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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> up next on "after words" motherboard online magazine senior editor brian merchant retraces the creation and development of the iphone in his book "the one device." he's interviewed by new times reporter steve lohr. >> host: brian, i read your book and a fastening what it is, to creation stories. one is the apple, the trauma they went through to what in sophistication of the iphone in 2007. and the other is his integration of each one of the technologies. and those two stories come together. why did you take that approach and just take us back to the start of the book project itself. >> guest: yell. well, so the idea for the book really kind of began with sort of the start was a ship that this thing that is so fully integrate itself into a lease my own life and the life of my peers and so on and so forth with something that it really didn't understand particularly well. a lot of us had that moment i think when we are abruptly and suddenly to go without it for a second when in this case i locke

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booktv or instagram @book underscore tv. or post it to our facebook page, facebook.com/book to booktv. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] >> if i could have your attention, please, we'll get started. thank you, everyone. really pleased you're all here. i'm president of the manhattan institute, and it's -- thank you. [applause] it's a pleasure for me to introduce jason rileyed -- rileyed today. jason is a regular columnist for "the wall street journal" and a commentator for fox news. in his new book, "false black power," jason offers a critique of civil rights leaders and their prioritization of pure political power which he argues has failed to produce significant results for african-americans. the book also includes thoughtful responses to jason's arguments from two leading black intellectuals. it's a slender book, but it packs a powerful punch. as one blogger noted, what makes this book shine is the clarity of its logic and accessibility of its writing style. just as fred astaire made it look easy to dance, so does riley express his mastery t

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> how is everyone doing? are you excited? this is amazing, right? andre dornier has read all his books, i hope, correct? so i'm professional troublemaker for those who don't know me, people that i worked with a few years know that is certainly true and as a great example of that i open my big mouth a few months ago and said paul, i should be introducing you. suddenly i am not introducing paul. [laughing] so that was not planned but the truth is it's a great honor and a real pleasure to do so. i've known paul for quite some time, and he knows this but i'd like to try to bear sin. he doesn't and bears easily enough i found that paul is truly one of my heroes in life and has them or to influence my thinking that just about anyone on the planet, and you know some of people that i've worked with as well. so paul, you've just been an amazing part of my life, and thank you for everything that you done for all of us in the green building, in the environmental world so thank you, paul. i had an opportunity when

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