. >> meg jacobs, it's really a pleasure to get a chance to talk to you here at the carter center. i -- and also welcome the audience that's come out tonight to listen to our conversation. meg jacobs is the author of "panic at the pump: the energy crisis and the transformation of american politics in the 1970s." meg is a, teaches history and public affairs at princeton. you've written -- this is your third or fourth book? >> something like that. >> something like that? you wrote a book i was interested in because we're going to be talking about conservatives, liberals, but one of them is -- you were the co-author of account gives -- "conservatives in power: the reagan years, 1981-1989." okay, interesting. >> okay. >> we're going to talk a bit about conservative politics and liberal politics, for that matter, too tonight. let's start with this, if we can. >> okay. >> and you correct me. you have a thesis for this book, and i'll let you describe it, obviously. but, essentially, what you argue in this book is that the two energy crises of the '70s -- '73, '79 -- >> yeah. >> -- essenti

and at ten, meg jacobs describes the energy crisis of the 1970s following opec's decision to ban the export of oil to the united states in 1973. we wrap up booktv in prime time at 11 with '60 minutes' correspondent leslie stahl. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> during booktv's recent visit to las vegas, we toured the private book collection of beverly rogers and discussed 19th century printing practices with her. >> i started collecting about 15 years ago. took a break to go back to school and get a master or's degree. i have been collecting seriously now for ten years. i collect books about books, which is a really interesting genre, because it includes everything from anecdotal stories from librarians and booksellers to bib lo graphical minutiae about paper andty position my, and i love it all --ty position my, and i love it all. focusing on collecting books that represent the publishing practices of the victorian era. and that includes more ways of publishing than we have today. what i have in here is kind of a handful of railway editions which are fun, colorful as

. >> meg jacobs, the book is "panic at the pump: the energy crisis and the transformation of american politics in the 1970s." thank you for taking us on a really fascinating journey. your research, your thinking through what happened, i kind of marveled at it as i read this book. thank you so much for joining me for the conversation and sharing it with the audience here at the jimmy carter presidential library. thanks. >> thank you. [applause] >> meg is going to be signing copies of her book in the lobby, so please join us in the lobby. thank you all very much. >> thanks, everybody. >> thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> and coming up this weekend on booktv on our weekly author interview program "after words" w political science professorrer looks at the rise of isis. plus, a round table discussion on donald trump's the art of the deal, and kareem abdul-jabbar weighs in on political and social issues. also this weekend, siddhartha mukherjee.

ceo meg whitman asked ryan how he could endorse trump who she called a demagogue and compared to hitler and mussolini. he said he backed trump to preserve party unity. joining me right now, nbc's jacob rascon, getting ready for the trump rally in tampa. jacob, good morning. what do we expect to hear today? >> we expect to hear more about hillary clinton. he's prepping his remarks coming up on monday, another one that may be off a teleprompter. by our count, he's given six speeches off a teleprompter. is it a change of tone? we're not sure about that. what we've seen is he has really two tones. he has one where he's given more high profile speeches like the apac speech, foreign policy speech, where he decides to go with a teleprompter which he's made fun of for months. at rallies he's never used a tell prompter. last night in richmond he didn't use one. he swings through new hampshire, pennsylvania, texas, we expect the same off the cuff trump that we've always seen. there is more pressure it seems than ever for him to change his tone a bit. during the primaries we noticed he could say just about anything he wanted and he would still win the primary and his poll numbers would still g