>> host: somebody wanted to pick up one of your books, what's the one that you would recommend, nonfiction? >> guest: oh, that's like being asked which one of my kids do you want to have lunch with? they're all equally fabulous. but as a writer if your favorite one is not the one you've just published, then you're in trouble. so i would have to recommend "lots of candles, plenty of cake." >> host: anna quindlen's nonfiction career to date, living out loud, 1988. thinking out loud, 993. how reading changed my life, 1998. in 2000 "a short guide to a happy life." "loud and clear" came out in 2004. imagined london in 2004 as well. "being perfect" in 2005. good dog, stay -- which we did not touch on in this program -- came out in 2007. and then five years later, "lots of candles, plenty of cake," just published by our guest for the last three hours, anna quindlen. thank you for doing booktv and "in depth." >> guest: it was great. thank you. you read the report kaj of the day of arms control or whatever issues between the two powers which they sure did that only long after words do we get to kno

nonfiction material, the staff that generated. that was not really in the cards. so as we see a return to a more polemical style today in journalism, it's not something that is unanticipated or it doesn't fit into this constitutional scheme. >> who invented reporters? because we tend to think of reporters and journalists as synonyms but that was not -- >> not at all, no, no, no. it really wasn't until about the 1830s, begin here in new york city, another really inventive journalist named benjamin day, created the first so-called penny press newspaper, sold for a penny a copy. so he was going way down market trying to reach the broadest possible audience. and to be that he needed to fill it up with surprising, amazing things every day. fires, news from the police stations, and dockings of ships, anything like that that he could find. and he wore himself out trying to fill the paper. and so he hired the first full-time reporter, a man named george wisner, regrettably obscure figure in american journalism is about going to try to do something about that. speak at whe

let me start with my nonfiction this summer. during the last break over winter break i read a book on fdr and the election of 1944. there's another one that just came out by stanley weintraub called final victory about the same campaign. i'm obsessed with this for a number of reasons but why it may be interesting to political junkies in today's time period. you read about thomas dooley and you see a lot of mitt romney, the good, the bad and all the issues that you see when you talk about mitt romney. when you read these books thomas dooley especially the campaign of 44. the campaign in 44 as well and that is one i'm working on and i'm finally getting into a nonfiction book that i've been meaning to read for some time about a friend of mine. he wrote a book called pinched and it was about, about the great recession and it is chronicling sort of how it's culturally changing is not just in the pocketbook but what kind of long-term changes taking place in many places around the country, talking about a white male underclass. is one

anna quindlen is the author of several nonfiction books. beginning in "living out loud," 1988 that came out. "thinking out loud" came out in this 199 3, "how reading changed my life," 1998. a short guide to a happy life in 2000. loud and clear in 2004 and "imagined london," also in 2004. "being perfect" came out in 2005. "good dog, stay," came out in '007 and now we are hem worry is is -- her memoir is her latest. how many novels have you written? >> guest: i've written six, i'm working on my seventh. >> host: and do you prefer writing nonfiction or fiction? >> guest: i find writing fiction at this point in my career more challenging. i mean, i've been a reporter on and off since i was 18 years old and a columnist since i was 29. and while i love doing that kind of work, it doesn't push me at this point, um, quite the way novel writing does. >> host: in your memoir that just came out a couple weeks ago, "lots of candles, plenty of cake," you talk about feminism today, and you talk about gloria steinem, betty friedan and female impersonators

his book was named the bestdy nonfiction book of 1999 byicane entertainment weekly. t this painstakingly researched novel is a compelling study of s the people of the day and at the anatomy of hurricanes. i am proud to say that his science is a well reasoned coming andll his passing prost deserve the integrity of the atmosphere at work to ther his scientifici community. the most compelling part of this tale is that and all the truth. i have heard nothing but praise for his book and i share that as well. let us welcome our guest of honor tonight, erik larson. [applause] >> after all that i think she has set about everything i'mly going to say, so i am just going to go home. [laughter]one >> thanks very much. r your check will be coming to you in the mail shortly. ok which of these is on?ken. bo this the one? they are both on?en can everybody hear me okay?yo i tend tou be quite soft-spokenr first thinks everybody forometin coming out. this is great. eqal rhen you come to a bookstore you can sometimes, and there's nobody there and it is a niceb isllo room. but nothing r

. >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv?end us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> recently booktv toward a new library of congress exhibit called books that shaped america. we will show you that exhibit here in just a minute, but we also want to issue an invitation to participate in an online discussion about books that shaped america, what books you think may be included or should be included. we'll show you what the library of congress came up with, and if you're interested in participating in an online discussion with us, e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. now here's the tour. >> there's a new exhibit at the library of congress and it's called books that shaped america. booktv is taking a tour of that exhibit, and joining us is roberta shaffer who is an associate librarian for the library of congress. mr. shea for, why do you call the books that shaped america? >> well, we ask about books that shaped america as opposed to some of the other words he considered like changed america. because w

other nonfiction and a lot of very high-profile action. many authors speaking at the fair are probably broadcasting gina diaz, chairman archer who wrote the number that is not written in the debut novel. so if excerpts from all of the books. dennis vandermark helprin as well as a lot of discovery authors. authors writing their first vote, but who are being touted by publishers or booksellers we spoke to whether influencers in the publishing world as new voices that may cause an impact this fall and may resonate with them. >> michael cader can be of quite selection proposed. >> we thought it was important and what readers do what is happening bookstores. it's really exploded to the point is being read by teens, but also crossover adult leaders. the chilly feature well known authors like little brat or david levin had, but again a lot of new discovery way says who publishers think will stand a chance of the next stephanie mondor. >> to put this together your coach publishers and ask if they'd be willing to admit some books? >> we approached

this gets to the heart of the difference between novels and nonfiction. and here i will throw in the category of movies. feature movies that are not documentary's. and that is precisely this: will whole idea of an awful is to pull the world together in the world that makes sense, in a way that has a particular story form. novels are not just any old thing written down on the page. novels have characters. they typically have a protagonist. models have conflict. there is usually an ascending part of the conflict, and here's the critical thing, novels like most movies have a resolution of the conflict. at the end of the book and at the end of the two hours of the movie, you know how it turned out. now, nearly everybody that reads novels recognizes that that's not exactly the way the world is. the world is not quite so toy. the world as much messier than that. and i'm going to prison the not to you and you can agree with it or disagree with it. and if you disagree with it is vehemently please say so the time of questions and we will talk about it some more. b

it's nonfiction. and your first question again -- oh, about the -- i want today go back to -- wanted to go back to your historical question first. i had not heard that. i do know it was not be considered a crime to rape a black woman. that i know. but i had not heard about that. and the premise of the book really was to tell the story of the first lady's family and her ancestry as far back as i could take it and in so doing, tell us a little bit about ourselves. >> how about coming to our women's -- [laughter] >> we can talk after. >> thank you. >> hi. i'm harriet cole, and i'm so happy to be here. i learned from dawn davis -- >> a wonderful woman, my editor. >> your editor. and i had the good fortune of working in a leadership role at ebony when the obamas decided to step into the race. and at the point at which michelle obama -- where there was a turn and she suddenly became, you know, the black woman shaking her neck, she was doing a story with ebony, and i was, i interviewed her. and we had a half

. >>> every weekend booktv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> as chairman of the homeland security committee and sort of now going over into my personal reading, so i'm reading a number of books involving islamic terrorism, the american response to 9/11, what we're doing as far as wars in this afghanistan and iraq. the main book i read was hard measures by jose rodriguez. he was, basically, head of the team that put together the interrogation methods after september 11th including waterboarding which has been criticized but which i think was effective and did the job. a very, very well-written book. also the art of intelligence by hank compton. he's with cia, but he was orchestrating, managing, directing the war in afghanistan after 9/11. and, again, a fascinating read. kill or capture by daniel klandman, this follows the obama administration as far as what they're doing in iraq and afghanistan, how their policies are being pursued and shows a side of the pre

. >> that was "after words", book tv signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, pulp -- public policy makers, legislators, and others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every weekend on book tv at 10:00 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9:00 p.m. on sunday, at 12:00 a.m. on monday. you can watch "after words" on line. cut that booktv.org and click on "after words" in the book tv series of topics list of the upper right inside the page. [applause] [applause] >> hi, everyone. can you hear me? [applause] while. this is so exciting. [applause] this is my very first book. and my very first and probably only book signing. [applause] this is so cool. this is so good. well, you know, let me just say, i am so proud of this product. it is the book, everything i would have imagined. i wanted the book to be beautiful, and that think that the pictures are absolutely beautiful. i could tell because when molly and sasha picked it up, you know, it's like, your book. out nice. they actually got pulled then by the pictures. and then they could

be voting for the alternative >> every weekend book tv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2. we are at freedom fest in los vegas interviewing some authors. i want to introduce you to the author of this book, latter-day liberty, gospel approach to government politics. what is the purposeful? >> the basic argument is that women should be libertarian. contrast to cut my argument is that the doctrines of our faith, the scriptures that we have, the teachings of we embrace release support a more libertarian firmer, political framework. you have to it to penalize them. many people think the libertarians are more of marijuana smoking atheist's that have this conception of what a libertarians. so what libertarians are, and then i write a bunch of resources to suggest why the mormon faith supports the live report a few. >> where the term mormon come from? >> a profit. the book of mormon is another one of our books of faith, another set of scriptures apart from the bible. the profit he compiled a record.

is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. .. >> well, you know, these are both very dangerous books. thank you for having me on. prospect of miracles that surround. the technology. so mass-transit dreams come everyone has a breakout and realizes the visual it was just a big dream. walter cronkite will be on the are giving you the news. it all seems to be true. i don't know. so many things that are amazing. let me give one example. i was driving in a small town in the midwest wrecking for restaurant to eat. i used a quick application. i found all the restaurants that were around me. was able to click on one i liked apple of the media. have the daily special. it's like having extradition. also, the drawing attention. more important the, the sources in the market economy, not government. >> well, what is the first as part of your book? >> the part that the government runs. the fiscal world that breaks down. live in a highly regimented physical world. the day-to-day bureaucracies are gettin

it's not too -- it is a transition, but i did write a nonfiction book before this one.ce in place, so i just tried to -- >> those are entirely different disciplines, the nonfiction and the fiction where you have to paint the pictures and all that stuff. >> i found fiction a lot easier. >> really? >> yeah. for me it was easier because i found it very freeing, you know. you didn't have to write things exactly the way that they have write things exactly the way they that happened. this is all fiction, they're all made up characters, it just sort of set me free. >> let's look at the breakfast club again for the second, because that really captures what genx was about. also with john hughes was able to do. but now that we're old enough to be the principal, is it gen x? >> aren't we on y or z or something? i think everything is different now, for me the internet just changed everything, particularly as an actor, if i had to go through what younger actors are doing toda i can't say i would have chosen that career. you're not judged on your work, you're really judged on your li

let me start with my nonfiction this summer. during the last week over winter break i read a book on fdr and the election of 1944. there's another one that just came out by stanley weintraub called final victory, on the same campaign. why it may be interesting to political junkies in today's time period. you read about thomas dewey and you see a lot of mitt romney, the good, that come all of the issues of the war talk that you see about mitt romney. you see a pop-up window you read these books about thomas dewey. particularly the campaign of 44. forget the campaign of 48, but the campaign of 44 as well. i am also finally getting to and other nonfiction books that i've been meaning to read for some time about a friend of mine by don heck. he wrote a book called pinched and was about the great recession, and it is chronicling sort of how this culturally changing us not just in the pocketbooks but what sort of long-term change is taking place around the country, talking about a white male under class is one of his thesis, but it's

is this your first nonfiction? >> yes, estimate of comedy writers who changed america, the first call comes from randy in salsa, oklahoma. >> how are you all doing? >> i have a question about the doj five group that was established in the 1970s. a group at the federal level and what effect it had on national security are you the fellow that was on turkey mountain? by the way, you can google this, she is the sister of a whistleblower who has been exposed to some of the activities with janet reno and so forth to when you are talking about the doj project, you are talking about the department of justice, right? >> guest: i'm not sure. >> host: peter, we will move on to you. >> caller: we are now enjoying the coolness in charleston, for a change. >> i just turned the tv on, so i may have missed. you might have covered this already, please excuse the question if it has already been answered. i have always loved walt whitman. i just love his work. especially in april when lilacs last by the dooryard balloon. and i always

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

here on c-span2, it's the tv all day everyday throughout the convention with highlights of nonfiction authors and books from this past year. and on c-span3, also throughout the convention 24 hours american history tv with lectures, oral histories and they look at historical american sites and artifacts. >> tonight in prime time on booktv, former national intelligence officer discusses his biography about transformational chinese leader deng xiaoping. >> because the idea of reform and opening was not yet an idea to deng xiaoping. and was criticized, joe's mouth to be his successor, who turned out not to be rude a great strong leader, was in favor of a lot of this reform. and a lot of the senior officials were in favor of a lot of those reforms. to some extent, he did have a very long time perspective. i don't know whether visionary is the right word, but when you thought about hong kong, he said for 50 years they can keep the present system. if you asked obama what he plans to do for the next 50 years for his country, that would hardly be a serious question. i mean, no american leader,

it requires more nonfiction reading, for example, books about apollo 11 for elementary students. the u.s. constitution for middle schoolers. more complex works like euclid's elements for high schoolers. and basic algebra will be taught as early as kindergarten. 45 state have adopted the standards which take effect in all grade levels by 2014. >> we can't continue outsourcing jobs and the reason we are outsourcing jobs is because in other places, they're preparing their kids better than we are. >> reporter: parts of common core are modeled after schools in south korea and japan, where students score higher than americans in reading and math on international tests. to meantime these standards, school districts will have to buy new textbooks, train teachers, and upgrade computers. experts say this could cost upwards of $8billion to $16 billion. critics say the initiative could actually hamper learning for some because every child learns at a different pace. >> i think we're going to have higher rate of failure. we're going to have lower test scores. and, of course, they will, as usu

booktv streamed live online for 40 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors.org. >> tonight in prime time. the air of prohibition can post world war ii america as well ash the presidential election of 1948. it the >> a week the convention there is this crazy quilt, coalition f of democrats, southern segregationist like richard russell, strom thurmond provision was a presidential candidate, he is willing to step aside. big city bosses like boss take y jersey or jake of chicago, liberals like hubert humphrey. members of the rows of family they all go, we want i'd. but ike draws back again, crashes the whole thing. there's another explanation of why truman is able to pull this there i off, even the people are so wary of him. and i can't repeat his exacttr words, but when he hears the sow word of the truman, or the eisenhower collapsing before the convention, he says, look, youe tell those people thati any blas who sits behind his desk can get renominated. and that's a large part of it.y it's very hard to dump a sitting president in the nominating process. >> watc

most cases i do only nonfiction. so it is a little different. an idea in the proposal. in the case, this is actually my idea. >> what is it? >> desperate sons is a book about the sons of liberty which we are pre -- were up three revolutionary war group that were sort of our original occupiers. they decided that there were going to make life miserable for the british because -- and there were going to go home. its starts with the albany riots . 1765 and culminates in the tea party. the revolution in concord. >> some of the leaders? >> well, paul revere. i mean, some of them became iconic. sam adams, his brother. some of and yet never heard of. but that story is that, the author has sort of traced a narrative history and connected the events and gone all the way through the colonies and put it into a narrative form. >> where did you get this idea? >> i read an article, somebody said what is the insurgency movement? who are all these guys? and they said somebody might look back in our history because we were the sons of liberty were american insurgents at the time. and i t

he read at least one fiction an nonfiction book a week. i mean, he was as scholarly as he was activist. and so i'm not bad as a scholar, but i certainly appreciate the need to keep researching the great history of our time. i think i got something from him. >> i think you got a whole lot of that. in 1984 and in 1988, you ran for president of the united states. a serious presidential run. >> we learned a lot in that first campaign. we found out something that the popular vote and the delegates was a disconnect and that -- because you had to have a high ratio to become the delegate and win all p. i get 48% and you get 52%, winner take all. that was bad math. >> right. >> we changed that law. by '88 we got 1,220 delegates for all practical purposes. >> won 13 states, right? >> but the significance of that for barack obama, when he ran in 2008, hillary clinton won -- she won texas, california, ohio, pennsylvania, maryland. on the winner take all, she should have been the winner. we changed the rules, and we democratized democracy and laid the

before launching into the nonfiction history of what has mushroomed up, i would like to speak brieflyut historical fiction. i have often heard civil war buffs say i don't read fiction. if not then you miss the world's great literature but the straightforward history are not enemies. they complement each other. well-written history tells us men marching in 88-degree heat and could hear the sounds of battle ahead. well researched and written historical fiction tells you what it felt like to marching uniforms with 88-degree heat where the canteen is empty and your barefoot to the careers are writing back and forth and the officers seem confused. you don't know where you are. but suddenly march 4 word and you cannot see the ground is broken suddenly artillery opens up friends fall beside you use so the know exactly where you are then use the dark forms what did it feel like? go with historical fiction to capture the feeling. it could go with brave historians to understand what was inside of the men what we could document could is it goes into the souls of the men with the petty jealousy t

. >> every weekend, we offer 40 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> host: next, joining us is magazine publisher and author, steve forbes. his new book is coming out in august and 2012, and it is called "freedom manifesto: why free markets are moral and big government isn't." we are at freedom-fest in las vegas. mr. steve forbes, why is it that free markets are more government enabled. what is an example of that. >> guest: obviously, functions of government have been big government. but the terms of big government not being moral is the opposite of what it does. it ends up creating the environment where we have less ability to get ahead, it creates dependency, it plays crony capitalism, which hurts career entrepreneurship and opportunity. all the government and what it says it does, helps the poor, make sure that markets on the right direction, they actually do the opposite. they are short-term oriented to the next election. they have their own agenda. they don't respond to the marketplace the way a business should. they h

but the patients involved with people that pull off a work of nonfiction like this, i mean, you don't want to see the list of conversations i have had with him over the years. e-mails, follow-up questions, so you know, we are all sort of an offer you are indebted to these people for working with you on these projects. anyway, they pull what the human laboratory experiments. people seem to survive. the testing it at depths of up to about 200 feet. that seems to work. worked for the animals, and so the next push was let's get this out of the laboratory in getting into the sea and see if it works, if we can have people on the ocean floor. so that they did by building the very first sealab habitat, which you can see. there is a guy standing to the left so you can get a sense of the scale. it's not a huge thing but it's built to house about four guys and it looks kind of primitive, not slick looking into the budget was very low and it's made out of recycled minesweeping floats that they sort of welded together. and we are going to put just about 190 some feet down off of bermuda. at this p

it's like, i hate to sound pretentious but it's like sculpting writing nonfiction. you have your found material, henry will shape it one way, and then shape it another way. some others' culpable shape it another way. this is my stamp. i found raw material and i formed it into this. and so often one of the hardest things to do, like what do we leave out? this book could've been for her thousand words. they could've been 12 volumes. it could've been awful. by the way, i wrote my thesis on things of remembered past. it was hard to figure out what to keep them, want to keep out. because i was sort of writing it as i was doing it as well. like that first experience, i didn't have a lot else to compare it to. and so as i was learning i would start cutting stuff from earlier chapters because i was trying to fit that in later. and i'd also like to say that anybody here who is a writer or was ever try to write force interest in writing, you always hear like writing advice, find the same place to go every morning at 8 a.m. and right. and i'm like that's ridiculous. i wrote th

two thousand and two thousand and two his second book the informant was called one of the best nonfiction books of the decade by the new york times book review and made into a major motion picture starring matt damon for its most recent book is the critically acclaimed five hundred days secrets and lies in the terror wars are joins me now in the studio so honored to have you with us thanks for having me thanks for joining us. first of five hundred a question so let's start with nine eleven it seems to have been a pivotal point in fact i want to get into some of the before but first of all the nine eleven commission i'm just curious your thoughts on what they did how well they did that sort of i think in terms of you know outside commissions that are investigating government action i think actually the nine eleven commission is up there in terms of quality i mean the report they put out was much more detailed than i ever imagined it would be but also i mean when you're dealing in a political environment which it seems like everything always is these days you had democrats on the commission

nonfiction books all weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. .. >> also the vice presidential candidates' debate thursday, october 11th, from center college in danville, kentucky, live on c-span, c-span ride owe and online -- radio and online at c-span.org. >> host: well, joining us this week on "the communicators" is representative joe barton, a republican from texas, former chairman of the energy and commerce committee and currently co-chair of the congressional privacy caucus. representative barton, in the few days and then lame duck session of the 112th congress, do you foresee any actions on the issues of privacy being handled? >> guest: i have asked chairman upton of the energy and commerce committee to consider moving the do not track kids online privacy bill that congressman markey and i have introduced. i don't have a commitment for him to do that, but that bill is a possible, especially in the lame duck. in the regular session, we're probably not going to have that many more legislative days. so if we had one bill, though, that would -- that's the one i've asked the chairman to

. >> is there a nonfiction of for a bookie would like to see featured? send us an e-mail. or tweet us. >> what are you reading this summer? book tv wants to know. >> three books. right now. one is passes power. it is about the kind of competition and interactions between president kennedy and lyndon johnson. from london's ounces vantage point. and pretty interesting kind of hard-nosed politicians, both publicly and behind the scenes jockeying for position throughout the primary election of the 1960's and then throughout the convention. very, very interesting. the other book is the social conquest of birth by edward wilson which is basically how our species came to rely on social interaction, emotional intelligence. the way we communicate with each other. kind of build the social networks that we have. how far back that goes. that is a really interesting book to be reading. at the same time you're reading about the kennedy johnson interactions. because there is so much perception and emotional intelligence that is needed in the field of politics and reading people and all t

nonfiction books all weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. >> in just nine days, president obama and republican presidential candidate mitt romney meet for the first three debates. .. >> this week "the communicators" looks at the fast group of apps from mobile phones and some of the issues raised by them. our guests are julie brill and california congresswoman mary bono mack. >> host: well, recently the federal trade commission issued new guidelines when it comes to apps on mobile phones, and joining us is federal trade commissioner julie april as our -- julie brill as our guest on "the communicators." commissioner brill, first of all, what were the guidelines that were issued by the ftc, and why now? >> guest: so, um, the guidelines are designed to inform the app community, and, of course, it's a very diverse community. there are lots of different players in the mobile app space. designed to inform them that there are laws that apply to them in the consumer protection and privacy realm and to help them figure out how to insure that their products are in compliance with our laws.

[applause] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> the u.n. is us, your government and mine, and it can be as powerful as these governments want it to be. and sometimes we talk about the u.n. as "it," as "they," distancing ourselves. by doing that, we're giving the governments who are ultimately responsible for action or inaction in some of these situations an alibi, an alibi and blaming the secretary and the secretary general -- [inaudible] but

nonfiction you like "mortality." >> "mortality." it's about esophageal cancer.0 days" is about the 500 days, year and a half after 9/11, 2001 and what went on in the cia and white house and in places in europe and the middle east. it reads like a thriller and obviously a topic we're very interested in. >> finally you have something in the young adult category. >> young adult is almost all, the best young adult crosses over to adult. "hu "hunger games." this book is part of a series and it's called "days of blood and starlight." first book was called "shadow and bones." very atmospheric and about a girl finding her power. it's a strong girl character but it also has a strong boy character in it and you don't have to read the first one to read this one. the chapters go fast. it's a cliffhanger every three pages. >> something like "hunger games" which worked very well for that category. >> very much. >> thank you. >> coming up next another top pick this fall some great seafood, celebrity chef ed brown is here and dish about his famous chowder house and his ultimate

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> quickly, sally bedell smith, is keith elizabeth ii -- queen elizabeth ii a republican or democrat? n >> guest: oh, we'll never know. shoue is scrupulous about asserting her neutrality orma maintaining her neutrality. it's a great guessing game.ue i suppose the more apt question would be, um, whether she's a, you know, labour or a torrey. but she has made it her business in the course of her 60-year reign to get along with every single one of her prime, her 12 prime ministers. it's an amazing span from winston churchill, who actuallyi was born in the 19th century and served in her great, great grandmother queen victoria's army to david cameron who was born three years after the birth of her youngest child, princehe edward. but she is, she has opinions which she expressed in private,e but she is extremely careful about not making political statements in public. i did catch her, or i was told about one that was actually quite amusing which was, um, robert tuttle who was on

number one on "the new york times" bestseller list for nonfiction.o have you with us, congratulations on the book, congratulations on the movie, congratulations on attracting the attention and constructive forces of the obama administration. trying to help you. >> i am an immigrant, but told my mom though the attack by the president of united states, should be a little incredulous. lou: it is quite a remarkable story. that you are in the center of in which you were the first talk about obama's rage and his anticolonialism, and i took a lot of heat for that as well, but turning to this new movie garnering even more attention broadly. >> absolutely, the film is now in 2000 theaters and part of what is making everybody find it so eye-opening is you begin to think if this really true? obama comes on and getting from his mouth. finally the white house, the obama campaign realizing we cannot let this go, we have got to attack. lou: claims president obama doesn't believe in american secular. >> you believe in american exceptionalism? he replies i believe in

i use academic research techniques, but i still write narrative nonfiction. >> james, you are an interesting man. it has been an honor to have you on the broadcast. that has been our show today, and we will be back on our same stations, same radio, television next week in the interim, all the best. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> many have spoken out on the need to transition to a clean energy future. at exelon, we are acting. i 2020, we are committed to offsetting emissions by helping our customers reduce our emissions and offering more low carbon electricity in the marketplace. we are taking action and seeing results. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. from washington, d.c., this has been "white house chronicle," a weekly analysis of the news with insight and a sense of humor, featuring llewellyn king, linda gasparello, and guests. this program may be seen on pbs stations and cable access channels. to view the program online, visit us at whchronicle.com. to view the program online, visit us a

also, what was the first gaytimv book, fiction or nonfiction that "the new york times" did review and also it was the first to usv the word gay to describe themselves. >> guest: this question, where tod begin. he published the city and the pillar, the new york daily times would not review it. tha t it wash reviewed in the book review, however, orville prescott hated the book so much that he did not review it. however, he did review other books. vry m he reviewed chairman capote's. books, which he liked very much. even though he said he didn't hosexualit like the gay story element.h he loved the writing and wasdalh able to look past the homosexuality and talk about other things. buet gore vidal was treated very it sold badly but it was a national bestseller. it sold extremely well and was very successful. maybe christopher isherwood. in but otherwise, it was always alluded to in directly. i think more and more writersgon would say that i am a gay writer ben had been before. that major, american gay writert in major writer altogether, he would avoid that until heble a published his memo

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> now, next weekend down here on the national mall, the national book festival will be taking place. it's sponsored by the library of congress, and one of the exhibits at the library of congress tent will be books that shaped america. here's a little bit about that. well, there's a new exhibit at the library of congress, and it's called books that shaped america. booktv is taking a tour of that exhibit, and joining us is roberta schafer who is associate librarian for the library of congress. ms. schafer, why do you call it books that shaped america? >> well, we actually call it books that have shaped america as opposed to some the other words we considered like changed america because we think that books slowly have an impact on american society, and shaped seemed to be the better word to imply that kind of con connotation. >> when you think of the word shaped and what you just said, what book in this exhibit comes to mind -- >> well, actually, that's the fabulous part of

[applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv and c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> no from its wonderful roosevelt reading festival, hosted by the franklin the roosevelt presidential library and museum, john potter discusses his book, "the good war in american memory." >> spent the afternoon. it's a pleasure to be here and especially because it is the roosevelt library. i couldn't finish my book if i didn't have the roosevelt archives. and to help of great archivists who know where material is and are willing to help you find it. it took four years for americans to fight in world war ii. but they never have stopped talking about since 1945. so i predict and suspect the conversation is going to go on for many more years. that sort of interests me as a historian that we spend more time talking and curbing these events and events themselves. and so that particular question or that particular issue caused me to think about, think more about what americans understood about world war ii, how

. >> every weekend booktv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> booktv recently visited columbus, a hy with the help of time warner cable to explore the bariatric cultural and literary history. all weekend long we are airing interviews with local lawyers and tours of prominent literary sites. watch one now on booktv. >> who was billy ireland and why is the museum named after him? billy ireland was a longtime editorial cartoonist for the columbus dispatch. he was the cartoonist from 1898 to his death in 1935 so he spent 37 years at the columbus dispatch. at the cartoon library museum our mission is to collect leaders will preserve and make available american printed cartoon art. the scope includes graphic novels leaguer and magazine cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic books and sports carton's. here are some examples what we would find in a library. the pages that billy ireland did every sunday and in these you can see his style. what he drew. he drew everyday things that happened in columbus like pot holes -- things th

forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. next weekend down here on the national mall the national book festival will be taking place. this will be the twelfth annual. booktv will be live on c-span2 but if you are in theory and want to stop by and gravel booktv that come and see us by the history and biography tent. here on booktv on c-span2 we want to introduce you to offer elizabeth ames who has written a book with book with steve capitalism will save us: why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy". first of all tell us about yourself and your personal experience particularly when it comes to economics. >> i have been a financial journalist but also on both sides of the press release so i started as a journalist. by headed my own pr business and also done projects, other communications projects for clients among them this, offering book and basically i worked with steve forbes and conversations led to the idea for this book. >> how did you meet steve forbes? >> i met him at an event i did when

>> i have published a torrid nine nonfiction this is my t fifth novel i like great king. >> you teaching this semester? >> still a full-time law professor. since the novel people of asked me i think what professor is my job but write-in novels is a hobby. >> when you wrote your first? storie what got you over the first?s ll a >> characters have always i floated even today when i write a novel i alloys haveike t characters in mind some new and situat up in this study becauseio they are mysteries and they are put into an odd situation. >> host: we will not give away the ending but given the title it is safe to say he was impeached by the house of representatives. >> correct. of house impeaches the t senate hold the trial this se second half is a courtroomat thriller based on but it may have looked like. i righted as a fan. not as a foe. >> the impeachment of abraham lincoln. book. here is the book.joining u here you can buy it yourself. >> this is my pleasure

reporter: hailed by many as the first nonfiction novel, capote's 1966 book "in cold blood" was an instant best seller. to celebrate capote threw a glamorous black-and-white masked ball. >> announcer: here comes john kenneth galbraith. >> osgood: covered by our own charles kuralt. >> reporter: the people have come from rome, hollywood, venice, paris, washington, san francisco, loaned. >> osgood: the party's purpose was good cheer and fellowship, to hear capote tell it. >> before the unhavocking anybody can dance with anybody they want to or talk to anybody they want to. it's a completely free thing. by the time the unmasking come, you made a lot of new friends. that was the point. >> osgood: truman capote never did publish another major work in his lifetime. the short pieces he did write offended some of his high society friends. by 1977 capote had become something of a recognizable cliche. mocked by woody allen in the film annie haul. >> the winner of the truman capote look-alike contest. >> reporter: turns out that was truman capote in an uncredited cameo. he fell into a downward spiral