>> bruce: this is hyde park, this is heart and soul of hyde park. >> anthony: so if you're um, running as your staging area? what's the social importance of it? >> bruce: you will see every politician, black and white, running for city office will come through here at some point. >> anthony: why? >> bruce: it's just kind of a hangout. you'd see herald washington here a lot. i mean, barack, um, i used to see barack here all the time, mostly for breakfast. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: the machine that is chicago politics goes straight back to emperor richard daily, the father, then the son, with a diverse cast of scoundrels in between. ♪ ♪ how are things in chicago on the arc of the trajectory? >> bruce: the problem was that we had this, the daily dynasty, we had the old man and when we had the kid, the not so bright kid, replaced him and he threw a party for his friends for over 20 years and when it came time to pay the bill he snuck out the back door of the, uh, of city hall. so it's a mess right now financially. the one thing about chicago is, you cannot get away with being a fake or a phony. i me

often the law reviews are filled up with what happened in bulgaria rather than what happened in hyde park. [laughter] so i understand that. i think there's a lot of legal writing that is the product of people getting, trying to get tenure and writing interesting stuff. [laughter] and so i do think there's merit to the notion. but there's also -- you stumble across some awfully interesting and important stuff when you just go through the law reviews. but i, it's sort of like anything else in the law; you do the best you can with what's available, but there's a tremendous variety. to answer that question in a simple way. >> i think that might be the theme of this conversation. you do the best you can with what's available, right? [laughter] >> that's exactly right. >> it's a nice, modest theme, isn't it? [laughter] so, justice kagan, obviously, at the harvard law school people did write these sort of meta-theory things. not quite as much as yale, but -- [laughter] they do that. i've looked at the table of contents of many harvard law review and thought -- >> [inaudible] they don't do any of

>> this is the heart and soul of hyde park.ould you use this place as your staging area? what's the social importance of it. >> aervb >> everybody, black and white, running for office will come here. >> why? >> i used to see berock here all the time. mostly for breakfast. >> the machine that is chicago politics goes straight back to emperor richard daily with a host of scoundrels in between. how are things in chicago? >> the problem was that we had -- the daily dynasty. the old man and when we had the kid, he threw a party for his friends for over 20 years and when it came time to pay the bill, he snuck out the back of city hall, so it's a mess financially. the one thing about chicago is you can't get away with being a fake or phoney. maybe out in one of the suburbs but people see through it right away. that's kind of chicago. >> what other characteristics of true chicago would be stereo typically true? >> i think you got to make a little bit of an effort to not be a pusy. i think you got to be a little tough. >> at least make

are in the hyde park seseion of chihicago. undersrstand, you know, president obama's home is a mile or less than a mile from this church. i'm wondering, what is your message to him? to stopessage has been deportations. we have been saying this since 2012 and even before that. it is unfortunate that president obama started his preresidency n 202008 with promimises to the imimmigrant community, which vey soon ended up in deportations. that is basically what happened. obama knows that and he has done it, yes the power to stop deportations, not just to give earlrly to a spspecific group of people like he has done with dapa.and he can do more than that. we are hoping that with the presidential e elections, both e president and the candidatess runnining crop is will see that what is happenining here is the representation also of the resistance that immigrants are taking on, the way that immigrants are resisting across the country. >> let's go inside and meet the and theuan pastor. >> i have been living here in the united states for

.>> reporter: the park is new ballpark -- new hyde park -- newhall park , near the satellite campus of ignace ship. the concord police are here this morning, and a body was found near the lake inside the park. what i can tell you about the park, it is relatively large, and there are several people that walk here, one person is walking the trails this morning. that is where the body was found, along one of the trails at the new hall park. it is still unclear of the gender and information about the body that was found, and there are really no lights around here, and it is very dark. a body was found at the newhall park in concord and we will bring an update.>> brian florez in concord. >>> the pittsburg city council vote on whether to install cameras on highway 4 after a string of freeway shootings, the most recent was last  wednesday near railroad avenue. and the 25-year-old mother of four was killed in the shooting. the city council decide whether or not to approve spending $100,000 on cameras to help the police investigate and deter the shooters.>>> sheriff deputies in contra costa c

. >> reporter: gat lan is normally a quiet campus, but it's become the equivalent of london's hyde parkce for free speech. >> i will be voting no on this item, and that is because our student senate has voted no. right now we have a petition of over 350 signatures from students who are also opposed. >> reporter: no incident triggered the proposal to hire an armed deputy. they haven't had recent sexual assaults or homicide. two drug violations, one liquor violation and one weapons possessions incident since 2014. >> having law enforcement on campus will provide some safety that we don't have the ability to provide right now. >> reporter: in gilroy, david louie, abc 7 news. >>> burlingame police need your help in finding three men who robbed a popular dough naught shop early monday morning. >> it was a particularly violent confrontation and all caught on surveillance video. >> abc 7 news anchor kristen sze now here with the footage. >> larry and ama, this happened at the royal doughnut shop. it's locationed at the caltrain station a block from burlingame high school and the burlingame ave

then in hyde park, new york, it's the 13th annual roosevelt reading festival held at the presidential library and museum. and this year's harlem book fair will be held on july 16th. for more information about the book fairs and festivals booktv will be covering and to watch with previous festival coverage, lick on the book -- click on the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> later today the wilson center looks at u.s. strategy in the asia-pacific region and the threat of arms trade in east asia with foreign policy experts. that's live at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span. in the afternoon a discussion on the israeli-palestinian conflict and the challenges of reaching a two-state solution. it's from the center for new american security, that's also live on c-span at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >> i think today we, in effect, to sort of catch up with the 20th century. we've been the invisible half of the congress the past seven years. we've watched our house colleag

then in hyde park, new york, it's the 13th annual roosevelt reading festival held at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum. and this year's harlem book fair will be held on jewel 16th. -- july 16th. for more information about the festivals booktv will be covering and to watch previous coverage, click on the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv.org. >> welcome to hattiesburg, mississippi, on booktv. located in the southern part of the state, it has a population of nearly 50,000 and is home to the university of southern mississippi. with the help of our comcast cable partners, other the next 90 -- over the next 90 minutes, we'll talk with local authors as we learn about the history of the area including a look at the civil war through the eyes of both well known and ordinary families. >> i really had always wanted to write this kind of sweeping, almost like a saga of the civil war. and for me as a military historian, over the years what i've noticed is that as much as we're fascinated by what happens on the battlefield and, you know, this sweeping -- the sweeping

then in hyde park, new york, it's the roosevelt reading festival held at the presidential library and museum. and this year's harlem book fair will be held on july 16th. for more information about the book fairs and festivals booktv will be covering and to watch previous festival coverage, click on the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv according. booktv.org. >> here's a look at some authors recently featured on booktv's "after words," our weekly author interview program. don watkins, fellow at the ayn rand institute, argued that measures to alleviate income inequality actually end up hurting low income americans. peter marks remembered the career of the late aig ceo bob men mow shay who turned the company around during the height of the financial crisis. and aol co-founder steve case told us how emerging technologies are reshaping the internet. in the coming weeks on "after words," tamara drought will talk about america's new working class and their potential political power. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will discuss how his political philosophy has informed his time in

t helpful at very often the log and what happen in hyde park. i understand that. there is merit to the notion that you can stumble across some very important stuff when you go through law reviews. it is like anything else in the law. you do the best you can with what's available. tremendous variety to answer. we thought this might be the theme of the conversation. it's a nice modest the in. at the harvard law school, they wrote these things. gail --uch as el but -- yle but they do that. i don't have time today. what would your advice be to people who are aspiring legal i think it isan: a mistake that all legal academics have to write for the court. i often but sometimes find but if iat are useful were to say to my faculty, this is the audience. you have to be writing to the supreme court of the united states, it would not be something -- a smart thing to tell us. faculty might think about writing to legislatures. aboutaculty might think writing to other departments in the university. to be in touch with sociologists. and so forth. nt faculty , differe have differe

very often lot reviews are filled up with what happened in bulgaria rather than what happened in hyde park. i understand that. i think there is a lot of legal writing that is the product of people having tenure. i do think there's merit so the also stumbleou across some awfully interesting and important stuff when you go through loaw reviews. like anything else in law, you do the best you can with what is available. variety,a tremendous to answer that question in a simple way. justice kagan: you do the best you can. >> it is a modest theme. [laughter] so, justice kagan, at harvard law school people did write these meta-theory things. maybe not as much as yale. [laughter] they do that. i have looked at the table of contents at many harvard log aw reviews. maybe i will read it someday but i don't have the time today. advice.ld be your justice kagan: i think it is great there are some legal academics in some fields who do think about the courts. i often, not always but sometimes, find things that are useful in law reviews. dean, if i were to say to my faculty this is your audience . you have

. >> here's a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals coming up around the country: >> in hyde park, new york, it's the 13th annual roosevelt reading festival, and this year's harlem book fair will be held on july 16th. for more information about the book fairs and festivals booktv will be covering and to watch previous festival coverage, click on the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv.org. >> and we're back live from the gaithersburg book festival. e.j. dionne is next in conversation about his newest book, "why the right went with wrong," with cnn breaking news editor david marks. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you all so much for braving the elements and coming out to gaithersburg today. it's great to have all of you here, and welcome to the seventh annual gaithersburg book festival. i'm lissa muscatine, i'm the co-owner of politics & prose bookstore with my husband, brad graham, who's right here in the red coat. and we and our wonderful staff -- [applause] thank you, guys, thank you. we and our staff are delighted to be the festival's official bo

eye-catching piece on the corner, on the edge of the road, that you would see as you come up from hyde park to give something back to the streetscape and the landscape, as well as obviously be a feature for the building. i think danny's first description was, imagine a plate glass window that someone has thrown a brick through the middle of. you could take the approach that that is a scary thing for an artist to tell you as a developer for what is effectively a big plate glass window. but actually, when we got under the skin of what he was envisaging, we got very excited. andrew: everybody loves the sculpture. it defies classification or description, when you ask people what it is. everybody comes up with something different. somebody will maybe say it reminds them of a dna strand. someone else will say, no, it is rock. somebody else will say, i see a waterfall. the answers are sufficiently varied that i think we can accept this is not something you can easily label. for me, what the work says about its context in microsoft is that it is a combination of art and science, art and engineering

often the lot reviews are filled up with what happened in bulgaria rather than what happened in hyde parkso i understand that. i think a lot of legal writing is the province of people just trying to get tenure. i do think there is merit to the notion but you stumble across some interesting and important when you go through the law reviews. it's just like anything else in the law, you do the best you can with what is available. tore's a tremendous variety answer that question in a simple way. the think that might be theme of this conversation -- you do the best you can with what you can. kagan: it is a nice, modest theme. >> at the harvard law school, people did write these meta-theory things. maybe not as much as gail, but i have looked at the table of contents of many harvard law review. in some future life, maybe i will read this but i don't have time today. what would your advice be to people who are aspiring legal academics? kagan: i think it's a mistake that all legal academics have to be writing for the court. i think it is great that there are some who do think about the always,d i