. >> watch booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> one of the things we like to do at booktv is preview the books, we want to introduce you to james poniewozik, the author of this book, "audience of 1: donald trump, television, and the politics of illusion". tell us about your day job. >> i'm the chief television critic for the new york times. i like to say the television critic has become more like a book critic in that there is so much sifting rather than attempting to cover everything, but it is fantastic work in the television is a great excuse to write about everything because tv is the nervous system of america and it reflects whatever people are interested in or obsessed with. i write about sitcoms and reality tv and the circumstances were right. a pretty vast field. >> how much time do you spend with the networks as opposed to amazon, who lou etc.? >> the old traditional networks, part of the subject of the book, a vast drop through that content ocean and it used to be every fall, three or four networks would release the shows they were going to premiere the coming season, that is w

. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. we are in new york city at the annual publishers convention. talking with authors who have books coming out and now we want to introduce you to anna wiener. who has a book coming out in january 2020, it is called "uncanny valley".a memoir anna wiener, would you do now for living and how did you get there? >> great question. [laughter] i am writing full-time. i am a writer for the new yorker website. i cover culture. i got there probably through the most -- >> walk us through a peer started with college peer. >> it was just my 10 year reunion so -- [laughter] i did not attend! >> i graduated 2009 from wesleyan university with a degree in sociology. i just read in the wall street journal that 2009 was the worst job market for generations. i had the good fortune to walk straight into that. after my internships and my parents in music for a while i worked at a literary agency for a couple of years in new york. after that joined doing a netflix or e-book type. i was there just for three mo

booktv.elevision for serious rather. >> on "after words" this weekend, the federalist, mollie hemingway and judicial crisis network's carey severino examine the confirmation of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh and offer thought on the future of the court. also this weekend, "the new york times" carl halls discusses his reporting on the process to fill the lay yates antonin scalia's court seat and kim waily talk about her guide to reading and understanding the u.s. constitution. that's all this weekend on booktv. check your table guide or visit our web site, booktv.org from more information. >> poock tv visited palm beach florida to her roger stone give his account of the 2016 election. here's a portion of that program. >> 2016 was the year in which the main stream media, abc, nbc, cbs, cnn, and to a lesser degree fox, lost their monopoly on the political discourse in america. only through the rise of a vibrant, robust, alternative media, based in the internet, was donald trump able to wi

booktv, television for serious readers. >> here's a look at some authors featured on booktv "after wordsat includes best-selling nonfiction books and guest interviewers. >> there's a really amazing story about, they had, though some of the both loved called miracles about the miracle on ice and judge kavanaugh loved this line where one of the players stepped up and says i play for the treatment of america, and that's his, he's a very patriotic person. a don mcgahn said no, what we have is this moment for the coach comes in the locker room, they have not been playing well and he's trying to get them fired up to go out and actually do the best and he's knocking over a table with the gatorade on and find them up and he says that this moment. you're not a bush nominee. you are a trump nominee and and trumpites. in some ways we kind of 3-d. we're trying to figure out and talk to all these people who -- we saw a different judge kavanaugh earlier that week when he did interview, much more bush approach. and then on thursday when he really came out strong and was fascinating to learn in fact, th

this weekend on booktv, saturday 8:15 p.m. eastern latest book, what we meant for? sexual assault survivor life. including alleged assault by trump in mid- 1990s. >> take what they want, they are leaders. more women who come forward, he's more like alexander the great. kennedy, clinton, jefferson. margaret the theater, men taking what he wants. >> then at 9:00 p.m., from freedom fest, the libertarian conference in australia, we feature the author of the book the war on france. >> what 5% of the countries don't report farmers -- firearm, site data, they are the countries that have the highest homicide rate. >> on sunday, coverage continues at 8:00 p.m. with bob are talking about his book, the meaning. >> we allowed public discourse and political activity to sink to a level where we don't demand the requisite amount of understanding, education, stability and professionalism and what we do with and of our elected officials. what happens then is those important mechanism, such as impeachment are devalued. >> been nine eastern on "afterwards", his books, the fifth domain

c-span will be broadcast live on booktv. if there is time at the end of our discussion, there is a microphone in the center of the room. if we end of doing any day, if we get to that path there are four people up here with 45 minutes, we may have time for that q and a. if not we apologize in advance. please welcome natalie moore from chicago. [applause] >> thank you for being here and thanks to the author and the panelists. i often refer to the neighborhood south shore outside chicago the most mixed income neighborhood in the city. can you take a picture of the neighborhood, what it looks like, what it was like for you growing up there. >> i think it will take the whole 45 minutes. i start by saying any image you start with, present a contradictory one. it has the nicest, greenest, truest, most handsome bungalow blocks on the south side of chicago but has desolate commercial strips with a lot of vacant storefronts. it is a food desert without a supermarket but has an african themed food network growing in the neighborhood. a

you are watching booktv on c-span2. >> booktv continues now on c-span2.on for serious readers. >> good afternoon, welcome to the cato institute. i am jason because mickey, editor of cato books and cato inbound. we are here today to talk about "panic attack - young radicals in the age of trump". by robby soave. i thought it was a very interesting read i have to say. this book was very thought-provoking in that it ranged all over the ideological

thank you. >> this weekend on booktv, tonight at 8:15 eastern, what do we need men for? e.g.carol talk about experiences of sexual assault throughout her life, alleged assault by donald trump in the 1990s. >> they take what they want and you have a choice of women. that is how this is reading, all these women, the more women that come forward he is more like genghis khan, alexander the great, jefferson, the mark of a leader in many people's eyes, to a man taking what he wants. >> at 9:00 from freedom fest the annual libertarian conference in las vegas, featuring author john locke with his book the war on guns. >> 45% of the countries of the world don't report firearm homicide data. the countries that don't report firearm homicide data are the countries that have the highest homicide rates. >> coverage from freedom fest continues at 8:00 with former georgia congressman bob barr talking about his book the meaning of his. >> we allowed public discourse and political activity to sink to the level we don't demand a requisite amount of understanding, education, civility and profess

booktv. >> here's a look at some of the events booktv will cover this week. monday on washington dc's east bookshop, david epstein argues a person with a general background is more likely to succeed than someone with a specialized skill set. nixon presidential library in california, casey pipes recounts the post white house years of president nixon. tuesday, look for us at the st. louis county library where john mc manis will talk about the pacific theater during world war ii. all of these events are open to the public. if you are in attendance take a picture and tag us at booktv, facebook, or instagram. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, a beautiful day in washington dc. i always say that but it is. the sun has come out, the rain has stopped and here we are, great day to be alive at the heritage foundation. my name is lee edwards, at the heritage foundation, i am so pleased to be able to introduce our speaker. it is all too easy these days to focus on the negative in our nation. from school shootings and the declining sunday attendance in our churches

all this weekend on booktv.check your cable guide or visit the website for more information. >>> the 13th nixon biography. there are a lot of them i was -- this is going to kind of sound conceited, i represent the east coast establishment. my politics are moderate or i'm not sure i have any. i went to harvard, i am a type. mixing hated people like me, not me personally but people like me. it would be interesting to try to reverse engineer this in a sympathetic way how did he see me or see us or the establishment or the "washington post" company for which i work worked. i made the best effort i could. this was the impetus of the book and the best part of the book really is sympathetic about the moment he had where they treated him typically and you begin to understand why he was resentful and let this stuff get out of control. he was treated badly by my kind because of stupidity. there is a scene in the 60s they were at a garden party in georgetown and the year olds sucking up to jack kennedy and there's somethin

be sure to watch live coverage of the booktv@cspan.org book festival on saturday, august 31 on booktv. on c-span2. >> so let me take a little bit about our author this evening. david randall is a senior reporter. because of different cannabis, knock knock jokes and kenny g. his books are dreamland and the king and queen of malibu, the true story of the battle for paradise. which is currently in development as a television series. he's been on msnbc, fox, reuters, npr and elsewhere. his book our pick of the month, "black death at the golden gate" the reason we here this evening. please join me in welcoming david randall. [applause] >> thank you all for coming. especially given the weather outside. it is nice to be inside where it is dry. outside where it's wet. one thing i realized, so my first book was about sleep science and when i went and talked about that book, i realize many people coming to the talks because they had their own sleep disorders. and they want to talk with someone about it. this book is about the plague. if you think you have the plague, this is not the place for y

and tag us at booktv on twitter, facebook, or instagram. booktv recently visited capitol hill and asked republican congressman gary palmer of alabama about his reading list. >> well over the last year or so i've read -- several books, the american spirit but david. divided by gordonwood got a little bit on a history thing there. a time for guinness if you can keep it by

eastern, and watch our live coverage of the book festival on saturday, august 31 on booktv on cspan 2. last nights debate in detroit hosted by cnn. we are getting your reaction to it this morning. here are the headlines from some of the major national papers. sanders and warren battle after visions of fairytale promises and party rifts flare. sanders and warren take friendly fire on far left agenda. been in virginia, republican. >> good morning -- caller: good morning. host: what did you think of the debate? caller: i am a republican. hase the democratic process been ongoing -- host: can you turn down your tv or press mute? process,he democratic ever since the clinton days i think has been a ridiculous freak show. they have nothing to do but whine and cause as much stalling and stage events as they can possibly come up with and it has been an ongoing charade that is getting worse by the day. they have no plans. they have nothing tangible to go on. they are just astronomers, fairytale, fractured fairy tales. why i think -- i think the plan that trump has outlined is doable. there are s

today's program will be broadcast live on c-span2's booktv and if there is time for a q&a session with the author, we ask you to use the microphone in the center of the room so the home viewing audience can participate as well. before we begin today's program we ask that you silence your cell phone and if you are going to be taking photos during the presentation that you turn off all flash. with that said please welcome the washington post book critic and winner of the 2019 pulitzer prize for criticism, carlos lozada, and author kathleen belew. [applause] >> a pleasure to be here with kathleen belew, assistant professor of history in chicago and we are here to discuss her book "bring the war home: the white power movement and paramilitary america". kathleen hold a doctorate from yale university and spent a decade or so working on this book. when i first encountered your book i thought what a timely moment to explore a contemporary history of this movement but by the time you finish it you realize the timeliness was the same 5 years ago or 10 years ago or 30 years ago and you've told a

booktv, television for serious readers. this week former george w. bush administration cybersecurity advisor, richard -- on "after words" to talk about how to make cyberspace less dangerous. advice columnist, discussing assault including an alleged assault by donald trump in the mid-1990s. and journalists argue that donald trump ready for present was not pulse appeared also watch for freedom fast. the annual libertarian conference in las vegas. a couple of authors you will hear from our former congressman bob barr. on presidential impeachment and freedom fast founder, market -- looks at politics of author, jack london. check your cable guide or visit booktv.org for more information. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. we are in new york city at the annual publishers convention. talking with authors who have books coming out and now we want to introduce you to anna wiener. who has a book coming out in january 2020, it is called "uncanny valley".a memoir anna wiener, would you do now for living and how did you get there? >> great question. [laughter

booktv, television for serious readers. >> okay, if i could ask you to take your seats. you guys are the best behaved in the room. nice job. i wait for the adults to catch up. welcome. good morning. we are thrilled to have you here with us this morning for a very special program at the reagan ranch center. i name is andrew coffin as a i have the privilege of serving as director for the americas foundation. i think we ought to start this morning by thinking our good friends the united states secret service. there are a few of them in the room. [applause] they have done very important work. they have a very important job and fsoc to make this event possible so we are grateful or your service to our country along with the local law enforcement who acted as support for this event as well. it is such an honor to have karen pence, the second leg of the united states, and her daughter charlotte with us today. this talented duo will be introduced you in just a few moments, and when it happens let's make sure we give them a very warm welcome to santa barbara and the reagan ranch

you are reaching a broad audience on booktv.ow should we think about the issue of a showstopper and what you were talking about? >> another great question rob. safety is critical to all forms of energy. there's a lot of misunderstanding and i think it goes back to the invisibility of radiation and some of us remember movies like godzilla and the 50-foot woman and all these things that basically injected public consciousness view of nuclear. there is a predisposition to anxiety. he got tied up a lot with concern in the 60s about nuclear weapons generally did for this all got tangled up in every time it seems the mainstream is about to get out from under that rock something happens. there have been zeroed death although chernobyl was obviously an accident in fukushima while 18,000 people tragically died often people don't revise that was basically from the tsunami and the consequences of that in their first radiation tallies were taken recently. the same time fossil fuel people every year die in substantial numbers. that's not to

. >> booktv continue us now on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> saeed jones, some stories need to bullet -- is that a story? >> guest: absolutely. the earliest seeds of the book i actually started writing a week after the events that inspired it. new years, 2008 and as a college student. went to a party in phoenix, arizona, and met a beautiful man, went home with him, started having sex, and he had what i can only describe as a true crisis of masculinity, and went from immediately like in the middle of having sex trying to kill me, and we basically just wrestled until he passed out. we were both so drunk and i escaped, and i went back to school, and literally within day is started writing out what became that chapter of the book. writing was how i processed, regained control, regained an understand offering what had happened, why i had made it to that room and made it out, and it did save my life, and so that has always been an element of this book. everything that made it into this story, i had to tell. both bec

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send us your list on facebook, twitter or instagram, @ booktv. >> now on booktv's "after words", msnbc's joy-ann reid is interviewed by sophia nelson. >> joy, welcome to the program. let me first say congrats on this book. it is powerful and inner work, disturbing at the same time. i want to get into that. you've uncovered pretty profound stuff here relative to the 45th president of the united states. the first question i have this book called, "the man who sold america: trump and the unraveling of the american story". tell me why did you write the book and why now? >> first of all sophia, i want to say thank you.it's a pleasure to talk to you. i have to tell you, the reason i wrote the book principally is just because covering this president, covering donald trump is like a firehose of news constantly coming at you. of bad things. they each erase the thing before. in one day, you can have 10 headlines where the first one for any other president would have been catastrophic and maybe presidency and the bit and then that gets erased from the memory hole literally, sometimes within the sam

look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for authors on booktv on c-span2. >> booktvecently visited the reagan presidential library in simi valley california where radio host mark levin offered his thoughts in the press to. >> cnn is not a free press. msnbc is not a free press, new york times is not a free press. "washington post" is not a free press. a free press is oppressed not pushing ideological agenda. it is not the back pocket of one party or another party. it is not pushing social activism whether it is climate change or what have you. we turn on the t.v. today most of these channels are browbeating review with propaganda and left-wing agenda. the left-wing agenda and so forth. that is not freedom of the press. freedom of the press is actually occurring outside those types. it is on the internet, it is with bloggers, is with newspeople all over the world. the difference between the modern media today and the patriot media that helped found the country, the patriot media those men with the printing presses, pamphlets, they were trying to fundamentally transform

you are watching booktv on c-span2. >> booktv continues now on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> good afternoon, welcome to the cato institute. i am jason because mickey, editor of cato books and cato inbound. we are here today to talk about "panic attack - young radicals in the age of trump". by robby soave. i thought it was a very interesting read i have to say. this book was very thought-provoking in that it ranged all over the ideological spectrum and treated many different phenomena and if you will all under common road break and it prompted the question what are the commonalities here? why is it that it seems like so many people have simultaneously lost their minds? [laughter] i'm here today in part because i care a great deal about the fine art of not losing your mind. and asking questions about how do we return to a somewhat more sane place in our politics? one of the things that this book highlighted at least for me is that all these phenomenon seem to be happening in two main locations. one of them is the campus environment and the oth

. >> roger stone has appeared on booktv several times to watch this and other events vice-president our web site, book tv.org and put his name in the search at the top of the page. [inaudible conversations] >> hello, everybody. can you hear me okay? >> yes. >> my name is rebeca and i'm on the events here at book store magic and we are excited to have casey cep in celebration of -- dirks the last trial of harper lee. this is her first book but casey -- this not her first thing she has given to us write. she has been writing for the "the new yorker," "the new yorkw york times" for many years now, and many of you probably noticed because you're but in all of work she has this super home able to make every detail fascinating and crystal clear. in this one casey works to layout two intertwine can mysteries, one in the story of reverend willy maxwell and his trials and the other in the unissued work of a beloved literary market and she has contagious dedication to seeing them through and doing them as much justice as possible. trust me, and also every person i think who works in this book sto

booktv, television for serious readers. >> okay, if i could ask you to take your seats.you guys are the best behaved in the room. nice job. i wait for the adults to catch up. welcome. good morning. we are thrilled to have you here with us this morning for a very special program at the reagan ranch center. i name is andrew coffin as a

you are watching booktv later tonight in primetime andrew bluhm will report technology used for daily weather report. harvard university will discuss strategies to reduce urban violence and on the author interview program "after words", the federalist and judicial crisis network will examine the confirmation of supreme court justice of brett kavanaugh. also this evening the new york times will discuss his reporting on the process of the late justice schooley approved court seat. cbs news legal analyst will offer her guide to reading and understanding the u.s. constitution. check your cable guide or visit our website, booktv.org for more information. >> good afternoon. i'm the deputy director of the library and thank you so much for being here for the roosevelt reading festival. the 16th annual. president roosevelt would be a very happy man to see some and people here today. what we call was about whether because it seems to break in our favor only special days like this. also, we would ask and love for you to become members if you would like because membership helps support these wond

. >> this weekend on booktv, saturday at 8:15 eastern toxoid experiences of sexual assaults including an alleged assault by donald trump in the mid-1990s. >> men take who to the what, me whether choice of women are seen as leaders. and that's of this is reading. all these women, the more women, he's more like genghis khan. he's more like alexander the great. he's like the great kennedy, clinton. name, you know, jefferson. it's the mark of a leader in many peoples eyes to see a man taking what he wants. >> then at 9 p.m. from freedom fest the annual the return conference in las vegas. >> 45% of the countries in the world don't report firearm homicide did appear in the country that don't report of the countries that have come to and have the highest homicide rate. >> on sunday our coverage from freedom fest continues at 8 p.m. >> we have allowed public discourse and political activity to sink to the level we don't demand a requisite amount of understanding, education, civility and professionalism in what we do with intimate of our elected officials. and what happens then is those import

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eastern, and watch our live coverage of the 2019 national book festival on saturday, august 31 on booktv on cspan 2. announcer: the freshman class of the 116th congress is a diverse set of lawmakers, made up of many firsts for the house and senate. c-span continues to learn more about the new faces with our one-on-one interviews. next, lawmakers from texas, new jersey, and hawaii. van taylor who is representing the third district of texas is first. he is a former third district legislator and a marine. >> congressman, your seventh generation texan. rep. taylor: my family came to texas in 1826 and became mexican citizens. in 1835, october of 1835, a letter was sent to my family asking them to join the revolution. a copy of the letter is in my office, here in washington, d.c.. you can see that the times were now. greta: over the generations, what has your family done for living? rep. taylor: i've been in commercial real estate, farming, i live one mile away from where my great-grandfather farmed for the great depression. our family has a great love for our state and it has been an incredib

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"booktv" brings you senator tom cotton with a look at arlington national cemetery. tvc-span3, american history and a discussion about the 75th anniversary of d-day with author alex kershaw from the national d-day memorial in bedford, virginia. >> they gonzales is editor and gonzales is nathan an editor and publisher. 2020. look at the presidential candidates and some key senate races. nathan gonzales, thanks for being here. a couple days after the debates. a pole in a at second about who is ahead. just your take on those nights. who came out on top and who did not perform as well? >> we need to define winning in a couple different ways. you can talk about who captured the conversation. i think senator kamala harris really captured the conversation . in some way i think she was one of the key winners. winning is to define who moves the most in the polls. what do the democratic primary voters think about those debates. we are just at the beginning edge of finding out what voters thought. there was at least one national poll that has been out. i would like to see some

most of these authors have appeared on booktv, and you can watch them online at booktv.org. .. >> you can be a member online any time or by signing up at the table in the hallway today. so let me remind you of how the festival works. we're going to have an author speak now for 30 minutes followed by a 10 minute question answer period, and then i will walk the author out to the front of the visitor ?e to sign bookses an you can purchase her book in new deal bookstore and then meet the author and discuss the book even more. so our next author today is sandra bultins a veteran teacher and historian. for two decades she lived abroad for a soldier in the united states army serving in germany and leader as a teacher in international schools in europe, africa, and asia. she earned her doctorate in history at ohio state university. wherer her focus on gender african-american history, gender and african-american history led to publication of her book glory in the spirit. how four black women took on army during world war ii doctor is act uv in national grassroots movement move to amend and in

if you're aattendance take a picture and tag it as booktv on twitter, facebook, or instagram. [inaudible conversations] >> we're live. sorry for the delay there my name is david, a report at the "chicago tribune" and i cover all sorts of thingsful i cover crime and government and part of the tribune's investigative team now so i do a lot of longer term investigative work. so i'm very happy to be rear hive andy parker, who is written a new book about his experiences and found himself with a career that he didn't plan on having and as an activist. on gun issues and violence issues because of what happened to his daughter, alison so thank you for coming and choosing to sit with us today and listen to us, and this is a hard thing to talk about and i just wanted to start with acknowledging that we are going to talk frankly about your experience of having a child murdered, and that's a horrible thing that most of us never experience. want to start with most of us have heard in passing in some way or know -- somewhat familiar what if happened to your daughter but sadly it's kind of b

thank you.th [inaudible conversations] >> and now on c-span2's booktv, more television for serious readers. >> john watts discussion on gun control is next from our libertarian conference, freedom fest. [inaudible conversations] >> all right, well i guess we are having technical problems here but hopefully they will be taken care of soon. i hope you all know who i am. my name is john lott. president of crime prevention research center bid i've been an academic most of my life. chief economist at the u.s. commission and positions that are a variety at different universities. university of chicago, stanford, yale. but i'm going to talk to you about some of the missed impressions people have about guns and crime. normally, i'm a very empirical guy so i would show you lots of graphs and stuff. a little bit stymied on that given the technical issues we have but there are still lots of issues we can go and talk about. so, just off the top of my head, a couple claims we frequently hear about. one is that background checks go and stop about 3.5 million dangerous prohibited people from obtaining gu

thanks to c-span tv and booktv. russell kirk was born in 1918 in michigan into extreme poverty. it was something he experienced the first 35 years of his life , to varying degrees. yet, he was always very bookish, became interested in all kinds of things. if the stories are to be believed, he had read the collected works of karl marx as well as thomas jefferson by the about the time he was about 11. certainly he had read all of james fenimore cooper, and no doubt there was a certain genius in this very unusual man in plymouth. he ended up going to michigan state. afterwards, he served in the military for about five years during world war ii. when he came back from his military experience, he ended up lit, a little- higher than a graduate degree, at a scottish university, the university of st. andrews, earned that in 1952, came back in 1953. strangely enough, his dissertation became this million-copy bestseller, this book called "the conservative mind," which the timing was just right. it hit the market from a chicago publisher, ended up going through seven editions over its life

and be sure to watch our live coverage live ce 2019 national book festival on saturday august 31 on booktvon c-span2. >> next, representative mike levin and breadwinners to discuss veterans issues and how lawmakers are working to improve services and programs at the veterans affairs department. from the american enterprise institute, this is one hour and 40 minutes. >> all right. let's try to get started here. good morning. welcome to aei, and welcome to our program today, the value of our veterans, a conversation with mike levin and bread when strip. i'm gary schmitt, i'm a senior scholar here s in strategic studies at the american enterprise institute and director of the program on american citizenship. i'm going to skip the introduction since were trying to pack in quite a bit in the next two hours,, less than two hours. so for those joining us here and/or online or watching on c-span, if you want lengthier buyers please go to aei's website and go to the link for the events page and you will see everybody's biographies. so it may begin by just giving a quick overview of the proceedings

[applause] >> recently on booktv's author interview program "afterwards", cnn's john interviewed for trump organization executive vice president, george on this time working for donald trump. >> there's this misconception out there that trump is a guy who doesn't listen to people. he steamrolled over other people's opinions and does what he wants. as a guy who worked closely with him for many years, i think the truth is the opposite. i'm taken aback to experience i had early on in my career with him where we just finished up a difficult day at a construction site, there were a whole number of issues we were dealing with. some things weren't going our way, it was a long tough day. we were walking across the site me and him, he said you know, george, people were frequently asking me, how did i do it, how did i get so successful? it's easy, i look around the world and see what people want. i listen to people and i give them what they want. >> give them what they want? >> i give the people what they want. it's simple words but it was a profound wisdom in that statement. look around the w

. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill and asked congressman jim banks about his reading list. >>this summer i had a very ambitious reading list. currently i'm finishing a well-known book by stephen

>> watch booktv every weekend on c-span2. good evening everyone.u so much for joining us tonight. my name is megan bedstead on behalf of harvard bookstore and very pleased to welcome you to this evening's event with thomas abt discussing his new

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>> up next on booktv's "after words" the federalist molli hemming we were and judicial cries network's carrie seferina examination the confirmation of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh and the effect on the court. they're interviewed by david savage. "after words" is a weekly interview program, interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> last summer, washington saw a particularly fierce political fight over president trump's nomination of judge brett kavanaugh to succeed justice anthony kennedy on the supreme court. not always aned fying experience. it was a mean and ugly fight at times. we know how it turn out. judge kavanaugh, now justice kavanaugh was narrowly confirm on a largely part line vote. but it was a memorable fight, so why did you two choose to re-tell this story and n book lange form? >> carrie and i were both involved in the kavanaugh confirmation battles, we knew that we had a good story here. we knew that we had good access, and we wanted to lay it down, get the record down, and so we interviewed more than 100 people, including the president, an

eastern, and watch our live coverage of the 2019 national book festival on saturday, august 31 on booktvcspan 2. announcer: the freshman class of the 116th congress is a diverse set of lawmakers, made up of many firsts for the house and senate. c-span continues to learn more about the new faces with our one-on-one interviews. next, lawmakers from texas, new jersey, and hawaii. van taylor who is representing the third district of texas is first. he is a former third district legislator and a marine. >> congressman, your seventh generation texan. rep. taylor: my family came to texas in 1826 and became mexican citizens. in 1835, october o35

we are grateful to the good people at c-span booktv to be here tonight recording this. partly for that reason we would love a wiki give people who have questions to act's questions on the microphone. the microphone it will move out. the microphone it will move out will make it to the q&a section so if you're able to make your way around or you can line up along the wall when we get to q&a. if you're not able to you been asked the question we will pass over the microphone. after all that there will be a book signing. we have copy of the book "shadowlands" available and anthony will be signing afterward. now what you are here to see tonight. anthony mccann was born and raised in the hudson valley although i recently learned there was chatting that he lived a block away from here in the mid-90s right before this organization was built in 1999. he's the author for collections of poetry including moon garden and i am heart, you are fate. anthony's teaching writing research interests include 21st century north america poetry of clinical theology political ecology native ameri

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. >> join us today at noon eastern on booktv for this and other offerings.day, our look at missoula continues on c-span three. jumper isl of a smoke to parachute into wildfires were it is in accessible to other firefighting resources. we are fighting these fires in the wilderness and keeping them from becoming massive wildfires. >> the c-span cities tour, exploring america as we take booktv and american history tv on the road. >> the house will be in order. years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events from washington, d.c., and around the country. created by cable in 1979, c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. "washington journal" continues. host: we are back with brittney shepherd, the national political correspondent for yahoo! news. we going to talk about campaign 2020. thank you for being with us. guest: thank you for having me. good morning. host: the first democratic debate is over. has anyt

>> watch booktv every weekend on c-span 2.oining us now, sarah pierce, of the migration policy institute, talking about asylum law in the united states. and just by the administration concerning some aspects of asylum law -- what happened? guest: it is a huge change. it effectively m asylum for the vast majority entering at the southern border. it says you cannot apply for asylum at the southern border unless you have been denied asylum in a company through which you transited on the way to the u.s. border. mexicans tend still apply for asylum at the u.s. southern border, but anyone who transited through mexico would be obligated to apply through mexico first. host: has that not always been the case? guest: not at all. host: what force the change of policy? byst: this was unilateral the admin straight in. they sent a regulation and said it was published, so it was effective as of yesterday. host: a person living central america, coming through mexico, if another country offers them asylum, are they required to take that before

onch booktv every weekend c-span two.onday night on "the communicators," georgetown cal newport questions the value of being digitally collected all the time in his book "digital minimalism." newport: social media and highlight that drive and give you a sense of being social, i am leaving messages, typing and emojis, but all the while, you are missing the drive from the same thing with boredom. why do we have such a strong drive for boredom? because boredom used to push us to do things that are meaningful, but now we can subvert that drives and glance at a phone. >> watch "the communicators" monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. is kimberly wehle, a professor of law at the university of baltimore and the author of the book "how to read the constitution and why." thanks for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: i will start with the question you posed with your title. it,is it important to read and how the read something like because of vision, to the average layperson? gue

. >> watch booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> this weekend on american history tv, saturday at 5 p.m. eastern a discussion about the 1980 refugee act. >> i think president carter's decision to push for that act and to implement it was a hugely important humanitarian decision. and he deserves every bit of the credit that we've heard here today. that said, we have to be realistic and say that doesn't solve all the problems and the fact it create some. >> then on the civil war,. >> whatever i did in academe should also have some dimension that reached out to people who are just interested in the era the way i have been when i was growing up and seemed there should be more bridges between academia and the public than are. are. one of the key places where that can happen i knew also from experience was at battlefields where you can make a connection to the past in the way that you can't. >> sunday at 4 p.m. eastern on reel america the 1967 film testament of truth details civilian injuries and deaths caused by u.s. bombing in north vietnam. >> i used to come home from school for happy with

watch booktv every weekend on c-span2.ay on c-span's q >> 1962, 10 years later richard nixon would win a 49 state landslide. it all came apart. who served as a speechwriter and senior advisor to president is in, -- present nixon, talks about his new book. saying, i him a memo ohink you should get dean t testify, i did not take the tapes would be that damaging, keep them, the stuff you need you should take and take the rest out and burn it. shutdown the special prosecutor now before this thing grows into a monster. i did not know it at the time in people toled entertain the idea he should burn the tapes and they said it would be obstruction of justice. i did not recommend burning subpoenaed tapes but they were his property and if he simply got rid of them as a fait accompli and said, in peace and be dammed he would have moved through it. nixon saidn said -- if he had burned the tapes, he would have survived and i think he is right. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern &a.c-span's q >> washington journal continues. host: brent co