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joining us on booktv is colette bankroft, book editor for the tampa bay times. we just listed a whole bunch of political books that are coming out this fall, many dealing with the 24 election and donald trump etc. . do you look at political books down in florida? >> yes. we are awash in politics here in florida and i do, i have one book definitely on my list that i'm looking forward to and that is martin baron's book collision of power, trump, basals, and the washington post, he retired as executive editor of the washington post, took on the job not long before jeff bezos bought the paper and then of course shortly thereafter trump became president and i'm looking forward to an inside look at that political era which continues into the present day, from someone who's that kind of an insider and a legendary journalist as well and i'm very happy that my newspaper's book event in november, to talk about the book, that is of the political books i'm looking at, the one i'm most excited to start. >> host: the tampa bay times, do you sponsor a book festival or just hol

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chris you are on booktv.t's that book or books you think impacted, shaped america threat for one thing impacted america was the cold war pics i'm reading checkmate in berlin, the story about the occupation division of berlin at the fall of world war ii. i'm just getting into it. i didg this i read the economy all, a story of, a two-story of blacks accepting, black freemen attempting to be self-sufficient in new orleans before and after the civil war up until economy hall closed in the early 1950s. it was a very moving and informative book. so i highly recommend it to everybody. >> host: and that's crispin oak park illinois. thanks to everybody who participated. again the new series looks to shaped ametart monday september 18 cntroject by c-spa theibrary of congress. t ten books that we will be featuring andheir impactof arica. every monday night at 9 p.m. common sense bymas paine, the federalist history of the expedition of lewis and clarke. october 2. october 9, there did i do le the frederick douglass, the

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[applause] joining us now booktv this doctor so that one of the co-authors of this book "faith seeking freedom" libertarian christian answers to tough questions. he's also the founder of the libertarian crushed in institute which is what? >> libertarian christian mission is to try to convince other of libertarian ideas so we do this by making the christian case for a free society and equipping people to help defend that predicted. we do that by creating all sorts of media like our book here to spread the word. >> host: is there a natural antagonism between libertarianism and christianity? >> guest: yes. to some extent we have seen that the last 30 to 40 years of american history in particular. but i don't think it's because of the fundamental incompatibility. it's more like the loudest voices in the room aren't always the christian so it's important to realize in fact wherever you go most libertarian people 50% of them are christian. often the problems that they have are not that they are afraid of trying to make that connection. they just don't know how all the t time so what we do we

. >> host: as always we appreciate your time on booktv. >> guest: thank you very much. my pleasure. >> next more from the 2023 library of congress national book festival. >> my name

it was hard in both cases booktv .org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are joined by revisited brad sherman of california, a number of the foreign affairs committee, also financial services subcommittee. welcome. guest: good to be with you. host: you don't have a speaker of the house. is there a role you see democrats playing in that? guest: guest: i think republicans will fail to elect a speaker in several days and we can learn from what is happening in israel in time of crisis. israel is forming a unity government. we ought to have a unity speakership. whether you would like to serve as a speaker, maybe president george w. bush, somebody. much more important than the name is we need equal revisitation on the rules committee, we need to bills brought to the floor that reflected the views of the overwhelming majority of both parties. otherwise there will be four or five of the craziest republicans controlling an important branch of government. host: do you think that is possible? could there be power-sharing among democrats and republicans? gues

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or our email address booktv@c-span.org. march 26, 2023, the wall street journal, you can't cancel me, i quit. what was this op-ed? >> i was invited to give a speech at berman university. i was excited about it, never having been there. and i looked up the local museum which apparently has a great collection of paintings and i was generally ginned up for this and then before i got there, a typical thing happened in an exaggerated fashion which is that some students decided that i was a fascist, i have a photo advertising my talk where someone wrote fascist and misspelled it, posters advertising my speech were taken down on campus and in the local student newspaper i was being called names that i really can't think there was any truth to like hater. i was called dangerous, et cetera. it turned out the speaker before me had a very bad experience of this kind of cancellation, giving a talk on dostoevsky, people lined up with posters saying he was a bad person and all of this, he had three armed guards who guarded him during his

well, joining us now on booktv is dr. norman horn. he is one of the coauthors of this book, faith seeking freedom, libertarian christian answers to tough questions. and he's also a founder of the liberty and christian institute, which is what the libertarian christian institute mission is ultimately to try to convince other christians of libertarian ideas. and so we do this by making the christian case for a free society and equipping our people to help defend them. and so we do that by creating all sorts of different types of media, things like our book here in order to try and spread the word. is there a natural antagonism between libertarianism, christianity? yeah, well, to some extent we have seen that in the last 30 to 40 years of american history in particular. and what we what we experience these days. but i don't think it's because there's a fundamental incompatibility. it's more bit more like that. the loudest voices in the room aren't always the christians. and so it's important to realize, in fact and wherever you go amongs

booktv@cspan.org. rk russell he talked about his sister. >> first of all thank you for sharing that story. i am so sorry for your loss. there is a need for representation that needs representation there is a need for representation for all of us. in secret and shame and hiding these controversies and talking points people don't understand they are connected to real lives. they affect real people a lot of us are p just trying to live and love be happy and create joy in our lives that is not not up for discernment that is not a talking point that is not voted on people that do not represent us or do not understand us or see us. i think you and i think your sister may she rest in peace for being who you are and allowing love to be the principal factor in your life when you're talking about people. >> is the book is called the arts yards between us memoir of life, love, football rk russell is the author. you think your publisher in this book as well. this is the first book by this publisher regrets it is a

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just remember @booktv for facebook or twitter and her e-mail address is booktv @c-span.org. we'll begin taking those calls in just few minutes. mary eberstadt first book came out in 2004 called -- the hidden toll of daycare, behavioral drugs and other parent substitutes. the letters, the common tale of life death and atheism came out in 2010. how the west lost god in 2013. it's dangerous to believe religious freedom and its enemies came out in 2016. how the sexual revolution created identity politics in 2019 and adam and eve after the pill revisited came out in 2023 the first adam and eve came out in 2013. i believe it was. we will begin taking those. mary eberstadt the subtitle, how the sexual revolution created identity politics. tie that together for us. >> i think not only the united states but many other countries in the western world are in the midst of an identity crisis. who am i is the question. where is this coming from? again getting back to the world before the 1960s, there were two fundamental answers to that question. i'd like to think one was horizontal, who a

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booktv c-span.org. r. k. russell, he talked about his sister. >> guest: first of all thank you for sharing that story. i am so sorry for your loss. there is a need for representation for lgbtq+ pick up a representation for bipoc people if there's a need for representation for all of us because in secret and shame and hiding these countries and his talking points people understand their connected to realize, that they affect real people that a lot of us are just trying to live and love and be happy and great joy in our life and that is not up for discernment. that is not a talking point. people do notot represent us understand as rcs. i just thank you and thank you sister, she rest in peace, for being here you are are and for allowing love to be the principal factor in your life when you're talking about people and what here's the book. it's called "the yards between us: a memoir of life, love, and football." r. k. russell is the author, and you thank your publisher inrk ts book as well. this is a first book b

well, joining us now on booktv is northwestern university professor andrew koppelman and he's also an author this his eighth book burning down the house how libertarian philosophy was corrupted by delusion and greed. mr. koppelman you opened this book in south tennessee. what happened? what happened was that the county, albany county, decided to essentially privatize its fire so that each individual homeowner would pay a fee for fire protection and. one of the homeowners, an old man who'd, been paying his fee for years, forgot one year and his house fire and the fire department came to protect his neighbors but watched his house burn down because. he hadn't paid his fee and it was generally understood at the time. this was early in the obama administration and that judging what the fire department did here was basically the same argument that people were having about obamacare is there a collective obligation taken to protect people from undeserved and preventable misfortunes? i if fire in your house is one and your disease is another and so i wrote a book about the obamacare litigati

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