nonfiction authors and books on book tv. you can see past programs and get our schedules that our website and joining the conversation on social media site. >> next from montana we take a look at the public library book mobile. -- [inaudible conversations] >> i am patchy. and i and the book mobile librarian for the billings public library for yellowstone county. 34 feet long. it's quite a few bucks. it's about the same as the old nfl mobile. this is a hybrid vehicle. almost brand new. they just got it last winter. it has only been in service for about four months. we bring books and videos, cds and all kinds of things out to residents of yellowstone county. the billings public library just as the one main branch downtown, as part of the outreach program we like to get things out to the outlying residents. people are kind of spread out montana. the careful going in and out. it goes to all different ages, senior centers and schools. neighborhoods. kind of all of the county. today we or -- greed or at one school in billings fro

would you rather do something fiction or nonfiction? was watching it with somebody who didn't know it was ale a real story. >> i'd like -- i've always been interested in nonfiction. i started reading it very young and i thought what really happened by and large is more interesting than anything you can say. even, like, reading like fiction books but set in nonfiction areas like "in cold blood" or leon you are reus novels. >> stephen: the da vinci code." ripped right out of the day's realities. you take a map around, you've got da vinci code. that's all you need. >> stephen: when you go to rome do people in churches go "please get out"? (laughter) well, tom, thank you so much for joining me. tom hanks, the movie is "captain phillips." we'll be right back. (cheers and (cheers and applause). >> stephen: well, that's it for "the report," everybody. [ cheers and applause ] wow. [ audience hooting ] yeah. we'll see. [bleep] yeah. that was like the closest i'll ever get to being like the singer for a metal band. that was, like, insane. this is

you might call me a nonfiction writer because i have a book of nonfiction. but thinking of something my southern predecessor said, and that is the historical sense and the poetic sense shouldn't be seen as contradictory because if poetry is a little myth that we make than poetry is a myth that we live and constantly remake. so for me that suggests that there are lots of links between the different genres so even the we call someone a poet or novelist, i feel i'm someone who in the historical sense always animates the work i do. >> where did you grow up? >> mississippi and georgia. i was born in gulfport mississippi and moved to georgia later on. >> when and why did you start writing poetry? >> i wrote poems pretty early on. my father might say even earlier than i would tell you. but when i was in the third grade in my earliest memory of writing poems happened then. i was riding in a class and i had a teacher who with the library and in my school down a little collection of the poems that i had written and put them in the school library to the estimate how ma

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> here are some of the books published in 2006. booktv's ninth year on c-span2. james swanson's account of the assassination of president lincoln, "manhunt," was released that year as well as madeleine albright's reflections on the role of religion in world affairs, "the mighty and almighty." a sheave shay rinse, "imperial life in the emerald city." and juan williams gave his thoughts on issues that african-americans face in his book, "enough." >> there was a villain at the door, and we had to address it, and sometimes that villain was dressed in a white hood, michael. >> uh-huh. >> so now we come to a point we're at a different moment in american history. we have a stronger, more affluent, better educated black america, and yet we are at a point -- and this is where i say cosby was the bell ringer, and he is to be absolutely be heralded by our community for what he did that day -- he is saying you have a strong community, and yet what about our brothers who are not comin

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booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> here are some of the books published in 2006. booktv's ninth year on c-span2. james swanson's account of the assassination of president lincoln, "manhunt," was released that year as well as madeleine albright's reflections on the role of religion in world affairs, "the mighty and almighty." a sheave shay rinse, "imperial life in the emerald city." and juan williams gave his thoughts on issues that african-americans face in his book, "enough." >> there was a villain at the

problem. >> where the only national television network devoted to nonfiction books. throughout the fall we are marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. >> kate brown writes about the two cities, richland in washington and ozersk in russia where plutonium was first produced. because the programs to produce the plutonium or highly secret, both communities were largely insulated from the outside world. the accidents and corruption that occurred in both places were unknown for decades. we learn about them now on booktv. >> thanks for coming tonight. this book is about to get. the first two cities in the world that made the telling of -- [inaudible] >> can you hear me? so this book is about the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium, and there is an american one and a soviet knockoff. the american one is called richland your facility one was called ozersk, and what's so important about these places, i argue in this book "plutopia" that they changed our landscape in ways we get to fully digest. these plants help militarize or landscape and to sully them and turne

every weekend since 1998 c-span2 are's booktv has shown over 40,000 hours of programming with top nonfiction authors including di di meyers. >> i thought, wow, you know, that's the answer. if there were more women in politics, more women across public life, more women in power around the world, things would change. so i called my editor and said i'm going to write a book called why women should rule the world, and she said, okay. >> all of us in the working class are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored by the elite media, not getting any kind of special interest help in washington like the fat cats get. we're all in that same boat no matter what color we are, and that's the real problem. >> we're the only national television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books. throughout the fall we're marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. >> here are some of the books that were published in 2004. booktv's seventh year on c-span2. >> the poorest county in america, which isn't in appalachia or the deep south, it actually happens to be on the great plains up in nebraska -- a region of stru

the recipient of this year's anisfield-wolf book award for nonfiction.nnecessary book, solomon writes about every family, by writing about family scrapping with challenges that most of us cannot even begin to imagine a race to challenges than most most than tonight he to imagine before reading this beautiful patient and affirming both. writing about the complexity of families in which the child is different from the parent. solomon has given us a new and fuller idea about what difference and diversity can mean. i've spent the past several years professionally in the past several decades for only thinking about vertical identities. so that wasn't the term i apply to my recent genealogical studies. joined from solomon, jacob heller in his review from the new york boat economy through which the benefits have shared it. , empathy, insight, a sense of who you are can travel. a horizontal identity on the other hand is one where, and i quote, there's a rupture between the townsite and the parent six. sis. they seem to challenge many premises of family, he conti

voice that pervades every word as the recipient tissue of the teeth -- anisfield-wolf award for nonfictionary book solomon writes about every family those grappling with challenges that most of us cannot even begin to imagine or i should say challenges that most of us are not able to imagine before reading this beautiful and patient and affirming book writing about the complexity of families in which the child is radically different from the parents giving us a new idea about what difference and diversity can mean. i spent the last several years professionally in the last decades personally thinking about virtual identities although that was not the term that i applied to recent geological studies. going from solomon jacob heller in his review said the vertical identity is a conduit through which the benefits of shared experience of apathy in insight, a horizontal identity of the other hand is one where there is a rupture between the parents' experiences they seemed to challenge many promises of family interrupt the basic continuity of that relationship and what it presumes. said genealogy

on week nights want to keep public policy events in every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on book tv. you can see past programs and data schedules i website and join in the conversation on social media sites. >> here is a look at some books being published this week's. in days of fire bush and cheney in the white house, peter baker, senior white house correspondent for the new york times examines the working relationship between the former president and vice-president >> here is another one for you. the most educated president we ever had. i hesitate to say he was the most intellectual. i will not forget thomas jefferson standing here in washington d.c., but i will tell you, woodrow wilson attended will was then the college of new jersey in princeton. he graduated in 1879. his aspirations then -- he had political dreams already. it great aspirations to become, as i discovered going through his papers because he had once made of the business card, homemade business card that said thomas woodrow wilson, senator from virginia. and that was the dream. the way to achieve it was

. >> booktv is the only national television network devoted to nonfiction books every weekend, and this fall we are marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. .. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979,ro

that was a horrible thing you say you do when you write nonfiction but nonfiction is just something youan put an extra dollar on the book because people don't buy novels any more. that is pretty much it. robert caro is a great novelist, a great artist more so than a great scholar. he is organizing facts in a particular fashion. anyone else? >> do you think in terms of fiction versus nonfiction or do you just kind of write what you want to right? >> i get the question that i don't really struggled with, i don't worry about it. like your clothes. your clothes are fiction, aren't they? they were made, you put the on, as they are part of you, aren't they? i appeared with my clothes in front of you right now and this building is a fiction because you knock your head against the wall and see how it feels, is there, it is a real. that is how i always felt. i always try to be entertaining. i know that is a crazy thing in the world of writing. i just try to be entertaining. that is a high calling. i am not being flip about that. other questions? >> talk about "crapalachia". >> a lot of times --

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> every weekend since 1998 c-span2's booktv has shown over 40,000 hours of programming with top nonfiction authors including dede myers. >> i thought wow, that's the answer. if there were more women in politics, that the more women in power, things would change. i called my editor and said i'm going to write a book and she basically said okay. >> all of us in the working-class are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored by the elite media, not getting any kind of special interest help in washington like the fat cats get. we are all in the same boat no matter what color we are and that's the real problem. >> we are the only national television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books throughout the fall we are marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. >> with the government shutdown entering its third week, c-span is asking for your thoughts. .. >> the bill was sent over to the senate by the house republicans, and the senate just tabled the, tabled the request to pa

every weekend since 1960 eight, book tv has shown over 40,000 hours of programming with the top nonfictionauthors. iste i thought, wow, that the answer. women in politics. no more women and power. and said i editor wanted to write a book. >> all of us in the working- class are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored by the elite media, not getting any kind of special interest held in washington like the fact has to get. we are all in the same boat no matter what color we are. >> with the only national tv network -- we are the only national tv network dedicated to nonfiction. >> this week the federal government reopened after a 16 day shutdown. to get stolen was a race. president obama used his weekly address. gives theelli republican address. he criticized the health care law. ken cuccinelli is running for governor in regina. >> hi everybody. this week, because democrats and responsible republicans came together, the government was reopened, and the threat of default was removed from our economy. there's been a lot of discussion lately of the politics of this shutdown. but the truth is,

[applause] >> you are watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> now, i've been trying for i guess the last 20 something years to stop writing books. [laughter] and i keep, you know, i totally get it that i worked for the ancestors. and i sometimes will feel very free that i finished something i remember finishing the color purple 30 years ago. and just weeping enjoy, i'm done. and i have had that scenario with myself many times, thinking i'm done. but anyhow, though this book, i'm going to read first from "the cushion in the road" and wanted to read a little bit about how that came about, how did i come to think of the life that i lead which is very, when i'm not on the road somewhere, it's so quiet. it's so meditated. it's so happy with me and my sweetheart who is a musician. one of the ironies of life, of course, is the i love quiet so much that i fell in love with a person who plays trumpet. [laughter] and so, you know, life, i'm sure -- life is always, you know, telling us who do you think is in charge? did you buy something, did you imagine that y

> every weekend since 1998, c-span2's booktv is shown over 40,000 hours of programming with top nonfiction authors including edie myers. >> i thought that's the answer. if there were more women in politics, the more women in power around the world things would change. i called my editor and said i'm going to write about and she said okay. >> all of us in the working-class are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored either elite media, not getting any kind of special interest help in washington like the fat cats get. we are all in the same boat no matter what color we are and that's the real problem. >> where the only national television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books. throughout the fall we are marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. >> here's a look at some of what's ahead this morning on c-span2. .. >> during her 12 years in the white house, eleanor roosevelt traveled constantly, speaking on behalf of the president's new deal policies and pursuing causes important to her; education, a

tavis: let me move from fiction to nonfiction, to what is haiti.ng in real life in has the relationshiphanged at all in the era of obama? it was pretty much delegated to the state department. u.s. intervention has always been forceful. we want you to take out your leader. off. has been hands there was some response after -- earthquake thomas whatquake, and in terms of is happening. there are the parliamentary elections that are two years late. those interventions are always too headed and to what you want kind of situation. one has to be very careful. >> there is obviously a relationship. this, butaware of there is this law taking place in the dominican republic. happening. >>s passed athe high court ruling in which they considered anybody who was born there from 1929 on who did not have a dominican parent is in transit. migrants or the majority of immigrants who have ,een there for four generations and youome stateless, could be removed at any time. people are picked up sometimes he does they are dark skinned. on the other side. it is something for anybody who goes on vacation in the d

in 2005 the national book critics circle award for general nonfiction went to svetlana alex yo slip. her book, voices for chernobyl, recounts the nuclear reactor accident that in the ukraine in 1986. she talked about writing about catastrophes in 2005. spution. [speaking russian] >> translator: i'm not interesting in information which serves more and more as the foundation for our civilization. i think that information has discredited itself as a way of knowing human beings. [speaking russian] >> translator: what i'm interested in is human feelings and human turmoil. this is what interests me, is to be able to try and make some kind of a guess about what's going on inside of people and what has meaning for them can and what causes them to suffer. [speaking russian] >> translator: right after chernobyl happened when i was making my first trips to that region, i saw dozens if not hundreds of journalists there, and i said to myself, those guys are going to put their books out really fast. but the book that i'm going to write is going to take years and, indeed, i worked on the book for t

every weekend since 1998, c- span2 has shown over wording thousand hours of programming the top nonfictionauthors. the answer. if there are more women and politics and across public life and more women in power, things could change. i called my editor. she basically said ok. >> all of us and the working class are subjected to punitive taxes, being a nordic by the elite media as in not getting any kind of special interest held in washington like the fact cats. we are all in the same boat no matter what color. >> we are the only national tv network committed to nonfiction books. we are marking 50 years of book tv. -- 15 years of book tv. but c-span, we bring events directly to you putting you in the room at congressional hearings on the white house events and briefings and conferences and offering complete gavel to gavel coverage of the house as a public service of private industry. industryy the cable tv 34 years ago and funded by your local provider. you can watch us in hd. >> coming up next. q and a. he talks about his latest book on pop culture and the presidency. after that, question ti

you're trying to write, especially nonfiction. you have these murders, you realize at some point that people -- that you have a responsibility to your readers to show them what happened. they can't just all be off-camera. and so, what happened? how do you think this happened? how did this murder come to past? and i didn't know how to do that. and i felt it was very necessary to have some scene -- some way of bringing us into a couple of the murders later in the book. it gets a little wearing to have people just sort of disappearing off-camera, you know. it's like your old super 8 videos by family shot, you know -- people would waltz across, then they are gone forever, you know. and so i read "in cold blood," because i feel that truman capote did such a powerful job of capturing those killings. and i wanted to see -- try yet again to figure out how he did it. unfortunately every time i read the book i think to myself, why could he not please have left us some footnotes? that would have been just such a wonderful thing. you don't kn

she showed them what a lot of research could do she has written for nonfiction books the last confederate it a victory, and to memoirs that has been put together from though women in alumni for north carolina. we are here to have her has been here after buried 61 years. that is great. [applause] they are parents of two and one of their grandson's is here tonight. i present to you dr. juanita patience moss. [applause] >> that was a wonderful introduction. they q for coming tonight did especially on trade it to share my research with all the view. i am a woman of color in the living bridge between my grandchild matt you and our slave ancestors my paternal great-grandfather in because of his story i have spent the past 50 years black soldiers in the civil war. isotopic little discussed when the movie glory hit the big screen and indeed i did not learn anything about the black civil war soldiers with those history class is in high school or college. how about you? indeed i never learned anything about black history or soldiers. but from experience i knew about them. might knowledge was limite

you know, that is a big backdrop for any montana senate novel or work of nonfiction. you know, there isn't on the supply of books about little bighorn. it is really funny to think that this event that was reasonably short duration that happened a long time ago and you would think every name would have been on our, but it hasn't been. there's always new ground to plow. montana is sort of its own self-contained universe. you know, people here really do like to read about where they live in their history. there is a real connection among people who grew up here, especially the ones who are several generations on. the relationships of land, they might have for various came over and homesteads. so then it just really hard connection to the land. .. how american mass culture, both took form in the united states, how it was exported to europe and how it became a way by which some many, many europeans got to know the united states in america. so we looked at transmission, the rise of american mass culture, the transition of american mass culture and the reception between the

weeknights watch the public policy events and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get schedules at our website a you can join the conversation on social media sites. .. >> joe jr. had died during the war, and churchill was sincere. and he said to churchill, what good was it all? and churchill looked at him unbelieving. world war ii had destroyed n churchill's mind, hitler and mussolini and the dictators. it had saved democracy, it had saved western civilization, so cur chill thought. and kennedy blazed hatred at him. >> booktv is the only national television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books every weekend, and this fall we're marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. >> here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. at 3:45 p.m. eastern, juanita patience moss talks about "the forgotten black soldiers and white regiment during the civil war." tomorrow at noon we'll be live with representative john lewis for three hours. the congressman will be taking your calls, e-mails, tweets and facebook posts. then at 5 p

. >> that was trained to, but to the signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by kinross, public policymakers, legislators and others familiar with the material. "after words" airs every week and i took tv, 10:00 p.m. on saturday, 12:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on sunday at 12:00 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the series and topic list on the upper right side of the page. >> in 2003, of tvs 50 or broadcasting can do some of "the new york times" book review's nonfiction books were: some of my people have to. our appearances are horrible nick is looking away but i caught the eye of someone in distress. extreme hunger is not evident. as an almost sublime record of extreme suffering and undaunted resolution, few documents can compare with a lot of william bligh kept in the bounty's launch. in its stark phrases, beautifully painted each day painted each defendant conjured but the horror of the mansour dealer complies on furman and wavering attention to all the response abilities of hi

that is of bake to mount a backdrop for any montana said novel or work of nonfiction. there is an endless supply of books about little bighorn. it is funny to think that this event that was a reasonably short in duration and happened along time ago. you would think everything had been unearthed, but it does not bend. there is always new ground to plow. montana is sort of this -- its own self-contained universe, you know. people here really do like to read about where they live and their history. there is a real connection among people who grew up here, especially the ones who are several generations on. the relationship to the land, you know. .. it's great to be with you this afternoon. i hope you are doing well. >> guest: thank you, debbie. i hope you are, too triet >> host: ibm. i enjoyed reading the book in the last week. do and a member of the people in the book you wrote about but i wonder why did you write this book now? >> guest: well, it's clearly something i couldn't have written while i was still actively employed by general motors because some people either

and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past program to get our schedules at our website. you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> and now to london for prime minister's question time live from the british house of commons. every wednesday while parliament is in session prime minister david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. prior to question him house is wrapping up a business. this is live coverage on c-span2. >> this is not only of the regional government level but in the community level where we see so much of the root causes of the situation. >> border. questions to the prime minister. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm sure the whole house will wish to join in -- 14 signal regiment who died in afghanistan. it is clear from the tribute that he was a highly talented and professional soldier. our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this are difficult time. he has made the ultimate sacrifice and we must never forget him. o

. >> ultimately the best nonfiction is a record of human behavior that is always checkered, always aery complex motivation, and almost always come from some place. they do not hugh to the protag nan/antagonist story line. that, the interaction between richard phillips and all four of the somalis, saying, for example, in the lifeboat, in reality there were laughs, there were jokes, there was a type of banter that went by, all at the same time richard phillips was convinced that big guy particularly was going to shoot him in the head for no reason whatsoever. that is a type of tension that brings out the most flinty sharp-edged nature of human nature. that's my job, i've got to hold the mirror up to nature. >> pretty cool interview. did he talk ought all about the liberties that hollywood took with the story? >> well, yeah, this is a true story of course there are liberties, i suppose -- think weren't able to tell the whole story, but the -- i'm not going to give anything away, but it involves american special forces and how they rescued captain phillips. it is gripping. here's the thi

he has written two novels and two nonfiction books. he has written a play that ran off-broadway. george lives in brooklyn new york. his new book is called "the unwinding" an inner history of the new america he narrates and if the lives of four contemporcontempor ary americans a rust belt factory worker, a rural entrepreneur a silicon valley ilya nehr and a washington insider and he interweaves these was character sketches of leading public figures people like newt gingrich and colin powell oprah winfrey sam waldman and then he has a couple of particular moments in our recent history like the tampa florida real estate bust and the scandals on wall street and altogether it creates a portrait of america in decline and anxiety. the new york times reviewer wrote it is mr. packer's achievement in "the unwinding" that these pieces freshly shuffled and assembled have power to earn the book comes with sorrow with outrage and with compassion for those who are caught in america's increasingly complicated financial machinery. for all these reasons george's book is a finalist for the national

> every weekend since 1998 c-span2's booktv has shown over 40,000 hours of programming with top nonfictionhors including dee dee meyers. >> i thought that, wow, you know, that's the answer, if there were more women in politics, if there were more women across public life, more women in power around the world, things would change. so i called my editor and said i'm going to write a book, and she basically say said, okay. >> all of us in the working class are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored by the elite media, not getting any kind of special interest help in washington like the fat cats get. we're all in that same boat no matter what color we are, and that's the real problem. >> we're the only national television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books. throughout the fall we're marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. ♪ ♪ >> we want to know how the government shutdown is affecting you. please send us your touts. >> make your short video message about the shutdown and upload it from your mobile device at tout.com/c-span. see what others are touting about. >> well, the u.s. s

fall marks booktv 15th anniversary and this weekend we look back at 2006 the john grisham first nonfiction title which report on a murder case in oklahoma was on the bestsellers list that year as well as then senator barack obama spoke on national politics, the audacity of hope. >> i would like to start a conversation and this brings me to against the larger point, about what citizenship means. and what obligations to each other. and how do we create a stronger link between the decision-making in washington

book tv streams live on line for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> now visit the battlefield that little bighorn. book tv spoke with local author on the recent visit to montana with the help of our cable partner charter communications. >> i have found this battle to be one of the most remembered in american history. it seems to have one of a handful of battles that even gets to fund history in high school can remember and get right and us something about. even if what they know is incorrect. they know something about it. and even nationally in traveling to other countries, people say montana, all, that is where custer rose from. that is the beginning of a conversation a lot of times. a surprising conversation. this is a battle with international significance. d. little big horn was june 205th 1976. building four days, weeks and months. and the climactic actions of the battle were a few hours that afternoon. leading up to it was a struggle over land, as most of these indian wars, a land at the base of it. in this case 1868 treaty at for

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michael korda is the writer of both fiction and nonfiction, including another life, a memoir of other people, charmed lives in the immortals is also editor in chief, corporatized president of simon & schuster. his book for the five series is ulysses s. grant, which is available for sale and signing this evening. i can't wait to get out. the series edited by james atlas. mr. atlas was a staff writer for time and assistant editor for "the new york times" book review in "the new york times" magazine as well as contributing editor to the atlantic, "the new yorker" and "vanity fair." mr. atlas is the founder of atlas books and the author of several biographies, including summer shorts, the life of an american poet and although a biography. we have a stellar group of speakers for you this evening. we are delighted that you could either end that they are here. would you please join me in giving a warm smithsonian welcome to james atlas. [applause] >> i'm actually very distracted by these pandas over here. i'm not sure how many of you can see them running around, but i hope they are not a rep

. >> continue watching booktv all weekend long for more nonfiction authors and books as we mark our fifth -- our first 15 years on the air. >> next o on booktv, work or spotted scott anderson talks about t.e. lawrence and the involvement of britain, france, russia and the u.s. in the middle east during the early 20th century. this is about an hour 20. >> thanks very much. thank you, sherman, for that introduction. spent what we really do is give the own -- [inaudible] >> i'll just talk briefly on that. i was raised overseas. my father was with a.i.d. in east asia so actually grew up in asia. really didn't spend any time in the state states until i can gea good high school as a teenager. i think having, with that background, the idea of having a conventional career and based in the united states was little hard to imagine. with my brother, also, jon lee anderson. we both tried to figure it how we could get back overseas and stumbled into journalism as a way to do that. john lee and i get two books together, inside the league which sherman mentioned, and war zone which was an oral history f

. >> every weekend since 1998 c-span2's booktv has shown 40,000 hours of programming with top nonfiction authors including dd myers. >> if there are more women in politics, more women across public life, more women in power in the world this would change and so i am going to write a book about that and she said of day. >> all of us in the working class are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored by the elite media, not getting any special interest held in washington like the fat cats get. we are all in the same boat no matter what color we are and that is the real problem. >> we are the only national tussle television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books. jerrod the fall earmarking 16 years of booktv on c-span2. >> when i was in the fourth grade the little girl in my class got killed. a few weeks before wanted to ask her to dance but i was too shy. i show up monday morning and randy dugan was telling me all about it, did you hear about jenny sugar, she got killed in a car crash yesterday. tractor-trailer hit her mom. they are both dead. i didn't believe him at first because

it seemed like a viable form for notary -- nonfiction, but a problematic one. could i get deep enough into the characters' lives that they would sustain 30 years of biography? it's not for me to say whether i've done that, but that was a template for how to organize all the material into a 30-year portrait of america. >> it's not for you to say, but i read it, and the i want ma sigh in which you get into their lives, and how it moves from the intimacy of their particular crisis and moments to the biggest picture of the communities that they live in, and that even elevates from there is quite an achievement, one of the reasons why it's been so honored. did you know in the end -- the book has a sense of sadness to it. did you know going in that that would be the peel? >> to some extent. i felt the crisis going on. remember k 2008 -- remember, 2008 was the year i thought about the book that seemed as if major, major institutions that sustained american life were collapsing. the banks, the auto makers, government seemed to be deteriorating as a positive force, and

. >> over the last 15 years booktv has aired 40,000 programs about nonfiction books and authors. booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> this weekend booktv is live from austin for the texas book festival, coverage starts today at 11:00 eastern and includes two panels looking back at the november '63 assassination of jfk. sunday's coverage starts at noon and includes alan wiseman on our future on planet earth and looking at the texas wind power industry. the texas book festival live this weekend in booktv on c-span2. don't forget you have a few days to post your comments on a book club selection walking with the wind, congressman john lewis on the early years of the civil rights movement at booktv.org/bookclub. >> marilynne roach write history of the salem witch trials from 1692 to may of 1693 in salem, mass.. the author profiles six of the 200 people who were accused of witchcraft which resulted in the execution of 20 people. this hour-long program is next on booktv. [applause] >> i am sure. thank you. thank you very much. great supporters all along. my new book "6 women of salem" f

it is a nonfiction book, true story of young women living in a secret government city during world war two working on the manhattan project. however, they did not know that at the time. just so everyone is on the same page, the manhattan project was a top secret government project during world war ii designed to harness the power of the atom, the power of fission. the manhattan project resulted in a first-ever nuclear weapon. it's okay if you don't know that, but that is what it is. there were three main manhattan project sites, los alamos, new mexico, which is the one that always pops in to our head, hanford in washington state, and oak ridge tennessee which is where the majority of my book takes place. some of that we kind of have the basics i will tell you about how i found the story because that is one of the questions i get asked most often. what made you think about writing this book. and did you come across this idea? the answer is complete and utter dumb luck. i was working on a completely different book and came across this picture that a really kind of grabs my attention. and

i like a lot of nonfiction writers would have loved to have had a single protagonist to tell it take you to the narrative to be noble commissure you world in a way that is compelling or someone likeable or august. michael lewis has an incredible knack for finding the emblematic vehicle of a culture rather silicon valley are baseball. >> i did not find those in washington. >> i tried. after a while i did not give up that i decided there was not one or two or three characters big enough to sustain a narrative but eventually i tried to make the ensemble's that was not as satisfying but ultimately that is what i came up with. so it is always helpful to have intent with a figure that could rise above which is easy for him to say but i quoted the fact he said your large bowl will be washington d.c.. i said would never. with a profile rather than focusing on one character. >> italy for the fact they are inescapable who they are bad harry reid comes to mind as part of a sympathetic character and trent lott also who makes no bones about it. >> harry reid has an anecdote that the as a fly on t

what would push to to do nonfiction that fictionalizes could not? >> it was an instance where the cliche of you cannot make this stuff up was true. i was fact there reporting for "rolling stone." i met a guy who's had a block he would sneak into abandoned buildings and take pictures. he took me into this skyscraper 15 or 20 stories called the metropolitan building the center where all the jewelers' offices and shops were. completely abandoned we climb to the roof and were staring out at this crazy landscape of abandoned skyscrapers. i saw reporters writing the same stories over and over. i just knew there is so much more to the reality fact it would be a rich bottomless well of stories but eventually i had to leave because every day i would open the newspaper there board be something new i wanted to write about so i had to cut myself off. >> i am also from michigan. >> do you have a club bin austin? [laughter] >> there is a big interest for a lot of people to help. >> host: lamar growth in the way they care but there is a challenge to understand to