in his new memoir he writes about its beauty and endless possibilities as well as his fears about the ways digital technology is affecting our minds and influencing the world. we're glad you've joined us. computer scientist and author jaron lanier, coming up right now. ♪ ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >>> please welcome jaron lanier to this program. more than 30 years ago he founded the first virtual reality company and is widely credited with popularizing the term. his new memoir, "dawn of the new everything: encounters with reality and virtual reality," gives us a glimpse into his unusual childhood and how it led in part to his lifelong relationship with technology. an honor, sir, to have you on this program. i saw the maureen dowd piece on you, did you like it? >> oh, yes, charming piece. >> it opened my eyes to things about your life that i didn't know, so i was honored to have you on the program. i promised you that if you -- so first of all, yeah, thank you, so explain why you have no shoes on. >> this is the fourth time in my

tonight, part 2 of my conversation with virtual reality pioneer jaron lanier, his new memoir, and his fears about how technology influences our minds and affects our world. more with jaron lanier in just a moment. ♪ ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >>> pleased to have jaron lanier back on the program tonight. his new book is "dawn of the new everything: encounters with reality and virtual reality." if you're wondering why i have my shoes off, it's because he has his shoes off. if none of that makes sense to you, go back to last night's show and you'll understand how the shoes ended up coming off last night. if you missed last night's show, go to pbs.org and you'll see how our shoes were discarded last night. last night you were just getting into something that was really starting to really -- i was trying to process it. this notion of -- can i say negative stimuli. >> absolutely. >> for those who forgot where we left off, pick up on this notion of black lives matter. you take it. >> so i was describing this process whereby people do so

tonight, part 2 of my conversation with virtual reality pioneer jaron lanier, his new memoir, and hisbout how technology influences our minds and affects our world. more with jaron lanier in just a moment. ♪ ♪

and so kind by and gives a reading from his book the years that there's a new memoir that also recounts a trip to prague. the site of the gravestone sunk obliquely into the earth and the thought of the legend of rabbi lerner who created the gollum and again up small stones have been placed on the graves according to jewish cemetery customs. in total the culture train is due to roll four times between dresden and the czech capital at times it will feature czech artists it's the start of a series of collaboration between the dresden state art collections and proulx national gallery and we plan to start exchanging the works from our collections like when the prague national galleries trade fair palace is renovated starting in two thousand and twenty our prague colleagues have generously offered to loan us these collections of important works while their galleries closed. the train takes two and a half hours to reach prague the listeners are won over by the culture express its release on you weren't usually on a train when you go to a reading the whole atmosphere is a wonderful. travel this

he is the author of a new memoir of his time in the ford administration.ald ford in the rescue of the american presidency. mr. secretary, it's great to see you. haven't seen you in a while, thanks for stopping by tonight. i want to start with the big news of the day, the president's decision to move the capital of israel to jerusalem. why is everybody so upset about the timing given the fact that this has basically been on the books since 1995? a huge bipartisan support, most presidents, all the presents i can think of said they were going to do it and they didn't. >> i guess the reason it's an issue is because there are countries around the world that would prefer that it had not been done. it's a no-brainer. it's the right thing to do. president trump made the right decision, he stepped up and did it. it's inevitable that there will be some criticism about it. but i just can't imagine any country in the world that doesn't believe that they have the right to have their capital where they wanted. >> laura: here are some of the criticism that you mentioned.

she was out promoting her new memoir >> i have the direct number to the white house but i not reallyere because milania is there i don't want to cause any jealous i'm basically first trump wife, i'm first lady. >> youch. milania didn't like that too much. clapping right back in statement. there's clearly no substance to the statement from an ex-x, this is attention seeking and self-serving noise. to be fair, attention seeking and self-serving noise is the motto in the trump family. and sounds better in latin. and just this weekend, i ivana was at it again. she said this on a talk show in ireland. >> i mentioned this when we were talking about you earlier on you were the first lady. >> well, i said i'm first trump lady. >> do you think she's doing a good job as first lady milania >> i think she's trying her best. >> meow. with all this going on i feel bad for the first lady i wanted to give her equal time to respond. please welcome back to the late show, first lady milania trump. madam first lady thank you. >> hello steven, thank you for having me >> i want you to feel like the late s

alice waters is the author of this new memoir called coming to my senses. i think the book is mesmerizing because of the subtitles, the making of a counterculture cook. today we will talk about food as a tool for change. and we will talk about her 46-year-old restaurant in berkeley which have been at the forefront of the organic food movement. she is a titan of the industry. and another titan is here, a chef that continues the tradition of using food as a tool for change, jose andres. he returned yesterday from puerto rico. [applause] marybeth: where his nonprofit was on the ground for one month serving an island that is still 75% without power since hurricane maria. it all started with the tweet on september 24 and read, does anyone in d.c. have a satellite phone i can borrow? kind of urgent. he was on the plane to puerto rico. in the months he was there, he delivered as of yesterday 2 million meals. [applause] marybeth: that is more than the red cross and that is to be most remote areas of puerto rico. this is by boat to people without food and water. man

his new memoir chronicles that period.s called "the doomsday machine: confessions of a nuclear war planner." and in it, ellsberg argues very little has changed about what he calls our immoral and insane policies regarding nuclear weapons. daniel ellsberg welcome to the newshour. >> thank you. >> brangham: the title of your book comes from the famous stanley kubrick movie where a rogue u.s. military officer launches an attack on the soviets and as those weapons are flying, it's suddenly revealed that the soviets have built a" doomsday machine." this enormous global booby-trap that, if they're attacked, will kill every single thing on earth. >> it is not a thing a sane man would do. the doomsday machine is designed to trigger itself automatically! >> but surely you could disarm it somehow. >> no, it is designed to explode if attempt is made to un-trigger it! >> automatically? >> ah, it's an obvious commie trick, mr. president, we're wasting valuable time! they're getting ready to clobber us! >> brangham: at the time, it was

george galloway about his new audiobook street fighting a memoir of the nineteen seventies lost from this week's news of flip flop on gay rights in the philippines and lifting the lid on the white helmets in syria all this more coming up in today's going underground but first i'm joined by matthew saltmarsh of the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. in what has been another devastating year for tens of millions displaced by poverty and war matthew thanks for going on what evidence did you give parliament in the past few days about your visit to myanmar well we spoke to paul about the situation the humanitarian situation in bangladesh at the moment where of course the rangar refugees have fled over half a million of them six hundred fifty if you couldn't get in to me and presumably well we. we have stuff in myanmar but there are neighborhoods who actually go out and do humanitarian work at the moment so they're confined to their offices and homes at the moment but also the military government correct but of course the humanitarian effort is very much focused on the cox's bazar region of bangl

then former florida commerce minute cliff stearns on his new memoir. to former talk representatives about televisions influence on politics. we start with celebrities. kutcher is the cofounder of an organization thorn,foreign -- called defenders of children. he testified before the senate foreign relations committee. ashton: it is an honor to be here. as a young man brought up in the public school system, i pledge d my allegiance to that flag every single day, and the honor, maybe one of the greatest honors of my life today, is to be here, and leverage the work that i have done as testimony that may

new york. author of the memoir, 12 years a slave, a local african-american abolitionist. his memoirs were later adapted into a motion picture. learn more all weekend here on american history tv. >> i represent one third of the -- of new yorkm state. one exciting thing about my district is it is steeped in history. i've percent half of saratoga county. when you grow up in upstate new york, the battle of saratoga was one of the most important battles in the world. cook -- school kids growing up, the fact that they can learn about the battlefield as part of their curriculum, even with teachers and their family, it is tremendously powerful. this district is very independent. you look at our federal -- if you look at many of our local elections and our federal elected officials, people go to the ballot box and vote for the individual who they think will be the strongest advocate for their communities and their region, so i think i reflect the viewpoints of the district, and i think i also reflect my generation. if you were to ask millennials -- and i am an older millennial if

all weekend, american history tv is featuring sarasota springs new york. memoir "12 years a slave" was a local african-american abolitionist. himo

we'll get his reaction to the alabama vote and the new memoire that may have clues about his future. traditionally republican state of alabama surprised the world by electing a democratic senator >>> a win by jones seemed highly unlikely. the president won alabama last year by nearly 30 points. >>> losing that seat is going to put more pressure on republicans to pass their tax cut before their majority shrinks >>> sort it out for us. how big is it? >> most of the republican members including the leadership are relieved. >> paul ryan? >> i'm not going to quote people specifically, but generally they're relieved. that said, it is a wake-up call >>> these text messages were uncovered by the office of inspector general which is currently reviewing how the hillary clinton e-mail case was handled >>> said kristen gillibrand came to him begging for campaign contributions. >> do you have multicolored lights? >> if you have multicolored lights and you're not sure what color the decorations are -- >> do you color coordinate the lights and bulbs? >> absolutely, sir. >> they have medicine for th

she is not just our chief meteorologist, but also -- well, she has a new memoir called "natural disasterfe story and showing us a side of herself you have not seen before. you got this? >> yeah. i hope so. >> so proud of you. i've read the book, ginger, i know, get ready. you refer to yourself as a natural disaster. why do you give yourself that title. >> i mean it goes well beyond you see me on the cover. i am messy. my husband will tell you that too but it's well beyond me being messy, it's choices i made and some of the life developments i've had. some of the frustratings i've been through and what i've learned in the short time in life i know i've had so far and so it goes -- it dives into that while i'm covering the world's biggest natural disa you said why me to write a book. you said what have i accomplished? you know that she is the first female chief meteorologist of the network level. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. it's exciting. women in science. >> all right. and when i'm out on the road you are someone that people ask me about. little girls look to you. so what made y

george galloway about his new audiobook street fighting a memoir of the one nine hundred seventy s. loss from this week's news of flip flop on gay rights in the philippines and lifting the lid on the white helmets in syria all the more coming up in today's going on the ground but first i'm joined by matthew saltmarsh of the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. in what has been another devastating year for tens of millions displaced by poverty and war matthew thanks for going on what evidence did you give parliament in the past few days about your visit to me and. well we spoke to paula about the situation the humanitarian situation in bangladesh at the moment where of course the range of refugees have fled over half a million six hundred fifty if you couldn't get in to me and presumably we have star in myanmar but there are neighborhoods who actually go out and do humanitarian work at the moment so they're confined to their offices and homes prevented by the military government correct but of course the humanitarian effort is very much focused on the coxes bazaar region of bangladesh and it'

sputnik orbiting the world has just released a new audiobook street fighting a memoir of the one nine hundred seventy soon to be available by our order will dot com he joins me now george welcome back to going underground is a pleasure the near liberals the blairites in corbin's party the mainstream media they all say the seventy's is something we used to club jeremy corbyn odds on favorite to be the next prime minister over the head with why in your latest work are you reviving the idea of this terrible period well actually it's the tories that have taken us back to the one nine hundred seventy s. a hung parliament minority government dependent on of stuart loyalists vituperative the european union a madman in the white house i could go on trust me the course of the seventy's are actually not in germany corbin's policies labor force and one to general elections in one thousand nine hundred ninety four on a manifesto way to the left of germany corbin's for a state bank nationalizing the pharmaceutical industry and so on because they were military dictatorships at the in the seventy's

new dniester nonbook tv. >> this is where ulysses grant and his memoirs was dying of throat cancer. his family was facing serious financial problems. at this point he was a man trying to take care of his family. we get to tell a story that most don't know about. >> then andrew mckenna shares his book, sheer madness. >> growing up i thought the person addicted to heroin looked under a bridge was pushing a shopping cart around. that's not the case. one of the most abused drugs on wall street among traders, and the sorry of the professionals come our opiates. >> that will take a trip to the saratoga race course. will visit the saratoga national start park. >> they said the battles of saratoga were the most important ever fought in the entire world in the last 1000 years because they resulted in the general surrender. it's the first time ever that a british army surrendered. >> the c-span cities tour, working with our cable partners as we explore america. the first circuit court of appeals is considering a challenge to the travel ban which restricts travel to citizens of a country's. th

it was a big party for ginger, her book party for her new beautiful memoir. "natural disaster."bout every aspect of your life talking about depression, which really has really touched a lot of people and it's flying off the bookshelves because it's already -- the publisher already ordered a reprint. >> if you didn't get it, it's coming back. it was such a good party to see family, friends, people that i hadn't seen for a long time. my old students and, of course, all of you your bright and shiny faces. it was almost too much emotionally to have all that support and love. but i have to thank everybody who has not only read and bought the book but the people that reached out after we had our interview and told me their stories because that's what this conversation is starting and it's unbelievable to hear how many people have been touched by this and how many people hope to see the sun shine some day. >> when you said that, you know what mess your message and you have done that. >> i took that to heart. >> did you expect it reaction, though? >> i expected some. i don't think i eve

>> >> he wrote a memoir as "the new york times" declared he was a great man and the dole book because he didn't reveal too many secrets. but my grandfather had an extraordinary career because he served the country in three wars and he helped make poison gas during world war i and and became president of harvard and because of the wartime experience and a chemist by training and was recruited by roosevelt as a general of world war two in charge again of all chemical weapons including the bomb and ended up to oversee the manhattan project where they built the first atomic bomb and then one of the key architects and then became a key adviser with the nuclear weapons policy how to confront the russian threat how to become ambassador to germany -- germany when they thought the war might to be fought right there on the lines because of soviet aggression and because of the entire wartime experience the only way for democracy to survive to be a strong country was to have a great school system to show that democracy was better than a dictatorship to have sufficiently talented people and govern

. >> >> he wrote a memoir as "the new york times" declared he was a great man and the dole book because he didn't reveal too many

new york. author of the memoir "12 years a slave" was a local abolitionist. his memoirs were later adapted into a motion picture. learn more about cerda said -- sarasota springs all week on american history tv. >> my district is located in the capital region, northern hudson valley. it is an area rich in history and heritage. very much in in -- an inspiration to the westward movement, industrial revolution sparked by an erie canal, a waterway that was developed by then governor clinton. saratoga springs is a great tourism attraction. ,n native american expression there were names applied to this place that spoke to the moving water, mineral waters that were seen as a source of healing. that drove a lot of attention and a settlement to the area. so that it had that underpinning of natural element. when you ask about the tie policy initiatives or area, itns and policy would be about energy and environment. sometimes, the linkage is not and it isenough, cited against water and energy, a lot of given opportunities for us to be innovative. with water efficiency an

foreign policy and whether it's your perception that those memoirs are in fact substantially inaccurate because they did not reflect all of this new information that has come to light. >> there's a lot that the memoirs are not able to reveal because it still classified though i will tell you as a person who spends a lot of time thinking about how broken our national declassification system is in thinking about our national fetish secrecy and in fact we saw a great documents released on this the most important thing released in that was not who did it, we already knew that, but the most important thing was confirmation that the cia was holding back documents because they didn't want them revealed because they were embarrassing and they used the phrase sources and methods to say you cannot have these and that's a phrase no one is allowed to a sale and you cannot look at these documents to be say you can't because it's too dangerous and we now know because of the jfk documents that is being used for political reasons and not for national security reasons. so, there's a lot of things they cannot say in the memoirs and really bothers m

new book and into the election. an enthusiastic crowd, many with copies of hillary's memoirs "what happened." it is my great pleasure to welcome hilary clinton. >> the night was moderated by jennifer winer. clinton talked about her time in the dnc and the night before the election. she got down to what happened in pennsylvania. >> i needed to win the suburbs 15 points and i would have won the state. that's how democrats usually win in pennsylvania. >> she says the late reopening of the russia the investigationr dearly. she hopes the book will inspire more women to enter politics. >> the only way to get sexism out of pol politics is to get wn into politics. >> i feel we were shut down during the election and during the primary. >> clinton spoke and russian interference and called on president trump to get to the bottom of it. >> there were so many times during the campaign i wanted her to say what she had on her mind. she said it tonight. >> clinton addressed sexism in the workplace, she didn't bring up the recent high profile allegations of sexual harassment. trish hartman, channel6 "action n

casual friend of general grant since recent -- civil war, he showed up in new 1884,ity in the fall of as grant with starting the memoirs. he asked the general, could i look at your contract? he looked at the contract and said later on, he said, i did not know whether to laugh or cry , it was the worst contract i had ever seen. it was only offering 10% of the profits. he said, that is inappropriate for a man of your stature. he said, i have a publishing firm, i can offer you 70%. it was an incredibly generous offer, especially for a man that was known to be held. they did not know he was dying, but they knew he was ill. grant was reluctant at first, he was an honorable man, he said century magazine came to me first. that is when mark twain pulled and ace out of his pocket and said, general, if you remember in conversation a few years ago i asked if you could write your memoirs then. grant eventually went with twain's offer which was impossible to refuse. mark twain had his nephew in law running his publishing firm called charles webster, that was the name. it was called charles webster in -- charles webster and company.

. >> we spent all that time memoirizing it. >>> a new saudi arabia report announces the crown princee mysterious buyer of the da vinci painting. we love having this video for our records. it was a very special day i have to say when it was in the studio in the corner. the wall street journal reports he used a prorksy to buy the masterpiece. holy williams just returned from saudi arabia. she's with us from istanbul how this could reflect the prince's vision for the kingdom. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. crown prince mohammad bin salman is a fan of the arts but this purchase which we cannot confirm comes after the corruption crackdown on saudi arabia's wealthy elite. crowning prince salman is the successor. the reported purchase of a pipting for nearly half a billion dollars might not look good in the midst of leading a corruption crackdown, though there's no hint of ill-gotten gains. it's pocket change. >> $20 billion a year. >> $20 billion a year has been lost to corruption. >> it's negligence, overspending. >> reporter: al ta'u roy jiri took over. some were held locked up

foreign policy and whether it's your perception of those memoirs are in fact substantially inaccurate because they did not reflect all of this newnformation that has just come to light. >> good question. there is a lot of information that the memoirs are not able to reveal. because it is still classified. but i will say one of the things that is a person who spends a lot of time thinking about how broken our national declassification system is and thinking about the national fetish with secrecy, in fact families are great example of this with the recent jfk files that were released. the most important thing was confirmation that the cia was holding back documents because they did not want them revealed because they were embarrassing and they used the phrase, sources of methods is that you cannot have these. that is the phrase no one is allowed to a sale. you cannot look at these documents and we say can't because it is too dangerous. we now know because of the jeff document that would being used for political reasons not for national security reasons. so, there are a lot of things that cannot say in the memoirs. and it really bo

new york. solomon northup, author of the memoir "12 years a slave" was a local african-american abolitionist. his memoirs were later adapted into a motion picture. learn more about sarasota springs all weekend here on american history tv. >> i represent 1/3 of the geography of new york state, a wide swath of the state of new york. what is the excitingng

new book. "things that matter" is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kiss-and-tell. it's a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prize-winning columnist. or maybe it's more than that. >> are you decoding my book? >> i am decoding it right now. >> like it's entirely about me. >> [ laughs ] >> but it's all written in hieroglyphics. >> well, it's not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. let's start with part one of your book, and it is titled "personal." and in there, the first column is really an incredibly moving piece about your brother. marcel krauthammer died of cancer. he was 59. charles writes this about his older brother. "he taught me most everything i ever learned about every sport i ever played. he taught me how to throw a football, hit a backhand, grip a nine iron, field a grounder, dock a sailboat in the tailing wind. and how we played. it was paradise." tell me about that. >> it was a paradisiacal childhood. my brother and i were inseparable. he was four years older, which is why this was a priceless gift. he always insisted i be

that is stephen westaby, heart surgeon and the author of a memoir about his time as a heart surgeon. the headlines on bbc newsy commission quits — with the rest of the board — warning that the prime minister is failing to build a "fairer britain". president trump faces accusations that he obstructed justice, after suggesting he'd known that his former national security adviser had lied to the fbi. children in england are to get to access mental health support at school or college under government plans to improve services. sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. it is holly. what is the latest on the cricket? i am afraid it is not exactly the cricket? i am afraid it is not exa ctly ba d the cricket? i am afraid it is not exactly bad news but it has been rained off for now. play has been abandoned which could come as a relief for england. the aussies declared on 442—8 and put england into bat under the floodlights. an unbeaten century from shaun marsh was the base for australia's strong position. england lost opener mark stoneman — he made 18 before being trapped leg before wicket by mitchell

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new york. next, the life of solomon dorsett, a saratoga springs resident who was lord into slavery and whose memoirinspired an oscar-winning movie. >> where in secaucus springs and across the street there is a historical marker. he was lord into slavery just about a block or two from here and he ended up in louisiana as a slave so he can finally become a free year man again. it was unknown to scholars who were starting again but when the film came out, that changed because it got all kinds of different awards including postures and it just really helped to increase awareness of solomon northop's story. solomon came to saratoga from washington county about 1834. he had been doing farming over there but he and his wife decided to make a change. she was an accomplished crook so she was able to get work as a cook at the different hotels over the years. he would do various odd jobs, sometimes he would play his violin for parties or dances and so forth. he also would do some labor when some of the railroads were coming to town, he worked on those and during the summers there was work driving people aroun

. >> he did, in fact, he wrote a memoir called my several lives, the only problem with it it was new york times declared he was a great man and it was a dull book because he was a buttoned down yankee and he didn't reveal too many secrets. my grandfather had extraordinary career because he -- the country in three wars essentially, too hot andn one cold. he became president of harvard and because of his wartime experience and because he was a brilliant chemist by training, he ended up being recruited by roosevelt to be one of scientific generals, he was in charge again of all chemical weapons but that included a new weapon and he ended up overseeing the manhattan project, laboratory at los alamos where they built the first atomic bomb. he had advised roosevelt and became key adviser to truman and ie -- eisenhower during cold war and how to control nuclear weapons, how to confront the russian threat. he later became ambassador to germany during theom height of e cold war when it was believed that the third war might be fought, right there on the lines of east germany because of the sov