but also orwell is honest. he's painfully honest. and it's painfully honty which makes many of his essays greatly conservative. and defending conservative values. he's a professed socialist and crucially for me and really for all of us as we trendle down to this dystopian future is his defense of language as it should be. orwell is one of the first really great authors to focus on how the bastardization of language is a political act and suits -- well, suits bureaucracy which is b enough and also suits tyranny. so anyways, thas my short list. i'll be happy to take questions after we gi all our other lists. so thank you very much. pplause] >> okay. i'm going to give you really good, great -- good books and really great evil books. that is -- and i'll start with the latter 'cause in a way they're more exciting in perhaps the worst sense. they're easier to get into sometimes than a really good book about good things but as dante recognized that's always a question about what the state of our soul is that that shou

so i know i have in this apartment every single word george orwell ever wrote including his expenseseports to the bbc. it's a lot. everything that's ever been published by him. most of james joyce. not all of p.g. wodehouse because i have to say there's some books that aren't worth keeping. it's seems bad. noam chomsky and it's a bit different. i like to think that i have a life rather than a job or a career. and it's also due with reading and writing. the only two things i was ever good at and public speaking which i can also do. and that's how i make my living but it's also what i am, who i am, what i love. and i'm fortunate at that it's nothing like i can do. it's not like i could have been a lawyer and a doctor. i didn't choose it. it chose me. >> in depth airs live at noon eastern on the first sunday of each month on book tv on c-span2. log onto booktv.org for information about upcoming guests. >> we're at the 2009 bookexpo america booksellers convention in new york city. we're here with johnny temple, a publisher. do you want to tell us what you have coming out this fall? >> th

appreciate being cited after camus, orwell, hyak. i get my hour a little bit later, so let me make three or four minutes of quick comments. but to follow the tone of the morning, let me start with a quick anecdote. i was talking to rudy giuliani right after he got elected, trying to change the way new york city worked and i came in from la guardia and stopped in a cab stopped at a stoplight, in the day of the squeaky guys and they came out to wash the windshield and the taxi driver turned on the windshield really fast and the the light changed and the guy reached into get the money and it struck they me that is what government does. doing a service that you don't really want and charging when they're finished. we're trying to break that dynamic today and i studied state and local governments, just to echo a couple comments of the speaker and go forward later. one, government is whether intentionally or unintentionally, whether because folks lie to themselves or because of the way they're set up, government is not designed to succeed,

orwell is honest. he is very honest. his a painful honesty makes many -- he defends conservative values. crucially, as we go down this path, it is a sense of language as it should be. orwell is one of these first really great authors who is focused on how the pasteurization of language is a political act. that is my short list. i'll take questions after we all. thank you very much. [applause] >> i'm going to give you really good, great books and really great, evil books. i'll start with the latter. that way there are more exciting in the worst sense. it easier to get into sometimes been a really good book about the things. as dawn to recognize, there is always a question about what the state of our soul is. i wrote one book called "the 10 books the script the world." my editor many as five more to that. it is really 15. there are several very good reasons to read great comic evil books. you need to understand that evil and degeneration in society is the result of great intelligence gone awry. that is the deformation of w

to paraphrase that late great stock picker george orwell. none of these things means a hoot compared to an unemployment number, especially one as positive as we got today. while i've heard over and over how phony and rigged and jim yesterday these figures are or at least were with the last president, you have to figure the press loves obama so much, they'll conclude he's putting out conservative number. i wouldn't be surprised if the love affair with reporters will start telling obama to say let's underpromise and overdeliver. like he's the ceo of a tech company, like he even has a chance to look at the number. come on. but the important thing is today's report shows the continuation of the trend that's pushed this market higher and higher. this is what i've been talking about. things are going from less bad to actually getting better. this rally is about getting better. i truth it, you should too. now, i've repeatedly told you that all bets are off if unemployment keeps skyrocketing, but the reverse of that is also true. jobs control this m

as assemblyman chuck devour who sponsored the proposal said "certainly george orwell would be proud."devour pointed out, the whole thing was carried live on cal channel, which is an even more boring state version of c-span. the video was not posted on cal channel. we called to see where it is. they said, well, it takes about a week. we said, can you put it up faster than that? well, it's a state-run arm. we'll try. we haven't seen it yet. but it is coming, or at least they tell us. i will tell you that we have something else they don't want you to see. assembly man devour got a copy of that vote before they deleted the record. he sent it to me. i posted the list of the names and people in california, you know, that didn't absolutely what vote, no. it's at glennbeck.com. remember, last week's famous beer summit with president obama and the police officer and that good professor friend of his? oh, i have a picture that's worth a billion words. here it is. look at that. you see this picture? it was actually posted on the white house blog. this is a white house photo, walking to the rose

remember the color-coded threat system that springed from the pages of george orwell.mes and asking yourself but not wanting to believe it. thinking maybe the real reason we were being warned about threat levels could possibly be purely political? we never wanted to believe it. we did joke about it. let me take you back five years, if i possibly could. five years exactly this month george bush is running for re-election as the democrats have finished their convention and gotten quite a spike. here is a guy named jon stewart. >> the democratic party in the spotlight. many people are wondering, yes, oh, this just in. terror warning. okay. all right. i guess they'll have to stop -- hmm. so unlike previous scares that seemed vague and suspiciously timed to undercut an opposition, this one seems relatively specific. maybe the war on terror is finally becoming depoliticized. >> you must understand the kind of information is as a result of the president's leadership in the war against terror. >> that was tom ridge, keep that name in mind, august 2004. let's fast forward to no

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my last book, is a book by george orwell. people i've been mentioning -- orwell was a socialist. he looks at these things as wonderful style. if i wanted to teach a young writer stock, i would say look to orwell. also, he is honest. his painful honesty which makes many of his essays really conservative. and defending conservative values as well. crucially, for me, and all of us who turn to them for a utopian future is the defense of language as it should be. he is one of the first really great authors how the best of does -- talks about how the best of the station thus -- -- the pasteurization bastardation of . thank you very much. i will give you good books and good evil books. in a way, they are more exciting in the worst sense, they are easier to get into some times than a really good book about good things. as dante recognize, there is always a question about what is the state of our soul. the 10 books that screwed up the world. there are several very good reasons to read great evil books. primarily, you need to understand that evil, the formation that the generation of socie

i know i have in this apartment every single word george orwell ever wrote including his expense report to the bbc. everything that has been published a new high. most of james joyce, not all of what house because i have to say se books of his are not worth keeping. they are blasphemous. neil trotsky, karl marx thomas salmon rushdie, i have pretty much all of what they have written. i like to think i have a life of the job or a career and it has to do with reading and writing. it is also what i a who i am and what i love. and fortunate that that because there is nothing else i couldo it is not as if i could have been a lawyer or a doctor and i chose this. it chose me. >>an i ask you if there is a young person watching who wants to read their first book what advice you give to people likehat? >> to make the mistake of spending thr years in paris that because i studied by teeing and creative writing courses at harvard, and i had wonderful teachers coming down make the mistake of thinking you can just go and write a book. if you never lived through anything that is worth writing about. the

that bar of that frightening sentiment from george orwell's "1984" that the state tells you that = 5, it equals five. if the state tells you that it equals three, it equals three. we need to speak the truth. our truth -- our principles and i you resonate with the american people because they are not born of pop psychology. these are time tested license -- lessons based on life. they have served as well in history. they will continue to serve as well as a political movement and as a party but we need to embrace them clearly and boldly. we need to know what we believe, and importantly, why do we believe that, and then we have had the ability to communicate and educate and motivate and mobilize and change those sentiments in the political action and the ability to govern and to lead. that is why we do what we do. and for all of us, part of what we believe is who we are and where we come from. we have that as our experience, a lens to which we view a lot of the been circumstances. i cruel and a little place in minnesota, a suburb right side of st. paul. when i grew up, it was a, some of t

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george orwell, the author that were shot in the neck during the spanish civil war, somebody said he was lucky. there is nothing lucky about surviving a terrible wound. it does put more of a strain on this. that will continue to be a very high priority and there will be a continued increase in resources. veterans will continue to come first, and that is very explicit in this bill. [applause] i have tootsie russell looking over my shoulder. >> earlier on, you were talking about the state's being in the way of doing reforms that would bring down costs. is there any way that we could let them be the laboratories of democracy and allow them to sit there and see what other states do well and i doubt that as well? >> there is an element of that in the bill that allows the states who want to do something different allow them to do it. massachusetts took the lead in a state program. it won't affect them because massachusetts is already doing it. there is an effort to give states flexibility. when you will probably see is [unintelligible] >> [inaudible] what about allowing some of those [inaudibl

this comes from orwell's torturer. he said if it is two plus two equals three, then it is three. they say, what if this sis four? the polish resistence said that there is an objective fact that is true no matter what the government tells you. and it says to the people of poland that it is time to be honest about the history of poland. and the soviet dictatorship cannot do this. we need an american analogy to this. i want to give you the first half of the equation. you can tell me the second half. if you cannot afford to buy a house, there seems to be a general consensus. if you cannot afford to buy a house, you should not buy a house. you are now in fundamental conflict, with the last 20 years of american politics. in the last 20 years, we have said, what if we give you the opportunity to move into a house before you go bankrupt. buying a house is a lot more than being able to move in. this is maintaining the house and fixing this and there is a lot that is involved. let's take this a stage further. if you want to take this argument, one of the most expensive school systems is in

george orwell, the author that were shot in the neck during the spanish civil war, somebody said he wasucky. there is nothing lucky about surviving a terrible wound. it does put more of a strain on this. that will continue to be a very high priority and there will be a continued increase in resources. veterans will continue to come first, and that is very explicit in this bill. [applause] i have tootsie russell looking over my shoulder. >> earlier on, you were talking about the state's being in the way of doing reforms that would bring down costs. is there any way that we could let them be the laboratories of democracy and allow them to sit there and see what other states do well and i doubt that as well? >> there is an element of that in the bill that allows the states who want to do something different allow them to do it. massachusetts took the lead in a state program. it won't affect them because massachusetts is already doing it. there is an effort to give states flexibility. when you will probably see is [unintelligible] . . >>> i'm a physician. my husband is a physician. my son

. >> pat buchanan quoted orwell this week, as you saw.rough men sand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would harm us. this administration is taking that away from us. >> there's going to be a major investigation, we'll have all three back to examine it. time is too short. thanks to everybody. meantime, straight ahead, shocking statements at a meeting when a democratic congress woman praises a dictator. >> you can think whatever you want to about fidel castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders i have ever met. met. >> that's right. congress woman diane watson, more pros and which isdom comin from her. and charlie rangel reviewing his taxes the is the democratic congressman hiding anything else? . achoo! (announcer) what are you going to miss when you have an allergy attack? achoo! (announcer) benadryl is more effective than claritin at relieving your worst symptoms. and works when you need it most. benadryl. you can't pause life. real food at the right price! this is the primo stuff. one appetizer and two premium en

it partly comes out of george orwell's "1984." and novel in which the state torture recess to the innocent citizen, if the state tells you id = 5, it equals five, and if they tell you = 3, id = 3. they said what if it actually equals 4? he was making an assertion that it was an objective fact that it was true, no matter what the government tells you. they use it as a very effective advice to say to the people of poland that it is time to be honest about polish history and about poland's future, and the soviet dictatorship cannot do that. let me give you an american analogy to a 2 plus 2 equals 4. i will give you the first half of an equation, and you tell me the second half. if you cannot afford to buy a house -- there seems to be a general consensus. how many of you would agree, if you cannot afford to buy a house, you should not buy a house? raise your hand. you are now in fundamental conflict with the last 20 years of american politics. on a bipartisan basis, by the way. the last 20 years, we said, it cannot afford to buy a hou

george orwell, the author who was shot in the neck during the spanish civil war, and when he survivedsomeone said how lucky, to survive. he said yeah, well all the people who were never shot in the neck in the first place are even larger. there is nothing like you surviving a terrible when. but it does put more of a strain on us and we are all have a better understanding. so that will continue to be a very high priority and there will be a continued increase in the resources. and i don't think it's going to come to that. veterans will come first and continue to comfort and that is very explicit in this bill. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> earlier on your talking about stage actually being in the way of some of the lower reforms that would bring down costs. is there anyway that we could actually sit there and paramount is to the states and let them be the laboratories of democracy? and sit there, bring it back, allow them to see what still under a stage to do well and then adopt them as well? >> there is an element in the bill that allows the states that want to do something dif