[applause] >> is very non-fiction author or book he would like to see featured on booktv? send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org or four us at twitter.com/booktv. booktv talk with georgetown university professor nancy sherman about her latest book "the untold war". nancy sherman was interviewed as part of booktv's college series. it is about half an hour. >> host: what do you do for a living? >> guest: i have the glorious job of being a professor. i teach at georgetown university and this year i am at the woodrow wilson center so occasionally i write books. i talk to veterans and soldiers about going to war and coming home. >> host: what is your connection to the naval academy? >> guest: i used to teach at the naval academy. 4 two years. i was there inaugural distinguished chair in ethics. they have a cheating scandal and they are in the limelight being near washington and they needed to brainstorm about how to teach ethics and so they called me in and -- i have taught ethics for years at georgetown for 20 years. some of that before, yale and as a graduate student. they were

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professor kennedy, thank you for being on "in depth." booktv continues on c-span2. .. finish >> we, of course, welcome those who join us on our heritage website on all of these occasions. we would ask everyone here in houston should be so kind to make that last is a check that your cell phones have been turned off as we record the program. we'll post the program within 24 hours on our website for everyone's future reference as well. as you notice we do have copies of "the politically incorrect guide to the presidents," partisan at least. available in the lobby if you would like to purchase them. we, of course, this is part of a long-standing series the publishers have done various aspects on issues of interest to all of us we encourage you to consider them. hosting our discussion and it is our special guest will be edwin meese. he served as the ronald reagan distinguished fellow in public policy. he's also chairman of what is now the edwin meese center for legal and judicial studies here at the heritage foundation. please join in welcoming the 75th attorney general of

>> for more information on shreveport weekend on booktv, visit c-span.org/local content. up next on booktv, jean baker recounts this life of margaret sanger who became a proponent of educating women on big concepts of contraception after watching a woman dais self-induced abortion in 1912. this is just over an hour. [inaudible] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] and then this era as we all remember when abortion was illegal and dangerous. now she has septicemia, as staff a cockeyed infection, and in a few hours she was dead. this event was told and retold by margaret sanger was the transforming of that inner life. and the founding moment of what became one of the most successful and indeed after writing this biography i would say the most successful advocacy in american history. that may quote from her autobiography about this epiphany that she had. when i finally arrived home, i looked out my window on the dimly -- c., technology really does -- [laughter] okay. when i finally

history tv explore the literary culture of shreveport bleeders the louisiana starting at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2 author gary joyner and the union army's fell year in louisiana from one dam blunder from beginning to end. then a look at the 200,000 books of the collection housed at the lsu shreveport archived. they walking tour of shreveport with neil johnson and on american history tv, at 5:00 eastern clippers the look at the base's role on 9/11 plus the history of a b-52 bomber and the founding fathers autographed collection at louisiana state executive museum and from the pioneer heritage center medical treatments and madison during the civil war. shreveport, louisiana next weekend on c-span 2, and 3. next on booktv diane brady recalled the efforts of reverend john brooks who traveled the east coast recruiting african-american students to the college of holy cross in the hope of realizing martin luther king jr.'s goal of an integrated society following his death in 1968. reverend brooks introduced several students to holy cross that year which included future supreme court justice cl

also this weekend, on booktv, they turn the network into the extension of the republican party. and mark levin's "the unmaking of america." booktv, every weekend on c-span 2. >> i was quite a radical as a young person and i was the one that thought we should overcome and not a way of gaining civil rights and i thought more confrontation was needed. >> economic professor, columnist, walter williams, on being a radical. >> i believe that being a radical is any person who believes in personal liberty and individual freedom and limited government. that makes you a radical and i've always been a person who believed that people should not interfere with me. i should be able to do my own thing without -- so long as i don't violate the rights of other people. >> more with walter williams on c-span's q and a. >> now, a senate finance committee hearing on trade relations with russia. the committee discussed proposals to repeal an amendment passed in 1975 to put pressure on countries with nonmarket or communist economies by restricting trade with the u.s. this part of the hearing is an hou

send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> and now more from shreveport weekend here on book the. booktv. >> i'm laura mclemore, around conservativist here at noel memorial library, and we're in archives and special collections at noel at lsu shreveport. we're specializing in the history of documenting the history of northwest louisiana and the red river region. we have here today some of the, um, things that we consider the stars in our collection, one that we're proudest of that kind of is the opening of what one would consider northwest louisiana, i think, is the clearing of the raft of the red river in 87 p 3. this volume is a collection of 107 photographic plates that were taken by r.b. talfort to document the aggression of the clearing of the raft in the red river in 1873 between natchitoches and just about shreveport. it was particularly important, it was the last, most successful clearing of the red river raft, and it enabled shreveport to become a really important trading port for the rest of the 19th century. unfortunately for some of the crew of the aid with t

. >> now joining us on booktv is professor yvonne yazbak and sheila author of this book becoming american the forging of arab and muslim identity in pluralist america published by baylor university press. professor, when did muslims start coming to the u.s.? >> it depends. some people think they were here before columbus, some people think at least one of them came with columbus. but major -- amine in the 1870's. >> why? >> mostly lebanon and people are looking for work in of lebanon engaged there was a blight in the mulberry trees died and so they couldn't raise anything but the other thing that happened is the japanese silk began to compete so the industry fell apart. estimate quote was the reaction when the arabs and muslims started coming to the u.s.? trade industry that they began to sort of poll little trinkets to farmers. we have documents that showed they went into connecticut and springfield and there was this woman who ran away from lebanon to avoid being married to an 80 year old man, so she opened a store and they knew no arabic they would have her name and address and they co

. >> today starting at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2, author gary joiner on the union army's failure in louisiana from one damn blunder to beginning to end the red river campaign of 1864 and then a look at the james smith null book and then a walking tour of shreveport and boshier city and on american history tv on c-span3, tomorrow on c-span, a look at the base's role on 9/11 plus a history of the b-52 bomber, has visit the founding father's exhibit from the museum and from the pioneer heritage center, medical and medicine during the civil war. next week on c-span2 and 3. >> even a person who's a senator, even a person who now is president of the united states faces a predicament when they talk about race. they face all types of predicaments. they face the fact there are a some appreciable numbers of americans who are racially prejudice. they face the fact that a much larger portion of the american populace wants to deny the realities of race even now. >> sunday, harvard law professor and former law clerk to justice thurgood marshall randall kennedy, on racism, the process. and he'l

weeknights watch key public policy events, and to weaken the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> the u.s. general in charge of computer network defense is told a senate committee yesterday that they manage to pull off a successful attack against the computer security firm rsa. general keith alexander testified alongside the head of the u.s. strategic command. several senators asked about a recent conversation overheard between president obama and russian president medvedev on missile defense. during a nuclear security meeting in seoul, south korea, president obama reportedly said, this is my last election. and after my election, i have more flexibility. this committee hearing is two hours and 45 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. today's hearing continues a series of posture hearings that. the armed services committee is conducting on our combatant commands within the context ofec the fiscal year 2013 budgetn our request and the president's new strateg

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> and now more from shreveport weekend here on booktv. >> i am one of the assistant archivist at the memorial library. archives and special collections. i have been intimately involved with the caddo parish records for the last two years. recently we have finished processing a large version of the record and we have many people who like to review these included researchers from all over the northwest louisiana. in particular i would like to highlight one of our more unique case is. the death of a 16-year-old girl in 1834, make you thin at the hands of the so-called butterfly man. daniel nadir, otherwise known as frank lockhart brutally murdered and me kissing in 1834 in shreveport. so we are going to take a look at one of the records. and here we go. this is a copy of the actual coroners file on the desk of make it stand. this is an original report. this was prepared by or willis butler. it describes her death at the hands of fred lockhart who was his alias. daniel mae was his actual name and she was found dead at april 15, 1934 actually wrote to

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. >> is there a nonfiction offer or book he would like to see featured on booktv? send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org or sweet as at twitter.com/booktv. .. >> this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> hello, good evening. so, i wanted to introduce the writer, jamal joseph. i met jamal and long time ago. he used to be the chair, he used to be the chair of columbia university where i went to graduate school. and long ago, i had a friend at new line cinema, sort of a big company, makes big movies, and i was saying to her one day that i was working on this movie about the black panthers and i was doing all this research, and our berlin wanted to talk to someone. and she said, well, i am working with this fabulous screenwriter. she loves the work is minted. she was just like, he's incredible. and you should talk to him. and i thought that's so odd, you know? i didn't fully understand, was he black panther party was he a friend? it seemed very strange, two very separate things, screenwriter for big hollywood company and black panther. that was my first meeting of jamal. i

, visit c-span.org/localcon p tent. >> next on booktv, jennifer ratner-rosenhagen talks about the impact of german philosopher frederick in each nietzsche. >> i'm so pleased to welcome my friend, jennifer ratner rosen haggen, this evening. she earned her ph.d. in history at brandeis university and her ba from the university of rochester. prior to landing in mad southern, jennifer -- madison, jennifer taught at the university of miami where we were colleagues not so many years ago. jennifer's book, "american nietzsche, a history of an american icon and ideas," was just published. she examines how nietzsche's writings about the death of god and the challenge to universal truth have inspired american thinkers, journalists, academics, philosophers, theologians, poets and others have drawn on nietzsche for inspiration. "american nietzsche" already has been reviewed widely and positively. new york times book review editor alexander starr wrote: today's inescapable and perplexing nietzsche is not the same who inspired readers in the past, and it's the achievement of "american nietzsche" to show

up next on booktv the author of king larry recounts the life of the co-founder of the shipping company dhl the disappeared in 1995 in the western pacific. this is just over an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much to book people and c-span and thank you for coming to the talk about king larry:the life and ruin of the life of a billionaire genius which business week has compared both to and leonard caper and trashy analog to walter isaacson's biography of steve jobs. king larry begins on may 21st, 1995, which if you were in the state was heavily from the adjacent and murder trial. but with a beautiful sunday morning hand a small plane who took off from the airport with two important people on board. one was the speaker of the house of the commonwealth of the northern mariana islands and the other was mary home better known as dhl. .. >> so a number of his friends had declined to make the trip with him that morning, and no one was terribly shocked that this plane had also gone down. however, it was a real shock that larry hillblom was suddenly gone. he'd arrived there 15 years before,

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>> author craig timber tracks the history of aids sunday night at 9, part of a booktv weekend on c-span2. >> with the current health care legislation constitutional court cases being heard by the supreme court next week, booktv will be airing several author programs related to health care. at 9:30 a.m. eastern we bring you linda greenhouse. alec mcgillis is on after that discussing a series of essays on the recently-passed health care legislation. at about 11 a.m. eastern, jonathan gruber, the director of the health care program at the national bureau of economic research presents his thoughts on health care. his book is "health care reform: what it is, why it's necessary, how it works." and then we hear sally pipes' perspective. she argues against president obama's health care initiative and presents her own plan. and our health care programming concludes with eric topel. he contends that digital technology can make medical care more effective. for a complete schedule of booktv's programming this weekend, visit booktv.org. >>> up next on booktv, trita parsi looks at the obama administra

. >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> several years ago when the queen was at one of her yearly garden parties at buckingham palace making her way through a crowd of nearly 9,000 people and greeting a selection of guests, she was asking such standard questions as, have you come far? when one woman looked at her and said what do you do? [laughter] several days later at a friend's birthday party, the queen described the exchange and confessed, i had no idea what to say. it was the first time in all the years of meeting people that anybody had ever asked her that question. [laughter] well, my job in writing "elizabeth, the queen "was not only to explain what she does, but to tell what she's really like and to take the reader as close as possible to elizabeth, the human being; the wife, the mother and the friend as well as the highly respected leader. today i'm going to talk first about what it was like to write about queen elizabeth and, second, i'd

[applause] >> is very nonfiction author of book you'd like to see featured on booktv?nd us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweaked us at twitter.com/booktv. >> jim blakely is the communications director for the institute. first of all, what is the heartland institute. >> the heartland institute is a premarket think tank based in chicago, illinois recovered domestic policy in her mission is to discover, promote and say no to the public free-market solutions to social and economic problems and we've been doing that for 28 years. >> who founded you quick >> were funded by chief h. patton who is a bigwig at the cato institute and really giant in the free-market movement. and our president of the heartland institute has been just as bad since 1984. >> you also publish books. i want to ask you a couple. let's begin by herbert walker, school choice paintings. >> one of the issues at the heartland institute has pushed for decades now his school choice in having many followed the parents and having when that happens the student achievement does rise. so her blog colliver sen

[applause] >> up next on booktv, so born in an hour-long program where we invite guest host to interview others. this week linda killian's new book "the swing vote" the untapped power of independents. in the political writer and columnist argues the growing group of u.s. electorate is more united than its party affiliate counterpart. she discusses the power of independence with democracy editor-in-chief, michael tomasky. >> host: linda killian, welcome to after words. great to have you. tell us what is the swing vote about? >> guest: well, "the swing vote" is about our political system. it is sort of where we are added where everything is right now, but the impetus for the book was that 40% of all american voters are independents, more than either republicans or democrats, which to me means they are dissatisfied with the two parties. and i have been covering politics for a long time, and i wanted to address this. i wanted to get at what are these voters looking for who are these voters, what do they care about? what do they want and how can we -- is i don't think anyone could say that ou

you can watch all of today's panels again tonight on booktv's coverage of the tucson festival looks staring at midnight here on c-span2. .. brian: michelle malkin, author of "invasion." you say in your book that the immigration and naturalization service has a core culture of corruption. michelle: absolutely. and in many cases, that isn't even my words. there are many former and current i.n.s. officials who acknowledge that there is a culture of corruption, a climate of abuse is the phrase that doris might asner, i.n.s. chief under the clinton-gore administration has used, and she even pointed out as several former high-level i.n.s. officials have that this climate of abuse is unique among government agencies. and there is a problem there that is not nearly as rampant as any other law enforcement agency. you have an agency that's supposed to be enforcing immigration laws, but in so many instances from top to bottom, rather than enforce those law, people either ignore them or are breaking them for their own personal profit or gain. brian: give us an example. michelle: sure. i talk about a cl

. >> and now more from shreveport weekend here on booktv. >> i'm sean, i'm one of the assistant archivists at the memorial library around dives and special collections at ls us. i have been involved with the parish records for the last two years. recently, we have finished process ago large portion of the records, and we have many people like to e review these including researchers from all over northwest louisiana. in particular, i'd like to highlight one of our more unique cases that's in the caddo parish coroner's office records, it's the death of a 16-year-old girl in 1934, may giffin, at the hands of the so-called butterfly man, otherwise known as frank lockhart, brutally murdered -- [inaudible] in 1934 in shreveport. so we're going to take a look at one of the records. and here we go. this is a copy of the actual coroner's file on the death of may giffin. this is an original report. um, this was prepared by dr. willis butler, the caddo parish coroner. it describes her death at the hands of fred lockhart who was his alias, daniel napier was his actual name, and that she was found dead

>> for more information on shreveport weekend on booktv, visit c-span.org/localcontent. >> next from the u.s. holocaust museum in washington, dc, a panel discussion on war crimes tribunals. both past and present. it's about an hour and a half. >> my name is kevin. and on behalf of the united states holocaust memorial museum and its committee on conscience, the aspen institute justice and society program, and the united states institute of peace, i'm pleased to welcome you all here this evening. as a member of the museum's lawyers committee, i've had the pleasure to be associated with this institution for quite a long time. like you, i am moved by the force of will of the survivors and the compelling nature of their stories. and i'm struck by the museum's many partnerships and educational programs that allow it to reach a wide and diverse audience. but perhaps most important impressive is the extraordinary relevance that this one horrific historical event has for so many people who seemingly have no personal connection to it. in fact, with the millions of people that the museum reaches

follow booktv on twitter to get publishing new the, scheduling of dates, author information and talk directly with doctors during live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on book macgillis discusses "landmark: the inside story of america's new health-care law and what it means for us all". a series of essays written by the staff of the washington post. it is about half an hour. >> we turn our attention to the new health care bill that was passed into law recently and joining us at the table is alec mcginnis of the washington post. here to talk about a new book. the washington post put out a book "landmark: the inside story of america's new health-care law and what it means for us all". you can see my note attached to the book. there are a couple stories in the paper about this health care bill. this is one from the washington post. 18 states the kline to run for high risk insurance pools. what is going on? >> guest: one of the first provisions in the bill across the country, sort of a temporary thing. a bridge to get as to the main provisions of the bill. basically people with

>> and on booktv, jonathan gruber presents his thought on health care. consulted with congress and president obama on the creation of the affordable care act signed into law by president obama in 2010. this is just over an hour. [applause] >> i'm really not the entertainment tonight. i'm here to enjoy myself. i appreciate you being here at town hall tonight. we have jonathan gruber here to speak. jonathan is an award-winning m.i.t. health economist and director of the health care program of the national bureau of economic research. he was a key architect. one of the things i ran to her to camelot when he was working up in massachusetts cannot help in the massachusetts people put together their reform. he has also worked with the administration and congress when they develop a health care reform legislation that was passed about two years ago. he is also coeditor of the general public economics and associate editor of the journal of health economics. he is published within 125 articles and has edited six research volumes. he is author of public finance an

visit booktv.org for complete schedule of today's events and to watch live on line coverage from the consular building. booktv bringing you the tucson festival of books here on c-span2 and it would tv.org. >> now joining us on booktv is professor maurice jackson at georgetown university. he is the author of this book, let this voice be heard, father of atlantic abolitionism. professor jackson who is anthony ben bennett say? >> thank you for having me. he was born in france in 1713. because of religious and toleration the edict giving non-catholics religious freedom. is revoked in 1865 and people are forced to leave, he e. third lieber conferred so his family chose to leave. his family was a very prominent family in the north of france. his father left france to go to the border to try to pass through holland and the guard tried to stop them. and so, his father said in his hand i have a pouch of money in this hand i have a pistol, you take your choice in the card did what i would do, took the cash in the family fled to france that way. he went to england and remarkably studying at the same school learning engl

's for more information on shreveport weekend on booktv, visit c-span.org/localcontent. >>> coming up next, booktv present "after words," an hourlong program where we invite guests to interview authors. this week, john lewis gaddis and his latest book, george f. kennan and american life. he tells the story of a man who many consider to be the most influential u.s. diplomat of the early cold war period. kennan leader became his story and an outspoken critic of the u.s. diplomacy. mr. gaddis discusses kennan's life and career with susan glasner, editor-in-chief of foreign policy magazine. >> host: i'm susan glaser editor of foreign policy and talking today with john lewis gaddis about his book, george f. kennan. as you've already heard, kennan was a diplomat, scholar, a prize-winning author, historian john lewis gaddis has spent 30 years writing his biography. it's just out in the last few months. he calls kennan's and american life, a subject we are discussing today. he will talk even more about the 700 page book, one whose grand sweep runs all the way from princeton on the eve of worl

[applause] >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2's booktv. >> now from shreveport, louisiana, learn about shreveport's history as we visit neighborhood and business districts with with the help of our local partner comcast cable, we visit several areas. here's neil johnson on shreveport weekend here on booktv. >> >> we're down in shreveport and i love this place because it's a bright spot in our economy. it's a huge successful port that's growing great guns. they're moving things out of train, highway and water. here we are on the red river and shreveport was founded because of the red river and had river boats coming up and down filled with the brim with copper, and lumber and supplies to build the new city and then after the trains moved in and the river boats kind of went away and then the river sort of got unnavigable. the government turned this red river turn the navigable again. we have barge tanks bringing coil steel and jet fuel from the refinery taking it to the gasoline, all kinds of things coming in and out of this mortgage and it's just -- it

weeknights what key public policy events and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules that our web site and join the conversation on social media sites. >> as you might expect -- >> vladimir putin won election to the presidency earlier this month with 63% of the vote according to the official results. the u.s. state department has called for an investigation in the irregularities in that election. on monday the u.s. ambassador to russia, and the u.s. relationship with russia, including disagreements how to respond to violence in syria. the ambassador's remark that the peterson institute for international economics runs about an hour. >> distinguished academic career. it is fair to say you may not agree. it is fair to say he is the key architect of the reset policy. he served for three years as special assistant to the president and senior director for russia and eurasian affairs at the national security council prior to becoming ambassador. he was sworn in as u.s. ambassador to russia on january 10th just about two month

. >> next on booktv, jennifer talks about friedrich nietzsche on a left and right in the united states. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> i am pleased to welcome jennifer jennifer ratner rosenhagen. she taught at the university of miami history department where we were not so many years ago. jennifer's book "american nietzsche," history of an icon and its ideas was published by university of chicago press. jennifer examines how nietzsche's philosophy found a home in america. nietzsche's writing about the death of god and challenges to universal truth have inspired american thinkers, academics, philosophers, poets and others to draw on nietzsche for inspiration we learn in "american nietzsche". "american nietzsche" has been reviewed widely and positively. new york times book review editor alexander stock wrote today's inescapable and perplexing nietzsche is not the same nietzsche who inspired readers in the past. the achievement of jennifer ratner rosenhagen's "american nietzsche" shows how that is the case. the director praised her ability to help readers think more deeply and h

screen at the national press club author night we have an coulter who just did three hours "in-depth" on booktvcause the in the black cocktail dress drove the liberals mad and i enjoyed that. >> host: your most recent demonic has been out about seven months. [inaudible] >> host: are you working on another book? >> no no. this took a lot of work for our new about the french revolution but not of what about it. so much research so little talking to other humans. it will be at least one year. you need time to think of the next theme but i am tired. [laughter] the book tour ended up being fund. are usually hates the first two weeks because by publicist makes me get up early. but then i outsmart hurt by going to california. she will not get me up at 4:00 in the morning. >> host: what is demonic about in two sentences? >> the mob mentality with some of liberalism french revolutioner

[inaudible conversations] >> is there nonfiction operable to like to see feature on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> up next author sally pipes argues against president obama's health care initiative and present her own plan to restructure the american health-care system. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome to the heritage foundation and the lewis lerman auditorium. we welcome everyone who joins us on our heritage.org web site on all these occasions and would ask everyone in house if you will make the last courtesy check, we begin a program. we will post this event within 24 hours on our web site for everyone's future reference as well. hosting our discussion today is nina owcharenko who is director of health policy studies and also it past recipient of heritage's rita ricardo campbell award for her outstanding contribution to the analysis and promotion of a free society particularly in her work on the s shipped debates. before joining heritage she served on capitol hill working on the house side for then representative jim demand

. >> we are watching booktv on c-span2, and every month we visit a different university to talk to professors who are also authors about their looks and now joining us on book tv is thomas banchoff, and he is the author of this book, and brio politics. professor banchoff, what do you mean by embryo politics? >> it is said to turn a critical ethical questions about when human life begins and deserves protection and when embryos might be sacrificed in scientific experiments for knowledge. it's something we are familiar with and in the context of the stem cell debates of the last decade, the passionate debates, what i do in the book is go back for decades at the beginning of this controversy, show how it's developed to the point is that today but place it in the broad international context through an examination of france, the u.k. and germany as well. >> why did you choose those and the subtitle refers to the atlantic democracy but why did you choose those nations? >> several reasons. i'm a european by training, political scientist and i've lived in europe for six or seven years, so i know the

. >> next on booktv, film maker oliver stone and author and film maker tariq ali present their thoughts on what they consider to be hidden aspects of american history. their discussion ranges across several topics from american involvement against the russian revolution to a profile of the labor union, the industrial workers of the world. this is about an hour and a half. ♪ >> hi, everyone. thanks very much for coming. i think me many of you know, it's oliver who's the problem. [laughter] so in order to introduce oliver, we're going to see, initially, a four-minute film reel of his work just to acquaint you. prepared by the savannah film festival. okay, guys. one. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> timing. ♪ ♪ >> you don't want the war, we don't want the war, the vietnamese don't want the war.a% so why does it go on? >> sir, do you intend to cooperate with senator irvin's committee? >> mr. president? >> mr. president? [gunfire] >> i didn't kill my pop. >> evenny, meanny, mineny -- >> we've got to position it. >> yeah. i buy. >> the point is, ladies and gentlemen, greed is good, and greed -- you mark my words --

on the 21st and 22nd, booktv will be live from the los angeles times festival of books at the universityof southern california. for a complete list of upcoming book fairs and festivals, visit booktv.org and click on the book fairs tab at the top of the page. also, please let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll add them to your list. e-mail us at booktv@cspan.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, and we are at georgetown university interviewing some of their professors who are also authors. and now joining us is charles kupchan who is the author of this new book "no one's world." it's published by oxford. professor kupchan, what do you mean by global turn? be. >> guest: by global turn i refer to a period in history in which the world's center of gravity moves. the last global turn was when the world was relatively multipolar but arguably the center of gravity was in the mesopotamian valley, india, china, it was to the east. and then beginning in the late medieval period, let's say 12, 1300, you began to see commercialism rise in europe, new cities were born

this is booktv tv on c-span2. go ahead, deporter. >> caller: hi.ti >> host: the first w-- you say affirmative action wason part o reparations. affirmative action did not hel everyone that was affected and the f families there was affect is still affected by slavery. >> host: uh-huh. >> caller: so i think if you put that into it would help the american economy because 50% of that money would go back into the economy buying businesses and homes and things like that. my question is -- my first question is this, do you think that president obama, although he's a black man, should apologize to slavery for the united states of america? and the second question is, me being af black man and a musli what y do you think about lewis fair condition and his teachings? >> guest: okay. a couple of things, first, you're absolutely right in your comment about affirmative action as a type of reparations when you make the comment that affirmative action helped some people but nott other people. in edfact, one of the criticism of aff

professor kennedy, thank you for being on "in depth." booktv continues on c-span2. .. >> good morning. thank you. thank you for -- the screening last night. 969 this morning. the motion picture association of america partnering with politico. and maggie abramson and i will be taking questions from you. also on twitter please join the conversation. "game change" the best selling books into the a movie. let's get started. mark halperin has a couple of guests. >> [applause] >> peter, you can introduce your guest. >> average of new york. >> we are going to start with cliff heilemann. >> did you ask about national-security? foreign policy or domestic policy? what did you ask her? >> they conflicted with her and she was prepared for her life to change. there were no policy questions. >> you guys didn't grill her because he wanted him to win. >> the real steve schmidt here. did that happen? >> we had a lot of discussions. i wasn't happy with the product. in the movie obviously you have a process that is ten weeks long that distilled down in 2 two hour

. >> next on booktv jennifer talks about both the left and right of the united states. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >>> linus op east to welcome my friend, jennifer ratner-rosenhagen come to the new very deceiving. jennifer is the associate professor of history at the university of wisconsin madison. she earned her ph.d. in history at brandeis university and her b.a. from the university of rochester. prior to landing in madison, jennifer taught at the university of miami in the street where we were colleagues of so many years ago. jennifer took american legion a history of; and his ideas were just published by the university of chicago press. in the book jennifer examines how the philosophy he found a home in america. the writings about the death of god and the challenge to the universal truth of inspired american thinkers. journalists, academics, philosophers, theologians, poets and others have drawn for inspiration that we learned an american. already it's been a nobody to help the readers think deeply and more historical about neitzsche and american intellec

also this weekend on booktv, saturday at 8 p.m. david brock on how fox news president roger ails turned the next -- network into an an extension of the republican party. booktv, every weekend on c-span2. >> congratulations to all this year's winners of c-span's student cam video documentary competition. a record number of middle and high school students entered a video on the theme, "the constitution and you," showing which part of the constitution is important to them and why. watch all the winning videos at our web site, studentcam.org, and join us mornings in april as we show the top 27 videos on c-span, and we'll talk with the winners during "washington journal." >> what would the world look like if america were to reduce its global role in order to focus on domestic problems, and is america really in decline? those questions are posed in the book "the world america made" by robert kagan who's an adviser to the romney campaign. he joined others to discuss the afghanistan war, whether america should get involved militarily in syr

professor kennedy, thank you for being on "in depth." booktv continues on c-span2.

[applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> so my job in writing this book was to actually give people a readable story of the constitution and not just that, i went through clause by clause, and i broke it out so that students of the constitution, whether they're at cvcc or whether they're in california or maine or hawaii or washington, d.c. or across the country would know what it meant to read the constitution and what the founding generation said this constitution meant. and i also was motivated to write the book because of the charge in the constitution itself. the founding generation left this constitution to their posterity, and that's often a word we don't use, but that's to us. and we have a sacred trust to know what that constitution means, to understand it, to read it, to digest it. and so, again, by doing this i hoped the american people would do that. if they were students of the constitution. now, often times you hear different ideas about

saturday starting in eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> you get calls going up and down the mississippi delta saying that they were now in revolt, and the next morning when thousand white men pour into phillips county to then shooting down blacks. >> we don't realize what is going to happen. but they seem to and of course the crowd is with us now and the momentum is with us and pushing us. >> joint chiefs of staff chairman general martin dempsey is put to military leaders and psychological health care experts at a conference on the physical and mental well-being of soldiers and their families. defense health programs cost $53 billion annually. this is a half-hour. >> i'm sure you know that. welcome thanks for the opportunity to speak with you this morning briefly. it is briefly. i hope to leave a few minutes for q&a, and i hope you have good ones. some of you know that whenever we do get a chance to speak regardless of the and you whether it is even you like this which is after the human dimension or whether we are talking about strategy or the budget, the hid gispert of my life. [laugh

also this weekend on booktv, saturday at 8 p.m. david brock on how roger ails turned fox news into an extension of the republican party, and sunday night at 10 syndicated talk radio host mark levin and his thoughts on "ameritopia: the unmaking of america." booktv, every weekend on c-span2. >> the atlantic hosted its all-day economy summit earlier this week in washington. among the panelists and speakers, former treasury secretary robert rubin who said that america needs to deal with the debt and deficit immediately, and he believes progress could be made after the november elections. this is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome to the economy stunt at the flick, thanks very much for being here -- at the atlantic. i'm going to resist asking you what that joke was you just shared with chairman volcker. >> i'll tell you what it was. i suggested did you ask us a first question, which is the better fly fishermen, paul or me? [laughter] >> and his answer? >> we each had a different answer. i said me, and he said he. [lau

history and literary culture of shareeve important, louisiana, saturday starting at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. author jerry joiyner on the louisiana's failure from one damn blunder from the beginning to end the red river campaign from 1864. and the james nolls collection and then a walking tour of shreveport with neal johnson and on american history tv on c-span3, sunday at 5:00 pm eastern from barksdale air force face and the history of the b-52 bomber. also visit the founding fathers autographed collection at the louisiana state exhibit museum and from the pioneer heritage center, medical treatments during the civil war. >> if you had said in 2006 that the world would be begging for the united states to use force again in the middle east within 3.5 years, everybody would have said you are crazy. >> brookings institution fellow robert kagan is not only an advisor to the romney campaign but also serves on secretary of state clinton's foreign policy advisory board. >> what i've been writing for years, actually, is that there's a lot of continuity in american foreign policy and i thi

he'll take your calls, emails and tweets for three hours live on in-depth on booktv on c-span2. >> u.s military and the coalition partners. he talked about the shared values between candidate and the u.s. and later answered questions from the audience. his remarks are about 40 minutes. they're courtesy of canada's public affairs channel cpac. >> the honorable ray mabus, u.s. secretary of the navy. ray mabus is the 75th u.s. secretary of the navy, as secretary he leads american's navy and marine corps and is responsible for a -- you have copies of his curriculum vitae, his biography in your packages, allow me simply to make a few remarks about his background. prior to joining the administration of president barack obama, mr. mabus served in a variety of top posts and government and the private sector. in 1987, he was elected as the youngest governor of mississippi at the age of 39. in more than 100 years at the time of his election, and previously as state auditor, 1984 to 1988 and was instrumental in rooting out huge corruption and misappropriation of public funds in county government

he will take your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets on booktv. >> now, president obama at a fund-raiseriversity of vermont in burlington. he talked about his accomplishments during his first term and plans for his second term. he made four campaign stops, two in vermont and two in maine. this is about 35 minutes. >> hello, vermont. [applause] hello. thank you. thank you. thank you. this is a good crowd here in vermont. [applause] it is good to be at ups -- go catamounts! [applause] it is good to be in vermont. now, out of all 50 states, vermont has gone along this without a presidential visit. [applause] the last time a president stopped by was president clinton in 1995. we decided that today, we are going to reset the clock. [applause] >> a couple of acknowledgments are want to make. give jimmy a big round of applause for the introduction. [applause] you have one of the best governors in the country. [applause] when flooding came and disaster struck, he was here every single day working on your behalf. we could not be prouder of them. peter sutherland. [applause] two outstanding senato

that conflicting involvement between public integrity and the of the criminal division created in on @booktv cleared chain of demand and claimed that conflicts and personalities develop as a result of staffing decisions from senior. despite these supervisor barriers, there is no recommendation and report related to management of case. particularly in the rest of this aspect because management failures such as this are sanctions will come backed by a pr. it will be interesting to see how this report compares to the final report issued by of pr. the opm report should include some review of the management of this case, and in addition to disclosing phil years. the attorneys general should ensure that full and redacted versions of that hopi our report is provided to congress. at an oversight hearing in november 11th, november last year, when the senator asked for a copy of the final report he said, ," that is up to the people at 0pr. what i indicated was that i wanted to chair as much as that as we possibly can given the very public nature of that matter and the very public decision that i made

weeknights watch key public policy events, and every week in the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> the u.s. senate is about to gavel in to start the day. it will be general speeches for the first hour or so. lawmakers are expected to resume work on the transportation bill at about 11 a.m. eastern. "cq" is reporting that republicans and democrats are still negotiating off the floor immediately how to proceed with amendments to the measure. the senate is expected to recess at 5 p.m. eastern for a closed briefing from holistic the secretary napolitano on cybersecurity issues. and now live to the senate floor here on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. lord god omnipotent, you are above all nations. take our lives and use them for your purposes. cleanse our hearts, forgive our sins, and amend our ways, as your transforming grace changes our live

thanks for holding, you're on with author and professor randall kennedy on booktv. >> caller: hello, such a privilege to talk to you. i have learned so much from your books, particularly the race, crime and law and the other books. i consider you in my tradition a guru, so it's such a great privilege to be able to talk to you. i'm also an add jupt professor -- adjunct professor at john jay college of criminal justice, and the question i wanted to ask you was about the criminal justice system. and it seems to me, and i'm in the process of writing a new book called "the last plantation -- >> guest: "the last plantation"? >> caller: the criminal justice system and blacks in the united states. it seems to me you also had a question, a discussion little bit earlier about the injustice of crack and cocaine study. for me it seems the more fundamental question is about really the racial implications of the war on drugs. the war on drugs if you look at historically, and i will be very brief here because i want to listen to your answer, has been compared historically to the black -- [inaudible