joining me now, melissa harris-lacewell, professor at princeton university.d evening. >> thanks. good to be here. >> in a weird way, has michael steele become good for the republican party because the more time its critics spend talking about him the less time they're talking about the more substantive problems with the gop? >> i mean, sure. sex is easier to talk about, liquor and drugs and whatever else are always easier than policy and substance and that whole lawmaking part. you know, there's actually an interesting parallel here to another moment for the gop in its battle against barack obama. and that is the choice of sarah palin as the vice presidential candidate. you know, i often will give public lectures and people will say to me, wasn't that a terrible choice, sarah palin for vice president? hasn't it been a terrible thing for the rnc? and i always say, no, no, no, it was a brilliant strategic choice brilliantly. because the party was coming out of a unifying and nearly perfect convention in denver, they needed something that would turn the media co

joshi is a leading historian of united states and retired from teaching at princeton university and prolific and and award-winning scholar on race relations including black americans and ase second edition of armageddon and we're pleased to welcome her here this evening for "the history of white people" profess 39 wellcome. [applause] >> hello. you are a nice looking group. thanks for coming. did i hear some 1 degree? [laughter] what i would like to do is read it to you for about 70 minutes from the first part of the book and the back of the book then we will talk. okay? i might have been titled this book construction of white americans from antiquity to the present because its six floors the concept that lies within the history of events. i have chosen this strategy because race is an idea and not a fact and a question of the conceptual rather than the factual morale. american history offers a large bounty of commentary on what it means to be in nonwhite in moving equally between alternations the meaning of racist color, from callers to negro to african-american and two black to african-ame

and princeton university professor nell irvin painter on invented the idea of a white race in the history of white people. fine the entire weekend schedule at booktv.org and follow was on twitter. >> are content is available on television, radio and on-line and you can also connect with those on facebook, twitter and youtube, and sign up for our scheduled alert e-mails @ c- span.org. >> let's meet another winner in the c-span studentcam documentary competition. we asked students about one of our country's greatest strength or a challenge that the country is facing. today we are talking with third prize high school winner alex weltman from boulton -- patton rouge, louisiana. welcome to c-span. >> thanks. >> why did you decide to focus on the american free market economy for your documentary? >> one of the reasons was -- i was brainstorming about what we should do with this video with my friend stephen. we were trying to think about what topic no one else would focus on. what are some common strains of that people agree with, maybe military, freedom of speech. what is another strength that

and princeton university professor on invinting the idea of a white race in the history of white people. find the weekend schedule at booktv dorgan follow us on twitter. >> the minute that the wall street firms were in the business of harvesting middle-class americans for their home equity value and making loans to them against it, there was a natural risk of abuse. >> sunday, michael lewis on the subprime mortgage crisis, his latest "the big shore." michael lewis at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. >> here's a discussion on the federal budget with house majority leader steny hoyer, david walker and others. we'll hear about how the new health care law may impact the deficit, from the university of maryland in college park. this is an hour and 45 minutes. >> could afternoon. >> good afternoon, on behalf of the maryland school of public well, steny hoyer is a man of his word. he is here. his passion and determination were key to making this event happened as they were key to a number of his programs on public policy issues of the day. it was his deep civic engagement and this even

princeton university professor on inventing the idea of a white race, it in the history of white people. find the entire weekend schedule at book tv.org and follow us on twitter. >> "washington journal" continues. host: julie appleby of kaiser health news. the health-care bill has been passed and signed. when does it take effect? guest: a very good question. parts of it take effect this year. the majority of it, the big things people heard about, are probably a little further out, 2014 -- the federal subsidies to help you buy coverage, the exchanges where you will go to buy coverage, the in -- requirement insurers not -- people who have pre consisting conditions. host: pre-existing does not take effect until then? guest: there is one area where it does, that is children under 19 with a pre-existing medical condition. remember, there was a bit of a flap about that last week. does the law say you can't reject children under 19 or you just can't exclude coverage of their condition? there was some back and forth and the law was not real clear, according to a lot of the policy wonks. but at

patricia fernandez kelley from princeton university department of sociology. [applause] we would like to give special thanks to city lights books the independent press who published mumia abu-jamal new book "jailhouse lawyers" and in particular the editor we have to get through prison walls and rules in order to speak with mumia abu-jamal and they do to everyone for your vision not only what is but what might be possible. we welcome all of you. just a little word of logistics we will open with cornel west and patricia fernandez kelley and we will start talking with each other. we hope within a few minutes we will have mumia abu-jamal on the line to engage in conversation they only have 50 minutes for conversation and should we be lucky enough to win a little more time we will invite members of the audience to ask questions as well. when you make a connection with somebody in prison especially maximum security facility, you also become subject to rules and we will be treated to things like recordings periodically while mumia is on a wide it could be prevented o

and the princeton university professor on inventing the idea of a white race in her blood.d the entire schedule at the website. and follow us on twitter. >> the minute that the wall street firms were in the business of harvesting middle- class and lower middle-class americans for their home equity value in making loans to them against it, there was a natural sk

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joining us, melissa harris-lacewell, a professor in african-american studies at princeton university.re important, the child of virginia. i went to public school from kindergarten through high school in the state of virginia, so i know quite a bit about this war of northern aggression that the governor is speaking about. >> as an african-american studies professor and as a virginia native, before we talk about governor mcdonnell, what do you think about the idea of there being confederate history month in virginia? >> well, you know, certainly it's not as governor mcdonnell initiated this, but he did revive it. so, you know, i know enough about virginia history to know that there really are two different ways that virginia has thought about its southern past. and one is kind of the thomas jefferson notion of virginia history. and obviously the thomas jefferson notion of virginia history includes slavery. there'd be no way to talk about jefferson without talking about slavery. but it is a tradition that is focused primarily on how virginia contributed to the founding of the nation. how

it reminds me of one of my favorite graffiti which is in the princeton university library in the men's room on the second floor. you may have seen one like this it says god is dead. and then underneath someone writes the nitche is dead signed god. well, the book is not dead. it does not follow that it is having an easy life, but it really is driving. i have got some statistics which i will not share with you. what is interesting is that the number of books published each year increases. the graph goes up and up and up when last measured it was almost 1 million new titles worldwide per year. a million new titles. i mean, the book is doing very well, thank you. the notion that everything is digitized and the codex is being replaced by new media is, i believe, simply crazy. not that i am against digitalization. on the contrary. we are doing all we can to forward it. but my point is it is a lesson i'd think we can learn from the history of books or the history of communication in general. namely, one medium does not displace another. we found this out in the case of radio did not despise b

for example, princeton university blocking 20% of campus ipads, because it causes interference with other devices trying to access the network. >>> finally a study that warns tanning bed usage may be addictive. of the people that use the beds an average of 23 times in the last year, 70% showed signs of tanning addiction. i'm -- you can't see i'm smiling now, because i'm laughing at that statement. who knows? what do we know. the study says the users are more likely to suffer from anxiety, and other symptoms of substance abuse. i don't even know what that means. but apparently that's what the study says. >>> up next, in "busted" the tanning industry, for claim to create addicts. no, the treasury department in their lip service to transparency in the financial markets. but when it comes time to voting your shares of stock in companies like citigroup, it doesn't match reality. they actually vote against transparency as a shareholder, you won't believe it. >>> then in the "town square" some hoover carts for a new, but still cash-strapped generation. would you chop the top off of your hummer a

so i went to princeton university library working there to have a potential topic and some time later i went to the national archives at the office of information war records. >> host: that was the bulk of your research? >> guest: those two. guess that. but there were a lot of publishers papers as well does the library of congress and a few other libraries. . . i have not really known much about these before. i knew very little about them. it was a series, and they were books interestingly that the titles and the authors were primarily, not entirely but primarily those authors whose books have been burned or banned by the not cease, and many of whom had become refugees to the united states or to britain or somewhere else. my wife and i yesterday in washington went to the holocaust museum. there was a display bear on the number of intellectuals, artists and scientists and other intellectuals and writers, who changed mostly jewish, mostly jewish, who came ahead of the beginning of the war with the united states in many of those people's names on the list that was being projected on a sc

held at princeton university, this is an hour and a half. >> a small correction.r senior editor at "new republic.". if i still were i wouldn't have been after last week. i am actually senior editor at "atlantic monthly" and writer at atlantic.com. i've been asked to speak about the politics of homosexuality. which is, as steve pointed out, very kind and generous introduction, the subject of an article i wrote in 1993. and, summarized really in my book, "virtually normal cott. is now 2010. it was interesting, i'm going to ask to speak about this to, go over the arguments that i made then and see, how they have held up and whether they still apply, and whether i still brief all of them. what i try to do in that essay was to actually instead of getting into this extraordinary fight in which one side calls the other perverts and other side calls the other bigots, to actually try and deconstruct it a little. to about various ways of understanding and thinking about homosexuality. and i divided, and there are many, many different ways of doing so, but i decided for sake

darnton is a former european history professor at princeton university. he is currently the director of the harvard university library. for more information visit and why books.com. >> in 2001, political pundits bill press appeared on booknotes to discuss his book, "spin this!" all the ways we don't tell the truth. mr. president describes spin as the intentional manipulation of the truth. this program is an hour. c-span: bill press, author of "spin this!" when you hear bill o'reilly say on his program, 'you're entering a no-spin zone,' what's your reaction? >> guest: my reaction is it's baloney or pure spin. i mean, he's spinning the fact that he doesn't spin, which i don't think anybody takes seriously, or should. c-span: why shouldn't they take it seriously? isn't he being serious about it? >> guest: no. i think if you -- in fact, i've got lots of examples in my book. first of all, my -- the premise of the book is that everybody spins, and especially people in the media spin, and for someone to say that i am different than anybody else, that everybody e

. >> princeton is your university? >> yes. >> and you went to berkeley. >> yes. >> and you are married to somebody my age would remember. >> tab that soren. >> i remember her on mtv in the early days. >> she was 22 or 21 when she went on the air. she used to anchor the news for mtv and interview rock stars and so forth. we have three kid, two daughters and a son, age 10, 7 and 3. the only major piece of my biography is i went to graduate school in london. i spent eight years living in evening land right after college. >> and an art history major at princeton? >> yes. >> liars poker came out in 1989. he worked at solomon brothers two years? >> more like three, almost three. i got there in the summer of 1985, and i left in early 1988. >> and can you give us a couple of lines about liars poker? >> sure. liars poker, the fuel for that story was that anybody would be willing to give me large sums of money to give them investment advice. i had an economic dedegree from the school of leon con, but it didn't have anything to d

from princeton university, a master's in divinity from yale, and his j.d. from the university of california at berkeley, where he was editor in chief of the california law review. he's married to the wonderful katherine t. bartlett, former dean of the duke law school, and currently the kenneth -- a. kenneth pie professor at duke. chris and kate have three wonderful children. during his legal career, chris has excelled in private practi practice, government service, and academics. following his graduation from law school, chris practiced law in san francisco, gaining valuable experience in a wide variety of both state and federal practice. in 1979, he became law professor at duke, where he has been a respected and prolific scholar and an invaluable administrator, and a committed and effective teacher. he has authored and edited several books, including a leading casebook on environmental law, environmental regulation, law, science and policy, which now is in its sixth edition. he also has published countless articles in law reviews and journals on an impress

she recently retired teaching at princeton university. she is prolific award-winning scholar in books in race relations including, and we're pleased to welcome her this evening for the "a history of white people," professor nell irvin painter. [applause] >> hello. you are a nice looking group. thanks for coming. did i hear someone of greek? [laughter] >> you all agree. what i would like to do is read to you for about 17 minutes or so from the first part of the book, and then from the back of the book. and then we will talk. okay? i might have entitled this book constructions of white americanamericans from antiquity to the present, because it explores a concept that lies within the history of events. i have chosen this strategy because race is an idea, not a fact. and its questions demand answers from the consensual rather than the factual realm. american history offers up a large valley of commentary on what it means to be nonwhite. moving eagerly to an alteration in the meaning of race as color. from color to negro to african-american t

government at harvard and has been affiliated as well with the program on law and public affairs at princeton universityis other side, jamie gorell, former general counsel, deputy attorney general under president clinton and now a partner at bloomer hail where she shares the defense, national security and government contracts practice group. finally, brad buckles was the director of the a.t.f. for alcohol, tobacco and firearms, 1999-2004. earlier served as chief counsel and then deputy director, currently executive vice president at the reporting industry association of america working on issues relating to intellectual property. so with those introductions, let me start, if i could, jamie, with you and bradley, if you don't mind, also, tackling this first question, i want to talk a little bit, obviously, with the book we're going to talk about the implications of those events to what's going on today but let's start by trying to understand the issues themselves. president clinton said tim mcveigh was a troubled individual, but there was also a very contentious crime, if you sort out the positives of so

he graduated from princeton university, received his master of divinity from yale definitive school before earning his law degree from the university of california berkeley in 1974. there's no question he's well qualified to run the office of legal policy. and it shouldn't require somebody who's going to be confirmed easily, it shouldn't be necessary for the majority leader to have to file cloture in order to end the republican filibuster and for the senate to at last have an up-or-down vote on professor schroeder's nomination. what has this place come to, madam president, when we have filibusters on routine nominations like this? we never had anything like this before. i remember when i first came here, probably the biggest nomination we had before a heavily democratic-controlled senate was the nomination of a conservative republican president -- gerald ford -- for the u.s. supreme court, nominating a republican from chicago, well-respected but a republican from chicago, seen as conservative, john paul stevens. we took that nomination to the republican president. two and a half weeks afte

princeton university professor on inventing the idea of a white race -- in "history of white people." find the entire schedule at book tv.org and follow us on twitter. >> all this month, see the winners of c-span's studentcam video documentary competition. a middle and high school students from 45 states submitted videos on one of this country's greatest strengths or a challenge the country is facing. whats the top winning videos every morning on c-span at 6:50 a.m. eastern just before "washington journal." at 8:30 a.m. during the program, meet the students who made them and for a preview of all the winners visit studentcam.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: robert samuelson is our first guest this thursday morning. a columnist for a long time at "newsweek" and "the washington post." what does a nation like greece with 11 million people, and once supported by the european common market, has to tell us about the perils of a financial market? guest: @ think the message is sort of a mixed political and financial message. that is, that if the government, if a society continues

service, chairman bernanke was the class of 1926 professor of economics and public affairs at princeton university. he had been a professor of economics and public affairs since prince -- at princeton since 1985. welcome. we look forward to your testimony. >> thank you, madame chair. members of the committee, i am pleased to be here today to discuss economic and financial developments. i would like to make a few remarks on the fiscal situation. supported by stimulus in the concerted efforts of policymakers to stabilize the financial system, a recovery in economic activity appears to be done -- to have begun. an important impetus to the expansion was firm's success in working down the excess inventories that built up during a contraction which left companies more willing to expand production. the boost from the slower drawdown in inventories accounted for the majority of the sharp rise in gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of last year. gdp increase at 5.6%. with inventories better light and with support with fiscal policies diminishing in the coming year, further economic expansion depen

she received her bachelor's degree from princeton university and her ahmadinejed -- and her g.e.d. from the new york university law school. candidates from the d.c. superior court identified with the nonpartisan judicial nomination commission which sends three names of qualified candidates to the president for his final selection. this process is consist -- has consistently produced excellent nominees for d.c.'s local courts. like others chosen through this process, i believe judge demeo has much to offer the d.c. superior court. judge demeo has a strong record as magistrate judge and has presided over many cases on the busy criminal calendar. my staff spoke with d.c. superior court chief judge satterfield today, and he emphasized how pleased he has been with her performance. judge satterfield said that he could not understand the concerns being raised by judge demeo's impartiality. she has an open record as a magistrate judge, and no one is criticizing her work on the court. the committee also interviewed many of her colleagues during the nomination process who describe her as fair

after that, a princeton university professor on how caucasians are perceived world. widde. and then the former secretary of education talks about why she feels too much testing has destroyed the american school system. book-tv prime time, tonight beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern. tomorrow, the financial crisis inquiry commission continues tomorrow with former fannie mae executives. the u.s. government took over fannie mae and freddie mac in 2008. the committee focuses on subprime mortgages and the role of citigroup. that begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern, on c-span 2. this weekend on c-span 2's book- tv, npr and correspondamos debra on what happen sunnis following the fall of saddam hussein. "and "the new york post" column as ralph peters looks at foreign policy and his latest collection of articles. find the entire weekend schedule and.o book-tvrg and follow was on twitter. next, remarks from author barbara ehrenreich. and others on progressive activists in the obama administration. they spoke earlier this week at georgetown university in washington. this is two hours. >> before i

bernanke was the class of 1926 professor of economics and public affairs at princeton university. e contraction, which left companies more willing to expands production. indeed, the boost from the slower dradown in inventories accounted for the majority of the sharp rites in gross domestic product, during which real g.d.p. increased at 5.6%. with support from fiscal policies set to diminish in the coming year, further economic expansion will depend on continued growth and private final demand. on balance, the incoming data suggests that growth in private final demand will be sufficient to promote a moderate economic recovery in coming quarters. consumer spending continues to increase in the first two months of this year and has now risen at an annual rate of about 2.5% in real terms since the middle of 2009. in particular, after slowing in january and february, sales of new light motor vehicles bounced back in march, as manufacturers offered a new round of incentives. going forward, consumer spending should be aided by a gradual pick-up in earnings, the recovery from recent lows an

an "if you leave us here, we will die" how genocide was stopped in east timor" published by princeton university press. professor of history at university of california los angeles or he has taught since 1997. he was head of research at amnesty international headquarters in london and wrote to monographs and short reports on human rights conditions in indonesia. of since leaving amnesty international in 1995 he has continued to work on issues of human rights and humanitarian aid. both independently and as a consultant. from june through november 1999 he served as political affairs officer. and has written a number of books including the 1995 book, the dark side of paradise, political violence from bali. i would like to open the discussion by raising points of intersection and common questions found in the book's we're discussing today. can everybody hear? is there not somebody from c-span? who is it? is anybody monitoring? could somebody call about this? is gone. each of these books offers a view of history from the ground up. from the experience, from the perspective of those experiencing direc

it was published this year by princeton university press. he is professor of history at the university of california los angeles where he has taught since 1997. from 1998 to 1995 he was head of research for island southeast asia and amnesty international headquarters in london and in that capacity he wrote two monographs and made sure to report on human rights conditions. since leaving amnesty international in 1995 he has continued to work on issues of human rights and humanitarian aid both independently and as a consultant. from june to november 1999 he served as political affairs officer with united nations in east timor. he has written a number of books including the 1995 book the dark side of paradise political violence. and with some common questions found in this book we are discussing today, can everybody hear over this? is there not somebody from c-span -- where is it? who is it? is anyone monitoring? could somebody call about this? now it seems gone again. from the experience -- from the perspective of those experiencing directly --

a number of schools from george washington university and cornell and princeton have reported problems with wireless connection and network stability. they say the tablet malfunctions and even causes problems. the ipad made its district debut last month and retails for about $500. >>> you're about to hear more about the dangers of texting while drive. but this time, it's a cell phone company behind the campaign. >> it takes at least one hand, and sometimes two. even though it's been against the law for a year in maryland,ul still witness -- you still witness it. >> they were driving on the road, had their hands on the steering wheel and their up -- their thumbs on the cell phone. >> reporter: now, at&t is kicking off a message about texting while driving. >> had this is a text message that caused the car accident that changed my life forever. >> we want people with their hands on the road and -- on the wheel, eyes on the road, and driving. >>> if our customers aren't safe, they're not safe anymore. >>> this year, banned handheld cell phones. she's lending her name to at&t for its educa

among on her other many honors she has 36 honorary doctorates from colleges and universities including harvard and princetonacy, she charges all of us to work toward making a difference. >> there's a lot of work for us to do to make freedom and equality a reality. and that each of us can make a difference. >> and miss height certainly she made that difference. the question is who will carry that torch? i'll have more tom to say about that in my "xyz." >>> time now for "the xyz of it." i want to spend a moment on some unfinished business. not the kind of business i usually cover. this one's more important. nothing less than liberty and justice for all, that was dorothy height's life work. in a statement marking her death at the age of 98 this morning, president obama calls height the god mother of the civil rights movement. in fact, she found her voice decades earlier. protesting lynchings in the new deal days. generations of african-americans and women of all races owe a debt to dorothy height. whether they know it or not. but through her work, though her work is now done, there's a long way to go. thankful

princeton. john milton cooper is a professor of history at university of wisconsin madison. he is superb. his book "the warrior and the priest" comparing theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson is a classic, and this is the best single volume biography of woodrow wilson, so great choices. >> have either one you ever won a pulitzer? >> no. >> you ever tried? >> well, you don't try. beginners luck, i was actually one of three finalists for the dewey book. but again, that was -- my god that was 27 years ago and no one suggested it since. >> well, we started out with doug brinkley talking about elvis presley and i know some of your interest so i'm going to -- the drama winner this year of the pulitzer, which has nothing to do with history, but it was something called "next to normal" by -- music by tom kitt and lyrics by brian yorkey. >> extraordinary show, in fact i'm seeing it tomorrow night for the second time in new york. it is -- it reinvents the broadway musical, which i know you hear from time to time. but it does so in a way that is both thought provoking in the extreme and entertaining

princeton. he is a former vice chairman of the federal reserve and served on president clinton's council of economic advisers. robert glauber of harvard university. he was undersecretary of the treasury during the tenure of president george h.w. bush. and robert litan is a senior fellow of economic studies and global economy at the brookings institution. mr. glauber, i'll start with you. picking up on where we left off with senator shelby when he talked about the "too big to fail" question. would this bill as it is emerging now do enough to break up those bill banks or those big financial institutions that abused the process? >> i think by designating a large number of them as important systemically it puts them on a list of institutions that are too big to fail. i think that's a mistake. it's just not the right way to approach solving the problem of bailing out banks. >> ifill: alan blinder, what do you think? does this do enough to get to the heart of that problem? >> i think it comes pretty close. there isn't any perfect solution. i disagree with my friend bob glauber. the approach i've always favored or i shouldn't say always but since all t

princeton. we want to reproduce believe event in every college campus and in every community in the united states. we ask you to join us on april 3rd at columbia university who's a young and academic voice will speak on the case. in the 1990s, he was responsible for building asians for mumia. tentatively kathleen cleaver will be speaking at this event. and again, this is intended to be a large event that's oriented around transforming civic discourse in the united states. raising the profile of mumia in american public life but also and finally -- part of what we're trying to do is say that all of the issues and all of the violations in mumia's case like judicial misconduct, discrimination and jury selection, police corruption and tampering evidence to obtain a conviction, these are all of the issues that are single-handedly responsible for the disproportionate incarceration of african-americans and latinos and increasingly mexicans from mexico and increasingly women -- all of these issues are responsible for the mass incarcerations of african-americans and latinos making mass incarceration the most important civil rights issue of our time. this is the f

princeton. she is also the author of the book, the politics of the veil and she is former chairman of the academic committee of the association of university professors. now if they think he won no, this is professor ramadan's first appearance in front of the united states audience he for he was denied a visa by the bush administration, which has jameel and larry were saying gets a solid chance to hear from him directly for a period of years. so folks tonight is going to be on him tonight in his views. and here is the format we've all agreed to for two nights discussion. professor ramadan is good to get some remarks for about 10 minutes and i'm going to give each of our panelists five to 10 minutes to respond to his remarks, ask them questions. we may ask each other some questions. then, i'm going to take around 10 minutes to ask him some questions myself. were going to take off and are at the end for questions from all of you in the audience. and here's ever going to do it. david asked if you have pens and paper. the reason for that is want you to write or question down and we want you to pass into the aisle. in a time to pass onto the ai