thanks robert shiller best selling author. thanks to the audience here and on the radio and the television and the internet. i'm cory johnson, the place where you're in the know is adjourned. [applause] thank you very much. we can sign books right here. [inaudible conversations]. >> you're watching 48 hours of non-fiction authors of books on c-span's book tv. >> one of the imprints of the pension begin publishing group is viking. joining us is the director of publicity carolyn coleburn. we wanted to ask you about some of the books that are coming out in the fall of 2012 from viking. let's start with kevin phillips. >> you know him as a great historian and analyst. kevin phillips best selling author is coming out with "1775" this december. and what kevin does is he debunks the myth that 1776 was the water shed year for the american revolution. instead looks at "1775" as the pivotal year when all these events and conflicts were happening and so analyzing "1775" and usual kevin phillips fashion, it's very nuanced, meticulous rese

robert schiller tracks housing prices across the country. >> when people are out there looking for houses and thinking about buying houses it's still at a relatively low level but it's increasing. >> reporter: in shiller's 20- city composite, san francisco was up 3.4% from march to april. washington, d.c. 2.8%. phoenix 2.5%. atlanta and cleveland 2.3%. what should people look for to figure out whether this is a sort of a temporary spike or something more substantial and permanent. >> i think if home prices continue increasing at anything like this pace for the next 12 months i will become optimistic. >> reporter: the latest move up in prices comes after seven consecutive down months. help is now coming from foreign buyers looking for safer places to put their money than their shaky economies at home. they spent $82.5 billion buying u.s. residential homes in the last year. nearly 9% of the total and 24% more than the year before. >> it's really amazing. >> reporter: silva hopes to add to the total. he's brazilian and he's hoping to find that beach front condo in miami that's out of reach back home in rio. >> you won't be able to find anything similar. no, that's at least two or three times more. >> repor