that is followed by collection of essays on life in harlem by james baldwin. notes of the native son. next, explain the definition of feminism for the 21st century in we should all be feminists. followed by a look at the future of humanity. a look at nonfiction books according to powell's books is the biography of donald trump, originally published in 1993, lost tycoon. that is look at the current best-selling nonfiction books according to powell's books in portland, oregon. some of these authors have will be appearing on booktv on c-span2. you can watch them on our website, booktv.org. >> people on the left, progressive democrats march in lockstep. it is amazing. the tape has surfaced in the washington post, donald trump tracking what they thought was in private doing their man boasts. remember trump famously or infamously said, when you are a star in hollywood, grab their genitals. a stupid remark. completely translated by the left into that is what i do rather is that is what i would like to do but i'm too civilized to do it perhaps. i don't know trump pers

from james baldwin to langston to current kendrick lamar. that energy and food-wise was inspired by leah chase to what we're doing today. not looking back only, creating modern. something that was inspired by the past, but also contemporary, right? so farmer's market, but also harlem's food scene is really inspired by two things. the great migration and global immigration which makes it much more diverse than you would ever imagine. - and in fact the menu at the restaurant and the menu, or the menu of recipes i should say in the cookbook, actually is not simply what you would think from a harlem restaurant. it's not as far as it goes, soul food say, right? - well it's inspired by stuff, but it's also what i want to explain to people is it's a highly diverse community. and it's been forever. you know el barrio, there's this beautiful latin gem in harlem, east of us, which started as a puerto rican american community and today is a mexican american community. so things are changing. it's still latin, but it still serves pernil and cuchifrito,

there's only one blurb on the back of the novel, and it's from james baldwin. he saw it as a great racial novel. but i know he was friendly with all the black critics, and he understood the nature of their criticism, and he simply did not want to publicly come out to criticize his friend. so that is a complicated story. the next time i came across nat turner was when i wrote the book called honor and slavery, a book with a very long subtitle that you heard, and it was about southern honor. that is a whole other story about southern gentleman thought of themselves as having honor. they thought of african-americans, enslaved people as not having honor, basically. this a lot of things that go along with what southern honor meant, but just a small piece of that -- i was interested in the way dead bodies were treated. when someone died who was considered to be a man of honor, the body itself was honored in various ways. as part of a larger argument, i looked at two examples of the way dead bodies were treated. one was john brown. actually, john brown and nat turner,

james baldwin was eloquent about the fact that the way that white immigrant groups became american was to become white and the way to become white was to subjugate black people or embrace racist ideas about black people. you always knew that there was somebody under you. - yup. - you'd stand on someone's shoulder. and because of affirmative action. obama is just the end result of the transformations that began in 69 when i showed up with those 95 other kids at yale and similar seem to play themselves out throughout the country. the election of a black man is just the end result of the social transformations wrought or set in motion by affirmative action. - yeah but you know that for him, the pressure is enormous. it's almost impossible for him to succeed because the expectations are so enormous right. - [dr. gates] yeah. - being the first, everybody invests in him, they project onto a blank screen how they view how this should go and it's almost impossible to be that person and satisfy. - it's one reason that i admire him so much because i look him, he's aged, as each person in that of

james baldwin -- you talked about -- a film out bright now by -- called "i'm not your negro" a filmer in rate using text that was unpublished by james baldwin and bun video is him talking about the fact that racism doesn't exist. it's a lack of knowledge. it's a complete unfamiliarity with everything i am. and i think that the role for me or the -- what hope from writers is to continue to make a. they right about familiar to others so we have less of a -- less ease with denying people basic humanity and more awareness of the things truly happening in the world. but standing up together at a march issue get finicky about marchs and i'm like, what's the strategy here and if not i'm not marching anywhere. i want to know what we're marching for and what the timeline is for achieving that outcome. >> you get stuff done. you just get stuff done. that what you do. >> the direct action the airports worked for me. >> works, right? it's suddenly -- i was out of up to for that and i was like, that is something i can march for and i thought the women's march was amazing bugs it was an act of soli

. >> but james baldwin, really important writer, stuff that's in that film you could sit there and watch> jimmy: i'm going to go check that out. i saw you posted on facebook something, because the new king kong movie, "kong: skull island," this is real. this is a picture of you and king kong. look at how giant, that's a a real -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: that's a giant, giant gorilla. >> yeah. >> jimmy: that is insane. that's real? >> um, you know, the interesting thing about that is, the whole time we were shooting the movie, we never knew he was that big. had no idea he was that big. >> jimmy: i mean seriously. >> i mean you know you always ask the question, where is it? how big is it? how fast is it? you got different answers depending on who you ask. >> jimmy: right. >> you know so sometimes they would say look at that tree right there. you go, that's it? all right. well the rock above the tree. which is like way over there somebody said he can jump from this place to that place. that's like two mountains. is he that big? so, we never got a great answer from anybody about that. >> jimmy: d

james baldwin once said if you don't know what's happened behind you, you don't know what's going onabout common defense? how do you think we got food stamps? it wasn't to feed poor, black people. it was because we were getting ready to go to war, and when men showed up for their physical, they found out that the vast majority of them were what? malnourished. >> right. >> so, this can be as much important to the defense as building a freaking wall on the southern border. >> now, noelle -- and i get it that he wants to at least appear to be helping and keeping the promises and helping the people that voted for him to believe that he's keeping their promises. but when you cut things like the environmental protection, which as an earlier guest explained hurts people right in the rust belt he was appealing to, how do you balance the effect of what you're doing and really deal with it in a way that i need to keep my promises, but i also need to do what is good as the chief executive of this government? >> well, al, here's something that i've never understood. as long as i have been involv

i am humbled to be in the ranks of james baldwin and cornell west and howard zinn and reverend barber in north carolina, bill fletcher, the richmond story might have a lot of residence in many other company towns. they signed a contract for particularly interested in having bernie on the cover, doing the forward and that was before he got 13 million votes. the only other time in beacon's 160 year history that a senator contributed a forward to one of their books. in 1971, not remembered as well as he should be, mike revell from alaska, his name on a book that was beacon's all-time bestseller, multi-volume series called the pentagon papers. you might remember that. this book will not sell quite as well as the pentagon papers but we are doing our best. beacon was interested in the richmond story because of what you might call the intersection now money. this is a term that is thrown around a lot but i don't use it in the book but it does apply. this is a city where grassroots organizing in recent years, all at doral work and public policy initiatives are widely acclaimed, grappling and

about a film out right now called "i am not your negro" a documentary using text published by james baldwin. one of the archival videos talking about racism doesn't exist, i don't know you. it's not racism, it's an unfamili unfamiliarity of what i am. and i think the role for me or what i hope from writers is to continue to make everyone that they write about familiar to others so that we have less, less of a-- less of a-- least ease with denying people their basic humanity. and less awareness-- and more awareness of the things truly happening in the world. so, but like standing up together at a march, i get really finicky about marches. and what's the outcome strategy here. if not i'm not marching anywhere for youment i want to know what the desired outcome is on-- . you get stuff done. >> i was yelling at a friend, what are you marching for. >> just the ladies. >> the direct action at the airport, it works. >> it's suddenly-- i was out of town for that and that's something i could march for and i thought the woman's march was amazing because it was an act of solidarity, it was nonpartisan

and it is really taken from all of the text of james baldwin.o this film and this book really does bring back, take you back to the time when baldwin was such an intrinsic part of the national discussioi the 60s and early 70s . and it tells you how relevant he is to today as well. these are the kinds of books that have been selling after the election as well. >> what about art of the deal? have any of you read that and do have it for sale here? >> we do have it for sally believe it is in the fiction section. [laughter] i am kidding, i am kidding. but, art of the deal. i have not seen a big uptake to be frank with you. certainly tony schwartz did all he could do to promote it in one way or another. but, you know it is probably a book that we all should be together to get an insight into our president today. but i did not see a very big uptake although it did sell quite a bit. more. >> ana menendez? >> have a radically now. i met tony schwartz's piece on his regrets and in the new yorker. but mitchell is right. it is something that we should read.

he joined a number of them, including congressman bobby rush and james clyburn and senators tammy baldwin catherine cortez master with the president's speech on tuesday. -- nancy would call from russian president ,medyedev in his meeting with pelosi. quote, "i demand a second investigation of pelosi for her close ties to russia and lying about it." the president blames democrat for the russia flap, insisting "they are trying to save face after losing the election," calling the whole issue, "a total witch hunt." on that point, the president found support today from the russian foreign minister. >> [translated] this strongly resembles a witch hunt or the times of mccarthy's >> -- was also a frequent figure in the obama administration. the logs show he visited the white house a total of 22 times when barack obama was president, including four times last year alone. bret? >> bret: john, thank you. congress is not in session today, but there is plenty of speculation of what republicans are pending obamacare, repeal d replace. we will talk to speaker ryan in just a moment, but what is happening

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alec baldwin never shy to a fight says, oh, james, i'd sue for you but the only thing you have is bitternessty. bottom line is alec baldwin is not going to sue. i didn't that you can to alec baldwin but this but i am telling you as a matter of law when looking at the tweets he's not going to sue. but it is interesting -- an interesting legal question on the impercent nations. >> well, you know, let's look at the impersonations talking about them, let's judge for ourself. here they are back-to-back. >> i am so excited to live in the white house. i'm even going to have a little pet like all the presidents do, bill clinton had socks, barack obama had beau. >> i love christie. i threw a paper clip at him during one of the debates and it went into orbit and i promise you if i become president we will name it a moon in our solar system. >> so, both clearly believe that alec baldwin kind of knocked off that -- >> aren't they just knocking off trump? >> exactly, exactly. >> he's knocking off somebody. >> how much different can you be when you're -- >> one of the big claims is the use of the word jin

he is an mvp candidate for certain, james harden is here. [ cheers and applause ] tomorrow night alec baldwinke evans and we'll have music from tuxedo. and on thursday adam pally and president george w. bush. not together. they will be here separately, individually, correct? i want to mention -- a live album. it's hank nuttily, "in your face." it's available now. hank "the hawk" nuttily. why do they call you the hawk? >> originally it started as a sex move i invented which i adapted into a fighting style. so i come to be known for both those things simultaneously. >> jimmy: oh, well. that's different from what i expected it to be. it's a great story. >> very hank. >> jimmy: extremely hank. our first guest tonight is an oscar-winning actress married to an oscar-winning actor, they have two lovely children, neither of whom have been not nated but they're young. you can see her in the new ryan murphy anning to "feud" it premieres march 5th on fx. please welcome kathericatherine jon jones! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: wonderful to have you here. >> it's so -- thank you, refer are everybody

>> i think alec baldwin is a little cartoonish. he's also going up against james domi and the guys i'm friends with. there are a lot of really good trumps out there. they shouldn't be throwing stones against these people. >> tom: kristin, what about canceling the entire dumb dinner? >> let it be known, i am team johnny d. you should totally do it. but, it's irrelevant because no one is going to watch the correspondents dinner. they are going to be watching whatever trump is doing. he will probably do something the same night and make all the media cover that instead. >> tom: he's going to pull something out. anthony, if would be a mixed blessing if johnny got it. they would make him be very anti-trump. they would make him do all the anti-trump jokes. >> absolutely. why not just put a heavy bag up there so they can get up and punch it, because that's all they want. literally, a punching bag. somebody they are so mad that he's not going to be there. if they want somebody he hates, chuck schumer puts away on him and does that. that would be perfect. he is hated by do

cheers and applause ] we will be joined by catherine zeta-jones and james harden with music from hank knutley, and later this week, alec baldwinesident george w. bush will be here too. for real. the real one. [ cheers and applause ] our first guest won an academy award for his work in either "la la land" or "moonlight," i'm still not exactly -- whichever one won best picture. >> mahershala ali. >> jimmy: that's "moonlight." it returns to theaters friday. please say hello to mahershala ali! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how are you doing? co >> thank you. >> jimmy: i was very happy for you. other so many times. i think i spent molast night than my wif >> we were hanging out, yeah. >> jimmy: how's everything? you're feeling -- >> good. >> jimmy: how are you feeling the day after? >> i'm a special kind of tired, man. >> jimmy: you are. >> yeah, yeah. you had the tough job. you were on your feet the whole time. >> jimmy: in a way you had the tougher job, not only did you get an oscar, you got a new baby this week. [ cheers and applause ] you have a 5-day-old baby. which is really great. did you get any sleep last night? >> d

third, a collection of essays on the african-american experience by james baldwin. it is a companion to the film i am not your negro. next is why i march, a collection of images from the women pft march. number five is hidden figures. the story about four african-americans who helped propel the world into space in the space race. nobody rich or famous is next by university of arizona english professor richard shelton. the book is his chronicle of the lives of three generation of women in his family. next is "thoughts on modern feminism" followed by "h is for hawk" helen's account of a adopting and raising a hawk after the death of her family. number nine on the list is "lab girl" and wrapping up the list at number two is the literary field guide of the "sonoran desert". >> the other contribution i hope the book has is a discussion of the domestic cadaver tried. this is the trafficking of dead bodies. i traced medical school records, anatomy professors that were involved in the traffic. they wrote letters back and forth to each other looking for bodies of enslaved pe

i'm not your negro, a film about james baldwin. uses its own words on driving force. welcome all of that and i hope that all new kinds of devices can be use today retail the stories. if you look at music as litmus test for how the stories are told differently, in eyes one, one of the eyes two producers recently told me, it was like preachers telling neglect story. it was all church songs and freedom songs. in ice two, it's hip-hop, rap, marvin gay, that's very deliberate to telegraph that the movement changed from being a church-base movement to being a much more secular movement. henry hated rap and couldn't stand it. he hated hip-hop, he never came around to it. where am i going? it has to be done differently by each new generation, i don't know if that answers the question or not. >> in the civil rights leaders and top activists putting these things together, did you ever pick up a feeling from these leaders, church, et cetera, that they think they thought break the back of jim crowe starts in the 50's? was there ever a sense that they thought this could be done re