and the types of authors that we're going to have from david mccullough to j.d. vance whose book is on every reading list that you can imagine and every book club, it's just an exciting time, so i'm thrilled. [laughter] >> host: how many authors do you invite? >> guest: oh, my goodness. when you think about a one-day festival, the national book festival, and you have over a hundred authors from children's authors, illustrators, graphic novelists, all of these different authors there all day, over 100,000 people come in and celebrate books and reading. you can't have a better time, i think. and i'm a little prejudiced because i'm a librarian, but i have to tell you any reader or anybody that wants to get inspired, the book festival is the perfect place. >> host: this is the 17th year of the book festival. your second -- actually, your first. or your second? >> guest: it's my second. i was sworn in, and one of the first things i had to do -- oh, poor me -- [laughter] was go and be at the national book festival last year. and it was so inspiring. and this year we have eve

--rlie: when we continue katie bam is here -- j.d. vance is here.e was raised in kentucky, graduated from yell law school and went on to success -- went to yale law school. he wrote a book "hil lbilly-ology," i am pleased to have j.d. vance at this table for the first time. -- whatwhat yo drove you to write this. d.: i was disappointed there were more people like me at law school. it seemed to me i had this cultural outsider attitude that was very unique. i was not just lower income, but i felt like a cultural outsider for the first time in my life. i started to wonder what was it that may be different and i started writing to answer why weren't their kids -- more kids like me. charlie: did you feel like people look down on you or something? you qualified where you were at every stage. it was general disdain where i came from, maybe folks called them rednecks, but i never felt it was personally directed at me. charlie: as he started to write the book you thought about where you came from, it is about memoir of a family and culture in crisis. j.d.: i

cnn contributor j.d. vances who grew up in a rust belt town in ohio, a state that easily went to donald trump in the 2016 election. author of "hillbilly elegy: memoir of a family and culture in crisis" and in the book dives into how many missed the mark on the white working class that fueled donald trump's campaign. j.d., excellent book. thanks so much for joining us. give us your, your reaction when you saw what was going on in charlottesville. >> well, wolf, you see people marching around doing the nazi salute. i come from a family with a large number of military veterans and from back in the day, people who actually went and fought the nazis. it's really disturbing to see this display of white national inch and became doubly terrifying because it led to somebody losing their life. like a lot of people, watched the tv, was horrified and forced me to think what's going on in our country and happening that this stuff is becoming seemingly more common. >> you've done a lot of research in this area. it's the nazi

josh green, j.d. vance and political writer of 538. josh. is it a fair assumption that the president is now making it clear that he is all in with the base and the idea that steve bannon could be on his way out is nonsensical because that is his conduit to the same base. he's going to -- he's going to go against his own, clearly he's got one strategy, and that's to go hard at the right. >> trump is always thinking about his base. also not thinking ahead to his legislative agenda, clearly or he wouldn't be doing what he did the other day. i think we saw his true feelings the first time he gave a statement about many sides were to blame. he had a kind of forced march to walk that back. as always happens with trump. it didn't last. his true feelings came out. he was angry. even though he had advice not to do this, he had steve bannon saying you have to connect with the base. this isn't fair. if there's one thing we know motivates trump is the idea he's being attacked unfairly by the media. >> there is just a stunning cover. i hope you can see r

saturday, 9 a.m., uthors david mccullough and tho condoleeza rice j.d. vance lewis and on c-span's book t.v. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> sunday night on q&a, take a look at anthony clark's book campaign," how presidents rewrite history, run posterity and enshrine their legacy. comment was one of two topics, how angry people are to how what is happening or flabbergasted they are to learn what is happening. mild, oh, i ceived read it and it is okay. >> why are they angry? >> they are angry about the fact we have presidential libraries created to house records and the records won't be open for 100 years. instead we're paying for legacy building. >> on c-span's q&a sunday night. >> "washington journal" continues. host: at our table this morning, afghan h mohib, the ambassador to the united states, here to talk about president the 's new strategy for conflict there. i want to begin with showing president t th

former secretary of state conduct leez ah rice and best selling authors michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival, live saturday, september 2nd starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book "the final round." >>> journalists are coauthors of "the road to camelot." they talked about the book in kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign at the john f. kennedy presidential library in boston. they were interviewed by historian ellen fitzpatrick in this 90-minute program. >> welcome. we are so thrilled

. >> j.d. vance is fantastic and his book is as well. not that he needs help selling it from me or anybody else. but the perspective is so important. one, there is a larger argument and feeling in this country about politics. it is about a lot of people who look up and maybe they condemn the kkk but they feel there is a kind of political correctness that elites and liberals have taken over and have marginalized them and made them into bigots when they're not. i think that's part of the undercurrent in the politics. there's another point. let's remember why these fascists were down there. it was to oppose the removal of a statue of general robert e. lee who led the confederate courses. there's a bigger discussion to be had about america's memory of the confed rassy and why -- it's appropriate we have it. these are people, including general lee, who were enemies of america. he fought against america and to protect the enslavement of american people. first of all, the procedure context of what else was going on, and by the way, how many bla

and now, j.d. vancee best seller, j.d., you just heard the couple talk about you need to check your ego, self-described biggest supporter of the county for president trump say you got to get a legislative victory. is president trump's base holding firm, or is it at risk? >> i think it's a little of both. some of the folks you talk to said he has a long leash. folks aren't going to abandon him in six months. they'll give him a little time to accomplish his agenda. but what you hear from a lot of different people if you're on the ground talking to pa ing ti a broad recognition things aren't going well right now. and whether well comes in the form of a big legislative win or another big victory trump can pin his hat on, folks think the president could do a little better. and if that persists over the next couple of years, i do think he'll lose some people from his base. and in michigan, where he won by 11,000 votes, losing some could mean the difference between re-election and not. >> it certainly could. th

freedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and best selling authors, michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival, live saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >>> up next, university of minnesota professor erika lee talks about asian immigration to the west coast from 1830 to 1930, including the role of san francisco bay's angel island in the 20th century. she compares the angel island and ellis island

freedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and best selling authors, michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival, live saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >>> up next, university of minnesota professor erika lee talks about asian immigration to the west coast from 1830 to 1930, including the role of san francisco bay's angel island in the 20th century. she compares the angel island and ellis island experiences, describing how asian immigrants in california had more extensive background checks and longer holding times than european immigrants in new york. the class is about 90 minutes. >> well, hello, guys. welcome back. i'm really excited to talk to you today for our session this afternoon because so many of us as americans, we grow up learning about the history of immigration through ellis island, right? this is what we talked about last week. it is the history of european immigrants coming to t

. >> we spent a good time in the state of ohio, and j.d. vancepidemic. hats off to him. the reason that i and our team wanted to go is we feel like america doesn't necessarily get it. i think so many people feel like this is tragic, that it's happening, but not happening in my neighborhood and not happening in my home. that's just not true. we found that no one is immune. here's part of the story. >> it is ravaging every single segment of our society. this is a chemical, almost warfare on us that people don't know how to control. >> the high school cheerleader, addicted at 15. the 20-year-old baseball player dead. these fathers, now inmates, because of their addiction. and even the sheriff's former wife, addicted. this is the real picture of america's opioid crisis. where drugs don't discriminate. it's affecting neighborhoods across the heartland and from coast to coast. >> how does a 15-year-old cheerleader from ohio start doing heroin? >> i think it started my freshman year. and i was cheerleading. i ended up not going to school as much. and i

and the types of authors that we're going to have from david mccullough to j.d. vance whose book is on every reading list that you can imagine and every

friedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice, and best-selling authors michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival live saturday, september 2nd, starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>> c-span's "voices from the road," at the national conference of state legislators summit in boston, asking the attendees, what's the most important issue to your state. >> what's really important to our state is that washington makes sure we maintain health care for the poor, the elderly, and the infirmed. we have to make sure if we replace obamacare we replace it with something smart and reasonable. >> and an issue that we really are struggling with right now is property tax. and because of the fast increase in real estate property, particularly in our rural areas, our rural farmers are struggling to pay a very high property tax, how do we balance that with what's going on in the property tax and the needs for our schools? i'm on the appropriations committee, so it's one of those issues that we're really dealing with right now, is how do we balance out and make equitable

with author presentations and call-in segments featuring the likes of historian david mccullough, j.d. vance and former secretary of state condoleezza rice. and later that month look for us in new york at the brooklyn book festival and the baltimore book festival taking place at the city's inner harbor. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch previous festival coverage, click on the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv.org. >> host: and now on booktv we want to introduce you to kevin young who's an author. his book, "bunk." it comes out this fall, but, mr. young, before we go too far into the book, what do you do for a living? [laughter] >> guest: i'm the new-ish director of the schomburg center this harlem which is part of the new york public library system, as you know. it's been great, we've had some great announcements. we just got the james baldwin papers which we announced in april, and we've just announced two days ago the sonny roll lins papers. so we're really excited to have those archives come home to harlem and be

friedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and best selling authors michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival live saturday starting at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> labor day on c-span, at 6:45 p.m. eastern former president obama accepts the annual jfk profile in courage award. at 8, columnist and national review senior editor jonah goldberg. >> conservatives should not place all of their hopes in any politician. go back and read the founders, read the federalist papers. they say this over and over and over again, that you should have a healthy distrust of any political leader, sometimes particularly the ones that claim to be speaking for you. >> and then at 9 p.m. eastern, university of southern california annenberg professor diane winston. >> six corporations own much of the american news media x. the digital revolution has, meanwhile, transformed the economy. networks and daily newspapers no longer set our national agenda. instead, many of us find information niches that reinforce our opinions. growing polarization has seemed to split us into two nati

author j.d. vancerks oir of a family and culture in crisis. he joins us now from our washington bureau. good morning. >> good morning, now the antidefamation league called this the largest demonstration of white supremacists decades, what do you think is driving this. >> we have a rise in identity politics in the united states and a lot of the folks most attracted to this stuff are middle class guys that come from relatively well to do circumstances and so it's difficult to really say that there's a single thing that's driving it. what we're seeing is a lot of disaffected people and it's something we have to deal with quite obviously. >> but is it driven by the economic insecurity that you wrote about in your book? >> yeah. i don't think so and one of the interesting things that i discovered doing research for the book and trying to understand the different strains of resentment that were out there is that the alt right movement, this neo-nazi movement is driven by well to do middle class folks. people

former secretary of state conduct leez ah rice and best selling authors michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival, live saturday, september 2nd starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book "the final round." >>> journalists are coauthors of "the road to camelot." they talked about the book in kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign at the john f. kennedy presidential library in boston. they were interviewed by historian ellen fitzpatrick in this 90-minute program. >> welcome. we are so thrilled you're all here. this is part of our sin tennuce activities. i'm executive director of the john f. kennedy library foundation. on behalf of all of my colleagues at the library, we are thrilled all of you are here. you are in for a special, special treat tonight. before i talk about the book, a few other quick things first. first, to thank our sponsors for tonight and for the forum series, the bank of america, the lowell institute, media sponsors, "the boston globe," xfinity and ber. in addition to tonight, on your chair is a brochure of different activities. as you know, a wee

friedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and best selling authors michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival, live saturday starting at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> labor day on c-span, at 6:45 p.m. eastern former president obama accepts the annual jfk profile in courage award. at 8, columnist and national review senior editor jonah goldberg. >> conservatives should not place all of their hopes in any politician. go back and read the founders, read the federalist papers. they say this over and over and over again, that you should have a healthy distrust of any political leader. sometimes particularly the ones that claim to be speaking for you. >> and then at 9 p.m. eastern, university of southern california annenberg professor diane winston. >> six corporations own much of the american news media, and the digital revolution has, meanwhile, transformed the economy. .. >> now a form of the trump administration and its relationship with the press. including differences between the 45th president and his predecessors in dealing with the media and how legal

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it's a pretty popular book by j.d. vance who's moved into my district recently. and it really describes the plight that many people in my district in rural ohio, i have suburban and rural ohio, are going through. but it also helps us build empathy and ideas of how we can help serve people. especially the forgotten man that's out there that is, needs some help and needs a leg up. and so i'm reading that. and it's really, i think, appropriate for many parts of midwest and near south. and there are many families going through lots of things, and it helps us understand what's going on out there. i also am reading a book call "destined for war," getting ready to read it, it's on my night stand, that talks about the american-chinese relationship and how we can choose a path other than war, and hopefully we will. and, you know, that's the coming clash over next 20 years, is the clash between the united states and china as china rises and the united states, being the only superpower in the world right now, you know, the clash that has happened historically and how we can

freedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and best selling authors, michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival, live saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >>> up next, university of minnesota professor erika lee talks about asian immigration to the west coast from 1830 to 1930, including the role of san francisco bay's angel island in the 20th century. she compares the angel island and ellis island experiences, describing how asian immigrants in california had more extensive background checks and longer holding times than european immigrants in new york. the class is about 90 minutes. >> well, hello, guys. welcome back. i'm really excited to talk to you today for our session this afternoon because so many of us as americans, we grow up learning about the history of immigration through ellis island, right? this is what we talked about last week. it is the history of european immigrants coming to the new world under the shadow of the statue of liberty. it is often told as a very uplifting and romantic story where immigrants become americans, b