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booktv.org. >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. the 35th annual key west literary festival in key west, florida celebrating new voices in american literature all over the world through conversations and panel discussions. this includes joe klein on politics and literature, stephen carter on race, power and law. op-ed columnists on women and politics. the discussion on writing history, with biographer robert caro and historian brenda wineapple. united arab emirates ambassador to russia, and what it means to be a good muslim in the world today. fox news channel brett there looks at the exchange of power with president dwight eisenhower to president john f. kennedy. the latest book, 3 days in january, dwight eisenhower's final mission. he is interviewed by susan eisenhower, ceo and chairman of the eisenhower group inc.. >> great detail from both sides. eisenhower is impressed and says to himself, there's a lot to this guy but what concerned him most is he didn't -- kennedy, the national security apparatus set up for dissenting views.

joining us on our booktv set now is for faster carol andersen. white rage, the unspoken truth of our racial divide. what do you mean by white rage? >> what they mean by white rage is not what we often think of as the clan of burning a cross. coming out of the supreme court of congress, and legislators. they are triggered by african-americans advancement towards civil rights and when you see those advancements, you'll see the policy backlash that comes to figuring out how to undercut that. that is the rage. it's cool, methodical, subtle, corrosive and absolutely destructive. >> have you seen it time and again in your research? >> yes, i track after the end of the civil war because here you have this moment where that comes from being property to being human beings, and then to citizens. and the resources with the backlash in the injured johnson, but also state legislators that undercut the advancement of african-americans back into a new type of slavery. i track it with the great migration. barack obama. >> let's go to 2008. what did you see in yo

. >> next up on booktv, from the 35th annual key west literary seminary, author and yale professor, steven carter. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] ... >> thank you so much. my name is arlo haskell, and i am the executive director of the key west literary seminar. [applause] before i get started, let me make just one quick housekeeping announcement. we're going to do the question and answer session a little bit differently today. there will be stationary mics in each aisle, and if you would like to ask a question, you should get up out of your seat and come to the mic and ask your question. when we get to that point. okay. it is a pleasure to welcome you all to the san carlos institute and to the 35th annual key west literary seminar, revealing power: the literature of politics. this sunday afternoon session is free and open to the public. this is our gift to the community. and it wouldn't be possible without the gifts that many others have made to us that support our operations throughout the year. i'd particularly like to thank peggy whose support makes this

on twitter, booktv, on facebook, facebook.com/booktv. you can email us, booktv@c-span.org. when you look at the reagan legacy, many point in part to the election of george herbert walker bush as part of that legacy. how do the defeat of hillary clinton affect how people will view the obama legacy? >> it will have a large effect. first of all, barack obama is so important that he get elected because of extension of his policies particularly -- every possible way, when talking about education, clintons in the earlier era did not have a record on some issues. she would have extended his policies in some places perhaps including integration, pushing it even further. in the short run it depends whether president trump is president for four years. solidifying what was accomplished was very important that hillary get elected. >> one of the darkest days of his tenure, the shooting at sandy elementary school and this moment at the church in charleston, south carolina following the shooting in 2015, president obama. >> amazing grace. amazing grace. amazing -- [applause] ♪ how sweet t

. >> this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here is our prime-time line-up. tonight starting at 8:30 p.m. eastern, a look at first lady eleanor roosevelt. and at 10:00, sondra cisneros delivers the fairfax prize lecture. we wrap up our monday prime-time line-up at 11:30 with hillsdale college professor, bradley birzer talks about conservative writer, russell kirk. that happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> there is a story about a murdered girl and a campaign about what i imagined as white sheeted night riders, torch wilding mounted klu kluxers. i thought this was a kid's fantasy, something you talk about in the back of the bus. in a newspaper database up came a list of headlines sure enough told of an 18-year-old woman raped and killed near the banks of the chattahoochee river allegedly by three black men. her name is may crow. there is photograph about her 1912. she lived very near where my parents house was little town called oscarville, a little village. this is me really playing hooky, i was doing graduate work at nyu on the 17th century beau bonn play

been to dream of mine to be on booktv. [applause] so if you though someone who wanted to come or you just find me so captivating that you feel compelled to watch this again, it will be on booktv hopefully very soon. [laughter] so the original title of this book was almost treason, and i think that goes a long way towards kind of explaining the concept behind the book. another thing i think that helps probably explain it a little is our recently ended presidential election. i don't know if you noticed, but it was a very contentious affair -- [laughter] certainly the most contentious presidential election of my lifetime, and treason was a word that probably on a daily basis if you were on social media you heard being thrown around, applied to both major party candidates, so is their supporters -- to their supporters, and i wouldn't blame you if you didn't notice, it was a low-key affair that'll mostly be remembered for its grace and civility. [laughter] but some of those accusations were flying around just a bit. but when pe

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the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> welcome to san diego on booktv. located 120 miles south of los angeles it's california's second-largest city with a population of about 1.3 million. nicknamed the birthplace of california it wasn't the first site visited by europeans and what is now the west coast of the united states. today its largest economic drivers on the military and tourism and the cities downtown area is less than 15 miles from the border crossing with mexico, the busiest border crossing station in the world. with help of our cox communications and charter spectrum cable partners, for the next hour will feature some of the areas local authors we begin with kimball taylor on his book "the coyote's bicycle." >> it doesn't look like it but this is a broad river valley, and in the winter when we get rainstorms, it can flood quite significantly. i came down here in 2008 to do a story about these thousands of car tires that washed into the united states from mexico during any significant rain. the thing that was interesting about that is that thos

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. >> booktv and nonfiction books and authors, booktv, television for serious readers. >> booktv, on c-span2, the key west literary seminar held annually in florida. we will hear from several authors, and politics and literature, time magazine columnist and joe klein. >> good morning. it is a pleasure to be back here. joe and i were just comparing socks, crucial political issue. you can see he has the best ones. [applause] and so numerous and varied. and the fact that joe told me -- >> i have a few public service announcements. since we are coming to the -- [applause] >> it has been your joy. the endorphins going crazy in my brain. and and against the idiot hordes on the stage. on your panel the other day. the idiot hordes came after be with primary colors, she defended me too and defended the act of writing anonymously. >> don't screw up my questions. and young cuban-american high school teachers who may be in the audience today with dinner last night in miami and inspirational to hang with them and an observation, abraham lincoln, for the last four days, the rendering of abraham lincoln is

on booktv's afterwards program at 10:00 p.m.nt obama's legacy and a conversation with cnn's jim acosta. and we wrap up our saturday prime time lineup at 11:00 p.m. with john's thoughts on the evolution of language. that all happens tonight on c-span.org's booktv. >> [background sounds] [applause] >> good evening everybody thank you all so much for coming out tonight.what a great crowd. my name is lissa muscatine i am the co-owner of politics and prose. my husband and co-owner is right he appeared on behalf of our grace that we welcome you all want to thank all of our friean

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on booktv's "after words" program at 10 p.m. eastern, new york magazine's jonathan chait examines president obama's legacy in a conversation with cnn's jim acosta. and we wrap up our saturday prime time lineup at 11 with john mcwarer the's thoughts on the evolution of language. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> at that time, the british empire was huge, you know, it ruled 450 million people, a quarter of the population, and they were spread all over the world. and so they were spread very thin, you know? they were constantly putting down, putting down results, but to them, you know, these little colonial wars that they would fight, it was all about gallantly, you know, and being dashing. they hated losing their red coats, you know? they thought the khakis made them look like bus drivers -- >> yep. >> and they were still even, you know, for the boer war, when it began, they were still fighting in these perfect, precise lines. >> so it really was a prelude to world war i. >> it absolutely was. it was the beginning o

/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> welcome to arthur's voice, virtual book signing network and we are here, studio in the abraham lincoln bookshop in chicago since 1938, books, autographs, lithographs of all sort and all pertaining to lincoln, the civil war, us president and american history. please visit our bookshop at alincolnbookshop.com. this is live on your favorite digital devices, in every book genre, science fiction, even romance, historical fiction, mystery and posted such people as cokie roberts, john beauchamp, doris kearns goodwin and many others in the last 11 years. today you are watching a house divided, dedicated to lincoln, the civil war, american history. live in an author's -- and we can acknowledge you as well. you will miss future authors, you, your family, and friends that they don't like to see and interact with. we offer first edition of our author's books, for the auto form, and a library for you and your family. today we welcome c-span once again to our shop. if you're watching it on c-span, you can't leave a live question but

[applause] now on booktv we want to introduce you to paul marino of constitutional history at hillsdale college and the authoh of this book but bureaucratic kings the origins and underpinnings of america's bureaucratic state. professor, on page one of your book you write to the united thd states is ruled by an establishment in the constitution. what does that mean? >> anyway it is a combination of the other three branches, and that is the heart of the constitutional problem. it was the most important structural feature of the constitution and in the 20th century we developed an administrative apparatus of the agencies and the environmental protection agency, communications commission. most of this started with a new deal and they combined legislative executive and judicial powers and that's when madison called the essence of tyranny so that is the kind of problem that we face. >> host: so congress passes a law and congress finds it, what happens?e face. >> they don't legislate, theyon delegate. these people nobody voted for and are in no way accountable and congress tells them you write

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors and here's what's coming up this weekend. tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern, peter hayes academic committee chair at the us holocaust memorial museum and author of why explaining the holocaust. >> so why were the jews killed? because a long-standing tradition of hatred activated under particular political circumstances. fermented by a regime that was thoroughly capable of whipping up the population to participate in it. then, they took a war into a region where there were hundreds of thousands of people defined his enemies. and it resolved under the conditions of wartime. to wipe these people out. >> at 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwords, professor amorous was to cut looks at frugal living. why less is more, more or less. it is interviewed by a "washington post" columnist. >> is not to never spend money on any luxury at all. the crucial thing is to be self-aware about what it is you really value. what is really worth spending money on? and what is something we are just wasting mo

. >> and depth on booktv continues in here at our table in washington d.c., april ryan, author of "presidency in black and white," white house correspondent. eddie glaude, his latest book, democracy and black. and david maraniss, has written 11 books. one of them, transfixed. the tone and tenor of the critics barack obama has faced we heard him a moment ago. >> they don't function that the loyal opposition. it seems what we've witnessed over the last eight years of folks who are committed to their ideological position of the prophecy of democracy. >> more so than george w. bush or ronald reagan or richard nixon? >> he was able to assemblies implement his policy. we could actually push this back to the contract with america. they can actually push it back a little further than that. i think what we are witnessing now is in some ways a kind of apex of a general tenor of our politics for its broke into its core. donald trump is an exaggerated indication that the rock at the heart of the beltway. >> host: david maraniss, you corrupt with what richard nixon faced during watergate. any difference i

. >> "after words" airs on booktv at so p.m. you can watch all previous "after words" programs on our web site, book booktv.org. >> marlene, you're the author of fair labor lawyers, a remarkable life of new deal attorney and supreme court advocate. tell me about. >> guest: identity i'd love. to bessy was born in a jewish orphanage in new orleans. like to say that before there was a notorious rbgs a justice ginsburg was phone, there was an flower tous she championed the laws in her years and she was a mentor to me. >> what were the significant cases that shoe was involved in as well as the fair labor act? >> guest: well, all of their time for the labor department was spent on the fair labor standards act and was the whole body of work that caused chief justice older wayne to say the put the sin us on the bare owns of anywhere labor act and without her work the bare bones have been wholly ininadequate. her most significant case, standing alone, was the first case argued under the equal pay act and established the rule that exists

on facebook at facebook .com/ a booktv and you can also e-mail us, booktv at c-span.org. david maraniss, a political question. when you look at the reagan legacy mini pointed party election of george herbert walker bush in 1980 as part of that legacy. how did the defeat of hillary clinton affect the people will view the obama legacy? >> guest: i think it will have a large effect on it. i think that first of all that's what barack obama was so important hillary get elected because the policies, policies, particularly healthcare but in every possible way i think when you talk about education or policing or the clintons in the early era did not have a good record on some of those issues, hillary had changed enough that i think she would've extended his policies, and in some places perhaps including immigration push them even further. so in the short market depends of course on whether president trump is president for four years or eight years and what happens after that, but i think that solidifying what obama accomplished is very important that hillary get elected. >> host:

next, we bring you a program booktv archives.n 2012, former inauguration day correspondence for msnbc, itv and sky news jim bendat give a history of presidential inauguration dating back to 1789. his book is democracy's big day. you can watch this and any program we have seen here in booktv anytime at booktv.org. [applause] thank you so much. waiting for the introduction. it is wonderful to be here. such a great american institution as the rotary club and speaking about a great american tradition. presidential inauguration day and doing so here, and a great american venue. queen mary of course. so, let's begin. it is done on inauguration day. in washington d.c.. huge amount of people gather on the washington mall. in 2009 it was all away from the capital all the way to the lincoln memorial. we just lost our picture. here we go. they are there of course putting on operation. -- they were there for the inauguration. people gathered in other places new york city, classrooms around the country, in paris, iraq, afghanistan. people are

plus applause facebook.com/en booktv. joining us now on our booktv set is author this have book security mom an unclassified guide to protect our homeland asian i- >> miss kaayen lad did you do for oown abdomen meteorologist.d >> host: assistant secretary for intergovernment mall affairs for department of homeland security, trying to integrate state and local homeland security efforts, whether preventing a bad thing from happening or responding to a bad thing happening. so -- i had come out of state government overseeing homeland security apparatus for the state of massachusetts. >> host: what about the issue outside worked on when you wherw are at dhs. >> guest: runs the gamut. people in my field now talk in terms of the word all hasheses. so the book is a what is f holdland security. so it's called all hazards, which is any risk that the nation may face. so it's terrorism, but it's hurricanes, oil spills, zika, cyber attacks, anything. why we try to department is focus on the risk and also prepare in particular cities a

booktv, television for serious readers. there>> next, "the communicator" with outgoing fcc chair tom wheeler. then, the senate confirmation hearing for interior secretary nominee, congressman ryan zinke. later, the cia director confirmation hearing for kansas representative mike pompeo. and live at 3 p.m. eastern, the senate begins debate on the cia director nomination with a vote scheduled for later in the day. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable it's companies and is -- television companies and is wrought to you today by your cable or satellite provide or. >> host: since november 4, 2013, tom wheeler has been chairman of the federal communications commission. that term comes to an end at noon on january 20th. chairman wheeler, during your tenure what'd you get right? >> guest: well, peter, you know, i hope that what we did was we said that our job is to be the lick's representative -- the public's representative in a rapidly changing technological envi

for complete television schedule visit booktv a.org, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors this holiday weekend, television for serious readers. >> there is a story about a murdered girl and the rampage of night riders, torch wielding ku klux klan -- i wondered if it was a racist fantasy, something kids like to talk about in the backseat of the bus, in 1912, a newspaper database, up came a list of headlines that told him and 18-year-old woman who was raped and killed at the banks of the chattahoochee river by three black men. here is a photograph of her around 1912, this was a little town called oscarphil. this is me playing hooky, doing graduate work on the 17th century bubonic plague outbreak and i was bored and tired with writing my dissertation, playing hooky but realized i was in a computer terminal that had this information and things were coming online. it was 2005. a lot of things were coming online for the first time in archives like the history center libraries that were digitizing it. along with that was newspapers and the story i always imagined as murky and unknowable and l

. >> [inaudible conversations] this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here's our primetime lineup. >> that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> as 2016 comes to a close many publications are offering their picks for the best books of the year. here are some of the titles of the book industry news source publishers weekly has selected.

think cloud, florida, good evening from booktv, you're on the air. >> thank you, sir. good evening, professor basevich my question to you why does the united states have to get involved in every military action outside of our borders? why is it that we just cannot protect our borders and be done with it? >> great question, i apologize -- i don't know where this cough kale from. gave him a cough drop and show you the covert book one more time. greg we're not ignoring but vamping so that professor gets a changes to tack a cough drop. sip of water american's war for the greater middle east is the cover of the book of military history and he's going to answer your question i promise greg we're not avoiding you. [laughter] >> a great question -- >> tell you what -- we're going to give you a chance. tell you what greg we're going to come back to question and will not forget it but just a because of his cough let's go ahead had and hear from david in west lynn, oregon, as well, and we'll get him to answer both questions. okay, david go ahead. >> hi, general thank you for your

on facebook at facebook .com/ a booktv and you can also e-mail us, booktv at c-span.org. david maraniss, a political question. when you look at the reagan legacy mini pointed party election of george herbert walker bush in 1980 as part of that legacy. how did the defeat of hillary clinton affect the people will view the obama legacy? >> guest: i think it will have a large effect on it. i think that first of all that's what barack obama was so important hillary get elected because the policies, policies, particularly healthcare but in every possible way i think when you talk about education or policing or the clintons in the early era did not have a good record on some of those issues, hillary had changed enough that i think she would've extended his policies, and in some places perhaps including immigration push them even further. so in the short market depends of course on whether president trump is president for four years or eight years and what happens after that, but i think that solidifying what obama accomplished is very important that hillary get elected. >> host:

. >> "after words" airs on booktv every saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. you can watch all previous "after words" programs on our web site, booktv.org. >> and now on booktv, the bill of rights day book festival held annually at the national constitution center in philadelphia in december. first up is a discussion on preserving america's founding documents. >> happy 225th anniversary of the bill of rights! [applause] wonderful. well, the national constitution center, as one or two of you may be aware, is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis. and we are so thrilled to celebrate with you bill of rights day and the 225th anniversary of the bill of rights. so some history, to review. september 17th, 1787, the constitution is proposed by the constitutional convention. it does not contain a bill of rights. why? because madison says that a bill of rights would be unnecessary or dangerous. unnecessary because the constitution itself is a bill of rights, and by constrainin

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here's our primetime lineup. >> that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> good afternoon, everyone. it really is an honor and a pleasure to be here today at this incredible event. miami because does such an outstanding job.he pri more so i get the privilege and honor them introducing probably one of florida's greatest treasures, and i could read out by about it from the blade bycr the crowd that issue that we know exactly who dave barry is. [applause]ving a cha >> having a chance being born r and raised here in miami and really loving miami, florida, in general, it truly is an honor that we have an author who not only gets us but actually writes and write so well. i want to keep boring you with me because i've nothing to give except an introduction today. it is my pleasure to introduce to you mr. dave barry. [applause] >> thank you.

these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> the primary reason i wrote the book was to honor the marines i served with in vietnam. more people should know their stories. they're incredible dedication, courage and the sacrifices they made in a war that you supported and even fewer thanked. in vietnam as draftees that they served with honor and did everything they can't ask of them, and more. and also wanted to subscribe a realistic picture of life as a winter rifleman in combat. slogging through fire zones for weeks and months at a time, you're seeking an elusive and lethal enemy, never knowing if someone is an enemy or friendly. they didn't wear uniforms. it's a war without a front line. we were constantly cold, wet, hungry and tired. our resupply would never arrive on time and we had to ration our food, ammo and even our water. we never had any heat to heat up the awful c rations that were our meals and we never had any dry socks. and i hate to say but every day was pretty much the same. up at the crack of dawn,

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. >> every weekend booktv is a 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors.here is what is coming up this weekend. denied 830 eastern, peter hayes academic committee chair at the us holocaust memorial museum and author of why explaining the holocaust. >> so why were the jews killed? because a long-standing tradition of hatred. activated under particular political circumstances. funded by a regime capable of whipping up the population to participate in it. then under took a war into a region where there were hundreds of thousands of the people they had defined as enemies.and it resolved under the conditions of wartime. to wipe these people out. >> at 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards, alfred university professor emirates was the cut looks at the philosophy behind frugal living in his book the wisdom of frugality. why less is more, more or less. he is interviewed by michelle singletary "washington post" singh indicated thomas. >> the crucial thing is that you never spend money on any kind of luxury at all. the crucial thing is to be self-aware about what to, wha

. >> have all been on the tv, when are we going to get the other two booktv? >> i will talk talk to them this week. here's our primetime lineup. tonight starting at 8:30 p.m. eastern, look at first lady eleanor roosevelt and 10, conferences narrows delivers the fairfax pride lecture and we wrap up monday primetime at 11:30 with hildale college professor bradley bruiser who talks about his biography of conservative writer russell kirk. that all happens tonight on c-span2's book tv.>> i'm here with scott farris, the author of inga, kennedy's great love, hitler's perfect beauty and the fbi's prime suspect. who was in arvada. >> she was missed denmark of 1931 but more than that. he was in actress, a ballerina, a concert pianist, explorer, washington columnist, gossip columnist and screenwriter for mgm and editor of harper's bazaar but most of all she was the great love of john f. kennedy's life and they desperately wanted to marry each other. it was not a plane, but she was a successful nazi spy and still married to her second husband lacks based on your research

. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> next on "the communicators," a discussion from the state of the net conference. then, south dakota senator john thune on the future of the internet. after that, the senate confirmation hearing for treasury secretary steven mnuchin. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable can or satellite provider. >> this week "the communicators" went to the state of the net conference in washington d.c. we talked with several people who are key voices in communications policy and with a government lawyer who combats the use of the internet by terrorists. >> host: gigi sohn, you recently left the fcc. what was your job there? >> guest: i was counselor to chairman tom wheeler, and in that role i did a variety of things. my main role was to make sure that stake holders on the other side, be they industry, public interest groups, ordi

on facebook at facebook .com/ a booktv and you can also e-mail us, booktv at c-span.org. david maraniss, a political question. when you look at the reagan legacy mini pointed party election of george herbert walker bush in 1980 as part of that legacy. how did the defeat of hillary clinton affect the people will view the obama legacy? >> guest: i think it will have a large effect on it. i think that first of all that's what barack obama was so important hillary get elected because the policies, policies, particularly healthcare but in every possible way i think when you talk about education or policing or the clintons in the early era did not have a good record on some of those issues, hillary had changed enough that i think she would've extended his policies, and in some places perhaps including immigration push them even further. so in the short market depends of course on whether president trump is president for four years or eight years and what happens after that, but i think that solidifying what obama accomplished is very important that hillary get elected. >> host:

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look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for turning out on a cold, late fall day. i can assure you, it's going to be worth your time. i'm dan disalvo, associate professor of political science at city college of new york and a senior fellow here at the manhattan institute, and it's my pleasure today to introduce our speaker, beth akers. first thing's first, i'd like to welcome beth to the manhattan institute where she's recently become a fellow. prior to joining us, she was a fellow at the brookings institution center on children and families, and before that she was a taffe economist -- staff economist at the president's council of economic advisers and worked extensively on higher education policy. second, i'd like to welcome beth back to new york. beth received her ph.d. in math -- excuse me, her b. a. in math and economics from cuny-albany and her ph.d. from columbia university. beth's here to talk about her book, "game of loans." recently publ

[applause] >> this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here's our prime-time line-up. tonight, starting at 8:30 p.m. eastern, a look at first lady eleanor roosevelt. and at 10:00, sandra cisneros delivers the fairfax prize lecture. we wrap up the monday prime-time line-up at 11:30 hillsdale college professor, bradley birzer, talks about his biography of conservative writer russell kirk. this happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> modern presidents are so obsessed with talking and campaigning and going places, that they fail to take the time to think about the third step of leadership, which is, implementing policy. in fact i start the book with a quote from thos

and on booktv's afterwords at 9:00 p.m. fox news threadbare discusses his new book on the final days of the eisenhower administration. and at 10:00 p.m. iraq war veteran michael anthony shares his difficulties returning home from work. and we wrap up our sunday prime time lineup with omar Ãus ambassador to russia he talks about the dangers of is limited extremism and what it means to be a good muslim in the world today. that happens tonight on c-span2's t.v.. [inaudible conversations] >> hello everyone thank you so much for coming. we are going to have a discussion and then we're going to open it up to q&a after 30 minutes. and as you probably know or may not know this is been filmed by c-span. so thank you very much c-span. [laughter] also, please ask a lot of questions and be as provocative as you want to be so that we can have a lot of very interesting conversations and that will be great for television. so, my name is geneive abdo. i am a senior fellow and we also have joyce karam a correspondent for al hayat. i think f

. >> every weekend booktv brings 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors and here's what is coming up this weekend. >> why were the jews killed? >> because of a long-standing tradition of hatred activated under particular political circumstances, fomented by a regime that was thoroughly capable of whipping up the population to participate in it, then undertook a war into a region where there were hundreds of thousands of people defined as enemies, and resolved under conditions of war time to wipe these people out. >> 10:00 eastern on afterwards, alfred university professor wester, that the philosophy behind frugal living in his book the wisdom of frugality, why less is more more or less. he is interviewed by michelle singleterry, washington post columnist. >> the crucial thing is not to never spend money on any kind of luxury at all. the crucial thing is to be self-aware about what it the value, what is really worth spending money on and where you are just wasting money or just spending it just because people tell you that is what you want to be doing, the kind of thing you want to be

. >> next up on booktv, from the 35th annual key west literary seminary, author and yale professor, steven carter. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] ... >> thank you so much. my name is arlo haskell, and i am the executive director of the key west literary seminar. [applause] before i get started, let me make just one quick housekeeping announcement. we're going to do the question and answer session a little bit differently today. there will be stationary mics in each aisle, and if you would like to ask a question, you should get up out of your seat and come to the mic and ask your question. when we get to that point. okay. it is a pleasure to welcome you all to the san carlos institute and to the 35th annual key west literary seminar, revealing power: the literature of politics. this sunday afternoon session is free and open to the public. this is our gift to the community. and it wouldn't be possible without the gifts that many others have made to us that support our operations throughout the year. i'd particularly like to thank peggy whose support makes this