randall kennedy is our guest on booktv. >> caller: hello, doctor kennedy. as one involved with discrimination and education, are you aware of anyone looking into the fact that all higher, from what i experienced, higher education, when you are accepted as astute it is not a contractual agreement? you can complete all requirements for a degree. the entire syllabus with a 4.0 average, have paid all your tuition, perhaps with government grants. and they can choose whether they feel like giving you your diploma or not. you may not get your diploma. you have no legal recourse. it was not a contractual agreement. so that students have no anti-discrimination protection for graduation and getting a diploma. therefore, they can't -- >> host: why do you ask that question? >> caller: because it happened to me. i could not go out and get a job in my field. and pay back my government loans. so that all these pop-up -- i would deliver a prominent university in philadelphia for a masters to become a teacher for a second career. and, you know, old white women are not -- >>

tana, san diego, you're on with professor randall kennedy. >> caller: good morning, dr. kennedy, it's an honor to speak to you, sir. i was wondering, whoa die doo you think the press in general has ignored the fact that the main beneficiary of affirmative action has been white women? i tend to have to expose that to my friends at work because they assume that the only people who are benefiting are so-called minority people. and it's always a very interesting experience when they realize that they are the main beneficiaries of affirmative action. >> host: tawnya, do you favor affirmative action laws? >> actually die, but i just wish that people were more educated on the fact that a lot of people who are getting the benefits of it do not say they're getting the benefits of it and many of them don't know that because in my job environment i would say that probably seven of the 40 people definitely were helped because they were white women, because they're not even as qualified as some of the black men who tried to get the same job. >> host: thank you, ma'am. >> guest: i thin

. >> host: randall kennedy, if you want to watch any of his previous times on booktv go to booktv debt or search function up her left hand corner, typing his name. we've covered several of his books on booktv. as always thank you. >> guest: thanks very much. >> eric lichtblau is next on booktv. he recalls the influx of nazis who entered the united states following world war ii and reports that many of these men were granted clearance by the u.s. government who employed him as a scientist, intelligence officers engineers and spies. this is about one hour. >> we are fortunate to have with us this evening and experienced investigative reporter, eric lichtblau. eric first got into investigative journalism at the "los angeles times" where he worked for 15 years. is final beat for the "los angeles times" was in washington covering the justice department. and when he shifted to "the new york times" 12 years ago, he continued covering justice. is left him well-positioned and very well sourced after the september 11 attack to report on the bush administration's stepped-up domestic spying operat

.>> >> host: randall kennedy. if you want to h watch any of his previous times on booktv, go to booktv.org, search function upper left-hand corner type in his name and we've covered several of his books onp booktv. as always, thanks -- >> guest: thank you very much. appreciate it. >> host: good to see you. >> is there a nonfiction terror or book -- author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? tweet us @booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> next on booktv, james robbins recounts the high and military career of general george custer including his childhood and formative years as well as his time in the field of battle from the civil war to his final defeat at the battle of little bighorn. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, glenn. i'd also like to thank carlene and pauline, all the hudson library team. it's been great meeting some of you in the audience too. i've had a really wonderful visit here. it's great to be back home in ohio, you know it's good to shake off insi