booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> now on booktv want to introduce you to julia reidhead was the president of w. w. norton company which does what and what is it that you do? >> well, the company publishes trade books, live right, countrymen which is lifestyle publishing and professional books. we publish college textbooks, a huge and important list of that, and as of a month ago when abot note and young readers, a new imprint for four to 14-year-old. >> what does th the president of the norton do? >> ththe president of norton trs to keep norton publishing great books the way we always have. >> how many books do you have? >> 220. >> that's about all the new books? >> yes. [inaudible] >> norton is phenomenally important part of a program to rip the back list that sell year in, year out. examples would be jared diamond, beowulf, a number of others. they are hugely important to us. >> how did you get into this? >> i was hired as a norton sales rep for the college department. isil books in cincinnati and kentucky and indiana, always wanting to be an editor. became the editor

your picture taken in a booktv frame. dr. carla hayden had her picture taken in the frame as well to thank you for your time today. >> thank you for the badge. it's perfect. >> this summer i'm reading up a by robert caro about lyndon johnson. the fourth in a series of books he wrote about president johnson. this one is called the passage of power. it's about the years when he was vice president for president kennedy and the transition when president kennedy was assassinated and vice president johnson became president johnson >> one of a series of books. the first one is how he became johnson is a young man going to college to be a teacher and the first time he ran for congress called pass the power. one of the best books i've ever read about how to campaign. that they use to make all my young staffers read it. and the first-time candidate johnson was literally doing anything and everything to get as many voters one-on-one almost 24/7. that kind of got me hooked. then there's a book about johnson as a congressman and then

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who has been on booktv -- >> my husband is -- is a fixture of booktv and -- i've been jealous. [laughter] it's richard senior editor of national review he is youngest sr. editor ever had by the time i married him when he was 25 and i was 33. >> he's a historian. >> he created himself via historian actually he doesn't have a p ph.d. which makes him i think -- much more open minded than he would if he had one and he began writing i think he wrote his first book before we were married and then he was make a list of bongs and say what do you think here and should add george washington y him and thes history. >> he's on number 13. >> that's coming out this fall. john marshall that's history -- and we read every word to each other it is also very nice to live with with an outstanding editor who does not let politics get in the way. j well doctor that's why we're talking to you today about your fort coming book, i love you. but i hate your are politics. >> or i love you but i hate your politics. like it isn't it? [laughter] this book has a long prehistory. based on my marriage with ri

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. >> booktv wants the know what you're reading. send us your summer reading list @booktv on w twitter, instagramo or on facebook. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. .. and the other commodities because that's what the police can come and check things. try once only the camp and was loved the content of train number nine. what kind of thin things on that train do you think? >> guest: as far as i heard, like i remember i saw a big pair and apple. it was really big. the person who is carrying that gave to us. they were like having special food that grew in very special environment. in north korea sugar is very special thing. i heard they can get sugar water. that was, how is that being produced. that was not normal food that was being transported to pyongyang. >> host: and your book "in order to live" you write that you would've done anything for a bowl of rice. anything. what does that mean? >> guest: now i mean this,, so. that's how i know i am being a japanese word, salad netlike rabbit food. i was so offended when

. >> booktv wants to know what you're reading.th send us your summer reading list @booktv on twitter, instagram or facebook. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> and now on booktv we want to introduce you to professor walter block whose most recent book is called "space capitalism." but this is not your only book, is that correct, professor? >> guest: this is, i think, the 25th book. who's counting? >> host: and you've written a new series, you're writing a new series. >> guest: well, this is the third in a series of three. i've got 22 other books, but the series here is privatization. and my idea is that if it moves, privatize it. if it doesn't move, privatize it. since everything either moves or doesn't move, privatize everything. why the? because the only alternatives are government ownership or non-ownership. non-ownership you have the tragedy of the commons like that's why we're running out of whales because no one owns them. that's why we almost ran out of buffalo, because we weren't allowed to own them. so non-ownership is not good, and government ownership is

/booktv fiction addition of "in depth". novelist, gish jen book includes typical american, mona and the promise land and world in town. cory doctorow books include down and out in the magic kingdom, little brother, and most recently, walk away. and walter mosley, books with devil in a blue dress, phyllis jones and most recently down the river onto the sea. booktv, all this week and prime time. here on c-span2. >> we are joined with a look ahead at the senate. he reports for the hill and alex, senate not taken the usual august recess, not sending senators back home to their states to campaign, the ones running in the midterms. why are they staying in session and what other planning on working on in the week ahead? >> they stayed in session to get more of donald trumps judicial and executive nominees confirmed and also to make more progress on the appropriations bills. when he signed the omnibus spending package early this year the increased federal spending $300 billion is part of a deal to increase federal spending by $300

booktv is live at the mississippi book festival. for the fourth annual literary lawn party at the state capital in jackson. with discussions on race and identity. southern history, u.s. politics and residential leadership. including authors of loving, interracial intimacy in america and the threat to white supremacy. jack davis with his pulitzer prize-winning book, the making of an american c. -- spoke to his former mississippi governor haley barbara. her book is the great revolt. and so the populace coalition reshaping american politics. and author, frank williams with lincoln. join us live 10:30 am eastern for the mississippi book festival on booktv on c-span2. >> c-span washington journal. live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, mcallister on reducing inner-city violence in chicago and other cities by using methods associated with disease control. their manhattan institute rafael -- continues our discussion on gun violence and potential solutions to stop it. be sure to watch c-span

you're watching booktv on c-span2. >> you are watching booktv. television for serious readers. you can watch any program that you see here online at booktv.org. >> sunday night and q&a. historian charles calhoun talks about his biography on the 23rd president of the united states, and jim and harrison. >> he was nominated. he was at his house, people thronged and he gave four speeches that they. they said this is the thing, let people come to you. over the next four or five months until the election, that is what happened. he stayed home, slept in his own bed, he would meet these delegations, the visiting delegations from around the state, around the country, often special interest groups, coal miners, farmers, con farmers, whatever. they would come and harrison would give them a short speech. mostly attuned to their own interest for something that would resonate with people generally. he had his own stenographer take down what he said. and then he would go over what he said, make sure it was what he wanted people to read. and he would give it to the associated press the next m

send us your summer reading list @booktv on twitter, instagram or on facebook. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> here's a look at some authors recently featured on booktv's "after words" ." >> we have found that over the last few years that many of the metanarratives that were introduced into the 2016 election were not of american origin, that they were crafted by foreign intelligence agencies outside the united states and for professionals like myself who grew up in the cold war, the reason i got only in so quick is because i'd seen them before. these were very slow burning propaganda technique used by russian but which could never keep pace with the news media world of the 1960s, '70s, \80{l1}s{l0}\'80{l1}s{l0}, even the '90s. it's only when social media came to its height of its power the ability of you to pick up a fake story and infect three or four or ten other people inside your facebook channel your twitter feed and then they would do the same thing in a daisy chain to create essentially an unbreakable link of false narratives. at tha

look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> i'm reading a lot this summer and kind of following up on last year when i was with you guys. first of all, thanks to are c-span. you guys take the time to go into ideas and books and the newspapers every morning. i appreciate it, my constituents appreciate all the work you do. with that, i'll kind of launch. i finished kissinger on china last year, kind of led me into some of the other books here. you know, the way the chinese think over the long term, gave some metaphors, chess and checkers. it's in the news. everything is in the news about china right now, there's a lot of russian news, it's really about can china. russia, north korea, iran, you look behind the scenes, these guys are the $18 trillion economy in the room right next to us. russia's not comparable, no one else is comparable. so these guys are the threat on the scene, but they're still communists. they opened up the economics to some freedom, but politics

the k >> booktv wants to know what yop are reading.what's made us the most successful nation in the history of the world as i think most of you probably know capitalism has created more wealth and created across many an any other in human history and a perfect example of that is the united states. the democrats however have seized upon the millennialist affinity for socialism. while bernie sanders didn't win the election as a note she didn't even get the nomination, hillary clinton got the nomination. keep in mind a lot of people think with justification hillary clinton got the nomination because debbie wasserman schultz and the dnc fixed the primary so we really don't know who would have won but she tried to move further left to appeal and that didn't work although they certainly thought it would and donald trump was elected the president of the united states and thank god the american dream still has some life left in it. but it's good to keep in mind a lot of quotes from ronald reagan, but particularly when i'm about to repeat his f

>>host: colorado you are on booktv. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. my older sister was living in washington d.c. and she was a code breaker she flew to england and worked over there until after world war ii was over or not and she never talked about it. it was always a secret to the family. i just wanted to tell you that i was really interested in listening to all of the ladies especially the one from england. it was so much fun to hear their conversations and the accent of course and their stories of when they were codebreakers. >>host: thanks for calling. liza mundy right before this began i told you my aunt did this in world war ii and would not talk about it. >> guest: thousands did this work it was top-secret you cannot have the enemy know that you break into the code system because then they will change it and all your hard work is lost. women were told during the war if anybody asks what they did they were to say they were secretaries they emptied wastebaskets and they work and importantly and they continue that after the war they were told no

thank you for joining us on booktv. >> thank you for having me. wait at pleasure. >> other book tv asked members of congress what they're reading. >> i'm fortunate enough i have men constituents to vet books for me so who books i was assured are good, and are, is a buying agoography of james poke who was meant you'red be -- james polk who was menguard andrew jackson, the tile before the civil war and we picked up california and at the intimidation game, book talk about the degree toe which people are outspoken conservatives now are intimidated by the government and by groups boycotting them. so we are trying shut down certain types of thought. >> book tv wants to know what you're reading send send it your summer reading list at book tv on twitter, instagram for facebook. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> there's a lot of outrage around the world, number one, how can the united states go and indict people from other countries? they don't have rico laws in most parts 0 the world, don't have foreign corrupt practices acts law and

some of these authors have appeared on booktv. you can watch them on our web site, booktv.org. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> well, i'm a great fan of detective/mystery stories, and i sort of tend to find an author that i really like and then make my way through almost all of their books sort of in a sequence of time, which is especially possible with being able to download onto my ipad. so right now i had a friend tell me about an italian author who was writing about an inspector on the island of sicily. and so i downloaded the first book, and they are such fun. i find all these mystery detective novels that take mace mace -- take place in different countries, so it's not just about the story, but also the place and the people that are part of it. and this particular author, his last name is camaleri, has so much -- it's very italian. the people that are in the book, the inspector himself, you know, is very voluble and has tremendous mood swings but has a lo

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join us live, saturday at 10:30 eastern on booktv on c-span2. sunday night at eight eastern on c-span q&a, john furling talks about his book, apostles of revolution, jefferson, munro, and the struggle against the old order in america and europe. >> if they could come back and and see thatoday, the most important play on broadway now and for the past

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on c-span3. >> this weekend on booktv. author interviews from this year's freedom fest conference in las vegas.starting saturday at 3:20 pm with the book failure, the federal miseducation of america's children. at 6:30 pm robert poole with rethinking america's highways. 1/21 century vision or better infrastructure. then on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern, the book, in order to live. in north korean girls journey to freedom. at 5 pm, walter block with space capitalism. how humans will colonize planets and moons and asteroids.then george gilder in his book, life after google. and at 11:40 pm the book profit motive. what drives the things we do. watch this weekend on c-span2 booktv. >> the house homeland security subcommittee on border security heard testimony from national guard officials from texas and arizona. about the play national guard troops to the us/mexico border. this is an hour and 10 minutes.

those are just a few of the programs airing this weekend on booktv. for a complete schedule visit booktv.org. we now kick off the weekend with rutgers university history professor rachel devlin who provides a history of the desegregation of american public schools through the actions of young women throughout the country. >> good evening. good evening. >> good evening. >> and

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you can also contact us via social media @booktv ever handle. for facebook, instagram as well as twitter and other email booktv@c-span.org. we. we will cycle through those as the show goes. you'll see them on the bottom of your screen so you don't worry if you don't, didn't catch it right now. gish jen, in your writing and want to start with "who's irish?" first of all your husband's last name is o'connor. did that influence the title of this collection of short stories? >> guest: of course is one of the reasons i know what it means to be irish-american because i married an o'connor and he does come from one of those boston clans, like they've been there forever. everybody is ready to everybody else so i know a little bit about that world. >> host: did you get blowback for the essay and the dialect that the narrator use? >> guest: i did not. it's kind of surprising, what about from yourself, did your trouble writing it that way? >> guest: what is true is to be at an ethic right in america means so many things. there's so many ways in which you s

. >> this week, booktv is in prime time. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern microsoft president brad smith with the future computed, artificial intelligence and its role in society and on friday at 8:00 p.m. adam bellow and all points book talks about the machine others from both political right and left. watch the tv this week in prime time on c-span2. saturday morning at 1030 eastern booktv is live at the mississippi book festival for their fourth annual literary lawn party at the state capital in jackson with discussions on race and identity of the southern history, us politics and presidential leadership. others include cheryl author of loving and the threat to whites from the. jack davis with his pulitzer prize winning book the making of an american city. 25 saturday beginning at 1030 a.m. eastern on book tv for the mississippi book festival on c-span2. >> seth who had the university of denver center on american politics spoke at the us capitol historical soc y

booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. [applause] >> hi. thank you all for joining us tonight. i'm going to everyone get settled for a second here. thank you all for joining us tonight for the special event conversation with kai green, marlon peterson and mychal denzel smith. as the booksellers who can put antenna and pick books and authors we featured our discovery writers program, they will take the truth about darnell moore is beautiful and deeply memoir, "no ashes in the fire." it made us cry and more than once on public transportation. darnell holds nothing back and spares no one including himself and the result is a heartbreaking and powerful story of self-discovery and survival, courage and hope. healing and forgiveness, love in action. we're still talking a thinking about "no ashes in the fire" months and months after we selected it for inclusion in the discover program, which is now in its 20th year. joining darnell and stitched i are kai green, a freedom dreaming rhyme slinging dragonslayer in search of a new world -- i'm not done

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booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i have a lot of books on my ambitious list for this august recess. i'm going to start with a book i just received this morning from the former ambassador to russia during the obama administration i was really intrigued by his new book from cold war to hot peace his story serving as ambassador. i also have fiction but not exclusively. madeleine albright, former secretary of state edmund of a book by walter mead called special providence. the foreign policy and how much he the world. and anything recommended by madeleine albright is on my list and certainly that one have a lot of respect for walter mead as well. and of course madeleine of course madeleine albright spoke has also been recommended. fascism is warning. i respect her and her work. that is part of my nonfiction list on foreign policy and the united states in the world. i also have a light nonfiction book called the canon that i'm ready to read about science and a sort of two or of the basics of science that is a wonderful bo

also thank you to c-span booktv you will be in the movie. [applause] you may know from his work at the university with dir. of center of media and citizenship at university of virginia and author most recently of antisocial media. then a very short introduction and why we should worry how the clash between freedom control as crashing the system the rise of intellectual property. also called editing with re- wiring the nation we are so glad he could come here tonight with his book launch thank you for providing this beautiful space for the reading and then they opened the house tonight stick around we obviously cannot set you all up in the shop so without further a do. [applause] >> i will placed age crew and give myself some height. on this rainy night rainy week in a rainy month it has been very strange here in seattle. [laughter] i am thrilled about this event more so than any other book event for this book with a home-field advantage. so it is really cool. giving a chance to reflect on the whole process why this book exist and why there s

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>> on booktv we want to introduce you to first-time author, casey gerald. the name of the boat there will be no memoirists here. -- miracles here. >> it actually came from an artist and is just a big way sign that said there will be no miracles here. i wanted to know the story behind it. it is a story from a village in medieval france with the peasants are sort of a feudal village in the peasants start herds in what they called miracles, kind of a mass hysteria and they are mad at people in charge who try to convince the peasants to get back to work. we need you for this survivor of of our society to do your job, but it didn't work. so they go to the king of france for help and the king of france solution was to have signs placed throughout the village that said "there will be no miracles here" by order of the king. so they spoke, which is on for me in intervention is saying now that the surface level there will be no miracles here, but actually something more important prevalent for a times, which is that this system. for us it is the world we've inherited

eastern on c-span2's booktv and sunday at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3.orking with our cable affiliates as we explore america. >> join us for booktv's live coverage of the 18th annual library of congress national book festival. saturday, starting at 10 a.m. eastern, our coverage include viewer call-ins from our set at the washington convention center with pulitzer prize-winning biographer jon meacham and his book, "the soul of america: the battle for our better angels," pulitzer prize-winning historian doris kerns goodwin with "leadership in turbulent times," ron chernow with his book, "grant," and fox news host brian kilmeade with his book, "andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans: the battle that shaped america's destiny." watch the 18th annual library of congress national book festival live op c-span2's -- on c-span2's booktv saturday at 10 a.m. eastern. >> you're

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. at a recent judicial conference, chief justice john roberts shared his summer reading list. >> as far as things to read, i can tell you what i am looking forward to reading. there is, as a christmas present i got a book called why bob dylan matters. it is written by a harvard professor. who studied poetry and i think i sound like it is going to be very good. that would be sort of in a serious level. not the entertaining level. and jeff rosen has written a new biography, william howard taft which is good about it here it is light, not thick toned. and i think it is quickly paced. microphone. yes, sir, sorry. >> can you hear me? change of focus. you described the hierarchy of the kennedy brothers. what was their relationship of john and bobby to teddy? >> so in >> host: thomas hazlett your new book is called the political spectrum technology from herbert hoover to the smartphone. >> guest: is not a technical book and not a hard read but a lot of stories about where we are now on how we

watch oral history sunday link back to booktv continues now with another stop from the c. stands for these two are. the next visit from tyler texas includes lou anne smoot talks about the struggles of hiding her homosexuality in texas for 60 years. it's the topic of her memoir out a courageous woman's journey. >> i start off talking about my parents, because they had such an influence on the direction that my wife took. they were southern baptists. so, i was brought up in the baptist faith tradition. they were leaders in thehu

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if you're a regular booktv pure hope you'll enjoy this little dip into fiction for 12 times this year. bill is watching us from wassail alaska. >> caller: good morning. books on the shelves, david as you know the history for centuries authors, authors and, based on actual books sold. it would be announcements in papers, this hot selling release thousands his first day and so on. if that still happening it seems like the e-books and all that stuff has got to a point where people are not buying books, and what is the effect on incomes of authors? >> guest: great questions. in the three to four years ago i think e-books hit their height. they really peaked sales wise. for maybe seven or eight years employing every other genre or every other category of sales out of the water. art cover print novels plummeted. nobody is buying mass-market anymore. literally for me i had like six or seven books in a row what each book sold more than 1 million e-books, each book, which supposedly high numbers are probably three years ago it started to plateau and then the e-book sales started to go down aga

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. >> tonight on booktv discussions about authors in the publishing industry. we visit all points books to talk to adam bello about publishing political books. and paul coates, founder and director of black classic press and a look at the new museum of the bible in washington dc. that all begins at 8:00 pm eastern here on c-span2. >> saturday morning at 10:30 easton booktv is live at the mississippi book festival for their fourth annual literary lawn party at the state capital in jackson with discussions on race and identity, southern history, us politics and presidential leadership. authors include the author of loving, interracial intimacy in america and the threat to white supremacy. jack davis with his pulitzer prize-winning book the gulf, the making of an american see. selena speaks to haley barbour, her book is a great revolt, inside the populist coalition reshaping american politics. author frank williams with lincoln as hero. join us live beginning at 10:30 easton for the mississippi book festival on booktv on c-span20. >> at the net roots nation confer

watch booktv this week in prime townon time on c-span2. booktv is live at the mississippi book festival for their fourth annual literary lawn party at the state capital in jackson. with discussions on race and identity. southern history, u.s. politics and presidential leadership. authors include cheryl catch in, author of loving, interracial intimacy in america and the threat to white supremacy. jack davis with his pulitzer prize winning book, the making of an american cd. - - speaks with former mississippi governor, haley barbour. her book is the great revolt,. author frank williams with lincoln ashero. join us live saturday beginning at 1030 eastern 10:30 a.m. eastern. >> and his book the foxhound, mohammed al samawi writes about how he escaped civil war in yemen to live in the u.s. as a refugee and became an interface peace activist. "washington post" reporter - - interviewed him for the book tv program "after words". this is an hour. >> it's so great to be talking with you today. i was so moved by your story and so impressed by the way

this is booktv on c-span2. >> up next, princeton university professor keith whittington on his books up to where he makes the case for defending free speech on college campuses.

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eastern on c-span2's booktv and sunday at 2 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3 working with your cable affiliates as we explore america. >> join us for booktv's live coverage of the 18th annual library of congress national book festival saturday, starting at 10 a.m. eastern. our coverage includes viewer call-ins from our set at the washington convention center with pulitzer prize-winning biographer jon meacham and his book, "the soul of america: the battle for our better angels." pulitzer prize-winning historian doris kerns goodwin with "leadership in turbulent times." ron chernow with his book, "grant." and fox news host brian kilmeade with his book, "andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans: the battle that shaped america's destiny." watch the 18th annual library of congress national book festival live on c-span2's booktv saturday at 10 a.m. eastern. >> sunday night on q&a, historian charles calhoun talks about his biography on the 23rd president of the united states, benjamin harrison. >> when he was nominated, he was in

booktv continues with another stop from the c-span cities tour. his next visit from lubbock texas includes author sean cunningham talking about post-world war ii politics in the american sunbelt. >> the american sunbelt is one of those labels that scholars historians and journalists have created over the years to try to understand this post-world war ii merger of the south and the west or maybe the south and the southwest. the short answer is that it's this merger of those two regions and into something that's more understandable in the modern sense. the less satisfying answers probably the sunbelt doesn't exist. it's an imagined creation. to try to understand what we have is his movement away of the american s

booktv will be live with his dorian goodwin at that. what have you learned personally about turbulent times from these guys that maybe you've applied. >> i think what the thing is is that turbulent times create the opportunity for great leadership but it also could create the opportunity for failure. obviously the depression was there with uber and he wasn't able to mobilize the country in the way that fdr was. buchanan was president during the beginnings of the break apart of the south and north, but he was unable to deal with it the way lincoln was. what you learn is that they make it more possible like abigail adams said, greatness creates great virtue. there's something if there's a war or depression you can mobilize the country but i learned you have to be fitted for the times and each one of my people were actually fitted for the time. they might not have been a leader in another time but think of fdr for example. somebody who's gone through polio who had been, who learned that contagious optimism can help when people need that co