with chandra manning, professor here georgetown university and also the co-director of the georgetown workshop in 19th century u.s. history. this is her book, but this "what this cruel war was over" professor manning, think you for your time. >> my pleasure. thank you very much. it was nice to talk to you. here at the political conservative faction conference is author joseph with his most recent book, the tea party manifesto a vision for an american rebirth. mr. farah, i want to ask about the size of the book. islamic it's a compact little book and the shortest i've ever rode under 30,000 words coming and i think as long as it needs to be on a very specific message for the tea party movement when i wrote it and i didn't think i needed to labor over any more words. >> what was that message? >> i know it is a trend with the tea party movement where some people were starting to give the tea party movement advice about limiting their scope of interests and the one was the tea party movement would only be about economics, shouldn't venture into any of the subject matter whatsoever, so mainly what

. >> host: we have been talking with chandra manning, co-director of the georgetown workshop in 19th century u.s. history. this is her book, "what this cruel war was over: soldiers, slavery and the civil war." professor manning, thank you for your time. >> guest: my pleasure. thank you very much. it was nice to talk to you. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >>> here's a look at a number of books that are being released this week. >> and now another interview from georgetown university. charles kupchan discusses his new book, "no one's world: the west, the rising rest and the coming global turn." the interview was conducted at riggs library on campus. >> host: you're watching booktv on c-span2, and we are at georgetown university interviewing some of their professors who are also authors. and now joining us is charles kupchan who is the author of this new book, "no one's world: the west, the rising rest and the coming global turn." it's published by oxford. professor kupchan, what do you mean by global turn? >> guest: by glob

with chandra manning, professor here georgetown university and also the co-director of the georgetown workshop in 19th century u.s. history. this is her book, but this "what this cruel war is the communications director for the institute. first of all, what is the heartland institute? >> it is a free market libertarian think tank based in chicago alone away and we cover the policy and our mission is to discover, promoted and send out to the public free-market solutions to social and economic problems and we've been doing that for 28 years to this gimmick who founded two? >> the late david h. patton and a giant in the free market movement and the presidents of the institute since 1984. >> you also publish books and i want to ask you about a couple of them. let's begin with this one by herbert will work, school choice findings. >> one of the issues of the harlem institute has pushed for decades now the idea of school choice and having money and when that happens, student achievement does rise and so herb will byrd on of our senior fellows is interested in the topic and knowledgeable and was also