i was not read either of "all in," the fiction and non-fiction. there's an interesting book coming out, talking about books coming out, and fred caplan has one called "the insurgents," considering a new breed of soldiers that tried to redefine the role of the military, and general petraeus is one much his major subjects, i think. be interesting to see whether the personal scandal will have died down enough to get back to the policy issues of the role of the military and the role of generals. >> guest: one side benefit related to the katherine book is they pushed up the publication of the book in large part of the reaction to the ongoing scandal so, it was, i believe, going to be late january, and now it's the beginning of january. >> host: we also want to look at award winners of 2012. the national book awards, as we have mentioned, katherine "behind the beautiful forevers" won the national book award this year, but the nominees were "iron curtain," "passage of power," "the boy kings of texas," and "the late anthony: house of stone." bob, any comm

part of four days of non-fiction books and authors through christmas days. as the electoral college met monday, we spoke with a social studies teacher at pioneer high school in ann arbor, mich., about how she teaches the look for a process in use the c-span as a resource. >> tracie van newsom is a high school and social studies teacher. >> tracy is a high-school social studies and history teacher. fellow, and she is joining us on the phone. what is your approach? >> the electoral college is something that is definitely challenging to students. they have heard of it before, and fortunately i have been using the like doral college map. it shows who got the votes in 2008. it has the new census figures, so i explained it in my unit. we talk about the fact we do not directly elect the president. he or she is indirectly elected through the system, and we talk about how many votes each state very attentive, because this is not something they are familiar with. >> the lesson plan is also teachable videos. more information. whether it is still relevant. what kind of

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books both non-fiction and fiction about the supreme court of the united states. the supreme court doesn't seem to come out much during the presidential debates. it generates a lot of bocks. i can tell that from the pile of books on my desk that come in and i never quite get to all of them, unfortunately. the authors we have on the panel illustrate the range of works about the supreme court. we have claire cushman who written a wonderful history on the permit on the court. we have jeffery toobin is as fresh as today's headline or breaking news alert. there's fiction too. anthony francis book is a fast-paced thriller which six justices justices are shot by the second page. a long -- it touches a lot. it teaches a a lot how the supreme court works. then there ared to peppers and art ward who have written several books about the justices and the law correct. -- clerk. you might wonder what do they have in common besides the fact they are about the supreme court. i believe that all the books are built on the founding assumption that the supreme court is about more tha

he's a novelist, and this is a non-fiction book "wandering souls: journeys with the dead and the livingin vietnam." professor, thank you for joining us. thank you. immigrated out west to illinois to georgia lee that. where the mine industry was hay day. he arrived after about a month's journey by ship, by stagecoach, by train, and a arrived in the steam boat in the muddy mining town. boarded himself in a log cabin. established a law practice in a log cabin and slowly worked the way up and became a successful lawyer in georgia lee that and got involved politically ran for congress. served for eighth terms and

this year's national book award winner for non-fiction "behind the beautiful forevers." katherine boo profiles. the late reporter and war spond recalls the capture in lib are libya and return to his grandfather's estate in the national book award nominated "house of stone." in "marigold" james history and swcial affairs professor at george washington university reports on the peace plan dubbed "marigold" and aim to end the vietnam war in 1966.

booktv will feature several of these lists focused on non-fiction collections. these were included in the staff picks for best books of 2012. in the unlikely rise of vladimir putin, masha gessen recounts life of vladimir putin. and the history of the fbi and its secret intelligence operation. in "enemies", a book by tim wiener. and a book between white house and the supreme court. "the oath", by robert draper. and one man's remarkable odyssey from north korea to freedom in the west. blaine harden recounts an escape from a north korean political prison camp. for links to these publications, visit booktv.org or facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> you know, i think the challenge for us is that we want to be on every device for every person at every hour of the day. and we are a mobile society. and the challenges to make sure that we are on ipads and computers and phones and the traditional viewing that is in the living room on a high-definition television screen. the other challenge that we have, obviously, is the spectrum of finite resource. and others want tha

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[applause] [applause] [applause] >>> every weekend on c-span2, booktv with 48 hours of non-fiction books. and every night this week and next, booktv and prime time here on c-span2. >>> over the next four hours biography of president obama and the first lady. first a look at the gene yolings of michelle obama. and journalists and historian on the biography of barack obama. that's followed by edward kline who wrote the "amateur" about the president's life and career before reaching the white house. and later, the white house videographer for the first two years of the obama presidency. >> so this is always puts the missiles in cuba. the united states discovers that with our flight, our surveillance flights over there. then the tension builds and we have quarantine of blockade around cuba. one of the things that happens during the time the soviet submarine is found by american ships, and they start to drop missile charge, death charges on the soviet submarine. they knocked out the electrical system. carbon dioxide rising. people passes outside in the submarine. they have no communication. t

on the non-fiction side it was a very strong year. in particular we are seeing a lot of best of 2012 lists dominated by behind the beautiful forevers which was winner of the national book awards. we had robert caro's latest volume in his ongoing biography of lyndon johnson and andrew sullivan's are from the free which was recently published. >> host: hundred page compendium looking at different child-rearing examples of special needs children. those three books alone are substantial but are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is on for a nonfiction. >> bob minzesheimer, same question. >> it was a big year for dead presidents. you mentioned robert caro's fourth of probably a five volumes on lyndon johnson, just an incredible lack of reporting and writing, 20th-century american history. also the team of rivals published in 2005 is back on the best-seller list thanks to steven spielberg's movie lincoln. on our list was up to 20 or so which is remarkable for a series that is out so long. a new biography of thomas jefferson, just

[applause] >>> is there a non-fiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@v span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. here's a look at books being published this week. >>> now from albany, new york we hear about the state-mandated. it promotes cultural initiative through author presentations, film screenings, workshops and more. >> see each of them just vividly as i could see the posters. i'm donald faulkner. i'm director of the new york state writers institute. what we do, what i do is kind of intellectual. we bring a lot of writers through to albany to do readings. we do a number of other types of programs. events writing workshops and film series and programs with young writers and summer institute we run in czar tow saratoga. adventure but this thing ruined everything. >> go far and wide. find the west writers we can. it's like bringing the world to the particular place, and i don't think -- i can't think of any other organizations even some of the better known ones in major cities that have such a regular flow of creative

celebrating the fact that killing kennedy is the number one non-fiction selling book in the country,coln, number two after 62 weeks in the marketplace.ng that has never happened before in publishing history in the united states as far as we know. also the killing kennedy audio book, tonp seller this year. the kids book lincoln's last days is number one. trulyio incredible. thank you all. to the mail. steve from washington. bill, of course the network news did not show the violence in michigan. they're all union members. i'm a proud union member, steve. doesn't make any slant stories. there's no execute for it. frank from the pacific. i'm a proud union member and deemployer what happened in michigan. bill, your guest defending the union violence was irritating. please let liberals do their things on msnbc. i want to hear the opposing points of view. it's boring. that's why we maintain our number one status on the factor. we embrace robust debate. >> as a print journalist for more than 50 years, i agree you have to cover violent protests. glenn from oregon. i agree with miller. preside

booktv will feature several of these focusing on the non-fiction selections, these nonfiction titles were included in the foreign policy magazines must read books.

hides latest is "the secret knowledge" part of four days of non-fiction books an authors through newier's- new year's day on c-span2's booktv. >> i thought i would talk briefly about why the story intrigued me so much, a little bit about the reporting process, and, you know, bring it forward to today because that's what intrigued me and then open the floor to question. i admit, first of all, i'm not a holy cross grad which somebody thought naturally i must be an alum of the school to know the story. the way i came across the story is sam gracen, one of the men in the book, we were having lunch, and it was the same day that ted wells was a front page story in the "new york times" representing scooter libby at the time, so going way back, and he started to talk about his classmates, the other black classmates. he started to talk about father brooks. i was intrigued. i was partly intrigued because clarence thomas was one of those classmates, and i had nod read much about the interaction of justice thomas and father brooks so that just got me intrigued. i'm a business journalist. it was not a

it's the kind of non-fiction writing i like to read, you know, hearing it through a character rather than through, you know, statistics or whatever. i mean, along the lines of crime, one -- john carlisle, detroit blogger john -- [laughter] there he is. he took me to the weird place, a whole other story called club thunderbolt -- >> [laughter] >> yeah, talk about that later. we'll come back to that. >> yeah. the crime aspect of the story was, you know, this guy, chitchatting with them, and one of us noticed a whole in his front door that was crudely covered up with a board like somebody hammered it shut, and i was, like, what happened? he said he was upstairs one night watching leno and heard somebody breaking in, ran down stairs with a shotgun. he's heavily armed, had a gun hanging out of his pants with an arsenal he showed me. runs downstairs, shoots the guy through the guy, doesn't hit him, intentionally shot low, didn't want to hit him, called police, and it took police four hours to get there. they told him, next time, aim higher. i think it's a better way of sort of illustrating

the page and selecting the format. booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top non-fiction books and how how authors. tv booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] booktv is on location in las vegas at the annual freedom fest conference. we are interviewing several different authors here. we've pleased to be join by the vice presidential nominee for libertarian party for vice president of the united states judge james. who is also an author. his book is called "why our drug laws have failed and what we can go about it." judge grey, if we can start with your background. tell us about yourself. >> sure i was in u.k. l.a. that sort of thing then i was in the peace corp. two years in costa rica. by the way, you say i'm the vice presidential nominee for the libertarian. i will be the first peace corp. volunteer elected to national office. that's pleasing. after that i went law school, and it was being drafted i joined the naval rotc and was a navy j. a. g. attorney during vietnam. that's why i was being drafted. within a week of getting back from the peace corp. i received my notice

book tv will feature several of the books focusing on the non-fiction selections. these titles were included in foreign policy magazines must read books to give in breakout nations in pursuit of the next economic miracles on the set is another author we want to introduce you to a and this is brian. here is his book castor's secrets the cia and the intelligence machine. if you could start by giving us your background, particularly your cia background. >> i worked at the national intelligence council in washington for about 45 years. i ultimately became the national intelligence officer for latin america which is a tree or four-star military equivalent but it's a pretty substantial position and i had the responsibility for all of latin america and cuba and the analytical side of intelligence. estimate what does that mean? >> i was not a field operative. i didn't go out and conduct espionage or meet foreign agents. i was basically most of my career at the headquarters in virginia i had the national intelligence estimates, quite a few on cuba over the years, and many o

booktv, non-fiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> if you think of washington in 1835, 25 years beforecivil war, you know, what would you think? you'd think, well, you know, slavery was well entrenched, you know, the black people were miserable, the whites were cruel and indifferent, and it's actually not true at all. in washington, in washington, washington had about 40,000 people then as a city, 12,000 of them were black. the majority of the black people in washington, actually, in 1830 were free, were not slaves. out of the 12,000 black people, slightly more than half were free. >> what led to washington, d.c.'s first race riots in 1835? what part did francis scott key play? recount the almost forgotten chapter in american history in "snowstorm in august," part of four days of nonfiction books and authors on new year's day's booktv. up next, "after words" with the georgetown professor of history. this week, they discuss the untold history of the united states, a companion book to the documentary series. le it, they argue that u.s.

we will learn the winners of young people's literature then poetry and non-fiction and then fiction.does not mean that fiction is the most important. it just means that the fiction writers hold their liquor better than the poets. [laughter] [cheering and applause] there you go. i love that corner. i want to share something quickly that i think can benefit everyone the room. i heard story on public radio the other day. there's a certain branch of publicly that is enjoying the robust sales. apparently coffee table books are at that. i heard this on marketplace. who is applauding for coffee table books? [applause] table 33, is the coffee table book table. okay. so because we're all in this for the money, clearly, i'm thinking harrold next year it's the naicialt coffee table book awards. that's a makeover. right? but why wait? with a few tweaks, we could, you know, coffee tablize some of this year's nominees in time for christmas. a hologram for the king becomes a glossy 3-d separation of elvis. no. we continue have elvis lovers. the yellow birds is a tactile pop up book experience how b

senate and weeknights watch key public policy efforts and every latest the non-fiction authors and booksthe british house of commons for the annual debate. the students debated public transportation costs, jobs, marriage equality, the minimum wage, and school curriculum. speaker of the house john presided over the morning and afternoon sessions with few remarks by other members of parliament. good morning. what a joy it is to preside over such a calm and orderly chamber. [laughter] [inaudible] not together accustomed. it's the the forted meeting the u.k. youth parliament in the house of commons, and i want to underline just how hugely welcome you are by parliamently colleagues and i are thrilled by your presence all previous experience suggests you will speak well with passion and integrity and conduct yourselves in a fashion that is accredit to you and to all young people across the country. so each and every one of us here should look forward to the day with great interest and anticipation. the issues being debated today have been chosen by members of the youth parliament with the help

on weeknights watch key public policy events and every weekend the latest non-fiction authors and bookson booktv. you can see past programs and get the schedule at the website. and you can join us in the conversation on social media sites. >>> following protests against egyptian president mohammad morsi. an debate on election in muslim countries and leadership changes changes in arab springs. this is just over an hour. we're going to be asking the question islamist victory unavoidable and essential. this is the motion we'll be debated in the intelligence squared format for request from brian katulis who have done this once already to they had a practice round. they have not had a chance of doing this. i suspect they probably had some so scotchs and talked about ways. let me set the scene. it's time of revolution in the middle east. started with a group seller in tunisia. that sparked a full revolution in tunisia that toppled a 30-year dictator that spread to egypt and the egyptian revolution was a particular concern to the united states. egypt is -- credible in u.s. policy in the middle

part of four days of non-fiction books and authors on c-span t2. >> leaders of the house and senate armed services committees finish the negotiations on the defense programs bill or the fiscal year 2013. that package includes a pay raise for military members and places of when your restrictions -- on ee year restrictions. the house is expected to pick it up on thursday. >> good afternoon, everybody. we expect most if not all of our colleagues to sign this bill. the bill authorizes $633 13llion in fiscal year 20 yea defense. we have successfully completed a conference report. hopefully we will get it passed. some of the matters which have been of great interest in the media i will comment on briefly and then turn it over to german mccain. -- chairman mccain. it has come upon us to put sanctions on iran. this changes -- the sanctions are very strong. we broaden the exceptions that would be allowed for the sanctions. we broaden the application of the distinctions two additional persons and sectors in iran. they designate the people in the shipping areas in iran as entities of proliferation a

>> i think i published eight or nine non-fiction books, losing track, and this is the fifth novel. i just like writing. >> host: are you teaching this semester at yale? >> i'm still a full time law professor. since i started writing novels, most of which sold well, people asked if i would stop teaching. i love being a law professor. that's my job. writing novels is a kind of hobby. it's something i do to get a break from the other things that i do, and as long as people keep reading them, i'll do that too. >> when you first wrote your novel, why? what got you over the first hump? >> i always had characters floating in the head whose stories i wanted to tell as though they were crying out in there to let them out, and even today when i write a novel, before itch a plot out line, i have characters in mind, people whose story i would like to tell, usually people who showed up in an earlier novel of mine, a minor character, and then i elevate to someone else with a story. the novels are one way or another, thrillers or mystery, and i put people in od situations and write them out of th