deborah solomon is an art critic, journalist and contributor to "the new york times."she also wrote a column in "the new york times" magazine section called question for that address questions asked by celebrities and other people of interest in the new york city area. she takes a fresh look at artist norman rockwell's life in her book american mirror the life and art of norman rockwell. she has a life different from his humors and optimistic thinking. ms. solomon was an art history major at cornell university and earned her masters master's degree at columbia graduate school of journalism. she's written several biographies of american artists including joseph curnow and she is the art critic for the radio which is the npr affiliate in new york. she was awarded a guggenheim fellowship in 2001 in the category of biography. asked to characterize her political beliefs, and this is my favorite part, solomon once said not dependably pro- anything except thinking. please welcome debra -- deborah solomon. [applause] >> hello, savannah. it's great to be here. thank you, linda

and on woodrow wilson and deborah solomon on the life of norman rockwell.he savanna book festival, heart of a three-day presidents' day weekend life saturday on book tv. march 2, but power, the civil rights movement and the obama era. calls, comments, and e-mails on c-span [applause] c-span2. join the conversation and go to book tv.org and click on book club to enter the chapter. >> now, discussion on privacy issues and digital technology. we will hear from matt salmon. this is the conservative policy summit. for being here and i am excited to be able to introduce color -- congressman matt salmon. 1994, mattrk year of was elected to the u.s. house of representatives where he served three terms. he grew a reputation as being a and a guy who went after spending, real fiscal conservative. he remained true to his promise to self impose a term limit. he went home and retired his seat. after the passage of obamacare like a lot of conservatives easter to rethink what he needed to do for the country. at the same time there was massive government regulation that was

lily coppell on astronauts and john rizzo on his work with the cia and deborah solomon on the life of norman rockwell. part of the three-day weekend on booktv. we will take your calls and e-mails and tweets from noon to 3:00 p.m. on keep -- c-span2. join the conversation go to booktv.org and click on book clubs to enter the chat room. >> a senate panel examines the highway trust fund which is expected to sell the gas tax. richard trumka also talks about this as well. >> this is such an important issue. >> including averting a major crisis and we will hear from witnesses who are national leaders representing businesses and states and workers and i am so pleased to once again welcome tom donohue i always feel when they are together that we have a winning issue. the transportation cabinet and doctor pete lorraine, president and ceo of american roads and transportation builders and i want to say to all of you here, there are devastating impacts they estimate at the that the highway trust fund may run out of funds as early as september of 2014. which would create cash flow problems for the

deborah solomon is an art critic, journalist and contributor to "the new york times."e also wrote a column in "the new york times" magazine section called question for that address questions asked by celebrities and other people of interest in the new york city area. she takes a fresh look at artist norman rockwell's life in her book american mirror the life and art of norman rockwell. she has a life different from his humors and optimistic thinking. ms. solomon was an art history major at cornell university and earned her master master's degrt columbia graduate school of journalism. she's written several biographies of american artists including joseph curnow and she is the art critic for the radio which is the npr affiliate in new york. she was awarded a guggenheim fellowship in 2001 in the category of biography. asked to characterize her political beliefs, and this is my favorite part, solomon once said not dependably pro- anything except thinking. please welcome debra -- deborah solomon. [applause] >> hello, savannah. it's great to be here. thank you, linda, for th