right now were being joined on the outside start by professor and author, nancy mclean. you may have seen her earlier in the panel with david k johnston and with joshua greene. her book "democracy in change, the deep history of the radical right plan for america". >> host: is there vast right-wing conspiracy in america? >> by technical definition of conspiracy requires illegality. so there is not a conspiracy in american that sense. but is there concerted action by donors particularly led by charles coke, absolutely. he has been looking for ideas for over 50 years by his own estimation. he believes he found them on in the figure i write about the first u.s. southerner to win the nobel prize in economics. since 1997 coke in the network of organizations he works with have been building up an apparatus to transform our society and public life. >> there's a lot to break down there. >> in the speech that charles coke gave a 1997 when he began investing at george mason university in the center led by james b cannon he said that i want to unleash the kind of force that propelle

joshua greene and national book award finalist nancy mclean, participate. >> this is the tenth annual tucson festival books. we wish to thank the resource corporation for sponsoring the session. this will last one hour including questions and answers. following

[applause] and nancy mclean is a professor of history and public policy at duke. her book in the title of the session was a finalist for the national book award in the l.a. times book of the year last year. [applause] we should introduce myself. i'm to work for there is on a daily star mom columnist there. so, let's get into this so can have as much as possible. the making of donald trump 2016 and it's even worse than you think, great title. so i want to start with nancy, her book talks about the growth of the libertarian movement that you know best by the koch brothers pushing of it but she goes back into the history of it and how a man named james buchanan started this movement at the university of virginia in the 50s. one thing i was curious about his in what way the trump presidency embodies the libertarian movement that controls the state of arizona and how it departs from this. >> i would not say that buchanan started the movement but what he did in brown versus board of education was set out to develop a new school of economy of philosophy that would counte

right now were being joined on the outside start by professor and author, nancy mclean.you may have seen her earlier in the panel with david k johnston and with joshua greene. her book "democracy in change, the deep history of the radical right plan for america". >> host: is there vast right-wing conspiracy in america? >> by technical definition of conspiracy requires illegality. so there is not a conspiracy in american that sense. but is there concerted action by donors particularly led by charles coke, absolutely. he has been looking for ideas for over 50 years by his own estimation. he believes he found them on in the figure i write about the first u.s. southerner to win the nobel prize in economics. since 1997 coke in the network of organizations he works with have been building up an apparatus to transform our society and public life. >> there's a lot to break down there. >> in the speech that charles coke gave a 1997 when he began investing at george mason university in the center led by james b cannon he said that i want to unleash the kind of force that propelled

, joshua greene and nancy mclean will be joining us later for phone calls.his is book tv on c-span2. ... >> this is the tenth annual festival of books thank you for science advancement for sponsoring the session which will last one hour that includes questions and answers please hold your questions to the end following the session joshua greene will participate in a booktv interview and this he spent tent it will last between 20 and 30 minutes the other panel members will proceed immediately to the signing tent. books are available for purchase at this location any book you buy at the festival supports our literacy efforts. because you are enjoying the festival we hope you are member of the friends or a sponsor out of respect for other members please silence your cell phone and now i will introduce the author i know we all want to hear what they have to say. joshua greene is a bloomberg national league correspondent former editor at the atlantic from washington d.c. and the book that he recently put out is called double bargain. [applause] david johnson is a

right now were being joined on the outside start by professor and author, nancy mclean. you may have seen her earlier in the panel with david k johnston and with joshua greene. her book "democracy in change, the deep history of the radical right plan for america". >> host: is there vast right-wing conspiracy in america?