and the award winning novelist philip roth is on display and donated over 7,000 books many marked with a personal note or music and visitors can make an appointment to view by visiting the library website. booktv will continue to bring programs and news and watch all past programs anytime on the website booktv.org. >> today i've got the pleasure of hosting the event. steve is an eminent scientist. for some and infamous scientist and the head of the department of energy's research portfolio under the secretary of energy in other words senate approved post under president obama. prior to that,

and the award winning novelist philip roth is on display and donated over 7,000 books many marked with a personal note or music and visitors can make an appointment to view by visiting the library website. booktv will continue to bring

and the award winning novelist philip roth is on display and donated over 7,000 books many marked with a personal note or music and visitors can make an appointment to view by visiting the library website. booktv will continue to bring programs and news and watch all past programs anytime on the website booktv.org. >> today i've got the pleasure of hosting the event. steve is an eminent

and the award winning novelist philip roth is on display and donated over 7,000 books many marked with a personal note or music and visitors can make an appointment to view by visiting the library website. booktv will continue to bring programs and news and watch all past programs anytime on the website booktv.org. >> today i've got the pleasure of hosting the event. steve is an eminent scientist. for some and infamous scientist and the head of the department of energy's research portfolio under the secretary of energy in other words senate approved post under president obama. prior to that, chief scientist for those of you who may remember that used to mean british petroleum and then it meant beyond petroleum and then it went back. prior to that, he was a professor in caltech which is i will go fast i'm jealous because that was my first choice where i wanted to go to school steve is a scientist not a dilettante. we are going to talk about his book if you are joining us you know why we are talking about the book it is what climate science tells us and it was published on the circuit i

reports book sales were up 11.5%, for the week ending may 20 ninth and award-winning novelist philip roth'sersonal library is on display at the newark public library in new jersey, the novelist donated 7000 books marked with personal notes or music, visitors can make an appointment to view the collection in person by visiting the newark library's website. booktv will bring new programs and publishing news, you can watch all our past programs anytime on our website, booktv.org. >> next, booktv's monthly "in depth" program with max hastings. max hastings's many books include the recently published operation pedestal about one of the fiercest pedestals of world war ii.

has it been harder to write things that make people say, wow -- >> you know, back in the '60s, philip rothte fiction again. but that is an issue right now >> if you look at what happened with the latest cybersecurity stuff, our book looks pretty realistic. >> seth: yeah. >> and this is also very important, because we -- you're living in this world where these, you know, people can be omnipresent for all kinds of reasons everywhere and what to do when you're president follows you afterwards so, then you have to figure out -- i mean, this is made more interesting by the alienation of the president from his successor, and the uncertainty that a former president has that his child is going to be a top priority so you get a lot of interesting cross currents here. >> seth: i have heard that you -- and i think when we picture presidents reading, we picture them reading briefings or maybe reading nonfiction. but you did find time in office to read fiction. was that something that helped as an escape from the rigors of the job, or did you actually find inspiration in the pages of fiction when you w

and the award winning novelist philip roth is on display and donated over 7,000 books many marked with a personal note or music and visitors can make an appointment to view by visiting the library website. booktv will continue to bring programs and news and watch all past programs anytime on