>> guest: and cfo and charles robinson share. i spent most of my time at the brookings institution and i'm involved in studying well-being and all kinds of dimensions and setting up a new initiative on well-being there. >> host: carol graham is the author of this book, "the pursuit of happiness: an economy of well-being" this is her second book on happiness. her first, happiness around the world. professor graham, thanks for being on booktv. >> guest: inks for having me. >> actor robert cummings written several topics on books during the civil war. what interested you in this topic? >> guest: my interest in the civil war is among the serious to me. if you told me many years ago when i was a girl this is what is going to study, i would've said i hate you. i hate war, hate guns. i don't like any of this. i don't like this topic at all. but when i was a graduate student in american history, happened to take a class on the civil war and something about it just clicked with me. in that topic decided the complete absence of women -- co