please welcome daniel schulman. [applause] >> thanks for having me here today it is an honor to be with you. i thought i would give you a picture of the political evolution of the koch family and you can grill me as much or as little as you want it seems that they exploded onto the seat following the election of broccoli, but many, many decades and of making i will take you back on the journey i went to through. i found that to understand charles and david coke the place day cannes from ideologically requires me to understand their father. fred is the patriarch growing up in the panhandle of texas his dad was the newspaperman and a democrat. and ends up going to m.i.t. majoring in chemical engineering. into balance around the united states with oil refineries and in the mid 1920's to forms a partnership which is eventually called winkler koch engineering company. when the first become prevalent there is a huge national thirst for gasoline. to develop a process for refining oil that takes more cassette of each barrel

thomas read profiles president ronald reagan, jill look for discusses the history of feminism and daniel schulman looks at the coke brothers. for more information on this weekend's four they television scheduled visit us online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. norman mailer's authorized biographer and archivist michael lind and prevents the edited collection selected letters of norman mailer. and her brilliant career, rachel clarke writes about the lives of ten female pioneers of

thomas read profiles president ronald reagan, jill look for discusses the history of feminism and daniel schulman looks at the coke brothers. for more information on this weekend's four they television scheduled visit us online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. norman mailer's authorized biographer and archivist michael lind and prevents the edited collection selected letters of norman mailer. and her brilliant career, rachel clarke writes about the lives of ten female pioneers of the 1950s. jason scottoa look at race and politics in the northeast in all eyes are upon us. in empire of cotton, a history of the economic importance of cotton. in pressed for time, judy wiseman challenges the concept that modern technology has sped up everyday life. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> up next richard preston talk about the discovery of the ebola virus and the latest ebola outbreak in several west african countries. his 1994 best selling book hot zone be picked in 1989 ou