the good nonfiction story. some begin by spending only a day or two it has the essential element of the story that then they try to tell at. the approach has its advantages rather than memorizing the map the danger doesn't fly on making the state but committing too soon it may be hard to abandon when it proves unworkable. conversely some writers liberate the days, weeks, months on end until they feel shorter plan you never know if you understand your story there's a little ground to proceed the enthusiasm and the writing blocks lover where the blocks will go in the connections among them. in the end you have to try to find the method that works best for you. most riders to solve this problem and how their salt doesn't matter at all to the reader. it helps what after all is the story? it is not a subject. a good story may include a good deal of information on any number of topics or issues and it may blossom of infestation the story is in the individuality of the time they are the stories in the trials the sacri

the deeper trauma of revelations of challenge for the nonfiction writer. a rider that has happened into a cliffhanger story. and opportunity, often a potential solace for the writer who has not had a story that is not. the story has a chance to live only if they do something important. a problem which is since retired. the reader. trying to understand them. >> the first person. the refunding of story has always depended less on separate something both. they begin with a chance, then known nothing more assuming the arrival of a good idea of the story. the problem is a good deal of sense to arrive. -- the first time elected this, the lack of it. a few years later was able to hire a team of carpenters, admirable step in a straight nestle of the messes i have made my idea was to write a book mostly about them. it would follow the carpenter, a builder on some sort of construction project yet to be identified. i try this idea on anderson and agents, letter france. no one liked it. a given up listening to other possibilities. a rare book about the captain of and

it's also the name of a book, a nonfiction book written by jim may which tells the back story, if youl, some of the personal stories of the scientists who came here to work on the manhattan project during world war ii to build the atomic bomb. robert often i am or who had been selected to lead the project from a scientific point of view, and often i am a new new mexico and knew that secluded plateau because he would come here as a boy and spent summers at the ranch school at los alamos. he thought that would be the perfect place to do the secret project. he's very well respected and educated scientist he lets let not the fastest europe and was recruited work in this project. so he rode the train powder, and was met at the station and driven into town on a little check-in at this store which was supposed to look like just a regular tourist store in santa fe. but is offered by a woman named dorothy mckibbin that oppenheimer had a person recruited she process of papers and gave him instructions. they would be going up to los alamos and, which was guarded with a secure perimeter that they

you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail, booktv, and nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. ♪ >> the city itself is try cultural. we both more authors and poets than most communities. >> welcome to santa fe on booktv. with the help of comcast cable partners for the next 90 minutes we will explore the literary scene and history of new mexico and its capital, a city resting at an altitude of almost 7,000 feet whose name means hope and faith in spanish. we will travel in and around this town of 80,000 to meet with local lawyers to learn about the unique cultures, personalities and history of the city and state that dates back 400 years to the times of colonization attempts by the spanish. all this and more as booktv and our comcast cable partners take you to santa fe. >> we're here in the palace press. james mcgrath morris and these are early printing presses. it seemed like a perk picked -- perfect place to talk about the man revolutionized american newspapers. webmac first started working on a boat people would react with recognition when i sai

booktv streams live on line for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors.ooktv.org. >> many years ago louis brandeis wrote that the most important office in a democracy is the office of citizens. democracy of course is rooted in the notion of an enlightened citizenry. some of us think democracy is defined by their ritual of voting. of course in voting, voting is important in a democracy but voting takes place all over the world. takes place in democracies. it takes place in the leadership's. it takes place in totalitarian societies. voting alone does not mean that we live in a free society. we live in a free society when it is based on an enlightened citizenry that takes that enlightenment into action, good causing those whom we would elect to honor our ideals as a nation. now more from santa fe new mexico. close to 80,000 people in 250 art galleries. santa dave boasts the richest and historical. >> welcome to collected works book store coffee house. coffeehouse. where are and santa fe new mexico. my name is dorothy massey and my daughter and co-owner and i

it's an older black, but it too is nonfiction. it is written by peggy thomas church. a more important note and a more representative spoke in terms of taking them lots of aspects of new mexico's history and culture, how we are land of stark contrasts and contradictions in the old e-mail. so that's why seeing it addresses others issues. more than 109 east palace, which is very specifically about the project and the people who were involved in that. so if we literature a petite to learn more about literary heritage, but i'm so delighted to be able to take you on a few stops and touch on a few of the important works of literature and hope it will prompt you to explore more on your own. >> chaim james mcgrath morris and we are here in the palace price. behind me stands early printing presses and this seemed like a perfect base to talk about the man who revolutionized american newspapers. when i first started working on the boat, people would react with recognition when i was writing about joseph pulitzer. but they did the name and not anything about his life because pulit

[applause] >> you are watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> the final panel from the 30th annual key west literary seminar begins now. "the biographer as autobiographer and the limits of objectivity" features authors jay parini, brenda wineapple, edmund white and phyllis rose. this is about 40 minutes. >> good morning, or afternoon. everything that just said was true, except you may now go to lunch. [laughter] so you may not go to lunch. you have to listen to samore. fellas, laughably us, if we have enough to talk about. whether we are dragged off the stage. for me, this is really almost ridiculous privilege. these are, a few of these panelists, but seeing the are among my dearest and oldest friends. so the idea that we got to fly down or flown down to key west to set up there and talk to each other about our greatest literary passion for free, seems like an incredible scam. [laughter] but we will pretend that we were, panelists. and it is going to be unlike some other episodes, this is serious business here, and we have a lot to talk about. we ha

every weekend on c-span2. >> now on c-span2 we bring you booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. here are some programs to look out for this weekend. at 5:00 p.m. eastern, ben shapiro argues liberals believe their competition discouraging political debate. at 2:00 a.m. michele alexander opines that policies from the 70s for and acted to push back gains made during the civil-rights movement. on sunday with recent policy debates on immigration we bring you stories from immigrants who share their experiences on booktv at 4:00 p.m. eastern. at 11:00 p.m. sunday melvin goodman argues the government is spending excessively on defense making us less secure. watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. for complete schedule visit booktv.org. up next on booktv cita stelzer talks about the dinner hosted by winston churchill during and after world war ii which were used to persuade world leaders to adopt his position on various matters. it is about 40 minutes. >> good evening. thank you for coming. delighted to see you here to talk about my new book "dinner with churchil

he is the author of five nonfiction books. here they are beginning in 1998, mr.robinson wrote in 2000 "the debt" what america owes to blacks and "the reckoning" what blacks owe to each other came out in 2002 and "quitting america" the departure of a black man from his native land in 2004 and finally "an unbroken agony" haiti, from revolution to the kidnapping of a president. 202 is area code if you would like to dial in and participate in our conversation with randall robinson 585-3880 for those of you in eastern and central timezones and 585-3881 in the mountain and pacific timezones. you. you can also contact us via e-mail or go booktv at c-span.org or social media. you can make a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv or send us a tweet at booktv -- @booktv is our twitter handle. randall robinson what is transafrica? >> guest: transafrica is the organization that i began in 1976 to galvanize african-american opinion on foreign-policy issues, particularly issues that concern the black world, u.s. policy towards africa, the caribbean and latin america

(singing) >> i want first to introduce margaret cooley who writes nonfiction and poetry. also with 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 tryin

mayor koch wrote 10 nonfiction books, for mr. rees and four children's books. -- four mysteries and four children's books. childhood obesity is the number one pandemic in america today. the mayor got a lot of laughs out of his soda remarks, but there is truth there. he was thinking about what life would be like for the youngest people if they made choices or had choices forced on them but would foreclose their futures. ed koch wanted us all to shape up. , i sent him airthday no. he sent me -- i sent him a note. he sent me a letter back. he had a big brain, but he had a bigger heart. ed,

he's very gifted in that way, and he's writing, he's chosen nonfiction, i think, because -- >> bob is a good example, though, because he -- his method of writing biography is to read everything that the author had read. so, like, we all think we'd like to read madame bovary or anna karenina, but he was forced to read what emerson read which was corrine, an endlessly long novel. because that's all was available to those poor people in the beginning of the 19th century. [laughter] >> now, i have the unpleasant task of having to bring this to a close because we're on a very tight schedule. i'd hoped we'd have questions, but with this these -- this has certainly been the easiest panel i've ever had to moderate. phyllis, you see we will have enough to talk about, and -- but we will have to resume in other ways. and now what jeff dyer said 45 minutes ago is, in fact, true. so we are done for now. go have chowder, come back. [applause] >> next on booktv brad meltzer talks about the research he did for his latest novel, "the fifth assassin" including his examination of the people who have ass

he is the author of five nonfiction books. here they are beginning in 1998, mr.robinson wrote in 2000 "the debt" what america owes to blacks and "the reckoning" what blacks owe to each other came out in 2002 and "quitting america" the departure of a black man from his native land in 2004 and finally "an unbroken agony" haiti, from revolution to the kidnapping of a president. 202 is area code if you would like to dial in and participate in our conversation with randall robinson 585-3880 for those of you in eastern and central timezones and 585-3881 in the mountain and pacific timezones. you. you can also contact us via e-mail or go booktv at c-span.org or social media. you can make a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv or send us a tweet at booktv -- @booktv is our twitter handle. randall robinson what is transafrica? >> guest: transafrica is the organization that i began in 1976 to galvanize african-american opinion on foreign-policy issues, particularly issues that concern the black world, u.s. policy towards africa, the caribbean and latin america

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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first of all only 12 percent of nonfiction books make a profit and 2/3 are pre chosen by the publisher. we'd like to put our marketing arm behind us but your having to fight tear riz m to this. since i grew up in africa and worked pakistan for many years you never settle a deal without driving a hard bargain so i said if the hard cover doesn't do well, i'd like the subtitle changed later on for the paper back. julia and our other board relently pounded away month after month. i was in pakistan of december of 2006 and there was a new editor on the book and they said they decided to change the title to one man's mission to promote peace. the hard cover didn't do that well. sold 20,000 copies. while the paper back came out on january 30th of this year and since out it's been on the new york times best seller selling over 700,000 copies now. and it's one man's mission to promote peace. and they're still baffleed manhattan because they're scratching their heads the first month because there's only - well no big city book editor did it so to be a best seller you need new york times or the ch

. >> booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> in 2007 david goldhill's father died from an infection incurred at a hospital due to medical mistreatment. up next, mr. goldhill who is president and ceo of the game show network contends that his father's death was avoidable and questions how the nation's health care system allows over 200,000 summer deaths due to air. this is just under an hour. >> hello, everybody. we are going to get started, if you don't mind. thanks to all of you for coming here today. i'm a senior fellow at the manhattan institute center for medical progress, and we are delighted to have david goldhill join us this afternoon. for a talk about his new book, "catastrophic care: how american health care killed my father - and how we can fix it." i think that there's too -- when i think about health care i think of to challenges of blind spots that i think conservatives have had on health care. the first is that it tends to be liberals who criticize and critique our health care system, largely becaus

[applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/book tv. >> tell us what you think about our programming this weekend. you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> political strategist bay buchanan has written a new book, "bay and her boys." tell us a little bit about it. >> well, the book is my story about being a single mom for 23 years. i payment a single mom when i was pregnant with my third son, and there's rough days, and there's good day, and what i did is throughout that time i never heard a positive message from the right or the left of encouraging words or instruction maybe that help us get along because the odds are against can kids who have only one mom or one parent in the home. so i wrote the book to just say it's a can-do book. look, you can do it. it's an upbeat, positive message not only for single moms, but for all parents. i think we all relate to some extent. and

booktv streams live online for 48 hours of the weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. tv.org. >> max boot presents a history of guerrilla warfare. the author posits that unconventional warfare, often thought of as a modern means of war, has a long tradition that dates back to antiquity. this is a little under an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the heritage foundation and to our auditorium. please welcome those are joining us on all of these occasions honor heritage.org website, for those inside -- in the house. please make sure cell phones are turned off. we will post the program within 24 hours honor heritage home page for your further reference as well. hosting where the debate is doctor bucci, director of our center for foreign policy studies. he previously served heritage a senior research fellow for defense and homeland security. is well-versed in the special area operations and cybersecurity areas as well as defense support to civil authorities. he served for three decades as an army special forces officer in july 2001 coming assume the duties of military ass

nonfiction books all weekend, every weekend right here on c-span2. >> here's a look at what's ahead on c-span2. next, "the communicators" comets its series of interviews at the international consumer electronics show held last month in las vegas. then new mexico governor susana martinez gives her state of the state address. after that, a or forum on avoiding the automatic spending cuts called sequestration, and later policy analysts look at the role of medicare in the health care system and the future of the program. >> host: and you're watching "the communicators" on c-span. we are on location at the ces international 2013 show in las vegas from the convention center, and here's some more of our coverage. here in las vegas at ces international samsung has a rather large display, and "the communicators" is joined by david steel, executive vice president of strategy for samsung. mr. steel, if you would, just begin by giving us a snapshot of the samsung corporation. >> guest: so samsung is now the largest technology company in the world by sales. we cover all the way from components like

because i find particularly with nonfiction reading is the last thing people come to hear. so there are a couple of quick quotes and passages i'll read for entertainment value, maybe in funny accents or something like that. and i'll try to give you a walk-through of what the argument is in this book. and then we can open it up for discussion which there tends to be with this topic as you might imagine people feel very strongly. i've never written a book before on a topic about which people had had already formed strong opinions. they wrote a book about neuroscience, emergence, the subtitle which was "connected lives, ants, cities, brains and software." what i tell people about that, they would say ants and what? node idea what i was talking about. where as this book instantly when i would describe it to people on an airplane or over coffee somewhere, they were ready to go. either agree organize disagreeing. but they had a lot of strong feelings about it. so it's fun to be here with a finished book ready to have people read it and respond. we did an exerpt of the television

and best-selling author stephen king has waited on the gun-control debate with and nonfiction essay titled guns, which has been published as an amazon / kindle single. you can find out more about his latest release on his website. stay up-to-date on breaking news about authors, books, and publishing by letting us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv or follow us on twitter @booktv. you can also visit our website, booktv.org, and click on news about books. you're watching c-span2, politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. weeknights what's key public policy events in every weekend the lettuce nonfiction authors and books on book tv. you can see past programs and their schedules that our website at, and you could join in the conversation on social media sites. and now, taylor branch, author of the multi it volume of america in the king year's presents his thoughts on key moments in the civil rights movement. this is about an hour 15 spirited. >> thank you, mr. hale. thank you, atlanta. atlanta history center. i have been heretofore. and glad to be back. i

[applause] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> could have wanted more but within the confines of a book, you can only do so much. so we wanted diversity. we wanted democrats, republicans. we wanted different parts of the country. to some extempt, we wanted different -- extent we wanted different ages. we knew on the basis of nine you can't make generalizations that are 100% certain. and we say as much in the book. i think our conclusions are hypotheses that other people might now run with. but in order to make even those kinds of hypotheses, we needed a fairly diverse group. >> yeah. we also included women. you know, there's a white house project that's been around for the last couple of elections cycles, and they had eight in '08. so several of the women that the white house project has identified several years before the 2008 election -- olympia snowe, kathleen sebelius were both in there -- and, you know, we wanted to also consider this notion. barbara lee, who had been here several years ago when you did the last year on t

nonfiction books all weekend, every weekend right here on c-span2. >> you're watching public affairs programming on c-span2. here's a look ahead. next, "the communicators" talks with white house cybersecurity coordinator michael daniel about president obama's executive order issued earlier this month and the increasing number of cyber attacks on the u.s. from china. then a discussion about nuclear weapons in the middle east and america's declining influence in the region. after that we're live with the closing session of the nation's governors' annual winter meeting as they discuss personal responsibility in relation to government policies with their guest, tv's dr. oz. and later the senate returns at 2 eastern following its weeklong presidents' day recess when senator kelly ayotte delivers the annual reading of george washington's farewell address. >> at age 25, she was one of the wealthiest widows in the colonies, and during the revolution while many her mid '40s, she was of considered an enemy by the british who threatened to take her host aage. later she would become our nation's

. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> i want to move to the role of publishers in this new world. it used to be that publishers would take care of all distribution, they would take care of production, and they would provide the advance. and that series of services led them to take a very he hefty cua 95% cut. now, i now you don't need production because you can put it out on the web. you don't need an advance because it doesn't cost that much to write, or you can -- [inaudible] the advance to something like kick starter. and you don't need the distribution again because you can put it on the web. so what is the changing role of publishers in this new world where production and distribution and financing are starting to be taken by different technologies? >> so there's a lot in there, and let me kind of unpack it. first, i actually disagree fundamentally with a couple of things. um, there's production, distribution, costs and, um, you know, tasks involved whether it's digital or physical. i think it's a very common sort of m

nonfiction book withs all weekend, every weekend right here on c-span2. >> here's a look at some of what's ahead here on c-span2. next, "the communicators" continues its series of interviews from the international consumer electronics show in las vegas with a discussion on government's role many technology. then president obama awards this year's recipients of the national medals for science, technology and innovation. and after that we're live as policymakers, health care industry leaders and representatives of government gather for a national health policy conference. >> congress returns today to capitol hill. the house comes in at 2 p.m. eastern to take up a small number of bills under suspension of the rules with votes at 6:30. also this week a debate and vote on a measure to require the president to submit a balanced budget to congress. over in the senate, members also come back at 2 eastern for general speeches. then at about 5:30, a vote on the bill to reauthorize the violence against women act, a domestic violence law that expired in 2011. a final vote on that could happen later th

. >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? sentencing e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> you're watching booktv. next, jeffrey engel talks about his book, "into the desert," a collection of essays by journalists, government officials, and scholars that look back on the events in the impact of the 1990-91 gulf war. it's about an hour 20 your. >> doctor jeffrey engel is the founding director of the presidential history project at southern methodist university, until the summer of 2012, he served as the class of 52 a.m., professor at texas a&m university in the bush school. so we are pleased there here as well. that you very much for the support you've given to jeffrey engel and to the bush school in texas and them. when jeff was in texas a&m county was the dreck of programming for the institute and is a graduate of cornell university. additionally, studied at saint catherine's college, oxford university, and received his ph.d in american history from university of wisconsin at madison. he served a

he discovered that in urban life there was this tremendous trauma that you could write up in a nonfiction way, the way dickens was writing tales of the poor in london. so the paper was ringingly interesting to read, and all these elements combined and of what people in called western because ann lewis was called western, western journalism. and so like a broadway play, well, he did the same thing. he brought his style of newspaper into new york city, brought the bankrupt new york world, and within months was making millions of dollars and revolutionize journalism and one set of an intense that is an analogy for the importance of pulitzer , created this newspaper, new york world in new york, and he looked down to the lower east side where masses of the rents were coming in the 1880's in the 1890's , and i mean messes, millions of people were coming from overseas. new york was the port of entry. ellis island was about to open up. the upper class saudis boats is a dangerous group. they saw the mess poor, dirty, all these kinds of things. pulitzer did not see them that way. @booktv as potenti

booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. p. >> so if you cut demand for somebody's product per day by 50% per total by 60%, you must have crushed prices. here's what actually happened. the average amount medicare reimburses per day in a hospital has grown by 5x since 1983. so 60% decline in the number of patients, 5x increase in price. we should all be so lucky. i wallet to be in that business. -- i want to be in that business. now, another statistic which is entirely sort of irrelevant but fascinating. hospitals tell medicare what their costs are so that medicare can power the price -- can compare the price they pay to hospitals' costs. so in those 30 years that medicare increased the price paid to hospitals by five times, hospitals reported that hair costs had incleesed -- that their costs had increased by eight times. so the interesting thing is our demand collapsed. in any industry that would have been devastating, right? medicare paid five times as more, but the hospitals say they're now only getting reimbursed 40% of t

. >> 1200 nonfiction. >> in october of 2012, bill o'reilly doubled up on the best seller list with killingcoln and this other murderous book. >> what is killing kennedy? >> that's it. >> bill: and tell alex if he's a premium member at billoreilly.com he gets any of my books free of charge. and from colorado bill, shame on you for saying that glenn beck is doing some internet thing. that shows disrespect. but he is doing some internet thing, james. gene key largo, florida, beck makes more sense than you and all of your guests combined. from atlanta, bill, we stayed in a big hotel in vegas and upgraded us for $25 a night, but they charged 100% tax on the upgrade. that's why you have to get all the charges in writing. request that the check-in people write everything down or you're going to get hammered at the hotel. larry, from hawaii, bill, if you don't want to pay six bucks for bottled water, drink out of the tap. tip of the day for you. what happens, larry, when the tap water is purple? it often is. the hotel should give you free bottled water. all right? especially if you're paying more

forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. here's a look at some books are being published this week. the former chancellor washington dc public schools, she presents her thoughts on changes in the u.s. education

. >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured? send us an e-mail at the tv at c-span.org or tweak us at twitter.com/booktv. now on booktv, john allison argues that government incentives and regulation caused the 2008 claps and says that to improve the economy, we need to opt pure free-market policies. it is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. i would like to congratulate heritage on the success that they have had. we did it. this is a pattern we have going forward and the purpose is to talk about my book, which is "the financial crisis and the free market cure." people ask me my i wrote the book. the basic answer is i thought it would be interesting to have somebody who knew what he was talking about write about thinking. because if you look to the academics to some degree, they don't know what they are talking about. [laughter] i think it's very important to undo a myth. these myths become destructive. the method they created is that it was caused by the deregulation on wall street. welcome to

every weekend we bring you 48 hours of books on history, biographies and public affairs by nonfiction authors. .. many years ago louis bran dice wrote that the most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen. democracy, of course, is rooted and based in the notion of an enlightened citizenry. some of us think that some of us think democracy is defined by the ritual of voting. in voting voting is important in a democracy but voting takes place all over the world, takes place in democracies, takes place in dictatorships, takes place in totalitarian societies. voting alone does not mean that we live in a free society. we live in a free society when it is based on an enlightened citizenry that takes that enlightenment into action, causing those whom we would elect to honor our ideals as a nation. >> dr. activist and transafrica founder randall robinson taking your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets, in depth, this sunday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> my cartoons depict native humor. at first when i first started this cartoon they were native characters i

. >> that was "after words," booktv signature program and which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policy makers, legislators and others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch online. go to book tv and click on "after words" on the series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. the late photojournalist leonard documented the march on washington from preparations to the day of the proceedings and its aftermath. his hundreds of photographs have been carried by his widow and accompanied by an essay by michael eric dyson with an after word. they discussed a collection of

another book very close to my heart i want to tell you about, an older book and it too is nonfiction.ritten by peggy con church, a more important book in terms of taking him lots of aspects of new mexico's history and culture, how we're a land land of stark contrasts and contradictions in the old and new. so that is why ain't the house addresses all these issues. what then 109 east palace, which is specifically about the project and people who were involved in it. suit to learn more about santa fe new mexico and its literary heritage, i'm so delighted to have been able to take you on a few stops in touch on a few import works of literature and hope it will prompt you to explore more on your own. >> ricardo cate come the humorist and cartoonist for the mexican newspaper joins the tv to talk about his book, "without reservation." he describes native american challenges in today's society. archaeologists agree of us occupied for several pablo bakken at 1050. >> the first copy, my name is ricardo cate. i'm a cartoonist at the santa fe new mexico income which is the major local newspaper h

it can be nonfiction as well, and -- >> reading is from the earliest age possible.er as a family, and making sure that every aspect of it is a supportive and joyful process. >> i still treasure those moments with my mom getting our first library card and walking us to the library and browsing through the books, and -- >> that's just it. >> the moments that -- >> they are. those are the tactile pleasures. >> i hope they don't disappear. it's a wonderful world, and all those electronic mediums are helpful and needed, but i still think hold aing book in your hand is just so special. >> well, julie andrews and emma, it is really exciting to see both of you again. thank you so very much. the book, of course -- >> do it in person next time. >> the book is a very fairy princess, and a wonderful valentine's present indeed. >> much love. thank you. >> you too. >> which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? that's next right here on "andrea mitchell reports." c-max has a nice little trait, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activated

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every weekend, the lettuce nonfiction authors and books on book tv.ou can see past programs and get our schedules and our website, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> here is where the story starts to get interesting. here is where the group's stock and to meet each other. i am condensing a lot of things, but i'll give you the basic just sent off to fort leavenworth. a lot of people in the army did not really like him. they didn't like officers to work to bookies or who stood up too much. and petreaus was guilty on both counts. so he is sent to fort leavenworth, kansas. a lot of people a thinking, oh, that's great. the fair hair boy, and rescinding about the pastor, chilly. but he gets to fort leavenworth and realizes something. he realizes that this is actually the intellectual center of the army. they write doctrine. they form the curriculum of the command and general staff college. they organized a national training centers. they -- the lessons for one affects the lessons of the other which affects the patterns of the nex

. >>> here's a list of the ten best nonfiction print titles according to the new york times. this list reflect sales as of january 31st.

[applause] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. author jared diamond is next on booktv. he talks about what we can learn from traditional societies that exist in only a very few places around the world today. he also reflects on the way people lived for the vast majority of the millions of years of human existence. this is just under one hour. >> it's my great privilege to introduce an invite dr. diamond to the stage to tell us all about the world until yesterday. let's give him a wonderful philadelphia well. [applause] notice he has a red coat with a red tie. >> let me first check whether you will be able to hear me okay in back. can you hear in back? it's a great pleasure to be back in philadelphia today and to be back in this wonderful library to talk about subjects other than gall bladders. [laughter] instead, to getting an idea, how many this evening may find what i will tie you a practical value, i'd like you to raise your hands to one or the other two questions that i will pose. first, could those of you raise your hand who

. >> 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 their material. "after words" airs every weekend on booktv 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 "after words" on line. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the book tv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. ..