i am honored tonight to introduce doctor jared diamond. i work with academics every day. we offer over 100 classes yearly with local distinguished professors on subjects such as current and classic literature, history, politics, writing workshops as we are a community of lifelong learners and speaking of learning, jared diamond is professor of geography at the university of california los angeles. his work includes five best-selling books and he's here today to talk about the most recent book entitled "upheaval: turning point for nations," from the firsthand experience the history of the six countries where he lived and was in five of six languages. i asked which language he didn't speak and he said japanese but he had japanese relatives. "upheaval" completes the trilogy's of his book how societies choose to fail or succeed and the acclaimed guns, germs and steel. for the general nonfiction. his international reach has extended to translations of his works in 30 languages and the notable research teaching the work deserved the macarthur foundation fellowship genius award.

swimming george well, sharing his thoughts on the state of american conservatism and in an hour jared diamond takes a look at how successful countries recovery from crises in the book of people. >> next on book tvs afterwards surprise moment george will authors his thoughts on american conversant his him. afterwards, is a weekly interview program with relative guesthouse interviewing top notch authors about their latest work. >> so, george will. i'm going to call you george if that's okay. soon i think you. >> i'm gonna get there in my life. of all things, the university's very large in your book, princeton. three princeton's. can you explain what you're getting out there? >> all of american thoughts as an argument between madison, the class of i think 1771 and thomas what is wilson, tommy aziz was known at princeton. in 1879. madison being the giver of our madisonian institutional architecture and would world loosening the foremost a couple forthrightly rejected this and to their credit that they did it kill one another. would real wilson was the first american president to criticize the ame

swimming george well, sharing his thoughts on the state of american conservatism and in an hour jared diamond takes a look at how successful countries recovery from crises in the book of people. >> next on book tvs afterwards surprise moment

between books that are written by scientists themselves people like richard dawkins or jared diamond and people who have written books by journalists. i'm a fan of many science books that are written by either group i've been thinking about what are the differences. one that comes to mind is journalists seem to really like to write about the science life along with the science. sometimes it's really useful and sometimes it seems like too much information. but i wonder. >> i think we have crossed the tmi barrier already. stay neck and just wondering if you had any thoughts either about that part of it like why you think it's valuable to have a graphical information or a book written by a scientist versus a journalist. >> i guess i'm the scientist. i am very grateful for those who can delve deeply into topics and bring them effectively to attention in ways that scientists aren't often very good app. on the other hand i think it's really important for scientists to become better communicators and writers. i think we need both in people who come from outside the sciences it can sometimes