at 10:00, on afterwards, match k kibbe talks about his book don't hurt people and don't take their stuff, a libertarian manifesto with tim kearney of the american enterprise institute and we conclude our prime-time programming at 11:00 p.m. eastern whiffed on a panel on the life of water and journalist michael hastings. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. this weekend booktv is in jackson with our local cable partner comcast. next we sit down with the director of the wealthy house museum, bridget edwards and eudora welty's niece, mary alice weltry white, to discuss the late author's inspiration a turbulent surprise wedding book "the optimist's daughter". >> as a writer, it is essential. i take the -- i take what i know for granted so i see the new as new and the old as old and i feel i am a judge because my eyes have been trained by experience. so i know where i m as a baam a to see people moving. >> we're the home of eudora welty. a historic landmark. eudora welty was a writer who was born in 1909 and died in 2001. she was a writer who won just about every literary prize there

do you, matt kibbe, have a responsibility to feed a hungry person, to help the poor people? >> guest: i think you do, and i think that our evidence in the united states and our evidence in communities that have been left free shows that that's exactly what happens when free people are left to solve problems. you care a lot about your community. it's harder to care about something that's 3,000 miles away or even, you know, six countries away. it should happen from the bottom up. once you outsource that to a third party even if it's a voluntary o but paragraphly if it's a government -- particularly if it's a government organization, somebody else's agenda comes in, and you don't know who needs help and who's gaming the system. that's why local works so well. >> host: and you suggested in the book and now that, in fact, when the government steps in, it erodes the civil society aspects of community and actually weakens sort of neighborliness and charity. >> guest: yeah. >> host: is that right. >> >> guest: oh, absolutely. and you see it happen every day on the ground. you saw it

this week's matt kibbe and his latest book "don't hurt people and don't take their stuff" a libertarian manifesto. and that the freedom works president argues that politicians and corporate leaders have been steadily eroding constitutional rights for decades. the tea party proponent presents his plan to restore individual freedoms. this program is about an hour. >> host: so matt, you call your book a libertarian manifesto. explain what libertarianism is, specifically how relates to conservatism. >> guest: i think there's a lot of misunderstanding about that now and we have debated with a publisher whether or not to put the al word on the cover but so many people are asking the question now what is a libertarian and there's this argument supposedly between libertarians and conservatives and neocons and tea partiers and fill in the blank. i don't think there is a fundamental difference if you understand conservatism properly defined. there is a fundamental difference between what i call big government conservatism, the idea that you take power of the state and impose a certain of behavior

on "after words," matt kibbe talks about his book, "don't hurt people and don't take their stuff." also featured this weekend are hillary clinton, ben be carson, marion berry, steve forbes and michael lewis along with topics such as gay marriage, north korea, world war i and the tea party. and for more information, visit us online. booktv, television for serious realizers. readers. >> next, from the national press club in washington, d.c., michael lindsay, president of gordon college in massachusetts, presents the results of his ten-year study on power and leadership in america. mr. lindsay says that a few thousand people in the u.s. make decisions that impact everyone else. he conducted in depth interviews with 550 government and business leaders to find out how they operate. this event was hosted by the trinity forum, açó nonprofit be organization based in washington d.c. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, everyone. good evening, and welcome to the trinity forum's evening conversation tonight with michael lindsay on "view from the top: an inside look at howgy people in po