when we come back, david talbot on allen dulles.stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "who's the terrorist?" by dam. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to part two of my conversation with the author of, "the devil's chessboard: allen dulles, the cia, and the rise of america's secret government." the new book is written by journalist and historian david talbot, the founder of former ceo and editor and teeth -- and chief of salon. alan dulleses influence is still felt under the agency. cuba -- the cia overthrew the governments of iran and guatemala, invaded cuba and was tied to the killing of patrice lumumba, congo's first democratically elected leader. i asked david talbot about the 1953 coup in a rent and then 61 murder of patrice lumumba. part two begins with guatemala, the ramifications of the cia was 1954 coup are still being felt in guatemala where voters will go to the polls next sunday to elect a new president. last month, president molina resigned and was jailed follo

david talbot is founder and former editor-in-chief at salon.ng made possible by democracy now!] >> we coevolve with our tools. we change our tools, and then our tools change us. certainly the book has probably changed us more than any other tool. for 500 years, it's been this incredibly important tool for humanity. >> books are the foundation of civilization. you walk into someone's house, what's the first thing you look at as a--a literate human being? you look at their library. >> this can sound romantic, but the feel of a book, the--the texture of the paper, even its smell. they are the best way of preserving infor

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later in the evening and on the west coast booktv is in attendance for salon.com founder david talbot's discussion on the life and career of allen dulles the longest director of the cia. green arcade bookstores in san francisco. thursday night we will be taking an event at town hall seattle, the former wall street journal reporter roger loeowenstein will talk about the federal reserve. next saturday recovery events from the louisiana book festival in baton rouge. it includes doctor talks on african-american history, hurricane katrina, the deep water horizon oil spill and much more. look for our coverage of the louisiana book festival to air the weekend of november 14th and fifteenth. that is look at the other programs booktv will be covering this coming week, many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> one thing that struck me when i was researching the book was that the north has a very complicated racial history that has been in some places almost completely buried. there is little willingness to engage with the history

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. his mother had died, his father was about to the to die, and his father said to thomas, thomas l you oversee the education of my son when i pass on? smartest man i know. is he said, sure. so when peter comes of age, he writes him this beautiful letter. and he says in mathematics, you have to learn these things. never read a book out of its native tongue because you'll lose too much, and then he gets to the last one, and he said when it comes to religion, above all things fix reason firmly in her season an

david talbot warns against the growth of what he consi