. >> in her book, "enlightened sexism," susan douglas compares images of women in the u.s.culture from the 1980s to the age of reality tv. nicole's books in ann arbor michigan host this 50 minute event. >> i wanted to begin i just talking somewhat informally about wyatt wrote this book and then i'm going to do a brief reading from the introduction. in 1994, i published a book called where the girls are, and it did very well. he was about the mixed messages that they be dumb girls and women got from the mass media and their own love-hate relationship with popular culture. as a result, i did get a lot of speaking engagements at colleges and universities, but pop culture, as we all no, has it pretty short shelf life and especially after the turn-of-the-century and certainly by the middle of the past decade, people were starting to ask me what i am about buffy. or xena, not to mention the bachelor. or all the makeover shows and more recent shows like desperate housewives or mad

. >> in her book "enlightened sexism, susan douglas compares culture. >> i wanted to begin by just talking summit in from about why i wrote this book, and then i'm going to do a brief reading from the introduction. in 1994, i published a book called "where the girls are" and it did very well. it was about the mixed messages that baby-boom girls and women got from the mass media and our own love-hate relationship with popular culture. as a result, i did get a lot of speaking engagements at colleges and universities. but pop culture, as we all look, has a pretty short shelf life, and especially after the turn-of-the-century. and survey by the middle of the past decade, people were starting to ask me what i thought about buffy, or xena, not to mention the bachelor. all the makeover shows. and then more reason shows like desperate housewives or madmen, and asked if i was going to write a sequel. and so i thought. also, my data was moving through her teenage years, and i saw the increasingly retrograde images on offer for her, images that, frankly, board zero resemblance to her or to her smart,

[applause] >> susan douglas is the chair of the communications studies department at the university of michigan. she's author of "where the girls are" and the mommy myth ," to find out more, visit susan j. douglas.com. >> this weekend, john dean is our guest on book tv's in depth, the former white house counsel to president nixon and author of 10 books, including an updated edition of "blind ambition" takes your phone calls, e-mails and tweets, today, live at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> >> hello. it's my pleasure to be here with bill bennett, an old friend, somebody who has written now a third in a trilogy of history books. there were two great volumes you did on american history, that ended in 1989, and now you're doing a slightly slimmer volume to continue it, to the present. is that -- you see it as part of a trilogy? >> guest: it is part of a trilogy, it is "the century turns," but it is the third in the trilogy. the reason i was a little reluctant, you've written history books, this history is pretty close to us, so i was worried about perspective, objectivity, but becau

douglas shulman. [applause] >> thank you for that very nice and gracious introduction. it is a pleasure to be here. before i start, i want to thank one person, that is my wife, susan the irs commissioner i consider one of the best jobs in the world. i am not sure of being the wife of the ira's commissioner -- of the irs commissioner is. i also want to welcome a number of the cedar executives from the irs who are here. -- senior executives from the irs who are here. i have done a number of states and the public and private sectors. i work with as talented a group of executives as you will find in any business, anti- government, and the nonprofit, anywhere in the world. my hat off to the colleagues that are here. it is good to be here. in the spring, it is good to see cherry blossoms those of you who live in d.c.. it is good not to see snow this time of year. one of the things when you walk around, probably under way here, you notice a lot of tourists going to museums and to the mall. you also see amongst those tourists police officers, park rangers showing people where they should go on the mall, landscapers keeping the city beautiful, and you see a number of schoo