will the real charlie chan please stand up? hich one is real. >> former chairman of the literature department at san diego state university. thanks for the presentation. i have a couple of questions first about charlie and the second about you as a writer. the one about charlie is they all appeal to intellectuals. they were interested in asia, were they alive my guess is they would have no interest in charlie chan. yet charlie chan was enormously popular in the 20s and 30s when asians of all sorts there was enormous prejudice people still working class people particularly, despised them. yet these are great popular culture things, both biggers's novel than the movies. how do you explain that popularity with ordinary people? >> i will come back when you read the second part of a question. it is true. maybe i should explain it by saying the moment, the time when a stumble upon charlie chan novels was 1994 as a graduate student, i found these two charlie chan novels. i took them home at $1 each and was immediately hooked. but i sho

he gave a copy of the photograph inscribed, you know, from charlie chan to, you know, the real charlie chan, you know? it's a great, you know, story, really. yeah. thank you. >> [inaudible] thank you very much. >> thank you all for coming. thank you. [applause] >> yunte huang is an english professor at the university of california, santa barbara. for more information visit his web site, yuntehuang.com. >> sunday on booktv's "in depth," r. 'em met tyrrell has written over a half dozen books, and his latest, "after the hangover: the conservatives' road to recovery." join our three hour conversation with your e-mails, phone calls and tweets live sunday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> next, james buckley, former new york senator, undersecretary of state in the reagan administration and judge on the u.s. court of appeals argues against the expansion of the federal government. and contends that it's growth questions the original intent of the framers of the constitution. he presents thoughts at the heritage foundation in washington, d.c., it's an hour. [applause] >> well, i suppose

category, into one describing the life of a lie-detector who died in 1933 and the cultural impact of charlie chan, the fictional character who was based fund is live. >> coming up isabel wilkerson presents the history of the great migration when approximately 6 million african-americans migrated to northern and western states from the south from 1915-1970. recounts the many reasons people have for leaving the south, the difficult journey that many in toward, and the two graphical shifts in population due to the migration. to discuss her book at the atlanta history center. this is an hour and ten minutes. [applauding] >> thank you so much. i am just giddy with all of the wonderful reviews and reception that the book has received. i have waited 15 years for this moment. that is a very long time. i am so honored and humbled to be here. i have spent so long steeped in the history of the great migration. for a while i was stuck in 1947 and thought i would never get out. [laughter] for the record, just to be able to clarify what it is that the book is about, the great migration was the biggest under re