i currently work at harpercollins for price specialized in publishing books by conservative intellectuals and figures i have an imprint and previously i have been there 67 years and never to other places in the industry with that crossover imprint called the free press. so when i started out it was the academic editor to go to academic conferences and university departments do talk to. >> what are the offer it -- the authors to have worked with? >> that includes james wilson one of my intellectual heroes. and when he died a couple of years ago and the moral sense was his favorite. and i became known for publishing books like the young firebrand in the early '90s the first was called it a liberal education one of the first to deal with political correctness. miscalled of real and native hill perhaps the evidence given in the up hearing as of major best seller but since then one of the protestant was glad to have is the holocaust which was a book we had to twist her arm into publishing and she did not want to give holocaust denial a forum that is what they want. they want attention. so we p

and i talked to my publisher at harpercollins about whether they could be published. the upshot the upshot of our discussion was, well these novels are a little too sectarian. when we at harpercollins published works of fiction their publishing them for the broadest possible audience. so these books which were -- and i should be clear they are basically genre novels. they are thrillers, political potboilers science fiction, fantasy science fiction, fantasy detective novels, what we call pulp fiction or genre fiction's play classic instances of the genre with some kind of conservative theme or cast. maybe the private eye is a conservative. like sam spade makes cracks wise once in a while. his commentary is you know, conservative cast. so it is not, you know, like novels about the keystone pipeline for example which is one of the obsessions of the political right today, but just sort of a sensibility your.of view that informs and infuses the work of narrative fiction. so at a certain time i started looking into this and realized that it wasn't just a hue an issue, write

-- harpercollins. thank you for being on booktv. >> guest: thanks for having me. it's been a pleasure as always. the persistent deficits and debt of the federal government driven to a large extent by the promises of entitlement programs such as social security and medicare have prompted longtime head of the national bureau of economic research to observe that fiscal deficits impose a burden on future generations borrowing only postpones the time when taxes will have to be paid. even more pointedly, former u.s. comptroller general david walker has spoken of the problem of generational theft. present consumption, even indulgence that robs the young of opportunity. in their important new book, "disinherited" roth the manhattan institute's diana furchtgott-roth and jared meyer elaborate powerfully on this theme. we should not be surprised by persistently high levels of unemployment among the young nor by their delays in establishing themselves as independent adults adults. the young today face an array of

. >> harpercollins. >> the keeping it pretty tight. >> they are. >> who is the reviewer? >> i can't tell you that. that's the most exciting part of our job. it's the books themselves. in its finding that match the most interesting person his voice we haven't heard from on the subject who would provide a different perspective than you might read elsewhere in the book review want. >> on the staff meets what is your editorial staff mack >> we meet as a whole rather rarely. this is a very informal place. so we have micro- meetings and informal meetings all the time. and you know, i would say that it's fun. there's a reason why this job is good. everyone here no matter what role you play your huge reader and an opinionated reader and someone who enjoys and relishes you know, having opinions about books. there is a bit of debate sometimes disagreement but there is also a lot of humor we take what we do seriously but we have a lot of fun. >> what is the purpose of an editorial meeting? >> we have editorial meetings with each of the preview worse. we will meet with them as a smal

> and we have been talking with adam bellow, editorial director at broadside books division of harpercollins. thank you for being a book a book tv. >> thank you for having me has always. >> and for the past several hours you have been watching some of book tv new york city coverage. we were up there for about a week. besides these interviews and taurus we talked to publishers, interviewed authors who had some upcoming books. a lot of that you will see throughout the summer. you can follow us on twitter at book tv, watch any of our programs at booktv.org or follow us on facebook for other updates, facebook .com/book tv. >> afterwords is next on teesixteen. nobel prize-winning economist joseph stiglitz talked about the rising inequality in the united states and what could be done about it. he discusses the topic, the topic, the subject of his latest book with heather mcghee, president of demons. >> so i am here with nobel prize-winning economist. >> i am president of an organization. and our mission is to work for an america where we all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance i

now my publisher, harpercollins, is hung up on... >> 17. >> the number 17, solutions. i told them, "i either have a lot less or a lot more solutions, but if you want 17, ok." >> so let's talk about changing the system through civic engagement. and that's really at the core of your 17 solutions. >> yeah, exactly. >> so the case in point i want to talk about is mine. >> yes. >> i ran for the palo alto city council in 2004. and in taking a stand against campaign financing, i refused to take any monetary donations from anybody. >> oh, my god. thank you very much. >> so... [applause] so in doing so, i had to then develop a grassroots organization. and i did win a seat on the city council. so thereafter, i won, and nothing has changed. so in subsequent city council races, palo alto, bay area, those running for city council, they're out raising a bunch of money, going to people getting the donations. so what did i do wrong? >> you mean because you didn't win the votes on city council? >> i won. i won the election, but i didn't change the way people are running for elections,