david stewart is president of this organization. mr. stewart, what is your organization? >> well, it's a group of writers and editors and similarly minded people, mostly in the d.c. area who are very dismayed by the shriveling a book review space and sort of the standard media. a lot of book review sections have been folded. they shrunk. and it's just hard to find information about what's going on in the world of books these days. the coverage of the publishing industry has shrunk. >> so we decided to try to do something ourselves. this is really sort of from the old judy garland, mickey rooney movies where they said let's put on a show. we decided, well, we would create our own book review. it's about 70 of us have been engaged in it, and we just launched and had a great response. but it's been a lot of fun and very gratifying. >> what kind of books would you be reviewing on this site? >> a wide range. we are going to really review nonfiction and fiction. we suspect, for now we will not be looking at children's books and we will not be looking at romance literature. but

david stewart is the precedent of this organization. mr. stewart, what is your organization?>> guest: while it is a group of writers and editors and similarly minded people mostly in the d.c. area who are very dismayed by the shriveling of book review space and sort of the standard media. a lot of book review sections have been folded. they have shrunk and it is just harder to find information about what is going on in the world in the books these days, the coverage of the publishing industry has shrunk. so we decided to try to do something ourselves. this is really sorter from the old judy garland mckee rooney movies where they say let's put on a show. we decided we would create her own book review and there are about 70 of us engaged in it. we have just launched and have had a great response. it has been a lot of fun and very gratifying. >> host: what kinds of books will you be reviewing on the side? >> guest: a wide range. we are going to really review fiction and nonfiction. we suspect for now we are not going to be looking at children's books and we won't be look at roma

>> host: david stewart is the president of the washington independent review of books, washington independent review of books.com is the web site. >> this week on "the communicators," a discussion with congressman bob goodlatte, chairman of the house subcommittee on intellectual property and co-chair of the congressal internet caucus. >> host: congressman bob goodlatte is co-chairman of the house internet caucus. how do you envision your role in the upcoming or the current 112th congress when it comes to tech policy? >> guest: well, i think i am very, very fortunate to chair what i think is one of the best subcommittees in the congress, and it's particularly good in terms of looking at what we need most in our country right now, and that's job creation. and growth of our economy. the tech industry the, the tech community plays a huge role in that, a very high percentage of our job growth is related to development of new technology, and a very, very large percentage of our exports are related to that as well. so promoting that through both intellectual property which is the jurisdiction over p

david stewart is the president of this organization. what is your organization? >> it is a group of writers and editors and similarly minded people mostly in the d.c. area who are very dismayed by the shriveling of book reviews space and the standard media. a lot of book review sections have been folded, shrunk, and it is just harder to find information about what's going on in the world of books these days. coverage of the publishing industry has shrunk. we decided to do something ourselves. this is from the old judy garland rickie moon movies with a say let's put on a show. we decided we would create our own book review. about 70 of us have been engaged, and we just lost and had a great response. it has been a lot of fun and very gratifying. >> what kind of books will you be reviewing? >> a ride it rains. we are going to really review nonfiction and fiction. for now we are not going to be looking at children's books, and we will be looking at romance literature, but beyond that we are quite open. we will be reviewing recently released books. we hope to get our

. >> david stewart the president of the washington independent review of books. washington washingtonindependentreviewofboo ks.com is the web site. >> up next, marine captain thomas daly talks about his first six months of the surge in iraq. he presents his book as barnes and nobles in washington, d.c. >> i got a couple of things to go over with you guys. thank you for coming. i know you are taking time to come out here and listen to one marine speak. i really do appreciate it. so before we begin, i kind you give you guys an idea of the actually agenda. what are the specific topics? i want to start off by giving you guys an idea is what is "rage company"? what is the book about? i want to give you a piece about the author, about myself. i'm going to tell you about the city of ramadi, the capital of anbar providence, iraq. it's two different books. first half and second half. once we get into it, you'll understand what i'm talking about. i'll drive us into why i wrote the book. i'll go over the importance and lessons of "rage company." i'll take your questions and

. >> host: david stewart is the president of the washington independent review of books, washington independent review of books.com is the web site. >> coming up, evgeni moore solve, contributing editor to foreign policy, argues that the internet may do more to maintain dictators and hurt dissidents. the author examines the way governments are using the internet to maintain political power. he discusses the book with susan glasser at the new america foundation in washington d.c. this is an hour. >> thank you so much for that terrific introduction and for giving us a platform tonight to talk about evgeni's book which based on my experience over the last two years is guaranteed to provoke, enrage, disturb and, you know, deeply upset half of the audience. so we'll figure out by the end which half are the utopian half are the cyber realists. i couldn't be more delighted to congratulate evgeni on the publication of this book which has been interesting, taken shape over the last coupleover years. in many ways we've watched sort of the live action on the internet evolution of evgeni's thinking such th