one of the people is lisa lucas, the the national director of the book foundation and will conclude our life today with a column on hugh hewitt, the radio talkshow host. that's coming up today. people schedule schedule is on book tv .com. now are going back inside to hear from the authors on syria. >> welcome to telling serious stories. my name is jeffrey and i'm a cultural writer for the los angeles times. i've been based in rome and berlin and is a cairo bureau chief. i've written two novels, shadow man and thomas surgeons. thank you for being here. in the strange times, strong journalism with good book and challenging ideas are critical. that is what the los angeles times in the book possible aspire to and try to provide. after this, we'll gladly take your questions and look for your insights. we'll have a panel panel discussion about ten or 15 minutes after. just as a housekeeping note, please also phoned off. there will will be a book signing with the authors after at area one and no personal recordings of the session, please. now i'd like to introduce the panel. christopher philli

a panel on writing and publishing and one of the people that will be speaking at that panel is lisa lucas who is executive director of the national book foundation which gives out national book award every year after that the radio talk show host and author will be doing a call-in and able to tack to him but right now we're pleased to have professor cory field who is is written this book. unexpected politics of african-american republicans -- professor fields are you a republican? >>no i am not. so -- a bit of an outsider perpghtive perspective experience. >> are you a democrat? >> sure. i would guess i would probably classify my politic as independent, left leaning, in a lot of ways the interesting thing about it was intent to which my own politics doesn't really rise pup to the surface right in regards to doing the research or getting people to talk to me. i think in some ways being outside of the republican party and the republican scene actually made people more willing to open up right that there was less risk because the network of black republicans are fairly small. as you might im

. >> reporter: when lisa lucas talks about books, it seems like she's read every volume in the world.orites. >> reporter: as the execu she calls herself a cheerleader for literature. >> why do you think books need a cheerleader? >> i do tend to think books get short shrift but every single child who makes it to school rj gets a book, learns through book. we're a part of everyone's lives, and yet it seems like everyone's niche thing. just because it's also good for you doesn't mean it can't be great. >> reporter: lucas is the first woman andafter can american to lead the foundation that hands out the prestigious book awards. since 1950 they've honored some of the best, ralph faulkner, william faulkner, ralph ellison, the main goal is to promote the love of writing and that's why it's hired its youngest leader. at 37 lucas maintain as schedule that takes her all over the country. one of her main initiatives is a program called "book up." >> we run it in detroit and texas and elsewhere. a young person will work with a pub lived author and we provide all the national book award finalists

one of the people is lisa lucas, the the national director of the book foundation and will conclude our life today with a column on hugh hewitt, the radio talkshow host. that's coming up today. people schedule schedule is on book tv .com. now are going back inside to hear from the authors on syria. >> welcome to telling serious stories. my name is jeffrey and i'm a cultural writer for the los angeles times. i've been based in rome and berlin and is a cairo bureau chief. i've written two novels, shadow man and thomas surgeons. thank you for being here. in the strange times, strong journalism with good book and challenging ideas are critical. that is what the los angeles times in the book possible aspire to and try to provide. after this, we'll gladly take your questions and look for your insights. we'll have a panel panel discussion about ten or 15 minutes after. just as a housekeeping note, please also phoned off. there will will be a book signing with the authors after at area one and no personal recordings of the session, please. now i'd like to introduce the panel. christopher philli

a panel on writing and publishing and one of the people that will be speaking at that panel is lisa lucaswho is executive director of the national book foundation which gives out national book award every year after that the radio talk show host and author will be doing a call-in and able to tack to him but right now we're pleased to have professor cory field who is is written this book. unexpected politics of

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featured authors include annie jacobson, hugh hewitt, adam hochschild and lisa lucas. that's a look at some of the events booktv will be covering this week. many of these events are open to the pluck. look for -- to the public. roar for them to air in the -- look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span 2. >> we were flying down with president obama on air force one, then-president obama, to selma, alabama. and i had asked him a question about, quote-unquote, postracial versus post-obama era. and he said i would not equate my election with seminal moments like the emancipation proclamation or the passage of the civil rights act, the voting rights act. those were mass you have changes in legal status that represented fundamental breaks in america's tragic history and were the pillars, the 13th amendment, 14th amendment and 15th amendment of civil rights acts of the '60s. those were, those represented the dismantling of formal discrimination in this country. there's nothing that's going to compare to that. moving forward, our work is to build on that work,