times festival of books jonathan waldman. [applause] >> thanks. >> is finish -- so my opening question for you is what is a bigger threat to the united states military, isis or rust? [laughter] >> there's a guy in the pentagon who would like you to throw that question at him. he's our nation's highest-ranked rust official. [laughter] he's been fighting a very good fight for about ten years now. he's making friends on the hill with a lot of politicians and among admirals in the navy who say we can't keep going the way we're going, losing hips to rust. we -- ships to rust. we can't build them fast enough. he would say it's clearly rust. i try to stay away from proclamations like that, but i did write in the book that rust is greater than all other natural disasters combined. and people this weekend have asked me, i don't get it, a book about rust. i said think about it this way: our most abundant element is attacking our most important material all the time, everywhere. so isis is not bad. [laughter] >> and you say there's a sh

. >> well, jonathan waldman, edward humes, brian fagan, thanks so much for talking with us today. [applause]. [applause] >> and thanks to everyone for coming. t we now have our book signing in signing area one. [inaudible conversations] >> this is book tv on c-span2 and we want to know what's on your summer reading list. send us your choices. you can also post it on our facebook page, face booj.com,/book tv or send an e-mail at book tv at c-span.org. what's on your summer reading list, book tv wants to know. [inaudible conversations] >> hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. thank you all for joining us today. i just want to take the opportunity remind everyone watching in-house to silence your cell phones. for anyone who is watching online, you're welcome to submit questions by e-mailing speaker at heritage.org. hosting the program is lindsey burke. she focuses on reducing federal intervention education and empowering families with school choice. with that, i will hand it over to lindsey. >> great, thank you, andrew. thanks for everyone being here and everyone watching onl

. >> well, jonathan waldman, edward humes, brian fagan, thanks so much for talking with us today. [applause]. >> and thanks for everyone for coming. we now have our book signing in signing area number one. tran 11. >> >> spee5 welcome to the bookshop in north carolina be are happy to have you here today and also c-span bookie we are delighted to have henrik who is an acclaimed historian engineer and best-selling author and professor of civil engineering here tonight to discuss his new book. he has written many books. pushing the limits small things considered and many more. this is the first time he is here with us today. and my boss wanted me to mention we have a collapsed storm water drained so we eager to hear more about infrastructure lablab. >> thank you very much. i am pleased to be here want to talk about infrastructure the aspects that are disgusted by book the title suggests it is about roads and bridges but more generally is about infrastructure in the funding in the problems we have with infrastructure bridges are a problem for those 600,000 u.s. bridges total are probl