booktv's coverage of tucson festival of books from the university of arizona. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and we will add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> begins with a question of the relationship of nature to politics. both claim that their political views are based in an idea that politics has to answer to human nature, a very different idea of what that was and different ideas what nature means in political debate has a lot to do with what follows. so an idea of nature that is an enlightened science idea, understands nature as a source of rules, rules that govern the behavior of individual particles, if you will, and turn society itself, basically a function of particles a little like newtonian physics applied to politics, not in a simple-minded way. he understood politics was in physics but the basic way of thinking how do we get at the truth of the deepest kind of truth beneath politics he thought the way to get at it was to go to the beginning, the origins of things and not the historical origins but natural origins, pre historical origins and that meant understanding the human being in his pre social state because society is

booktv at c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >>> joining us on booktv is james rustin junior. his newest book is called "the accidental victim." jfk, lee harvey, oswald and the real target in dallas. what do you mean by the real target in dallas? >> it's a congress -- con have a luted -- i think all of them are nonsense. i think we have to bring it down to the psychology and mind set of lee harvey oswald the killer. what i've attempted to do is go to the core of his motive for picking up the weapon on november 22nd. >> you had to put two things together. the first is the attitude toward kennedy. where he had absolutely no -- for the president at all. admired the president for his policies. the change in military danger from honorable to dishonorable. he appealed to connelly to change it in 1962 and that hounded him to change him and hounded him for the next year and a half. and i believe he put the face of connelly on the frustration. he had a rage and anger against connelly. but not such an attitude toward kennedy at all. >> how did you do the 50 years later? >> a biography of john connelly in 1989. in fac

the future not very far from now. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> is there a nonfiction author or book that you would like to see featured onbooktv? send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.orgor send us a tweet at twitter.com/booktv. >> we are at the national press club talking with molly raskin. who is danny lewin to . >> he founded a company, a technology company in the late '90s and he was a mathematical genius at mit and the company that he created, the company that he created is as much of a masterpiece that has changed the way the internet work and allows the information to be delivered efficiently at a time when the internet was suffering from a lot of roadblocks and traffic congestion. >> want to know more about him? >> well, we don't know more about him because the story went largely untold. he died tragically on september 11, the very first victim of that day. his story went untold for well over a decade until someone tipped me off to it. the more i read about him, the more i thought that this was a great story that needed to be told. and it wasn't about the way he died but the way he lived in this incredible technology that he had created. >> county the first vic

information on both tvs visit from china to tennessee and the many other cities visited by her content vehicles, go to c-span.org/local content. up next on booktv, "after words" with the former senior researcher of columbia university. nicholas johnson in his book "negroes and the gun: the black tradition of arms." in it, the law school professor discusses the tradition of african americans using firearms to defend their families and communities. a tradition that dates back to reconstruction. he argues that the nonviolence of the civil rights help to bury this fact of black history. this program is about one hour. >> so this strikes me as an important intervention in three ways. one of the black freedom movement and over the years has been increasingly revising the way that we understand the role of violence related to nonviolence. the other intervention is cultural in terms of who we see or who we think of when we think of gun owners, and also how we think about black individuals. finally there is a public policy implication for the presentation of the black tradition of arms. so i look forward to really getting into those three areas with you

the future. [applause] >> for more information about booktv's visit to bellingham, washington, or about the other cities visited by our local content vehicles, visit c-span.org/localcontent. >> you are washing booktv on c-span2. on c-span2. here's our primetime lineup for tonight. >> that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> definitely a story about rahm emanuel but it's also a story about chicago and its people on both fronts, ongoing story. and i think talking about it, despite the very valid point about the fact that so many chicagoans did vote for rahm emanuel and mayor dealey over the years, nonetheless we have a pretty amazing hot those with just, so much potential and talent and power. and i think it's important to acknowledge that come especially at a moment like this when i think there really is this sentiment with facts to back it up including the study that was talked about that we are really kind of a tipping point where chicago's future an image and identity is being sort of redefined and reshaped. the mayor has been central to the. he's been open and that's the kind of boastful about the way he is transforming the city. easier all this t

booktv@c-span.org or tweet as at twitter.com/booktv. >> with a few weeks left in 2013 many publications up putting out their year end lists of notable books. these are the best books of 2013. hatching twitter, a true story of money, power, friendship and the trail. bill bryson recounts the summer of 1927 in one summer:america 1927. in the idealist, geoffrey sax and the quest to end party, contributing editor to vanity fair nina monk explains economist plan to eliminate poverty. gregory zuckerman of the wall street journal profiles the people who developed fracking in the outrageous inside story of the new billionaire wild cat. in the everything score, the age of amazon, brad stone, senior writer for bloomberg business c webweeeweezweeoweesweek chronic career, richard snow recount the life and career automobile magnate henry ford in i invented the modern age:a rise of henry ford. for an extended list and links to various other publications 2013 notable book selections visit booktv's web site booktv.org. >> longtime familiar face to c-span viewers is on your screen on booktv. former new mexico governor bill richardson, former congressman and now author bi

the right thing. even though in receipt throw spect it turned out not to be right. go to c-span.org/localcontent. >>> here is a look at book being published this week. .. next on booktvnna quindlen was a guest on booknotes in

the future. [applause] >> for more information about booktv's visit to bellingham, washington, or about the other cities visited by our local content vehicles, visit c-span.org/localdon't. >> this our schools there's been a decline of character education and moral education, kind of a move to replacing it with things like self-esteem programs or various therapeutic approaches that are of doubtful merit. and we have a tried and true method of civilizing boys. through, you know, good sports hanship -- sportsmanship and kind of moral guidance from parents, but then reinforced by teachers. and we've kind of moved away from that. second problem with boys, and -- there are problems with girls too but i'm right now talking about boys, is just i believe now that boys have become second class citizens in our schools. and their problems are severely neglected. a young man today is far less likely to go to college than his sister. and you look across all ethnic groups and racial groups ask socioeconomic groups, and you find that boys are behind their female counterparts. they are far less literate, the average 15-year-old boy has the writing skills of a 13-year-old gir

booktv is visit to chattanooga, tennessee, go to c-span.org/local content. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. information and technology professor at thetute of technology and andrew mcafee with co-author erik brynjolfsson, present their book, "the second machine age." felipe fernÁndez-armesto, a history professor at the university of notre dame examines hispanic past in "our america." a hispanic history of the united states. douglas egerton, history professor at lemoyne college looks at the reconstruction era in the wars of reconstruction. and in "careless people", sarah churchwell, professor of american literature and public understanding at the university of east anglia in england looks at the intersection between a double murder in new jersey in 1922 and the writing of a scott fitzgerald watch for the authors on booktv in our

. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to chattanooga, tennessee, and the many of the cities visited by local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> joseph cirincione talks about the possibility of nuclear weapons being used today. he says that the decline in the number of nuclear weapons since the 1960s should leave is hopeful that they can be eliminated entirely in the future. this is a little under one hour. >> thank you very much for that very kind and generous introduction. it's a pleasure to be with you today. i have to say, i'm honored to serve on secretary kerry's international security advisory board of the comments to give are purely my own and do not represent the views of the board, at the state department or of the u.s. government. i'm delighted to see so many students here, maybe some of you here have read some of my articles but i would guess that very few of you other than the two who have seen my video clip on a cold their report. when i go speak at a school that's primarily how they know me. i've given hundreds of hindus in my life and the one with stephen colbert was by far the most difficult. i

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"afterword" part of booktv on c-span and online for the book club we will discuss mark live-in's "the liberty amendment." read the book and join the conversation. go to www.c-span.org and click on book club to enter the chat room. "washington journal" continues. host: we will spend the final minutes getting your take on the memoir by former event secretary robert gates that is slated to come out january 14. "duty-memoirs of a secretary at -- at war" he is critical of the president and the vice president and the former secretary of state as well as the president's top aides. we want to get your thoughts, if any, of the memoir. you can start dialing and now -- host: you can also send us a tweet or post your comments on facebook.com/c-span and also .-mail us earlier today i spoke with bloomberg's white house correspondent and i began by asking him what has been the reaction -- what was the reaction yesterday on the white house to the memoir. here is what he had to say. morning.od it was a pretty swift response. ,arney, not surprisingly supported the portions of gate'' book where the former defense secretary supported the president or praised the president and distance

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send us an e-mail at the booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> most people don't really understand how it works. a lot of people write books and then they spend the next two years trying to get somebody to publish their books. i've never really experienced that. when people come to me as a how to get a book published, i say, look, i'm the wrong person to ask. but i finally felt that really i had something to say. i don't write books just for the purpose of writing books. the first three, four books actually, i did with a cowriter. and basically i would sometimes do take them to a tape recorder and then send them the tapes and then they would, you know, transcribe things. this last book i did myself with my wife. you know, she did a lot of the research and help with the editing. and, of course, she's quick to point out this is the first one that hit number one in the new york times bestsellers list. [laughter] but actually i enjoy very much working with my wife. certainly i'll be doing that from now on. >> fort