facebook.com/booktv. >> 2014 is coming to a close and many publications are putting out their year-end list of notable books. these nonfiction titles were included in publishers weekly is best nonfiction books of 2014. in "on immunity: an inoculation", eula biss analyzes the implications of vaccines and modern society. and what's right has his book, "13 day in september." and charles blow recalls growing up in louisiana in the 1970s in his book area and efforts of an american furniture company owner to keep his business from being outsourced to china in "factory man." also included on the best books of 2014, the problem of slavery in the age of emancipation by historian and pulitzer prize winner david brion davis. and just cause accounts the death of his roommate in new jersey when they attended deal university when he talks about his book the short and tragic life of robert peace. and then we had journalists gennie norberg shedding light on young afghan girls concealing their gender in her book. in the invisible bridge, the reemergence of patriotism is examined during the reagan credi

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send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org, tweet us booktv our post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. here's a look at some books being published this week. for these titles and book stores this coming week and watched for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> utah and about being overworked in a good way, happily overworked. tell us a little bit about that. i think there's always something way more work than people. you know, how do you bring that into the culture and make that a positive thing? >> we've been criticized over the sort of general term because it somehow doesn't sound right. let's explain what we mean. that kind of people who we want to working in our company in georgia working in your company or people who are going to do this because they love it. and they work more or less all the time the best they can whether or not they think they also enjoyed like being with family, raising the kids, going to the movies or what have you. in other words, they are intense people. so with the overworked in a good way, that's the context we mean it in. if the

send an e-mail to booktv at c-span.org, send us a tweet or post on our wall at facebook.com/booktv. during the recent visit to madison, wisconsin, we spoke to erika janik about the early history and politics. >> i decided to write books that covered all of the history because i'm not from madison. i grew up in the suburb of seattle and i moved here not really knowing very much about wisconsin or the place that i was living in. and so i started learning more about it as i spent more time here and i really wanted to write a book for someone like me who may be given will appear in wasn't familiar with the history as well as people who have lived here their whole lives and had no idea what the story was. i think one of the things that was the most surprising to me about learning about the history of medicine was how hard they had to hang on to be in the capital of wisconsin. they were in constant jeopardy of losing status and i think that that has something to do with how they began. it began at on a piece of paper. it was proposed that it would become the state capital but first the te

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tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our face book page, facebook.com/booktv. >> this was the night of september 9th, 2009, still highly popular president spoke to a joint session of congress and there was in the air with tennessee williams big daddy pilot might have called the powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity. among the mendacious lines cried out that night was this one. nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. let me repeat this. nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have. at the time obama said this he may have thought it was true and yet i went back and checked the record on this and within two days of that announcement there were serious dissents in major publications. is impossible pecans do this and get away with it. the first time we give, as. the next 45 times, no past but that is not what got wilson rile the bands may have been one of the things that got him riled the been a number of things but when obama denounced the claim that his proposed health care system would not in short,

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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our face book page, facebook.com/booktv. >> next on booktv military historian patrick o'donnell recounts the origin of the navy seals first formed in 1942 and known as a maritime unit. this program from the united states navy memorial in washington d.c. is just over half an hour. >> patrick o'donnell is a military historian who has written eight previous books, beyond valor, opera spies and saboteurs, the broader assignment, the did return, we were one, selected for the marine commandant professional reading list, give me tomorrow at his most recent is for -- "first seals: the untold story of the forging of america's most elite unit". his numerous awards include prestigious william colby award. it provides historical confrontation for dreamworks, award winning miniseries band of brothers and documentaries produced by the bbc, history channel and fox news. he is a combat historian in the battle of volusia beach in demand as an expert speaker on world war ii sabotage special operation counterinsurgency on e

you can tweet us and facebook.com/booktv. we will try to get to those comments as well. congressman, clyburn, age 12, what made you become an activist and what made it happen? >> guest: growing up my dad and mom were very active and around 1951-'52 is when things starting percolating in south carolina. my father was a minister and the man who was organized in all of the people was a minister delane. my dad at breakfast every morning we would be praying for the people and we started forming youth councils of the naacp throughout the south and i went to the meetings at the church back in just about two months before my 13 birthday. in some way, i guess i went to the rest room but when the meeting was over with i was the president of the sumpter youth council. and that just grew to the sit-ins in 1960 and the forming of snick in april at shaw university that year and then i met martin luther king, jr. in october down at moore house college and met john lewis at the same time. it came from my parents and associates in college and went through to today and here we are, june j

facebook.com/booktv. >> this week booktv takes a look at some of the nonfiction books on library journals 2014 list of best books. >> to see other notable books of 2014, visit booktv's web site, booktv.org. >> be well, i think within the last 50 years what we've seen is increasing consolidation. but the big problem that the food industry faces in the united states at least is that there's too much food. we produce in this country plus imports, less exports roughly twice the number of calories that the population needs on a daily basis. there are about 4,000 calories available in the food supply every day, and people need about 2,000. these are ballpark figures. so the food industry is very competitive. and it has to find lots and lots of ways to sell food. and in doing that, as the number of calories in the food supply increase, the food industry became more competitive and had to find more and more and more ways to push food on people. and it did that very effectively; hence, obesity. >> host: how did it do that? >> guest: well, we have to go back in history to the 1970s. starting in the

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tweet us at the booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> this week booktv takes a look at national public radio's list of best selling nonfiction books. >> that's this week's bestsellers according to npr. >> you were a whopping 27 years old. you would finish middle school but you're just getting started in your hd efforts in microbiology at the institute of tropical medicine in antwerp. a mysterious test tube sample show up in terrible condition, and you figure out that there's some new disease in africa, and you have the chutzpah to turn and say i know i'm only 27, but i want to go there. i want to go to africa, let me go. i want to be in the middle of this adventure. how could you have such come where did all this call come from? >> eye gouge a timid and shy person. my mother always said speaking is the silver silence golden, but anyway i think i'm a bit different. i was for so i had an incredible urge for discovery from when i was a child and when i was a teenager i worked for a travel agency and what one month to morocco, one month to turkey at the time it was basically no terr

west and if you can get to the phone lines try twitter at booktv is our twitter address and facebook.com/booktv if you'd like to make a comment on facebook. we will try to get into those comments as well. congressman clyburn, at age 12 what made you become an activist and how did you become an activist at that age? >> guest: when i was growing up my dad and mom are both very active and around 1951, 52 is when things began to percolate most especially in clairton county in south carolina. my father was a minister and the man who was organizing all of the people in the county was minister j. a. deland. my dad used to at breakfast every morning he would be praying for the people of clairton county and the reverend so we started forming youth councils of the naacp throughout the south and i went to the meetings as the emanuel methodist church. this was two months before my 13th birthday and i guess i went to the restroom or something but it turns out when the meeting was over i was the president of the sumpter youth council. and that just grew to the sedans in 1960 and formed sncc in -- and then i

tweet us on booktv and post on eyewall facebook.com/booktv.ing up in how to speak money author john manchester talks about the words many people use and what they mean by some. during this event at the commonwealth club in san francisco mr. manchester is in conversation with michael lewis whose book liar's focal was released this year in celebration of the 25anniversary of its publication. this is just over an hour. >> good evening and welcome to today's meeting of the commonwealth club of california, a place where you are in the know. find us on the internet at commonwealthclub.org or download our iphone and android apps for its programming schedule information and hot gas past programs lose time dr. ruth shapiro of the commonwealth club's board of governors and your chair for tonight's program. notice my pleasure to introduce tonight's program featuring john lanchester, new yorker contributor and author of the new book "how to speak money: what the money money people--and what it really means". john will be in conversation with michael lewis

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> in "the invisible front," yochi dreazen talks about two brothers who died while serving in the u.s. army. he compares the reaction of the army to the two deaths and discusses the efforts made by the brothers' parents to bring awareness to ptsd and military suicides. during this event, hosted by the center for a new american security, mr. dreazen is in conversation with major garrett of cbs news. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, everybody. good evening. welcome, and thank you for joining us this evening. my name is richard fontaine, i'm the president of the center for new american security, and it's a real pleasure to welcome all of you here to celebrate the publication of yochi freeze p's new book, "the invisible front: love and loss in an era of endless war." yochi, as many of you know, is quite simply one of the very best national security journalists in america today. he's the managing editor of "foreign policy." he has spent nearly four years on the ground in afghanistan and ira

facebook.com/booktv. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. .. >> up next on booktv, "after words," with guest host, author nomi prins. this week "this american life" contributor jake halpern and his latest book, "bad paper." it tells the story of a former bank executive and a former bank robber going into business together to collect unpaid bank debts by often questionable means. the program is about an hour. >> host: hi and welcome. i'm nomi prins here today with jake halpern, the author of the fascinating and horrifying new book, "bad paper: chasing debt from wall street to the underworld." jake, welcome. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: thank you. this book is incredible, and so is your story. and i think the two really mirror each other. this takes place in buffalo, new york, a lot of it. and you're from there, aren't you? >> guest: yeah, that's right. i grew up there. my tad and his wife -- my dad and his wife still live there, and it's how i find my way into this world. >> host: you talk about a particular and many unsavory characters that ar

facebook.com/booktv. >> and this book continues its book tour of the public library where now joined by isaac gewirtz. what di do you do at the library speak with i'm curator of the henry w. and albert a. berg of english and american literature. >> how did you get the position? >> i worked at the new york public library in the past. i've been in the rare book division, was later a curator at southern methodist university and downtown at the general theological seminary, st. mark's library. and got a doctorate in renaissance history at columbia and all that led to my being here. >> how long have you been at the new york public library? >> as a curator since september 2000. >> you brought some things out to show that you have in the collection. what do you have? >> the bird is an enormous collection to about 2000 linear feet and tens of thousands of printed items. this is what i like to call the tip of the berg, so to speak. here we have the only surviving manuscript of john times holy sonnets sapphires and paradoxes that was done in his own lifetime. it's not in his hand but it is in

@booktv, facebook.com/booktv. well, coming up in just a minute, a call-in program with john dean, you saw him in the room with rick perlstein, and after that a call-in with political activist norman lear. cornel west will be another call-in guest, this is the only place on the dial where you get to talk to authors on a regular basis. well, earlier in the day from our outdoor set here at miami-dade college we talked with mitch kaplan who is the founder of the miami book fair. here on our outdoor and windy set is the founder of the miami book fair, mitch kaplan. mr. kaplan, what's with the wind this year?ok it's nice and warm, but -- >> guest: it's going to be a beautiful day. i spoke to the weather gods,e they assure me that the sun's going to break, come through th clouds, and we'll have enough great day. and i also want to personally thank you forha coming. it's hard to believe it's been t 17 years. seems like a blink. and your support of what we do has been immeasurably important to the growth of this book fairt

tweet us twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> on the onelticulturalism certainly we set the boundaries of civility which i think is a lot of the stuff we were arguing as students in the '80s when we were like the first group of '80s and '90s and was the first group of kids coming on campus is that were a part of in some instances a majority-minority entering class. i was part of the first class that was majority-minority which he knows what majority-minority means anyway. we at that time were like i don't want to be on campus having to do with all these racial my car aggressions of what they call it now but basic racial incidents. being cold sores on the street, being made to feel like you don't belong. all of the stereotypes of things are happening during the '80s to a recess the boundary of sebelius another language that even reactionaries need to use has to be couched in multicultural terms. pat buchanan has this amazing piece into this book about will america survive 2025? he talks about how everybody can enjoy ethnic foods, right? we a

@booktv is our twitter handle, facebook.com/booktv, you can make your kind there as well and you can send e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. michael korda is the author of many books, both nonfiction and fiction on booktv. we will concentrate on the nonfiction. to give you an idea of the topics that he has written about here's a list of some of his nonfiction books including a and 11, his first win the discuss a little bit, "power! how to get it, how to use it," "charmed lives: a family romance" came out in 1979, man-to-man, surviving prostate cancer, another life, a memoir of other people can out in 1999, country matters, pleasures and tribulations of moving from a big ci country hamas, the untold story of the battle of britain, "hero: the life and times of laurence of arabia," clouds of glory, the life and legend of robert e. lee is his most recent book. who was t. e. lawrence? >> guest: perhaps the only hero anybody remembers of the first world war. lawrence of arabia was bigger than life even before being put on screen in the greatest single epic motion picture ever made. lawrence was a

@booktv is our twitter handle, facebook.com/booktv, you can make your kind there as well and you can send e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. michael korda is the author of many books, both nonfiction and fiction on booktv. we will concentrate on the nonfiction. to give you an idea of the topics that he has written about here's a list of some of his nonfiction books including a and 11, his first win the discuss a little bit, "power! how to get it, how to use it," "charmed lives: a family romance" came out in 1979, man-to-man, surviving prostate cancer, another life, a memoir of other people can out in 1999, country matters, pleasures and tribulations of moving from a big ci country hamas, the untold story of the battle of britain, "hero: the life and times of laurence of arabia," clouds of glory, the life and legend of robert e. lee is his most recent book. who was t. e. lawrence? >> guest: perhaps the only hero anybody remembers of the first world war. lawrence of arabia was bigger than life even before being put on screen in the greatest single epic motion picture ever made. lawrence was a

@booktv is our twitter handle, facebook.com/booktv, you can make a comment there as well, and finally, you can send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. mr. korda is the author of many books both nonfiction and function. and, of course, here on booktv we'll cons taut on the non-- concentrate on the nonfiction. just to give you an idea of some of the topics he has written about, here's a list of his nonfiction books including male chauvinism that we discussed a little bit, power: how to get it, how to use it. charmed lives came out in 1979. man to man: surviving prostate cancer, another life: a memoir of other people, came out in 1999. country matters: the pleasures and tribulations of moving from a big city to an old country farm. ulysses s. grant: the unlikely hero, came out in '04. journey to a revolution about the hungarian revolution in '06. ike: an american hero in 2008, with wings like eagles, the untold story of the battle of britain, 2009. hero: the life and legend of lawrence of arabia, and clouds of glory, the life and legend of robert e. lee is his recent book. who was t.e. lawr

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final little promo, go ahead and follow was at booktv on twitter or on facebook, facebook.com/booktv.we have been doing some behind the scenes video and photos from down here, and you can stay updated on schedule and things like that. we are continuing our live conversation down here at miami. david rothkopf who heads the foreign policy magazine group and the author of several books including his newest, "national insecurity: american leadership in the age of fear." are we living in an age of fear when economists to foreign policy? >> guest: i think we have been since 9/11. i think that was a body blow to the united states that gives a sense of vulnerability we have had perhaps ever. we feared the cold war but most of the times we have had a threat in the past it has been remote when we been attacked as in pearl harbor and the people who read about in the newspaper. they processed this through their cerebral cortex. you look at things on television and nobody looks at what happened on nine 9/11 on television, it hits you is it all of a sudden there was this national sense of vulnerabi

booktv is on facebook. like us to get publishing news, scheduling updates, behind the scenes pictures and video. author information and to talk directly with authors during a live program. facebook.com tv. >> up next, louise shelley argues corruption, crime and terrorism will be the main security concern for the rest of the 21st century and she says to do with any of the three properly we must address the other two as well. this event was held at the carnegie endowment for international peace. it's 50 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome to the carnegie endowment. my name is moises naim but i'm a senior associate here. it's a great pleasure to be hosting and sharing his conversation about louise shelley's latest book, "dirty entanglements." in the late 1990s i was are interested in a surprisingly so which globalization was connecting the world. and by looking around i discovered that everyone was going global, ngos and terrorists and, of course, businesses and civil society. but the ones that really took advantage, the early adopters of many opportunities created by globalization where the criminals. that led me to start taking a deeper look at the way in which terminal networks b

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