sign cheever's drinking in american chronicles the role alcohol has placed in u.s. history. robert mauro challenges hillary clinton's claim to be advocate for women's issues. charles koch discusses the strategies he used in "good profit." si hard that mukherjee looks into how medicine and scientific research intersect in "the laws of medicine." former georgetown university professor dennis ross are' "doomed to succeed" traces the development of policy towards israel and the middle east as a whole. david talbot warns against the growth of what he considers america's national security state in "the devil's chessboard." and in empire of self, middlebury college professor of english jay parini recalls the life of gore vidal. look for titles in in the bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the future on c-span2. >> host: glenn beck, in your newest book why do you open with thomas jefferson and the library of congress? >> guest: because jefferson changed hi life. he wrote -- my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew, peter carr. peter was 15, 14, somewhere in that a area