. >> please join me in thanking fred siegel. [applause] >> fred will be signing books outside and for c-span audience. thank you. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the teachers that are trying to close the gap are dealing with such a hard problem. after reading the book i write a disclaimer that says this is making the assumption that no one is going to fix anything outside of the school. no one is going to do anything about the poverty of the racism or anything. can you close the gap and put all of the burden on the teachers and the principals? they are not getting that message. that is not the message from the schools. the school is like you have an inner-city african-american kid and a white suburban kid in second grade they can be at the same level in june when they graduate and when they come back in september the white suburban kid has gained one month of learning from the experience he has had in the inner-city african-american kid has lost three months of learning so they are now four mo

fred siegel, senior fellow at the manhattan institute presents is fought on liberalism in the united states in the rebel against the masses:how liberalism has undermined the middle class. in the second arab awakening and the battle for pluralism, the vice president for studies at the carnegie endowment for international peace presents a history of political change in the arab world. former provost at brown university recounts the relationship between pope pius xi and battalion dictator benito mussolini in the pope and miscellany:the secret history of highest xi and the rise of fascism in europe. in hundred days:the campaign that ended world war i, the allied push to end the stalemate on the western front in the summer of 1918.

fred siegel, senior fellow at the manhattan institute, presents his thoughts on liberalism in the united states in "the revolt against the masses." in "the secondary wrap awakening and the battle for pluralism," the vice president for studies at the carnegie endowment for international peace presents a history of political change in the arab world. david kurtzer recounts the relationship between pope pius xi and best three toe mousse lineny. in "hundred days: the campaign that ended world war i," nick lloyd recounts the allied push to end the stalemate on the western front in the summer of 1818. the executive foreign editor of the daily telegraph details winston churchill's military service this afghanistan in the 1890s in churchill's first war, young winston at war with the afghans. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors this the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> next on booktv, encore book notes. gina kolata sat down in 2000 to discuss her book about the devastating flu outbreak of 1918 that killed 40 million people worldwide. the autho