there's so many books i'm dying to read. probably 70% of the books of michelle's i have not read. there are books that is interesting to turn back to. so much about a book is about what's in the book itself. that's what this book is about, picture sector between the reader and the book, so, depending on where your you may bring something very different to a story. so the classic example is anna -- is a young idealistic single person, your reading think this is a romantic, and a has to leave her husband, her true love. as sad and tragic but also he understands her. that if you read it when you're newlywed you would say this is terrible. that's adultery, she's abandoning her child, her husband into anything wrong. later in life you might be more understanding. you seen a number things happen in your life for the lives of your friends in your more compassionate and forgiving of some of her choices. >> guest: to your books get reviewed in the new york times? >> guest: this book is not getting reviewed because i am overseeing everything. there's no way i could responsibly do without ha

i'm living what i read and i picked things i want to read about. wesley nonfiction on leadership but i think it's just as important to stop and think as it is to read. you can think about what you've read, you can think about life and how to do your job better, you can think about how to help more people. it's important not just to try to read for purpose and to take some time to think about what you just read or life in general. maybe that will change your reading habits think about reading on a different subject. i'd say i'm a proponent of reading but also reading and thinking. >> how does taking notes while you read display that? >> i like to underline points that are important in a book i'm reading. if i underline them i remember them better. everything months and then i go back and underline areas i like. so i think that's helpful to me and then i hope those who are typing in my book notes feel like they read the book. i give those to my family members and to senior staff on the committee and personnel office as well. i'm not convinced they re

what is on your reading list this summer and why. i just finished reading american gods. i read multiple books at the same time. the fanfare and the new series. it was an interesting read. i'm also reading the market discipline it is an old book from 1985. that talks about branding and brand management. i'm finishing up a book called against the tide which is about economic thoughts prior to the walk of nations and then after. whenever i'm working on it at the moment. it is always good to have a grounding and some of the basics. it's really interesting to hear what people are saying. it was one of the takeaways. i always think it's important to read something about your craft. my job is to get a message out. with the book biography and history that you read in the past. they recommended for other congress members. there are two. one is over jerusalem it was actually written by two a journalist. journalists. it is the account of when it starts the days act. it ends about three days after israel became a country. it is a wonderful narrative about the important point in hist

and also, read. so many riders don't understand you have to read as much as you write. that's how you learn what to do and what not to do. [applause] >> ladies in jonah, thanks for joining us. let's have another round of applause for roxanne. [applause] >> if you have a book you'd like to get signed, we ask that you remain in your seat for just a few moments. were going to get the stage ready for the signing portion of the event. them will call you up role by row. if you select a purchase event of hunger, it is available in the back.

i was in chicago at the time giving a reading with gwendolyn brooks being able to read. i also knew after the reading i had the entire summer free. i have nothing to do but finish reading and i was free for the whole summer. i got a phone call and i was packing to go home and go got ae call from my husband who said you're going to get a call in a minute. i'm going to be the next poet laureate. when i said yes i wasn't going to defend anything. there was nothing to be defended. it should be celebrated. it applies that something is wrong. but it's under siege. but even before i could implement this celebration, people began to write me lette letters. i don't know much about poetry. i don't know much but then would come the convention they would talk about the first column or the fact i remember one man from the middle of the country who told me the first book he got out of the library in his hometown was a collection of poems and he got it after filling out his entire. but he grabbed the first book he saw and it happened to be that. first i have to pull a book of poems. th

i will tell you she had just read one of meg's books for her fifth grade reading and when she asked if she could get her book signed her mom told her yes you can but you can get a new book is were given out books and she said no, i want her to sign the book i actually read. as want to welcome doctor hayden from our state and capital. on this visit you'll see many outstanding examples of mississippi's literary culture. i want to thank holly and her entire team for organizing a festival that we can all be proud of. [applause] a premier book festival to celebrate reading certainly places a spotlight on what you can accomplish from our beautiful state. have a great day, by lots of books and spend lots of money. thank you. [applause] >> thank you lieutenant governor. three years ago when we invited governor to welcome everyone on the steps of the capital he was a little busy because it was a burst of his grandson. he selling his third birthday today and hell always celebrate his birthday with the book festival. the governor has ours been a supporter of the festival from even when it was a l

i heard he was reading team of rivals so i read it. so inspiring. i wanted to know, can you be a good leader without being a good reader and what books have had the most profound impact on the trajectory of your life? >> i will start with the first -- the second one. because the books that i talk about all the time, they told me about it, bright april. it was written in 1946. i was not alive then. i want to make that clear. that is when it was written. i got it later. it was a book about a young african-american girl with two pigtails and she was a brownie and she was about 8 years old and some librarian in queens, new york, i don't know who put it, i loved that book because i saw myself for the first time in a book. books can be windows. we talk about they take you everywhere and everything but they also need to be mirrors, right? if we are saying to kids and young people books are so important and then they don't see themselves reflected in it, what is that saying? a double message. all readers can be leaders and you have two roles of them right h

also reading a scottish mystery, i read several of her murder mysteries and i have read about half of david stockman's book, i have several things i am reading or finished reading. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter@booktv or instagram@booktv or posted to our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> and now, live from the 2017 mississippi book festival in jackson, best-selling author mark boutin talks about the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war. [inaudible conversations] >> book festival. i am chris goodwin with mississippi to permit of archives and history and you are at the way 1968 turning point of the american war in vietnam panel. you are welcome to take photographs, post to social media. they ask if you do that the hashtag

every time i start a book i read the color purple. every time. i read the color purple first. i have to get maya angelo if my soul before i start a book. >> that just prepares you. >> it prepares me. that's what i tell young people. read a book before you start writing. look for your voice. this is not, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. find someone that you feel that you have something in common with and it will help you to find your way to your next chapter. >> what great advice. even if it's not a full book just a poem. >> you live in the area. >> yeah. >> tell us about what you like about living here and what your audience here is like as a writer. >> well, my audience is a lot of my kids own my books i had my daughter's friends read, be beta readers and give me their feedback. >> are they tough critics? >> oh, yeah. you can't fool kids. writing for kids is heard than writing for adults. i don't care what anybody says. you can't fool them they're honest and they can kind of see through any kind of fakeness, they're there for the story and experience and not for the lan

or that would be easy to read at a public reading because trump and steve bannon are the most profane men i have ever met in my life. even the my daughter is not allowed to read the book she did figure out the very first word of the first chapter of the book is the worst word you can say, the f word. i will skip ahead and read two scenes. one is from the night steve bannon was hired to run the trump campaign. the other is a scene from right at the end of the book after james comey's letter came out in the closing days of the campaign when clinton and her staff wake up to the realization she might be in real trouble. let me set the scene a little bit here. in mid august 2013 everybody in my profession and everyone in politics, to head to a blowout, had just come off of a dark republican convention doing okay in the polls for a few days and he decided to start fighting with megan kelly, fighting with fox news, attacked the con family, the parents of the slain us soldier, and every day trump seemed angry and distracted by some new and different self generated standoff, seem to be losing

and the door mouse begins to read from the history of england. why your reading that said alice? and this is the driest thing i know. that was before breyer wrote this book. this is not about regulations, this is about the court, and it's terribly important that you support actually these kinds of things because it's important that people know something of the history of the court and so i'm very glad to be here and i'm glad to be talking about this and i'm glad you're here listening. very nice of you. what is this book about? so, i say that it is -- it's the analogy -- it's a kind of a report, a sort of a report from the front. about what? well, if you've ever read the charter house of palm which is a very good novel it opens with a hero is on the battlefield at waterloo. bullets are flying, napoleon is charging this way and that way and the hero thinks to himself, you know, he says something really important is happening here. i wish i knew what it was. [ laughter ] and that's what this is about in respect to when i hear words like globalization, or interdependence, or shrinkin

reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter at book tv or instagram at bookótv or posted to our facebook page, facebook.com/book tv. book tv on c-span2: television for serious readers. >> c-span: where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. next on after words, connecticut representative rosa delauro talks about her coss

i think reading -- i would read jackson's opinion. i think it is a very interesting opinion because you get that and start asking questions about that opinion, you will say, why is he hesitant? there will be an answer. why does he think that hairy truman went too far? why when all of his advisers told him, you've got to do this or it will be terrible? what rule would you, in fact, have and what does europe's experience in world war ii and just before tell us, and et cetera, et cetera. in other words i think something she might not otherwise think of is that opinion and the selsinger case. i would like at that. you can look at guantanamo too but it isn't going to give you an answer. it might start you in the direction of an answer. you could have a good debate in the class. what do these four cases, what does the median tell us about the proper answer to this case? i would read -- see, it depends on how far she goes in the direction because you can go short of that and get more interesting, you know, get a debate going. or there was a

so i'm reading the princess of mars, many years ago, to, of course, not only reading the book but also i've southeastern all the prisons of marz, turned into a movie, john carter, and then "star trek" and other science fix. so that's my readings but i'm always -- i love history. i know that in -- in high school and back in -- even in college, my classmates didn't like history but to me it's important because if you look out it, the wheel has been reinvented. it's all matter of rearranging things. if you look at discoveries and things, it's all a matter of rearranging things. look at history, there's a lot of ideas that you can look now, create a new niche, come up with a new idea and therefore you spark a new innovation or creativity, whatever the area might be. >> and finally, congressman, what some tools you could so you can add reading into your schedule? >> i love the ipad. there's just an app so i always look at what is out there. one of them is called blake list, an app that will give you smears books and you can either take the option of reading or do it by audio, and then if yo

it emphasizes the prominence of the joy of reading and promoting reading. it actually was on the mall, it was outside. there were some concerns, if it gets rained out there you are so it has moved to the convention center in washington dc so you don't have to worry about rain. it is bigger. there are all kinds of venues. it still has that mall feel. you walk around and there are all types of things, you can buy the books and have your books autographed by the authors and that is a thrill. >> host: when does planning for the start? >> guest: it starts as soon as one festival is over, literally within a week, we are assessing what happened, what worked, what didn't work, what we are going to do and improve and start working on it right away. >> host: you have direct involvement? do you get updated? >> i have to tell you, i have more involvement probably than you might think, because this is the essence of what we are about at the library of congress and so being involved, making sure we have a balance, types of authors and programming, i get my hand in there.

also reading a scottish mystery, i read several of her murder mysteries and i have read about half of david stockman's book, i have several things i am reading or finished reading. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter@booktv or instagram@booktv or posted to our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> and now, live from the 2017 mississippi book festival in jackson, best-selling author mark boutin talks about the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war. [inaudible conversations] >> book festival. i am chris goodwin with mississippi to permit of archives and history and you are at the way 1968 turning point of the american war in vietnam panel. you are welcome to take photographs, post to social media. they ask if you do that the hashtag is@literarylawnparty. in a state that has produced some of the nation's most revered arteries, howard bar stand among its finest writers of historical

read from your phone? ... during this career 9/11 and is a great public servant committed to keeping the city safe so thank you for everything that you do. [applause] and i would like to take a minute if the veterans and those that served in the forces could be stand and be recognized. [applause] i would be remiss at this point if i didn't also think the ambassador to the united nations who honored me with a wonderful foreword for the buck, and i appreciate his support for the buck and this important message. it is a great privilege to be here in this wonderful institution of the union league club of new york. since its founding in 1863 its members have played an important role in the national discourse on a wide range of issues and as ron mentioned they constructed the statue of liberty and got rid of boss along the way so it is a great privilege to be here and it is fitting that we are in this historic room to talk about fighting the media war in iraq because this book is about history, how we make histo

>> i love to read. steven ambose's book about custard and crazy horse which is fascinatin fascinating. and i am a huge michael peeka fan. he writes all these books on sports and a lot of the types of books i read when i was growing up. and i love them. so, you know, that is sort of the fun reading i am doing right now. >> i noticed on your phone, do you read from your phone? ...

you could begin reading and dye -- dilexic child it was struggle at first. if you haven't seen in a while, try it. it was a challenge. those pages are still grayed and turned and to go-eared as i remember the year as i remember living through great author, cherlock holmes. some of the local restaurants being part of the jackson community trying to make sure we didn't interrupt her lunch but in all great literature giant that sat across the room. i've been to william faulkner's home, billy could have a good time in oxford, but, oh, could he write. greg, john, the list goes on and on. we celebrate that we have great writers but just important readers. 38% were reading at third grade level, we started program, education works, six years later 92% of those third graders are reading at a third-grade level. [applause] >> so we will keep trying, there is no way to stop this. i just made that up. [laughter] >> i think i'm going to keep it. there's no way to stop greatness, the greatness of mississippi. greatness today is with us and the lady that has led the library

i am not convinced they read all my book notes but i think they read some of the book notes and found them helpful. that is what i do. i underline or take in the margin passages i think are important. >> book wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter at booktv or instagram at book underscore tv. or post it to our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. booktv on c-span2. television for sear yz -- serious readers. >> shelby steele, your book, "shame." >> i couldn't find that single thing. >> host: what was the central theme you were going for? >> the idea is that america, arguably the best country in history, perpetrated one of the greatest sins, dehumanizing a group of people relentlessly. the profound evil amidst stunning greatness. so, now, that greatness, i think of course, is what finally delivered us from what we were doing wrong. but it is a shame we will now have to deal with. maybe we are still too close to the '60s when we first acknowledged the shame to understand it is important. i think it is one of the most important vents in history. the

they are shaped by what they read and what we read. it is a characteristic of the time in which they were living a i could feel and entered into the lives of these people who are just as real and alive as we are but they are no longer around. >> a long time ago general ford was my congressman, so it is nice to hear a kind words you have to say about him because lots of people really do not appreciate the kind of things he did for this country so thank you for those comments and i will be looking forward to the book that is coming out. [laughter] is a wonderful story by richard norton smith who was president of the ford library. i don't think he's written a biography. >> this has been a profound evening for me hearing you talk. one of the issues that i've had for many years is that people, kids are not taught civics anymore. i took civics in eighth grade. i've been a political junkie all my life. but when i talk to things like the constitution and i studied for two semesters a history government major i am appalled at their total lack o

i would like to read about them this summer. >> book tv would like to know what you are reading. show us your summer reading list on twitter or instagram. or posted to our facebook page -- or post it to our facebook page. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> next, former state department and national security officials talk about the potential threat that north korea poses to his neighbors and the u.s.. by theent is hosted

i'm going to read here. the more time ice the plant t tc lincoln the marsala history was often unintended. yet his thoughts and words were the careful result of his intense consciousness.dd, and i should add, self-discipline. the audacity and silences that his law partner, william henry and others of his friends described as melancholy wear a mask for his concentration, intellectual absorption and focus. he made his depression as well as it every other people into instruments of self-discipline. in the wilderness of political despair for a destiny he cannotd foretell. insig even when his life seemed to be reduced to simple insignificance here skimming the horizons and quietly interpreting it sciencel his ambition was a little engine that new no rest.areer, in he was a professional partisan politician who early in his career from candidates, his surrogate farther that he later shed tears over it. he did not arises recognizablyse lincoln until he lined that fierce ambition and the sharp political skills in the

reading is the key. i'm a strong foundation and having good reading habits, regardless of what you are reading whether the american history, world history, whether we are talking about biographies, talking about certain times in the history of mankind. you know, science. >> if, it's a way that we make ourselves obviously better educated but the thirst for knowledge, that curiosity that we have in each of us in one way or another is enhanced by good reading habits. and reading regularly and of course the challenge many of us have is trying to make sure wefind the time to read things we like to read besides what we have to do every day . >> thank you for your time, congressman. >> i appreciate it, keep reading. >> book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your reading list via twitter at book tv or instagram at ótv.

speaking of which -- just reading i was rereading selfish gene which i read many years ago and i was reading contemporary called gene out in the last year which is really good and i was remarking to myself how -- how how timeless your book this helps yen gene is that propanty of what you're explaining many this book hasn't change haded match in the decades since it was published. >> thanks for that. glad about that. well in my -- my opinion -- [laughter] but a couple of things have changed and one is our ability to mess with the gene. so now -- humans can alter at the gene level and suppress certain genes and we have developed the ability to insert influence on genes and i wonder if you would explain what crisper is to the audience some of you probably know but nots everybody does. and tell us what you think about this moment many time where we've perhaps become blind watcher makers ourselves. >> yes. as it happen i read coming on plane coming over from england, a very interesting book on chris per who lives in these parts a professor of the university. going on planes is a wonderful

and the two books that i'm reading today. i finished one is a history of the empire by peter and i have to admit the pros. it was disintegrated after world war i and then a fascinating novel. it is in the concept talking about the condition. it was kind of reflecting on what's going on around them. i am enjoying it a great deal. >> booktv wants to know what you're reading. send your reading list to twitter at booktv port instead ran at booktv or post it to the facebook page, facebook.com/booktv on c-span2. the representative has an extensive reading list whenever we visit with him. one of the books was the university of the scars of independence a look at violence during the american revolutionary war. >> good evening. how are you? thank you for coming. i'm the manager of public programs here at the new york public library to welcome you to the conversation between holder hook scores of independence. the book is fascinating and for

i would like to read. i try to read a book every week or two. i didn't learn to love to read until college. but i found it very helpful. you get good ideas, it helps to inspire you, it helps you be a better person in a lot of ways. my caveat is i think you can read too much and i think i am getting to that point where i am loving what i read and pick subjects i want to read about mostly non-fiction and sometimes on leadership but i think it is just as important to stop and think as it is to read. you can think about what you read, life, how to do your job better, how to help more people. i would say it is important not just to try to read to read but to freed a purpose and i think it is important after you read to take some time to think about what you just read or as i say life in general and maybe that will change your reading habits and you will think about reading on a different subject as a result of just thinking. i would say i am a proponent today for reading but also reading and thinking. that comb

and also, read. so many riders don't understand you have to read as much as you write. that's how you learn what to do and what not to do. [applause] >> ladies in jonah, thanks for joining us. let's have another round of applause for roxanne. [applause] >> if you have a book you'd like to get signed, we ask that you remain in your seat for just a few moments. were going to get the stage ready for the signing portion of the event. them will call you up role by row. if you select a purchase event of hunger, it is available in the back. >> book tv in primetime features best-selling books. we begin with david graham on his book killers of the flower men. the story of the 1920s murders on the osage indian reservation in the fbi investigation. mark boutin, author of way, 1968, a turning point of the american war in vietnam. after that, former house speaker on his book understanding trump. that's followed by roxanne gaye on her book hunger, a memoir of my body. >> you are watching the tv on c-span2. top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv, television for seriou

some leaked to the british courts-martial and upstairs in the manuscript reading room i am able to read through some instances. we also know about the stories in the positions of some american investigators after the experience as a 13-year-old girl who with two teenage friends and older female pregnant relative is raped by british soldiers at the house of their grandfather in huntington county new jersey and the continental congress this is one of the class of incidents in that region. the continental congress in and that the rumors of these assaults sends out a commission to investigate the. they are disseminated in the british isles and we might come to speak about an aspect of that to do justice to the issue we need to recognize on the one hand the experiences of the individual traumatized women and on the other hand also see the patriots but the revolutionaries used as a political tool in the model and in the propaganda war that shattered the war on the ground you were asking about atrocities around the world. [inaudible] both sides. there were fewer infringements. i'm trying to ge

it's easy to read short things online on a screen.ut it's harder to read to long books, it's hard to orient yourself in them and it's hard to-- apparently the brain has more trouble with it. - even on the devices deliberately created for those purposes it's not the same experience. - well they're trying. - [evan] they're trying. - they're trying they're trying. i think each of those platforms is good for something. - right. and i think the e form is extremely good for searching. you want to buy something very good for that. traveling. - [evan] portability is unique. - portability all of that is good. so i use both. - [evan] right. - a lot of people use both. - [evan] right. - and i think kids are reading and writing a lot more than people know because they're doing it online and they're also writing on things like wattpad which is a stories sharing site which has got 40 million users a month. in 25 different languages. - right. - and that gives young people in particular access to publishing. you know they can put their story up there

read that. read -- read jackson and then maybe, you know, have a few examples. okay. that's my best. >> the second question is, in an increasingly globalized legal world, the supreme court's decisions serve as a guide splooimz sometimes explicitly through citation and quotation for foreign courts around the world. in what circumstances does the justice consider the court's global audience when crafting his or her decisions? >> what are the justice's thoughts on foreign courts increasingly citing u.s. circuit and state courts? is this trend concerning given conservatives increased focus on gaining seats in state jaw di judiciaries? no, people can focus on what they want. opinion is an opinion that tells the real reason white judge is deciding this way. and we cite law review articles, we cite briefs, we cite all kinds of things. so i don't see anything wrong with citing whatever people want to cite. as far as an audience is concerned, for our opinions abroad, no, that's their problem, that's not my problem. my problem is to get this thing done correctly. but, in doing

you to read it, love that note. [laughter] >> at least once a week and there's nothing that puts carl in a better mood than writing a good note. actually it's one thing and it's the feedback that he receives from his readers which every day at least once a day and often times much more than that, carl gets notes from people all over the country who read his note and say, man, it inspired me, it reminded me of a story, i learned something new thanking him for his thoughtfulness and the subjects that he covered, so now a little bit about the book itself. it's unlike anything that i think any of us have ever seen. if you haven't delved into it, collection of 365, not even short stories, micro stories, 400-500 words, all have middle, beginning and an end. you can read this book, you can open it up on today's date and start today and follow for the next year and you can open it up to your birthday or anniversary and can road a note, ten notes or a hundred notes, as many as you want and you can do it at any time. it's a r

and what we do not read. there is a story in -- a theory in media that there are things which are never discussed because they are so outside of what social norms are. so for example, bernie sanders socialism, was not that much talked about in much of the media. if he had run for president, we would have heard a lot more about what it means to be a socialist. but normally we do not read about socialism because, in our american media, that is an audi a that is outside the pale. large extent, the corporate ownership of the media, there is an explicit sense of what can be discussed and what cannot. about what is normal and what is not. that is what i meant about norms until fairly recently, we did not call president liars. it is interesting that now we do. and that sort of challenges the status quo, it is something that even corporate leaders realized they have to go on. so i think corporate control of media has two different effects, both of them negative, one squashing possible this course that we can get into

i recommend that you read it. i served also as the cochair at the literacy clock is here in washington and one of the things i encourage everyone to do is read this summer, obviously we meet a lot of very boring things here in washington.papers and policy papers and all of that. i just burst from the summer i'm going to read david baldacci. i am into books behind every single book he has written. starting with the first and i have never given up on him. he's a great writer. and john meacham's book on andrew jackson. the reason i'm reading that is andrew jackson was the first person to hold my congressional seat.and in tennessee where i live, the district i live in, one present was interjecting the other was johnson. those are folks i would like to read about this summer. >> booktv wants to know you are reading. that is your summer reading list via twitter at booktv or our facebook page facebook.com/booktv booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. tonight booktv and primetime features best-selling books. w

you read?.>> i like to underline the points that our important because if i underline the my remember them better because then i read them once then i underline the passage so that is helpful to me and then the four in turn gets to type up my footnotes the help they are learning and they tell me they are and then i give those book notes to my family members, senior staff on committees i am not convinced babydoll of them but i do take they read some of them but i underline those massive -- passages they think are important. >> host: on the campus of ucla and we're talking with professors who are also offers teaching history professor stevenson would you teach?. >> this year on women's history and their dynamics. >> host: how long have you been here?. >> 26 years

and it really emphasizes i think, the prominence of the joy of reading and promoting reading and it actually was on the mall, and then there were some concerns because of it gets rained on then it is now moved to the convention center. in washington d.c. so we don't have to worry about rain. it is bigger and there all kinds of venues and it still has that mall feel because you just walk around and they are all types of things, you can buy the book and have your books autographed by the authors and that is always a thrill. >> uintas planning for this start? >> it starts as soon as one festival is over. literally within one week. we are assessing what happened, what worked, what did not work, what do we want to do and improve? and we start working on it right away. >> do have direct involvement? or do you get updated on what is happening? >> at the tell you, i have more involvement probably then you might think. because this really is the essence of what we are about at the library of congress and so being involved with making sure we have a balance and types of authors and types of programmin

the kids will become good readers if they read enough, most kids. parents need to take responsibility for that. they need to understand that it's their job, in the same way that you teach your boy how to throw a baseball, or your girl how to write a bike but getting them to read is even more important. >> prior to becoming an author you had a life. >> guest: i was in advertising for several years. i've been clean for over 20 years now. it got me to understand communication better. it got me to understand there is an audience, that you going to talk to people and you have to hold their attention and they're not necessarily interested in what you have to say. i think that's important with children's books. >> the first manuscript you wrote, what was it? >> guest: the first book i wrote was i was 25. i went to graduate school and i wrote a detective novel turned down by 31 publishers. it then was bought by little brown and it won an edgar. so go figure, turned on by 31 publishers and then it wins an egg reward. so, for anybody who is writing, you can g

i'll read it. the public domain has been a force of profound importance in the nationalization and development of the government. and the person who said that is probably not someone you would have expected to have said that because, in fact, it is somebody who said a lot of things and then he didn't -- he or she didn't end up getting credit for that. so who said that? isn't it fun to be told that you're going to be tricked? come on, suckers. come on. >> -- essentially. >> it is in your reading. >> you did. >> i said that? no. no. but in fact, it is so much something i could have said because the public lands are -- they're the core of the way the federal government grows. that's one of those bed rom reasons for saying the west and the westward expansion is key to the growth of the power of the federal government so i felt that. [ inaudible ] no. though he would -- >> turner? >> yes, yes, yes. i was going to say i've sat at his desk. matt got it. frederick jackson turner said that. i am -- he is to

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reading. process of i love sitting in my rocking chair in the afternoons in the maine with the snow outside going through some new book i've just gotten. office on the island of maine thinks i have a amazing because i get about a become a day and i'm always ordering used books world. und the i just enjoy the whole process. this life on a little island where you walk into the post office and my wife atl walk in and they'll look her, and see if she checks the box, and they'll say nothing for you, mary. tom has something. do you write, the physical location, and how do you do it? tom: i live in a beautiful old house. only time in my life i actually in. the house i lived it was built in 1812 by a sea captain. in the attic ce and my dog comes up and sits with me, and i usually start early in the morning. time, it's dark, and i answer my email every 20 or 30 web sites. i file my blog file for that day magazine. policy i have a blog called "the best defense." writing. start usually, i have books i've

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people do read churchill. it is shocking how many people read and reread churchill.ou could spend the rest of her life reading nothing but churchill. i think he is wrong particularly there. editingnvolved in andchill for the newspaper printing the fourth or fifth volume when churchill was over the climb. he and the last man would have been very much at all. -- odds. here is winston churchill, december 26 in front of the u.s. congress after pearl harbor. >> here i am, an englishman welcomed into your midst. one of the most moving and thrilling in my life, which is already long and has not been uneventful. , i wish indeed, that my cherishwhose memory i across the veil of years could have been here to see. by the way, i cannot help but reflecting that if my father had been american and my mother british, instead of the other way around, i might have got here on my own. [applause] host: how important was that speech? tom: i think very important. it was a winning speech that overcame a lot of american distrust of the british generally end of churchill -- and of churchill