this is an example of a history book. >> historical nonfiction book that we both love. never what history, this is like '02. "devil in the white city" is a crazy story chicago roast their serial killer classic book club book. if you want your mind blown, w.e.b. du bois blue-black book is beautiful and w work of art. if you don't have a lot of time correct when you read one chapter of this tonight,ri maybe celebrate pride month. it's great, short digestible stores. apparently o he is not in berkey but i am. genghis khan and a moderate make a history perspective at the eurocentrism. number two, o anthony effort stk with me from grad school amazing story. happy reading. >> host: elizabeth harris with using betty the beagle to sell books tricky i? mean who doesn't love a dog? it's brilliant, right? but any tiktok, book tok, also loves a list when you give very short snippet reviews a couple of books areks just list a coupe of books and say why you do or don't like them or you put them in a category. a lot of those have done very well,re like i was at tiktok ths morning. i g

this is the example of a history book. >> nonfiction books at betty and i both love.ng to like big scope of mystery. >> a crazy story. classic book club book. we want to remind everyone that it is beautiful. i recommend you just read one chapter ofon this tonight. maybe to celebrate pride month. world history perspective antihero centrism, number two, it stuck with me, i've really amazing. happy reading. >> elizabeth harris, using betty the beagle to sell books. >> i mean, who does not love a dog. really. i think that tiktok, book talk, also loves a list. a very short review of a couple of books and just say why you don't like them or you put them in a category. a lot of those have done very well. tiktok this morning, i had a couple of books to read for the first time again. books that will destroy you. or, i don't know, enemies two lovers books, things like that. that kinda fits into the same thing. here is a list if you are looking for a particular kind of thing. here is my thumbs up, thumbs down. if you're looking for this, try this. very specific, theory quick, us

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we'll also give you updates on current nonfiction and authors and books. the latest book reviews and we'll talk about the current nonfiction books featured on c-span, spook do, that award ce. and now a focus on a more recent phenomenon that is having a major impact on book >> on a more recent phenomenon having a major impact new york times books and publishing reporter joining our program to talk about the social media phenomenon known as booktalk. so when did booktalk get started and what is it? >> publishers noticed about a year and a half ago and it is a #within that platform tiktok people saying very funny things that book tok is people talking about books that could be videos or a list of covers and publisher started to notice that are not just talking that buying the books theyha were hearing about it was moving a substantial number of come on —- copies. host: how many views are they garnering? >> hundreds of thousands easily. it can h really be huge. it can be very hits and miss a doesn't mean it will go viral but some things do and there are subsec

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seven historical nonfiction books that betty ann and i both love. number one, history of the world in six glasses. this is my go to like big scope of history. devil in the white city is a crazy, untrue story. chicago, world's fair zero killer classic book club book. if you want to have your mind blown and get a little philosophical. w.e.b. dubois the souls of black folk is beautiful and a work of art. if you don't have a lot of time on your hands, i recommend you just read one chapter of this a night. maybe to celebrate pride month. it's really great, short, digestible stories. apparently a big reason i did biographies, but i am number one genghis khan in the making of the modern world world history perspective. anti-euro centrism. number two, the biography of augustus by anthony everett like stuck with me from grad school really amazing story. and last but certainly not least, it's got to be eleanor happy reading so elizabeth harris we're using betty the beagle to sell books. i mean who doesn't love a dog? it's brilliant, right? but i mean, tick to

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nonfiction. and fiction.his year we have special guests helping us from afar to introduce each category and the panel. first, we have jimmy fallon, award winner and coauthor of for you with jennifer lopez to introduce the finalists for the. 22 national book award for people's literature and panel chair dr. jewel rhodes. books for young readers. simply put, changed lives. this year's finalist for the national book award for young people's literature explore what it's like for young people and people of all ages to tackle grief, anger and discrimination, whether in a magical realm or closer to home. through and illustration, these books portray characters on journeys of self-acceptance and self-discovery and some have even changed the course of history. the panel chair for this year's national book award for young people's literature is dr. joel parker rhodes, the award winning author of several books, adults and young people. she's the virginia piper endowed chair in narrative studies professor at arizona stat

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. >> american history tv documents america stories and book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors . thing comes from these television companies and more including media,. >> we believe that what you miss here or right here or lay out in the middle of anywhere we should have access to fast reliable internet rent that's why relieving the way. >> media, along with these television companies supports c-span2 as a public service. >> hello. i'm daniel babbitt, area director for miami-dade college and i just want to say that you and welcome to the miami book infair 2022. online and in downtown miami at the wilson campus at miami-dade college . their commitment to access t has guided our vision for a miami that's connected to the world and the world connected so to miami through a exchange me of ideas so welcome you and when the program. i'm thrilled to introduce the moderators and authors for today's presentation. first we have got to roe, the author of many best-selling works of fiction including last trial, testimony, identical, presumed innocent, the burden of proof to non

the last archive mostly made up of nonfiction, popular nonfiction authors. they're intelligent.ve the integrity. they're journalistically rigorous and they're whimsical and they're engaging. and so that is kind of the broader programs and our podcasts deliver that seasonally, and they're free and available on all podcast channels and then we also have this audio book section, which is what i work on, which is another way people listen to information. and in that world we do two sorts of things. one, we create auto audio originals, which are documentaries or audio books that we make from whole cloth. i recently did a project on paul simon that was a musical memoir. we thought this was a story better heard than read because when you're talking about the sounds of silence, you want to hear the sounds of silence. and we did just that. and so far we've created around a dozen of these audio originals. and these you can purchase as audiobooks through audible or directly through our website. well, one of the compelling things about the januar, three, six events and hearings was some of

and now i tend to work on more serious nonfiction and a lot of classics. but i think, you know, it's it seems to be the same where wherever i am, you know, often will get, you know, we're working with a book that might not yet be written or we'll just have a few lines about it and not know that much. you know, hopefully there's a manuscript that we can get our hands on, but that's not always the case. but it's yeah, it's been such an instructive, an amazing experience. you know, i've got to read incredible works of literature. i've learned so much more than i ever did when i was at university about, you know, the art of writing and putting together a piece of writing and i think that, you know, writing these very short paragraphs can actually teach you a lot about, you know, writing as a whole and, you know, writing a whole book. well, what makes a good blurb? oh, the million dollar question. i would say that a blurb is a lot more than a synopsis. you know, if you want a synopsis of a bookstore, you can just look on wikipedia. the author, iris murdoch, sai

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are you a nonfiction book lover looking for a new podcast? this holiday season, try listening to one of the many podcast c-span has to offer. on cue and a, you listen to interesting interviews with people and authors writing books on history and subjects that matter. learn something new on booknotes+ through conversations with nonfiction authors and historians. afterwards brings together nonfiction offers with influential interviews -- for wide ranging, hour-long conversations. and on about books, we talk about the business of books with news and interviews about the publishing industry and nonfiction authors. find all of our podcast by downloading the free c-span now app. or wherever you get your podcasts. john has recently retired from the national guard service career, which began 40 years ago at the manassas national battlefield park. he became the chief historian and one of the many projects there. with the publication of an exhaustive research and the study of the truth movements showing where each unit was engaged and moved about the b

using the techniques of fiction to apply to nonfiction. actually there are a lot of journalists who become outstanding popular historians. david mccullough is anobvious example . and the washington post, one of my mentors was rick atkinson who wrote a wonderful truly trilogy of the second world war and then wrote, he is now writing a trilogy of the american revolution. but these authors, most of them former journalists, they set about applying these techniques of writing nonfiction or history but using additional techniques of developing characters using plenty of dialogue, creating scenes and moving from one scene to another. of course, if you're writing nonfiction it has to be every bit of it has to be accurate. you can't justinvent things . and one of the reasons actually i chose this subject of nixon and watergate is you don't have to accept anything because the historical record is so rich and it's much more interesting and much more colorful. i haven't got a great imagination but if i did i could invent many of the lines that crop up

. >> are you a nonfiction book lover looking for new podcast? this holiday season listen to one of the many podcasts c-span has to offer. on q and a, you listen to interesting interviews with people and authors writing books on history and subjects that matter. learn something new on book notes plus through conversations with nonfiction authors and historians. afterwards brings together nonfiction authors with influential interviewers. from wide-ranging, hour-long conversations. on about books, we talk about the business of books with news and interviews about the publishing industry and authors. find our podcast by downloading the free c-span now app. or you get your podcast. >> incoming house minority leader hakeem jeffries, susan and other democratic leaders refer reporters on the congress to leave -- this is 35 minutes. campaign committee. this is 35 minutes. >> it is an honor and privilege to stand before me to introduce our new d triple c chair representative susan. before i introduce her, let me say, when you think about the context we ar

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afterwards brings together bestselling nonfiction authors with influential interviewers.- hour-long conversations. on about books, we talk about the business of books with news and interviews about the publishing industry and nonfiction others. find all of our podcasts by downloading the free c-span now app, or wherever you get your podcasts. hi my name is erik dolan. and speaking to you for marblehead, massachusetts, which is my home and i want to thank the national archives for inviting me to give this talk today on rebels at sea and privateeri

jeffrey: okay, maureen, nonfiction. maureen: ada calhoun, also a poet.alhoun is writing about her father, peter schjeldahl, who was an art critic for the new york times. jeffrey: yeah, very prominent. maureen: very prominent, but kind of an elusive, emotionally elusive father. ada goes down to the basement of the east village apartment house where her parents lived for decades. she comes upon these cassette tapes that her father made when he was trying to write a biography of the new york poet frank o'hara. and she decides she's going to use these tapes to try to complete what he never completed. he never wrote this biography. also a poet is literary criticism. it's biography of both her father and frank o'hara. and it's also a daughter's memoir and a love letter to new york city. so it's fabulous. the other book i that has stayed -- the other book i -- that has stayed with me is by the medical historian lindsay fitzharris, and it's called the face maker. it's about the pioneering plastic surgery work of harold gillies, a doctor during world war i, who's

. >> are you a nonfiction book lover looking for new podcast? this holiday season has is into one of the many podcasts c-span is offer. on q&a you listen to interesting interviews with people and authors writing books on history and subjects that matter. learn something new on booknotes+ through conversation with nonfiction authors and historians. afterwards brings together best-selling nonfiction authors with influential interviewers for wide-ranging hour-long conversations. and on about books we talk about the business of books with news and interviews about the publishing industry and nonfiction authors. find all of our podcast by downloading the free c-span now app aware of you get your podcasts. >> ladies and gentlemen,, it is a great pleasure to welcome you to the session on the politics of climate change. we have two very eminent authors here with us. we have jerome corsi whose published 25 booksan on economis history and politics, including two number one "new york times" bestsellers. in 1972 he received his phd from the department of go

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and we'll talk the current nonfiction books featured on c-span's book tv. will author mitch albom first published his memoir tuesdays with morrie 25 years ago. that was in 1997. the book sub6 only spent 350 plus weeks on the new times bestseller list. that's over six years. it sold about 18 million copies, and it was recently reissued for the 25th anniversary. author mitch albom joins us now. so mitch albom, in the new afterwords for the 25th anniversary edition tuesdays with morrie, you write about compulsion that you had write this book. what was that compulsion to my story with the world? i knew that what i was going in that little office up in west massachusetts was just between he i but i recognized a lot of what he was saying to me had resonance with a lot more people than just me. and i wanted i wanted to share. but the truth was it the reason behind tuesdays with morrie was much more practical than that. morrie in debt for his medical bills and he didn't have a way to pay them. and i was desperate to try to find a way to help him. so i was the only

and in, sunday's book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span two comes from these television companies and, more including. cops >> homework can be hard. but squatting in a diner for internet work is even harder. that is why we are providing lower income students acces to affordable internet. so homework can just be homework. cox connect to compete. >> cox, along with these television companies, supports c-span 2 as a public service. >> island girls was a senior research scholar in the council of humanities and the director of politics and statesmanship at the james madison program at princeton university. formerly, he was professor of history at gettysburg college, where i attended two of his talks while visiting the battlefield. i was very impressed with his knowledge and his speaking skills. and he has been on my list of historians to have here at the art of command conference for sometime now. allen grew up in pennsylvania and focused his career on biblical studies, receiving his b s degree from karen university in bucks

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saturday american history tv documents american story and on sunday book t brings you the latest nonfiction authors funding for cspan2 come from these television companies and more including mako. >> midco along with these television companies support c-span2 is a public service. >> good evening, everyone and thank you so much for being here despite what is unusual rainy miami november evening. we at theni university of miami are extraordinarily privileged to sponsor tonight's event. we are fans of the author and of the interviewer and is my privilege to introduce symbols to you, mikell who i consider one of my best uses a professor of medicine and the chief a position of hematology at the comprehensive cancer center at the university of miami school of medicine. he is a medical degree and masters degree in clinical epidemiology from the university pennsylvania school of medicine and completed his postgraduate harvard university he's also the co-author or author of more than 400 scientific manuscript on cancer, he is on the editorial board of several journals and written 60 essays for the n

no course of your right nonfiction every bit of it has to be backed. of the reasons i chose the subject of nixon and watergate as you do not have to invent anything because historical record is so rich and it is much more interesting and much more colorful. i got a great imagination but if i was a novelist i don't think i could invent many of the lines brought up in watergate. and of course we have the tapes which is an amazing source for real life. okay, so how do i write this book? i focus on nixon's reelection in 1972. this is six months after watergatese. it was inaugurated for the second time as president one of the outstanding election victories in american history he had one by the largest popular vote margin up until that date. you have the country behind him. he thought it larson put watergate behind him. watergate's june 72 is reelected in november 1972. my book begins the scene just before his inauguration in january of 1973. action the 20th of january , 73. nixon is feeling pretty a good about watergate. is about to conclude a peace treaty

on sunday, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span two comes from these television companies and more. including mediacom. >> at media, calmly believe whether you live here, right here, or way out in the middle, we should have access, to reliable internet. that's why we are taking you to tennessee. mediacom support c-span 2 as a public service. is near and dear to my heart. welcome, everyone, today, today i wanted to start with a story that is near and dear to my heart so you have heard the story, today we are going to be talking about and expected slavery. i'm like the other, week this week we are going to be talking about the part of history that i do my research and. and i wanted to start with the story that started mean hipster in history. i did not want to be a historian when i was where you are. i was interested in doing international relations or anything else. but i had to take a class in order to kind of fill my requirements, we know how that goes. so, i chose a class, material culture and early america. i

kind of connecting with what gilbert said about ed yong's nonfiction book. family adopted a puppy during the pandemic. and so it's partly that personal story. so many people adopted dogs and cats during the pandemic, but also this attempt, yes, to get into the mind of a creature who we love but who is not us. so i think we'reoing to keep seeing those pandemic stories. jeffrey: all right. just some of the best books of 2022. maureen corrigan, gilbert cruz, thank you both very much. gilbert: thank you. maureen: thank you. ♪ judy: the playlist is personal for the team distilling the life of and legacy of neil diamond in the newly-opened broadway musical "a beautiful noise." without diamond, we would not have "sweet caroline." the monkees wouldn't have had number one hits like "i'm a believer." and there would be no song about "coming to america." diamond's decades-long march through the music charts is portrayed in the musical which first ran in boston this summer. that is where special correspondent jared bowen of gbh got an early look, for canvas, our series

the genre of medical writing nonfiction goes back a long way.ould say that in some ways the first philosopher, partly not engaging in philosophy. it was a popular book. it was called micro -- micrograph he. tiny things in the universe. a long history, of course, the internet has changed things. storytelling is very, very important in all of this. things have changed a little bit . you will not be a very good doctor. it used to be that you did not even have a shot of getting into medical school. i made the joke about the artel majors earlier. >> every story has an ending. unfortunately, this is our spirit. >> go ahead. >> i am actually a history 'major. i read all of your books. i think that they are absolutely fantastic. [laughter] similar to what the other audience members have asked. what we have seen with the pandemic and a lot of different things is there is a huge mistrust that the public has. someone who is just a wonderful communicator, how do you think we can better communicate with the public and better bridge that gap? >> we are runnin

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are you a nonfiction book lover looking for a new podcast? this holiday season, dry listening to one of the many podcasts c-span has to offer. on q&a you will listen to interesting interviews with people and authors writing books on histories, and subjects that matter. learn something new on booknotes+, through conversations with non fiction authors and new stories. afterwards brings together bestselling nonfiction authors with influential interviewers. from life -- hour-long conversations. on about books, we talk about the business of books with news and interviews about the publishing industry and nonfiction others. find all of our podcasts by downloading the free c-span now app, or wherever you get your podcasts. hi my name is erik dolan. and speaking to you for marblehead, massachusetts, which is my home and i want to thank the national archives for inviting me to give this talk today on rebels at sea and privateering in the american revolution. just a little more background of me. i've been a full-time writer since about 2007. most of my