you are on booktv. >> hi, i would just like to ask you, when you did your research and evenly talk about the women specifically, did you include, does this include african-american women? or did your research lead to that? did you find that there were african-american pioneers or in women in science? >> absolutely. >> thank you ma'am. >> absolutely. of course many will have heard of hidden figures. this incredible group of african-american women that worked at langley. and i'm very pleased my book to also discuss many women of color. i speak about janessa lawson. she received her degree in chemical engineering from ucla. and today she would just be hired as an engineer but back then in the 1950s, she was hired as a computer. and it took many years for her to become an engineer. she had incredible contributions at the lab. she is one of many women of the diverse group. helen lange is a woman who led the group for a long time. and she was involved in just about every mission you could think of that nasa h

eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> the c-span cities tour and booktv's look at san jose continues as we look at big tech and silicon valley's impact on the city and surrounding area. >> for someone who hasn't visited silicon valley, they would be driving around, and it wouldn't hook a whole lot different from a whole lot of other urban areas. but then you would start noticing logos, you might see people on the multicolored google bikes, you might see people on the apple bikes. so you'd see these buildings with the company logos on them, and that would give you a clue that you're here in the center of all things tech. silicon valley used to be -- [inaudible] it was a lovely, bucolic region full of apricot and apple trees, and then the tech industry came in, and now it's essentially the world hub for the technology industry. so you have almost all the major technology players headquartered here. you know, you have google, apple, facebook, twitter, airbnb, uber, and so it's pretty much taken over the entire region. most of the tech companies are fairly close to each other, you know, traffi

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> we are standing on the grounds of fort anderson tasked with protecting the city of wilmington. up next we speak on history as well as the civil war. >> left to right. >> fire! [applause] >> we are actually standing where the crest of fort anderson, which was the largest confederate fort in the lower cape fear in the interior that guarded the western land approaches and the river approaches to the sea port of wilmington. the fort was initially started in march of 1862, construction was ongoing throughout the war and they were still working on it when it was attacked in february of 1865. the fort was built on top of the old sea port of bronswick which was the leader in colonial times, in fact, it was the first enduring settlement on the cape fear river. at the american revolution it would fade and the entire site was sold for 4 at any time 35 and 20 years later during the civil war confederate engineers picked this site to build a line of artillery batteries to protect the western land approaches to wi

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some of these authors have will be appearing on booktv on c-span2. you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> people on the left, progressive democrats march in lockstep. it is amazing. the tape has surfaced in the washington post, donald trump tracking what they thought was in private doing their man boasts. remember trump famously or infamously said, when you are a star in hollywood, grab their genitals. a stupid remark. completely translated by the left into that is what i do rather is that is what i would like to do but i'm too civilized to do it perhaps. i don't know trump personally but this was a private conversation from 11 years previously and when republican after another was horrified. i can't support this candidate. this is a bridge too far. jeb bush embarrassingly said i have two granddaughters, nothing donald trump can say whatever apologize, remarking in private to billy bush where they realize they would be and that is republicans. hillary clinton, she sold off her position as secretary of state, national assets, made $100 mill

you're on booktv, please go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: yeah. i went through world war ii, 1940 til '45 and was occupied by the germans, amsterdam, and i had jewish friends in my class. one family was taken, never came back; father, mother, two daughters. the girls were in my class. i had another jewish family in my class, boys. the father never came back. the mother and the two boys survived. they all had numbers on their -- tattooen -- tattooed on their arms. my aunt lived across from a train station. i watched 'em being loaded into boxcarsike catt, and some o them survived. and a lot of them didn't. and i'm watching your program, and i could almost cry to see how people can be so mean. and it is still going on in the world. it is awful. and i'm watching your program, and i'm so upset to think that people can be so bad in this world, and it is still going on. a thank you. >> host: gerda, can you tell us, do you remember how you felt when you saw that happening? >> caller: yeah, because these were children in my class. and, you know, whole neig

. >> host: booktv has covered that book hidden figures. ibram kendi, his book is also then covered type did the name you can watch it on my net your leisure. the next call comes from new york. we are listening. >> caller: afternoon. yummy and thinking you so much. i encourage by your vision to enjoy feats of history. i want to ask you something other authors and other people who delve into this issue, along time ago the other gentlemen talked about india and my grandmother was lakota and having a history that goes back to the civil war to speak to someone in my family when i was a young man. and the discussions i had with those people whose survival reconstruction gave me an opportunity to take part of the civil-rights movement. if one thinks the dilution of us being inferior is an interesting if abraham or moses and jesus and muhamed looked like you and me if we took some time to see those people were to make is not know who we really are to feel the sense of inferiority with that difficulty the we have gone through. >> host: we will have

on booktv's "after words" program at 10 p.m. eastern, author and journalist sophia nelson reflects on the founding fathers' calls for a unified america. we wrap up our saturday prime time lineup at 11 with author richard -- [inaudible] talking about president lincoln's sense of humor. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> mark, how are you? [inaudible conversations] >> hello, everyone. thank you so much for coming out this afternoon. my name is david childers, i'm art of the event staff here at politics and prose, and it's our honor just behalf are of the staff and others, it's our honor to welcome you here for this event for the author brad snyder and his new book, "the house of truth: a washington political salon and the foundations of american liberalism." i have a few housekeeping notes i want to cover right before we get started. if you will take this time to silence any cell phones or noise-making devices so we don't have any unnecessary interruptions during the event. i will also menti

twitter.com/mac booktv or post a comment on the facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome to the regulator bookshop in north carolina. i am a professor of history at the university of north carolina chapel hill, and we are happy to have c-span here to cover this talk for booktv. .. 2010 "both right." with many awards include national council for the humanities. tonight professor ekirch is discussing his book "american sanctuary." i reviewed this in "wall street journal" and i wrote: the author sets his dripping and timely book in the previous we're ya we questions of refugees and citizenship had dramatic consequences in a presidential election and for the future of the country. it's a timely book, hat to do with refugees refugees and the f the united states. it's an excellent book and i loved every payment of is. welcome, roger ekirch. >> thank you very much, kathleen. in preparing this afternoon's remarks i was remind of political rally during last year's campaign at which a a senate candidate spoke. the host of the rally informed the

welcome to booktv on c-span2.this is our "in depth" program over talk to one author and talk about his or her body of work. this month is humorous and author dave barry. we are at books & books in coral gables, florida, and he is our guest, the author of over 30 books. here are some of them. dave barry talks back came out in 1992. dave barry does japan, 1993. dave barry is not making this up, 1994. you put your name and all your book titles? >> guest: i find it just as annoying as you do. [laughter] i once proposed that title be another dam dave barry book by dave barry, and that almost went with but they didn't. suspect may be your next one. dave barry's greatest hits came out in 1997. dave barry selector which is aimed at united states, also came out in 1997. dave barry hits below the beltway, 2002. dave barry "money secrets," 2006. dave barry history of the millennium, so far 2007. i will mature when i'm dead 2010. live right and find happiness came out two years ago, and then this year, "best. state. ever" a f

if you were listening earlier, you heard somebody familiar to booktv viewers, richard reeves, talking about his most recent book, "infamy: the shocking story of the japanese internment in world war ii". if you have a question, 202-748-8200 in the east and central time zones, 748-8201 for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones. richard reeves, one of the things you said at the end of the panel's japanese americans, their bank accounts were frozen two days after pearl harbor. how did that happen? >> guest: the government had the power to do it. the justice department ordered the bank account be frozen and people could take out small amounts of money but couldn't pay their bills for years. someone mentioned bob fletcher, one of the heroes, caucasian heroes, who paid among other things, paid his friends, japanese friends who were taken away, paid their mortgage and insurance. and many other cases their lands were stolen and stolen under state law that was considered abandoned property. >> host: how did they identify those bank accounts? >> guest: not sure i understand the que

that all happens this weekend on booktv. it is 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, television for serious readers. >> booktv takes hundreds of other programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the event we will be covering this week on monday we will be at peace city bookshop in washington d.c. where former special assistant to george hw bush, doug weed will discuss the 2016 presidential election. on tuesday in baltimore, pulitzer prize-winning journalist will england will recall president woodrow wilson's -- away from american isolation and a lead up to world war i. wednesday we had out west to bromans bookstore in pasadena california where science writer rod pyle will report on some of the lesser-known space missions. and on thursday we will be at books smith bookstore in berkeley california historian and activist rebecca -- talks about the feminist movement. that is a look at some of the programs we will cover this week. many of these events are open to the public.look for them to air in

tweet pus twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> in 1977,about sadat was making a speech at the parliament in egypt. an he put down his papers, and he said i won't go anywhere. ly go to the ends of the earth. i would go to israel. i would go speak -- if they would save one more egyptian life. and nobody believed it. they applauded, about no he wasn't even mentioned in the newspapers the next day. ten days later sadat's plane -- over tel-aviv. now, you would have to understand this thinking of both sides at this historic moment. here is israel's greatest enemy coming to tack talk to them really uninvited he invited themselves but formally they have to invite him but israel symphony out there in the -- at the airport they didn't know how to play the egyptian national anthem but listen to radio kyrie to get a sense of how it goes and then a question of -- if sadat were really in the plane could it be full of terror are, be full of explosives we're going to have all of the meetings of israel here wait for them. you know, there's a sniper all ove

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that's a look at some of the programs booktv will be covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> i don't know i have called myself that but i feel like -- >> we like to call you that. >> when i started a year ago, immediately there was a lot of visibility around the job and the fact i was black, was a woman, that i was younger than my predecessors had been when they took the job, and i think it was really energizing for everybody to see there was an opening up and a change the national book foundation, and so i think because there was so much energy it felt like a real a yell good opportunity to use the platform that we were receiving, to just try to change the conversation about books. what we do, the primary function of the national book foundation, is to present the national book award which is about he can -- about excellence and the best books published in america and that's not all books. it's a very specific set of books. but in order to get people to care about th

booktv, television for serious readers. >> here on c-span2, "the communicators" is next.with former fcc chair michael paul who now heads the internet and television association. then from this past weekend, vice president pence speaks to kentucky residents about the republican health care plan. and later, the confirmation hearing for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. a final vote is scheduled in the senate later today. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a mix service by america -- public service by america's cable television companies and is

>> you watching booktv on c-span at the arizona book festival. a couple more panels coming up. one on immigrants and education and finally epidemics and a couple chances for you to talk to different authors. >> host: professor hayes, were you able to answer your question? >> guest: that's probably not for me to judge, but i hope so. >> host: and what was the answer? >> guest: i think to explain the holocaust, you have to explain a number of interlocking issues. there is no single explanation. there were multiple things happening that came together in a quite special way to produce these events. so what i did is i broke down the question why into subquestions, and i had eight of them. they were not my invention, they are questions people have asked me repeatedly, questions my students brought to the class that i taught for 26 years at northwestern, and i decided this was the way to organize the book. so each chapter is a single subset question to that larger question. >> host: and the first chapter is "why the jews." >> guest: why the jews. the well, the short answer is, of cour

[applause] ♪ >> joined booktv live on saturday begin at 6 p.m.rn from books and books bookstore for a panel discussion on books and the joys of reading. books and books owner and miami book fair cofounder mitchell kaplan will join us along with west stand for, director of the writing creative program in miami and author of 20 books including water to the angels. >> this week in the c-span cities tour along with our comcast cable partners will explore the literate life and history of san jose, california. saturday at noon eastern on booktv here about silicon valley, hope to meet at the worlds largest tech corporation including google, facebook and apple. tech business reporter of the mercury news talks about the successes and challenges silicon valley has had on san jose and the region. >> silicon valley is booming. it is absolutely rampant, and that raises the possibility that things will go in the other direction as they have in the past. speeding if you know anything about california, among other things i'm a nativeborn californians and i've st

you are on booktv. go ahead. >> good evening. would think to ask a question to each of your panel members, kind of make a hypothetical. if you're each given a manuscript or above and you areu not familiar in any way with th material and you are not told who the author was, could you tell if the book was written by a male or female? >> host: what you asked that question, jerry? je guest: i wonder if there's such a thing as a male or female style if there was at one time or still is now. >> host: les standiford >> guest: no way. statistically speaking you might say i used to be a mysteryy, writer. people used to say there were no feminine mystery writers. i only like to read the hard oil staff women do.only lik i don't think that's true anymore particularly since as the word has gotten out and the world has gotten smaller to say i don't think there's any such thing. those books you listed a moment to go, do think they'reto see important? yeah, but i'm a storyteller. the nonfiction i read pass at a story in it, beginning, middle and

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[inaudible conversations] >> booktv live coverage of the tucson festival of the book continues we're on the campus of university of arizona the festival itself is held outside in many aspects it is hell on the of quad area and the different buildings that surround it the wildcats statue right in the middle to represent the university of arizona wildcats and unjust dave minutes when panelist will be joining us taking calls his most recent book is called me and of the world and we're talking about bill clinton in the post presidency. teeleven is now with us. thank you for being with us. , as many as the clinton foundation raised and given away and spent? of the estimates is over $2 billion at this point. they have been an operation release since he was in the white house. we opened a foundation to raise money for his presidential library initially 1998. and has now been operated almost 20 years in a rain of death after he left the white house and started to raise money to do other things. and in the underdeveloped world the great bulk of the money that was raised and spent by the found

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, insta graham @booktv and twitter@booktv. we are going live to the first author panel and this is on politics. >>> i think i see many of the faces we have seen at similar panels in the previous years. welcome to the ninth annual, can you believe the ninth annual festival ofestival of the books. it is incredible to have such speakers and authors coming from all over the country. my name is ron barber and i will be the moderator this morning. [applause] [cheering] thank you. you're very kind. i want to thank cox communication for sponsoring the venue and mr. david marinss is appearing with the star and is sponsored by cindy and build. please give a round for ourne sponsors. >> our special will last for about an hour and immediately following the session, the authors will go to the book signing tent. mr. nichols will be a little delay today that will be signing his books for you. [laughter]. >> which will increase the value. [laughter] it's th the university of arizoa bookstore tent in the mall. 141. you can buy books there of c

if you noticed booktv is here from c-span and they will be recording. after the talking portion if you could wait for me to come and find you and give you a microphone so that way they can hear you, also. that's everything i need. let's welcome peter. [applause] [cheering] hello, everyone. thanks for coming. i took the train to the upper west side and it makes me feel like i'm in high school again. so basically i wrote how to kill a city because i was interested and couldn't explain it or find a good explanation for it. i grew up in the west village. my parents still live there and i kind of saw it change before my eyes from a middle-class place for artists and young professionals and oligarchs. then when i came back from college i couldn't afford to live there anymore so i ended up moving to brooklyn and found myself on the other side of that process. i knew i was helping displaced people and i was getting the same glances on the street i would give to new people in my old neighborhood like why the hell are you here. and i really didn't have an answer

temple. >> want c-span's cities tour of chico, california, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv and sunday afternoon at n c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> and live sunday at noon eastern investigative journalist and best-selling author danny jacobson as a guest on booktv his in-depth. >> from these documents what is clear is that it's moving humans in the military environment toward being comfortable with this idea of merging man and machine. >> she is known for her writings on war, weapons, security and government secrets and will discuss her for recent books. join our live three-hour conversation with your calls, emails, tweets and facebook questions live sunday at noon eastern on c-span two. >> the u.s. supreme court ruled a new state law which prevents businesses from telling shoppers that they're imposing a surcharge on credit card purchases is a speech regulation. new york businesses want to be able to tell customers are using a credit card costs more but it's against the law in new york. york. this is to say that violat

good afternoon, gypsy, you're on booktv. >> caller: good afternoon, peter. and good afternoon, lillian faderman. i'm loathe to say i haven't read your book, i'm sorry, but i expect i will. i'm calling about a little piece of history in atlanta, georgia. in 1976, tall, -- fall, until te fall of ooh 78, my lover and i were caretakers for the atlanta feminist alliance. alpha house. i think it was founded by margo george, best i can remember. do you have any current information about that alliance? >> guest: i'm afraid -- >> host: we'll get an answer in just a second. gypsy, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got to elk horn city, kentucky? >> caller: well, i grew up -- i was born in west virginia, wyoming county, near the now-famous oceana from which the documentary oceana was filmed. .. >> i've fumbled my way through life; 1960, gosh, i'm just going along about myself. oh, my. >> my point was, you live in a rural area and you're identified as a lesbian. what has that life been like for you? >> well, i'm out to the people who know me, but i

and i'm booktv afterwords graham at 9:00 p.m. eastern, report on alternatives to traditional banking. at 10:00 p.m. thoughts on america's political and cultural landscape.to wrap up our sunday prime time lineup at 11:00 p.m., peter moscowitz looks at gentrification in detroit, new orleans and new york. and what the impact has been on residents of these cities. that all happens tonight on c-span2 booktv. >> we need to ask the basic question here. how did congress choose the 12 rights that they did and what are the basic things it they want the audience know about what the bill of rights will protect? >> the most basic thing and i've already given you some hints about it. we were just playing a game. and some of you play this with me before so if you have do not spoil it for you because you one of the answer. i like folks in the audience is to shout out the names where the famous, when i said bill of rights, cases in american history that pop into your -- what the big bill of rights cases are. shout out their names. [inaudible] >>

. >> this is booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here's our primetime lineup. >> that all happens tonight on c-span2 is booktv. >> do you think the union commanders recognized the tolerance among the mechanical trades amongst their soldiers? were they aware of this advantage? >> i think they do but your question is actually an excellent because i think what happened was that the professional juniors were really miffed by these nonprofessionals who were being relied upon to pull off these remarkable feats. ..

you are on booktv. it helps if i push the button, sorry about that. you are on booktv. >> thank you, c-span for having this great coverage of the savanna book festival and enjoyed listening and watching dan, look forward to getting a copy of your book. the media be using a term immigrants quite often these days. we are all immigrants, native americans, we are all immigrants, why do they keep grouping everyone in that category and talk about illegal immigration, they don't use the word illegal, they are justifying it in a way by using the word immigrant. >> that is an amazing observation. i'm self-interest. i think "wolf boys: 2 american teenagers and mexico's most dangerous drug cartel" is a very good antidote to the problem you mentioned which robert garcia, the lead law enforcement agent who pursued these young boys when they were sent across texas to do their crimes here, he was born in mexico, he came over with his family when he was 9. he was the child of migrant farmers, he worked on farms in the states as a kid, got a college scholarship he dec

ibram kendi author of "stamped from the beginning" winter of 2016 national book award booktv coverage of tucson festival of books continues here at the university of arizona up next day panel on the history of women in the sciences. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of books. we wished to think cops communication for sponsoring this venules -- been used in the college of science. the presentation will last one hour including questions and answers please hold the questions to the and. immediately following the session the authors will autograph books at the bookstore tent on the of all bouffe 141. books are available for purchase at this location. the of the will be 20 minutes late to signing books with a 20 minute interview with c-span. text friend 52 '04 14 book. i feel like i am in car talk. [laughter] your gift makes a difference to keep the program free of charge with critical literacy programs in our community. if at of respect for fellow audience members i urge you to turn off yourself alone and it is my pleasure to introduce t

[inaudible conversations] >> host: and booktv's live coverage of the tucson festival of books continues. you've been listening to authors david maraniss and john nichols talk about poll -- politics. ask john thick olds -- john nichols will be joining us in just a second to take your phone calls. 202 is the area code, 748-8200 if you live in the east and central time zones, 748-8201 for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones. the tucson festival of books is held on the campus of the university of arizona. it's now in its ninth year. coming up in half an hour is the next panel on civil right asks the supreme court. adam cohen and jim obergefell, and mr. obergefell is, of course, the plaintiff in the gay marriage case. and they will be coming up to speak in about half an hour or so. we're pleased that john nichols has joined us. mr. nichols, early on you said we need donald trump, perhaps we need donald trump right now. >> guest: i was cautious about saying that. i write for "the nation" magazine which was not particularly enthusiastic about mr. trump's candidacy. and i think

that all happens this weekend on booktv, 48 hours of of nonfiction authors and books. it's television for serious readers. we will kick off our programming this weekend jill jonnes who talks about the use of the trees in city planning. >> good morning and welcome to the new york botanical gardens. this is our special friday morning science conservation and humanity seminars. i also welcome you this morning very heartily from my cohost, brian and charles. my name is vanessa sellers. i'm the coordinator of the humanities institute, a special research division in the library set up to stimulate critical thinking at the intersection of science and the humanities. and what better subject than urban forests to bring science and humanities together? to discuss science and society, to study the deeper relationship that people have always had with trees through the ages, as meeting points, as object of the light, as places of peace and well-being. and everyone here i am sure will have their own favorite tree. think about your favorite tree for a minute. what better place than t

>> 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 conversation with the acting chair of the federal trade commission. then ahead of today's confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch, we're going to show you the confirmation opening remarks of each of the current supreme court justices. and live at 11 a.m., the senate confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. >> host: maureen ohlhausen is the acting chair of the federal trade commission, and she's our gut this week on "the communicators." chairman ohlhausen, what's the current status of the federal trade commissioning? how many people are on it, what actions can you take at this point? >> guest: well, the current status of the commission is we are open for business, we are working, we're doing the public work, work very well, i think. so there are two current members, i'm the acting chairman. i'm a republican. and i have my colleague, terrell mcsweeny, who's a dem

tweet us, twitter.com /booktv or post a comment and a facebook page. facebook.com/booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening and welcome to the rare book room. my name is cynthia and i direct events here at strand bookstore will both have been left for b,89 and counting. dr. danielle ofri is a physician at bellevue hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country. and associates of medicine at nyu. -- the first literary journal to arise from a medical side. her critically acclaimed book what patients say, what doctors hear has been a bestseller and wish i knew book will enjoy the same success. please welcome me into welcoming dr. danielle ofri. [applause] >> thank you it is so nice to be here. this is always been a favorite of mine here at strand bookstore. since i was a medical student. the one dollar both van and it was one of my food groups along with coffee. this morning i was seeing patients at bellevue and a regular clinic session. you know a busy day. lots of medications and lots of illness. many other doctors i am always wondering, am i really as good as

. >> live sunday at noon eastern, annie jacobsen is our guest on booktv's "in depth." >> from the pentagondocument what is clear is that it's moving humans in the military environment toward being comfortable with this idea of merging man and machine. >> she is known for her writings on war, weapons, security and covet secrets and will discuss her for recent books. >> join our live three-hour conversation with annie jacobsen with your calls, emails, tweets and facebook questions live sunday at noon eastern on booktv's "in depth" on c-span2. >> sunday night on "after words", rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse examines how government is impacted by corporate money and special interest groups in his book captured. he's interviewed by new york times investigative reporter eric litman. >> when you have one corporate front group spending $700 million plus in the last election, and threatening, planning to spend $400 million in the next election in the midterms, that's just a huge footprint and there's a lot more going on behind it. the second piece of that has been kind of bringing home the

. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> here on c-span2, "the communicators" is next. with former fcc chair michael paul who now heads the internet and television association. then from this past weekend, vice president pence speaks to kentucky residents about the republican health care plan. and later, the confirmation hearing for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. a final vote is scheduled in the senate later today. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a mix service by america -- public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. and michael powell is former chairman of the federal communications commission and longtime president and ceo of ncta, the internet and television association, formerly known as the cable association. mr. powell, how would you describe the state of the cable world today? >> guest: i i think it's pretty vibrant and dynamic which is, if under

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. >> the c-span cities tour and booktv forgot san jose continues. next, a trip to santa clara university as we go inside their special collections. >> so we are here in archives and special productions and a santa clara university library on the campus of santa clara university. here in archives and special collections are not only the keepers of university libraries rare books collection but also the keepers of santa clara elected member as reflected in its records. we are particularly lucky here in this department actually have what we call the mission santa clara manuscript collection which are the records generated by what we refer to the franciscan era of mission santa clara. so the time period between 1777 when mission santa clara was founded through 1851 when the land and the church grounds and mission buildings et cetera were handed over to the jesuits to found the university, and they were founding the college to support the 10th of santa clara. there was no really public school in the area at the time, so there really was a strong need for