and we wrap up our primetime lineup at 11:00 with report putnam. he questions whether the idea of the american dream is head in his book "our kids. "happens tonight on c-span2's book tv. >> could the development of these missiles have been prevented? there might have been opportunities. one suggest education is a proposal by stalin in 1952, offering to allow germany to be unified with free elections on condition that it not join a hostile military alliance, which was hardly an extreme condition in the light of the history of the preceding half century. stalin's proposal was taken seriously by the respected political commentator, james warberg, but apart from him it was ignored or ridiculed. actually recent scholarship has just begun to take david view. a soviet scholar, takes the status of stalin's proposal to be an unresolved mystery. washington, he said wasted little effort and flatly rejecting moscow's initiative on grounds that were embarrassingly unconvincing leaving open the basic question was stalin genuinely ready to sacrifice the newly cre

and we wrap up barf primetime lineup with robert putnam who questions whether the idea of the american dream is dead in his books. "our kids.". that all happened tonight on c-span2 on booktv. >> here is a look at the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. the san antonio book festival taking place today. look for some of the festival's programs to air on booktv in the coming weeks. next on april 18 and 19 booktv will be live from the university of southern california for the 20th annual "los angeles times" festival of books. the full schedule of coverage for the weekend is available on our website at booktv.org. then on april 25, the annapolis book festival will be hosted by the school in annapolis maryland. booktv will be covering this as well. the cities of gaithersburg, maryland, will host the gaithersburg book festival on may 16, and you will see it live on booktv that day. let us know about fairs and festivals in your area and we will add them to our list e-mail them to us at c-span.org. >> with a that ted cruz was nominated and let's say that some are jus

professor robert putnam of public policy at harvard university although you are a lot more than that. the poet laureate of civic discourse and also a rock star when it comes to harvard professors which says a lot that they all aspires to be rock stars. [laughter] i want to begin by just asking everybody knows that you wrote about that's a big capital society so tell less about this book. >> thanks for giving me a chance to talking and to invite me for coming. this book describes the consequences of some of the big trends of we are aware of in general to become economically polarized country we know that the we're socially segregated. or free go to school with people or live with people or very people from a different class so we are more socially and economically polarized place to look at those implications for those children in america because we found was growing gaps between rich kids and poor kids. along many measures of child well-being and though the bill gates or buffett's kids but that part of the hierarchy are just people that are college graduates major hand plays so when i

. >> reporter: the luxurious gid di and putnam in saratoga springs is a favorite spot for weddings and the spot that katherine and johnathan who don't want their last names used got divorced. >> it definitely suited our needs. we have children and early on in the process, we made a decision to be the best parents possible. >> reporter: the resort is the first u.s. venue for the divorce hotel. already a successful company in the netherlands. its purpose? low priced quickie divorces for ten grand. check in marry on friday and check out, divorced on sunday. >> we launched it in december of 2014 and since then we've done 12 divorces. we just finished our 12th yesterday. >> reporter: this isn't the only unusual business in the divorce industry. another company will finance your divorce battle in exchange for a piece of your settlement assuming you get one. balance point divorce funding created by stacey knapp who funded it with her own divorce settlement. >> we haven't lost money on a case yet, so it will happen. i am sure it will. >> reporter: with balance point, a lower estimates how much

he wasn't a waste particularly a good husband or putnam was often an absentee father. a tall story, she was constantly depressed, he was cruel emotionally to the lives so you have to take care of your family first. >> host: did you talk then you talk about people that do terrible things in the world. >> guest: hairy truman idolized his wife. i got to know his daughter margaret and clifton daniel who was the bureau chief in london survived to know margaret and harry truman idolized his wife and left his family. he bombed 100000 people and families, great family man. >> host: i assume that george bush was a nice father. >> guest: yes indeed. >> host: how do you deal with that keeping people in the personal lives and what they do in the room ex- >> guest: i try to tell my students to be professionally not angry with personally gentle there was a great reporter but he was always seething in the drug industry and general motors and he was a great reporter and would leave the newsroom that he was the most gentle man and raised three loving children and had a very happy marri

he sank three bird puts on friday for and under par round of 67, one stroke behind leader andrew putnam>>> serena williams will be on court in just over an hour from now. she's taking on suarez navarro from spain. the mental men's time will take place on sunday. djokovic against isner. djokovic for a third miami title. >> it's important to elevate the level of performance in a game towards the end of the performance. this was the right time to perform as well as did i. >> well, andy murray insured the remark final in january. murray set to get married next week. and he's hoping to enjoy that happy occasion with a miami title on his belt. >> i've obviously played good tennis here over the years the reason for that is because i'm extremely familiar with the surface and the way the court plays. >> the hopes of make maaing it to the postseason st. louis blues with a hat trick 7-5 victory. they have four games left to play. dallas six points of the western conference finals, wildcard playoff spot. >>> the first nba playoff player will make his debut saturday. the center was born in canada to

. >> robert putnam, thank you very much. >> what i did i did was tried to assess each of the 17 crises on two axes. the 1st was how bold the president's response was cautious or bold on the horizontal and whether it was successful on a long-term or a long-term failure and and plotted them based upon my analysis sort of made a really grades. rather than a b c, d c d, i tried to put them in the corporate quadrant. none of us would agree exactly where this one to go you can probably agree. it was cautious. and then appear the cautious successes and over here are the bold successes both of which have an * on the and in these are the bold failures. the bottom line caution succeeds more often than aggressive response. and and so people respect to have people the final obama to be timid or going against history and crisis management. >> you can watch this and other programs online booktv.org >> zephyr teachout is the director of "corruption in america". certain involvement in howard dean's campaign. brandon garrett is the author of "too big to jail". uva law professor. his research on our cri

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. >> i pushed a book on you this morning, and gave it to you which is bob putnam's "kids" when he was here on this platform a few weeks ago. i think it's a most important book anybody can read this year, because it's about the opportunity gap. you're talking about opportunities for everybody to go into the work force. but the gap seems to be widening between the opportunity of kids from a privileged background and with educated parents versus the opportunities somebody from a poor background has and just has graph after graph and anecdote after anecdote and data point after data point of getting a greater divide between the type of opportunity starting with -- through the internship and apprenticeship and job market and the skills. how are you working -- do you see that problem and if so, how are you working to mitigate it? >> i think that there's no doubt that my children or your children have the kids that live in our zip codes have enormous opportunities. not the least of which is from the parents who probably have a college education one and that is a natural expectation but two,

and there was a meeting that it gives to life for a lot of people about how putnam describes when it releases the community and have shorter work weeks. there is somewhat of a trend in that direction. we probably have to start thinking about new ways to get meaning in life and i do not think that is an insurmountable problem. we would have to have enough productivity drills to make that work. lawrence: if you look at a textbook in the 1970's, chapter five past discussion on the backward ending labor supply curve. if the wages go up at first the work will be more because of the tract of the work after a while you have enough income. when you have enough income, you take a bunch of it in leisure. the labor supply curve looks like this. if you look at an introductory economics textbook today, the ideas largely not there. and the reason is that it used to kind of be true. the high wage people worked less hours than low-wage people. your image of the 1930's was that the ceo sort of went out to play golf at 4:00 and the workers worked 60 hours a week. if you look today, for the first time

but now we know he was wrong about that because work by murray and putnam and david and amber laughed shows us the same cultural factors leading to the very same personal catastrophes and soulful -- social pathologies exist in nonminority communities in my native appalachia. i grew up in west virginia. we go to harlan county kentucky or boone county west virginia or the old rust belt cities and look at the situations in the white working class we see exactly what moynahan was noticing when it came to largely urban. he was also concerned about world poverty but we have seen basically the same thing. this is going to require response. yes you need jobs absolutely. we need to be finding ways to bring jobs to communities. it's one thing to say get a job but if there's not a job there to get it won't work but you also need people who are employable, who have cultivated and had inculcated them them the skills and the virtues to be able to work as employees and to build themselves up and to rise in their employment situations. so we need to work on all that. neither the extreme right nor the

think they enjoyed working and bob putnam describe what happened. and with other social indicators how they plummet to have the job. certainly it is not as rapid as we think of new ways for meaning of life. said to have been of productivity growth. >> if you look at the introductory textbook there is something called the backward pending labor supply curve that as wages go up because it is attractive when you have enough income you take a bunch in the jurors so that labor supply looks like this. is largely not there. and it used to be true purpose of the high-wage people more or less hours demo page people. the image of the '30's is the ceo went out to play golf at 4:00 and the workers worked 60 hours a week. if you look today, for the first time in economic history, people who have higher wages on average consistently, are choosing to work more or are finding themselves working more hours than those with low wages. it is and all because they are not able to get more work. there is choices they're working more hours. that is a more leisurely nirvana

that's what's happening at the gidian putnam resort in sartoga springs, new york. the first u.s.el already a successful business in the netherlands. this is for couples seeking mediation who can stand to spend one last weekend together. the average cost is $10,000. catherine and jonathan from denver were the first couples, and they requested we not use their last names. >> it was nice to get away for a weekend in a beautiful setting where you could relax, get away from family friends, and really focus on what needed to be done. >> every couple has left saying they've gotten along better than they ever have but they're not getting back together. they've made that decision. >> they've done 12 divorces so far, and they are looking to expand to other u.s. cities. more shortly on both businesses on cnbc.com. guys, including the founder have the divorce hotel who has never been divorced. >> you can't use our last names, but we'll go on camera. >> they believe in the concept. i've read about this when it was in the netherlands, and sometimes they celebrate the divorce the same way they

. >> i push the book on you which is bob putnam's kids here a few weeks ago. i think it is the most important vote because it's about the opportunity gap. the gap seems to be widening between the opportunity from a privileged background someone from a poor background times it has anecdote after anecdote in datapoint master data point getting a greater divide between the type of opportunity starting with pre-k all the way through the internships and apprenticeships and the job market and skills. d.c. that problem and if so how are you working to mitigate it? >> well, my children are your children or the kids that live in our zip code have enormous opportunity, not the least of which is from parents of a college college education and that is a natural next activation, but. to have connections to open the door for their child. that is the challenge we face. in chicago the kids on the south side don't have the same and they are not pushing on the same open door. we need to write to fight back. that is why it's been such a great passion. i'm all about education and