john dickinson is probably the most important of them. he was years earlier, the author of the letters of a pennsylvania farmer, which is again against some of those various taxes and acts, stamp taxes and so on. he's probably one of our best known political writers of the day. but he's sort of pulling back saying the idea is how are we going to win a war against the british? this doesn't seem like the best idea in the world to declare our independence because this cuts off any chance of negotiating with the british. others might look at the idea we don't really have anybody helping us. again, britain is one of the great powers of the world. america is maybe 3 million people and certainly there's a good chunk of them remaining loyal to the crown. there will be battles in this war after all with just americans on both sides. so there's some saying maybe we should slow down but most of the men are ready to move forward. so on july 1st, they'll hold a nonbinding committee of the whole vote. the vote is on the question of being free and indep

also coming up face the nation moderator john dickinson will remember some of the most important moments in american presidential campaigns. this weekend dana lasch contends that the united states is divided itself dividing itself into two countries coastal america and fly over america. >> is the area between new york and la that's 30,000 feet below your plane window. it is the huge expanse of patchwork. whenever you look down. you've no idea what's going on down there. it's small town america. it is the people with middle-class america. i have an uncle who owns the quarry. it's people just everyday people who aren't on the coast. they value family. it's all of those people that don't get the attention that the coast gets. >> this airs on book tv every saturday at 10:00 p.m. you can watch all previous programs on her website book tv.org. they recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress but they are what they are reading this summer. >> i am a multiple reader so i read a lot of books at the same time so sometimes i will finish a book all in one sitting but more often than not

john dickinson, host of "face the nation." john dickinson, you've interviewed donald trump an awful lot of times. is there something he could have done earlier on to just -- i mean, other than his first initial interview to not make this what's become a multi-day problem? >> he could have done what a lot of republicans i've talked to know as the standard things in these instances, which is you honor the service, you honor the family and you move on, no matter what attack they made on you. what was brought up to me is it was in his second sentence when he first asked about this, he went right to asking questions about mrs. khan. so he put this on the table in his response. this is something the clinton campaign is enjoying watching him have difficulty with this. it was his decision to respond in this way. >> when you look at the polls of john king, what jumps out at you? >> this is the best possible time for hillary clinton, just after four days of positive pr, so we have to wait about a week. republicans haven't lost college e

madison did not work with the articles of confederation and some men in philadelphia did like john dickinson from delaware bob that madison bottles articles were terrible and wrote notes explaining the problems but the states were not sufficiently controlled so he started to read around to figure out what kinds of governments work in jefferson sent him the two great encyclopedias and madison read those and came up with a lot of examples where historical a confederations have collapsed in believing that kept them together was jealousy been that is not a great segment for a country. cspan2: the annapolis convention he was involved how did he find himself in the middle of proposing plaques be met people debate if he was the mover and shaker completely but he thought there should be washington was very involved in actually gets the maryland delegates together to think about that 1785 washington has the knowledge vernon and then they go to annapolis hamilton comes down so they tell congress have another convention them large leave because the virginians will show up and the delegation just passed