radio talkshow host eric metaxes, author of if you can keep it and many other books. he will discuss his life and career and answer your social media questions from noon to 3:00 eastern time. on monday, labor day, another full lineup of programs. watch re-airs of the national book festival and the mississippi book festival as well as an encore presentation of our recent program with just a physicist -- astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson. 72 hours of nonfiction authors and books. booktv, television for serious readers. for complete television schedule visit booktv.org. >> carla hayden, give us a preview of the book festival. >> it is going to be one of my favorites because i am a big nonfiction fan and the types of authors we will have from david mccullough to jd vance whose book is on every reading list you can imagine in every book club. i am thrilled. >> host: how many offers do you invite? >> guest: when you think about a one day festival, the national book festival and you have over 100 authors from children's authors, illustrators, graphic novelists, all these di

radio talkshow host eric metaxes, author of if you can keep it and many other books.he will discuss his life and career and answer your social media questions from noon to 3:00 eastern time. on monday, labor day, another full lineup of programs. watch re-airs of the national book festival and the mississippi book festival as well as an encore presentation of our recent program with just a physicist --

we are talking with radio talk show host and author eric metaxes.ext call is from texas. >> caller: good evening, i am a vietnam veteran. your books are awesome. the one own bonhoeffer is fantastic. there is a book coming out called the making of donald trump by david kay johnston who had a book on the long history of a shady sociopathic mogul. >> guest: what is his name? the mogul? >> caller: donald trump. have you read the book? your book on bonhoeffer is like this book on donald trump. but your impact by joseph campbell. i love the way you brought people back to us to get to know people who have done good for us. >> guest: what made you bring up joseph campbell? >> caller: he is an amazing genius on religions and i religions are what americans want to do. i went there to do what i had to do. joseph campbell. you look at his books and they are about religion and the good religion is always trying to do the best and they can speak to better humanitarianism. >> joseph campbell concerns me greatly. i would warn people against him. i think anybody who

. >>> live sunday at noon eastern, author, speaker and radio host eric metaxes. >> every ethnicity exists in america. it's not defined by religion. every religion exists in america. we're the only country in the history of the world that was created and defined by an idea. therefore, in order to keep the republican as franklin enjoined us to do, we must know those ideas, we must understand those ideas, we must buy into those ideas and we must live those out. join our live conversation with mr. metaxes live sunday at noon eastern on book tv on c-span 2. >>> now, on lectures in history, it's james madison university profess professor evan friss. he talks about how changes to home loan policies, the mass production of houses and the rise of