october 1, author and "new york times" columnist maureen dowd will discuss her books. november 5, michael lewis will talk about his books including his latest, the undoing project. he has written "the big short" in the new new thing. tunis for in-depth, the first sunday of the month at noon eastern. that's a big tv on c-span2. >> we have a bit of a program change this afternoon. coming up in about 10 minutes we plan to take your lead to the white house where president trump is expected to address tying as laws and practices about intellectual property and technology and as we wait for the president. >> editor of foreign affairs magazine joins us now to talk about foreign-policy challenges facing the trump administration and that begins right now with north korea. wanted to start with your view on how the trip administrationhe has handled the north korea problem over the first few months of the trump administration? guest: the first thing to recognize is that north korea issue is as you say a problem, not a crisis. the last couple of weeks everyone has gotten hysterical

october 1, author new york times columnist, maureen dowd will discuss her books, bush world, are men necessar necessary, mics will talk about his books including his latest, the undoing project. he is written the big short, and the new, new thing. join us for

october 1st arthur and new york times columnist maureen dowd will discuss her book bush world is a men yesterday? and the year of voting dangerously. november 5th michael lewis will talk about his books included the undoing project. and a big sure and the new new thing. that is booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> financial book festival. >> this year's book festival is exciting. it is one of my favorites because i'm a big nonfiction fan and the types of offers we will have from david mccullough to every reading list you can imagine in every book club. it is an exciting time. i am thrilled. >> how many authors do you invite? >> when you think of a one day festival at a book festival and you have over 100 authors from children's authors, illustrators, graphic novelists, all day, 100 people go in and celebrate books, you can have a better time and i am a librarian, any reader or anybody to get inspired, the book festival is the perfect place. >> the 17th year of the book festival. >> one of the first

his books include amazing grace; october 1st, author in "new york times" columnist maureen dowd will discuss her books. november 5th, michael lewis will talk about his books. >> in his book, "why will son matters" tony smith writes about woodrow wilson's lasting influence on american foreign policy. he talked about the book at southern methodist universities' center for presidential history in dallas. this is a an hour and a half. >>> i found that in the age of trump it's important to choose your words very carfully so i consider them to be both wilson experts. to my mind, professor knock has done more than anything totle us what woodrow wilson had to deal with, and kell us the history and moments of woodrow wilson, to tell us what he confronted and how he confronted it and the development of his own thinking in the world he lived inch professor tony smith is the other side of the coin. has done more than anyone to tell us why this matters, because frankly, everybody president since wilson -- it's not been a question whether or not they are wilsonian but how much. still continue to g

it and to this day, tony kushner thinks he lost the oscar for best screen play because maureen dowd and others made a big to do got something that was easily avoidable. the first line was thank you for not giving this to argo. which won the oscar. which was historically inaccurate. do you remember the story in argo, there was no dash down the run way. but i loved the movie. i didn't answer the original question. i thought daniel day-lewis was astonishing, really brilliant. >> my fear is when people now think of lincoln, you think of daniel day-lewis. when you think of patton, you don't think of scott. >> daniel day-lewis is a great looking guy, i mean that's an uptick in the image making process. >> well, i don't know. >> well, we were going to talk about some of that image, that lincoln as a towering presence. zbr . >>> we'll get to that in a moment. one of the things i thought was brilliant about the movie, was it showed lincoln and how he was at his best in that bare knuckle political fight. especially, i think, or typical americans, they don't like to see lincoln in that light. they

arthur and new york columnist maureen dowd will discuss bush world. are men necessary?and the year of voting dangerously. michael lewis will talk about

october 1, author new york times columnist, maureen dowd will discuss her books, bush world, are men necessar necessary, mics will talk about his books including his latest, the undoing project. he is written the big short, and the new, new thing. join us for in-depth, at noon eastern. >> mrs. helen barrett is here tonight in celebration of her book. she is the university distinguished professor of psychology at northeastern university. with appointments at harvard medical student school massachusetts general hospital in psychiatry and radiology. she received a national institute of health director's pioneer work for her research on emotion in the brain. she's elected member of the royal society of canada. here's a sampling of the praise for her book. in the review, the library journal says, she presents in new neuroscientific explanation of why people are more swayed by feelings the facts. she offers unintuitive theory that goes against not only the popular understanding, but also that of traditional research. emotions don't arise, weather, we construct them on the fly. furthermore,

and to this day tony kushner thinks he lost the oscar for best screenplay because maureen dowd and the times made such a big to do about the aerror that was avoidable. when we won the award, his first time was thanks for not giving this to "argo" which won the oscar. do you remember the movie? there was no chase down the runway in the real story. nobody cares. they care about those lincoln details. >> so i think -- >> but i loved the movie. i didn't answer the original question. i thought daniel day lewis was astonishing. brilliant. >> my fear is now when people think of lincoln, they're going to think of daniel day-lewis. it's like potton, you don't think of patton, you think george c. scott. >> lincoln would probably be happy. daniel day lewis is a great looking guy. an uptake in the image process. >> i don't know. >> we were going to talk about that image, lincoln as a towering presence. >> we'll get to that in a minute here. we're fine on time. one of the things i thought was brilliant about the movie is it showed lincoln and how he was at his best in that bare knuckle political fi

the president has no idea how to talk to scouts appropriately -- host: that's a taste of what maureen dowd is writing this morning. and looking ahead on book tv in october, maureen died will be our guest for three hours to talk about her books, her work, and take your calls. that's on the first sunday in october. john's in pennsylvania. john, you're in a swing state. how is the president doing so far? caller: well, i think he's doing a terrible job. and it does not surprise me. i expected this. host: did you vote for him in november? caller: no, i did not. i voted for john kasich in the primary, and then i voted for hillary clinton. i know trump for probably 25 years. i went to atlantic city. and remember, these are the casino owners that are backing trump. every casino owner. there are 525 billionaires in america. not every billionaire is a casino owner. but every major casino owner is a billionaire, and they're the ones -- and this gambling in these casinos no longer even resembles gambling. it is simply -- these machines have been allowed, they've been allowing these slot machines to pa

maureen dowd come in my office, famously compared him to the character from star trek. if you remember, he was also have human varian human though t isn't a bad comparison to think of. there's the humanistic side just as. to each one of the presidents. he liked to stay up watching sportscenter and was a fierce competitor on the basketball court, a real trash talker. he was jostled with these twentysomething-year-olds and then if they missed this shot, you know, he told ambassador to russia you've got to get it going. he had a side to him that we didn't see that was pretty powerful. in fact, he was a family man who made sure to leave the oval office by 6:30 every day to have dinner with his kids. he used to say one great thing about the white house is looking above the store he got to see his family more than he had on the campaign trail. he was very good about going to the girls basketball games on the weekends, so we did get the motorcade and go out there and wait in the car for the ambulance in the back while he's going and coaching basketball. and there's even the em

not maureen dowd. i wish she would write-- gail collins. great work on this. number three, who said this? i don't believe there's a red state in america where people believe you should put medicare ap social security. who do you think said this, current member of the senate, from a blue state and not a democr democrat. bernie, who said bernie, very good, bernie sanders. number four listen carefully to this one. there's a lot of room for improvement in social security. we owe our children the financially sound as possible. they deserve to be protected by it. senator, republican, a leader of the party. mitch mcconnell. amazing, right? not amazing. who said this? but here is what i would tell people of my generation, 40 and over. there isn't going to be social security. there isn't going to be social security if we don't make reforms to save the program now. take a wild guess. close. got the party right other side of the house, ran for president. my generation, who turns 40. marco rubio, you've got it. very, very good. a marco rubio quote when he turned 40. we wi

maureen dowd will discuss her book bush world. and the year of voting dangerously.chael lewis talks about his books including the latest, the undoing project. he has written the big short and the new new thing. join us for in-depth first sunday of the month at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. one of the things we like to do is talk about books that are coming out later this year. joining us is lawrence o'donnell. his new book coming out in november is called playing with fire, the 1968 election and transformation of american politics. mister o'donnell, why do you have the word transformation in the subtitle? >> so many things were transformed utterly in 1968. for example, that is when what is

october 1 opera "new york times" columnist maureen dowd will discuss her books bush world, and the year of voting dangerously. november 5 michael lewis will about his books. join us for in-depth the first sunday of the month at noon eastern. that's booktv on c-span2. >> next i discussion on the fight against ebola outbreaks. doctors and public health officials talk about ongoing research, treatment and response efforts to the disease. this panel discussion was hosted by the center for global development and is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> thanks to all of you for coming to the center for global job today for this discussion of tension -- the tension between i think that sound effect is appropriate when i say the tension. for the tension that might exist between the need to deliver humanitarian care when there'seh an outbreak as serious as the recent ebola outbreak, and the need to actually learn, learn what works to address thatre outbreak, especially in the case where the outbreak is of a disease which is emerging, for which at therapeutic does not exist and even a vaccine

october 1 opera "new york times" columnist maureen dowd will discuss her books bush world, and the year of voting dangerously. november 5 michael lewis will about his books. join us for in-depth the first sunday of the month at noon eastern. that's booktv on c-span2. >> next i discussion on the fight against ebola outbreaks. doctors and public health officials talk about ongoing research, treatment and response efforts to the disease. this panel discussion was hosted by the center for global development and is 90 minutes. [inaudible

arthur and new york columnist maureen dowd will discuss bush world. are men necessary? and the year of voting dangerously. michael lewis will talk about his books including his latest, the undoing project. he has also written the big short and the new new things. join us for in-depth the first sunday of the month at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. negotiations are underway with the united states, texaco and canada to modernize the north american free trade agreement. earlier this week mexican trade officials were among the group of panelists who discussed how the nafta talks will impact mexico. this panel discussion hosted by the wilson center in washington dc is two hours. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. if you are looking for a place we are willing to sell these seats at a deflated price, there are scalpers outside, don't use them, just give the money directly to me. welcome to the wilson center. thank you for being here. when we talked about doing an event in august a voice inside my head said you are crazy. in washington no one will come. maybe nafta is im

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