he turned edmund burke's vision in any direction he chose.imbued biblical subjects lie the fifth plague of egypt with the awesome power of nature's destructive forces. the swirling mists of the alpine blizzard that the carthaginian general hannibal and his army encountered while crossing into italy merged the sublime with the vaunted genre of history painting. turner was always attentive to his career. he had opened a gallery of his own where he could show his works-- and keep the sales commissions. the 31 year-old painter was appointed professor of perspective at the royal academy. he used that pulpit to promote the possibilities of landscape painting as equal to history painting, urging his students by saying-- (reader) "to select combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art." (narrator) turner lived through one of the most patriotic periods in british history. the french revolution descended into violence. louis

his project but i also tried to root and analysis of the changes in the conservative ideology to edmund burke and so on and one of the interesting things mr. cameron came out with its his particular conception of progress. progress used to mean something like the idea that we move in a direction of greater quality and greater freedom. that was the idea of the conception of the political process but there's also another meeting that is accrued to it which means the accumulation of stuff. progress means to constantly keep producing and producing pitting it as long as you are doing that, that progress and you adapt to whatever changes that imposes and to an extent i think that is what david cameron meant by progress and singing the global capitalism and increasing the content sort of innovation and change that it produces. it's not something that he invented. >> host: we are talking with richard seymour on book tv to the we are in london talking with british authors to the richard seymour as the author of four books, "unhitched" the iaot recently. american insurgents, the history of the antiamer

in edmund burke, the first conservative. look for these titles in bookstores this coming we can't watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> there is no bird been processed food industry needs more than a prediction. i tried to use it sparingly because they can rather convincingly argues that there are some differences between food craving and narcotics cravings, certain technical thresholds. however, when they talk about the allure of their foods their language can be so revealing, they use words like cray ofab , ofable,able. >> sold sugar that is our online book collection this month bill was more video of michael moss at booktv.org and for the next we share your thoughts, see what others are saying on twitter at hash tag be tv book club and our facebook page enjoy our live moderated discussion on line, tuesday, may 28th at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> we are back from the 2013 gaithersburg book festival with sam kean. his book is "the violinist's thumb: and other lost tales of love, war, and genius,