tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> i first met sally ride in 1981 when, as a correspondent for abc news, i was invited to join the team covering the then-upcoming space shuttle program. the first shuttle flew in april of '81. so in january of '81, i joined our group going down to the johnson space center in houston to start preparing the stories ahead of time. and we had a great team. i'm sure you will remember many of them. the anchorman was frank reynolds, the abc anchorman who knew, who was extremely knowledgeable about space. our space correspondent was jules bergman who, essentially, who had sort of half invented the field of science journalism and was brilliant at what he did. i was brought in to be what i now describe, it's like in the baseball booth, i was the color guy, right? i was supposed to do the feature stories and all that. because of a variety of incidents, i wound up anchoring and becoming the lead space reporter and anchoring almost all the shuttle liftoffs and landings for the first five years, and it was t

send us an e-mail to booktv it's c-span.org, tweet us @booktv, or post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. >> and you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. up next, new york senator kirsten gillibrand. she talks about her life in politics is and encourages women to make a difference in the world. at 7:45, a debate on foreign policy featuring dinesh d'souza. on "after words" at 9 p.m., ken silverstein looking at corruption in the international oil industry. edward baptist contends that slavery drove the united states' transformation into a global economic force at 10 p.m. eastern. and we wrap up tonight's prime time programming at 11 p.m. with two operation iraqi freedom veterans discussing the current state of iraq. that all happens next on c-span2's booktv. >> senator kirsten gillibrand talks about her life in politics and calls for women to rise up and make a difference in the world. this is about 45 minutes. ms. . [applause] >> it's just such a pleasure for me to introduce two extraordinary women tonight and two extraordinary voices in our nation's pu

booktv, television for serious readers. >> here are some programs to watch on booktv this weekend. today we bring you the 2014 brooklyn book festival from new york. coverage includes panels on city planning, politics, nelson mandela, voting rights and public education. on "after words," matt ricket el tells the story of a tragic car accident due to texting and the effect technological distractions have on society. steve almond and gregg easterbrook take a critical look at football. also books about political power of the super rich, women in the civil war, the drafting of the emancipation proclamation and intelligent machines. for more information on this weekend's schedule, visit us online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some of the best selling nonfiction books according to "the washington post": >> that's this week's list of nonfiction bestsellers according to the washington post. >> host: and as booktv continues its tour of the new york public library, we are now joined by the curator of the library. how did you get to that position? >> guest: well, i worked in the library,

. >> you are watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see online at booktv.org. >> as a part of booktv's recent visit to saint paul, minnesota, we stoppe stopped by the minnesa historical society library to learn about the impact st. paul has had on pop culture on a national scale. >> our library stacks and the like to think of it as a library of libraries. the native american material which is especially rich in the minnesota native americans. we have a nearly complete collection of books from the 19 century on the civil war and beating of that on the abolitionist movement. so this is a little bit of a glimpse. what i've done is pulled some of my favorites, the things that i consider treasures and love and i'm going to show those to you individually. a good place would be to start with our map collection. we've collection of 50,000 maps and they go from the mid-1500s to maps that were probably on the press yesterday. we get maps daily. this is a map from 1581, and i like starting with this would have a grou

weekend booktv is in st. paul, minnesota, with the help of our local cable partner, comcast. next we sit down with our author and her book, the late homecoming. very the twin cities is the largest home to the hmong community in the united states. >> it was 1975 and the vietnam war the way the world knew it was or where. so those that still lived in the mountains where my mother and father had been living, the communist government that came to government in 1975 declared a death warrant against the hmong. in may 1975, the newspaper of the parties people had announced the agenda. it is necessary for the hmong minority. the north vietnamese allies began a systematic campaign to kill off the hmong who believed in the tenets of democracy and the nonbelieving communists rule. while many have been killed, the remnants of their fight remain today. and their mothers and their fathers and their sons and their neighbors, the secret war, the biggest covert operation in cia history and the ramifications that would tear in

posted to our facebook page or send an e-mail booktv@c-span.org. >> next on booktv after words with guest host or when it's time a professor this week award winning journalist william burroughs and his latest book the asteroid threat to former professor details several their recent collisions. he discusses the likelihood of impact in the future and what if anything can be done to defend against it. this program is about an

. >> it's been covered in the past by booktv. you can go to booktv.org, click in his clicking his name and watch his past programs online. one more but you want to tell us about? >> one more book which is code section 60 and is a biography of that part the active part where the veterans of the iraq war in afghanistan war are very -- was a profile biography portrait if you will of the national shrine that we have because that is the active part of arlington. it's particularly residents today so it takes us behind the scenes of how the cemetery actually works starting with the burial from the iraq war. so you understand there is a living and breathing organization,, organisms. arlington is an organism. he wrote a book called on hallowed ground which was a history of the cemetery and i've never been there before. i have rarely been so moved as riding and walking around arlington. so it is a biography if you will of the active section of arlington which affects every one everyone in the country in one way or another. >> as some of th

this is booktv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> booktv asks what you reading this summer? >> well, i like to read anything that is well-written. right now i'm reading a presidential biography about president wilson, almost 800 pages long. but really goes into that era. much has changed but with biographiesing are always something interesting and he is a president i didn't know that much about so i've enjoyed it. i'm halfway through it. >> what are you reading this summer? tell us what is on your summer reading list. tweet it, post it to our facebook page or send us an e-mail. ... >> >>

send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. tweet us at booktv. post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. >> up next on booktv, mark obama ndesandjo, president barack obama's half brother talks about his relationship with the president and disputes barack obama's take on their family history as it appears in dreams from my father. this is of little over an hour. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to bonds and noble. our special guest this evening, mark obama ndesandjo, is the half-brother of president barack obama. in his new book "an obama's journey," marc offers another glimpse of their father, once married to barack's mother and mark's jewish-american mother ruth, a kenyan border american pianist, writer, businessman, mark uses his talents to work with orphans and is donating a portion of the profits of this book to promote art education among the children around the globe. please join me in welcoming mark obama ndesandjo. [applause] >> hello, everyone, how are you doing today? great, great. i am so very honored to be here at barnes an

. >> you're watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. up next, booktv attends hillary clinton's book signing for her memoir "hard choices." the former secretary of state signs her book at costco in arlington, virginia. [inaudible conversations] >> hi, everybody. [cheering] [applause] >> okay, let's get started. >> woo-hoo! >> lil'. -- hillary. [inaudible conversations] >> all the way up. all the way up. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> you live here in washington? i do. >> that nice down there. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] nod conversation -- [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you, sir. thank you. >> hi. thank you. thank you for coming. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inau

[applause] >> this is his booktv on c-span2. doris kearns goodwin the 14th annual national book festival. kelly and lost all of those california you are on the air. >> caller: thank you so much for your presentation. the question i was looking at a target announced that i want to say thank you for the response you gave to point to go about the importance of what's going on in the world today and the need for us as active as to speak out and voice the problems that we see. thank you. >> you are very welcome. in fact it's interesting the clue or the gui wrot and the importance of act of his own. he said the end onto all about us and without citizens taking on an active role in our country, we despair over what is happening in washington, the dysfunction of the legislature, the fields of one another we despair of our money in politics, which i think is the poison in the system. [applause] it's all up to us and we can't wait for somebody else to do it. >> i want to take it back to "the bully pulpit" for a minute. you talk about tech

this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> booktv is on facebook. like us to get publishing news, setted alling updates, behind the scenes pictures and videos, author information and to talk directly with authors during the live programs. facebook.com/booktv. >> some of your language that you have used has certainly -- you talk about this, the politically correct police you call them, the pc police a little bit on this, but word does matter and it did offend both. so, why not curtail some of your language? >> well, what offends people that i've said? >> i think it depends on their point of view. maybe your political positions. all sorts of ways people get offended. >> when i talk about political correctness, i'm talking about not being able to express how you actually feel. >> host: so, in saving our children, some african-americans would say, slavery was this to compare the national debt to slavery is doing a disservice to slavery. >> guest: it's the whole hyper sensitivity thing. a lot of things don't bother people and then somebody comes, did you

. >> this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here's our prime time lineup. tonight at 9 p.m. eastern, merle comber talks about her experiences as an as heymer's caregiver. at ten on "after words," the story of a tragic car wreck due to texting while driving. our prime time programming continues at 11 p.m. on vaccinations. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> host: and we're pleased to be joined by david treuer. here is one of his -- or his only nonfiction book. mr. treuer, what does it mean to be from the res? >> guest: great question. and it was a question even though i'm from a resignation, i grew up on a resignation, and -- reservation, and i moved back for various long periods of my life, i didn't have an answer to that. reservations are so varied, so complex, i think so crucial both to the indians from them and to the rest of the country, i didn't have a good answer and that's sort of, in a sense, why i wrote the book. >> host: you used the word indian, not native american. >> guest: yeah. this is only me, and i'm only talking for myself, bu

justice o'connor thanks for being with us on booktv. . .

justice o'connor thanks for being with us on booktv. >> thank you. up next on booktv "after words" with guest host niger innis executive director of the tea party.net. this week mike gonzalez had his first book "a race for the future" how conservatives can break the liberal monopoly on hispanic americans. and at the cuban born former journalist explains that the hispanic american

kim talks to booktv at bookexpo america, the publishing industry's annual trade show held at the javits convention center in new york city. >> author suki kim, where are you from? >> guest: i'm from south korea originally. i was born and raised there, and i came to america when i was 13. >> host: why did you come to the states? >> guest: long story. you know, as all immigrants do, there was a lot of tush lends, and then i ended up in queens originally, new york, without a word of english. >> host: what do you do for a living today? >> guest: i'm a novelist and a journalist, so i published novel, literary novel was how i began writing, and then i'm coming out with a book, actually. i've been a journalist for about, since the first time i went into north korea in 2002, and that's when i first went into north korea, and then that is what i've been covering, more or less. >> host: well, that's why we invited you on booktv, to preview your book that's coming out in the fall of 2014, "without you there is no 40 us: my time with the sons of north korea's elite." how did you get a job in north

at facebook.com/booktv, or follow was on twitter at booktv. you can also visit our website, opb.org and click on news about books. spent up next, joshua horowitz, author of "war of the whales." the sun grid by the system also has the unintended consequence of addressing whales onto beaches. he discussed his book at politics & prose bookstore in washington, d.c. it's about one hour. .. so

. >> that was "after words," booktv signature program in which the nonfiction exerted by journalists, public policymakers and others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every week and i'm a tv at 10:00 p.m. on saturday, 12:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on sunday and 12:00 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 topic clips on the up right side of the page. >> ucla's balerie matsumoto sat down to talk about her book on the "city girls" about the second generation of japanese-american women and the years surrounding world war ii. this 20 minute interview as part of a tedious college series. >> host: valerie matsumoto, when did japanese immigration to the united states began and really take off? >> guest: well, the first to come or students in the 1890s and they were seeking western tip knowledge he nhtsa knowledge to strengthen imperial rule. but actually they were soon followed by a huge number of workers who are looking for economic opportunities. so the first went to hawaii, but by the 1900s, m

that happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> host: we continue this tour for booktv.e joined by isaac gewirtz. what do you do? >> host: i am curator of the henry w. and albert a. berg book collection here at the berg collection of english literature in american literature. and i work in st. mark's library. and i got a doctorate in science history and that led to me being here. >> host: how long have you been as part of the new york library? >> guest: i have been a curator since september 2000. >> host: you brought some things out to show us that you have in the collection. >> guest: the berg collection is 300 to 400 authors come of this is what i like to call the tip of the bird, so to speak. here we have the only surviving manuscript that was done in this man's lifetime, but it's in the hand of his secretary and personal assistant. and this has the highest authority directly from his own manuscript and you can see changes and differences between the text is presented here in the transcriptions and mistakes that were made in the first edition that were perpetuated thr

thank you for being with us on booktv. >> guest: thank you. >>> now on booktv, main da ripley discuss her book "the smartest kids in the world and how they got that way." this is about 45 minutes. >> on buffalo of the library of congress, welcome to the 2014 national book festival. i am editor of the sunday outlook section of the "washington post." the post has been a charter sponsor of the festival since it began in 2001. hope you're enjoying enjoying tw location here at the convention center. i should inform you that the presentations are being filmed for the library of congress' web site ask archives, so be on your best behavior. and there will be time for questions and there's mics

and on october 25th and 26th, booktv will be live from austin, texas, for the 19th annual texas book festival. the festival from the state's capital city will showcase over 275 authors. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv at c-span.org. >> malcolm byrne takes an updated look at the iran contra scandal using interviews with key participants. he argues the scandal was likely bigger than previously believed. this is about an hour and a half. ..

you're watching booktv on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. >> now he never heard of him and i did a little research and what i discovered was that not only was lincoln the most famous aviator, the greatest aviator of that age, with apologies to chuck yeager, probably the greatest aviator of any age. the things lincoln beechy did were so astounding, people wouldn't believe them except he did them in front of hundreds of thousands of people. in a country where the population was like 75 million, an estimated 20 million people saw lincoln beach fly. to give you an example, at the first great air fair, the great chicago air fair in september of 1910, beachy desperately wanted to break the altitude record. the altitude record at the time was 11,200 feet. remember these people flew in airplanes completely open. there was no cockpit. it was a frame. they flew in suits. only way to keep warm was to stuff newspapers in their clothes. beachy discovered the only way to break the altitude recor

and congratulate him on his book applause but under in -- [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> booktv covers hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. is look at some of the events we will be attending this week. look for these programs in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> for more go to our website booktv.org and visit upcoming programs. >> wwe're please be joined now y david treuer. here is his only nonfiction book, "rez life." what does it mean to be from the rez? >> great question. and it was a question even though i'm from the reservation, i grew up on a reservation, and i didn't have an answer for that. reservations are so varied, so complex. i think so crucial both to the indians from them and to the rest of the country i didn't have a good answer. in the sense that's wrote the book. >> you use the word indian, not native american. >> this is only me and i'm only talking to myself but to me, indian, native american indian, i is author interchangeably just to keep things spicy. other people care a great deal but i don't. >> does it make you more au

send us a tweet at twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on her facebook page. facebook.com/booktv. this week the national book foundation announced their long list of the 2014 national award for nonfiction. bliss will be short and to five nominees next month in preparation for announcement of the winner in new york city. this year's national long list titles for nonfiction are roz chast, "can't we talk about something more pleasant" and john demos, "the heathen school: a story of hope and betrayal in the age of the early republic". >> this is a story of faith and their connection and it's really not so much the history of such an we don't think and we don't like to think much about failure. america has developed to be a success story and a lot of books are or not. but yet i think it is important and there have been 20 of them in american history. i was actually sort of looking for a chance to write about him thing that was another success story. >> also nominated for this year's national book awards for nonfiction is anand gopal, "no good men among the living: the taliban and the w

send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. tweet us at booktv. post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. >> up next on booktv, mark obama ndesandjo, president barack obama's half brother talks about his relationship with the president and disputes barack obama's take on their family history as it appears in dreams from my father. this is of little over an hour. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to bonds and noble.

like us on facebook and facebook.com/booktv, or followers on twitter at booktv.you can also visit our website at booktv.org and click on news about books. >> monday night on the communicate is, federal trade commission or on net neutrality. privacy and data security. >> data is the tool and it can be used well and it can be used poorly. there are many benefits that can come from big data, consumer benefits that will be great insight in certain areas, many areas but some that are top of mind for me are in health care, other kinds of research reaching underserved population and providing new insights i think in some of our more difficult to solve problems that we face. but are the risks from big data as well? i think that's true. i think that you can take pieces of briefly kind of separate pieces of information and assemble them into a profile that may give sensitive insights into the consumer. the question for me is you have all these benefits, you have some risks. what do you do then? spent monday night at eight eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. >> and n

this program is next on booktv. >> there is a sense of doom, cold harbor. in the battle for the first time with my dad making our way along the park road thrown around to federate entrenchments that there was a certain sense of foreboding. it still persists today 150 years later we see the images after the war for the battlefield on the hurricane that the heavens and we read the words such as thomas hyde in the army of the potomac.

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv another 10:00 p.m. on saturday, 12:00 and 9:00 p.m. on sunday and 12:00 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online, go to book of.org and click on "after words" in the topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our primetime lineup: up next, representative james clyburn presents his biography. at 8:30, sylvia morris describes the life of claire lose booth. -- luce booth. and we wrap up the primetime programming at 11:00 with authors of "obama's enforcer: eric holder's justice department." >> representative james clyburn talks about his life from this early days in the jim crow south to a position as the third highest ranking democrat in the u.s. house of representatives. this hour-long program is next on booktv. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i'm douglas slaughter, the executive chairman of the center for african-american from culture. i want to welcome alloff you here for this great occasion; it's a blessed experience. let's give the congressman a hand. [applaus

>> every weekend booktv offers programming focus on nonfiction authors and books. keep watching for more here on c-span2 come and watch any of our past programs online at booktv.org. >> up next on booktv, "after words" with guest host niger innis, executive director of theteaparty.net. this week mike gonzalez and his first book, "a race for the future: how conservatives can break the liberal monopoly on hispanic americans," ended the cuban born former journalist explains that the hispanic american population can be persuaded vote republican but only if the party addresses the committee's core values. the program is about one hour. >> host: mike, fascinated your book, a particular in the title you refer to what i think is the politically correct term of latinos as hispanics. i'd like you to dig into that and tell me why you refer to come are supposed put it this way. how dare you refer to break out of the politically correct bubble of latinos and refer to hispanics. what are the roots of that? >> guest: thank you for that question. i think both terms are in a way fa

booktv is television for serious readers. >> this is booktv on c-span2. here is our primetime lineup. tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern, meryl comer talks about her experiences as a caregiver for alzheimer's. and a story after that on texting while driving. our primetime programming continues tonight c-span2's booktv. >> how you acquire a book? >> there are a million ways to do it. and one which is not often talked about is you really come up with an idea and you try to find the perfect writer or the person whose passion for the idea matches yours. that is one way you can make a book happen. and in other ways you make sure to talk to agents as much as possible and see what kind of experiences they are enthusiastic about. and you raise your hand in the hope that they will send you a good proposal. and sometimes you cultivate and plant ideas with them and you hope that over time that they will come up with a project that they really want to spend five or 10 ye

. >> booktv college series. this month we are at pepperdine university. wade grams have stomach booktv to talk about his book in which he looks at the nations gardens at the people who design them. this is about half an hour. >> now on the tv we want to introduce you to wade graham who is the author of american eden. >> guest: i do a series of things. i design gardens and imho the list. >> host: how did you get interested or acted. i got a chance early in life who taught me how to do it. she was quite a powerful designer. so in the defining gardens and writing about the environmental history i realized i was quite ignorant about what i was doing. i knew how to do it and i could do english garden with a modern house that is strictly i didn't know why people needed these things and it came to me quite strongly that only by ignorance but it was an interesting question. my husband has commissioned and has lots of sharp things and they said about and what you please design me in english rose garden. i thought having my going to do this first of all and what do

on c-span2. >> host: joining us on booktv is ucla professor walker what do you teach your? >> guest: and social movements n sociology. >> host: what is your background? >> as the scholar of social movements i have been interested with the rule of professionals how they help to facilitate advocacy policies including social movements as well as public participation. >> host: you have a new book called grassroots for higher. how has advocacy evolved over the years? >> sova this field of public affairs? so on behalf of a corporation in the industry group and there is something i think that is unusual to think of grassroots mobilization as a student organization social movement groups. what we have seen is a development that turns participation in today's services it is increasingly concerned about the reputation and industry groups that they need to respond to this don't want to rely on inside lobbying any more. but to plead their case like providing testimony or talking directly with policy makers. and not that conventional lobbyist. they get the mass public involved. it is no

. >> you are watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> here's a great read to add to your summer reading list, c-span slaves the "sundays at eight," a collection of source of some the nation's most influential people over the past 25 years. >> i always knew there's a risk in the bohemian national and i decided to take it because whether it's an illusion or not, i don't think it is, it helped my concentration. it stop me being bored comes to other people being bored to some extent. it would keep me away, make the evening to go on longer, prolong the conversation, enhance the moment. if i was asked what i do it again, the answer is probably

[applause] producer of booktv and they are wawing walking here. he is goton u t >> i wanted thank you for joining us on civil rights. another of there. longtime congressman joining us. james cliburn, also participated in the conversation. james brooke. generally seven, probably black. what he was talking about, it's doubly carmichael and said that about the civil-rights. i want to first of all asti we to start off with a call-in question and how many times were you arrested during the civil rights hay day? >> guest: i didn't keep track. but i talked about the first one and the last one in the book. the first one is the day i met my wife. we met in jail. the last time was in columbia, south carolina in 1961. i remember that one because that arrest led to a landmark breach of peace case called edwards against south carolina. it began a law school case that most universities use the case book method use that case to teach from. i happen to be one of those arrested that day. i remember those two. in between a lot of times we got arrested and were neve

justice o'connor thanks for being with us on booktv. >> thank you. up next on booktv "after words" with guest host niger innis executive director of the tea party.net. this week mike gonzalez had his first book "a race for the future" how conservatives can break the liberal monopoly on hispanic americans. and at the cuban born former journalist explains that the hispanic american population can be persuaded to vote republican but only at the party impresses the community's core values. the program is about an hour. >> host: mike i am fascinated by your book in particular in the title. you refer to what i think is the politically correct term of latinos as hispanics. so i would like you to dig into that and tell me why you refer to or i suppose i will put it this way, how dare you break out of the politically correct bubble of latinos and refer to hispanics. what are the roots of that? >> guest: thank you for that question. i think both terms are anyway false of their own way. the term hispanic for example is the product of the bureaucracy. bureaucrat

. >> booktv covers hundreds of other programs throughout the entire year all year long. here are some of the events we will attend this week. look for these programs to air in the near future. on monday, we are at the carter center in atlanta where it wants right is going to recount the 1978 camp david accords. that same evening, adam tanner talks about the collection and use of personal data by private companies. the following night in las vegas, sylvia longmire, special agent of the united states air force office of special investigations, takes a critical look at america's border security. and on thursday at the university of california berkeley and was in school, tom schroder reports on the use of psychedelic drugs for mental health care. and on friday from new york university, a panel discussion on feminism in the united states in 1920 through today the co-authors of feminism unfinished. that is a look at some of the author programs that we will be covering this upcoming week. go to our website at booktv.org and visit upcoming program. >> live on booktv, meryl comer

. >> that was "after words," booktv signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction bookse interviewed by journalists, public policymakers and others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every weekend on book tv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch a "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on "after "after words" in the book tv series and topics listed on the upper right side of the page. >>> here's a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. valery sat down with booktv to talk about her books to the girls about the experiences of american-born second-generation japanese-americans. in the years around in world war ii. this 20 minute interview is part of booktv college series. >> valerie, when did japanese immigration to the united states begin and really take off? >> the first students in the 1890s and they were seeking western technology and the idea of their knowledge in order to strengthen imperial rules put actually they were soon followed by a number of workers

>> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> here's a great read to add to your summer reading list, c-span slaves the "sundays at eight," a collection of source of some the nation's most influential people over the past 25 years. >> i always knew there's a risk in the bohemian national and i decided to take it because whether it's an illusion or not, i don't think it is, it helped my concentration. it stop me being bored comes to other people being bored to some extent. it would keep me away, make the evening to go on longer, prolong the conversation, enhance the moment. if i was asked what i do it again, the answer is probably yes. i would've quit earlier possibly hoping to get away with the whole thing. easy for me to say. of course, not nice for my children to hear, if i say i would do all that they can do you. the truth is it would be hypocritical to say no, i would never touch the stuff if i had known. because i did know. everyone knows. >> the soviet union and the soviet system i

on booktv. last week, the national book festival was held in washington, d.c. with live coverage from authors of histories and biographies. this weekend watch our coverage from the science pavilion including authors michio kaku, lynn scherr and david sinly. for a complete schedule, visit us online. and throughout the weekend, interviews and tours from booktv's recent visit to cheyenne, wyoming. plus, mike gonzalez on "after words" discusses his book "a race for the future." he talks about the book with niger innis, the executive director of the teaparty.net. and books on richard nixon, war and the economy and much more. for more on this weekend's schedule, visit us online at booktv.org: >> host: and you're watching booktv on c-span2. we are on location at pepperdine university in malibu, california, as part of our university series. we like to visit universities and colleges and talk to professors who are also authors. joining us now is craig detweiler. his book, "igods: how technology shapes ou

. >> this weekend booktv is in cheyenne, wyoming, with the help of our local cable partner, charter. next we sit down with author sue castaneda whose book "the hitching post inn: wyoming's second capitol" takes a look at the unique importance in wyoming's political landscape. >> what the hitching post was was a center of activity for not only cheyenne, wyoming, but actually for the rest of the state of wyoming. it was a central part in politics, in cheyenne frontier days and even on a smaller level people's everyday slides, rodrigues, kiwanis meetings, wedding receptions, parties. anything that was big was happening in cheyenne was happening at the hitching post in. it was built in about 1925 which started with the lincoln court when peter smith is that after he and his brother had tried homestead and growing potatoes, well, there's a lot of potato growing in this part of wyoming, so once the homestead deal for them was overcome he decided that this road which is the lincoln highway, that there was a lot of people at that point finally starting to travel and he wanted to start a hote

sally satel and practicing psychologist thank you for being on booktv.ive coverage of the national book festival at the washington convention center. we have several more authors of author paul in an defense. and then we have the civil-rights called it roundtable we will talk about it to them in square and also the bully pulpit with the carlyle group david rubin stain who was one of the sponsors of the national book festival. in just a few minutes we'll talk to the author the most recent book of the politics of for -- more. the book is called the second act after that we will have the chat with sandra day o'connor this is booktv on c-span2. >> host: we are joined to be have are set former justice of the supreme court scienter day o'connor this is the fifth book with the history of the supreme

justice o'connor thanks for being with us on booktv. >> guest: thank you. .. >> >> for >> >> no one could survive without that fantastic resource. as you have heard i teach history at lassiter a cattery you should know teachers ask that i don't lecture we have class's around a normal table and it is discussion. i of not a lecture so this is a bit of an experiment. much like the early days. [laughter] a couple of weeks ago i was in new york city and to tour at the museum if you ever have a chance, i'd do it. it was called hard times and featured a italian immigrants from the 1920's and '30's that lived in a three-room apartmentsoçy very dark even in the day. the building was built 1863. he was a cabinet maker fleer 1929 when jobs became fewer and farther between. there was not a lot of detail how they got by during these years but i suspect they had some assistance from their parish church or other charities. i know that they did get some food allowances from the city because there were boxesd<ñ that contained cream cheese. there was also a radio. that must have been the leader edition be

i think booktv is one of the smartest things on television. when tv was first invented, everybody hoped television would be. too bad there isn't a cable channel devoted to it. i am glad c-span is doing it. it is really important. i can't tell you how many books i bought because i watch that and i get information too. >> i don't watch booktv anymore because i can't figure out what is going to be shown. i used to watch it over the weekend and comcast in massachusetts does not tell me. it just keeps saying to be announced or they will be talking about some book but only give you the first two words of the chapter, they don't say it -- it doesn't tell you what is coming on. because i don't know what is going to be on i don't know whether to stay home or watch it or take it or anything. >> the best news source i have at the moment. i love your show. i watched it for years. keep up the good work. >> continue to let us know what you think of the programs you are watching. said 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments@c-span.org or send a tweet to c-span@c

that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> up next on booktv, david cross recounts his road trip to all the presidential libraries. he speaks from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library in hyde park, new york which is home to the annual roosevelt reading festival. this

posted to our facebook page or send an e-mail booktv@c-span.org. >> next on booktv after words with guest host or when it's time a professor this week award winning journalist william burroughs and his latest book the asteroid threat to former professor details several their recent collisions. he discusses the likelihood of impact in the future and what if anything can be done to defend against it. this program is about an hour. >> today i'm talking with william burroughs about his work the asteroid threat. i guess i would characterize it as the story of how astronomers, scientists, engineers might someday save the world and how would you characterize the? >> guest: i think you did very well. i would characterize it by saying my point is that we don't have to be the hapless hopeless victims of nature. my friends at nasa and elsewhere in the space community say that they would have to dinosaur program and still be here. we have the wherewithal in the book the most important point of the book is that it explains and comes out with a plan and the plan was not invented by any but is pretty un

>> up next on booktv "after words" with guest host maggie jackson, author of distracted. this week's matt richtel and his latest book is "a deadly wandering" a tale of tragedy and redemption in the age of attention. in it a "new york times" reporter tells the story of a tragic car accident due to texting from impact through the court proceeding. he combines the disturbing real-life story with a thorough examination of the distractions of technology and their impact on society. the program is about an hour. >> host: hello. i'm here today hosting "after words" with matt richtel and congratulations on your new and very powerful book, "a deadly wandering" it. i think it's a story about a crash and yet so much more. it's a story and you write about tragedy and redemption and i say you could call it the canary in the coal mine type case of how we are living with technology both in distracted and constructive ways. i think we have a lot to talk about and i want to welcome you. >> guest: where was that when i needed an elevator pitch? >> host: i wanted to welcome you and start of

from booktv. this is 25 minutes. >> our next speaker is emily miller and her book "emily gets her gun: but obama wants to take yours." emily miller is the chief investigative reporter for the fox affiliate wttg channel 5 in washington, d.c. she served as senior editor at the washington times and a colummonopocolu columnist at aol. she served as deputy press secretary at the department of state for both powell and rise. and serves as communication director to tom delay. she graduated from georgetown university school of foreign service. please welcome emily miller. [applause] >> thank you for coming. always hard to follow a big act but i know you can do it. >> i think i can do it. i am talking about guns which brings out interest. thank you for having me. i am honored to be here and present with all of you and i wish ms. slots was here but she is here in spirit and set such an example for conservative woman that we are still fighting for. i am talking about guns. and on the cover you can see me hol

that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> up next on booktv, david cross recounts his road trip to all the presidential libraries. he speaks from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library in hyde park, new york which is home to the annual roosevelt reading festival. this is about 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone. i am the deputy director at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential museum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the eleventh annual roosevelt reading festival. when fdr established the first presidential library at his home in hyde park he imagined it being the premier research center for the study of the roosevelt era and we are consistently one of the busiest research rooms in the presidential library system and one of the reasons we love this so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our research rooms throughout the year so it is our pleasure to have you here. let me quickly go over the format of the day as well as a couple housekeeping matters. the first thing is will everyone take out your elec

. >> on the weekend on c-span2 is usually booktv. i really enjoyed that and it looks like maybe you are experimenting trying to find a new format. i want to discourage it. i just think that booktv is one of the smartest things on television. when tv was first invented i think it's what everybody hoped television would be. it's too bad there isn't a cable channel devoted to it that i'm glad c-span is doing it. it's really important and i can't tell you how many books i have bought because i have watched that. i just watch it for general information too. >> i'm glad to tell you that i don't watch booktv anymore because i can't figure out what's going to be shown. i used to watch it over the weekend and comcast in massachusetts, it doesn't tell me. it just keeps saying to be announced or it says they are going to be talking about some book but they only give you the first two words of the chapter. it will say the second second word and it doesn't tell you what's going to be coming on. because i don't know what's going on i don't know wh

for these titles and book stores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org your. >> on a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the new york public library where we spoke with the library's president and ceo, anthony marx, but the history of the institution as well as its current operations and future. >> let's start with some numbers. how big is the new york public library? how many employees, budget, et cetera? >> new york public library combines the largest circulating branch library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the boroughs we serve, as well as for important research libraries. this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also the schomburg center and harlem, the library for performing arts, the lincoln said, science industry and business library. have about 2100 employees. we have a budget of about $280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york. largely to pay for the circulating library system in all the neighborhoods. the other half comes from a return on a