>>a host: this is booktv on c-span2 npr on the campus of chapel hill with history professor naomi klein her most recent park "the shock doctrine" the rise of disaster capitalism" >> host: joining a son booktv is professor burt franklin foer from univ. of north carolina. what do you teach? >> guest: in u.s. history american military history and civil 47 you have written several books as well. how did you get interested? because a little kid my brother got the american heritage volume for christmas and i just loved

naomi klein's book the shock doctrine like the drop little things in there to get people thinking a little more critically about stuff but i just think it's funny to make a subversive dance song about you know depleted uranium. another song hey liberals this is amazing because this is a ballad to almost the death of the liberal class i love it i want to read some lyrics for our audience this is an antiwar song this is the ballad of the bullet in the back of the people that brought you in a work day cowardly classes no sense of history what you call a liberal obama stickers with a peace sign i get that you're just as discussing. as i am i mean i am so dissolution of the two party system have other detest for the democratic establishment i feel like they're just as complicit but tim what would it be like if i'm wrong the wind see you know i wasn't going to vote it all ended up voted for i did vote for jill stein i think she's awesome but i just you know this form of government the state it's all got to go. clearly democracy is a failure clearly there are other ways that we can organize our g

continuing theme that we've seen in the our literature from russo to thorough to -- thoreau and naomi kleinoday. 1755, russo gave us the idea of the noble savage. a century later, thoreau told us about the joys of living at walden and advised us to, quote, cultivate poverty like a garden herb. a century after thoreau, we had rachel carson and silent spring. after that, edward abbey, the writer who has become the kind of, one of the stars of environmental literature in america. and since nearly the time of russo, we've also been harangued by the mall news i can'ts. 1798, thomas -- [inaudible] published his essay in which he said population growth is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce sustenance for man. 1968 paul ehrlich at stanford university, still at stanford university, came out with the population bomb, a book which was published by the sierra club. ehrlich claimed, quote, the battle to feed all of humanity is over. in the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death. consider this statement from the sierra club on nuclear energy, and it has been th