>> we are back live at the national book festival professor malone from mit with the power of people and computers and before we get into that the topic ofs the book. >> at the school of management midirector of the mit center for collective intelligence.ou >> i teach two main courses on strategic organizational design in these different situations like wikipedia and then the workshop where i help students learn about the capabilities and with that collective intelligence center and of those things that i wrote about in my book that was in a very general way to act collectively so by that definition every company or nonprofit is a collective intelligence our market and community and democracy are all examples of intelligence so to flesh that out a little bit i talk about as collectively intelligent systems and that i realized a short way to say that was super mind how the hyper connectivity in 2019 changed quick. >> from my point of view that is a very important part of the super mind that is possible. many people are overestimating artificial intelligence i think it will be very imp

kelly harding explores a link between mental and physical health. >> we are back live at the national book festival. we're pleased to have join us now on our book tv set professor thomas malone of mit. here's his most recent book. it is called "superminds, the surprising power of people and computers thinking together". before we get into the topic of the book, professor, what is it that you do at mit? >> i'm a professor in the sloan school of management and director of the mit center for collective intelligence. pleasure to be here. >> what kind of management training do you give at mit? >> i teach two main courses. one is an mba course on strategic organizational design, about how to organize companies in different situations, including innovative new things like wikipedia, for instance. and the other is a leadership workshop where i talk about -- or help students learn about different capabilities for leadership. >> what is the collective intelligence senter? >> we study the kinds of things that i wrote about in my book. collective intelligence i define in a very general way as groups of individ

author and national book festival literary director maria rhonda, vice history of latin america. in macon, recounts going up is a member of the westborough baptist church. watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival. saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern. and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october. in miami book fair in november. i book tv, on c-span. >> earlier today, house natural resources code subcommittee held a hearing on legislation to create the smithsonian national american latino nizam. this is an average 20 minutes.

discusses his book the british are coming into to viewer phone calls from the 19th annual national book festival in washington, d.c.. this is 30 minutes. >> joining us now to convention center is plus or prize-winning author and historian rick atkinson. here is his latest book the british are coming, the war for america 1775 to 1777. you are very well known for your world war ii trilogy. you went back 200 years though. >> i did. i spent 15 years working at the liberation of europe in world war ii and when i finished the third volume having gone through north africa, sicily, italy and in europe speaking about what to do next the obvious thing would have been what to do for that campaign thathecampaign that i'e mediterranean and western europe. it is hard because in part i would have had to start the war over in pearl harbor even earlier and i've been thinking for a long time about what it is i really wanted to as a historian and a narrative writer and i've always had a fascination since i was a kid with the resolution. it seems to be more important than ever now so that's what i've done. i'm one

the civil rights movement and discussed her book and took phone calls from the 19th annual national book festivaln washington, d.c.. this is 45 minutes. >> host: here is the cover of her book child of the dream a memoir of 1963. what was your life like? >> guest: we were living in stamford connecticut. we had a house that sat on 6 acres and a lake surrounded by one so we had the privacy that my parents were seeking. it was a predominantly white commun i

the civil rights movement and discussed her book and took phone calls from the 19th annual national book festival in washington, d.c.. this is 45 minutes. >> host: here is the cover of her book child of the dream a memoir of 1963. what was your life like? >> guest: we were living in stamford connecticut. we had a house that sat on 6 acres and a lake surrounded by one so we had the privacy that my parents were seeking. it was a predominantly white community in northern stanford so we integrated ouroo neighborhood and schools. >> host: how many black people were living in stamford connecticut in 1963? >> guest: it was north stamford, so it was our family. there may have been two or three that lived up in that section of town and we just kind of desegregated ourselves. >> host: what do you remember about being one of the few african-americans? >> guest: i remember in children people asking i me my race and i would be feeling shy, didn't speak at all, wouldn't ask questions or wear my glasses because i didn't want to be different in any other way and i didn't understand that was part of my experience

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> we are back live at the national book festival professor malone from mit with

discusses his book the british are coming into to viewer phone calls from the 19th annual national book festivalhington, d.c.. this is 30 minutes. >> joining us now to convention center is plus or prize-winning author and historian rick atkinson. here is his latest book the british are coming, the war for america 1775 to 1777. you are very well known for your world war ii trilogy. you went back 200 years though.

national book festival and another call-in opportunity with author sharon robinson. her book, child of a dream, enemy more of 1963. miss robinson, where were you living living and what was life like. >> we were living in stand -- stanford, connection and a house on six acres and a lake and rounds by woods so we had the privacy my parents were seeking. it was in a predominantly white community in northern stanford. so integrated our neighborhood and our school. >> i did want to ask that question. how many black people were living in stanford, california, in 1963? >> well, it was north stanford so that's -- mad mow -- had more land it and was our family. in '63 may have been more. may have been two or three. in that section of the south. very much signature segregated ourselves in stanford, connecticut. >> host: what would you. at that segregation, one of the fee african-americans. >> guest: i remember in elementary school children asking me if i bathed and me feeling very insecure, very shy, not -- didn't speak at all. i wouldn't ask questions. i wouldn't wear my glas

book festival from madison. saturday 11:30 eastern featuring former diplomat offering her thoughts on combating terrorism. democratic political strategist donna brazil reflect on her career. author and national book festival literary director maria ronald provides a history of latin america.

[cheers and applause] testify national book festival and another call-in opportunity with author sharon robinson. her book, child of a dream, enemy more of 1963. miss robinson, where were you living living and what was life like. >> we were living in stand -- stanford, connection and a house on six acres and a lake and rounds by woods so we had the privacy my parents were seeking. it was in a predominantly white community in northern stanford. so integrated our neighborhood and our school. >> i did want to ask that question. how many black people were living in

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kelly harding explores a link between mental and physical health. >> we are back live at the national book festival. we're pleased to have join us now on our book tv set professor thomas malone of mit. here's his most recent book. it is called "superminds, the surprising power of people and computers thinking together". before we get into the topic of the book, professor, what is it that you do at mit? >> i'm a professor in the sloan school of management and director of the mit center for collective intelligence. pleasure to be here. >> what kind of management training do you give at mit? >> i teach two main courses. one is an mba course on strategic organizational design, about how to organize companies in different situations, including innovative new things like wikipedia, for instance. and the other is a leadership work w

mat barbara said, marie has done so many wonderful things including being central to the national book festival in washington i go to whenever i can as an author, which is one of the premiere events in the country, and the wisconsin book festival is doing a great job of following in that line of wonderful books and authors and appreciating the reading life. so, marie, welcome to madison. >> thank you. so such blue to being here. thank you for having me and what a welcome trip to make this morning to come to madison,-week, i'm very glad to be hero. >> i want to start with conception. i know that in some sense it was your peruvian aunt who said, explain this, right? >> right. >> so that gets your mind thinking. how did you go about coupling up with what you could call the trinity or what you call the crucible of these three ways to explain this vast place? >> i always reach into my family somehow to get the gears moving, and it was my aunt -- not only my aunt but also new godmother this, father's sister who we were just thatting one day about simone bolivar. i just finished a biography who was th

book festival from madison, starting saturday at 11:30 eastern. featuring former diplomat, offering her thoughts on combatting terrorism. democratic political strategist donna brazil reflects on her career. author and national book festival literary director provides a history of latin america. and megan talks about growing up as a member of the baptist church. watch live saturday. be sure to catch the texas festival in october and the miami book fair in november on book tv, on c-span 2. >>> this saturday on american history tv, we are featuring political cartoons, at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the influence of american cartoons in world war ii. >> batman and robin, both have their fingers up for the v in victory sign and saying keep the american eagle flying. buy war bonds and stamps. >> at 10:00, on real america, on the 75th anniversary of the 1944 presidential campaign, the animated short bent for election. >> joe? >> yes, sam. >> take a look at the timetable. only one of these can get through to washington. 44 is a single track, you know. >> yeah, but sam, are the american people on board? >> sunday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on american artifacts during the heritage days in carlisle, pennsylvania, we visited a world

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book festival in october. in miami book fair in november. i book tv, on c-span. >> earlier today, house natural resources code subcommittee held a hearing on legislation to create the smithsonian national american latino nizam. this is an average 20 minutes. >> i'm going morning. the subcommittee on national parks forest and public lands will now come to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on hr 2420, the national museum of the american latino act. on committee rule for is, any opening statements and hearings are limited to the chair and ranking minority members. therefore i ask unanimous consent that all of her members opening statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the course by 5:00 p.m. today. the hearing no objections, so ordered. in addition to the broad interest in today's hearing i would like to ask unanimous consent and all interested members to join us and participate. and before we get started, i would like to take a point of personal privilege and have a moment of. [silence] for our friend, our colleague, defender of justice and equality, and humidity mr. elijah cummings. [background sounds] >> thank you all so much. tha

book fairs and festivals around the country including including this week of coverage of texas book festival. next coming up the baltimore book festival will take place in city's inner harbor, later national book award in new york city and live from miami book fair with 2 days of author talks and call-in programs on november november 23rd and 24th, to watch our previous festival coverage click the book fairs tab on our website, booktv.org. >> here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books, according to new york times topping the list msnbc's rachel maddow argues oil industry has weakened democracy around the world. gladwell's examination of how he misread stranger words and actions, after that fox news gregg jarrett offers thought on mueller investigation in witch hunt followed by united states of trump bill o'reilly's look at the life and career of president trump. wrapping up our look at some of the best-selling nonfiction books according to new york times is the book of gutsy women, some of the authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them online at booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] >> starting now live from the texas book festival a look at president trump's

mat barbara said, marie has done so many wonderful things including being central to the national book festivalto whenever i can as an author, which is one of the premiere events in the country, and the wisconsin book festival is doing a great job of following in that line of wonderful books and authors and appreciating the reading life. so, marie, welcome to madison. >> thank you. so such blue to being here. thank you for having me and what a welcome trip to make this morning to come to madison,-week, i'm very glad to be hero. >> i want to start with conception. i know that in some sense it was your peruvian aunt who said, explain this, right? >> right. >> so that gets your mind thinking. how did you go about coupling up with what you could call the trinity or what you call the crucible of these three ways to explain this vast place? >> i always reach into my family somehow to get the gears moving, and it was my aunt -- not only my aunt but also new godmother this, father's sister who we were just thatting one day about simone bolivar. i just finished a biography who was the liberator of six r

wisconsin book festival from madison starting saturday at 11:30 eastern featuring former diplomat fair ra pandif. democratic political strategist donna brazil reflects on her career, author and national book festival literary director maria ronna provides a history of latin america and megan fephelp roper recounts growing up as a member of the baptist church. watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern, and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and the miami book fair in november or book tv on c-span2. >>> amy mckinnon at our table this morning. she's with foreign policy magazine here to talk about ukraine and the origins of this impeachment inquiry. let's go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, obama administration. what is u.s. policy toward ukraine at this time? >> u.s. policy towards ukraine since ukraine's independent from the soviet union has been fairly consistent in pushing ukraine on anticorruption reform. that's been one of the corner stones of u.s. messaging in ukraine for decades, and that's been fairly consistent, both under barack oba

book festival in madison. featuring former diplomat for a panties, offering her thoughts on combating terrorism. on herrazil reflects career. author and nationalival director provides a history of latin america. megan phelps roper recounts growing up as a member of the westboro baptist church. watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival saturday at 11:30 a.m. eastern. be sure to catch the texas book festival in october. on book tv on c-span two. washington journal mugs are available at c-span's new online store. go to c-span store.org. check out the washington journal mugs and see all of the c-span products. >> washington journal continues. votedyesterday, the house 354-60, with 129 republicans joining democrats to oppose the presidents withdrawal from syria. we want you to let us know what you think about this debate. here is eliot engel. during the debate, he drafted this bipartisan proposal with mike mccall, who is the wrecking republican on the homeland security committee. [video clip] >> what kind of message does this send to the world? how can america be trusted to keep its word and we disc -- when you betray one of our close

author a national book festival literary director maria ironic, provides a history of that in america. megan recounts growing up is a member of the westborough baptist church. watch our live of the wisconsin book festival saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern. and be sure to catch the texas book festival, in october in miami book fair in november on book tv and cspan2. this saturday, and american history tv, we are featuring political cartons. at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the influence of american cartoons, in world war ii. >> and their fingers up for the v for victory sign in there staying the american big eagle flying. >> and at ten, new america, on the 75th anniversary in the 1944 presidential debate. the animated short that for election. >> trumpet playing. forty-four is the singletrack you know. come >> yet but sam are the american people on the board. >> sunday at 6:00 p.m. eastern, un-american artifacts during the annual heritage days in carlisle, pennsylvania. we visited a world war ii u.s. army battalion aid station. >> this is the mobile member just a room. like any emergency roo

national service. announcer: book tv has like we can coverage of the festival of books from nashville, tennessee startingurday at 11:00 a.m. eastern. our live coverage from the southern festival of books continues on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. at 2:00 a.m. eastern, and author discusses her book "learning from the germans." samantha power talks about her book "the education of an idealist." and david katie with his book "religion of fear." starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern saturday and 1:00 p.m. eastern on the tv on c-span2. sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern on afterwards, and her love," susan"tough rice talks about her life and career in american diplomacy and foreign policy. she is interviewed by robin wright, author and columnist for the new yorker. -- were you worried about russian intervention? >> is important for the people -- it is important for the american people to understand it has not stopped. they were involved in 2016 as we ,aw through emails from the dnc they try to infiltrate our electoral system. they put out false information. then, they were very active on social media trying to pit americans

would like to welcome all o >> i would like to welcome at the 31st annual southern festival the books today at the national public library thank you for hosting this event we have been a great partner for several years and we just want to say thank you. the festival of books is an annual event presented by humanity's tendency and all who contribute to that organization for that support of the written word and community history and civil discord one - - discourse our story and our state and also to help us to tell and preserve ourto stories. >> so a bed of housekeeping i will introduce ourl author and will share some stories and insights of the book, no surrender and then opened the floor to questions if you do have a and question please ask with the microphone at the conclusion feel free to join us at the tent where pastor edmonds will be to get a copy of his book and to hear more about his story. senior pastor of the baptist church in tennessee and chief executive officer and also the edmonds foundation with the university of tennessee from liberty university teaching leadership and his wife lives in tenn

book, on the plane of fate. our live coverage from the southern festival of books start sunday at 1:00 eastern. at 2:00 eastern, learning from the germans. and ambassador for the united nations, samantha power talks about her book with education of an idealist and david katie with his book religion of fear. watch live weekend coverage of the southern festival of books starting at 11:00 eastern on saturday and at 1:00 pm sunday on booktv on c-span2. this week you are watching booktv to see what programs are available every weekend. watch top nonfiction authors and books along with coverage of events, affairs and festivals and interviews on policy, technology and more. our signature programs, "in depth" and "after words". enjoy booktv this weekend every weekend on c-span2. >> welcome to secret science club north. hello, welcome. i am margaret mittelbach. >> i'm dorian devins. >> for anyone who is a first timer, we are a series that brings scientists of all disciplines out of their labs to the public stages. where people like you can

eastern and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and miami book fair in november, on booktv on c-span2. >> now portions of yesterday's democratic national committee women's leadership forum, nancy

for live coverage of the texas book festival in austin, then in november the baltimore book festival will take place around the city inner harbor and next month the national book awards will be presented in new york city and will be live from the miami book fair with two days of author talks and calling programs. for moreinformation about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch our previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our website . >> ..

eastern and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and miami book fair in november, on booktv on c-span2. >> now portions of yesterday's democratic national committee women's leadership forum, nancy pelosi on the upcoming elections, the impeachment inquiry and the passing of elijah cummings and remarks and democratic presidential candidate joe biden. he focuses on the violence against women act in the trump administration and offered that he would be able to beat donald trump in the 2020 election. ♪ >> house democrats are down with nancy pelosi, the once and future speaker of the united states house of representatives. >> nancy pelosi is the most powerful woman in american political history. >> that characterize the strength -- >> he has been speaker of the house not once but twice. and chief critic of donald trump. >> that is the way you clap when your husband finally puts the toilet paper on the roller. >> she showed him up in public and walked out of the west wing, put those sunglasses on and walked away in an image that has become pretty iconic. now whenever won betting against nancy pelosi. >> now deny her political acumen and succes

festival of books continues on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. at 2:00 eastern author susan niment discusses her book "learning from the germans." former ambassador to the united nations samantha pour talks about her book "the education of an idealist" and david cady with his book "religion of fear." be sure to watch our live weekend coverage of the southern festival of books starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern saturday and at 1:00 p.m. sunday on "book-tv" on c-span2. >>> c-span and the polling organization ipsos got together and did a poll taking a look at election security and the 2020 elect. to show you a headline from the hill this morning about the poll, a crisis of confidence is one of the phrases that came up, and joining us to talk about it is cliff young, the president of ipsos, and here to talk about the poll, mr. young, thanks for joining us. >> it's great to be here, pedro. >> the genesis of this poll, where did it come from? >> we actually have a relationship with c-span, with y'all, and we like to touch on important topics of the day. the last poll we did was actually on the moon landing a few months back. we found electoral reform and threats to the election

national service. book tv has live weekend coverage of the southern festival of books from nashville, tennessee starting saturday at 11:00 eastern featuring chris edmonds with his book. our live coverage from the southern festival of books continues on sunday at 1:00 eastern. at 2:00, and author discusses her book. power talks about her book. david katie with his book. be sure to watch a live weekend coverage of the southern festival of books starting an 11:00 eastern saturday and at 1:00 sunday on book tv. coming up in 40 minutes, president trump at a signing of an executive order on federal regulations. during the event, the president to questions on joe biden's call for his impeachment. here's a look. joe biden came out for the first time today to say you should be impeached. your response? >> he's holding like a rock. -- folding like a rock. we have him on tape with corruption. he's getting the prosecutor for $2 billion, saying we will not give you the $2 billion unless you get rid of the prosecutor because the prosecutor was gone.

for live coverage of the texas book festival in austin, then in november the baltimore book festival will take place around the city inner harbor and next month the national book awards will be presented in new york city and will be live from the miami book fair with two days of author talks and calling programs. for moreinformation about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch our previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our website . >> .. as a collection, "make it scream, make it burn" and they are so smart, so nuanced and it's fascinating to hear about and to read about the ethical complications of being a writer. there's tension between making art making beauty and exporting the people you write about. that's one of the recurring themes, all of these essays. there's also a lot else as well so it's great to have the here. >> it's wonderful to be here. >> one thing that so striking to me about this collection is this a very different kinds of answers. some are journalism, summer what i would callst criticism and thn you very personalal essays, revealing essays. arere you equally comfortable wh all those different kinds of writing

her book "learning from the german", former ambassador to the united nations samantha power talks about her book. and david cady, religion of fear. watch our live coverage of the southern festival of books starting at 11 a.m. eastern saturday and at 1 p.m. sunday on book tv on c-span2. today the center for immigration studies hosts a discussion on two reports. examining the cost of health care benefits to illegal immigrants. live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span2. yesterday vice-president pence visited iowa and made remarks on u.s.-mexico-canada trade agreement. ♪ ♪ ♪ . [applause] ♪ >> well, hello, iowa! . [cheers] . >> guest: to governor reynolds senator grassley senator ernst, former congressman david young, the epa's assistant administrator ann itsel to speaker of the house, pat grassley, all the local leaders and guests and neighbors and friends and to rob manning and manning farms, it is great to be back in the hawk eye state. thank you for that wonderful warm welcome! i'm really honored to see you all turned out today. thank you for taking some time away from work and your obligations to talk about an issue of great importance to iowa and great importance to

nations. here's samantha power. [inaudible conversations] ... [background sounds] that consent back ground sounds >> good afternoon and welcome to sunday of the 31st annual southern festival of bookshis festival is presented annually by humidity his tendency and it is is affiliate of the national endowment of the humanities. public financial support helps make this a free if it and for information on how you can donate please go to communities . org and before i introduce our featured guest please let me provide a brief logistical information. you should and can visit the tent on legislative plaza and chopper titles by the author lineup. that will certainly include some of the powers new book, the education of an idealist mmr and a portion of book sales and fits the festival. ambassador power will sign copies of her new book and the author tent which is located was from the nasa tent. now about her guest. actress connie britton is the boston native. she was raised in virginia and graduated from brockman college. her feature debut was in the independent film, the brothers mcmullen. a great film. she has since starred in numerous films and talk television programs including friday n

book festival in washington, d.c.. [applause] good afternoon. i'm the chairman of the national endowment for the humanities and on behalf of my colleagues, i want to welcome you to the pavilion we have funded. before we start, could we just acknowledge the wonderful work the library of congress and the staff. [applause] it is my honor to have you been with us for this special session. i know you know a lot about her books and achievements but i still want to make sure to highlight a number of planes from her biography. she's a professor of religion at princeton university. she holds a phd from harvard and is a recipient of the macarthur fellowship which is commonly known as a genius fellowship and she was awarded the national humanities medal in 2015 and this is the highest award the federal government gives in to does our agency that nominates those individuals to the president. broadly supported by the humanities for the endowment especially that discovered in 1945 and out of that group of scholarship and the author of the commercially successful books including of course whi

ambassador to the united nations for the obama administration, samantha power, on her new memoir. booktv on c-span2 is live all weekend at the texas book festival. check your program guide and follow along behind the scenes on social media @booktv for more schedule information. >> while we wait, here's a portion of tonight's "after words" program with republican senator rand paul of kentucky discussing his latest book, "the case against socialism." >> guest: see, in the abstract they said we're going to have fairness, but the thing is you have a conception of fairness, i have a conception of fairness, representative omar might have a conception of fairness. but for her to inning voc hers on us if we disagree with her, she's not going to sell us her ideas, she has to send the police, basically x. this is where it breaks down because -- and this is the, i think, why maybe it's become popular and the idea of fairness, is they can fake fairness with things like charity and being your brother's keeper. i believe we should be our brother's keeper. i believe in christianity and the idea that we should take careover of our people. but that has nothing

book festival will continue with the discussion on the trump administration's immigration policies and later today you'll hear from obama administration official samantha power on her time as u.s. ambassador to the united nations and after that, the political influence of big tech, we are live at the texas book festival all weekend. in the meantime here is a look at recent author interview program after words with michelle. >> you have a middle class in mÉxico and nafta, our goal and objective as a society to have encouraged economic growth without hemisphere, mÉxico, the northern triangle, we want to depressure for people coming here, isn't part of that the economic situation and making sure we stand up and stand up for free trade. blocking the president's goal of getting usmca done because she doesn't want to give him a victory, why don't we remembering nice that in order to stop the magnet to stop from coming, for us to have a secured border, everybody know what is the rules r they are welcome to come here through the open doors and that would result in better lives for the people in the other countries. >> i agree with you, the formulation is that interior enforce rent and enforcement of our own borders is

festival of books continues on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. at 2:00 eastern author susan niment discusses her book "learning from the germans." former ambassador to the united nationsa pour talks about her book "the education of an idealist" and david cady with his book "religion of fear." be sure to watch our live weekend coverage of the southern festival of books starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern saturday and at 1:00 p.m. sundn

welcome to sunday of the 31st annual southern festival of books this festival is presented annually by humidity his tendency and it is is affiliate of the national endowment of the humanities. public financial support helps make this a free if it and for information on how you can donate please go to communities . org and before i introduce our featured guest please let me provide a brief logistical information. you should and can visit the tent on legislative plaza and chopper titles by the author lineup. that will certainly include some of the powers new book, the education of an idealist mmr and a portion of book sales and fits the festival. ambassador power will sign copies of her new book and the author tent which is located was from the nasa tent. now about her guest. actress connie britton is the boston native. she was raised in virginia and graduated from brockman college. her feature debut was in the independent film, the brothers mcmullen. a great film. she has since starred in numerous films and talk television programs including friday night lights, american horror story and of course nashville. in 2014, misprint was named a goodwill

festival of books continues on sunday at 1 p.m. eastern. at 2 eastern, susan nyman discusses her book, learning from the germans. former u.s. ambassador to the unitedded nations samantha power. and david katie with his book, religion of fear. be sure to watch our live weekend coverage of the southern festival of books starting today at 11 a.m. eastern and at 1 p.m. sunday on booktv on c-span2. .. the shock doctrine in the recently published, unfired, the burning case for green new deal. >> you for joining us in our studios here in new york. we are branding and marketing, is the big business orn it may begin your first book no logo. did you learn about nike and microsoft and starbucks in branding. >> sure, great to be with you and have the sign. when i was writing the no logo, came out of the very beginning of 2000, so it's almost exactly at 20y years old, the period in which i was recent

book festival in washington, d.c.. [applause] good afternoon. i'm the chairman of the national endowment for the humanities and on behalf of my colleagues, i want to welcome you to the pavilion we have funded. before we start, could we just acknowledge the wonderful work the library of congress and the staff. [applause] it is my honor to have you been with us for this special session. i know you know a lot about her books and achievements

national service. book tv has live we can coverage of the southern festival of books from nashville, tennessee starting saturday, 11 a.m. eastern featuring chris edmonds with his book, no surrender. many others are featured. our live coverage from the southern festival of books continues on sunday at 1 p.m. eastern. niemanm. eastern, susan discusses her book, learning from the germans. samantha power talks about the education of an idealist. book,cady with his religions of fear. coverage, 11 a.m. saturday and 1 p.m. eastern sunday on c-span two. participatingout in c-span studentcam at 2020 competition? resources on our website to help you get started. check out our getting started and downloads page on studentcam.org for producing info and video links to footage in the c-span library. teachers will find resources on the teachers material page. >> anyone who wants to compete this year, find a topic you're truly passionate about and pursue it as much as you can. >> we are asking students to create a short documentary on the issues you would like presidential candidates to address during the 2020 campaig

national security advisor susan rice. coverages live weekend of the southern festival of books from nashville, tennessee, starting today at 11:00 a.m. eastern, featuring chris evans with his book, "no surrender," jason with "a good provider is one who leads," "the plane of you jonesnd site talks about his memoir, "how we fight for our life. " at 2:00 eastern, suzanne nine , astalks about her book samantha power talks about her book, the education of an idealist. livese to watch our weekend coverage of the southern festival of books, starting today at 11:00 a.m. eastern in at 1:00 p.m. sunday on booktv on c-span2. this morning, we will talk with journalists around the country for a look at how the house impeachment inquiry is impacting congressional districts i

festival of books continues on sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. at 2:00 p.m., an author discusses "learning from the germans." a former ambassador to the united nations, samantha powers, talks about her book. and david katie with his book, "religion of the fear." watch our weekend coverage of the southern festival of books, starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern on saturday and at 1:00 p.m. on sunday on the tv, on c-span2. next, the california congressman holds a town hall meeting with constituents in the 10th district in the modesto area. it is about 45 minutes. >> this is exciting. onther or not this is egged by extra credit, i do not judge. it is so fantastic to see all of you together exercising what ken was right to call your constitutional rights. one of the first goals of my office has been to set a new standard for accountability and openness in our community. that is why we have done 17, yes, 17 town halls in person across our community this year. three of them have been in manteca. i think at least three of them. and we have been trying to make sure that we are listening to every single voice in our community. whether you voted for me, you didn't o

festival of books. here in downtown nashville. today we are at the national public library and i like to thank them for hosting this if it and monday other sessions. they've been a great partner to this if it for several years and we just want to say thank you. southern festival of books is an annual if it produced each year by humanities tennessee, i would like to take those moment to thank humanities tennessee and all who contribute to the organization for their continued support of the written word and the writers, the young writers, community history and civil discourse in all things humidity here in tennessee. and humanities in tennessee like to say, our story and our state and i like to think humanities for helping us tell and preserver stories. so a pit of housekeeping before we began, in a moment i'll introduce our other and share some stories, and some insight from the book, no surrender. the conclusion of his presentation, we will open the floor up to questions and if you have a question, would you please ask that you come up to the microphones so t

book tv, television for serious readers. >> here are programs to watch out for this weekend, nashville with live coverage of southern festival of books, on author interview former nationaldviser un ambassador susan rice will reflect on life and career, jackie gringrich cushman. and extra day of book tv on monday with full list of author programs including talks by hillary and chelsea clinton, columnist michelle morgan and former nsa contractor edward snowden to name just a few, for a complete schedule of everything airing this weekend check your program guide or visit our website booktv.org. >> and starting now we are back live from the southern festival of books with paul theroux of his time in the u.s.-mÉxico border. [inaudible conversations] .. .. [background sounds] [background sounds]

book festival. and thank you to you and to our authors. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> and in just a few minutes, you'll hear from former u.s. ambassador to the united nations for the obama administration, samantha power, on her new memoir. booktv on c-span2 is live all weekend at the texas book festival. check your program guide and follow along behind the scenes on social media @booktv for more schedule information. >> while we wait, here's a portion of tonight's "after words" program with republican senator rand paul of kentucky discussing his latest book, "the case against socialism." >> guest: see, in the abstract they said we're going to have fairness, but the thing is you have a conception of fairness, i have a conception of fairness, representative omar might have a conception of fairness. but for her to inning voc hers on us if we disagree with her, she's not going to sell us her ideas, she has to send the police, basically x. this is where it breaks down because -- and this is the, i think, why maybe it's become popular and the idea of fairness, is they can fake fairness with things like charity and being your brother's keeper. i believe we should

book festival. here's a look at some of the events coming up. next month the baltimore book festival will take place in the city his inner harbor. later in november, the nationalk awards will be presented in new your city. and will be live from miami book fair with two days of author talks and programs on november 23rd to 24th. to find more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and watch our previous festival coverage click the book fairs tab on our website. tv .org. booktv visited the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley california where supreme court justice neil corset discussed his views the judiciary and the u.s. constitution and here's a portion of the program. >> we all know our first amendment rights. the fourth amendment rights, we know the bill of rights. we know how they contributing to our liberty. but i sometimes wonder if we don't appreciate enough separation of powers and how important it is. to our liberty. monday countries have wonderful bills of rights. it is my favorite. [laughter] promises all of the rights you can find in our bill of rights. every one of them and more. education, healthcare, and even my favorite,

information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch click the book fairs tab on our website, but to be battle. >> and now, but tvs afterwards, washington times national security columnist, bill gertz discusses china's efforts to become a global military and economic superpower. he's interviewed by paula, former under secretary of state for global affairs of the george w. bush administration. afterwards is a weekly interview program with relevant guesthouse interviewing top nonfiction authors about bill, congratulations and thanks so much for joining us today. your blog, we are going to cover a lot of ground. to seek in the inside up next china's strive for global supremacy. so, first of all why did you decide to make the book? >> this is my eighth book. and, in 2000 i bought a book called the china threat which was a play on what bashan calls the china threat. it was amazing and that they really predicted the emergence of a major threat posed by communist china. ever since they broke the apple i tried to do another china book and, every publisher i approached said we will not write a single topic china book. you can add chapters in china but we won't

national service. eastern,at 11:00 a.m. the book "no surrender," and "a good provider is one who leads," "on the plane of snakes," and the memoir "how we fight for our coverage from the southern festivalf books continuing sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. at 2:00, "learning from the germans." a former ambassador to the united nations talks about her book, "the education of an idealist," and the book "religion of fear." be sure to watch our coverage of the southern festival of books starting at 11:00 on sunday at 1:00 on c-span2. ♪ speaker plosive: the house will be in order. announcer: the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events from washington, d.c., and around the country, so you can make up your own mind, created by cable in 1979, c-span brought to you by your local cable provider. view., your unfiltered next, a discussion of russia-ukraine relations, hosted by the jon hopkins school of events and international studies, and a former secretary of state for the bush ministry should talks about the conflict between the countries, the impeachment inquiry of president trump, sanctions, and u.s. military aid to ukraine. this is one hour and 15 minutes. >> i would like to welc