it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you, greg robinson. [applause] >> thanks for coming eye. very grateful to the roosevelt liy

up next, greg robinson presents his book, a tragedy of democracy, japanese confinement in north america. good afternoon. i'm the education specialist at the roosevelt presidential library museum. i want to welcome you to the roosevelt reading festival. franklin roosevelt planned his library to be a premiere research institution, and the research room is one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries. this year's group of authors reflects a wide variety of research done here each day. we are delighted to highlight books at the festival. let me go over the format. at the top of each area a session begins with a 30-minute talk by an author, followed by 10 or 15 minutes of questions and answers. then the authors move to the lobby, where you can purchase one of the books and have the author sign them. at the top of the next hour the process repeats itself. it's my pleasure to introduce greg robinson, a native new yorker and an associate professor of history in quebec, and a board member of that university's center for united states studies. he is a specialist in north american ethnic s

in about five hours from now greg robinson presents his book, the tragedy of democracy, japanese confinement in north america. that is followed by the final event of the day, discussion between pulitzer prize-winning presidential biographer james macgregor burns and presidential historian michael beschloss and susan dunn. that is all from the 2011 roosevelt rating festival. and now todd moye on his book, "freedom flyer" roosevelt, eisenhower and the american century.th .. >> hello. i am the museum curator at the franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum. wait a second. i would like to welcome you to the eighth annual roosevelt reading festival. i would like to welcome c-span's booktv which is broadcasting this program this morning. franklin roosevelt planned for the roosevelt library to become the premier research institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. the research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this year's group of others reflects a wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these others's works at bo

live coverage from the 2011 roosevelt reading festival will continue in about 15 minutes with greg robinson's discussion of his latest publication, "a tragedy of democracy: japanese confinement in america." more from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york, after this break. >>> we asked, what are you reading this summer? here's what you had to say. >> send us a tweet at booktv using hash tag summer reading to let us owe what you plan on reading this summer. you can also e-mail us, booktv at c-span.org. >> well, a new self-published book out on the market. it's written by richard toliver, and we are joined by richard. mr. toliver, who is that on the cover of this book? >> well, that's a young richard toliver, an air force fighter pilot of a few years ago, and it was taken during a time that i was very fortunate to be involved in the f-16 aircraft. >> when was that? >> 1974-1976, to be exact. >> why'd you write a book? >> well, after i had gone through life, retired from the air force, looked back over some 50 years, i realized that i'd had some very un