at 7 eastern, rachel sheldon talks about washington brotherhood. at 7:30, robert moraldi profiles seymour hersh. at 9 p.m. eastern, ishmael beah follows up his memoir with his novel, "radiance of tomorrow." and at 10 p.m., "after words," with john rizzo. he talks about the 30 years he sent with the cia. and we wrap up tonight's prime time programming at 11 eastern with co-authors of "the second machine age." they talk about the technological advancements that have taken other our -- over our lives and our economy. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> i was a candidate -- [inaudible] my interest sort of fell in that field. but i feel like before 9/11 i would call us accidental muslims because, ultimately, i think many of us are perhaps of a certain religion through an accident of birth. and i think what 9/11 did was -- and i'm not alone that way, i think it did that to many american muslims -- it forces you to grapple with the notion of what it means to be american islam. after all, 9/11 was on trial. and every talking pundit on tv was a

rachel sheldon report on the political at fear in washington, d.c., in the 18 40s and 1850s. the author reports that the personal relationships forged by many of the politician of the day impacted legislative writing and left lawmakers ill prepared for succession. this is about half an hour. thank you for coming. it's great to see some familiar faces and others and it's great to be at one of my favorite bookstores. i've been coming here for a long time. i appreciate the invitation. it's really appropriate for us to talk about the role of what'd here in capital. in the midst of the civil war. it commemorates 150 years of the civil war which lasted four bloody years and captured the lives of more than 700,000 americans north and south. and when we think about the civil war, it's typically with a sense of the divisive relationship between north and south. and the violence that captured the nation well before the war began. and washington, d.c., has long served as sort of the epicenter of that discussion when we think of the coming of the civil war probably our morse common pictu