today, booktv is live from the 15th annual annapolis book festival in maryland. beginning at 10:00 eastern, live coverage include the panel discussion on income any quality with the author of two dollars a day, living on almost nothing in america. and stephanie deluca, author of coming of age in the other america. at 11:00 am a discussion on criminal justice with robbie chaudhry and search for truth and justice after syria. watch the 15th annual annapolis book festival live at 10:00 eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> a very very prestigious prep school in the los angeles area where they prep their kids for princeton, yale and all the others, there were kids to listen to my show regularly and they wanted me to come to speak because i am not on the liberal side of their politics. i'm on the conservative side and they never hear conservative speakers at the school so they wanted me to speak. so i said sure and they went to great lakes to arrange it but i arrived that day. my wife was here and she was with me and she can vouch for this. so i came in these wonderful youn

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. >> watch tonight at nine eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> after testifying before congress and make a front page news with the sunnyside case, grace returned to new york and once again threw herself into the strange and unusual case that some always found a way to her desk. she fought against the same doctor who tormented the famous reporter nellie bly when she went undercover at an insane asylum. and was marked for death by the sinister black hand, the italian crime organization that use secret codes and mystical rituals. eventually one of her which society friends called to tell her that a girl had gone missing in new york and begged her to meet with the father of the girl. by the time grace agreed to take the case, ruth's photo had appeared in newspapers all over the country. her image even flickered in front of movie theater audiences. the press drawn to the story of a party sunday school teacher he was banished openly suspected white slavery, foul play and romantic entanglement. sometimes all in the same story. juicy clues were flooding the detective precincts but none of them

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

. >>> booktv talked to holt about her book rocket girls a history of the women who worked in rocket science in the 40s and 50s laying the groundwork for the u.s. space program. from the tucson festival of books, this is a half-hour. >>> nathalia holt is going to be joining us in just a minute tomi take your calls. rise of the rocket girls is her book the women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars and she joins us now here in the gallagher theatre on the campus of the university of arizona. nathalia holt, what was the common commonality you found among these women? >> these are women who loved math and science, but they were coming of age at a time that just wasn't an option for women. they were going to school theco 1930s and 1940s and were frequently the only women in their math and science classes. i heard that over and over again so you can imagine how it felt for them to come together and be part of this large group of women looking at the object report propulsion laboratory. >> did nasa have a specific program that encouraged this? scenic nasa started in 1958 and these wo

. >> don, you are on booktv. we are listening. >> caller: hello, and thank you.professor kendi, i am from new orleans and there is a collage of human beings from that place. i want to find out more about why people from new orleans are the way they are and people from caribbean are the way they are. i came across a book and learned about the homestead act and head right system. these seemed like very racist policies and i wondered if you could espound on them just to enlighten me. >> guest: there are many, many folks that deal with the history of new orleans or louisiana more broadly and the way it being a french colony and that switch in 18 1810. one thing i shared in the text is because of the history you had a number of biracial people in louisiana who some identify as creole and some don't. this group of people who some of them resisted racism alongside the larger or, you know, population of enslaved or free black people latter part of the 1800s. but some of them looked upon themselves as inferior to black people. some of them reinforced the notion that black

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. >> watch "after words" sunday night at nine eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> this morning i want to begin by introducing you to somebody from our book, and that is kim powers bridges. kim owns and operates bridges funeral home in tennessee. but she's not from tennessee. she is actually from oklahoma. she started her first business of their, a funeral business, but she had to leave oklahoma when she ran afoul of the law. turns out that kim was engaged in the very dangerous practice of selling caskets without a funeral directors license. before that in the early 1980s kim was on the executive fasttrack. she grew up in account of hard-working entrepreneurs. she learned the relationship between hard work and success, and after she left college she enjoyed a lot of success, in a number of different businesses. eventually she ended up at one of the nations largest funeral companies, and there she sold preneed funeral services. she saw this as a way to combine hard drive in business with her desire to help people through her work. and as before she was very successful in that business. it

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on booktv's afterwards at 10 p.m. eastern ohio governor kasich on 2016 presidential run and on partisan politics. and at 11 we wrap up our saturday prime time lineup with journalist john farrell on the life and presidency of richard nixon he's joined in the conversation by author and journalist david. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv.

finally, you can send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org.also, we have an audience here at books and books, one of the 600 events happening this year. we are going to be passingnu around a microphone in a fewe minutes, so if you have questions for the panel as well please ask them. we polled the bes pulled the bed got this information from your p staff and the top-selling book right now as far as nonfiction does, have any of you read this, it's made a lot of list lists ad bestseller lists etc., given our world today has anyone picked this up when you see a best seller list do you go to thoses- books?'m >> a lot of times i'm reading books far in advance before they've actually come out. so i don't necessarily pick up a book because it is a best seller. but i certainly heard him on c-span and all over the place talk about this book, so i understand why it is such a best seller. he does a very interesting job with it. can you go to a best seller list and think i better pick that up? .. novelist christina garcia. and i bought it immediately and

at noon eastern on booktv. we see their exhibit on william faulkner, nobel prize winner and first writer in residence. >> a lot of wonderful artifacts, many have come from va sources, the typewriter he was issued by the university at the university property stamp on the back. if you look at the jacketed is torn up and ratty. he left his jacket hanging in his office to oxford, mississippi. >> at 2:00 pm eastern on american history tv we go to thomas jefferson's monticello. >> when we see jefferson's beautiful neoclassical villa, what we want to do is change that. when you came up the mountain top in jefferson, first thing you have seen most likely would be this. there would be no place on the mountaintop where slavery was not visible and we want to restore that, make that known to those who come here today. >> at the university of virginia we learn about the first year project which explores challenges us presidents face in their first year on the job. >> lyndon johnson said when he became president no matter ho

a lot going on doing interviews who are covering panels, all sorts of different venues and our booktv marketing folks are here. and they're passing out the official book bag for the festival within side says booktv the other side say los angeles times festival of books and if you happen to be in the area come on down and see us and grab a back bag we'll be here all day again tomorrow. now we've got another panel coming up in about a half an hour and this is a panel on writing and publishing and one of the people that will be speaking at that panel is lisa lucas who is executive director of the national book foundation which gives out national book award every year after that the radio talk show host and author will be doing a call-in and able to tack to him but right now we're pleased to have professor cory field who is is written this book. unexpected politics of african-american republicans -- professor fields are you a republican? >>no i am not. so -- a bit of an outsider perpghtive perspective experience. >> are you a democrat? >> sure. i would guess i would probably classify my p

booktv live coverage of the l.a. times festival of books continue but next panel that we're going to cover is one on writing and publishing and it is beginning now. >> for the sun dance institute san francisco film society and the the scholastic art and awards. .. >> >> and all the lucky list georgi is from southern california. [applause] the literary journal that is publishing out of san francisco's inside 85 the former but editor at us and francisco chronicle and incidentally the last word of many english dictionaries. [applause] representing writers said both fiction and nonfiction like men explain things to me and the many titles of this kitchen time letting the sweet life is in paris she also has many novels as well of all the books of fiction and nonfiction written. [applause] this is our panel allows them questions individually and collectively tried to start a conversation among them then towards the time

you're on booktv. >> caller: good afternoon, folks. miss jacobsen in your book "knock na" do you mention a person named inga swan. >> guest: i do. she is the original super psychic and played a very significant role in the early years of the cia program, and also in the years of the defense department program. so there's quite a bit you can read about in "phenomena" about swan. the was a very charismatic person and a fascinating person. >> host: al, why do you ask about him? >> caller: with him in california in '69 when i was a scientologist, and he -- that's one of my questions. was anybody in scientology taken seriously in the phenomenal program, and ingle swan had contempt for people who reached the ot3. the said i can do what cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars with my hands tied behind my back. the other thing, there's two other things to mention to you. maybe some other time, not on this program, i could contact you if you're interested. but there is a study in the university of virginia, done about 30 years ago, that has -

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv, or post a on our facebook page,loto facebook.com/booktv. >> john tamny is with us today courtesy of hall mcadams and barbara hall. he is senior fellow at reason foundation, senior economic adviser to research and trading and an editor of real clear market.com. he frequently writes about the securities market along witht tax, trade and monetary policycy issues that impact those markets. markets.im for a ride of publications including the "wall street journal," "investor's business daily," financial times, national review, and london's "daily telegraph." these give a warm savannah welcome to john tamny. [applause] >> linda, thank you very much for the gracious introduction, and thank you to all of you for being here today. it's a passionate book people like you that make it possible for me to get to do what i love. and so i can't express mywh gratitude enough. also want to thank the savannah book festival for including me, as a lookout at the other authors in the other books in featured this weekend. i can't believe i am in such good company. these are aut

facebook.com/booktv. >> mitchell kaplan where are we? >> in the courtyard of books of books in beautiful on this beautiful night here in south florida. so we welcome you to our store. >> most book stores don't open in a front yard? >> no, what we did is this building was built in the 20s for karl it is very old. historic building. and the book shop runs around the courtyard cafe, and as you can see particular plenty of people who come and partake of this and we have in music on the weekends but we just think that flows beautifully with books. >> how many book event dos you do on a regular basis? >> on a yearly basis we do about 600 book epghts year. about 600 events often kids and adults and other kinds of things. but we're a very, very active school. >> when did you open? >> i opened books about 35 years ago. >> why? >> because, you know, the story is basically i was a failed law student english major in college an i didn't want to give up u the dream of being part of a literary culture so one quick way of doing that was getting into th

booktv at .... c-span.org. also we have an audience here at books and books one of the 600 events that are happening this year at books and books, and we're going to be passing around a mic in just a few minutes so if you have any questions for our panel as welg please ask them. we pulled books and books best sellers we got this information from your staff mr. kaplan, and the top selling at books and books right now as far as nonfiction goes -- hill billy by jd vance, have any of you read this this has made a lot of list, a lot of best seller lists, et cetera. given our world today has anyone picked this up? when you see a best seller list do you go to those books? [laughter] >> well, you know the way -- probably pretty much like last -- a lot of times i'm reading books n't necessarily pick up a book glrchts >> i've certainly heard mr. vance on c-span all over the place talk about this book so i seller troying to explain this more or less an he does an interesting job with it. >> autumn menendez do you say i be

>> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> next, "the communicators" with pennsylvania congressman mike doyle. then australian prime minister malcolm turn bull takes questions from parliament. and at 9 a.m., a discussion on public and charter schools with former education secretary john king. ♪ ♪ >> 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 or satellite provider. and democratic representative mike doyle of pennsylvania is the new ranking member on the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology, and he's our guest this week on "the communicators." representative doyle, if we could start before we get into specific issues, given the atmosphere in washington, the atmosphere on capitol hill, are there issues, do you think, that can be found and worked on in a bipartisan manner when it comes to telecommunications policy? >> guest: ing sure. and

. >> we have been talking here on booktv with chris impey his book is called "beyond our future in space" professor of astronomy here at the university of arizona. thank you. rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse offered his his opinion on white house business. and discussing our how bodies react to fat. washington editor bill girts will provide his statements on how the united states can outpace competitors. and we will explore the life of the leader of the liberian women's movement and the first female president elected in african history. john kasich reflects on this 2016 presidential campaign. and former chief of the new york department internal affairs bureau will describe this work investigating corruption in the police force. >> i spent 41 years in the nypd and saw acts of bravery and integrity but there is that one cop that keeps you up at night. when i was a precinct commander everyone knew that one or two officers you didn't trust. when i went to internal affairs, i brought the commanding officers onboard and we would meet with them on a regular bases and i would ask them que

twitter.com/booktv or facebook.com/booktv. >> we are going to get started. take your seat. welcome to hoover d.c. is it michael? i am the cochair of the working group on technology, national security and law. in my other life, i am senior fellow at the brookings insuitution and i run law there with partners with hoover on these ahaven'ts. for those of you -- events -- who have been to these before, i want to give you a little heads up. we will do this one a little differently which is neither i nor jack goldsmith are going to be conducting the interview. the reason for that is when i reached out to grame to come talk about this book, "the way of the strangers," he informed he he had been reached out already to come to hoover and talk about the book. it is an example one arm not knowing what the other arm is doing. we decided to join forces and sam is going to be guest host of what we at law fair call the hoover books and what hoover calls security by the books. we don't take audience questions because of the podcast and i know that really upset somebody last time. i want to

donna, welcome back booktv. >> caller: hi. thank you, rebecca. i wanted to ask your opinion and observations regarding to recent elizabeth warren-mitch mcconnell situation in the senate? with i tried to explain it to her and told her to shut up and yet she persisted. could you comment on that? >> it was an interestingly unpleasa unpleasant moment. one of the interesting things in the trump era is stuff that people didn't see is obvious. and mitch mcconnell's desire to silence elizabeth warren seemed to be well understood around the country and gave us the beautiful tag line nevertheless she persisted. that became a beautiful slogan. maybe it backfired on him. >> back to your book, feminism need men. >> people criticize women for voting for trump but we don't ask only people of color to be anti racist. all women have been on the hook and that is understanding. or how women who have never been exposed to feminist behavior besides what they get on fox tv are not feminists. feminists means ensuring rights and economic and reproductive rights and stop

[inaudible conversations] >> and this is booktv on c-span's live coverage of the los angeles time festival of the book held on the campus of the university of southern california. in about half an hour or so the next author panel will begin and that is a panel on california issues. the authors have all written about different issues facing california. so we will be bringing that to you live. full day of coverage ahead here. joining us on our call-in set is msnbc chris hayes who has written his second book called "a colony in a nation." where did the name of the book come from? >> it is a line from a richard nixon quote in 1968. it is an inauguration speech and thought of as a law and order speech. you have riots, protests, assassinations and he is calling for a return to order saying it is time for frank talk about the problem of order in the country. there is a line where he is talking about african-americans and race struggles and saying they want the same as white americans and don't want to just be a colony in a nation. that term, when i encountered it while reading the speech, really

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. >> host: welcome to booktv. today i will be talking to profess professor lisa servon. a professor from the university of pennsylvania and the author of "the unbanking of america: how the new middle class survives" which was just released this month. >> guest: thanks for having me. it is great to be here. >> host: why did you write the book and who is it written for? >> guest: that is a great question. i wrote the book in a nutshell because i could not understand why lenders today were bad today. in the course of my research, which took a few years, i learned that banks were naughot really serving the low end and increasingly the middle class. i realized there were good alternatives coming onboard and i wanted to tell that whole story. i read for people in the financi financial services business and people who may not be happy with the current services they are using. >> host: let's talk about what you mean by alternative service providers. what are those? >> guest: i see it broken into three components. one is mainstream which is banks and credit unions. the second is

coming up on booktv in prime time, a look back at the 2016 presidential campaign. rolling stone writer matt taibbi talks about his book "insane clown president: dispatches from the 2016 circus," and then doug weed talks about "game of thorns" about the hillary clinton campaign and maureen doubt on her bock "the year of voting dangerously". pj o'rourke talks about his book "how the hell did this happen? the election of 2016". watch booktv in prime time all week here on c-span. >> npr political reporter talks about an article she wrote looking at the state of the affordable care act and the council on foreign relations for the foundation of defense of democracy looks at the challenges facing the trump administration and the deals with syria. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. >> next, rolling stone editor, matt taibbi, gives his thoughts on the 2016 presidential election. his book is "insane clown president: dispatches from the 2016 circus" note portions of this show may contain language some viewer

. >> this weekend, booktv on c-span2 booktv features the evangel kells, the struggle to shape america on saturday 59:00 p.m. eastern with francis fitzgerald talking about the evangelical movement in america. >> eventually occurred to me that it was perfectly impossible to understand the evangelical right without understanding its history, and because it -- a lot of their doctrines, ideology, points of view, make perfect sense in context of the 19th 19th century. >> senator elizabethway at 8:50 p.m. eastern on the current state of the middle class and what can be done to revive it. >> gina has worked several years at walmart and i asked gina what , does she think she is still middle class? and she said, i'm i don't think there is a middle class in america anymore. if there was, i wouldn't have to go to the food pantry the end of every month. >> the life of president richard nixon. >> he was in the coverup, up to his neck, and his loyalists have attempted of the years to try to say that it was dean -- that dean ran the coverup or dean and haldeman and ehrlichman betrayed him. the tapes

this will be broadcast on booktv. we ask you silence your cell phones. and also as it is being filmed, the key and a. if you have a question. i will be around with m to get a picture before you speak you have the mic in your hand and also a fantastic event sunday afternoon at 4:00, collegians and will be here, editor of a feminist is a collection called here we are, a collection for ages 12 and up. if you have this in your life it is a fabulous collection, essays from everyone. come out and meet kelly, she will be here along with christine hoeferman, one of the most incredible young adult writers. i hope we see you again. tonight, we are absolutely thrilled to welcome alyssa mostromonaco. [applause] >> alyssa mostromonaco's book is "who thought this was a good idea?: and other questions you should have answers to when you work at the white house". alyssa mostromonaco is chief operating officer at price media in williamsburg, previously she served as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for operations at the white house under president oba

you can watch the 15th annual annapolis book festival on saturday on c-span's booktv.unday night on q&a. wheree was a yellow pad in the midst down of october 1968, we are going to monkeywrench lyndon johnson's peace initiative. this is something that has always been rumored, and bits and pieces cannot over the years , but nixon denied it at the time to lyndon johnson, and he denied it to his biographers. he always said he never played any role in doing it. >> a longtime journalist and the author of "richard nixon, the life." >> the way that the watergate burglars team was assembled was clumsy. they were the cynical, burned-out fbi agents who were supervised i young men -- by young men on nixon's staff. they wanted to be the

. "> watch "after words was sunday at 9:00 eastern on booktv. c-span, washington journal is next.hleen sebelius discusses end-of-life care. next, lisa gilbert of public citizens on congressional rollback of obama administration relations. lynch on the federal role in police reform. the:00, laura keller on wells fargo investigation. ♪ host: good morning. it is friday, april 14, joy 17. on today's "washington journal" the headlights focus on u.s. military actions after a 21,000 pound bomb was dropped in afghanistan. that strike, using the largest nonnuclear weapon in america's arsenal is the latest in a .eries of actions u.s. officials and experts say the increased show of strength is sent to --

land of the free and of the brave so it is crazy. >> this is booktv and chris hayes is our guest. his book, "a colony in a nation" is what it is called. if you want to participate here is how. 202 is the area code. 748-82 hp in the estern and central time zone. 748-8201 for mountain and pacific time zones. chris hayes, what is your take on this that you write in the book: the drop in crime from the u.s. from '92 to today is one of the most stunning statistical mysteries of our time. >> you know, when i started going to manhattan to go to high school there were 2300 murders in the city. last year there were 300. thing about another metric reduced by that. harvard admissions, car wrecks, poverty. it is a two-act story. 1996, 1992 increase in crime across all category and big and small cities across the country crime increases show up in every category. and starting in 1992 the trend reverses and goes away everywhere and the cause for that, the basic story of what happened there is incredibly poorly understood. ultimately, i think the best cases i have read is it was multi factor. th

. >> saturday, booktv is live from the 15th annual and up list book festival in maryland.inning at 10:00 a.m. eastern, a panel discussion on income keegan,ty with kathryn author of living on two dollars a day. and also the author of "coming of age in america." author brian solarz with his book "grace and justice on death row: the race in texas to free and innocent search fothe ope at 3.th o e et s o lk wti rurar o tme an rherinn l f dgctnuea sse don

. >> in on booktv, part 2 at the reading of elie wiesel "night." journals, actors, politicians and public figures recently came together at the museum of jewish heritage in new york city to read the entire book. part 3 will air at 5:00 p.m. eastern and you can watch part 1 on my ibook tv.ordered. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome back. again, may we remind you that the taking of flash photography is strictly prohibited. this check your cell phones to

join the discussion. " is live from the annapolis boat felts will -- " booktv tv" is live from the annapolisk festival. , author ofeluca "coming-of-age in the other america." a discussion on criminal justice . the book "grace and justice on death row." discussions with the author of "pilgrimage, my search for the real pope francis." 1:30 p.m. eastern, author of watch the of sound," 15th annual annapolis book festival live on saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span's "book tv." announcer: white house press secretary sean spicer who is , traveling with the president in florida this weekend, held an off-camera briefing with reporters to discuss the u.s. missile strikes in syria. this is about 15 minutes. i have michael anton with me of the national security committee. we intend to have a readout later. hopefully we can gather with the pool at least. we will see what the rest of the day looks like while trying to get back over here, as well. i want to provide a little bit on the president's action. i know there's been a lot of interest in this. we can take a few questions. with respect to the a

[inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv. this is live coverage of the 22nd annual los angeles times festival of the brooks on the campus of the university of southern california. in about half an hour or so, a panel on history. you will hear from annie jacobson annie jacobson talking about her book "phenomena," jeff quinn talking about the road to james town. that is coming up in half an hour. we pleased to be joined by journalist and author gary younge. here is his book called "another day in the death of america: a chronicle of ten short lives." mr. younge, november 23rd, 2013 why is that date significant? >> its not. that is the whole point. it is the day after the 50th anniversary of jfk's assassination but it was a day i chose to make the statistic real and that is on average seven teens and children are killed every day in the united states. i wanted to pick a random day and find out who these kids were, who they wanted to be, in what circumstances did they die and that was the day i chose. >> you picked it out of a ha

. >> booktv is n twitter and facebook. we want to hear from you. like us on facebook or send us a tweet. now on booktv, we are live from the 15th annual annapolis book festival. today you will hear from several authors on a range of topics from income inequality to a profile on pope francis and former cia director michael hayden talking about terrorism and intelligence. now first up in our coverage, here is a discussion on income inequality. >> good morning, we are here to talk with doctor stefanie eden a -- stefanie deluca and kathryn edin. dr. deluca uses research to inform education, housing policy, and she was awarded a william tee grant foundation scholar award to study mobility residential and family life among very poor families in the souths. she is working on a mixed study for the effect of baltimore housing programs on long term neighborhood and school equality and children's outcome. he contributes to regular and local and national media including the atlantic, the new yorker and national public radio. dr. deluca's work has been publishe

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

. >> watch afterward sunday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> our visit to chico, california continues with robert cottrell as he explores the counterculture of the 1960s and influential people and movements. >> the rise of america's 1960s counterculture. my book "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll: the rise of america's 1960s counterculture" focuses on the whole of american bulimia to a certain extent which i talk about early progenitors, edgar allan paul, i talk about members of the left in the early 20th century, i talk about the hipsters and the beatles. i get two figures of the cast of allen ginsberg and jack kerouac who were central, biographical elements in this book. and talk about timothy leary and a whole array of characters who course through the decade of the 1960s and think of the counterculture of the 1960s when we think of the hippies and participants in one capacity or another and they were individuals who were disenchanted with matters as they were in some fashion, concerned about jim crow and its continuance, they were deeply concerned about the war in vietnam, t

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booktv, television for serious readers. ♪ ♪ >> c-span, where history unfolds daily.1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. ♪ ♪ >> "the communicators" attended the recent state of the net conference in washington d.c. we talked with people when help shape how the internet is governed. they also talk about some issues of internet use today. >> host: george, what's your background? >> guest: well, i started as a. matt:ices major -- mathematics major, and it took me until graduate school to realize that i didn't like mathematics. so i dropped out, became a programmer. went back in economics, got a couple of degrees. did work in the united nations doing technology transfer to developing countries. i ran two university computer networking operations. i had an internet policy project mostly in the tomorrower soviet union, and i've been a director of i can for the last seven years. presumably, as a retired person but, in fact, as nearly a full-time person working wit

that is a look at some of the programs booktv will be covering this week. many events are open to the public and look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> good morning. i am president of the george public policy foundation and i would like to welcome everyone to your breakfast. we have a great event lined up on an issue that is near and dear to our hearts and a key part of something we feel strongly about and that is coming activity. i want to bring up our vice president, anita dos. [applause] >> good morning. i am a little shorter and closer to the mic so i hope you can hear me a little better. i would like to welcome dick carpenter today but i want to tell you how much we have worked with the institute of justice over the years. i think otheir motto is we sue government. but dick is co-authorer of bottleneckers. don't miss your opportunity to get a copy. it is excellent and shocking. bottleneck is gaining the government for power and private profit. he is director of strategic research for the institute for justice where he worked w

[applause] >> thursday booktv is in prime time with a look at science. biochemist sylvia -- discusses her book the secret life of fact. richard miller talks about physics in his book now. physicist helen -- on her book --. eugenia chang discusses math in her book beyond infinity. booktv, all this week in prime time on c-span2. >> check out our c-span classroom website at c-span.org /classroom. it is live free teaching resources for c-span classroom members. improved layout gives teachers easy access to ready to go resources for the classroom. including short-term events videos good highlights important events in washington d.c.. constitution clips to bring the constitution to light. social studies lesson plans. as well as on this day in history resources. our search allows c-span classroom teachers to search and filter by date, person, keyword, topic and grade level. our bellringers video clips of teacher favorites. short videos paired with vocabulary and discussion questions that make it federal government and politics more accessible to your students.

a great privilege to have everybody show up, booktv, generous of them to be here. i'm always fascinated by writers who can give a good reading, give a good talk. i will include -- i don't necessarily myself because we think about almost all our time talking to ourselves, not only occasionally out loud. so to make that transition from sin in a room by yourself, most of your life and then coming out and interact with people. so i'll do the best i can pick one of the things that helps in that situation is to make notes. i made all kinds of notes and have notes stuck in here and everything. but then sitting here thinking, i'm in wichita and i'm going to take these notes, throw them down there. i'm just going to tell you the story, kelly have the book came about and what it's about, what happened, who the characters are, some of the stories from it and then see what questions you have. so let's make it kind of informal, loose and we'll go from there. i had done, i've done several books with a co-author named bob was a wonderful writer and one of my best friends. we had

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>>> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top non-fiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> here on c-span2 "the communicators" is next with economist hal singer. the future of the trump presidency and future of the press. we take you to a live forum on housing and finance policy for u.s. cities. >> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. cspan: this week on "the communicators," a discussion of economic policy and the federal communications chris. our guest is hal singer. he is an economist and also a senior fellow at the george washington institute of public policy. dr. singer, in a recent paper that you coauthored, the curious absence of economic analysis at the federal communications position, an agency in search of a mission is the title, you write that the fcc is often an economics-free zone. what do you mean by that? >> guest: what i mean they're not taking economics into considera