and to be fair to everyone, we ask that you keep your questions short and no long stories.on celeste headlee is with us courtesy of savannah state university and bob and linda sarah. celeste is the host of the georgia public broadcasting program on second thought, as well as a previous cohost of the take away lland midwest correspondent for national public radio's day today. and a classically trained soprano. and in between all of this, she's even written a book called "we need to talk: how to haveconversations that matter". it's a book about communications and one that i'm going to have my wife read very soon . please give me a warm welcome to celeste headlee. [applause] >> i'm a buddhist so this feels a little uncomfortable. a we've tried it the other way for a really long time. for generation after generation we have taught our children and ourselves that if something is going to cause an argument, we don't talk about it. it used to be we didn't talk about politics and religion and now we'veadded race and we've added climate change and we've added guns . and eventually we are just going t

[inaudible conversations] >> and you've been listening to author celeste headlee talking about the importance of conversation. this is booktv's live coverage of the annual savannah book festival. we've got a few minutes before david enrich begins. his book is called "the spider network." it's a detailed look at the 2006 financial scam in which bankers, traders and brokers manipulated interest rates worldwide. and we will be back live in georgia in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> the saving -- the second clan claimed to be continuing the first clan, but it was different in a series of major ways. first of all, it was not secret. second of all, it was a mass movement having somewhere between three and five million members. third, it had women. fourth, it was in main nonviolent. and, fifth, its basic strategy was electoral, and i can talk about that later. and finally, perhaps the most important thing is it expanded what you might call the hate list. the first klan was entirely focused on keeping african-americans down and used lynching to not only punish individuals, but to int

with his book "future war, preparing for the new global battlefield", author scott shapiro and celeste headlee. watch on c-span 2's book tv. >>> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history, former virginia governor douglas wilder at virginia commonwealth university. >> i have a one definition that i use for politics. can anyone guess what that is? and i've said one would define politics. money. give me something that's a proposition before any tribunal that doesn't involve money. >> sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern from the west point center for oral history, henry "hank" thomas, a combat medic during the vietnam war. >> my grandfather served in world war i. my father served in world war ii. always for a black man, whenever you served, it was your military service you hope would confirm your bona fides as a first class, red-blooded american citizen entitled to. >> at 4:00 p.m., on "reel america" we look back to 1988 when president reagan spoke at a cpac dinner. >> the american people know what limited government, tax cuts, deregulation, and

[inaudible conversations] >> and you've been listening to author celeste headlee talking about the importance of conversation. this is booktv's live coverage of the annual savannah book festival. we've got a few minutes before david enrich begins. his book is called "the spider network." it's a detailed look at the 2006 financial scam in which bankers, traders and brokers manipulated interest rates worldwide. and we will be back live in georgia in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> the saving -- the second clan claimed to be continuing the first clan, but it was different in a series of major ways. first of all, it was not secret. second of all, it was a mass movement having somewhere between three and five million members. third, it had women. fourth, it was in main nonviolent. and, fifth, its basic strategy was electoral, and i can talk about that later. and finally, perhaps the most important thing is it expanded what you might call the hate list. the first klan was entirely focused on keeping african-americans down and used lynching to not only punish individuals, but to int