the top of the page and you will see there is a format for posting your comments and you can read along all month on your own time. we will be posting questions and comments as we go throughout the month on "the liberty amendments: restoring the american republic". mark levin, thanks for your time today on booktv. >> guest: great honor, thank you. .. >> and also this weekend a panel discussion on the black power movement with actor and p

@booktv vizard putter handle. or facebook.com/booktv. from our twitter feed, rich neumeister asks, what would kitty kelley say is the difference in the political atmosphere is it's when she first came to washington? >> guest: rich, when i first came to washington, iraq and the united states senate. i worked for a liberal democrat from minnesota. keyword with virginia. people talked, went to each other's parties. the best thing in the world in minutes a, and that was the end of the 60s and throughout the 70s was dinner parties, where you would have a congressman and senator from a different party and great, great conversations. that does not happen anymore. that does not happen anymore. >> host: laura tweets, has your research influenced her politics after he written a biography? >> guest: well, laura, i should tell you all take him from first of all my father. the family i came from was very republican. and they all think that i've gone over to the dark side. but it hasn't so much influence my politics, my basic beliefs. but it has come

tweet us @booktv, post it to our facebook page or send us an e-mail, booktv at c-span.org. >> next, anew from booktv's college series. dr. margaret humphries talked to booktv about the civil war which she says was the greatest health disaster the u.s. has ever experienced. >> host: and booktv is on location in durham, north carolina, where we're talking with some professors who are also authors. joining us now is dr. margaret humphreys. her book, "marrow of tragedy: the health crisis of the american civil war." you write that the civil war was the greatest health disaster the u.s. has ever experienced. that's your opening line. >> guest: true. >> host: how so? >> guest: how so. well, i mean, if you, you can count the numbers many ways, but one probably conservative estimate is that more than a million people died in those five years that would not have died, as they call premature or unexpected deaths because of that war. and it is useful to think of war as a health crisis, because you think about the women who died, the children who starved, the refugees who died of disease, the peopl

part of booktv this weekend. online, our book club sleeves is "it calls you back" by luis rodriguez. >> booktv covers hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year 0 long and here's a look at some events we'll taped this -- attend this week. look for these programs to air in the future. on monday, we're at the half king bar in restaurant in new york city for veteran writing project founder ron capps' recount of being in war zones and how it affected it. robert spencer's talk, and then wednesday, in new jersey, mike earp, former associate director for operations at the u.s. marshal service, looks at the over 200 year history of the marshal service. and then on thursday, it's back to the west coast for an ehaven't at diesel, a book store in brentwood, california, where they talk about the six-day war betweensel and its arar -- between israel and its neighbors. >> military historian recalls the german u boat offensive in 1942. the captain's command result out in the destruction of four ships in the che

tweet us that booktv.d us an e-mail, booktv booktv@c-span.work. >> russell paul talks about cracking and the impact it's had in the world. mr. gold spoke at the san antonio book festival in texas for about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> they lost to a certain team that was owned by the former ceo that would be the oklahoma city founder. that is a very sensitive topic in this town, russell. i think it was 18 or 19. >> i'm from philadelphia. very difficult for me to read about that. >> are we all sat? welcome, one and all. i am robert rivard. it is my distinct pleasure to be the moderator for a conversation with russell gold, senior editor reporter for "the wall street journal" based in texas. important for me and important for all of you, this is something of a homecoming because russell go

that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> next on booktv, robert bryce argues that technological innovations have improved the quality of life for humans for centuries, and it's completely reasonable to think that we'll innovate our way out of the problems we face today. this is a little under an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. how was lunch? good. my name is mike allegretti, i'm vice president for programs here at the institute, and it's my pleasure to welcome you to today's book forum. we're here today to launch robert bryce's latest book entitled "smaller faster lighter denser cheaper," and i would add, more colorful. [laughter] look at that. it's jumping off the page. smaller faster lighter denser cheaper is robert's fifth book, and i think quite possibly his best. first off, it is a relentlessly optimistic, forward-looking work, and it subscribe toss the basic notion, the belief that america's best days are ahead of it. in an era with environmental catastrophes, sectarian violence, plagues, various other things on the airwaves and on the front pages every day, i was theme

are booktv watcher and want to read along with other booktv viewers go to booktv.org and pick up your liberty amendments, you can read along and you can post your comments at booktv.org. it's very simple. on the look club tap up at the top of the page and you will see there is a format for posting your comments and you can read along all month on your own time we will be posting questions and comments as we go throughout the month. on the liberty amendments. mark levin thanks for your time today on booktv. >> guest: it's a great honor pete, thank you. .. >> that reach of integrity is irresponsible and unacceptable to me. on this situation, it began weeks to months ago and i thought the problem was limited and isolated and i believe that. but i no longer believe that it is systemic. i was too trusting of some and i accepted it and i now know that it has been misleading in regard to patient wait times. i cannot explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facility. this is something that i have rarely encountered during my 30 years in uniform. and so i will

booktv. may 29th-31st we will talk to authors at the publishing annual trade show book expo america in new york city. and live from the tribune festival on june 7th and 8th. and on the 21st, 12 authors will be at the roosevelt library that used the archives heavily to write their books. >> you where watching booktv. debra hicks is here and then co coc co-editor discusses their book and then boats and hitler and the link is discussed. and we conclude the programming at 11 p.m. with the author of the "wreckening: financial accountability and the rise and fall of nations" that happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. and now on booktv. the quest to find out the truth of the world around here. >> i have the privilege of being the president of book passage, your locally owned, fiercely independent bookstore! [ applause ] with a reach that is international. we have customers who order from all over the world. but tonight i want to introduce you to to amazing people. michael krasney is the first. it isn

it's part of the booktv college series. >> now we have the professor at duke. in this book you write unsafe drinking water is the largest killer in the world. >> i was surprised to find that. the statistics are somewhat rough but over half of the population is estimated will suffer from a lot of disease. >> why do we not have clean drinking water parks is it hard? >> the challenges that we are facing with drinking water are different than dc. it's been a challenge for every society throughout history and for each society whether it was egypt or rome or durham north carolina everyone thinks their water is safe enough because that is their background. but we probably couldn't be paid to drink some of the water >> in the u.s. we have safe tap water? >> we don't spend the money it takes and in some respects it changes a bit. if you set risk-free i would have said no we don't and what i mean by that is what i said a minute ago that we accept the trade-off and it was quite remarkable i could go anywhere in the u.s. right now whether it is bangalore or tallahassee or

booktv@c-span.org. >>> up next on booktv, afterwards with -- after words with juan williams, syndicatedcolumn on "the hill." next cal thomas and his book, what works. would worked in the past, discarding politics and listening to voters. this program is about an hour. >> host: we're joined by cal thomas, his new book, what works, common sense solutions for a strong america. forward by sean hannity. that tells you a lot about this book, cal. >> guest: sean is a good friend and harpercollins publishing the book thought he would be a very good person to write the forward. i was happy he did so. nancy pelosi was not available. so i was glad to have his forward. he did a good job. >> host: this is intended for a conservative audience? >> guest: not necessarily. i think solving problems in america are not conservative, liberal, republican or democrat. we have severe challenges, juan, faces everybody regardless of their political background or persuasion. >> host: if you have sean hannity, i believe sean is quite popular figure among

so if you're a booktv watcher and want to read along with other booktv viewers, go to booktv.org: youk up the liberty amendments, you can read along, and then you can post your comments at booktv.org. it's very simple, just click on the book club tab up at the top of the page, and you'll see there there's a format for posting your comments, and you can read along all month on your own time. we'll be posting questions and comments as we go throughout the month on the liberty amendments. mark levin, thanks for your time today on booktv. >> guest: great honor, pete, thank you."

or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> the limits of government are very clear in the constitution. you have administrative functions or enforcing contracts, this sort of thing, coining money. and yup national defense. when government sticks to those functions it h

every weekend on c-span2. >> bruce bechtol is next on booktv. he discusses the challenges posed by north korea today and the differences between the rule of kim jong own and his father kim jong-il. this is about one hour. >> how is everybody doing? can you hear me? good. i apologize for my loud voice. i'm half deaf. i wore a set up headquarters in the marine corps, signals intelligence, morse code and augusta. before get started i would like to thank some people for bringing me here. first of all think you very much to the world affairs council for bringing me here. bringing me here i've always been treated like a king. and a special thanks to linda for organizing this event. my lovely bride of 24 years is here, and i'd like to thank her for putting up with all my rhetoric over the past 24 years. and i'll be seeing my youngest daughter next week am so that would be my most fun trip or i'm going out to iowa which is all you know is the cultural center of the universe. but i would also like to thank my colleagues and friends at angelo state univer

this 30-minute interview, part of booktv's college series, was recorded at the washington duke inn in durham, north carolina. >> host: duke university history professor martin miller is the author of this book, "the foundations of moderner to: state, society, and the dynamics of political violence." there is a working definition of modern terrorism? >> guest: i tried to formulate one, which is a perilous path because so many others have tried. so, i think that the clear is way to understand what i've tried to do is to refer back to what in fact are two kinds of perspectives. one is the idea that governments and especially dictators, exercise terror against their own citizens, the hitlers, stalins, poll pol pots of the world, and the ice the world of post 9/11 we're most familiar with, this is the insurgenties from below who seem to pose, and sometimes we realize how serious the threat is, they are in fact a danger to us. so what i tried to do to defind terrorism is to bring together 0 those two strands. it's an interactive process between governments and their security agencies on the

booktv hosted a program with him last month. coming in at eighth is a memoir, "can't we talk about something more pleasant?" number nine is @girlboss, and wrapping up the list at ten is "streng

booktv, television for serious readers. >> next on booktv, "after words" with guest host jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center. this week justice john paul stevens and his latest book, "six amendments: how and why we should change the constitution." the retired u.s. supreme court justice targets gun violence, the death penalty, gerrymandering and campaign finance in amendments he believes would better protect and empower citizens. the program is about an hour. >> host: welcome, justice stevens. on behalf of the national constitution center, it's so great to see you. you honored the national constitution center a few weeks ago by visiting us. the constitution center, as you know, is the only institution in america that has a congressional charter to disseminate information about theing constitution on a nonpartisan basis. and i can't think of a better i book to discuss in connection with that mission than your wonderful new book, "six amendments: how and why wets" should change the constitution." you've proposed six constitutional amendments on topics rang

[inaudible conversations] >>> next, an interview from booktv's college series. dr. margaret humphreys talked about the civil war, which she says was the greatest health disaster the u.s. ever experienced. >> booktv is on location at duke university in durham, north carolina, where we're talking with professors who are authors. joining us now i dr. margaret humphreys. her book "marrow of tragedy: the halve crisis of the american civil war." you write that the civil war was the greatest health disaster the u.s. has ever experienced. that's your opening line. >> guest: true. >> host: how so? >> guest: well, if you -- you can count in many ways but more than a million people died in those five years that would not have died, they call premature or unexpected deaths bus of that war. and it is useful to think of war as a health crisis, because you think about the women who died, the children who starved, the refugees who died of disease, the people who died in prisoner of war camps, not just the ones who died from wounds or actually while in the army. >> host: what some o

the 30 minute interview as part of booktv's college series. >> host: booktv is on the campus of duke university in durham north carolina where we are talking with professors and scholars about some of their books and now joining us here is deborah hicks. her book "the road out" a teacher's odyssey in poor america. deborah hicks what you do at duke first of all? >> guest: i have a couple of things that i do. i am part of their research into called social science research and that is a unit that is composed of people who're doing research in the social sciences and different disciplines. i do a lot of a lot of research and then i'm also a social entrepreneur so i direct a nonprofit the north carolina mountains called page, partnership for appalachian girls education in their work with appalachian girls in middle school and help them get educational opportunity and access. so i have a couple of different hats that i wear at duke university and researcher and now social entrepreneur. >> host: social entrepreneur. is that a new term? >> guest: atingua's point -- coined by people like nich

watch for these doctors and many more on booktv on c-span2. for the full schedule of authors and books visit us at booktv.org. >> in this encore book notes program from march of 2001, kiron skinner talks about "reagan, in his own hand". .. the revolution was fascinating to people and documents were opening up that scholars have never seen before but i was interested in the american contribution. c-span: what were you doing at the time?

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 brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> here's a look at some of the best selling nonfiction books according to "the chicago tribune." at the top of the list is "good morning america" anchor robin roberts with her memoir, "everybody's got something." in second, "capital in the 21st century." the french economist focuses on wealth and income equality in the united states since the 18th century. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren comes in third with "a fighting chance." she recounts her upbringing and argues that the federal government needs to do more for middle class families. we covered senator warren's talk in washington, d.c. earlier this month. check our web site for specific air times. in fourth is michael lewis' book "flash boys," a look at hig

watch these authors and many more this weekend on booktv on c-span2. and for the full schedule of authors and books visit us at booktv.org. >> michael sims recount henry david thoreau's education and have the budget is writing career which included his fathership of walden. offer reports the harvard graduate who built a cabin on ralph waldo emerson's properly where he lived and wrote for two years was more than a recluse he is often remembered as. this is about 50 minutes. >> the bottom line is i like to tighten. thank you very much for coming out today and i was wondering if it was going to rain on me and i was thinking i shouldn't be worried about that because it is henry david thoreau and you shouldn't worry about such things and my wife loved to tweak because she has tolerated thoreau around a house for two years, she has taken to tweaking famous quotations such as the web enterprises that require new clothes unless it is something you already had your eye on. and so now she makes me very self-conscious when i'm thinking i worry about raising my bo

that is a look at some of the programs booktv is covering this week. go to our web site, booktv.org and visit upcoming programs. up next to a university professor dan ariely said down to talk about his book "the (honest) truth about dishonesty: how we lie to everyone--especially ourselves". in the book dan ariely discusses examples of dishonesty and looks at how dishonesty plays out in our society. this is part of booktv's college series. it is about 40 minutes. >> do professor dan ariely. what do you teach at duke? >> a few classes, in the a, a behavioral economics, psychology for economists and an undergrad class and every year i change that. one year, it was code listed in economics and literature and i ask the students to run an experiment in behavioral economic tour to write short stories using principles from behavioral economics. the big undergrad class, last year i taught the class with cathy davidson, trying to learn from students and very what i teach. >> host: what is behavioral economics? >> guest: the best way to think about it, a view of

at booktv is the twitter handle. you can make a comment on our facebook page at facebook/booktv or you can send an e-mail as well. where did you grow up? >> guest: i grew up outside of a town of philadelphia in a community called elkins park. it was a wonderful place. >> host: why did you grow up there? >> guest: that is a good question. they were born in philadelphia and they started a nursery school and day camp right outside of philadelphia in springfield township, pennsylvania. i was raised in springfield township and then we moved not too far away. they were small business people. my mother was a former teacher and my father was an artist. they ran that 20 years almost. >> host: are they still living? >> guest: they are. they are wonderful. they live in florida. i have on older brother in philly, rob in virginia, and my parents were role models for us. my belief in this country and my love of this country and my desire to do what i can come from my parents. the notion of hard work wasn't just taught to us. i saw

that is our featured book this month on booktv's book club. you'll see book club at the top of booktv.org. click on book club, and you'll be able to participate in the conversation with other viewers, other readers of the liberty amendments. as, and this will be for the entire month of january. laura in new york city, please go ahead. you're the first call for mark levin. >> caller: hi. i've listened to mark levin's show every night for years now, and from what he means by liberty is the criminal elite looting this country clean, impoverishing the middle class and paying no taxes on the wealth they've stolen. what he means by liberty is to public money for social security, medicare, medicaid, education or the rebuilding of our crumbling infrastructure. he is a prop begannist for the criminal elite posing as a right-wing conservative. and his liberty amendments are to bring to an end once and for all in the united states of america any political representation for anyone in this country by the criminal elite. >> host: that was laura, new york c

facebook.com/booktv. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2.re's our prime time lineup for tonight. up next, jared cohen and eric schmidt discuss "the new digital age." then at 7:45 p.m., lauren -- [inaudible] talks about the many political causes taken up by upton sinclair over his life including his unsuccessful run for governor of california in 1934. at 9 p.m. eastern, burton folsom is on "after words." mr. folsom details the best and worst government investments and bailouts from the days of george washington through today. at 10 p.m. eastern, barbara ehrenreich talks about her quest

like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> peter schuck argues government is often effected because of structural flaws the played both political parties. he says by looking at government policies that have been effected we can figure out how to improve the system as hole. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> thank you, wally.

booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> peter schuck argues that government is often ineffective because of structural flaws that plague both political parties. he says that by looking at government policies that have been effective, we can figure out how to improve the system as a whole. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> thank you, wally, and i'm delighted to be here at the cato institute to present a book that i fear may seem, from its title, like i'm bringing coals to new castle, why government fails so often. this is, after all, the cato institute. so this message will be, i think, affirming to you, but what i hope to suggest is you may not fully appreciate the reasons why government fails or the magnitude of the failure and how it might be, those barriers might be remedied. discussion about government failures are highly theoretical, rhetorical, deeply politically, philosophical level rather than at an analytical level based on empirical evidence. and so that's, if i have a contribution to make to the people at cato, that may be to enrich that particular kind of evide

watch for these authors and anymore this weekend on booktv on c-span2. for the full schedule of authors and books visit us at booktv.org. >> coming up from the half king >> you're going to look at a beautiful picture but it is something i know well and i reported from as well. i am going to tell you about "the wrong enemy" which is my book. "the wrong enemy: america in afghanistan, 2001-2014". it is the story of the war. i reported for over ten years on afghanistan. also pakistan. and i wanted to write a book for two reasons. the title tells part of it. richard holbrooke was the special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan before he died in the last two years. and he once said to the british foreign secretary maybe we are fighting the wrong enemy in the wrong country and it was when they were grappling with the problem of the taliban in afghanistan. the obama administration was trying to work out what to do. the insurgency had gotten so difficult in afghanistan said they had to order a surge of troops so the foreign troops went to 120,000 in afghanistan and

twitter.com/booktv. >> deborah hicks said down with book tv at duke university to discuss her book. she talks about her efforts to transmit her love of learning and literature to a group of poor girls and cincinnati, ohio. >> book tv is on the campus some of their bucks. >> i am part of our research unit. it is a unit that compose the people who are doing research in the special sciences and social of bernard. partnership for appalachian gruels education. their i work with a bludgeon rolls in those help them get educational opportunity and access. have a couple of different hats. is that a new term? >> i think it was coined by a bear goes christoph. it is a widely used term. >> how did you get involved with up luncheon grows and middle school in western north carolina ? >> guest: it is a long story. i write about it in "the road out". i grew up as a working-class girl in that tiny, little miltown in the mountains of north carolina and was the first of my family to go to college, which was a big step for me. i ended up, there was scholarship for my group called auw, getting a sch

booktv, television for serious readers. >> iraq war veteran phil klay is next on booktv. he discusses the collection of short stories about soldiers who fought in iraq and afghanistan and the experiences they had while back in the u.s. between deployments. this is about 45 minutes. >> all right, thank you. here we go. thanks so much for coming here. good to be a. this is my first time in l.a., so be good to me. it's a thrill to be here with tony. so the book is 12 short stories all from different perspectives. and i'm going to start out just read the opening of the story about an artillery unit. the store is called template south. an artillery unit on this large base called a fob, and the fobs in iraq, weird thing where you have come you're in a combat zone but they are large, really secure. and they are like a little miniature cities. they have light workout facilities nhl hall. there's some -- there would be a child haul. this story is set on camp fallujah progress in iraq some marine had recorded a song set to the tune of hotel california. the course was welcome to the

facebook.com/booktv. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. up next, jared cohen and eric schmidt discuss "the new digital age." then at 7:45 p.m., lauren -- [inaudible] talks about the many political causes taken up by upton sinclair over his life including his unsuccessful run for governor of california in 1934. at 9 p.m. eastern, burton folsom is on "after words." mr. folsom details the best and worst government investments and bailouts from the days of george washington through today. at 10 p.m. eastern, barbara ehrenreich talks about her quest as a child to find out the truth and we wrap up tonight's prime time programming at 11 p.m. eastern. iraq war veteran phil clay discusses his collection of short stories about soldiers' experiences at war and back home. that all happens next on c-span2's booktv. >> booktv continues with eric schmidt and jared cohen. the two talk about the updated edition of their book, "the new digital age," in which they discuss nsa spying and current state of internet secu

[inaudible conversations] >> 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. >> peter schuck argues government is often effected because of structural flaws the played both political parties. he says by looking at government policies that have been effected we can figure out how to improve the system as hole. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> thank you, wally. coals to newcastle most people think government failure is a deeply philosophical level rather than as an analytical level based on empirical evidence. if i have a contribution to make to the people at kate know, it may be to enrich that particular kind of evidence for conclusions that you probably have no need for fortification about. i am also delighted to be on a panel whiff wally olson with the my work for for 30 years. and something i contributed to in 1980s and also to be on a panel with one whose work i respected for so long. i begin with the notion of a crisis. an

now joining us at duke university on booktv is claude piantadosi. what doo-doo do for a living? >>guest: ims physician. taking care of patients with respiratory diseases i have a strong interest in extreme environments and with a strange environment. >>host: where did that interest come from? >> might tom and in the submarine force during the cold war and of course, submarines are controlled environments. with the problem of with life-support is the spacecraft environment. >>host: you have written a book about space "mankind beyond earth" the history, science, and future of space exploration". d is a u.s. space program should be revived or renewed? >> that was one of the major reasons for writing the book. yes. i think we are languishing right now. americans in general don't share the same excitement before with space exploration as they did when i was a boy during the early days of may and space flight and there are a lot of reasons to want to continue with that program involves humans on manned missions. >>host: what is the difference in your view of the manner and manned spac

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m.n sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on "after words "in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> next on booktv, max brooks recounts the first african-american regiment to fight in world war i. the 369th infantry regiment dubbed the harlem hellfighters. he spoke at the free library of pennsylvania for a little urn an hour. a little under an hour. [applause] >> thank you. can you guys hear me if i just talk like this? can you guys hear me in the back? you can't? all right, how's this? or is this not even -- oh, this is on. wow. thank you for coming. i've got to say, this is new for