the years booktv has covered hundreds of books on foreign affairs such as american university's sarah snyder on america's inclusion of human rights activism in foreign policy, immigration and its impact on our global standing and yale's amy chua on how group identity shapes foreign policy. watch any of these programs and more by visiting booktv.org and searching foreign policy book in the search barr at the top of the -- search bar at the top of the page. >> so best selling historian doris kerns goodwin has a new book coming out. ms. goodwin, what's your focus? >> well, it's on leadership in turbulent times. so what i've done is to take four of the guys that i knew before -- lincoln, teddy, franklin roose and lbj domestically -- and look at them through the lens of leadership so, hopefully, it can be a road map for young leaders, for established leaders about what's leadership in moments of great tush lends are, and what it was able to achieve. it gives us solace, i think, when we look back to that. >> host: end when did you start working on a book like this? >> guest: five years ago. it too

the years booktv has covered hundreds of books on foreign affairs such as american university sarah snyder on america's inclusion of human rights activism and foreign policy. >> sees been going about the cities literary scene. up next to speak with professor and first female two-time recipient of the national book award, jesmyn ward. >> the winner of the national book award for fiction is jesmyn ward. [cheers and applause] "salvage the bones." >> these are things i've been obsessed with us idea of what the idea of history and how history bears on the present and how our past isn't really our past. how our past is also present. i think this is one of the reasons consumers i wrote about incarceration in prison, writing about inccerati, incarceration of black people, black men, black boys. and how dehumanizing that is, how traumatic that is. and then how i guess the specific circumstances of that mass incarceration might have changed. maybe our prisons today don't look so much, don't really look much like parchment presented. they are not working plantations, but they are still dehumanizing p

foreign policy with georgetown professor sarah snyder. she discussed her book "from selma to moscow" at the policies and prose bookstore in washington d.c.. this is an hour. see macadamia everyone. my name is liz artlip and i'm a member of the bands that would like to welcome you all to politics and prose bookstore. thanks for coming out. to rather your evening. we are here to listen to sarah snyder with her new book "from selma to moscow" how human rights activists transformed u.s. foreign policy. c-span will tv is reporting this evening and you don't want to be the person is phone is ringing. if you have not purchased your book edited by two they are available behind the register. after the event just head over there and ask for it and we'll be taught -- happy to sell you one, two or three. sarah will be signing over here after she is done talking. sarah's groundbreaking study of the 1960 civil rights act arkies the movement has had an impact on the nation's foreign policy as a domestic issue. as americans question the social justice th

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about and on june 20th another evening of poetry with mary flanagan from the college and sarah dickerson snyder who has family in the area and wind down for the summer, we bring books to the canaan reading house series and they have incredible lineups. i won't go to the list but lauren will be here, peter, joan silver who just won a big award and also the osher summer lecture series. they have six summer lectures and some heavy hitters and it will be really interesting. if you sign up for our newsletter and check our website you won't miss any of the great things. but tonight our guest is christopher wren. the first question he was asked when we have for 3 question interview for the book jim blog which is a blog by two local women, what three books helped shape you and the writer you are today and why? his answer was it was 40 years as a journalist on deadline that shaped me as a writer. liza bernard one began his debit is christopher wren covered the civil rights movement and retired from the new york times after nearly 29 years as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. he headed to tim

the years booktv has covered hundreds of books on foreign affairs such as american university's sarah snyders inclusion of human rights activism in foreign policy, immigration and its impact on our global standing and yale's amy chua on how group identity shapes foreign policy. watch any of these programs and more by visiting booktv.org and searching foreign policy book in the search barr at the top of the -- search bar at t

on june 20th, we have another evening of poetry with mary flannigan from the college and sarah dickenson snyder who has family in the area. and then we sort of wind down for the summer here at the store, but we bring books to the canen meeting house series and stratford and they both have incredible lineups and not going through the whole list, but lauren will be here, peter manzo, joan silver who just won a big award and also, there will be the osher summer lecture series, they have got six summer lectures and they've got heavy hitters and it will be interesting. so if you sign up for our newsletter, and check the website, you won't miss any of the great things. but tonight, our guest is christopher wren and the first question that he was asked when we asked him to do a three-question interview for the book jam blog which some of you may know, it's a blog by local-- two local women, the question was, what three books have helped shape you into the writer you are today and why. and his answer was, it was actually 40 years as a journalist on deadline that shaped me as a writer. christopher wren