times" book award, awarded on april 20th science and technology nonfiction. tell us about this book starting off on our historical tour. >> 84 the chance to be here to be with two fantastic authors i started to write this book several years ago primarily as the study of the history of blood and took a life of its own pry noticed through research that the first pled transition to equates in the 17th century as a response to blood circulation by william harvey and then people wanted to test the idea so they started to put plywood liquor, booze, opium, of no, no water coming into the veins of dogs the ada is blood of early medicine you think lancet and bloodletting. it made no sense to the mind they had to test the idea and they tested the earliest predecessors lycopod critiques that blood did not circulate but a product of the digestive system. went into the system it was purified by the liver and it may go one way trip up to the heart and the blood was burned off. when harvey came up with the adr that the blood circulated, it was revolutionary. they started to

fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, autobiography and criticism.we're fortunate to have representatives on the stage this evening most exemplary works published in the past year. i'd like to extend our gratitude to all the authors who have come to join us tonight. and to say a special thank you to the representatives of our two finalists who are no longer with us manning maribold and allen willis. we're all excited to have you with us here. the national book critic awards were founded in 1974 at a conversation that took place in a hotel by a group of critics who wanted to establish a set of awards given by critics themselves. unlike other national literary awards there would be no books nominated by publishing houses, they would not be funded by publishers either. instead it would be the critics themselves who would nominate and judge the titles they thought most worthy. as robert poli, to noted a few minutes ago they did a fantastic job honored with the processes el's rag time john henry a convict's mirror, rw willis's a biography. in the 37 years

and the ardela literary composition prize in creative nonfiction. her work has been published in several an tholologies including our cheers to muses. in addition to writing and performing she published and hand bound artist books and is a photographer and print maker. lives and creates in oakland. i would like to introduce ahmwa. [applause] flesh of my flesh. the woman who invented clothes was a woman. she knew the power of a well placed leash. knew there was no looking back. once man laid himself upon her he was cleave into her. need the clay of her. she knew then shield always need a sheath. a shield from shame. the early pain of having been divided. >> first sin. forgive me for coveting my mother's breast until it bled iodine to deceive me. 165. you cried when i left for california. you and bastand figure the driveway. i didn't expect that from you. wasn't prepare for the weeping that would last until i cross the the state border. when i got to oakland my emotions leaked like a wildfire. they are the kind that destroy you, your security your she

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. ♪ >> i want first to introduce margaret cooley who writes nonfiction and poetry.th us from boston but having stepped off the plain from dublina daniel to be lynn a writer at emer son college. i want to start by reflecting back that those of you folks endeavored to reveal hidden histories of your family lives. we have spoken in advanced of today's conversation. it's clear to me you pursued the stories of your families histories for decades through genealogical work and writing and reflection. i'm wondering if can describe how you dot work you do and where the seeds of your curiousity, how they were planted and want compelled you to do this work. >> i would say that i was have much inspired since i lived in san francisco, california. we are a country of immigrants. in san francisco in particular, we have so many first generation americans. my husband is just became an american citizen a couple of months ago. i have friendlieds who are first generation from vietnam. palestine, israel. mexico, as i watch them struggling with their cultural identities and trying to mai

. >> april 20th, and it's up in the science and technology nonfiction. holly, why don't you tell us a little bit about this book and starting off our historical tour here. >> sure. well, first, thanks to the tucson book festival for the chance to be here and to, um, be with two fantastic authors whose work i admire a lot as well. so i started writing this book several years ago primarily as a study of the history of blood. and it soon took a life of its own. i noticed through research and also serendipity is that the first blood transfusions took place in the 17th century, specifically as a response in many ways to the discovery of blood circulation in 1628 by william harvey. from there people wanted to test the idea of blood circulation, so they started putting fluids -- all types of things, liquor, booze, opium, milk, water -- into the veins of dogs. because the idea in the 17th century is that blood -- and if you think about early medicine, right? the first thing you think about is leeches, right? and you also think about lance ets and blood let'sing,

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i've written a nonfiction book about the border called the death of jostling. i'm very honored today to present these authors on this panel which by the way is sponsored by the university of arizona press so thanks to them. here's our format. we are going to introduce our speakers and they're each going to speak terry briefly about how their book deals with the drug issue if it does, and in what way and then we are going to go into questions. out that a lot of you have questions. i have got a bunch of questions, but then we will cut off my questions and we will get you guys going. we only have one hour and it's one hour sharp. we don't have the information yet but i do want to find out where you can find these authors selling their books afterwards. where is it? 10b and we hope there is an escort to leave them there and perhaps you will want to buy their books. okay so we will get started right away. we have peter laufer to my left. he is a journalist, broadcaster and documentary film make or who is now a james wallace chair in journalism at the university of o

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you know, her writing at both fiction and nonfiction stands on its own two feet. and she's about ten years younger than ernest. she is going, ernest, cuba is yesterday's story. we need today's story. we need to go to europe. we need to position ourselves for the -- for the invasion, for what's going to happen out there. ernest resists. he says i have an important mission here in cuba and she goes off for a while to europe. he stays home, he writes her. he's an amazing letter writer. he writes five, six, seven letters a day and these letters, you know, they're not like tweets. you know, he's writing two, three, seven, eight, nine, ten pages to various correspondents. so there's a lot of correspondence between martha and ernest and they call each other names like bug and mookie and what not. and anyway, he stays in cuba, writes these sort of teenage romance letters. drinks, she goes off to europe. she's doing a good job as a correspondent. and getting ready for the big show. and the pressure is building up on here. how am i going to get ernest over here and save my

and the ardela literary composition prize in creative nonfiction. her work has been published in several an tholologies including our cheers to muses. in addition to writing and performing she published and hand bound artist books and is a photographer and print maker. lives and creates in oakland. i would like to introduce ahmwa. [applause] flesh of my flesh. the woman who

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> and now kitty ferguson talks about physicist stephen hawking's life and work at princeton university in new jersey. it's about an hour. >> well, it's a pleasure and a privilege to have been invited here to talk to you about stephen hawking and be about, um, my experiences writing a book about him, "stephen hawking, an unfettered mind." some of you may already know hawking's science well. nearly everybody knows something about him as a person. his disability, his legendary courage, his unlikely celebrity, and then a few ugly rumors about him as well. but he's more than a legend or a celebrity, he actually is a real person. and it's been my luck to get to know him just a little bit. i wouldn't claim, it would be inaccurate to say that i know him well. in fact, i think it might be inaccurate to say that more than two or three people in the world know stephen hawking well, and even they have their doubts. the way he communicates through his computer using very few words whi

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. >> is there a nonfiction of barbecue like to see featured tracks in this and e-mail at book tv and c-span.org. tweet us at twitter dot com / book tv. and now author of becoming american. he said down with book tv to talk about our book and her work at georgetown university. this is about 20 minutes. >> right now joining us on book tv is professor yvonne yes, back she was the author of this book, becoming american, though forging of arab and muslim identity and pluralist america. this is published by baylor university press. muslims start coming to the u.s. >> it depends. some people think there were here before columbus. some people think that at least one of them came with columbus. but major -- of the concentrated group started coming in the 1870's. >> why? >> well, mostly from lebanon because the famine. the young people were looking for work. there were in lebanon engaged in raising silkworms for the soap industry. and there was obliged. the mulberry trees died. and so they could not raise any more, but the other thing that happened this that japanese soap began to compete. the

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and today, our content of politics and public affairs, nonfiction books and american shift available on tv, radio and online. >> we have even had advice that we do not do as i did today and come in with a plain old white shirt and a summer tie, heaven forbid. now, i don't know whether my colleagues feel that this would be a better decorum for the senate. i see the distinguished senator stafford here nodding no. but perhaps the people of ohio would be glad to make a judgment on what they want to see me attired in here in the united states senate. so, mr. president, these are just a few of our concerns here in the senate that i'm sure that none of us will do a thing differently in the senate of the united states, now that we're on television. thank you. >> c p span, created by america cable companies as a public service. >> next a panel of u.s. ambassadors from countries including libya, egypt and tunisia, speak about the economic and political prospects in those countries and others. the national u.s., arab chamber of commerce hosted the eventis month. >> thank you, ambassador, for th

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prad doze has written 17 nonfiction books including "the hidden history of vietnam," "the blood trail" about the ho chi minh trail. "vietnam: the history of an unwinnable war." prados heads the iraq documentation project and the vietnam project. it is in his contract that i should mention his most recent book "the normandy crucible," which is not about vietnam. john prados. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. that was very gracious. let me also add my voice to those of all my colleagues congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, we were just talking about his tor i don't gofy. let me open on a his tor graphical note. it shows you kind of how the process goes and a time to read the tea leaves. the phrase decent interval actually comes from an article that henry kissinger wrote, which he published in the journal foreign affairs in the month before the 1968 election. people, especially foreign affairs experts, positioned themselves for potential appoin

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he was the professor at the university of montana offering two books a fiction and nonfiction and some screen plays and he deserves a lot of credit for pressing the wto to acknowledge the december ministerial that it was at an impasse with respect to the dea. but he began to shift the organization towards more productive discussions about the next steps in the multilateral trade agenda. so ambassador punk, thank you for joining us, thank you for your efforts and we look forward to your remarks. >> well, thanks, ralph, very much for that kind spin on my resume. i will say over the years i have heard less charitable interpretations. the very first conversation i had with ambassador kirk and i had never met him before and i was on the telephone in my office in montana. he said to me, i'm sitting here and i'm looking at your resume and you have done some interesting work in washington but i also see that you went off to montana to live by yourself for six years with a typewriter. i can't tell if you're the right person i need for the job or if you're the unabomber. before i get started tod

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grant's memoirs is probably the most eminent work of literature in a nonfiction field in america. it's by any definition as much of a classic as "moby dick" is in fiction. ike's story of the second world war is to my mind one of the best written and certainly the most fair minded books about the second world war that anybody has ever written. >> did he write it? >> he wrote it himself. absolutely wrote it in long hand. i know that because his editor joe barnes is a friend of mine at simon & schuster. it sounds like ike. it's a wonderful book. you could pick it up today and recommend it to anybody as a book to read about the second world war in europe. >> did jimmy carter wrote his own book? >> he wrote his own speeches. i believe he wrote his own books, yes. i know his editor. and he's very much a stickler for having his books exactly the way he wants them. he wrote a big novel which i helped edit some time ago and he was, though, receptive to certain changes basically he absolutely wanted it his way and got it his way, so he writes his own books. and clinton does the same. ronald

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and today our content of affairs nonfiction books and american history is available on tv radio and online. >> when we put that force together to go to desert storm, i viewed every one of those youngsters as somebody that i had a personal responsibility for. i know that general schwarzkopf felt the same way. we knew they were going into a very dangerous conflict, perhaps, and we wanted to give them every benefit to allow them to come home safely. i'm as distressed, more distressed than any member of this committee could ever be that there are veterans who are suffering illnesses that may have been a result of their service in the gulf. i do not know if those illnesses are a result of the service in the gulf or not, but i think we have to keep that as an operating hypothesis until we find out otherwise. we have to get to the bottom of this to find out what the source of the illnesses were. >> c pif-span, created as a public service. >>> this year marks queen elizabeth ii's 60th anniversary to the throne. she delivered an address to parliament as part of her diamond jubilee celebrations. it

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representatives to households nationwide, and today our content of politics and public affairs, nonfiction books and american history is available on tv, radio and online. >> actually, i was standing in the lincoln bedroom last night and i called. the secret service, the president, gone jogging tonight in the nude. my wife and i were looking on the lawn around midnight and these guys were -- >> totally unclothed. >> well, it's good to have -- i've been studying him since yesterday and i think i've actually -- the way to do the president is to start out with mr. rogers -- ♪ it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪ >> then you add a little john wayne. >> here you go, you go over the ridge and you put them together and you got george herbert walker bush. that's the thing there. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies as a public service. >>> two grand dotters of dwight d. eisenhower voiced their opposition this week to the proposed design of a memorial honoring the 34th president. they appeared before a congressional subcommittee hearing held to consider the views of both the suppor

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and today our content of nonfiction books and american history is available on tv, radio and online. >> we're talking now about the supreme court. but they are the ones that changed this country inevitably with what we call the march to progress. the march towards knocking down the walls of discrimination that permitted us to pass a 1964 civil rights act and public accommodation so people whose skin was not white could go into a restaurant and go into hotels, public accommodations. the '65 act for voting rights. '68 act the public accommodations. the 1973 act to say that women are going to be treated equally. the americans with disability act that said the disabled will be a part of the american family. all of that is the march to progress and, my friends, the one organization, the one institution that's protected is the supreme court of the united states. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies as a public service. >>> zbigniew brzezinski was president carter's national security adviser and stephen hadley held the same position under george w. bush. they spoke at the univers

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nonfiction book so we weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. >> coming up next on "the communicators," joseph lieberman and ranking member susan collins. .. >> host: this week on "the communicators" we are going to be looking at cybersecurity or legislation which is currently working its way through the congress. coming up this just a few minutes, an interview with senator joe lieberman who is chair of the homeland security committee and senator susan collins who is the ranking republican on that same committee talking about their specific legislation on cybersecurity. but joining us first is brendan sas sew of the hill newspaper. what is the status of cybersecurity legislation in the senate? >> well, right now the lieberman-collins bill is on a fast track to the senate floor. they just introduced it a couple weeks ago, but harry reid has already said he's putting that straight to the floor without markups in committee which is fairly unusual. >> host: why is he doing that? >> guest: well, they say they've been working on cybersecurity legislation for a long time, and it's true, and

ernest's life who really was close to a match for him, you know, her writing at both fiction and nonfiction stands on its own two feet and she's about ten years younger than ernest and she's going, ernest, cuba, cuba is yesterday's story. we need today's story. we need to go to europe. we need to position ourselves for the -- for the invasion for what's going to happen out there. ernest resists. he says, you know, i got an important mission in cuba and she goes off for awhile to europe. he stays home, he writes her, he's an amazing letter writer. one of the interesting things about ernest, he writes five, six, seven letters a day and these letters, you know, they not like tweets, you know, he's writing two, three, seven, eight, nine ten pages to various correspondents so there's a lot of correspondence between martha and ernest between the period and call them each other names like bug and mookie and whatnot. he stays in cuba and writes these sort of teenage romance letters, drinks, she goes off to europe and she's doing a good job as a correspondent and i'm getting ready for the big show a

. >> that was after words, booktv signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policy makers, legislators and others familiar with the material. after words ears every weekend on book tv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday at 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch online. go to booktv.org and click on after words in the book tv nseries topic list of the upper right side of the page. .. >> i absolutely and could not resist. michael sean winters is an extraordinary figure. getting impatient with progressives talking of our religion, a catholic who gets impatient with the church and a christian who believes having a role to play in public life. i could imagine him taking the five minutes with the rationale. [laughter] but we here to talk about his book. how on a non way jerry falwell could have secularized christianity or politics but i do want to start with two questions. why does the catholic boy cried about jerry falwell? and coupled with another question putting aside your. t, have you feel about him as a human