. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 in new york city at book expo america. talking with the chairman and president of the norton company. .. to booktv, diane brady recalls the efforts of reverend john brooks who traveled the east coast recruiting african-american students to the college of holy cross. with the hope of realizing martin luther king, jr.'s goal of an integrated society following his death in 1968. reverend brooks the future president of the college introduced several students to holy cross idea which included future supreme court justice justice thomas and edward jones. it's about 50 minutes. >> good afternoon. i would like to welcome everybody and start the program if we could. good afternoon and welcome. it's certainly a wonderful turnout and we are very very happy to have everybody this afternoon. on behalf of the college as well as the holy cross of austin i would like to welcome you to the special monthly lunch. i'm greg cahill class of 1981. thank you all for being here as we celebrate the publication of "fraternity" with author diane bra

. >> we are here at book expo america committee annual convention in new york city.how important is a convention like this to your business? >> i think it's incredibly important, especially now when everybody's just talking about the physical book versus the e-book. it's all about reading and getting excited about the books. i mean, look at all these great covers and then walking over to the other in print and hearing people are excited about. it's really important to get the dialogue going. >> as director of publicity, how is your job changed in the last couple of years at the inventor of the book, et cetera? >> a change in terms of social media. our mainstream media, npr and the review coverage is really important and crucial as ever. but also come our social media campaigns have just grown exponentially and i just know that we've been really focusing on the social media and the blog of t r

. >> and here at book expo america, the book publish industry's annual convention in new york city, weare joined by drake mcfeely, chairman of ww norton and company. we wanted to ask you about the books coming out this fall, 2012. starting with this one behind us. >> absolutely. this is a very scary book about a very important subject. this is what happens, humans are moving deeper and deeper into the hinterlands, and as so, we are getting animal diseases transported over to the human population. it's not just aids and sars anymore, but other kinds of diseases you have not heard of. david's been out studying around the world, bats, monkeys, gorillas. he's a wonderful writer. i don't know if you know his books that do well. this is going to be an exciting book for us this fall. >> also happening in the u.s. or other nations mainly? >> this is a worldwide phenomena, obviously, but with the transit of people around the world now, diseases move quickly. >> also wanted to ask you about the -- "the last refiewj" coming out by gregory johnson. >> sure. if you want to understand terrorism, you

. >> we're here at book expo america which is the book publishing industry's annual convention in new york city. >> next on booktv jennifer ratner-rosenhagen talks about the impact of friedrich nietzche on the left and the right in the united states inspect is about an hour and fifteen minutes. >> i'm so pleased to welcome my friend jennifer ratner-rosenhagen in to the new berry this evening. she is the associate professor of history at university of wisconsin madison. she earned her ph.d. of from the university of rod chester. she taught at the university of miami at the history department we were colleagues not so much years ago. friedrich nietzche was pushilied be the university of chicago press. until the book jennifer exams how they found a philosophy home in the writing. the death of god and the challenge, to universal truth have inspired american thinkers. journalists, comeeks, frols fors, poets and others have drawn on him for inspiration we learn in "american nietsche." it has reviewed widely and positively. "new york times" book editor wrote, today is not necessarily the sam

>> well come as you can see a good-sized crowd at the jacob javits convention center for book expo americamittee annual book book publishing industries convention in new york city and one of the publishers represented here is the deal university press, john donatich is the direct third of that press. we want to ask you about some of the books coming out this fall. i'm going to start with former congressman congressman come in the key edwards has a new book coming out. >> academic yet restarted out as a congressman republican from oklahoma and now works at the aspen institute with gigs in between princeton and harvard. he's taking a look at basically how our political process has been paralyzed by the bipartisanship, lack of tolerance for the proposal process right now. he has a number of steps one would suggest and how to fix the process. one, the house should not hold -- the house speaker should not denounce his party. that's one good thing. he thinks all this redistricting should be privatized and done with an independent counsel. the book is an analysis of the problem as it stands and a

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