. >> coming up friday morning, rirk shankman, author of the book "political animals" he tell t es how u.s. voters are using their primitive instincts to elect their next president. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning friday morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend, the c-span cities tour hosted by our comcast cable partners to explore the history own literary culture of this southern city, which is home to the university of alabama. on book tv, we'll learn about the history of the university of alabama in the 1960s withal the author of "turning the tied" in 1960s. >> what he was trying to do i think above all was to get the university of alabama away from this party school, football school focus. to become a viable institution, first in the south and then nationally. it look a while to do that. first thing he had to do was hire faculty. by 1965, 2/3 had them. today we have our share of some of the finest faculty in the country. we're also attracting kids today who can go to harvard, yale, places like that. we lead the country in the number of national merit s

. >> coming up friday morning, rirk shankman, author of the book "political animals" he tell t es how u.s. voters are using their primitive instincts to elect their next president. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning friday morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend, the c-span cities tour hosted by our comcast cable partners to explore the history own literary culture of this southern city, which is home to the university of alabama. on book tv, we'll learn about the history of the university of alabama in the 1960s withal the author of "turning the tied" in 1960s. >> what he was trying to do i think above all was to get the university of alabama away from this party school, football school focus. to become a viable institution, first in the south and then nationally. it look a while to do that. first thing he had to do was hire faculty. by 1965, 2/3 had them. today we have our share of some of the finest faculty in the country. we're also attracting kids today who can go to harvard, yale, places like that. we lead the country in the number of national merit s