we will talk to the editor of the book, mark krotov of melville house house. and guided through its most salient feature by scott horton an international lawyer and editor for "harper's magazine." scott wrote the national magazine award winning expo the guantanamo bay suicides a camp dealt as sergeant blows the whistle. he has done follow-up reporting and his review of the torture issue will be published into the april issue coming out in march. he is the author of a new book that is for sale and after mark and scott get to talk we will have time for plenty of questions. i remind you when you want to ask a question wait for someone to hand you a mikecromicrophone so it can be recorded. be patient. before we start, i want to emphasis this so-called report is actually a good read. a narrative with an author's voice, suspense vivid description descriptions, lots of irony, and a conclusion that merits the general reader. i assumed it would amount to a dry collection of facts that could be summarized in a few pages. but with consider diane feinstein work and the wr

the senior editor at melville house discusses the content of the torture report and the decision made to publish a paperback version. you are watching booktv on c-span2. i am rick macarthur the publisher of harper's magazine. i am delighted to welcome you to the first and what i hope will be an endless series of collaborations between book culture and harper's. book culture in columbus is a proudly independent bookstore located in the heart of manhattan's upper west side. harper's magazine as america's oldest continuously published monthly and it's for the best of american literature including fiction reporting, criticism and photography. as a part owner of the store harper's hopes to work over there. give them a hand. [applause] as often as we can to bring lightning authors and issues to the floor in front of a live audience of authentic readers and book buyers. tonight we are fortunate to present and discuss an extraordinary book the senate intelligence committee report on torture that is senator dianne feinstein's exposÉ of the central intelligence agency's program in the wake of 9

ezekiel emanuel discuss the health care system and mark krotov of melville house talks about the book publisher's decision to release the senate intelligence committee report on torture. for a complete television schedule booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors. television for serious readers. >> and now on "in depth" on booktv walter isaacson. the best selling author of several books including biographies of albert einstein benjamin franklin, steve jobs and henry kissinger took viewer questions for three hours. mr. isaacson is a former chairman and ceo of cnn chairman of the broadcasting board of governors and was the editor of "time." he currently serves as president and ceo of the aspen institute. >> host: so, walter isaacson what is theat link between avril hourlyman, ben franklin, steve jobs henry kissinger and adar can lovelace?: th >> guest: yeah, i think they're all create cannive minds, ander. that's what's intretted me throughout my career. to me, it's people who can come wound different disciplines like the arts and the sciences the way ben franklin di

i would like to speak briefly about how it is that at melville house seeking to publish this report toak a little bit about the kind of you know, the kind of literary history of this genre. because it is a genre. and we will talk about the origins of this report which are as interesting as the contents. publishers have been publishing reports like this for decades the one report was quickly turned into a book that became a best-seller that sold a million and a half copies, he became a book and sort of the modern era of this report i think really begins with this and the starr report is sort of an instrument documents but many of us came to it not by downloading it through the dial-up connections and trying to logon to find it, but we saw in our local wal-mart and there it is a great article published the day before this was released and in that article there is an interview with the founder of public affairs press and he says that we are going to publish this report, we are going to stop what we are doing and spend the next 72 hours putting this into a book. the publisher's pocketbook

in the same way that melville is embraced by radicals and conservatives.dicals and conservatives because of the ambiguity of the language that is used. that would be a way of answering your question. that is a great question. >> could you elaborate about your statement that the -- god became less active in human affairs as something to speak to after the civil war. yet with americans continued great religiosity. >> i elaborated on this yesterday and did not want to repeat myself. it was primarily among progressives. as i said yesterday, before the civil war, both abolitionists and slaveholders were evangelicals. southerners were seeking both a personal or a purity but then they started to , reform. the southern reform was to expand their vision of the good slave society. they did not see slavery as a problem. they sought it as a positive good. this all the bible as -- they saw the bible as sanctioning slavery. abolitionists also saw god as opposed to slavery. they were acting on god's will to end slavery. the passive reform for both northerners and souther

>>darya: if you look throughout fast-track is some semblance of melville the krommer the driver has 21ay by then you get a late fee plus 16,000 lay notices were sent out at the end of last year because will never got a notice in the first place there's also been a rise at recall wait time for customers dealing with officials use when the $50,000 a contract to provide technical assistance for the call centers. fire >>mark: are written in the past two weeks presents a one san jose neighborhood there infirmaries that have been an evergreen never meant to happen in gross but part of future is unclear a man was rather rotted by two men wearing ski mask. >>mark: it is also been known for home burglaries in the last few months. >>mark: the robber is happening in the evening residents said the burglars are happening on all of the day off as announced a patrol in the area. >>darya: and today is my kron 4 store in san francisco struck of new sign is making people angry this morning that is because it reads all nude outside of the club and it can be seen my parents and students across the street

the publishers melville house house books last year published the senate intelligence report on the cia's interrogation tactics. a senior editor wa

thor rou, melville, awe thorn or mark twain? >> mark twain. >> yes. which of the following is not a job teddy roosevelt held prior to entering the white house as president? not a job. new york police commissioner, dakota territory sheriff, park ranger, governor. >> b. >> that is incorrect. >> c. >> that is correct. park ranger. he was not a park ranger. two final questions. president franklin roosevelt reportedly suffered from a phobia, fear of what? fear of children, goests ghosts, children, the number 13? >> number 13. >> correct. on the way to a campaign stop in 1912, this happened and yet teddy roosevelt went on to deliver his campaign speech. confronted and killed a bear, helped give birth to his child -- >> he was shot. >> that is correct. nice job. jake, got all four correct. four points for jake. go back to your team. 20 points for each correct answer. >> your moment is gone. >> let's take a look at the scores. right now in third place, chris and don have 40 points. erin and john, 140 points in second place. taking the lead right now, jake and

a barber in melville, georgia offering a free benjamin button special to misbehaving kids.ou want to act grown you can look grown as well. he actually dated his own son and saw his grades improved. here's a picture of a guy with a giant humpback whale because he can't get off his phone. i am guilty of tweeted, i might miss the whale but as far as a haircut goes, i'm afraid my kids would say that's great, i liked it. it's pretty funny, what do you think? >> i did last year, it wasn't good for the broadcasting world. [laughter] so i have a 15-month-old daughter so i can't quite relate. >> i have actually been to georgia, there are town slogans. i haven't been to this barber but i like this guy. i think the problem is they have a lot of kids with nice haircuts but they have bad behavior. [laughter] >> when i was a kid my mom put the ball on my head. melissa: did that make you behave better? >> no, i certainly had to flip the switch. melissa: on a serious note there. okay, don't forget to tune into our new program with jamie colby "strange inheritance." it's an awesome show and

herman melville woods wrote who looks at lee must think of washington. in that so deep with grievous meaning that is that. i hope you'll read about an ibook and i hope you will come to washington to see some of the places i describe and i'm so thankful to all for coming. i'd be happy to answer your questions. thank you. [applause] [applause] yes? >> there's a story after the war in a church a black man comes forward coming of the story. myself i don't believe it but i would like you to comment on it. because it is told in several ways. could you comment? >> sure. the story is robert e. lee is in a church and there is a black man praying and robert e. lee and no one knows what to do. robert e. lee goes up and kneels beside him. that's a story that's been told by many people. the truth is we don't know. it was told many years after the event so it's very difficult to evaluate the accuracy of the story. i have just actually seen a recent article of people debating it so unfortunately i can't answer the question. if there is some evidence that something like

herman melville woods wrote who looks at lee must think of washington. in that so deep with grievous meaning that is that. i hope you'll read about an ibook and i hope you will come to washington to see some of the places i describe and i'm so thankful to all for coming. i'd be happy to answer your questions. thank you. [applause] [applause] yes? >> there's a story after the war in a church a black man comes forward coming of the story. myself i don't believe it but i would like you to comment on it. because it is told in several ways. could you comment? >> sure. the story is robert e. lee is in a church and there is a black man praying and robert e. lee and no one knows what to do. robert e. lee goes up and kneels beside him. that's a story that's been told by many people. the truth is we don't know. it was told many years after the event so it's very difficult to evaluate the accuracy of the story. i have just actually seen a recent article of people debating it so unfortunately i can't answer the question. if there is some evidence that something like

herman melville once wrote who looks at lee must think of washington, and must-thought deep and greatest meaning in his thought. i think we didn't for too long and hope you read about in my book and hope you come to washington to see some of the places i describe. i'm so thankful to overcoming and i would be happy to answer your questions. thank you. [applause] >> yes? >> there's a story after the war in a church a black man comes forward, you know the story. myself, i don't believe it but i would like you to comment on it. because it is told in several ways it could be very factual. could you comment? >> sure the story is that robert e. lee is in a church and a black man is praying, and robert e. lee -- and no one knows what to do because and robert e. lee goes up and he kneels beside him and that's the story that's been told by many people. and the truth is we don't know. it was told many years after the event, so it's very difficult to evaluate the accuracy of the story. i had just actually seen a recent articles of people debating it. so unfortunately i can't answer the question. if

ezekiel emanuel discuss the health care system and mark krotov of melville house talks about the decision to release the senate intelligence committee report on torture. for a complete television schedule booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. television for serious readers. >> barack obama is the first, probably not the last african-american president that you will cover. [laughter] but his grade on race relations isn't as high in your book as bill clinton's. >> because of first term. because of the first term. the -- i'm not going to say inaction, but because he did not come out. his second term there are two different barack obamas first term, second term. we see a more as i say african-american president who is african-american versus i'm president who happens to be african-american. he's comfortable in his skin now. he knows who he is. and he's not ashamed of it. first term he had to be strategic. he had to be very strategic. i mean, there was a fight within the white house even to pay the black farmers, you know? but he was the president who did give the black

and sunday at 10:00, senior editor at melville house looks on the u.s.ate torture report and why his company decided to publish it. an american history tv on c-span three all this month. this sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, and army sergeant held as a pow from 1963. a look back at the voting rights act a few years later. let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us. e-mail us. join the conversation, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. >> c-span city tour takes booktv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend, we partnered with time warner cable to texas. >> we're at the reading room of special collections at the library. dr. garcia, papers are the five ship collection we have here. he made it his life to help local and the on mexican-americans went to be more cynically active and to get the benefits they had coming to them as veterans, which was sometimes difficult for them to tame. this represents the case, and incident that occurred early

senator cohen: i think melville that is a real issue as far as their future. i think the answer, as far as non-nato members, we are unlikely to contest the militarily. i think we have to send a signal to reinforce the commitment to existing nato members, mainly states in the baltics. make a statement, make it clear that if russia moves against any member of nato, there will be a response from the united states. i think the european leadership i think we have appropriated some close to 1.7 billion in the last several years to increase training and preparation for nato members. then i would say, if russia continues to move aggressively, i think sanctions have to be much harder. i would certainly look at their banking system. i think the message has to go to the russians that, if you continue to behave in this fashion, you will pay a penalty. in the short-term, you may think that is the reputation with your people. but as oil continues to be at the levels and the fact we have sanctions against you, at some point in time, the people are going to turn against their

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sunday at 10 mark crow to have, senior editor at melville house books on the u.s. senate's torture report and why his company decided to publish it. and on american history tv on c-span3 all this month interviews with former korean war p.o.w.s. this sunday at 10 a.m. eastern charles ross an army sergeant who was captured by the chinese and held as a p.o.w. from 1950 to 1953. and just after 9, a look back at selma and the voting rights acts 50 years late we are congresswoman eleanor holmes norton and cbs news white house correspondent, bill plante. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments at c-span.org. or send us a tweet at c span #comments. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on guilter. >>> next, treasury secretary jack lew testifies about president obama's 2016 budget request. he also speaks about economic growth and taxes at this two-hour senate finance committee hearing. senator orrin hatch of utah chairs the com