also being published in the end of white politics, selena maxwell examines the success and failures of liberal politics. a j bain provides a history of the 1940 election and its importance for the political course in dewey defeats truman. kurt selector argues against claims about donald trump and his voters in the 21 biggest lies about donald trump. and let them eat tweets political scientist jacob happening paul pearson argue conservatives make populist claims while actually benefiting the elites. find the cycles this coming week where books are sold and watch for many of these in the future on booktv on c-span2. >> >> host: joining us on booktv father and political activist ralph reed. his next book is "for god and country: the christian case for trump". what is that case? >> guest: the case in a nutshell is that as christians we are called not only to be citizens of the kingdom of god which is here, now and yet to come, we are also called to be citizens on earth of whatever polity or society or nation we happen t

chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and msnbc political analyst selena maxwell,hor of the new book "the end of white politics," we've already been talking about. congrats to you on that one zerlena. peter, before we get to mary trump, i want to get your thoughts on the passing of john lewis. what do you make of president trump not yet putting out a statement on it? yes, the white house has said that the flag should be lowered to half-staff. that came the last hour or so, but nothing directly from the president. >> no, that's right. even last night as the country was absorbing the news of john lewis' passing and other figures were instantly tweeting out their condolences, ted cruz and mitch mcconnell put out a statement, the president was blasting out tweet after tweet, normal partisan politics, attacking joe biden, as if oblivious to what's happening. that speaks volumes, right ♪ lack of a statement says what you need to know. he had his press secretary put out a tweet, signed a proclamation lowering the flags until the end of today. it reminds you what happened