he went out of his way to brush up on those skills so he tells talmage and others in general scott hey regular general scott this is what we are going to need to do. we have to find these people to help me out. a >> now our booktv from the 13th annual national book festival on the national mall in washington d.c. pulitzer prize-winning historian rick atkinson presents his book "the guns at last light" the war in western europe 1944-45. >> and now to our author and our speaker, rick atkinson. rick served as a reporter foreign correspondent and senior editor of the "washington post" for 25 years. it's my personal misfortune that i arrived too late as opposed to work with them. he is rightly regarded as one of the most distinguished journalists of our time. his talent as a writer and a reporter and his unparalleled expertise in military affair

he tells talmage and others and general scott, brigadier general scott, here is what we will need to do. >> what>> what is that future? >> what we think is going to be happening is the current political situation we have with a very powerful centralized national government like we have now is not going to be sustainable. it has made commitments he can keep. $17 billion in debt, all kinds of obligations that the government is not going to be able to sustain. we think the arraignment -- arrangements that worked for a couple generations are not going to break down. we think what the positives are that the technology coming along is going to make it are that the technology coming along is going to make it possible to have a much more de-centralized arrangement where a certain number of people who were wage laborers. after the american revolution and moving in to settle in the midwest, the country was carved up into 160 acre units that were enough for one family farm to be sustained on your it people owned their own capital. they work for themselves. that was the ideal. it was often the r

he tells talmage, this is what we need to do. a little-known spy ring may have saved the revolution. sunday night at 9:00 on "after ," on booktv. talk about theo state-of-the-art s america and the government's rolled in the arts. in the arts with randy cohen. what do you do? guest: we try to get more arts in the schools and more support for our organizations. host: and sunil iyengar. nationalith the endowment for the arts. what do you do? our mission is to advance arts. your this is from the nea, organization. the revenue comes from our and income. earned comes from income. point two percent comes from the federal 1.2% comes from the federal government. guest: that shows you how decentralized the arts wondering structure is. orut 7% comes from federal local or state government subsidies. only about 1% from the federal government. essentially, arts organizations are agile in getting funding from various sources. make up the lion's share of our funding whether it is through earned income or individual donations. the people are fund