it's wonderful to be here for a number of reasons, to celebrate my friend and colleague, peter andreas. i remember sitting with peter back to? , just up the street from us five years ago, six years ago. i don't exactly number. he shared with me a seven or eight page perspectives for what eventually became this book. and it's just a pleasure that is now here and can be shared with all of you admit a black and in the way i feel all i have to do today is to say congratulations, peter and sit back down. [laughter] i can't get away with that, you know. my role in addition to that is to push and pull and stir things up a bit, so i'll try to do my best. so smuggler nation has a history of a partly why do such a fat work. >> it's american history, so by definition it is sure. [laughter] >> well, it's partly a book of history, but this is a much more ambitious book than just a book of history, short or long. peter self-consciously tries to speak to the present committee's history to speak to the president and even to policy. this fits very nicely with the mission of the institute for internatio

so it would be helpful for me to refer you to a another book that peter andreas wrote. he takes on the issue of who gets to define what is forbidden and what is not forgotten. let me conclude by thanking peter for giving us a useful work of history. thank you. i'm not. >> we have james burns, who is a political science professor here. >> thank you, it is such a pleasure to be commenting on my colleague's book, peter andreas. samuel slater had worked for richard wright, it was crucial for textiles. and then we re-created that textile, and the idea that this great tourist attraction in rhode island was a pilot. it takes some getting used to. peter says to china, sorry, china, do as we say, not as i do. you have gotten a sense already, it is about foreign relations and government expansion it is so well-written. i can make an important argument is not previously. i can make an important argument that people will like to read. and for that, this book is a call in the debate of our discipline. i want to tell you about this book and then try to sort out the mischievous tone. t

eastern, peter andreas goes into illegal trade and smuggling in america. at 1:15 a.m. former d.c. school chancellor michele read discusses her book radical:fighting to put students first. on sunday we sit down with patricia osterheidem, author of reclaiming their use and kenneth anderson, author of living with the u.n.. they are professors at american university where booktv recently visited as part of our college series. watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. for complete scheduled visit booktv.org. here is a look at some books being published this week. mathew goggin recounts the story of two women journalists in the late nineteenth century who attempted to break the record for the fastest trip around the world in 80 days, nellie bly and elizabeth's raise around world and charity for all, why charities are failing and a better way to give. former ceo of n t r ken stern investigate u.s. nonprofit organizations and argues the industry needs to be reformed. still a surprise winning reporter michael loss reports from inside the board rooms of the processed foods i

eastern, peter andrea deals with the history of illegal trade and smuggling in america. than at 1:15 a.m. former d.c. school chancellor michele read discusses her book radical:fighting to put students first. on sunday we sit down with the author of reclaiming fair use and kenneth anderson, author of living with the un. they are professors at american university where booktv recently visited as part of our college series. watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. for complete scheduled visit booktv.org. >> before 1990, american warships routinely patrol the gulf waters but had little presence in the ground following the iranian revolution of 1979 and the pullout from lebanon a few years later. washington held a limited defense agreement with bahrain but no one else. there were, for example, no u.s. troops in saudi arabia or any pledge to defend that kingdom or kuwait. on the eve of the iraqi invasion tensions in the region grew, american policymakers put to each state the idea that it would be a good time for a joint military exercise. let's show saddam hu

peter? >> no, andrea, you're exactly right. remarks, i think, are significant given the fact that we're only eight days away from the beginning of sequestration. the white house and allies on this issue are really trying to press the cause right now, fearing that the issue of pursuing ways to combat gun violence could be diluted by the focus on other issues, the budget crisis that are facing washington right now. even as we speak, we hear joe biden who, as you see, is speaking right now organizing for action, what was formerly obama for america has put out an e-mail to a lot of its supporters, encouraging them to reach out to their congress members to tell them a personal story or why they want gun violence to be combatted. why they are pursuing tore background checks to be put in place or expanded, why they want to see an assault weapons ban, and the nra for its part is also getting more actively involved, an trae. the pac for the nra we learned raised more than $1 million last month alone. wayne lapierre referred to some of t

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mail bag tonight, gun rights, many of you responding to andrea mccarren's story facing the town where the law says every home would have a gun. peter argues, there is no such right in the constitution. the phrase doesn't appear in the constitution, but in the decloration of independence. a document never issued if firearms weren't so prevalent. it was that importance that caused the right to bare arms to be included in the bill of rights. that's a fair point. one which with alfred from new carolton would agree. with all the discussion about gun control, a key part of the second amendment seems to get lost. the phrase, the right to bare arms should not be infringed is the brunt of the matter. the word shall, legally means you will do what that word tells you, not open to discussion. check with any attorney you like on that one. okay, alfred, i'll do that as long as you don't mind i bring up the entire amendment that reads, a well regulated militia to the security of a free state, the right for people to bare arms. how come he didn't bring up that well regulated part? and listen to this from the first amendment, congress shall make n

peter's square didn't even know that it was happening. tell us what happened. >> no, they didn't, andrea. we came around here after the shocking news, and all the cameras came down, and what the tourists saw is what's going on. everybody was just wandering around st. peter's square like it was a normal day, of course, and when we told them that the pope was abdicating they were shocked. they couldn't even -- they didn't even know that a pope could abdicate, as a matter of fact. in a way money knew in a way because the last pope that did that was about 700 years ago. it was in 1294. it seemed like it was impossible in modern times, but pope benedict xvi hinted that in 2010 and a mof times after that that if he felt that his strength wasn't such that he could carry on the very important duties of a pope, that he would think about it at least, but nobody saw that coming. this morning he announced that in latin so it made it even more difficult for people to get that through that little speech that he gave to a number of cauldrons in a low key event. he just passed it on as an everyday kind

peter: another good cop killed in the line of duty. makes me think of those oakland cops who were killed. may they rest in >> andreahat's why it bothers me when people talk about how much money police officers make. >> christopher: this is a sickening waste of good, human life. my heart goes out to both of these officers and their loved ones. >> pam: there were going to different mall locations and charles clifford shows us exactly where this happened. >> reporter: this was just a couple miles away from the beach. on branciforte drive. these is were both officers were killed by the suspect. after the shooting, he stole a police car and fled the scene. he was then spotted on the other side of this fence. they ordered him to submit but he fled south down this alley. he was met with officers on doyle gunfire exchanged and he was killed here. charles clifford, kron 4 news. >> check out this satellite map from nasa showing the monster storm that hit the u-s plains. now moving towards the northeast. in kansas -- the powerful winter storm pounded about three-to-four feet of wet snow on the roof of a macys store. fears tha

peter's square. anne thompson is live from the vatican. ann, the message that the pope delivered was unusually personal. tell me about what he said. it must have been an extraordinary day. >> reporter: it really was, andreatremely personal message from this reserved man. pope benedict spoke to the crowd ability his eight years as pontiff. he described the papacy as a great weight. the pope doesn't have privacy. every moment of his life is someone else's. he compared it to the story of st. peter on the boat in the sea of galley and the storm comes up and he said when the seas got rough and the high winds came he said sometimes he felt like st. peter in the boat. he told the crowd that he felt like the lord was sleeping. that was an extraordinary admission, i think, from the leader of the catholic church. it was a deeply moving sermon. many people in the crowd felt very touched by what he had to say. the people who came today, they came to see history. they came to support him to say yes, we believe that you have done the right thing by stepping down because he is the first pope in 600 years to step down from the papacy. this has put the catholic church into unchartered territory. andrea? >> as you have be