send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org, tweet us booktv our post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. here's a look at some books being published this week. for these titles and book stores this coming week and watched for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> utah and about being overworked in a good way, happily overworked. tell us a little bit about that. i think there's always something way more work than people. you know, how do you bring that into the culture and make that a positive thing? >> we've been criticized over the sort of general term because it somehow doesn't sound right. let's explain what we mean. that kind of people who we want to working in our company in georgia working in your company or people who are going to do this because they love it. and they work more or less all the time the best they can whether or not they think they also enjoyed like being with family, raising the kids, going to the movies or what have you. in other words, they are intense people. so with the overworked in a good way, that's the context we mean it in. if the

you can also join us at facebook.com/booktv. if you're in the area, come on down. c-span bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. the sun is shining. it's about 83 degrees. a little breezy but otherwise it's a great day for the street fair that happens here at the miami book fair. opec chapman hall which is at miami-dade college which is where the book fair is held, there's the room that we will be broadcasting live from all day long. the first panel is just about to start. you can see a full room in there. pamela paul will be leading the discussion to new times book review editor, walter mosley is participating. this is live coverage. the panel will begin in just a minute. booktv on c-span2, 40 hours of nonfiction books every weekend. >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

on booktv?send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. tweet us @booktv or post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. >> here's a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country: >> 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-span.org. >> coming up next, william easterly, co-director of the new york university development research institute, sat down with booktv to discuss his latest book, "the tyranny of experts." this interview is part of booktv's college series. it's about 20 minutes. >> host: nyu professor william easterly, in your book "the tyranny of experts: economists, dictators and the forgotten rights of the poor," what's your message? >> guest: my message is the tragedy of the fight against global poverty is that we have forgotten about the rights of the poor. and that often can make the poor worse off rather than better off, unfortunately. >> host: how are

this is booktv on c-span2. we have been called into the ballroom for dinner so we are going to end our red carpet coverage at this time. i don't know if you can lifted that camera up and give everybody a view of the whole room. this is held in an old exchange bill binney 1800s. this is their banquet hall and about 1000 people attended this. it's $1000 a ticket. again, five nonfiction finals but we talk to all of them tonight, for different award categories. poetry, young adults, fiction and nonfiction. and finally to literary achievement awards are being given out. >> you're watching booktv's coverage of the 65th annual national book award on c-span2. >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats as we begin the medal ceremony. ladies and gentlemen, daniel handler. ♪ ♪ >> good evening, fellow literary nerds. my name is daniel handler no to the world as lemony snicket. welcome to national book awards. [applause] >> welcome to national book awards, some random day in november, the 19th i think, thanksgiving is

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our face book page, facebook.com/booktv. >> this was the night of september 9th, 2009, still highly popular president spoke to a joint session of congress and there was in the air with tennessee williams big daddy pilot might have called the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity. among the mendacious lines cried out that night was this one. nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. let me repeat this. nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have. at the time obama said this he may have thought it was true and yet i went back and checked the record on this and within two days of that announcement there were serious dissents in major publications. is impossible pecans do this and get away with it. the first time we give, as. the next 45 times, no past but that is not what got wilson rile the bands may have been one of the things that got him riled the been a number of things but when obama denounced the claim that his proposed health care system would not in short,

this is booktv on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. >> there was a time i had five -- i learned and understood this in the course of writing the book. i had five families on television, and i had one on moon crist drive. the one on moon crist drive, the kids got up and drove to school. i think i drove them to school sometimes, but they didn't need me to drive, they were able to get to school. the ones on television needed me to breathe. they needed me to be alive. and that's where i paid my attention. now, i don't think that's peculiar to, you know, the work i was doing. i think there were doctors and lawyers and, you know, people in all kinds of work whose work dominates their lives and defines who they are for the time they're doing it. and i was defined more by what i was doing than what i was -- on the air than what i was doing on moon crist drive. >> and yet you begin, this is full of detail of your childhood. and having written a memoir myself, like many successful peop

it's part of booktv's college series. this is about half an hour. >> host: "toms river" is the name of the book, winner of the pulitzer prize for general nonfiction last year. nyu professor dan fagin is the author. professor fagin, what is toms river? >> guest: well, peter, toms river is a town in new jersey. it's actually a small city at this point. and i wrote about it because toms river was a town like any other town for a couple hundred years until the chemical industry came to town in 1952. and that changed everything in toms river. this book tells the story of everything that happened next. >> host: first of all, what kind of town is toms river? or was it when you were writing about it? >> guest: well, before the chemical industry came to town it was a sleepy place where there were tourists from the summer from philly and new york city, but mostly there were farmers, chicken farming was a big thing in toms river. it was a quiet place. and then it started to grow very rapidly once the chemical industry came to town a

[applause] >> booktv is on twitter and facebook. twitter.com/booktv.nt on our face book page, facebook.com/booktv. booktv asked bookstores and libraries about the nonfiction books they must anticipate being published this fall. the title is buy books and books bookstore. the list begins with reflections on medicine at the end of life in being more. that is a look at some of the nonfiction titles, books and books that are most anticipated being published this fall. visit the bookstore in coral gables, florida or online at books and books.com. >> welcome to herbal tea va's live coverage of the miami book fair. this is the seventeenth year in a row booktv has come to miami and broadcast several of the nonfiction authors to our national audience. 20 hours of live coverage, 25 authors today and tomorrow. some of the office you will hear from and talk to today include cornell west, richard dawkins, norman lear and two of the guards at the benghazi complex. full schedule of coverage is beyond the schedule on booktv.org, the c-span bus is down here, we are pas

>> e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> booktv sat down with linda gordon to talk about her by biography, on dorthea lange. it is about one half hour. >> host: linda gordon, who was dorthea lange? >> guest: many people don't know her name, but i can very tell you that everyone in the country knows her photographs. one of her photographs, which is often called my grandmother, has been called the most in this photograph in america, sort of the michael jordan of photographs. it's been in every textbook. what is a visual image that you have of the great depression, they will describe this photograph. >> host: or was the photograph taken? >> guest: it was taken in california. it's interesting because she was the main person in the center of the u.s. during the great depression. and these were migrant workers who moved along from field to field from one agriculture operation to another. this particular woman had been in her family had been working on seasonally. but it was work herriot crop was destroyed and they were putting their best in when there was no work, hoping that they would find wo

booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] >> host: making his way across the red carpet is the other finalist with a first book age of ambition. congratulations what is your book about? >> my book is about china where i lived eight years it is between the people like david tutto and though a very fortunate for grumman sarah "the chicago tribune" then i was hired by "the new yorker" magazine and i have spent their six years. i have been in the west for one year when you come home that sense of wonder and curiosity leads you. you got to run an errand and something happens and it becomes part of your story. >> a lot of books are written about china and the relationships that is. how did you approach it? >> writing those our product and experience not washington but living through this transformation of that country? going through a similar rapid development process so that piqued my a curiosity. >> host: who is one of the folks that you followed? >> is not the person that i set out that is from the seri

"after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m.on sunday come and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch a "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the booktv series of topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> booktv covers hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we will be attending this week. look for these programs to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> for more go to our website, booktv.org and visit upcoming programs. >> you describe what a wonderful "popular science" detail here why dogs are so good. tell us what you think most people don't know about why, the kinds of things dogs can do that we can't you? >> example i've been using is, from my education, it's not my own they call it hamburger. what we recognize is that dogs are smelling all the ingredients and they can pull them out. this becomes important in searching for ieds because the composition of a particular homemade explosive is never going to be exactly

or follow us on twitter at booktv. you can visit our website, booktv.org and click on news about books. >> next, mark whitaker talks about the life and grip of bill cosby. including mr. cosby's political activism since the 1960s, it's education, philanthropy and the cosby effect which mr. whitaker says played an important role in the election of president obama. mr. whitaker spoke at the st. louis county library in missouri. this is just under one hour. >> thanks so much out of me. so invariably when i talk about this book, people say bill cosby, he's so funny. are you going to be funny? well, i've got to warn you about a comedian. but i will tell you one of bill cosby's favorite jokes. it takes place at the gates of heaven, the pearly gates on a day when so many people have arrived that there isn't room for everybody. so \saint/st.\{-l}street peter announces to all these people waiting in line that he's going to have a little contest, and that is going to ask everybody to write down the question for god. and if god ca

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tweet us at the booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> this week booktv takes a look at national public radio's list of best selling nonfiction books. >> that's this week's bestsellers according to npr. >> you were a whopping 27 years old. you would finish middle school but you're just getting started in your hd efforts in microbiology at the institute of tropical medicine in antwerp. a mysterious test tube sample show up in terrible condition, and you figure out that there's some new disease in africa, and you have the chutzpah to turn and say i know i'm only 27, but i want to go there. i want to go to africa, let me go. i want to be in the middle of this adventure. how could you have such come where did all this call come from? >> eye gouge a timid and shy person. my mother always said speaking is the silver silence golden, but anyway i think i'm a bit different. i was for so i had an incredible urge for discovery from when i was a child and when i was a teenager i worked for a travel agency and what one month to morocco, one month to turkey at the time it was basically no terr

send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. tweet us at booktv or post to our wall facebook.com/booktv. this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here is the prime-time lineup, stephen johnson looks at six innovations that made the water world. >> next google eric smith end jonathan rosenberg talk about the lessons they learned while helping to grow google and described how the company and website work today. during this event hosted by the computer history museum, the co-authors of how google works are interviewed by marissa mayer, president and ceo of yahoo!. this event is 75 minutes long. >> our subject tonight is how google works of man we will examine that question in more than just theory. google vice-president eric schmidt and jonathan rosenberg is here to discuss their new titles. most of all, it is an authentic inside look at the culture and practices behind one of the world's most successful companies. what a moderator we have to lead the discussion. marissa mayer, president and ceo of yahoo!, herself the 20th employee of google. she saw a lot of this from the

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our face book page, facebook.com/booktv. >> you are watching booktv with nonfiction books and doctors every weekend. booktv. television for serious readers. and now booktv continues with more nonfiction authors and books. >> for information on this television schedule visit us online at booktv.org. >> david rosenberg, who runs an investment firm, global investments, he runs an ohio-based collection agencies that was involved in a number of federal and state investigations for abusive collection tacti

booktv, television for serious readers. >> and now booktv continues with more nonfiction authors and books. on afterwards, jonathan hyde presents the history of the birth control pill. bill nye talks about the theory of evolution and argues to teach creationism alongside evolution in science class is not only wrong but dangerous. thomas read profiles president ronald reagan, jill look for discusses the history of feminism and daniel schulman looks at the coke brothers. for more information on this weekend's four they television scheduled visit us online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. norman mailer's authorized biographer and archivist michael lind and prevents the edited collection selected letters of norman mailer. and her brilliant career, rachel clarke writes about the lives of ten female pioneers of

send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. >> it seems to me it's important to start talking in persuasive and critical terms about what an athletic education might be all about and how it might dovetail with the intellectual education. in the book i want to talk about the acquisition of character. i had opportunity to acquire character. i was terribly bad at football, that the most basic kind of football activity took me days and weeks and planning and reflection and vision. it took me to a half weeks simply to learn how to run in my pads. i would get out there everyday and i would feel like i am locked in a closet, chained up. i cannot move. everybody else was lying around me. winick icu can't move and you're on the scrimmage field, they think i have an idea. you are their idea. the next thing you know you have blood coming out of your nose and you're looking at the sky. the sky is beautiful but blood does not help. i have to learn to run through my pads and it worked and i work. i repeated and repeated. finally, like a bolt from the blue, a coach said, stop that. run through your pads.

we appreciate you stopping by our booktv set prior to your activities. >> guest: well, we thank you for being here, and i look forward to a busy, busy day for you guys as well. >> host: mitch kaplan founder, and by the way, he's also the opener of books -- owner of books and books bookstores down here in the miami area. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. .. >> in "civil rights and the making of the modern american state," naacp one examines how the civil rights movement and particularly the naacp affected the american political lens the century. this event is an hour. >> i will introduce megan ming francis. i will talk a little bit more about the professional and personal. megan ming francis is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the university of washington at seattle. she won her b.a. in political science and economics at rice university in 2003 and soon after in 2008 she earned her doctorate in polit

booktv, television for serious readers. in -- >> and now, four days of booktv on c-span2. our holiday schedule features justice john paul stevens on amending the constitution, former neurosurgeon ben carson talks politics with chuck todd, doris kerns goodwin remembers presidents road svelte and taft -- roosevelt and taft. plus a profile of simon & schuster, books on the pros and cons of football and a tour of the new york public library. for more information on this weekend's four-day television schedule, visit us online at booktv.org. >> up next, ronald kessler, author of "the first family detail," discusses what secret service agents have revealed about our presidents over the years and talks about the recent scandals involving the agency. he spoke at barnes & noble booksellers in washington d.c. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. let's see, there. i guess that'll work. as you can tell from the titles of my books, i like to write about secret subjects, paren my very challenging subjects that -- preferably, very challe

[applause] [applause] >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2. keep watching for more television for serious readers. >> booktv continues its tour of the new public library. we are joined -- what you do your? >> i'm the curator of the berg collection of english american literature. >> how did you get that position? >> i worked in the new york public library in the past. i was in the rare book division, slater curator at southern methodist university. and downtown at the st. mark's library. data doctorate and all that led to my being here. >> how long have you been your? >> as a curator i've been there since september 2000. >> you've brought some things out to show us that you have in the collection. what are you going to shows? >> well, berg is an enormous collection. tens of thousands of printed items, but this is what i like to call the tip of the berg so speak. him have the only surviving manuscript of john downes holy sonnets satires and paradoxes that was done in his own lifetime. it's not in his hand but it's in the hands of the se

[applause] >> booktv is on facebook. like us to get scheduling updates, behind the scenes pictures and videos, author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. facebook.com/booktv. >> this week booktv takes a look at some of the nonfiction books on library journals 2014 list of best books. >> to see other notable books of 2014, visit booktv's web site, booktv.org. >> be well, i think within the last 50 years what we've seen is increasing consolidation. but the big problem that the food industry faces in the united states at least is that there's too much food. we produce in this country plus imports, less exports roughly twice the number of calories that the population needs on a daily basis. there are about 4,000 calories available in the food supply every day, and people need about 2,000. these are ballpark figures. so the food industry is very competitive. and it has to find lots and lots of ways to sell food. and in doing that, as the number of calories in the food supply increase, the f

send an e-mail to booktv at c-span.org, send us a tweet or post on our wall at facebook.com/booktv. during the recent visit to madison, wisconsin, we spoke to erika janik about the early history and politics. >> i decided to write books that covered all of the history because i'm not from madison. i grew up in the suburb of seattle and i moved here not really knowing very much about wisconsin or the place that i was living in. and so i started learning more about it as i spent more time here and i really wanted to write a book for someone like me who may be given will appear in wasn't familiar with the history as well as people who have lived here their whole lives and had no idea what the story was. i think one of the things that was the most surprising to me about learning about the history of medicine was how hard they had to hang on to be in the capital of wisconsin. they were in constant jeopardy of losing status and i think that that has something to do with how they began. it began at on a piece of paper. it was proposed that it would become the state capital but first the te

of booktv and they are wawing walking here. he is going to join us to do a call-in on civil rights. we are pleased to have another author long-term senator joining us, james clyburn. congressman, we wanted to take a fun what peniel joseph was talking about with stokely carmichael and do a call-in segment with their viewers on civil rights. i want to start by asking you how many times were you arrested during the civil rights heyday movement? >> guest: i have never kept count of the number of times i was arrested. i write in the book about two of them. the first one and the last one. i remember very well the first one. i met my wife. we met in jail and that became a real blessing for me. the last time was in columbia south carolina in 1961. i remember that one so well because that arrests led to a landmark reach of peace case against south carolina. it began the law school, a law school case that most universities that use the casebook method used that case. i happen to have been one of those arrested that day and so i remember those. in between a lot of times we got arrested and wer

booktv will be attending the national press club annual book fair and offer night. and then booktv is live on c-span2 at the national book awards from new york city. on november 22 and 23rd, booktv will be live from the miami book fair international. >> many people who were infected with ebola could not remember making any mistakes at all. they thought that the decontamination process was concise but they got it anyway. in any event, one day one individual didn't come to work and they found out that he was keeping himself a home and he had isolated him till and he was feeling ill. a notice for a few days previously that he had been taken off alone uncharacteristically and sitting in a plastic chair and smoking a cigarette and looking into space. he never smoked in the ward but he was now. later they thought that he knew he was coming down with ebola and he wanted to protect him self and the staff. when they send someone to his house, they took a blood sample and he was positive for ebola. about when he decided that he needed to get himself away because his presence

it's part of booktv's college series. this is about half an hour. >> host: "toms river" is the name of the book, winner of the pulitzer prize for general nonfiction last year. nyu professor dan fagin is the author. professor fagin, what is toms river?

the upper right side of the page. >> next on booktv person george w. bush discusses a biography of his father with andy card who served as white house chief of staff for bush 43 and secretary of transportation for president bush 41. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> today is a very special day in the life of the george bush presidential library foundation and is special because we gather for the book launch of "41" a portrait of my father fittingly on veterans day. today we have both the author and subject

look for these programs to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. on monday we're at the jewish community center of san francisco for former cia operative robert baer's talk on the history of political assassinations. the next evening at the university of pennsylvania be bookstore in philadelphia, stephen -- [inaudible] examines the life of josef stalin from the first of his three-volume biography. on wednesday, james robins recounts the military career of general george custer in hudson, ohio. and on thursday in brooklyn, new york, mark leibovich, chief national correspondent for "the new york times" magazine, profiles several politicians and members of the media. that's a look of some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more, go to our web site, booktv.org, and visit "upcoming programs." ..ly. >> host: michael korda, who

[inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2.ive live coverage of the miami book festival, 17th year in a row that booktv has come to miami and brought this lives. we are in chapman hall were a lot of the non-fiction authors are here at miami-dade college and we will be live all day long. go to booktv.org and get the full schedule. you can see the street fair is going on here at miami-dade. about 250,000 people expected over the week that the miami book fair is held. joining us now on our outdoor set is harvard professor randall kennedy, a frequent guest on booktv and on c-span. his most recent book which came out last year which is talking about, "for discrimination: race, affirmative action, and the law" professor kennedy, has a affirmative action been successful in this country? >> i think it's been very successful over the past several decades. it has helped with the desegregation of american life, particularly in higher education and in employment. and i think that it has done a very good job in a variety of ways. it is help

[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 guy i wrote about in "the bully pulpit" what he was concerned about citizenry and the importance of activism. he said in the end it's down to all of us and without citizens taking on an active role in our country we despair over what's happening in washington, the dysfunction of the legislature and tribal problems with one another. we despair over money and politics which i think is the poison in the system. if i were younger that's what i would be doing is leading a constitutional ame

@booktv, facebook.com/booktv. well, coming up in just a minute, a call-in program with john dean, you saw him in the room with rick perlstein, and after that a call-in with political activist norman lear. cornel west will be another call-in guest, this is the only place on the dial where you get to talk to authors on a regular basis. well, earlier in the day from our outdoor set here at miami-dade college we talked with mitch kaplan who is the founder of the miami book fair. here on our outdoor and windy set is the founder of the miami book fair, mitch kaplan. mr. kaplan, what's with the wind this year?ok it's nice and warm, but -- >> guest: it's going to be a beautiful day. i spoke to the weather gods,e they assure me that the sun's going to break, come through th clouds, and we'll have enough great day. and i also want to personally thank you forha coming. it's hard to believe it's been t 17 years. seems like a blink. and your support of what we do has been immeasurably important to the growth of this book fairt

send e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. michael korda is the author of many books, both nonfiction and fiction on booktv. we will concentrate on the nonfiction. to give you an idea of the topics that he has written about here's a list of some of his nonfiction books including a and 11, his first win the discuss a little bit, "power! how to get it, how to use it," "charmed lives: a family romance" came out in 1979, man-to-man, surviving prostate cancer, another life, a memoir of other people can out in 1999, country matters, pleasures and tribulations of moving from a big ci country hamas, the untold story of the battle of britain, "hero: the life and times of laurence of arabia," clouds of glory, the life and legend of robert e. lee is his most recent book. who was t. e. lawrence? >> guest: perhaps the only hero anybody remembers of the first world war. lawrence of arabia was bigger than life even before being put on screen in the greatest single epic motion picture ever made. lawrence was an extraordinarily charismatic fig

next on booktv senator john mccain recounting america's armed conflict through the eyes of 13 soldiers which he profiles joseph flom martin, a 15-year-old soldier in the revolutionary war, army reservist mary rode to serve in the persian gulf war and michael munson war, navy seal in iraq and many of his. he speaks at the national press club in washington d.c. for 45 minutes. >> senator john mccain, you know about him. i will tell you a little bit, served in the u.s. navy from 1964 to 1981, he was elected to the u.s. house of representatives from arizona in 1982 and the senate in 1986. he was republican presidential candidate in 2008, now serving his fifth term in the senate. myron belkind is at 107th president of the national press club. the trochlear 2 year career with the associated press and he has covered many world leaders. he received his b.a. in 1961 from ohio state university and an m s with high honors in 62 from columbia university, graduate school of journalism where he won a pulitzer traveling fellowship. when he retired in 2004, myron solyndra national press club, assumed

afterwards airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday into 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch online. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" and the book in the tv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page >> on a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the new york public library where we spoke with the president and ceo anthony marx about the history of the institution as well as its current operations and futures. >> host: would start with some numbers. how big is the public library and how many employees, etc.? >> guest: it combines the largest circulating bridge system bridge system in america, 88 inches in every neighborhood as well as for important research libraries this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also the schaumburg center in harlem and library for performing arts in the business library. there's about 2100 employees and we have a budget of $280 million operating about half comes from the city of new york largely to pay for the circulating library system in n

up next on booktv "after words" with guest host professor and commentator marc lamont hill.his week's jeff chang and his latest book "who we be" the colorization of america. in the book the author of can't stop won't stop examines the idea of racial progress and discusses how racist you today in an increasingly diverse america. the program is about an hour. >> host: jeff chang its eyes good to see you. talk to me about this book, "who we be." why this book in my now? >> guest: the white? >> guest: the white now isn't up to me actually. we were looking at trying to get this book out in 2009 to 2010 but ended up taking longer to pray. i can go into why a little bit later but the book is about the colorization of america which is my term for looking at the demographic changes we have seen in the last half century century and a cultural sisters their accounting that. >> host: when you say colorization this is a term that i found baffling. what does that mean exactly? >> guest: it's meant to capture a lot of the cultural shifts that have occurred and i'm really interested in look

"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. of the booktv.org and click on transport in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> the most heavily defended airspace in history was the airspace over north vietnam. they were literally tens of thousands of anti-aircraft guns. there were thousands of surface-to-air missiles and placements, and they also had aircraft at various bases that would come out on occasion but they didn't come out all the time because they could really match up to ours but they were there, a constant threat. unfortunately, we watched those being offloaded from a russian freighter, taken off and take it up by truck and put in place but we were not allowed to strike them and then they would later fired at us but don't ask me to explain that rationale spent you say into book 50 years later those restrictions still hurt. >> it still makes the mad because we lost so many good men to those surface-to-air missil

booktv. you can also visit the website booktv.org and click on news about books. .. the book is about the coloration of america, which is my term of looking at the demographic change citizen cultural shifts that accompanied it. >> host: when you saw the colorization, what does that mean? >> guest: it's meant to capture a lot of the cultural shifts that have occurred, and i'm really interested in looking at the way that are that's actually changed the way we see each other and how we can live together. so it's looking into the metaphor of seeing, how we see race, and using that as a way to ask the question, how far have we really progressed. >> host: when i hear the word colorization, it suggests there was a time when color wasn't -- color always mattered. the talk about the way x-rays color have always mentioned. what does it mean for a nation to become colorized. >> guest: we we saw through the civil rights mom was in some way s the -- that race was seen largely in black and white. you hat one way of being american and that through the race you can build empathy. so

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our face book page, facebook.com/booktv. >> next on booktv military historian patrick o'donnell recounts the origin of the navy seals first formed in 1942 and known as a maritime unit. this program from the united states navy memorial in washington d.c. is just over half an hour. >> patrick o'donnell is a military historian who has written eight previous books, beyond valor, opera spies and saboteurs, the broader assignment, the did return, we were one, selected for the marine commandant professional reading list, give me tomorrow at his most recent is for -- "first seals: the untold story of the forging of america's most elite unit". his numerous awards include prestigious william colby award. it provides historical confrontation for dreamworks, award winning miniseries band of brothers and documentaries produced by the bbc, history channel and fox news. he is a combat historian in the battle of volusia beach in demand as an expert speaker on world war ii sabotage special operation counterinsurgency on e

final little promo, go ahead and follow was at booktv on twitter or on facebook, facebook.com/booktv. have been doing some behind the scenes video and photos from down here, and you can stay updated on schedule and things like that. we are continuing our live conversation down here at miami. david rothkopf who heads the foreign policy magazine group and the author of several books including his newest, "national insecurity: american leadership in the age of fear." are we living in an age of fear when economists to foreign policy? >> guest: i think we have been since 9/11. i think that was a body blow to the united states that gives a sense of vulnerability we have had perhaps ever. we feared the cold war but most of the times we have had a threat in the past it has been remote when we been attacked as in pearl harbor and the people who read about in the newspaper. they processed this through their cerebral cortex. you look at things on television and nobody looks at what happened on nine 9/11 on television, it hits you is it all of a sudden there was this national sense of vulnerabili

look for this programs to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. on monday, we're at the jewish community center of san francisco for former cia operative robert bear's talk on the history of political asass nations. the next evening at the university of pennsylvania book store in philadelphia. steven cook examines the life of joseph stalin. on wednesday, james robbins recounsels the military career of general george custer at the hudson library in hudson, ohio. and on thursday, at book court book store in brooklyn, new york, the chief national cooperate for "the new york times" magazine profiled several politics and members of the media. and that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to the web site, book toe.org and visit, upcoming programs. ... it employs a vast percentage of the nation's people. everybody eats every day. it couldn't be more important. [inaudible] food is different from tobacco. it's simple. one product is really bad for health [inaudible] they can't live with it if they

senate floor proceedings and keep public policy events and every weekend booktv, 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 local cable satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. .. >> the book is called "food politics: how the food industry influences nutrition and health" the author marion nestle who is a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at new york university. professor nestle, how big is the use of industry? >> it's more than a trillion dollars a year. it's enormous. it employs a vast percentage of the nation's people. everybody eats every day.day. they couldn't be more important. >> in your book you can. to the tobacco industry. >> only in certain ways. food is very different from tobacco. tobacco is simple.[inaud] one product, really bad for health, clearly responsiblef for terrible form of cancer and deaths, a

send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. tweet us on booktv and post on eyewall facebook.com/booktv.ing up in how to speak money author john manchester talks about the words many people use and what they mean by some. during this event at the commonwealth club in san francisco mr. manchester is in conversation with michael lewis whose book liar's focal was released this year in celebration of the 25anniversary of its publication. this is just over an hour. >> good evening and welcome to today's meeting of the commonwealth club of california, a place where you are in the know. find us on the internet at commonwealthclub.org or download our iphone and android apps for its programming schedule information and hot gas past programs lose time dr. ruth shapiro of the commonwealth club's board of governors and your chair for tonight's program. notice my pleasure to introduce tonight's program featuring john lanchester, new yorker contributor and author of the new book "how to speak money: what the money money people--and what it really means". john will be in conversation with michael lewis

this is the 16th year in a row booktv has covered the national book awards. for four awards are given to authors this evening it is broken down into categories. poetry, young adult fiction and nonfiction and of course being booktv, we focus on the nonfiction. and the finalists chosen from 495 entries include the cartoonist for the new yorker. she's written a graphic novel about taking care of her parents and their older age. john has written a biography of tennessee williams. as an awesome though some age of ambition is about china and his experiences there. .. >> >> finally the literary awar

. >> the c-span cities to work takes booktv and american history tv on the road travelling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend we partnered with charter communications for a visit to madison, wisconsin. >> for everyone, the community is large. is a glorious service for the country. the call comes to every citizen. it is and unending struggle to make and keep government representatives. >> probably the most important political figure in wisconsin history and one of the most important in the history of the 20th century in the united states. he was a reforming governor. pd find what progressivism is. you was one of the first to use the term progressive to self identifiably she was the united states senator who was recognized by his peers in the 1950s as one of the five greatest senators in american history. you was an opponent of world war i, stood his ground advocating for free speech. above all he was about the people. after the civil war, america changed radically from a nation of small farmers and small producers to small manufacturers and b

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at 10:00, on booktv's afterwords, james mcpherson on the confederacy's president, jefferson davis. sunday live at noon on in-depth, our conversation with the former tour editor-in-chief at simon & schuster publishers. ,onight at 8:00 on c-span3 propaganda and america's view of the japanese during world war ii. a 1936 film on tuberculosis in america. fine our television schedule at www.c-span.org and let us know about the thing -- programs you are watching. call us on the number on our screen. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. all weekend long, american history tv is featuring colorado springs, colorado. and explore is credited with discovering pikes peak in 18 oh six. it lies west of colorado springs. a trip to the summit inspired katharine lee bates to write "america the beautiful." we recently traveled to colorado springs to explore the city's rich history. learn more about colorado springs all weekend here on american history tv. garden of the gods is so magnificent. many people don't realize it is a city park. it has a world-famous view. t

booktv visited the historians with the help of our cable partner, comcast. ♪ >> met in graduate schoolo we've been writing history since 1978 when we met in graduate school. so writing history since then. for publication, really not since graduate school. we have written -- started company will be operating -- collaborating in the 1990s. but since we're in the same area and same field we decided to start collaborating. i think working as a spouse team is not -- it's not easy. we have had a lot of friends who have said to us, i could never do that. because a lot of our friends are in -- both academics, not necessarily in the same field. we find it fairly easy. i think probably because we started out in the same field. we even took graduate courses together. that probably helped. not that we don't disagree, because there are times when we do disagree on interpretation and we have to -- that's where the collaboration really becomes important because we have to work out our differences. >> douglas freeman had a idea of when you know you're at the part where you can actually start writing.

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