>> outlets paul dickson, author of "words from the white house." for more information, visit his website at paul dickson books.com. >> here is a look at some upcoming events. february 14 through the 17th is the savanna book festival in georgia. evan thomas, isabel wilkerson, deberry and many more will speak at its annual festival. watch booktv tori live coverage. during the second week of march, booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books in arizona. overall authors featured are you certain iversen. also in march, the virginia us rulebooks it features several authors as well. .. does the booktv.org for more on the television schedule. >> military historian patrick o'donnell recounts the u.s. army at second ranger battalion d co. a.k.a. "dog company". the group was composed of 68 men whose military campaigns during world war ii included landing on the beaches of normandy and the s and to pointe du hoc. it is about 40 minutes and starts right now on booktv. >> it is great to see so many friends here. this is a situation where things of come

[applause] >> that was paul dickson author of parenting. for more information visit his website, pauldicksonbooks.com. >> we're at the national press club book fair the other night with celia wexler, author of "out of the news: former journalists discuss a profession in crisis" you are a former journalist. y. speak with why and my former journalist? does i could not become, be the mother of one to of a small child into the journalism i wanted to do. then i found a really wonderful and fulfilling career as a public interest lobbyist. but i always was very emotionally attached to journalism, and this book gave me a chance to connect with people, many of them left to journalism at the top of their games, with some of the biggest media allies in the country. and i was able to explore with them their feelings about the profession. and this is really media criticism with a human face. so these are wonderful stories, because the lives of journalists are very exciting. and rich. and the reasons for leaving the profession, and sometimes they leave a

. >> next on booktv, paul dickson presents a collection of words popularized american presidents. the author includes warren harding's founding father who gives them an military address. this is a little under one hour. [applause] thank you very much. i have been playing around with words for a long time. i think when i was a kid, one of my weaknesses was i wasn't that athletic were smart in various ways. i can always go home and memorize some words like apathetic and things like that. reading was a lot of fun. as i got to be older, i was fascinated by doing tricks with words. one of my favorite exercises was when my kids were young. they worshiped the guinness book of world records. i was looking at at it, it had 137 meetings. but it was the word with the most meanings. the word sets. so i started working on a collection of words for junk, and i have gone for about seven or eight collections, people have actually added to the collection and last 72 hours. we are now up to almost 3000 words. what was interesting about it was it was not meant to be a celebration of what is a social

that's the subject of a new book by paul dickson. and on our science page, see how hip hop and the pillsbury doughboy helped a group of fifth graders learn math. how do we work on making social security solvent? economist jared bernstein offers a menu of choices on making sense. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> suarez: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on thursday, we'll update the kidnapping of americans and other foreigners in algeria. i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank y and gd night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the enginehat nnects us. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the co

. >> next on booktv paul dickson presents a collection of words popularized by american presidents.he author's collection includes warren g. harding's founding fathers invoked during his 1920