dr. mark levin, constitutional scholar and it's called liberty and tyranny. it's been of the new times best-seller list nine out of the last ten weeks. it's now sold over a million copies, and it's essentially a treatise on why conservatives believe what they believe. he goes through a number of issues. it's a fabulous book. i've read it once, highlighted it. it's all dolled year, the pages, i've written notes on the margins, i am quoting dr. mark levin's book on liberty and tyranny everywhere i go and i in the need to encourage people to read it. i am going through a second time taking more notes on it. i'm on another book i have heard several times speak about the book and it is the forgotten man by amity shlaes. it is so timely because she is writing the history of the hoover years of fdr and the great depression, and the forgotten man is the american taxpayer who is paying for all of the expense of building up the welfare state and so it is a fascinating story to see how the american economy is taking a real parallel today in 20 online with the same of co

dr. mark levin duralast summer speaking at a luncheon, and he had not yet written liberty and tyranny but since his book liberty and tierney, they're has been so much excitement in washington about that book and i am hopeful that dr. levin will come back and allow us to hear from him personally. that is the number-one book i am encouraging all americans to read, liberty and tear ready, and also amity shlaes, the forgotten man. >> to see more summer reading lists and programs visit our web site at booktv.org. columnist robert novak and died august 18th 2009 after a battle with brain cancer. in 2007 book tv visited his home to discuss his memoir the prince of darkness and talk about his writing habits and books that have been influential in his life.