in the coming weeks on afterwards representative david bratt will discuss his time in congress and the economic challenges facing the country. face the nation moderator, john dickinson will remember important members and presidential campaigns. mary thompson jones will talk about her investigation of thousands of leaks state department cables. this weekend, new york times president and ceo, mark thompson discusses the way political speech has changed over time. >> attention spans feel so pressed for time today. the politicians are so anxious to find formulations of language which work for twitter. they work for the the bottom of the screen of msnbc or c-span, a a few words that try to compress and compress. that means you get a lot of impact but maybe you lose some of the language gets lost. >> afterwards airs on book tv every saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday and 9:00 p.m. eastern. you you can watch all previous afterwards programs on our website, booktv.org. >> this is unprecedented level of visibility. there are always moments we said that in 1999 and he was speaking specifically to

it's called "american underdog" by a congressman named david bratt, available june 28. i'm plugging my own stuff. it's wide-ranging but i had a friend help me put it together but i sent him previous books have put together, lecture notes over 20 years what i taught economics and ethics at randolph macon. basic thesis i ran on the republican creed of virginia, basically un-american things, but since then i went a little 30,000-foot up in the air. condensed it to three, the three pillars that have made our civilization the greatest i think, the greatest country on earth. the three pillars that hold the foundation, and they include not surprisingly the judeo-christian tradition. i went to princeton senate before i went to economics. madison went to the college of new jersey. roughly the princeton seminary. and studied hebrew for kicks when he was done come at the judeo-christian tradition leads to the second pillar, the rule of law. and then we get in 1776, also i don't know if by divine intervention or not, make up your own mind, but how does the founder of free market ec