is the author of a collection of biographies of william buckley, and michael reagan. join our conversation with your questions. watch in-depth with author lee edwards live on sunday from noon until 2 pm eastern. and watch live coverage of the 2019 national book festival on saturday, august 31st on c span 2. >> we are back with our spotlight on magazine segment and we are talking to adam harris about his article, the education deserts of rural america. good morning.>> first of all, what made you focus on this particular issue?>> at the aspen idea festival that is hosted by the atlantic, essentially, remarked on how educational opportunities are not the same for people in room layer, as they are in urban cities and that comes back to this research that come out that essentially show how the gap has grown between urban environments and rural environments. so what you see is that in rural environments have a closing of the gap of people who have high school degrees. essentially you are about as likely to have a degree in rural america as you are in urban america. the grab

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reagan. join our conversation with your phone calls, facebook tweets -- see that on book tv on c-span 2. >>> more american history tv with author and journalist michael dobbs on his book, "the unwanted" which tells a story of jewish families from the french and german border. hosted by the jewish museum of maryland. this is about an hour. >> if everyone will take their seats, i am the director of the jewish museum of maryland. it is my pleasure to welcome you to tonight's program with michael dobbs author of the book, "the unwanted". we are delighted to be joined by the viewers of c-span. tonight's program is part of baltimore's spring of remembrance. collaborations, a collaboration of remembrance.

michael steele, it seems unrecognizable to me. we don't have to go back to 1860s to talk about lincoln. we can go back to ronald reagan in 1989 in his farewell address to america and what did he talk about? he talked about immigrants, that this party would be strong so long as we remained a nation of immigrants and welcomed refugees to our shores and welcomed immigrants to our shores and here we are, a party that loves -- and a president that loves to embrace ronald reagan doing the complete opposite of what reagan said they should do when he was leaving the white house and public service. >> exactly right, joe. even while reagan may have started off at times on the wrong footing, for example, launching his campaign in the heart of mississippi and calling up some of the racist past of america in that moment, the difference is he learned from that. and corrected and he recognized the greater calling of his office. and the enormous importance of the united states. and i think that that's what's missing here. donald trump doesn't care about any of that. >> yeah. it's -- it is shocking. sam stein, tell me, what happens to