. >>> in today's "sunday spotlight," eric draper witnessed history as the white house photographer forhis new book "front row seat" captures a president at work. >> my job was not to be a distraction. my job was to purely document. and it was a very unique role to have that much access to the president and not to be a participant in the meetings but to be an observer. i have a chapter on family, which included lots of images of president bush with his father, whenever he and his dad were together, it was magical to me. 9/11 was just off the charts. it was a roller-coaster of emotion and i knew that i had a job to do that day to focus on capturing those moments. and i used the camera as the distraction. well, one day at the oval office, in 2002, a box arrived and it was a gift. he opens the box and he pulls out this boxing robe and on the back it had his name, george w. bush. so, of course, he tries it on. and he's looking around for someone to show it to. in that image, he's opening up the oval office door to see if anyone was walking around. because he wanted to show it off. the presi

bush against. >> eric draper, former chief white house photographer. thank you. >> thank you. >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> this system of mass incarceration is now so deeply rooted in our social and economic structure that is not just going to fade away or downsize out of sight without a major upheaval, a fairly radical shift in our public consciousness. now, i know that there's many people today who will say, oh, you know, there's no hope of ending mass incarceration in america, no, no. there's no hope. pick another issue. just as many people resigned to jim crow in the south and the sake yeah, yeah. that's a shame, it's a shame but that's just the way it is. i find that so many people today view the million cycling in and out of our prisons and jails today is just an unfortunate but in alterable fact of american life. i'm quite certain that dr. king would not have been so resigned. so i believe that if we are truly, truly to

. >> eric draper is the author of the new book. mr. draper was the chief white house photographer and special assistant to president george w. bush for his eight years in office. sir, can you tell me first about this paragraph right here, january 26, 2001? the president and vice president? >> this photo is timing is everything. it is a picture of the president and vice president. it shows all the formal meetings and the protocols, but those are the fun moments for me to capture. after the election in 2000, you might remember the recount. with the election wasn't decided that evening. i actually made a personal pitch and asked him for the job and the timing was appropriate. >> this image here shows the president. his famous moment and he began immediately to prepare for his first statement in reaction to the attacks and to the world. it is extremely intense for a moment. >> in the last photo you want to talk to you about this. august 7, 2001, crawford, texas. >> yes, we were documenting the president is a texan. that is two years. i was

bush," eric draper, the official white house photographer during the bush administration, presents a collection of his work. and barbara garson presents her thoughts on the current economic landscape in "down the up escalator: how the 99% live in the great recession." look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org of. >> so let's think about how the typical american eats. 90% of the food budget goes towards buying processed food, 90%. 84% of americans feed their children at a fast food restaurant at least once a week. and when the consumer enters the gosh ri store, they are met by hundreds if not thousands of brands. so as they shop for beverages, they might bay a pepsi, a gatorade, a tropicana, lipton tea, sierra mist, muggs root beer, amp energy, aquafina, bottled quarter. if they're health conscious, they might buy naked juice. for breakfast they might buy captain crunch, quaker cereal, aunt jeff my ma's puffed wheat, for meals and snacks they might buy lays potato chips, sun chips, cheetos, tostitos,

bush," eric draper presents a collection of his work.and barbara garson presents her thoughts on the current economic landscape in "down the up escalator: how the 99% live in the great recession." look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> you know, the election's over, and the president has been reelected, and the new congress has been sworn in, and we have, basically, what we had before other than the fact we spent $4 billion to have a president be reelected, the senate remain in one party's hand and the house remain in the republicans' hands. we have, we have effectively gridlock. we have now, we have variations on these new terms like she -- sequester. and so last week in washington, they called the snow that never came the snowquester. we have things like the fiscal cliff that's related to the into find common ground on the budget. nothing in the election really changed that. because our beloved nation is divided, the direction we should take is u