storm, great narratives that use fiction for nonfiction. right now what is happening is an ongoing form of journalism that is good and the audience has its place in publishing and even more interesting with nonfiction which is where these genres are blurring, criticism and memoir and negative, between the world it is a great example, there is reporting in that, where he goes and is doing journalism reporting, there is memoir in that, criticism, advancing of ideas in that. or the argonauts or even fred renken, these are books that are playing with different forms of nonfiction in an interesting way and fits together through a personal narrative, brings it all together but leslie jamison is another person from that. >> it is a -- it is something i am very interested in. >> all right. so one world is starting up and who are the authors in your book you acquired? >> i have two new books. -- from tom has. one is fiction and one is non-fiction. they are still in development so i cannot say much but one is coming out in the fall of 2017. i am doin

, i'm talking good nonfiction? mr. leÓn's class was all fiction and so is mary and daniel you're going like because god knows how much he made up. it's suspiciously detailed about people were thinking years before he wrote it. the common core is pushing kids away from fiction to nonfiction. the designer of the common core, whoever had to read a novel on the job, and i said, well, no one except book reviewers. that isn't the point. i'm one of those people that think that reading fiction is the way you know about yourself and you're enlarged and overwhelming and when you're home the process goes inward as well as out ward and you compare to characters that you're reading of and there's complex interaction of personalities and settings and extraordinary detail, a complete immersion which brings you back to yourself and so forth. so i think it's essential that kids read fiction because they can read other people by reading fiction. they can develop all those qualities of empathy, percentiveness, understanding how other

that's a look at some ofthe current nonfiction bestsellers according to indy bound . many of these authors have appeared a will be up for appearing on book tv. watch them on our website, booktv.org. on sunday, july 3, book tv is live with best-selling author, journalist and documentary filmmaker sebastian junger on in-depth, are live monthly call-in show. sebastian junger is the author of several books including the perfect storm which details the fate of a commercial fishing boat caught in a catastrophic storm, later adapted into a feature film. his othertitles include war , on account of his time embedded with an army platoon during the war in afghanistan and a death in belmont, an investigation of a murder in the author's hometown. recently, mister junger appeared on the tv to discuss his latest book tried which explores the effect society has on returning veterans. >> it's hard to know how to live for a country that regularly tears itself apart along every possible ethnic and demographic boundary. the income gap between rich and poor continues to widen, many peopl

i love nonfiction storytellers. we are publishing a novel next month. you heard that story before and at the end of the book it turnso into the story of humanity and where we are going to be going. there's all these fellows up the cool ideas that you come to while reading a great story. it shows us how things work so we can then use that elsewhere in our lives. i think that's important because there is these reasons you pick a book up and want to spend your money on it but also spend your time on it. it takes however many hours to read and to do that you have to have a lot of reasons for it. that's why she's telling the story now in this book and why the book is more important because it's informed by this author's experience and there's r' a whole theory of criticism and they should have nothing to do with the produc products of whai they've made about is also how the page came to be so i like books where i am able to talki about a writer in a way that's as much about the book. >> i often think back to my days as an english major where no one cared if

that is the sort of nonfiction, narrative is important.i love nonfiction storytellers and i love novelists who bring ideas, we are publishing her novel next month, her fourth novel, it is at once a thriller, a woman is on the run and her husband is chasing her, you heard that story before but by the end of the book it turns into a story of the fate of humanity, where we are going if we keep doing what we are doing to the planet, it is all these big philosophical ideas you come to while reading a great story. so i think books that are able to give us a different perspective on the world and show us how things work so we come in and use that elsewhere in our lives, those are the books i really love. from a business standpoint i always want to tell a story about an author. we all read books because there are a lot of reasons. a constellation of reasons to pick a book up and spend money on it but also spend time on it. there is other stuff you can do, a novel takes however many hours to read or nonfiction book, to do that you have to have a lo

reverend nonfiction called hachette books. we have a region called hachette audio which does audio versions. we just acquired a company which is a new group within hachette. perseus is a great group of publishing nonfiction for all kinds of readers. >> was the importance of having all these different inputs? why not go all your books hachette? >> the wonderful thing about publishing is successful publishing is done out of creative teams that have the kind of focus on the kind of book we are doing. a way of publishing. you a notice throughout times the publishing companies that have two peoples names together, little and brown, the harper brothers for a long time. publishing is a collective activity. so you want to group that are focused about individual titles. one brand across all those books would lose it into the object of each of those publishing imprints as to the different personalities, different books they love, giveaways to bring them into the world and you want to have that branding not because of consumers care so m

>> iris is one of the kids who always had his nose and a book with all kinds of nonfiction my theory that i found privacy in that i could have my own world. i was going to become a lawyer but i just wanted to read and so where i thought about what i read to foray a living and fatah would finish college and go into publishing with a small publishing company in boston literally walked in the door and never looked back. as they think about what may scripps they should acquire are going to the author or publishing and packaging and designing but then now it is in digital form. in this is what they made. >> what was your first job? >> to do whatever we tell you to do that gave you the opportunity to do everything. to cut and paste in doing invoices but the best part is that was brought into love library and on that shelf was up a stack of manuscripts and i could take, as many as i wanted then come back in say what you think? is this something you would pay money to read? so that first job i got a piece of everything in the throat that is a great way to begin because you can see all the pi

around 35 for 45 years we have the children's book division we have a christian division in the nonfiction imprint is another one that does audio versions another group to publish for all kinds of readers. why all the imprints? >> the bottom of the creative teams of a way of publishing with a lot of publishing companies with the harper brothers the publishing is a collective activity c1 groups that are focused around those individual titles. then they will said lose those publishing imprints they have different personalities the way they are brought into the world you want that branding. to see that is the basic book necessarily. but people in between the publisher and "the reader" of the review rescind of loggers and it means something to those people say you want to have them because of this energy that works. it is like reading. >> how long has it been around? >> the third largest publisher in the world and they had a planned to expand internationally to france so they're selling all over the world in the u.s. saddam spade of the time warner book group. >> now you have headquarters in n

>> guest: we publish only serious nonfiction by expert authors. so that means about 90% of our authors are academics, a handful of journalists, some statesmen and politicians. but pretty intellectually high-end books. >> host: where is basic? is it an independent? is it part of a larger corporation? >> guest: well, that's a great question. it was until two months ago an independent publishing company, part of the perseus books group. it remains part of the perseus books group, but we have just very recently, about a month ago, been bought by hachette which is the fourth largest publisher in the united states. >> host: and so how does that affect what you do? >> guest: so far, not much. i think i have to learn all sorts of new computer systems. [laughter] but i think it's a really good fit. i mean, hachette is known in the united states for publishing a lot, a lot of fiction. perseus is all nonfiction, so i think it's a really good counterbalance. they've been really lovely. i mean, they're just taking the whole group and picking it up and moving i

. >> host: you have one nonfiction book. >> guest: one nonfiction book is about the trial, without a doubt. it has been republished and out-of-print again. that is the only nonfiction book i have written. i have stepped away from reality and gone into so reality. >> host: do you find yourself defined by the one trial? >> i don't define myself. >> host: to other people define you that way? >> guest: other people do or not do. since i have been writing fiction less so. people less and less define me that way and some even, the younger ones don't know. and the author. i love that. a lot of people do. a miniseries on fx came out. people have reinvigorated interest in the case. a lot of people associate me with that. more and more coming to associate me also with being an author and writing crime fiction which is great. >> host: did you work on the fx series? >> they didn't consult any of us at all about that series, i had nothing to do with it. >> host: what did you think of it? >> guest: i thought it was great. it was phenomenal. incredible. >> guest: true to life? >> guest: i can't spe

if you were to do a nonfiction book you'd have to be an expert in five days on the subject a critique of history as such and such were fiction i can sit back and say whatever i want. >> host: do the publishers want to have their books reviewed? >> guest: they say they do. i think they do. there are fewer book reviews around the country so i think it's one of the important venues >> host: jonathan yarbrough. guest:we lost jonathan, colleague for many many years. every week sometimes twice a week before it got to the post but we still have michael dearden though on every thursday another one of our pulitzer prize-winning book reviewers. >> host: ron charles how did you get into this business? >> guest: i was an english teacher for many years. still my favorite job but that paper grading was just wearing me down. i thought if i graded one more paper i would kill someone and a student's mother suggested i review books instead so i went to a bookstore, bought a book off the new fiction table wrote up a review and send it to the "christian science monitor" and they bought it and asked for m

c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >>> and this weekend on booktv on our weekly author interview program "after words," congressman darrell issa talks about his involvement in key congressional investigations including benghazi, fast and furious and the irs targeting controversy. also the weekend the former head of the defense intelligence agency, retired lieutenant general michael flynn, will talk about fighting terrorism, a look at the election of africa's first female president and a report on the misuse of federal funds by states and local governments earmarked for the poor. plus, an inside look at a homicide squad in maryland, and math professor andrew hacker questions if advanced mathematics should be required in schools. and those are just a few of the programs you'll see on booktv this weekend. for a complete television schedule, go to booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. television for serious readers. >> here's a look at some authors recently fe

. >> maybe nonfiction. >> not enough, the thing about reading fiction that is really interesting in iothers a book coming up and i think it's called foreign agent, and and reading things, clancy book or something like that is you get way over there and and letting the mind just go and thinking about the possibilities and every once in a while people will talk about washington and they will go you know this stuff coming out there, you just couldn't make this up, and so i think that reading fiction or reading some of these parodies it can be good because it allows your mind to just think. >> speaking of washington, to read books about washington, about the congress, kind congress, kind of contemporary narrative. >> no. not a lot. i guess i just don't have the appetite for that. maybe i do so much periodical reading, i spend hours every day reading so maybe i'm too immersed in it to appreciate that. >> it if you were to recommend a book for your district to read for example, may be a districtwide book, where would you go? >> i think reading the constitution is a great place to go this ye

there was, i think, probably the equivalent of about four books like that of nonfiction.what would you put in? and then she pulled a whole bunch. i said, but you've forgotten all of the good ones! >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> then i read it through, and then we sort of compiled it and put it into order, and then i started to discover that i really don't keep track of my nonfiction. >> seth: so you didn't know where they were? >> there were definitely a few things. there was one where i knew that i'd written this article. couldn't find it on any computer disk, had just sent it off. eventually i tracked down one of the really, really, really gloriously obsessive fans. >> seth: of yours? >> of mine. >> seth: okay. >> and i said to him, do you know where this article was? and he said, yes, you wrote it in 1998 for orlando convention program booklet. i said, send it to me. and he did. and we put it in the book. >> seth: i bet he then said to everyone in his life. you know how he said he'd never call? [ laughter ] well, he called. >> yeah. >> seth: so i did need to know every

>> a lot of expertise the nonfiction editor with the elections coming up anything that would impinge on aw or government. >> had you develop your best-seller list? mcfadyen generated for us. >> then we filter out the text books at certain times of the year. it did make it to it here to the editorial judgment. >> it doesn't tend to defer that much once the well there will be another event that will do it. and that is pretty much a the nationalist. every like those idiosyncratic relevance. >> you are here at the publishers' convention what is the importance? >> the publicist that i talk to all your by e-mail. they tell me what to look for also to read and author some time sometimes i am just the thing and to get the autograph. >> do you do anything electronically with the book review? >> we tweets and facebook i have the series that i do. >> hello. you may know me as the book critic is a previous episode it was all over from my a grandparent's retirement home people often ask me how long can you keep that up? good question. i know how many so far but challenging way back to the beginni

>> only serious nonfiction so 90 percent academics or a handful of journalists for statesmen of politicians petite intellectual high end books. >> are you independent or part of a larger corporation? >> was until a few months ago an independent publishing company and has remained that way but just very recently about one month ago was bought by the fourth largest publisher in the united states to. >> how does that affect what you do? >> a think have to learn new computer systems but i think it is a good fit they are publishing a lot of fiction so i think it is a good counterbalance that they take the whole group to pick up and move it over so i still have the staff emboss it is nearly as dramatic as the buyout could be. >> the publisher you can look for some of the titles this fall. booktv on c-span2.

. >> to remember that first nonfiction book that you read that stimulated your love of reading? >> when i was young, i would say like around the fifth grade, i was reading all of jules byrne and all of charles dickens and edgar allen poe. i remember being blown away by reading david copperfield. it was just extraordinary story an extraordinary character. you enter into this other world. i have that habit of, if i liked an author, i wanted to read everything by that author. i still i still do that, like in mysteries and history, but if i like an author, i read read everything he or she has written. so i've read all of -- lan and dick francis and robert parker and you name it, i've read everything because they get hooked and want to run through their portfolio of writing. i was that way as a kid. i just enjoyed reading. i didn't enjoy it because of who they were, i did it because of the pleasure of the thing. >> congressman connolly, are you a a fan of william shakespeare? >> i am. >> why? >> he is really foundational for the english language but he's foundational for literature,

our look at best-selling nonfiction books according to the conservative book club continues with if you can keep it in which syndicated radio show host weighs in on the intentions of the founding fathers when they wrote the constitution and the state of liberty in america today. in killing kennedy fox news host bill o'reilly looks at the assassination of president john f. kennedy. next, former clinton campaign advisor dick morris lays out a strategy in armageddon as he thinks donald trump will lead to victory, 2016 election. republican strategist peter schweitzer criticizes the financial dealings of the clintons in clinton cash. rounding out the list, sebastian looks at how the fight against extremism can be won in defeating jihadi. that is a look at the current bestsellers according to the conservative booklet. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them every weekend on c-span2 or our website booktv.org. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading. >> i am a multiple reader. i read a lot of books a

that is the only nonfiction book i have written. i have stepped away from reality. more of it actually. >> host: are you defined by that one trial? >> guest: i don't define myself that way. >> host: to other people define you that way? >> guest: other people choose to or not to. since i have been writing fiction, less and less so. people less and less defined me that way and some, especially the younger ones don't know. you mean the author? that is great. i love that. a lot of people do especially after the miniseries came out, that reinvigorated interest in the case. a lot of people do associate me with that but more and more coming to associate me also with being an author and writing crime fiction which is really great. >> host: did you work on the fx series? >> guest: they didn't consult any of us at all about the series. none of us. i had nothing to do with it at all. >> host: what did you think of it? >> guest: i thought it was great. i thought it was amazing. the performances were phenomenal. just incredible. >> host: true to life? >> guest: i can't speak for

booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. television for serious readers. and now we kick off the weekend with nathaniel philbrick on the relationship between george washington and benedict arnold. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, everyone. >> good evening. >> that was good. that was very good. [laughter] thank you all for being here. i'm the president of george washington's mount ver. no we are delighted to have you for this installment of the ford evening book talks, and i begin by thank the ford motor company for their enduring partnership with mount vernon. they've done a great deal for us including endowing this book talk series. i am personally pleased to welcome back nathaniel philbrick. it's his third time he's visited mount vernon in as many years. i asked to introduce him because whenever i do that, i'm struck by his bone fee bonafides as a true renaissance man. he has an m.a. in american literature from duke. he was an all-american sailor while at brown university. he worked as an editor at sailing world magazine, and he wrote and edit

book t96 hours of nonfiction authors, television for serious readers. we kick panel with donald trump's the art of the deal. >> our country needs a truly great leader and we need a truly great leader now. [shouting] >> we need a leader that wrote the art of the deal. we need a leader that can bring back our jobs, can bring back our manufacturing, can bring back our military, can take care of our vets, our vets have beena abandoned. [cheers and applause]ry >> and we also need a cheerleader. >> michael cruz, what can we learn about donald trump from reading the art of the deal? >> we can learn a lot, i think, and we should when you're studying donald trump and i think everybody at this point should be studying donald trump. the art of the deal is the foundational document and at this point it reads sort of like a campaign play book. first and foremost what we can learn from the art of the dealar that he's selling fantasy. those are his words and not mine. >> well, in fact, his words of art of the deal i play people's fantasies, people may not think big of

i don't have the exact number but business or fiction or nonfiction within those categories. >> the last one is from author named david slater. a grad of the headline of "the new york times" said to american boys who were arrested because they're too the most dangerous assassins. and then it tracks the two american boys in the mexican border and the agents that is on their tail. ready is really doing is asking questions and there is the cop in the book from chicago that just a few tweets ago from an ohio family as suspicion those murders were committed by a cartel as well. with your disinclined to support one or another and then increase the of murder rate. >> booktv did a tour of simon & schuster few years back tight bin simon & schuster in the search function and what the whole tour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. i'm president of the clare boothe luce foundation. it is great to see young conservative women here today. now we're featuring stacey and we love c-span.

>> guest: mainly serious nonfiction literary fiction with a little edge to them. books that can change the culture. >> host: we are here to talk to you about some of the books are coming out this fall and let's start with the series one. >> guest: it's by david daily and it tells the story of how the country has been redistricted since 2010 to shift all these congressional districts over to republican space. most of the architect of the program have this token and they will travel visa sex. you will see districts go to a garbage dump and pontiac michigan and it shows how the districts were created. the word was used by edmund wilson as early as the 1920s. >> host: we are being polite or use of the word that the whole word is on the front of the book, is no? >> guest: no the whole world is not. it's not on the front of the book. there are two asterisks and we call it -- but it was used by woodward and bernstein. it's a longstanding where they can that's political espionage and dirty tricks and sabotage. >> host: another book that they cannot already but it was a fi

. >> here's a look at the current best-selling nonfiction books. topping the list, philosopher aaron james looks hewitt donald trump's personality contributes to his politics and presidential campaign. coates, win over last year's national book award, explores the current state of black america in "between the world and me." next up, matthew desmond looks at urban poverty inmer in "evicted." followed by holiday hamilton' "the published transcribe of the broadway musical. our look at the best-selling nonfiction books according to he harvard book store continues with saysapiens"," the christian kell of the evolution of moder den humans and the challenges facing our species today. cornell university microbiology yeah researcher looks how microbeses affect human halve in "the human super organism now and then a recount of facing mortality in a memoir, when breath becomes air. ...

it's a look at the current nonfiction best sellers according to "the new york times." many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on the web site, booktv.org. >> you're watching bosh tv on c-span2. we're on location at claremont mcken in college in claremont, california, where we're talking with professor who are authors. john shields has written this book called "passing on the right: conservative professors in the progressive university." professor shields, page one you and your co-author write: progressives rule higher education and conservatives are so scarce in fact that they're outnumbered. >> guest: they're extremely scarce. less than five percent of social scientists self-identify as conservative. 18% of social scientist are ma,ists. so even badly outnumbered by marxists. they're that scarce. >> host: do you self-identify as a conservative? >> guest: i do. i'm a rare strange creature. >> host: the thought it that's conservative professors on liberal arts campuses are intimidated. >> guest: right. so there is this sense

. >> you're watching the tv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv, television for serious readers. >> there's a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. saturday august 20 second, book tv is live at the second annual mississippi festival held at the state capital in jackson. featuring former trent lott and john meacham. coming up on september eighteenth, as the brooklyn book festival held in downtown brooklyn new york. later in the month the annual baltimore book festival will take place at the city's inner harbor. on saturday september 20. saturday september 24, for the 16th year in a row, book tv will be live with other talks and call-in segments from the national book festival hosted by the library of congress at the washington convention center. for more information on fairs and festivals and to watch previous festival coverage click the book for your staff our website, booktv.org. >> book tv recently visited capitol hill test members of congress with their reading the summer. >> first of all thank you to c

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it is a new york times bestseller, it's a washington post notable nonfiction. and for those that want to support kristen, it is up for library of virginia people's choice award, so you can go to the web site to get this book voted as a people's choice award. it's an interesting book not only because i'm a lawyer and i love race relations topics, brown v. board of education is something that i studied in depth when i was in law school, but also for those of you that do not know that gaithersburg was voted recently the most diverse city in america. so those of us here today who live in gaithersburg may not fully appreciate that race relations were not always as they have been. and that's what this book is about. kristen grew up in farmville, virginia, in prince edward county, and for those of you that do not know this, in the wake of the seminal supreme court decision, brown v. board of education, which ruled that segregation of schools and education was unconstitutional, prince edward county was the only county in this country to close its schools rather than de

[cheering] -- [applause] >> every weekend, but to be has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors on c-span two. here is what is coming up at saturday. thenews channel cohosts values and virtues that help to build america as a great nation and his book wake up america. the nine bridges that made our nation great and why we need them more than ever. karen:00 p.m. eastern, , she talks about legal questions arising from policies and laws enacted to fight the war against your is terrorism -- u.s. terrorism. she's integrated -- is interviewed by the author of the black matters. >> important for the american people to understand that there are -- not all terrorism cases are the same. there is an entire set of cases from those who are accused of wanting to plot and found evidence like the subway bomber in new york to those who are really just desperation on. -- exploration. book whiteusses her ridge. the unspoken truth about our racial divide which chronicles where black progress in history has been met by what she calls white rage. she suggested her book that opposition to the advancement

most of them are nonfiction. i know you have been here -- didn't you cowrite something with steven koonce. were you kind of their expert? >> with steve, i contributed to two original fiction anthologies at his request. steve just been marvelous friend and colleague. in 1984, our visual publisher sent me a manuscript written by a vietnam war aviator for each other. i said this book is so good, if you don't publish it i will. next year it was published "fight of the intruder." he came up with the concept of a former military contractor that does deniable work for the u.s. government all over the world. that was a trilogy that was a fun change of pace for me because i hadn't done anything in the trilogy realm. that was an education. >> i'm sure it was. you're a wonderful writer. i think your nonfiction reads with all the fiction and thriller. you grew up flying airplanes? where does all of this aviation background come from >> i'm an eastern oregon ranch kid. grew up literally next to family crop duster strip. in an

. >> guest: we publish 110 books a year, mostly nonfiction. 20% is fiction, but a lot of history and politics and current events and food-related books, popular science, those are the four areas we publish in. some memoirs as well. >> host: want to catch up with you here the publishing convention. talk about the books coming out this fall and you have one coming up on lyndon johnson. >> guest: we do. called "faustian bargain by and it's the story of the dark side of lyndon johnson. lbj accomplished an enormous amount as a president but had a very dark side, and this story is told through the lens of a man completely unknown to history, neighborhood mack wallace who only enter investigated with lyndon johnson a couple of occasions bus his life story tells a great deal about the dark side of lbj and the deal me made with cronies in texas, to which mack wallace was very mitch involved in and aware of. the best way to describe this is he in 1951 walked into a small golf course owner in austin, texas and shot the man dead. he was arrested two hours later and he said to the arresting offic

>> guest: we publish about 110 books a year largely nonfiction. we do 20% fiction put a lot of history and politics and current events, food related books, popular science, those are the four areas and publishing memoirs as well. >> host: who want to catch up with you at the publishing convention to talk about some of the books coming out this fall and you've got one coming up. guess who was called a faustian bargain by woman named joan mellon and as the story of the trial and lbj accomplished to an enormous amount of the dark side. the stories told of the lens of a man completely unknown to system history named matt wallace who only attracted with lyndon johnson on a couple of occasions but his life and his life story tell us a great deal about the dark side of the old b.j. in the deals he made with cronies in texas to which matt wallace was very much involved and aware of his period wallace is an amazing way in the best way to describe this is he a 1951 he walked into a small golf course owner in austin texas and shot the man dead. you was arres

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our look at best selling nonfiction books according to "the new york times" continues with the rainbow comes and goes in which cnn host anderson cooper and his mother, gloria vanderbilt, discuss their lives. next, siddhartha mukherjee examines the future of genetic manipulation in "the gene." in "white trash," historian nancy isenberg looks at the history of class in america and the political significance of poor whites from reconstruction to the new deal. phil knight recalls his creation of nike in "shoe dog," and in "grunt," the issues of panic, exhaustion and heat in military combat. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our web site, booktv.org. >> c-span, created by america's cable television companies and brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. >> host: former fcc commissioner kathleen abernathy is our guest this week on "the communicators." currently, she is executive vice president of frontier communications. ms. abernathy, what is frontier? >> guest: frontier is a pure play wire line-based broa

. >> here's a look at some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to indy bound, a group of independent bookstores that are members of the american booksellers association. >> our look at the best selling nonfiction books according to indybound continues with: >> that's a look at some of the current nonfiction bestsellers

if you are writing long form nonfiction or writing nonfiction books whether someone is from chicago or boston, we don't need to say it. what is important, i had no idea where those guys are from, what interested me was who they were. one guy, bobby wilson, had a strong southern accent. he was what a lot of people would have thought of as a classic redneck, a super smart guy, one of the smartest guys out there but his southern identity was very strong and i talk about that. >> host: who is brendan o'byrne? >> guest: in the second platoon, the main character of my book "war". he and i are extremely good friends, we talk almost every day. he was the first one to talk about getting out of the army and as a result was the first one to suffer significant psychological consequences. he stayed in and it was interesting, war is traumatizing particularly for a unit like that, 10% of the unit is engaged in combat, they were in that 10%, the guys who stayed in and kept deploying would have the severest psychological consequences. as one by one they got out of the army, they psychologically crashed

. >> you read mostly nonfiction? >> i do. heavy biography, history, i used to be a historian and that's what i enjoy. and if i read fiction it's quite often. it's not this case. this is like i'm i'm going to being 12. two science fiction books basically, but i read quite historical fiction and i love kathleen mccullough. mostly heavy biography. >> you mentioned that you've got your ph.d, where did you teach? >> i actually taught as a y graduate assistant and as adjunct professor at the university of oklahoma, oklahoma baptist university. that was just a semester gig, taught in london. that was a fun one. i had my undergraduate degree from there and then teaching a class, with don fowler, before i was in congress a class in national parties and campaigns at jw up here in dc and i taught a campaign course years ago at the university of central oklahoma. >> are there any historians that when they come out with a book or entire series you've read? >> look, i love anything that steven ambrose wrote. he was really -- and a lot of r

. >> what about that nonfiction? >> not enough. what is really interesting is there is the book coming out and reading things or something like that that let the mind just go with of possibilities every once in awhile people will talk about washington they say you just could not make this up. satellite think that sometimes reading these parities allow undermined to just think. >> do you read books about washington and/or the congress contemporary? >>. not a lot. i don't know. i guess i don't have the appetite for that right now. maybe because i spend hours on periodicals so maybe i am too immersed in it to appreciate that. >> if you were to recommend a book for your district where would you go? >> i think reading the constitution is of great place or "the federalist papers" the news that our foundational for children one of the benjamin franklin books those are exceptional because of the appreciation for his different skill sets and the work -- the way he worked to develop those skills sets. those who were in agrarian or a former i

at just the beginning they will have access more through a search in the excerpt basis through nonfiction for the up publishers otherwise we will see less and less money to pay off the indians is for the authors. with those types of books that take a while those highly researched books. >> he referenced this but there is a whole generation growing up thinking everything is free. where will this end up? >> in this is with the music industry i think it is 25 percent of what it was? they have really lost their shirts. that music should be free and then you pay a monthly fee but it is smaller than at was in the past seven years trying to prevent that save mindset to the public spirit but we do have less of a problem that they're not the teenagers with more richard titus citizens. that is starting to happen. and one of the authors was the scholar and also robbia's novels the and her ruffians teller with impunity i read your books for free. sorry about that but i cannot afford them. get so we start to see that happening and the right team is a work. -- writing is worse than if readers support t

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on the nonfiction side we publish a lot of history, narrative nonfiction, politics and science. >> host: how long has it been in business? >> guest: 1897. >> host: founded by? >> guest: someone named mister doubleday. >> host: we are previewing the books. what do we have? >> guest: three are of note to your viewers. in august we are publishing jeffrey toobin's book about patty hearst, her kidnapping, what she did while she was in the liberation army and her dramatic trial. jeff toobin is a new yorker staff writer and cnn legal correspondent and author of several bestsellers. also the book on the o.j. simpson case which was made into a television series. what is so fantastic about this book from my perspective, we are living through this tumultuous time but in the early 1970s it felt the country was having a nervous breakdown. there were 1500 terrorist bombings every year during this period. nixon was being impeached, economic malaise. in the midst of this sensational crime happened, the heiress to a great fortune was kidnapped, declared she was now to be known as tonya in the cn -- libe

with nonfiction, some writers write pretty quickly. we have books that have been 20 years in the making and the right book and the right author and you wait patiently while they work and perhaps a simple of matter of 20 years of research that makes a good book. >> we talked to mary while we were here at the publisher's convention. she talked about book contracts. have they changed for you as a publisher over the years? >> pretty much the same as it was. the one thing that's been added, obviously is stipulation for the i-book, what the rate is going to be on the e-book. so it's been pretty standard for a good long time. it gets, you know, we are constantly talking with different literary agents and different authors about just trying to recognize things that are moving ahead, i would say in basic form it's been the same for a good long time. >> what's the role of a literary agent? >> literary agents are -- that's our main source for writing. i started -- i still personally treasure the fact that i know how to go on university campuses a

see how watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. on c-span they can have a longer conversation delved into their subjects. >> tv weekends, they bring you author after author after author it's the work of fascinating people. >> i love booktv and i'm a c-span fan. >> you are watching the tv and c-span2 and on your screen is clermont mckenna government professor george thomas whose book is called "the founders and the idea of a national university". here's the cover. professor thomas, what is the national university? >> guest: well a national university was an idea put forward by a number of founders. george washington, james madison, benjamin franklin, thomas jefferson and the idea really in short was that the new constitutional order created which we take for granted in our day was really in the process of being built and they turned to education as ones have a way of trying to foster further the kind of political culture, the kind of idea of the kind of education they thought was necessary to sustain that constitutional order. >> ho

. >> host: is there ever a chance for what you call a beach reading, maybe nonfiction ... >> guest: not enough but the thing about reading fiction that is really interesting and i know brad thor has a book coming out soon, i think it's called or an agent and reading things, a clancy book or something like that is that you get way over there in letting the mind just go and thinking about the possibilities and every once in a while people will talk about washington and they'll go this stuff coming out there now you, you couldn't make this up and so i think that sometimes reading fiction or reading some of these comedies, these parities, it can be good because it allows your mind to just sink. >> host: speaking of washington, do you read books about washington, about the congress, kind of contemporary narratives? >> guest: not a lot. i just, i don't know. i guess i just don't have the appetite for that. maybe i do so much periodical reading, i spend hours every day reading so maybe i'm too immersed in it to appreciate that. >> host: if you were to recommend a book for your district to read

booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. television for serious readers. now we kick off the weekend with fox news' eric bolling on his book, "wake up america." [inaudible conversations] >> all right. we're ready to yet started. again, thank you all for coming, thank you for your patience. if you've not yet purchased a copy of tonight's book, there are still copies available at the front counter. after the author is done speaking, there'll be time for a quick q&a. there is a camera crew from c-span here tonight, so you may be on camera. if you wouldn't mind just waiting until somebody gives you a microphone to can your question, raise your hand, mr. bolling will call on you, and we'll get you a microphone. i have the pleasure to introduce eric bolling, co-host of "the five." he frequently appears on other fox programs including as substitute hosts for bill o'reilly on ""the o'reilly factor." " here tonight to speak be about "wake up america," please join me in welcoming eric bolling. [applause] >> how's everyone doing tonight? everyone good? you hear me? y

at some of the current nonfiction bestsellers according to indie bound. many of these authors will be appearing or have appeared on booktv. you can watch them at booktv.org. >> meg jacobs, it's really a pleasure to get a chance to talk to you here at the carter center. i -- and also welcome the audience that's come out tonight to listen to our conversation. meg jacobs is the author of "panic at the pump: the energy crisis and the transformation of american politics in the 1970s." meg is a, teaches history and public affairs at princeton. you've written, this is third or fourth book? >> something like that. >> something like that? you wrote a book i was interested in because we're going to be talking about conservatives and liberals, but one of them is -- you were co-author of "conservatives in power: the reagan years, 1981-1989." okay, interesting. >> okay. >> we're going to talk a bit about conservative politics and liberal politics for that matter too tonight. let me, let's start with this, if we can. >> okay. >> and you correct me. you have a thesis fo

then timothy egan's nonfiction nonfiction work about thomas francis, 19th century irishman who led a failed uprising against the british. watch book to be in prime time tomorrow night starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern once he spent too. >> democrats are meeting at philadelphia this week for their national convention. you can watch every minute of the event live on c-span or listen on the c-span radio app and view video on demand at c-span.org. in addition to the convention there are several other activities taking place in the city this week. here's a look at one of the places open to the public. >> here we are in another one of our future expeditions at the center called habits of the white house. it will be up throughout the election year and it's really about celebrating the election in teaching about the presidential election process and all the different parts of the constitution that affects that process. sections, so you' so it's broken up into four sections. so first first year learning to be the candidate, you're thinking how you would join the race if you're gonna be a candidat

my colleague, the nonfiction editor, a lot of nonpolitical tooks but all the time. history books, policy bikes, any books that impinge on law or government. we specialize in those books. >> host: oh do you develop your bestseller list? >> guest: the best seller lest is generated by nielsen and they take from the maryland, virginia, and -- d.c. and that's information is just given to us and then we filter out some things like textbooks, other things that might show up at certain times of the year. everyone else does it to make it adhere to editorial judgment. >> host: what some of the best selling books in washington right now. >> guest: i wish i looked at the list. it doesn't differ much from the national list. once in a while there will be some event and that will push a book up on a list or someone will come to our great book store, politics and prose, and move 300 copies that week and that puts stuff on the list in general the list tracks pretty much the national list. we keep looking at that to see if we some switch. we like the elements that pop it but isn't th