air in the near future in booktv on c-span. you are watching booktv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup. at 7:00 p.m. you will hear from former skin head leader, author of romantic violence. then at 8:30, we sit down with author allen who offers thoughts on skiens and communication. and then rachel pierson decribes here experience as a resident physician. at 10:00 p.m. an "after words," mike lee recalls the work of the forgotten men and women who fought against a large federal government during the founding. and david kaut mcculla presents speeches on american principles. that happens tonight on c-span2, booktv. >> gretchen carlson is the author of the book, take your power back, is the name of the book. what are you saying? >> to be fierce and encourage all women who feel like they have been put down to speak up and have a voice. it is not just about harassment in the workplace. it is about any avenue in which women feel like they haven't been heard. it is hitting hard for some girls that believe in school and move on to college and have a problem with cam

this is booktv on c-span2. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top non-fiction book and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> gene, what are the big titles you have coming out this fall? >> we have sharks of the shallow coming out after shark week which is a huge thing were it the general public. it is sort of an unofficial series we are doing. oversized, heavily illustrated, reasonbly price. so we are excited about that. we have a book that is like the remnants minus the bear. the story of the frontier and fur trapping and three guys who played at the radio house. and then we have a book about a gentlemen who was the first graduate of harvard college. so a biograpy for us which is unusual. >> can you give us background? >> we are the oldest press in the u.s. established in 1848. we are books, news, digital publishing and a book service. >> talking from the 2017 book expo in new york city. and the publicity manager at john hopkins university press. thank you very much. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations]

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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> booktv tapes hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we're covering this week. on tuesday, we're headed to new york new york university's bookstore. wednesday, we're in the nation's capital where the brookings institution's rich afford reeves will examine -- richard reeves will examine the class divide in america. also that evening on the campus of stanford university where graham allison will explore the potential for war between the united states and china. thursday we're at the marines' memorial theater in san san francisco, california, where chess grand master gary garry kasparov will look at how artificial intelligence is impacting humans. and this weekend we're in chicago at the 2017 printers or row lit fest. featured authors include national book award winner eastbound rim kinty, michael eric dyson, 2017 pulitzer prize winner heather ann thompson, and fo

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, everybody. hi. [laughter] so welcome.

, on twitter @booktv or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> host: walt mossberg, in your code of ethics statement you write that i am not an objective news reporter, i am a subject i opinion columnist -- subjective opinion columnist. >> guest: right. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: just what it says, you know? i'm like a movie reviewer. movie reviewer is not objective. you don't look at the movie reviewer to read an objective, each-handed, i don't know -- even-handed, i don't know, business story. you go to read someone's opinion about whether this particular actor did a good job or a bad job, whether this actor did a good job or a bad job, whether the, you know, aaron sorkin did

on twitter @booktv or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >>> 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 robert quinn from at&t. that's followed by a look at the first days of the trump presidency and public opinion since the election. then former officials from the obama and george w. bush administrations discuss the role of congress in authorizing the use of military force. and later, a live discussion from the hudson institute about u.s./india trade relations. that gets underway at 11:45 a.m. eastern. >> 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 bob quinn, senior executive vice president for external and legislative affairs for the at&t corporation. mr. quinn, that's a lot of title. what does it entail? [laughter] >> guest: well, at

today's program is broadcast live on c-span2's booktv. we have a few minutes for questions at the end of the presentation. the audience will have to line up at the microphone to the right and let you know when the time comes. before we begin today's program silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes. with that i would like to introduce our moderator, television documentary host, producer and news anchor bill kurtis. [applause] >> let's get right into it. i should have a moment of explanation. stacy keech will not be with us today. on opening night, i had a 1-man show. he had a heart attack on stage. it was one of those strange things. he didn't know where he was in the play and for 50 minutes being old-school, a hemingway kind of character, he plowed through. his good friends came in and ended the show and was diagnosed with mild stroke but he is fine now. and to restage it in 2018, we have to put that on. but mary dearborn is the author of the new book called "ernest hemingway: a biography," what else? she is noted for hav

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look for them to air in the near future on booktv, on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. this is our live coverage of the annual "chicago tribune's" printers row lit fest. this is jones college prep high school. we're live today and author thomas ricks is next. his book is "churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom." >> hello, everybody, walk to the 33rd annual "chicago tribune" print effort row lit fest. answer to thank our sponsors. today's program well be broadcast like on c-span2's booktv. if there's time at the end of the q & a session we ask that you use the microphone provided to that the viewers at home can hear you. before we begin today's program, please silence your phones. welcome our interviewer, kolen mcmahan. >> good afternoon. thank you for coming. thank you for coming to prisones row lit fest and i'm thrilled to be here today with tom ricks who as written several books. his brief books, the generals, and fiasco, which is a "new york times" number one best seller. this one is also on the best-seller list, charting near i think last week for the first tim

many of these authors have or will be appearing on booktv.bsite, booktv.org. >> booktv is live today from chicago for the printers rowlett fest annual event featuring several author discussions & ins held in the printers row neighborhood just south. our live coverage this weekend comes from jones college prep ice school, you will hear from many others including national book award winner, professor and pastor mike dyson, lisa neville he, heather thompson, former congressman trey rachel and many more. we will hear from arthur mary dearborn lose her book is a biography of ernest hemingway. this is live coverage of the 33rd annual chicago tribune it fest on booktv on c-span2. >> good morning and welcome to the 33rd annual chicago tribune printers rowlett fest. i would like to start by giving a special thank u

i've tried for 15 to 20 years to get booktv to come here. booktv was founded by the former first lady laura bush. i am so proud to have you here. tonight at 630 you will be in - with the same program? public library? >> no. >> where you going next? >> you keep going back there. >> i want to follow you if it is okay. [laughter] >> next! [laughter] >> over here. [inaudible question] >> you know, people ask those kind of questions. i would say what do you think? i am serious. what do you think? >> well, i think coleman the second is a good person. i think very active in the community. i am not sure if he has all of the. [inaudible] i think there is a lot of possibilities. i am just not sure to what, how detailed it is.>> that is true. it is hard, again, the potential that exists on the direction. detroit, let's understand this about the city. if you study the past, to me the past is prologue. what we have in this book is a whole notion of self determination.you know we are going to have to do here because you know the whole c-span thing and my

pretty special thank you to all my sponsors and today's program will be broadcast live on c-span's booktv. if there's time at the end of the q&a with the authors, we ask is the microphone provided and please speak into it so that viewers at home can hear you. before we begin today's program ph announced in sinister phone and turn off all flash cameras. please welcome her interviewer, chained daily. [applause] >> thank you. high coming changes from the university of chicago. he can tell by my voice i'm not going to be talking so much today which is just as love because we have two fabulous authors to talk about their incredible books. let me tell you about them and

look for them to air in the near future on booktv, on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. this is our live coverage of the annual "chicago tribune's" printers row lit fest. this is jones college prep high school. we're live today and author thomas ricks is next. his book is "churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom." >> hello, everybody, walk to the 33rd annual "chicago tribune" print effort row lit fest. answer to thank our sponsors. today's program well be broadcast like on c-span2's booktv. if there's time at the end of the q & a session sk

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> this weekand where life at the chicago tribune annual lit fest book fair. we felt we look at the most popular nonfiction books according to the chicago public library. our look at the most piper nonfiction books according to the chicago public library continues. .. >> come join us. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to barnes & noble tribeca. tonight i have the pleasure of introducing heather cabot and samantha walravens as they join us to discuss "geek girl rising." heather is a former abc news correspondent, adjunct professor at columbia university school of journalism. samantha walraven is the editor of torn, a recognized speaker on

>> booktv is on dirt and facebook, and we -- twitter and facebook. tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> good afternoon and welcome to the 33rd annual chicago tribune printers row lit fest. i would like to thank our sponsors. this program is being broadcast live on c-span2's booktv. we may have time for questions at the end of the presentation. if that's the case, we'll ask that you line up at the microphone here to your right so that the home viewing audience can hear the questions. .. >> we have a gray-haired approval. literarily, used by acts for days and phone for days before the internet. so i knew him over the years from the literary world and went on to work with him when i was running the world policy institute and he was at the national think tank. we worked together very, veryk, close me on a number of projects. so i've had the pleasure also to read some of his earlier books, the world center, he's written seven of them. i've always been so impressed by david because he asks the really hard questions. he comes up w

and you can e-mail booktv@csp . booktv@cspan.o booktv@cspan.org. matt taibbi, how did you get into the this business? >> it is the family business, actually. everybody i knew growing up was a reporter. my father was a news reporter starting from ages 18 and that is mike matt taibii. he was in the business for 50 years. my stepmother was an anchor at cnn. business anchor. >> host: what is her name? >> guest: beverly shook. and my family friends growing up worked at the international herald tribune. mile child was like the movie anchor man. i spent most of my formative years in local television affiliates and guys with bad facial hair. i never wanted to do this for a living. i wanted to be a novelist but it turned out my fiction was pretty bad i fell back into the family business and i have been here ever since. >> host: when did you know you were a writer? >> guest: always wanted to be a writer from the age of 11-12. that was never a question in my mind. i had a really deep love of books. when i was growing up, i was an only child and we moved a lot

tweet us or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv and twitter twitter.com/booktv.[inaudible conversations] >> welcome everybody! welcome to the american enterprise institute. thank you for joining us today. we are going to dive right in. we are going to talk about the new book everybody lies. subtitles for about 15 to 20 minutes. after that, we will sit down and have a conversation with -

one of the things we like to do on booktv is preview some of the upcoming books. and and joining us now is the editor of live right, bob wylde. mr. wylde, first of all, what is live right? >> live right is one of the oldest publishing companies in america which started in 917. we are -- 1917. we are celebrating our 100th anniversary. we published the first faulkner, first hemingway, has a long line of great writers, and we're thrilled to perpetuate a lot of that great publishing. >> host: and you're part of the norton family. was there a mr. liveright? >> guest: there was, he lived a little too wildly and died at 49. norton bought liveright in 1974. we relaunched it in 2012, and here we are celebrating our 100th anniversary. >> host: give us a snapshot of your history in the publishing world. >> guest: this is my 39th year in american publishing. i had to count. i was at

that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. [inaudible conversations]

look for them to air in the near future on booktv, on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. this is our live coverage of the annual "chicago tribune's" printers row lit fest.

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, everybody. hi. [laughter] so welcome. welcome, everybody, to the fourth evening with authors event. it's so nice to have you all here. i'm jared anderson, i'm a member of the board of trustees with thurber house. i've been instructed to dutifully tell you to please silence your cell phones at this point. but feel free to brag about us on social media, quietly. [laughter] at thurber house, we'd like to say a special thank you to the museum of art for hosting us tonight. we'd like to thank wosu public media and the book loft for their continued support. tonight's raffle winner will receive a copy of writer, sailor, soldier, spy and two tickets to the evening of authors event of their choice. for more information, you can visit the thurber house web site or many of our social media venues. after the reading, please stay. please stay and join us you are for punch, for cookies out in the lobby under the stairs. and nicklaus will be sign -- nichola

. >>> look for these events to air in the near future on booktv, on c-span2. >> margie ross the head of regular nory publishing. >> we have a busy fall planned. our first big book of the fall will be a become called "the big lie." now, you know danesh is a multiple time number one "new york times" best selling author with regular nary publishing and it's about how the left call is accusing conservatives, our major, our reads, or being fascist. the new accusation. we're not racist anymore. we're fascist, and he says if you look at the way the left conducts itself, they're the fascists. they're the people who want to shut down free speech, who want to have a bigger government and want the government to have more control over our lives, and who are bullying and rioting and disrupting when they don't like the results of an election. just like a fascist would do. >> who else? >> we also have second book by sebastian gorka "why we fight. "last year we did a great book with sebastian gorka called" defeating jihad "and he is now one on the senior advisers in the white house to the president

future on booktv on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, ting for serious readers. -- television for serious readers. >> next, "the communicators" and a discussion on the future of the cable industry. after that, federal trade commission officials discuss recent enforcement actions and internet privacy. then a special bbc question time with british prime minister thiess a may and labour party leader jeremy corbyn on election issues ahead of this thursday's vote. >> today senate minority leader chuck schumer is the key note speaker at the american jewish committee global forum. we'll bring you the senator's remarks and more from the conference life starting at 1:45 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. ♪ ♪ be. >> 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: tom larsen, what do you do for a living? >> guest: i run government relations for media come communications corporation.

on booktv, ann exclusive interview with david roosevelt as he talks about his memoir from his home onhe roosevelt's hyde park estate. >> it was really not until my grandmother's funeral that i realized that she was really a special person. and something of a celebrity. we never thought of her in that way. we never viewed my grandmother. she was only a grandmother to us , and that is all she ever wanted to be. >> author tony musso and his book. >> i found for letters in the archives in his handwriting come and not typewritten, that actually credited stamp collecting with saving his life after he became ill and ended up being confined to a wheelchair. >> sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern firsttory tv, we tour the presidential library and the national archives system. >> it was established by franklin roosevelt. he was looking for a way to preserve the papers of his administration and also his personal papers, and so he created a library on the grounds of his estate in hyde park, new york. what he decided to do was to raise private money to build the library, and then he gave it to the governm

tweet us or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv and twitter twitter.com/booktv.[inaudible conversations] >> welcome everybody! welcome to the american enterprise institute. thank you for joining us today. we are going to dive right in. we are going to talk about the new book everybody lies. subtitles for about 15 to 20 minutes. after that, we will sit down and have a conversation with - of columbia university and harry and will viciously attack seth and the book he has produced yourself will get the opportunity to defend himself. there we will take some questions from the audience and follow that same procedure. all right. seth? >> thank you dan for the introduction. and for inviting me. and this is a book everybody lies. it is about five years of research i have been doing. so i will describe what it is. and for the last 80 years if you want to know, what people want, why people did the things they do, what people are going to do, you basically one main approach. you asked them. you conduct a randomized survey. so you go out and ask people questions. and there i

watch our coverage of the annual printers row lit fest starting at 11:00 on c-span twos booktv.unday, q1 day is in hyde park, new york at the franklin d roosevelt museum where we go inside for a look at fdr's personal office and collection of artifacts with the museum's director. >> this museum opened in june 1941 and he was still the president so this essentially became the northern oval office. there are 914 books in this room alone and every book was selected by fdr to be in this room. this room is almost identical to the way it was the day fdr died. >> watch q and a from the franklin roosevelt museum in hyde park, new york at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> "washington journal," continues. host: we are joined with brent supremeo discuss the court decision to hear a major cell phone privacy case. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. the supreme court decided to hear the case of carpenter versus the united states. tell us the story behind the case. guest: the court agreed to hear this next term, and the case involves privacy and big data and police collect

eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> this year's the 30th anniversary of president ronald reagan's visit to berlin where he delivered his turn down the wall speech. next, a former u.s. ambassador to germany recalls the president's speech and trip. the international center for journalists hosted this event. it is an hour and a half. >> good evening, everybody. please find your seats. good evening.

. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> next, "the communicators" with journalist walt mossberg. then a discussion on the economic impact of opioid addiction. after that, a forum on the future of political parties. ♪ ♪ >> 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: walt moss berg, why are you retiring? >> guest: it's just time. it's time to reinvent myself and go on and try some other things. peter, i've, i've reinvented myself at a number of points through my career. we could talk about that, if you want. and, you know, i've been doing the tech commentary and the tech reviews and columns for about 26 years. i will this year have been doing it 26 years, and it just, it just seems to me i have some other things i want to do and try x that's why i'm retiring. >> host: will they involve tech? >> guest: i will never not be interested

. >> the c-span cities tour and booktv's look at eugene continues. next a trip to the university of oregon to learn about the oregon rare books initiative which seeks to increase the use of rare books and archives in the classroom. >> the oregon rare books initiative was begun three or four years ago. so it's a ms. to increase the use of the rare book and special collections archives among faculty and students in the classroom at the university of oregon. it was founded in 2013, colleagues including myself have been upstairs in the vault where these are stored along with librarians who have helped us to find books we did not know we owned and it has been in a rediscovery of the amazing, rare and collectible books that have been here often since the early 19th century and using them in our research and classes in a way that hasn't been for several decades. and you invite a visiting scholar to give a talk, encourage that person to consult that collection upstairs and find some rare books that he or she has worked on and are of interest in that field so

. >> the c-span cities tour and booktv's look at eugene continues. next a trip to the university of oregon to learn about the oregon rare books initiative which seeks to increase the use of rare books and archives in the classroom. >> the oregon rare books initiative was begun three or four years ago. so it's a ms. to increase the use of the rare

. >> watch c-span cities tour of hyde park, new york, saturday at noon eastern on booktv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> in last week's general election, british prime minister teresa may's conservative party failed to get the needed votes to retain a full majority in parliament. that defeat comes ahead of negotiations on the antis it exit from the european union. on tuesday, members return to the house of commons for the first day of the new parliament since the election. [inaudible discussion] >> order. order. >> hear, hear. >> under the provision-of-standing order number 1-a, i'm not required to ascertain whether john burko is willing to be chosen as speaker. i call mr. john burko. >> hear, hear. >> thank you, mr. clark. what a pleasure it is to welcome you back to this place. >> hear, hear. >> as you add the accolade of father of the house to the many achievements of your long and distinguished career. next sunday, you will mark 47 years continuous service to your constituency to

. >> welcome to eugene, oregon, on booktv. in cooperation with our comcast cable partners over the next 90 minutes we will talk about eugene and the surrounding areas and we will hear from local authors whose books help tell the story of the nation. first we hear about counterculture writer ken kesey. >> we are at the university of oregon campus where in the night library, special collections and university archives and at the moment we are in the ken kesey classroom. ken kesey was an oregonian. he lived in springfield, oregon and attended university of oregon. he wrote two of the great american novels, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, his papers are at the university of oregon because he wanted his collection to be here. he felt he was an oregonian, so many experiences in oregon and he felt it was the right thing for the collection to be here in his alma mater. i brought a number of examples of manuscripts that are included in the collection and that includes things like correspondence. his artwork. he lives not just as a wri

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>> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> host: walt mossberg, in your code of ethics statement you write that i am not an objective news reporter, i am a subject i opinion columnist -- subjective opinion columnist. >> guest: right. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: just what it says, you know? i'm like a movie reviewer. movie reviewer is not objective. you don't look at the movie reviewer to read an objective, each-handed, i don't know -- even-handed, i don't know, business story. you go to read someone's opinion about whether this particular actor did a good job or a bad job, whether this actor did a good job or a bad job, whether the, you know, aaron sorkin did a good job writing it or david fincher did a good job directing it or whatever. it's an opinion. i know people who actually avidly read a reviewer's movie reviews or book reviews and then do exactly the opposite because they know they're going to disagree with the person. they have different tastes. and i know other p

booktv. >> it is a pleasure to see you again. >>> as many of you know i am a joyful practitioner of social media. i'm there every day. i was an early adopter of facebook. the first website appeared in my 20s and 30s so i thought it was cool watching a website loading on my old monitor by a little modem next to my desk was going and i thought this was the coolest thing ever. i thought this was the beginning of a new age of enlightenment but it's not. what it has done is create a huge swamp full of intellectual saboteurs who are making people stupid. we are starting to do studies that show people that spend time clicking through webpages are actually dumber than when they started because the we have the illusion of gain knowledge. the example i often use in the book is tell a child, tell an tn adolescence without fossil fuels and they will say okay, fossil fuels because they are made up of dead dinosaurs, what happens after clicking and browsing that student will say i know a lot about fossil fuels but they won't. all the pages they've blown through now and many times they don't realize they

. >> now from booktv's recent visit to hyde park, new york. with the help of our local cable partner. we take a tour of the fdr presidential library and museum with director paul sparrow. >> paul sparrow, director of the fdr library. what is this room and what kind

eastern on c-span2 booktv at a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the transfer of hong kong to china and the chinese president delivered brief remarks at hong kong international airport. here's coverage courtesy of china global television network. [applause] >> president xi jinping and his wife. [applause] ♪ arriving in hong kong for his first-ever visit. [applause] he is welcomed by the people of hong kong. the chief executive elect. .. the chinese president will address them in the coming days. you see the flags of hong kong as they are and chinese national flags. they have similarities. one is decorated by the five golden stars on the other is the white bohemia smaller. the airport is engulfed with these flags and chinese culture and our hong kong gas, they were mentioning the importance of educating the next generation about his identity and the principle of the one country to system policy. it's very important to educate them, many of the young kids standing at the airport, welcoming the chinese president were born after 1997, after the handover. for them, how to understan

. >> host: you are on booktv.i feel blessed to have been educated by so many people taking so many pictures inside of the meetings and on the floor of congress. also the chance to ask a question. i've seen it many times.da the question i have is this. do you feel that it's moving to almost a treason situation for the gerrymandering to the occurring in this country when it affects directly and badly the votes that are cast in wh different states, and that's also i was very disillusioned by what the clinton having 400 votes that were rocksolid with the scandals. i was very afraid of trump. thank you. >> i don't know why you would be afraid of trump. he cares about his own reputation. he's going to try to do theht t. right thing. i share your high opinion ofnd i c-span. it was created by brian lamb. but it took the republicans to do that. it's the american way. >> host: he also talked about gerrymandering. >> guest: we live in a society that reflects our failings asgry human beings. it is an ongoing battle. if you wa

. >> booktv is live from the chicago tribune's printers row lit first and coverage continues with sydney blumenthal, former senior advisor to president bill clinton. his book is a look at the political life of abraham lincoln. .. with that, i'm going to throw it over to our interviewer, elizabeth taylor, the literary editor at large for the "chicago tribune." [applause] >> hi. thank you. are these mics on? great. you can hear me? thank you so much for coming out. this is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book, and we're delighted to be here. i've actually -- in this chair, year ago, talking about the first volume of sidney blumenthal's four -- to be four volumes on lincoln, and i'm really excite it -- excited about this one. i loved that one and this is even norwich. "wrestling with the angel. ". so, like to set the stage. begins in march 1849. lincoln returns to springfield to practice law. 1849. and then 1856, no-nothing party, nominates bill moore for president, national convention for the republican party. we have that blackdrop. what's the title about? >> host: "wrestling with his

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. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend.ktv, television for serious readers. >> so the argument i'm going to make today and an implicit argument in the book is that liberalism really was founded and thrived as an opposition movement. before i make that argument and still into it, i want to give you some background about the book. i got the idea for the book when i was living at 1920 s street northwest. which is only about two blocks from the house of truth. how's the truth is still standing. at 1727 19th street northwest between s and corcoran street. i was reading the bibliographical notes by a great historian named jean edward white. he said not a lot has been written about the interaction between hommes and his friends at the house of truth. a satellite pulled off my head and i said i can finish this book in two or three years with a little bit of research and here we are six, almost 7 years later. and i am finally done. it was a bigger undertaking than i thought it was. i wrote an article about it first. it really, when

>> booktv is on facebook. like us to get publishing news, schedule updates, behind the scenes pictures and videos. author information and to talk directly with authors to ally programs. facebook.com/booktv. .. .... .... .... >> so terrible and black metal became com rads with the communists for fear we would somehow be exposed. to tell the story, i interviewed more than 150 people and went to archives all over the country. i wanted to present the historical facts. and figures but i wanted to look tevimmings who created those facts. the individuals who were behind the figures. i discuss how in the 1960s, and homosexuals and all of us were called that and we were all considered mentally ill. then i zoom in on a story of a woman i interviewed, sally du play, and she was kicked out of college because she had a relationship with another woman and her roommate found out and told the dean about sally's affair. that made her parents force her to go a psycho therapist so they were not poor but had to put a second mortg