booktv.org. you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv television for serious readers. >> here is a look at some programs to watch for this weekend on booktv. tomorrow we are live with medea benjamin, author and co-founder of code pink answering your questions from noon to 3:00. afterwards the katie quince 2 yes michael tanner talks about a growing national debt. this weekend glenn beck presents his thoughts on islamic extremism. discussion about a transformation of africa on the world stage. i history of the first african-americans in the space program. and former israeli ambassador to the united states recalls his tenure. for complete television schedule visit booktv.org. booktv 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors television for serious readers. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> first dead weight. erik larsen. i read all of his works. this is a great book, almost t

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv. here's a look at the books president obama is reading this summer. the list includes three nonfiction titles. >> one of the things i've learned over a quarter-century researching one little corner of american history while covering as a foreign correspondent a succession of american military actions abroad, most of which have been forgotten. is that the one war that never ends for many people in the united states is the war between the states. one of the most important lessons i learned about that war is how badly we failed to understand its most obvious lessons. it needs to be remembered that the history of wars is largely a history of delusions of those dreams of rapid victories they some simple strategies that lead to long nightmares of slaughter. the french right of what they call -- by which they mean the pathologist takes over politics and the press and eventually the whole people discouraging all debate and dissension. costs are not calculated, benefits are fabricated. the rhet

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tweet us at booktv or you can post it on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 poor in new york city and one of the things we like to do when they come up to new york is to talk with authors and get previews of the books that come out in the fall. joining us now, pulitzer prize-winning author stacy schiff, her newest book coming out in the fall is called "the witches: salem, 1692". stacy schiff, we all know about the salem witch trials. what do we know that is incorrect? >> that's pretty much what got me started. for starters there was no voodoo, it's not about women. women are the accusers in fact that many of the victims are men. so it's not a man unlimited intricate and women on women in. there's a whole political cast to it that has been pretty much been lost to history. it's a historical moment would we all think we know about women forget the crucible is a work of fiction. it has rather, arthur miller took some liberties. we think the witches burned but, in fact, they hung. in america we didn't burn which is already i think that's the pol

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thanks for being on booktv. >>> and this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. givenning at 8 p.m. eastern -- beginning at 8 p.m. eastern time, jeff shepard, a member of president nixon's defense team, describes what he calls the collusion, conspiracy and plot that brought nixon down. be that program is followed at 9 p.m. by our "after words" program, delawareal denews ya principal that recalls his journey to princeton university. and at 10 p.m. eastern time susan peterson reports on the growth and then the fall of the league of nations. and finally at 11 p.m. eastern time, peter kiernan argues the importance of restoring the middle class in

you're watching booktv on location in new york city. >> you're watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. >> host: and you're watching booktv on c-span2. we are at the annual freedom fest this las vegas. -- in las vegas. we're interviewing authors out here. authors who have books is what i was literally going to say. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> host: you're watching booktv on c-span2. we're on location in las vegas. this is the annual freedom fest conference, where we are interviewing authors. joining us now, author and activist star parker. her most recent book is called "blind conceit." ms. parker, where did the name for this come from? >> guest: it actually came out of a psalm, psalm 36. i was compiling columns i wrote for the last ten years to talk about politics, policy, and i was reading the psalm that day, 36, that sin whispers in the ear of the wicked and they have no relationship to god, so they have no fear of him n. their blind conceit, they can't even see how evil they are. and they are evil when you think

tweet us or answer a booktv are posted on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. joining us on booktv is author martha biondi. professor what do you do at northwestern university? >> guest: i'm a professor back in american studies and history. >> host: what do you teach? >> guest: like teach courses on the civil rights movement. i teach a survey of academic in history. i just finished teaching a freshman seminar called is america post-racial so generally i do african-american history after the civil war to the present. >> host: and what is your answer to the question on the seminar you teach is america post-racial and first of all what is happening, post-racial? what does that mean? >> guest: the course interrogates this idea that began to circulate after the election of barack obama to the presidency that a black man was in the white house that perhaps united states had over tom's long history of racism and segregation and white supremacy and so there was a lot of attention to that question after he was first elected. tragically and very sadly in our recent time

lynn cheney, live on booktv. you can send your questions to facebook.com/booktv. on twitter@booktv or call in live. ... i was trained as a phd in economics first at the university of chicago under milton friedman. many people took the class several times not because they failed but they wanted to hear him again and again so i became a free marketer and you can't help but hear friedman. then i go to mit and i get two additional nobel prize winners. and of course they are keynesians and i am convinced now it's not going to be easily persuaded, but the economy has to be saved in every session with more stimulus spending. so you might ask why did i get into marketing? because i've written 50 or more books on marketing. marketing is the engine of capitalism i'm convinced. namely capitalism is a great economic system in producing millions of goods and services that could sit on the shelf and unless people are there to buy it. marketing is the connection. it's the engine that says to people wouldn't like this, wouldn't you like an apple watch, or whatever. so we've got t

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tweet us your answer @booktv, or you can post it on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> host: and now joining us from new york is garry kasparov. mr. kasparov, in your newest book, "winter is coming," you write that vladimir putin was a russian problem, that he would soon be a regional problem and then a global problem. >> guest: he is already. i wrote it quite a few years ago, and i don't think anyone doubts today that vladimir putin and his regime are, is a threat for global stability. we're still arguing whether, you know, it's the biggest threat, which i believe it is. some people think about other threats like isis, al-qaeda which i think are regional, but nobody doubts that as long as putin stays in power, as long as putin stays in kremlin, russia will be a major, major problem. >> host: throughout your book you tell us, the readers, that vladimir putin has warned us what he's going to do. >> guest: yeah. i think, you know, many different occasions putin was quite explicit in sending the message. even before his invasion of republic of georgia in 2008, you can go back, y

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send us an e-mail to booktv@crush span.org, tweet us @booktv or post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. >> a look now at some of the books the university of california at berkeley has encouraged new students to read before the start of the school year. in the pulitzer prize-winning "behind the beautiful forevers," katherine boo reports on life in a settlement in mumbai. science and technology writer steven johnson recalls a cholera outbreak in london in 1854 in the book "the ghost map." also on the university of california at berkeley's reading list for incoming students, the new yorker's elizabeth kolbert reports on the relationship between humans and the precipitous loss of species in "the sixth extinction," winner of this year's prettier prize for general nonfiction. annie leonard looks at how overconsumption affecting the environment and personal well being in the book "the story of stuff." and pulitzer prize-winning reporter edward humes examines what happens to the tons of trash that the average american produces in a lifetime. and that's a look at some of the books on the univer

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tweet us your answer @booktv or post it on your facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> welcome to augusta on booktv located 150 miles east of atlanta along the georgia-south carolina border and was established in 1739 by james oglethorpe who also founded savannah. during the civil war displayed the city was spared during sherman's march to the sea due to its military arsenal and confederate out of work. it's the boyhood home of president woodrow wilson and the godfather of soul singer james brown band of ♪ ♪ papa's got a brand-new bag ♪ ♪ >> today it has the oldest continually running canal in the euros and is known around the world for the masters golf tournament. with help of our comcast cable partners for the next one that we will learn about the history of the city from local authors. we begin our special look with historic of the only american to receive both the carnegie medal and the medal of honor. >> we are sitting in the augustine museum of history, and about 10 years ago a decision was made to do a military display, a permanent military display to honor jimmie dyess. when i did

booktv television for serious readers. >> here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. missouri senator claire mechanical talks about her life and political career on afterwards. dinesh d'sousa discusses pleading guilty to campaign finance laws. and a look at the history and impact of the americans with disabilities act. barnum swaying on his experiences as us speech writer for former south carolina governor mark stanford. an account of the lives of people on the gulf coast in the american revolution. and british consul turned spy, charleston, south carolina in the lead up to the civil war. for complete television schedule visit booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television joy serious readers. >> here is a look at the books president obama is reading this summer. the list includes three nonfiction titles which looks at race in america. and elizabeth colbert's pivot to prize-winning report on the relationship between humans and precipitous loss of >> in the sixth extinction and biography of george washington which won the deal a surprise for b

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booktv television for serious readers. >> here are some programs to watch on booktv. american enterprise institute scholar charles murray weighs in on how to reduce the power of the federal government through the use of technology. susan looks at nagasaki japan, from the morning of aug. ninth 1945 to today. >> "conservative heroes: 14 leaders who shaped america, from jefferson to reagan" next on booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> that afternoon, everyone. good afternoon. special welcome to those watching us on c-span2 booktv today. our mission is to help policymakers and the public role in their understanding of the freedom and free markets, we are committed to this work because research shows these principles represent the best path way to economic growth and prosperity for every person regardless of background, regardless of circumstances. you can find out more about our work at johnlot.org. we are delighted to have with us entrepreneur and author garland tucker iii who will tell us about our country's great conservative leaders leaders to embrace the principle i

tweet us your answer @booktv, or you can post it on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> former congressman alan west, do you miss being in congress? >> guest: you know, the thing is about serving the people, that's what i've done my entire life through the military and being a congressman. it's some of the chicanery that goes on inside the institution that i can do without. >> host: would you ever consider running again? >> guest: you know, that's up to god. and i think that it's so important that you're obedient to his will. you know, recently i just moved out to dallas, texas, to be the president and ceo of the national center for policy analysis, and who would have ever thought that after i came out to speak to them last september that they would offer me that incredible position of a 31-year-old conservative policy center. and so i think that you have to listen for that still, quiet voice. >> host: what's the focus of that policy center? >> guest: there are several different focuses. it's tax policy, retirement/pension policy, health care, education, energy and national sec

[applause] twitter.com/mac booktv or post a comment on the facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >>> you've got a country club that is in the augusta. it started about 20 miles to the east of here and then quickly they had the first golf course which sat in back of the hotel which is just across the street at the country club and that of course then transitioned to the late course being the only surviving course and that is the one that we are on today here at country club. it is held in the position of the augusta of natural expedition of 1888 the first augusta national. when folks came to town in the late fall they fell in love with augusta and if they decided this is where they were going to spend their winters. they have not developed the west coast and augusta is where the lines are leading from. and convenient for the folks to get away from the winter weather. they would come to augusta and by the 19 hundreds, they blossomed overnight into the largest winter resort in north america so this was the winter home for president and the captains and the industry. he picked up the entire cab

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask numbers of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i am currently reading a british ministry called exit business. i'm reading -- "exit music" i'm reading "crossing the borders of time" about a jewish woman who was separated from her fiancÉ during world war ii and tells a lot about the time the nazis took over france and germany and so forth. i just finished reading "ike's bluff" about eisenhower's foreign policy, real good book. i recommend those angry days by lynn also which is about the lead up to world war ii here in the united states and the fight between isolationists and others, interventionists, which is sort of similar to what of what's going on today. i just not too long ago read "sycamore row" by john grisham. i love his books. you know, i love to read so i'm reading something all the time. i just finished reading "man in profile" which is the biography of joseph mitchell was a longest-serving writer for "the new yorker" magazine.

twitter.com/booktv. we continue our visit to augusta georgia with lee ann caldwell. >> guest: the book we are talking about today is sub five then and now. it's a book i wrote with the augusta museum of history so no better place to talk about the book and what we learned about the history them here in this award-winning local museum and we are in an exhibit entitled acosto story. it tells us about how augusta developed and how it then came to be the augusta that it is now. in 1733 and man named james oglethorpe who was one of 21 trustees basically a charitable trust kind of like a nonprofit organization would be today came to savannah with a ship load of people who are going to start a new colony south of the savannah river. we are in the area of the museum now that talks about this early colonial era here in augusta. we have a picture of just augusta. she was the wife of frederick the prince of wales. you can think of them is sort of the william and kate of their day. they were married in april of 1736

. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. jeb bush argues immigration policy should be overhauled to reflect u.s. economic needs. in the republican presidential candidate spoke about immigration policy at the ronald reagan library in simi valley, california, in march of 2013. this book is "immigration wars: forging an american solution." >> now, our beloved president ronald reagan passed away almost 10 years ago, but as many in the audience know, it seems nearlys impossible to follow political ma newsny without hearing somese reference to our 40thimpossle president. is memory, his name, andtical v fortunately his legacy seem to be ubiquitous as our country grapples with the challenges of our time. u for many years probably startint with a day after president reagan left office in 1989 there's been a famous questionfe often asked winners ande was particularly vexing problem facing our country. when there is a problem facing our country. what would reagan to? it is a good question to ask because while times and technology have

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booktv, television for serious readers. >> here are some programs to look out for this weekend on booktv. first we are live at the first annual mississippi book festival in jackson. american enterprise institute president arthur brooks shares his thoughts on a new kind of conservatism in his latest book. katie kieffer discusses the obama administration as relationship with millennials. also books on voting rights, the federal government's investment in science and technology and one high school located in san francisco and their approach to education. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend, television for serious readers. >> and now on booktv lennard davis provides a history and examines the impact of the americans with disability act, signed into law july 26, 1990. >> our guest author is lennard davis who has written the first major book on the history and impact of the americans with impact of the americans with disabilities acts: the hidden story of how the americans with disabilities act gave the largest u.s. minority its rights". lennard davis is an author an

tweet us your answer @booktv, or you can post it on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> next on booktv, robert grenier, former cia station chief for pakistan and afghanistan and director of the agency's counterterrorism of center. he talks about the war against the taliban. .. we are videoing tonight and videoing ourselves and for our youtube channel and c-span booktv is here and leslie at the end before you come to get your book signed please fold up your chairs that you are sitting in and leaned them against something that looks like it won't topple over. we are very pleased to have robert grenier here with us this evening to talk about his new book "88 days to kandahar". all up spent 27 years with the cia as station chief in islamabad during what turned out to be a very critical time before and immediately after the 9/11 attacks. he was very much involved in the u.s. efforts to oust the taliban from afghanistan and bring hamid karzai to power in the book's title refers to the period twain september 11 and december 2001 when karsay made his return to afghanistan from pakistan.

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palm springs california, you are booktv. >> caller: i'm originally from new zealand where fred e.is the national game. i played rugby for about 20 years. i'm sure the incidence of concussions were much lower than in the nfl. i'm wondering whether or not the nfl could take a much stronger position on tackles. in rugby there strict rules about tackles that prevent a lot of injuries to qa at the international level now and also the absence of helmets in rugby. i chronically it might be tools for fewer concussions. could you please talk about the difference between the rugby union and american football and whether not you've looked at that and may urge if you haven't looked at that you take a look at the new zealand rugby and maybe open up the dialogue with the national rugby team to see whether or not you could learn something from new zealand and maybe new zealand could play more games over here. i would be interested to get your comments, love the book and i'm enjoying the discussion. thanks very much. >> guest: thanks very much. it's interesting i've heard from a number of folks w

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booktv, television for serious readers.iminal prosecution of corporate managers and corporations themselves in the worst health safety and environmental cases should be among our top priorities as a nation and as a community. we should work in a concerted and relentless way to promote those kinds of prosecutions. on some level you all agree that bad guys should go to jail, but our community as a whole does not spend much time -- largely because we've been fighting blazing fires all over town -- focusing on that solution. and i think it is one that has a lot of popular appeal and that also has the potential to sort of break through the regulatory gridlock we find ourselves enmeshed in. so my first argument is a heart of ethical politics or political ethics. sounds pretty professor y'all, doesn't it? as rod mentioned, we have a longstanding neglect of white collar crime in this country. it is extraordinarily acute. there has been a shocking neglect of these kinds of cases at the federal level. and as we begin to talk about th

tweet us or answer a booktv are posted on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. joining us on booktv is author martha biondi. professor what do you do at northwestern university? >> guest: i'm a professor back in american studies and history. >> host: what do you teach? >> guest: like teach courses on the civil rights movement. i teach a survey of academic in history. i just finished teaching a freshman seminar called is america post-racial so generally i do african-american history after the civil

in las vegas. >> host: joining us on booktv is mr. gibson hoodie work for? >> i am the publisher is a subsidiary best known for publishing harry potter and to read today on those harry potter books that we started in 1988 so we're in our 17th year. >> republish mostly nonfiction so with popular science. >> host: are there any other books? >> cry now we're publishing a book for the american read revelation the evolution but amazingly from 1982 that is the for the history of the american revolution. but this fall we are publishing a book from a woman named we ted davis.

>> jonathan eig is next on booktv. he race leader at the "chicago tribune" printer's row lit fest to discuss his book on the history of birth control, "the birth of the pill." >> welcome everybody to the 31st annual "chicago tribune" printer's row lit fest.rybody my name is tom paschalis. before get started out like to thank our sponsors. today's program is being broadcast live on c-span2's booktv, and if there's time at the end of the presentation wiln take some questions and heavy lineup by the microphone right up your sure home viewing viewing audience can hear thehie questions. up here. you can take the spirit going year round with a prescription to the tribune row journal. and download our app for more information on the festival and access to the bookstore and we encourage everyone to post pictures to twitter, instagram, and facebook with #prlf15. before beginning the program, we ask you silence your cellphone and turn off your camera flashes. please welcome mary schmich, pul pul puliter prize winner for the chic

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side of the page. >> terry alford is next on booktv. he recalls the life of john wilkes booth from his childhood in maryland to his acting career and, of course, his assassination of president abraham lincoln on april 14 1865. >> every author needs a proper incentive to travel miles and go somewhere and give a speech and i'm always reminded of the wonderful definition of incentive given by p.d. east. p.d. east was a crusading journallest down in mississippi -- journalist down in mississippi down in the 1950s, and he was very progressive on civil rights and always getting himself in trouble for his editorials. and he wrote one he knew was going to cause a some trouble one day. people told him you better watch out that's an unpopular view this mississippi in the

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booktv on c-span2 television for serious readers. >> host: and now on booktv, we want to catch up with the chicago review press find out some of the books they'll be publishing come fall 2015. and mary crave nas is their marketing manager. what have you got in the hopper? >> well one of the books -- as you can see here, we have our four big books for the year. one -- for the fall season, i should say. one book that we're particularly excited for is american space coast. ned is a longtime author with chicago review press. history bereaves that the -- believes that america's wealth came from importing slaves and then slave labor and that was actually in south carolina. virginia was actually slave breeding and it became south carolina v. virginia for kind of where the slave industry was going to be, like where the power came from. and thanks to thomas jefferson virginia won. so this is actually, this is kind of an alternative history. this is something that a lot of people don't know about. so

san diego loves booktv.est: thank you for colin and bringing up the issue of the media. at such critical issue and we haven't talked about it. community radio is absolutely essential. i'm constantly doing community radios stations, interviews, love to have an opportunity to be on community radio because it combines my love of education and activism, people who listen to community radio are people who want to be educated to go out and do something about it in thank you to activist san diego at end of the wonderful work in the community as well. i think it's a terrible problem we have in the united states to the mainstream media is controlled by corporations. and i don't enjoy watching mainstream television. i find it to be so partisan that i have to look for my news elsewhere. i also go to places like al jazeera, art scene which is russia today, bbc. i read "the guardian" online, the newspaper. i have a lot of places i go to, both radio and the tv channels. i like a lot of online websites. i mentioned about t

, next, on booktv. >> good evening. my name is john, i have the honor of being the executive director of the ronald reagan presidential founding, i want to welcome all of you and thank you for coming this evening. in honorable men and women in uniform who defend our freedomridge the world if you would please stand and join me with the pledge of allegiance. i policemen allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you please be seated. before we get started that's a few people in the audience that i'd like to make sure we recognize tonight, and i'll begin with the former first lady of the state of california, gale wilson gale. [applause] we also have with us mr. gary shepard, the vice president of strategic communications for general electric. gary. [applause] >> and tonight is a special night as we have with us, a very special group of students from around the country. 20ge reagan foundation sch

first i want to think about banking booktv for being here. i'm going to my bag here and there a lot of them so the they are going to pilot. first i hold up a book called sundays at eight by brian lamb. he came to my studio and we spent three hours. i hold up a second but from the first ladies of united states by susan swain who is also along with brian lamb one of the makers of booktv and i encourage all of you to let everybody know that booktv exists as an awaits us on the weekends for people like us who loathe hooks. the nixon library invites people to come here always authors and so does the reagan library. these are ways he's in the land of sound bytes were you actually have conversations. i think brian lamb and peter slen and the others and susan are so relentlessly fair and thorough that if everyone studies them the way i had been studying brain and charlie rose is the element does this very well you have a lot better media. the ones i have already mentioned jake tapper, chuck todd, john dickerson they are all themselves authors. they h