life in "george orwell diaries." in "subversives," seth rosenfeld chronicles the fbi's clandestine involvement at the university of california berkeley in the 960s and why it mattered to ronald reagan. investigative reporter richard miniter examines the most important decisions of president obama's first term in "leading from behind: the reluctant president and the advisers who decide for him." look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> well, right now i'm reading mark frost's "grand slam," a study of bobby jones and the rise of american golf. frost earlier wrote "the greatest game ever played" which is about the 1913 u.s. open. it reads just like a novelist, wonderful writer, and i'm really enjoying it. i just finished daniel silva's new novel. silva writes brilliant novels about an israeli agent, and i've also read three books this summer by ben coes who writes about an

shows have all often tried to paint a picture of what our future might look like some like george orwell's iconic book one thousand nine hundred four envision a dystopian big brother government ruling over all of us others like the hunger games invasion a future very much like feudal times where the nation is run by a small and very very wealthy elite who plucked children from the vast working class poor to dual to the death for the televised contest and then of course there are those futurists like jefferson de tocqueville lincoln and f.d.r. who imagine a nation of the people by the people for the people for the future belongs to big brother or the super rich or we the people remains to be seen we're already catching a glimpse of the dystopian frankly absurd future america and which corporations run or own virtually everything we see and do virtually every single day all around the nation it's a future where all our commons the stuff owned by we the people or school buses or fire trucks or police cars or public libraries parks road signs subways or all of them have been hijacked by corpor

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if it is true that -- [inaudible] then what we have in the person of george orwell is by no means theentioned by v.s. pritchard and anthony poe. at best, it could be asserted even by an atheist admirer that he took some of the supposedly christian virtues and showed how they could be lived without piety or religious belief. it may also be hoped that to adapt the words of -- [inaudible] on the death of yates, time itself deals kindly with those who live by and for language. the time with this strange excuse would even pass for kipling and his views. orwell's views have been largely vindicated by time, so he need not seek any pardon on that score. but what he illustrates by his commitment to language as the partner partner of truth is that views do not really count, that it matters not what you think, but how you think, and that politics are relatively unimportant while principles have a way of enduring as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them. [applause] >> i'm peter from berlin. reading from a hitchens piece, why bosnia matters. he had written that in '92

. >> i'm sure and george orwell get along. >> i won't take it so far. >> are you concerned? i am. to me the next potential form of terrorism is cyber terrorism. if you set up machines and take people out of the equation, is there in i reason it would be easy to infiltrate these systems to be catastrophic damages? >> guy, i was very concerned about this. it was my number one concern about three years ago. with location and the primary benefit of co-location, and people say co-location is unfair but it's great. every co-located person -- they pay $3,000 a month for whatever, the cage where their computer is, but they get a dedicated line with it. this line is a direct line from this server to the exchange, and it doesn't go over the public network where it can be hacked into or interest ligo like that. there's issues around security that have to be addressed because somebody can circumvent some security and log into the cage from afar, right? the impact on the co-located system is it's much harder to break into co-located systems than it is into something that's not co-located. i th

. >> if george orwell were alive and could design a presidential campaign, i think this would be what he would create. you have a campaign where everything they're saying is is the opposite of what they say they want to do. you have paul ryan saying we want to defend medicare, but there should be a caption that says i want to turn medicare into a voucher. they say you are the people of responsibility. those others are the entitlement folks, but you should feel a constant sense of victimhood. i think you're seeing, too, what has been a triumph of a 30-year campaign by conservatives who built up a real grievance industry. it started with talk radio. sort of incorporates ayn rand. you're a victim, society has turned on you, taken your stuff, giving it to other people. you're a victim. we are going to be the ones to help you. we are on your side. it's almost talk radio come to life in a presidential campaign and i think paul ryan is sort of the dating website face that you really aren't sure that's who's going to show up at the door. they want an attractive face on it. >> richard, did not

. >> well, that's actually one of the topless sons you get from reading that essay by george orwell.cross a word out, then you know, it doesn't do any harm to do so. obviously you don't want to cross everything out because you'll end up with "it the full stop or boy meets girl and everyone dies. that would be how you would summarize one of those shakespeare plays. don't cross everything out but quite often you can cross a lot out or you can leave things out or you could, he says talking extremely fast 0 on television, you could talk more slowly and think more carefully about the words you're using. >> strunk and white tells us to do. i would push back a little bit against going forward which i find missing wanting to correct somebody. i don't want to make it about the past. going forward, into the future, don't do that again. it's a nicer way to talk about it i think. but john rentoule, i love the banned list. if everybody would abide by the list, it would be a better world. >> problem solved. >> going forward. >> thank you very much, john. >> my pleasure. >> all right. up next, we'l

you know that book "1984" with george orwell? it might be 1984 so to speak.ne of the last bastions of privacy about to be invaded. two brothers want to put advertising on a roll of toilet paper. sometimes they'll even have coupon codes that can be read by the cell phone. talk about a captive audience, paula. nothing better to do. >> will the ink smear on your skin? >> good question. >> get into your blood stream? >> i would think they figured out a way that's not going to happen. >>> okay, from the toilet stall to the zoo. how is that for a transition? adorable little interchange at the oregon zoo between an elephant and sea lion. they took this elephant out on her daily walk and she went over to where the sea lions are and stuck her trunk over. and one of the sea lions -- isn't that just adorable? the little elephant reaches up her trunk and then it looks like gus tries to tickle her. >>> check out this one. talk about a picture saying a thousand words. a brazilian man had an unfortunate accident. an iron bar pierced his skull. the 24-year-old construction w

peter davidson, editor of george orwell's complete work presents orwel l's 11 surviving diaries which provide insight into the author's personal life. in the war on student radicals and reagan's rise to power, seth rosenfeld chronicles the fbi involvement in the 1960s and why it mattered to ronald reagan. rich miniter examines the most important decisions of president obama's first term in leading from behind, the reluctant president and the advisers who decide for him. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week. and watch for the authors in the near future on book tv and on book tv.org. >> if you want to come to america illegally, don't waste your time going across the border and through the desert. it's dangerous. just get in an airplane, fly here and overstay your visa. we have absolutely no ability to check who you are and get you back. and the total number of undocumented in this country has been going down for a long time. have we solved the problem? we solved the problem by having our economy crater. people don't come here to put their feet up and collect welfare. the