tweet us, twitter.com/or booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> and now joining us on booktv is university of arizona professor william mishler. professor, what do you do here at the university? >> guest: i'm a professor of political science in the cool of government and public -- in the school of government and public policy. >> host: what do you teach? >> guest: i teach a variety of things. i teach theories of democracy, democratization, a little statistics and the intro to american government. >> host: well, we're here to talk to you about your book, "popular support for an undemocratic regime: the changing views of russians." is vladimir putin, in your view, democratically elected? >> guest: yeah, probably. you know, it was a, an election which had a variety of undemocratic features, but if the question is have there with been a free -- had there been a free and tear election this every regard would he is have won, i think the answer is probably yes. all elections have some sorts

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv, or basic, on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> joint is not on a booktv set the author of this book, cleve jones, "when we rise: my life in the movement" is theme name of the book. mr. jones, what is the moving you speak of? >> guest: it's the big movement, a movement for peace and for social justice. when i was 17 i discovered that part of th

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv, or basic, on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> joint is not on a booktv set the author of this book, cleve jones, "when we rise: my life in the movement" is theme name of the book. mr. jones, what is the moving you speak of? >> guest: it's the big movement, a movement for peace and for social justice. when i was 17 i discovered that part of that movement was particularly for people like me. now called lgbtq, something something something. >> host: that movement is larger than the gay movement treachery fastly i grew up. i grew up believing that all of these movements for social justice were connected, that we are all part of a larger struggle to end war and end racism and poverty. i think that's changed a bit over the years but it is still the way i look at and i think it would be helpful for people viewed it that way. >> host: how would you define the gay movement today, 2017? >> guest: right now in 2017 i think lgbt people face a real challenge.ac we have won some very important victories in recent years,, particularly during the obama administ

>> that's a look at some of the vincent 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. .. >> they created rules for the selection of delegates which led many states to switch to presidential primaries. you got the switch in the 19719, there are primaries. >> what were the changes the democratic party did in the seven days? >> there were no rules on how delegates were selected. sometimes they were appointed and sometimes they were officials. the rules were that the process had to be timely within the election year and it had to be open to all democrats and following the rules if there is a caucus, and having a presidentia presidential selection. it was disaster: they felt they had short changed. there were riots outside and they developed a commission to look into the rules. >> did the republicans follow suit? >> no, they left it up to the state and generally the process became more alike because when a state was opened up. in the early 20th century, the use of prim

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>> for more information about the book fairs and festival booktv will be covering and to one-half preach festival coverage click the book fairs tab on our web site, book of there.org. >> joining us now on our call-in set is msnbc's chris hayes, who has written his second book called "china in a nation. ""where did the name come from. >> guest: a line from a richard nixon quote in 1968. giving his rnc convention acceptance speech, and it's sort of thought of as a law and order speech.. the most tumultuous year in american political history, riots, protests, assassinations and he is calling for a return to order. he said it's time from frank talk about the problem of order in the country and there's a sort of kind of throwaway line where he talked' african-americans and the civil rights struggle and say they want the same as white americans and just dent want to be a colony in a nation, and that term stuck with me, and it seemed to capture something deep about a lot of the reporting i was doing. >> host: where did this book spring from? was there an inincident? i >> guest: we covered crimi

. >> you are watching booktv. television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. ask r >> and now booktv is live from the gaithersburg book festival. you will hear from several authors. foreign policy magazine executive editor sharon wineburger. maria olson is up first. she is the author of "not the cleaver family" about the modern family structure. this is booktv's coverage of the gaithersburg book festival. >> good morning, how is everybody doing? i am danny windborne. i am a planning commissioner in the city of gaithersburg as well as a member of the book festival committee. this is our 8th annual books festival and we are so happy to have everyone here. we are pleased to bring you this fabulous event. if you see the people running this say thank you. please silence all devices and you can use the #gbf. we have feedback you can give us so we make the festival every year. i have read about five of the books myself. as you know, the city of gaithersburg, as one of the most diverse cities in america. thi

look for these titles in bookstores this week and many authors in the future on booktv@c-span2. >> a great sense of humor, a lot of jokes and stories, so much humor. he usually used it to make a bigger point. and to put people at ease. and pretty nervous. and often use humor. and stories make a significant point. we need to realize humor is an important component. i don't say by a joke book or anything. you can take the role seriously, without taking yourself too seriously. ronald reagan was excellent at using self-deprecating humor making himself the butt of the joke. didn't take himself too seriously and that allowed people around him to relax and of people around him were relaxed they were in their best work out. i was not terrified the guillotine was going to fall working for this man. he surrounded us with such an era of acceptance and appreciation and sense of humor about things because not everything went perfectly. sometimes things went wrong. when you were part of that regardless how hard you tried to make everything perfect things didn't go as planned. he was always graciou

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at 10:00 eastern on booktv. join us this weekend for cities tour to trenton, new jersey at the help of comcast partners, booktv and american history tv, feature the history area and literary culture of capital city. at 5:15 on booktv we visit the state library's book collection. >> a printing press was set up in new jersey to print paper money for the colony, the legislature wanted it closed, so they see the printing and at the time they did that they did this book. the first known printed book in new jersey. >> a conversation with william kidder, author of crossroads of the revolution, trenton, 1774-1783. >> washington spent more time in new jersey than any other state, his army spent a lot of time here. the important thing is keep the revolution going on the field. i believe new jersey in general and trenton in particular was instrumental to accomplish that goal. >> sunday at 2:00 pm, we tour the state capitol building, and the legislatures in the country, trenton, new jersey's impact on the industrial revolut

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some of these authors have or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> how, you might wonder, did i end up in gainesville when there are all these other communities we are losing work to? i didn't know this community, didn't have family here, didn't have any friends here but i heard about gainesville which i never heard about before. in 2009 when i was looking for a setting for a story about the washington post, there was a community in wisconsin, a big general motors plant. i didn't come here at the time because it just happened. a lot of people were still getting sub pay. the economic pain for some people hadn't begun to see been. i didn't come. as i was getting close to getting started after i did this scary thing of taking time off from my job i kept thinking about various places i could go. something inside me kept telling me gainesville might be the place. why was that? one reason was i needed to find a place that lost a lot of jobs and you definitely qualify. i don't have to tell you thousands of j

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> you're watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. >> and you're watching booktv on c-span2. we are on the campus of the university of arizona talking with professors here who are also authors. want to introduce you to linda lumsden who is an associate professor of journalism here at the university of arizona and the author of this book, "inez: the life and times of inez milholland." who was she, professor lumsden? >> guest: well, she was, one, the sole martyr for women's suffrage in the united states. she was arguably the most famous female political figure of the 1910s. and she was the epitome of the new woman which was a group that really were the first feminists of the 20th century. among other things, she was as vassar graduate, she was a lawyer who had the fight to be able to practice. she was a free lover, part of the greenwich village crowd. she was a war correspondent. she was a socialist. she was an advocate for prostitutes and, basically, any person who was the un

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>> that's a look at some of events 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. >> hearsay so i want to tell you about. this will be a story that goes from 1935 to the present. that will be the timeline. 1935-1960. the first thing of what you do lock in your brain about this is i will accept that powerpoint, it will be like interpretive dance. [laughing] i can do this. i can so do this, right? watch me. anyway, so here's the first fact i want you to lock in your mind. basically with few exceptions gdp, how rich were getting him how much we are producing kind of goes up every year. this is just a nice steady line up. that's going to be the first part, 1935 to 2016. now i'm going to divide this story into total time. and i will break it at 1980. it will give us an idea of how to work with it. 1935-1980, what happens in america? and the answer is what happens in america is we work on how to build opportunity. how to build opportunity. do you know how we do it?

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on booktv afterwards at 10:00 p.m. eastern, physician and journalist elizabeth rosen thal lacks at the business of health care. and we wrap up with pulitzer prize winner. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. first up, here is mit professor and author, noam chomsky. [inaudible conversations] [applause] [applause] [cheering] >> good evening, everyone. thank you for coming. thanks for joining us those here and online via the form network. i am name is ashley and on behalf of harvard bookstore i am honored to announce tonight's event with noam chomsky presenting "requiem for the american dream" joined in conversation by democracy now! amy goodman. [applause] >> before we begin i want to take a moment to thank you all for being here. your ticket and book purchase support harvard bookstore. we are an independent bookstore and you make this acclaimed author series possible. visit used a harvard.com to sign up for our newsletter. tonight's event is being filmed by booktv, democracy now! and please know that during q&a

facebook.com/booktv. and finally, e-mail, booktv@c-span.org.ll begin taking those in just a few minutes. dr. tyson, back to your most recent book, astrophysics for people in a hurry. 40 billion earth-like planets in the milky way alone. i've got two questions. what is the milky way and how big a space are we talking about? 40 billion earth-like planets. >> guest: yeah. so it was hard earned to learn what the milky way was. consider that term that we use dates from ancient rome. rome, when they built streets, they didn't call them streets, they called them ways. and you look up in the night sky and see this milky band of light, and they'd just call it the milky way, the milky street literally. and in china where milk is a less popular beverage into adulthood, they don't call it the milky way, they call it the silver river. and so this is a well known feature in the night sky. imagine to just be some cloud of light crossing from one horizon to the next. and it would not be until galileo and other large telescopes brought to bear on this question

that is a look at some events booktv is covering this week. many events are open to the public and look for them it air in the near future. >> joining us on our booktv set is the author of this book, cleve jones "when we rise; my life in the movement". what is the movement you speak of? >> the movement for peace and social justice. when i was 17, i discovered part of that movement was for people like me, gay people and now called lgbtq something something something. >> the movement is larger than the gay move? >> i grew up believing all movements for social justice were connected and we were all part of a larger struggle to end racism and poverty and war. i think that has changed bit over the years but still the way i look at it and i think it would be helpful nor people viewed it that way. >> how would you define the gay movement in 2017? >> win 2017, i think lgbtq people face a challenge. we have won important victories in recent years particularly during the obama administration and now i think all of these advances clearly are in grave dan

. >> and now from booktv's recent visit to trenton, new jersey, you'll hear about the life of j. dennis papp, a soldier in the vietnam war who was forbidden from carrying ammunition in his gun because of his role as a personnel clerk. >> when we got to our unit or the base camp for the ninth infantry division, we went to supply, given fatigues. you're handed an m-16, and then i said to the supply sergeant, where's my ammo? he says, you don't get none. i says, excuse me, we're in vietnam. where's my ammo? you're a clerk, you don't get any. how do they expect you to you survive in vietnam that you can't defend yourself? why are you there if you can't defend yourself? i had several ideas in mind for the title of the book, and what i ended up with was "fear was my only weapon" because, basically, we were not allowed the ammo for our m-16s. we were clerks at a main headquarters for the ninth infantry division, and we just weren't allowed to have ammo. so i figured fear, which i was in all the time even though i did not go out on fire fights and with the infanning try or anything like

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> but the other sort of contribution that i think the book or i hope the book has is a discussion of the domestic cadaver trade. and this is the trafficking of dead bodies. i've traced medical school records, anatomy professors that were involved in this traffic, and they wrote letters back and forth to one another looking for the dead bodies of enslaved people or exhuming them from graves. one of the pivotal quotes that i have is a quote from one medical doctor to another who's saying, you know, tell me how much it costs for a dead stiff n-word -- excuse me, do tell me what the cost is of a dead, fine, stiff n, one that'll cut up fat and doesn't smell strong enough to be nosed a mile off. is to i traced this traffic in this trade of these bodies, and i look at the ways in which even after death enslaved people were commodified. so just two final closing, short one-sentence quotes that helped me push through this book, and

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> this holiday weekend on booktv on c-span2, tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern former u.s. secretary of state donald please a saw rice -- condoleezza rice looks at democracy around the world in her book, "democracy: stories from the long road to freedom." >> americans in particular were blessed with founding fathers who understood an institutional design that would protect our liberties, our right to say what we think, to worship as we please, to be free from the knock of the secret police at night, to have the dignity that comes with having those who are going to govern you have to ask for your consent. but if we were blessed with that, and we believe that we were endowed by our creator with those rights, it can't be true for us and not for them. >> sunday at 2:20 p.m., columbia university professor john mcwhorter on the controversies around and perceptions of sounding black in his book, "talking back, talking black." >> i thin

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[silence] >> booktv has hundreds of other programs throughout the country all year long.here is look at some of the events we will be covering, the national press club in washington, the us government's doomsday plan. that is a look at some of the events booktv will cover this week, many are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> tim jones was always a megalomaniac. he always believed to some extent that it has been preordained that he would be great. he always lies. he is really unthinking and cool to his wife. he is selfish. he is accomplishing these great things as he gets more attention. he gets less criticism for those around him. when he does odd things, when he maybe overdoses of the amphetamines he has to take because he needs to be awake 20 out of 24 hours a day to get so many great things done, makes it easy to say that is jim. he performs faith healings that are fake as the days long and if you read this book, one of the interesting sections you might find is how these faith healers produce these cancers they take f

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. >> this holiday weekend on booktv, on c-span2, saturday, 8:30 p.m. eastern, former u.s.tary of state condoleeza rice looks at democracy around the world, in her book, democracy, stories from the long road to freedom. >> americans in particular were blessed with founding fathers who understood an institutional design that would protect our liberties, our right to say what we think, to worship as we please, to be free from the knock of secret police at night. to have dignity that comes with having those who are going to govern you have to ask for your consent f we were blessed with that, and we believe we were endowed by our creator with those rights, it can't be true for us and not for them. >> sunday at 2:20 p.m., columbia university professor, john mcwhirter on controversies around and perceptions of sounding black. in his book, talking back, talking black. >> we need to get comfortable black people have slightly different sound because they often spend more time with one another just because white people sound like one another because they spend more time together. tha

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eastern on -- booktv.ook tv >> saturday on booktv, coverage of the maryland book festival.tarting at 10:00 a.m., maria olson on her book. of10:35, author whistleblower at the cia, an insider's account to inside his intelligence. sharon weinberger at 12:15 discusses her book, the imagine years of war, the untold story of darpa, the pentagon agency that change the world. at 1:15, craig shirley on reagan rising, 1976 to 1980. at 2:15, sidney blumenthal, author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. at 3:15, sally mark freeman on , a missingbrothers naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watch our all-day coverage of the gaithersburg, maryland book festival saturday at 10:00 a.m. .astern on c-span2's booktv >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back in open phones. your thoughts on any debates happening around the country, we will go to chris

eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> sunday, involving malaysian defense contractor fat leonard francis. tocompletely embarrassing the navy. it shocked the culture of the navy that people were corrupted information about ship movements, but other things notell, in exchange for that much money, but fairly lavish lifestyles. night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. "washington journal" continues. host: good morning. us your perspective of today's vote on health care, also from your experience as a doctor. guest: this is a bad deal that is extremely worse. let me explain why this is important to me as a human being . i grew up in a trailer park. my parents were farm workers. i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and i have seen a lot of suffering. i wanted to become a doctor to alleviate that pain and suffering and help people get care they need when they need it. i became an emergency medical doctor. i ran for congress to help people get the care they need. this will make the health care system more expensive. patients will not give protection they need. we will have more people uni

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> folks, wait one second. folks, before we begin i ask you to take the time now to please turn off your cell phones. keep in mind that c-span is videotaping this evening, at the end when we do our q&a there is a microphone up in front. we ask that you please come and stand at the microphone to ask your question so that we can hear you. otherwise we will not be able to hear or see you if you're sitting down. thanks. my name is sinned yaw chadekas, and i want to thank you for coming tonight. i'm a librarian at mid manhattan library. i'm happy to present john mcwhorter. we're lucky here at mid manhattan library because john has come more than once. he has been very kind aboutthat this is his third visit. tonight he will speak about his most recent book, "talking back, talking black." truth of about america's lingua franca. he is a associate professor of columbia university where he teaches linguistics, american history and african-american studies. he is columnist for "time" magazine and regular contr

twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> good evening, i am tony clark from the presidential library. really good you have here because this is really good book. i am curious how many of you have been here before? oh, well, then i am preaching to the choir here. i was just going to tell you, i was looking the pulitzer prize winners were just recently announced and there are five books that were nominated for the pulitzer prize and i was talk to frank reese, the owner of accopelo brooks and i said we must be slipping because we only had three of those five. i told him we better do better and get all five. chris whipple is no stranger to awards. he is a filmmaker and writer and started this career in washington at foreign policy magazine and was a correspondent for "life" magazine. he spent 20 years at "60 minutes" he was at abc news and won multiple peabody awards and he is the executive producer of programs like "spy masters the cia and the cross hairs" and the president gate keepers the untold stories of the white house chief of staff which l

." >> booktv is flying out to california where former speech writer and senior advisor to president nixon will shed light on the nixon administration at the richard nixon presidential library in museum. on wednesday, off to the mcarthur memorial, where peter eisner will recall how filipinos survived the japanese occupation during world war ii. and we will be in denver to hear the discussion on how 14 inmates received wrongful convictions. the american spirit coming up on thursday as well and that evening we are headed down to the tulsa historical society for best selling historian recount of the ill faded junior of the dawner party. and friday we are back in the nation's capitol to hear david callahan report on how the wealthy are using philanthropic adventures are using -- used to promote the future. >> as a candidate, trump got a lot of mileage out of taking the side of the smaller folk and that might be workers who lost jobs or companies that are on the smaller side and can't complete with the big global interests as president we see a shift in that to somewhat more traditional conserv

that is a look at some events booktv is covering this week. many events are open to the public and look for them it air in the near future. >> joining us on our booktv set is the author of this book, cleve jones "when we rise; my

that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome, everyone, hello. who is that up there with me? my name is pattie sellers. i asked leigh gallagher how long we have known each other. leigh gallagher just celebrated her 10th anniversary at fortune magazine. i have been there for 33 years so i have done it seems like i have known you for at least 20 years. but it doesn't feel old. >> feel like we are in our living room. >> yes it does. leigh gallagher his life closest friend. full disclosure. >> he asked me tough questions. >> it is not edgy or challenging. it is up to you to ask for challenging questions, the really tough questions. i was very flattered when i was in the middle of the airbnb story when she asked if i would do this tonight. the book is great. we expect you all to read it. i was a big fan of leigh gallagher's first book, the end of the suburb or end of the suburb. >> the. >> the end of the suburb. about the movement from the suburbs to the city's of people, companies and money. so t

[applause] >> you're watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at book of thedoering -- booktv.org. >> it was founded in 1679. such an important partner american revolution and a long partner industrial revolution. so a lot of great buildings and that's what makes trenton special, the mix of old and knew is what makes the cities great. >> while in trenton we took a driving tour of the city with john hatch. >> we are just going to head up to the corner and then make a left. while we're walking by here, this is -- [inaudible] -- indian war, built in 1758. there were, i think, three other barracks built in new jersey but the only one still in existence. >> what is is used for now? >> it's a museum, a great museum. they do re-enactments on the front courtyard, musket fire, which is always -- can be also like cause for concern but my office is right across the street so we hear it all the time. this is west state street. now we're approaching the state house, the state house is right there. they're start s

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for more information about the book fairs and festivals booktv will be covering and watch previous coverage, click the book fairs tab. >> it bent meant being from a liberal family, meant being jewish, meant being the children of my incredibly interesting engaging parents and in the end, we all have these identity that are formed by what we grow up. and there are identity that you don't realize you inherited. that is what the story of this book was for me. i didn't understand when i met someone they might come to the meeting of me with an anie jacobson assumption until i decided to work on the book. it was a strange gift for the works. coming to it with no background and completely clean, meant that i could mime mine own memories and layer in this information that i was learning. it wasn't like one of the things i often said about this work as i was doing it is i didn't come with a story to tell. i didn't come saying i have this whole story i need to impart to you. the look is the attempt to put together the pieces. one of the most important things about the work is when i realized i was rea

>> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> next on "the communicators," an interview with shirley bloomfield, ceo of the rural broadband association. then live at 8:30 a.m. eastern, a preview of the president's upcoming overseas trip. live at 11a., the president and -- 31 a.m. the president and vice president attend the fraternal order of police annual ceremony honoring officers who died in the line of duty. ♪ ♪ >> 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. ♪ ♪ >> host: and this week on "the communicators" we want to introduce you to shirley bloomfield who runs an organization called the ntca, the rural broadband association. ms. bloomfield be, what is that group? >> guest: so thank you for asking, peter. it is a national organization. we represent about 850 community-based communication providers who actually started off as telephone compa

tweet is twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> welcome, everyone. i direct programs at the museum of art where we do our best to channel the traditions of the high himalayas and offer them here in the 21st century, and what are we scoring tonight, this is called brainwave where we pair my scientists to attempt to figure out what this thing we think of as reality actually is, we are going to find that out tonight no question. so this whole series is based on the idea of perception. those who have visited the shrine room will know that the shrine room is devised as a sensory experience. you not only see things but you smell the fragrance in the air. are you allowed to touch? don't touch the precious object if you don't mind. you take the whole thing in. you can hear the sounds and you also realize how limited you are in terms of your perception because you are not taking everything in. in tibetan buddhism there are not five senses, there are six senses and the sixth sense is consciousness. the process, the input from the so-called outside wo

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> tonighting we have m.j. hegar with her book, "shoot like a girl" that details her time in afghanistan -- [cheers and applause] and her fight to eliminate the military's ground combat exclusion policy which kept female armed service members from officially serving in combat roles. shelys in austin with her -- lives in austin with her family and gives back to herral that matter by mentoring cadets. she continues to speak about her fight for increased military effectively through equality. we are so pleased to have her tonight, so without further ado, m.j. hegar. [cheers and applause] >> thank you so much. and thank you to book people. you guys have been so wonderful and warm. i keep telling everybody, wherever you bought your book, return it and buy it from book people. thank you all so much to. be i am so nervous right now because i'm speaking to a wunsch of people who -- bunch of people who i know and love and respect, ma

you're watching booktv television for serious readers you can are watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. hello everyone thank you for coming if you would like to grab a seat at this time. thank you all for joining us this evening i'm maria one of the event coordinators here at the bookstore and i have the pleasure of introducing kevin this evening. a quick reminder to silence your cell phone if you haven't yet and encouragement to check out our kartd of events at the bookstore and we have pam net of our march and april events on table bit popcorn. we have a wonderfully full calendar and authors coming up including this evening kevin davis is award-winning journalist and former crime reporter work appeared in u.s. today and the reader and other publication author of the wrong man, defending the dam ited, and most recently the brain defense murder in manhattan, and dawn of neuroscience in america's courtroom which has been praised in countless glowing reviews. wall street journal hailed as excellent and review called it thoroughly researched clearly presented and engaged and

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