brian doherty is the senior editor of reason. he's been there for more than a decade and before that he was a journalist at the competitive enterprise institute but most importantly he started his career as an interned at the cato institute. in fact, i think we had five interns that semester and one was ryan and one was the distinguished scholar brian caplan who is here in the front row, so that was a pretty good record for that year's intern class. brian doherty returned as perhaps the youngest ever managing editor of regulation magazine before moving on to other editorial projects. he has been covering ron paul since 1999, which is obvious in this insightful and well researched book so please welcome the author of "ron paul's revolution," brian doherty. [applause] >> thank you all very much. the mic is projecting well. i'm going to talk i think for about 20 minutes to all a front end and there will be some questions later. i'm going to start with what i think was a very interesting frame for my history with the topic of my book

brian doherty is becoming the historian of the libertarian movement. he's written books on the burning man festival, and on the supreme court battle over the second amendment, both of whom have some libertarian content. he more particularly wrote the book "radicals for capitalism: a history of the modern american libertarian movement," which i declared it at the encyclopedia britannica blog is going to be the standard history of the libertarian movement for a long time. it's a massive work of research that will be the standard source for people studying this movement. brian doherty is a senior editor of reason. he's been there for more than a decade. before that he was a journalism fellow at the competitive enterprise institute, but most importantly he started his career as an intern at the cato institute. in fact i think with five interns that semester and one was brian and while assisting the scholar brian castro, who is here in the front record. brian doherty then returned as perhaps the youngest ever managing editor of regulation magazine before mo

. >> roundtable guest this week we have brian doherty from story. send an brain fried from water street solutions. >>> i don't know where to start. give me two things that we ought to be talking about today and i will ask you for two things and then we'll talk about what i want to talk about. >> well, we could talk for us where we are weatherwise with the corn crop. i think we got more moisture to most were expecting. so i would start with that and then the overall general pessimism in the market overall. >> now what are two things you wanted to talk about? >> while i'm pretty bearish because i don't see a lot of pricing. the other thing is, it goes along with his pessimistic outlook. we have a meltdown going on in europe and more of that is to come. so i would take her back on that. >> unsurprised neither of you said anything about soybeans. it just took a nose dive. >> well bullish market's peak at some point. the market responded and turned right around and went downward. the very big signals at the top of the market, and, it was the only game in

thank you brian doherty, senator rand paul, thank you for being here.there are books for sale at every bookstore in america, but also out here and always with the author year to sign it. please join us for wine and cheese. [applause] >> and now more from wichita, kansas. book tv visited the city with the help of our cable partner to explore the history and literary culture of the area. >> my name is sarah bag be. water moccasin cafe in wichita, kansas. this store was opened in 1977 founded by bruce jacobs. he opened the store because there was a lack of stores at that time that you could go win after reading the new york times book review or something like that and have a conversation with someone and you were talking about. there were a few chains. we have managed to stay in business through three moves and the addition of the cafe and being space. the store has really grown and evolved a over the past however many years. >> what kind of books to people in wichita flock to? >> well, i would say to kinds. one is local. you know, anything that is qua

dot com i would recommend the book even if you weren't a colleague but ron paul's revolution by brian doherty is a good place to catch up on how they have been working it in this campaign and what what the game plan is now in the important thing here is that there is a large force of ron paul people they are not officially married it's more of a common law arrangement with the republican party so you know that there their needs have to be taken into account they talk about something serious they talk about a lot of things that are foundational to what america is what the united states of america is and they need to be taken seriously whether they will stay with the republican party is interesting and how they will behave now that you know spartacus himself is not on the battlefield it will also be interesting to see what do you think about rand paul's recent endorsement for romney. you know as ron paul always says we have discipline in our family but they don't they don't make the rules on who can do what it is neither an indicator for or against ron paul's own endorsement unclear how he's go

. >> brian doherty examines the political career of ron paul, 12-term republican representative fromnd three-time candidate for president, next on booktv. mr. doherty reports on congressman paul's political ideologies that range across partisan