send us an enough at the booktv@c-span.org, or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> here's a look at someof the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the nation. >> we will be happy to add them to our list. post into our wall at facebook.com/booktv or you can e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> let us know what you reading this summer. tweet us at the booktv. posted o on a facebook page or send us an e-mail at otb at c-span.org. >> here's a look at some of the books that are being published this week. >> watch for the authors in a new future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> on your screen is american university professor jon gould who is a professor of law at the university, and he's also director of american university's washington institute for public and international affairs. and he's written this book, "how to succeed in college (while really trying)." professor gould, who is this book written for? >> it's really written for two groups. it's written for high school seniors were on their way to college and it's also

this is part of the booktv college series and is a little under half an hour. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. we are on location at stanford university in palo alto, california, where we are talking with some stanford professors about their writings. joining us now is professor robert proctor. he is a professor of the hit tree of science at stanford. this is his most recent book. "golden holocost." professor, when were cigarettes invented? >> it depends on how you look at this as essential. cigarette can be thought of as a nicotine delivery device we can think of it as a small cigar in which case they go even further back or you can talk about tobacco wrapped in paper, in which it begins really in spain in the 17th century with people in seville, spain, and then it doesn't really do much until the middle east runs out of pipe tobacco and they start rolling tobacco and ammunition pieces of paper. so it's mainly a 19th century phenomenon. this includes the rolling of tobacco. where instead of having these girls and women roll cigarettes, that they could roll 200 or 500 per day, sudd

library created to engage the community in dialogue about issues important to the region and the world. booktv learned about this program on our recent visit to yuma, arizona, with the help of our local partner, time warner cable. >> as you may know, nancy pearl, who was the librarian at the seattle public library, started the concept of what if one city read one book and discussed it in the late '90s, and in the early 2000s the state of arizona actually started a program, the state library started one book arizona. and so we just sort of piggybacked on that idea and started one book yuma. we started in 2003 with bless me ultimate ma, and that was an initiative of the yuma sun. and that next year we went dark, we were just sort of talking about, you know, what is it we really want to do with this program and what kind of community partners could we bring in, and how could we really make this successful. and so the yuma sun newspaper and the yuma county library partnered up, and then we brought onboard the arizona western college library, northern arizona university library and the arizona west

go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the booktv series in the topics listed on the upper right side of the page. >> here are the best selling political nonfiction books according to political bookshelf tthis list reflects sales as of may 16. to see more on these books and of the list on political politico.com/bookshelf. .. which is not at the top of the women's rights agenda in a country where 20 million women live in poverty, 4 million a domestic violence. i wouldn't say it number one issue of concern, that it is a you think about all the ways women are held at, literally and figuratively buy their shoes. it was trapped with a group of very high powered wind and at a meeting of the american bar association commission on women. we were trying to get between distant meetings point then there is a huge cat line and bob skinner and the queen mother was having a great day, so we needed to walk. as three women who are unable to do this given they are pathetic choices and footwear. i was struck by that experience and coming back on the plane from one to was reading one of the tabloid

the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv, even the past programs and get scheduled that our web site. you can join the conversation on social media sites. >> up next, author and columnist melanie billups. the former news editor talk about terrorism, education, health care thil the winner of the orwell prize of journalism has authored nine books including almost half prices, a world turned upside down and her new release guardian angel. .. >> guest: and, you know, this is just silly. life's much more complicated than that. most people are neither right, nor left, they're just ordinary folk who are getting on with leving their -- living their life in the best way they can

go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the booktv series on the upper right side of the page. now on booktv a panel discusses the career and examines the speeches of former attorney general edwin levy who took office following the watergate scandal. he died in 2000. the panelists include attorney general eric holder, former attorney general john ashcroft, university of chicago law professor geoffrey stone and jack fuller editor of restoring justice and former special assistant to edwin levy. this is about an hour 20. ..

lifetime, we learned an awful lot, but there's still a lot left to be learned. >> columbia, the location of booktv's most recent visit was south carolina's first planned city with wider streets arranged in a grid, but columbia did not have a single paveed road until 1908. the area is also home to fort jackson, the initial entry training for half of all soldiers entering the army every year. >> a history of sierm agent vism in america. buying power comes from a term usedded by one of the groups i look at call the league of women shoppers. the slogan was use your buying power for justice, and the idea behind that slogan was that americans consume a lot of goods, and consumption is a powerful way of making a moral statement, and in the book, i try to extend that idea of the league of women shoppers two existed in the 30 #s and 40 #s throughout all american history to argue americans have consistently used their buying power for political and moral and ethical purposes. con seven rare commentators describe consumption as an a-political act, an act that and that is often considered as private and individ

on the psychological barriers. booktvvisited colombia to bring a case of the ares rich history. >> he was the 20th president of the united states, born in virginia, live then during the civil war in georgia, augusta, georgia, and then moved with his family here in 1870. he was a novelist. get been a college professor. no one thought he would do much. he went from nowhere politically and then within a couple of years became governor come and hit new jersey just at the same kind of time where there was a national movement for reform. and wilson pushed through a number of reforms in new jersey. people been expecting to be able to do that. so it was very effective and it gave him national prominence that he would have had otherwise. in the late 1800s the president had become essentially an agent of the congress. congress drafted legislation, voted, and the president simply was to carry out the legislation. most presidents in the late 1800s sent resolve their role as, didn't take leadership role themselves the 20th century cam

the u.s. and features 500 doctors attempted booktv will be live at the printers festival would cover the body panels, check our web site at booktv.org for updates on our coverage. in mid july is the fifteenth annual harlem unfair in new york city. the festival highlights its award show, qb our readers' choice awards and presentations from office like john carlos and henry louis gates jr.. in edgar town, mass. the martha's vineyard book festival in august, the two day event will feature several lawyers including dick layer, linda greenlaw, please let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and we will be happy to add them to our list. post them to eyewall at facebook.com/booktv or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. ♪ ♪ ♪ .. >> he recounts his tenure and reports on the reforms made during his three years as president obama's regulatory czar from improved labels on food products and calories listed on national restaurant menus to streamlined student lo

tweet us at the booktv. facebook page or send us an anyone at booktv@c-span.org. >> you've been watching booktv, 48 hours of book programming beginning saturday morning at eight eastern through monday morning at eight eastern. .. >> global war is a clash of systems. it's which system can produce the wherewithal to project power in the atlantic, the pacific, the indian ocean, southeast asia which system can produce the civilian leadership to create the transportation systems,

the boston bombing where you had fbi agents unable to recognize a jihadist. so, yes, it's happening again. >> host: something to ponder today. diana west, thank you very much. >> guest: thank you. >> that was "after words," booktv's signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policymakers, legislators and others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and chick on "after words" in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. ..

i put that in the booktv either side of the aisle can do this. citizens united, i felt john mccain on campaign finance reform twice and his bill still was worthless. it's worthless as it was back then. he made the paulson 527. but at the end of the day but citizens united and bolack of the true campaign finance reform debate reform at that time the other situation today where a super pak comes along and we can take on carvel '04 on george bush, whatever side of the aisle you want to work with the super pact goes after peoples of the average member to counter that $3 million which is 10,000 a day. they take their stature and they go across the street and get on the television to the dcc or the rcc. ..

former senior diplomat before the oversight committee on the attack in benghazi. on booktv the new digital age sunday morning at 10:45. on c-span 3, former chief c.i.a. analysts on cold war intelligence during the eisenhower administration. that is sunday at 3:00. >> next the white house briefing with press secretary jay carney earlier today. a major topic of discussion was the report on benghazi. it says the c.i.a. talking points used by susan rice were revised by the state department to remove any references to terrorism. carnie discusses the acknowledge by the i.r.s. that they unfairly audited groups for their tax status. his briefing is about an hour. >> good friday afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for being here. i appreciate your patience. before i take your questions i want to note because it has been reported we did as many of you know, have a background briefing here earlier at the white house. i think 14 news organization were represented from online, print and the like. we do those periodically. we hope that the participants find them helpful. no one he

the problem. >> host: booktv on c-span2 talking to professor robert proctor from stanford university from history and science professor his book "golden holocaust" origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition"

from houston, the national rifle association's annual meeting. on booktv c-span, in depth live sunday at noon eastern. we started 12 week series with british authors. and on c-span3, the 1963 birmingham race riots, part of american history tv. tonight at eight. >> it was a small airport back in the 20s, and the military came and established a training base during the second world war. and it was a very active base and it was quite an attribute to yuma until after the second world war ended and it closed and everybody left. the little town of yuma at about 9000 population, and it was dwindling a cousin there was no construction going. tourism had not been established yet, it's an interesting thing for yuma, and the town had not a very bright future. with population of 9000 dwindling, the junior chamber of commerce and something has to be done, we have to address a attention for good weather and try to get the airbase reactivated. they came up with an endurance flight because every time the flight would be mentioned they would say to yuma, arizona, and get t

quite broad are based on good children's literature and sometimes you don't realize the importance of that joined booktv at the "los angeles times" festival of books to talk about it calls you back. it's a follow-up to the memoir always running about chronicled in the east l.a. gang member. >> used to be joined on the sets by rodriguez his most recent is book is it calls you back an mas odyssey through love, addictiong tir revolutions and healing.okri it was a national book critics l mr. ro award finalist. mr. rodriguez come in your title what does it refer to? >> mostly i think the madness. if you grew up the way that iupe bew up, addiction keeps callinu you back and it's a struggle tom overcome it, the struggle to git become a father which is arely g really big part of my story, how my kids save my life at the same time i was fractured and broken to be a good father and i had tf learn.owing t t they know that the manners willd always be there and knowing howt to carry your character and have the courage to deal with it when it does.ngel >> it cannot a year after the pe wots.ow people wanted to know wh

library created to engage in the community and i love about issues important to the region and the world. booktv learned about this program on a recent visitor with the help of a local partner time warner cable. >> as you may know a library and start of the concept of what if one city read one book and discussed it in the late nineties and in the early 2000's the state of arizona actually started a program the state library started one dhaka arizona so we sort of piggyback on that idea and started one book yuma we started in 2003 and that was an initiative of the bus on the coming and that next year we were just sort of talking about what is it we really want to do with this program and what kind of community partners could we bring in and really make this successful and so the county library partnered up and brought forth the college library and the western college offices of diversity we had a lot of input from the community college, we brought some of the high schools in to ask what kind of programs they were looking for and what the students would be interested in so it took another year to

the world and how it does. sounds like common sense to me. thank you, richard. [applause] >> thank you. >> tonight on c-span2's booktv, books on the u.s. military. starting at eight eastern. booktv all this week in primetime on c-span2. >> the public's fascination really extend circles and she was a real fashion icon. women in military has done, her clothing to shape popular to everything that she had ended. this is a dress from the second administration, and in a way this is the most prized piece of all because this is the inaugural gown. this was her inaugural gown from 1893 an estate in her family and became a family wedding dress. and this is used by her granddaughters. even frances cleveland's everyday clothes were very stylish. a lot of them look like something you could wear now. this is a jacket, wonderful jacket, black with beautiful purple blue velvet. this is a more evening appropriate peace. would've had a matching skirt beautiful waste and sequins netting, slightly more ornate daytime this. this would have a matching collar. again you can wear this with a shirt waist and skirt. >> our conversation on frances cleveland is no

the tv.org. >> charles johnson is next on booktv. he recounts the tenure and subsequently disregarded. this is about an hour. >> and want to thank you all for coming here today. it is quite an honor. i often find myself wishing that i were in the company of people that i meet here. and i truly wish that i had known i had applied to school many years ago. calvin coolidge was her last classically educated president. a school founded on the truth that all are created equal. .. orleans who unable to argue with the successes of his policies or the thought behind them rewrote history to cast coolidge as a villain or characterize him. the new deal historians had their work cut out for them. coolidge proceeded over one of the largest expansion in economic growth in american history and he had a lot to say. coolidge gave over 500 press conferences in his red and see, ran for office 19 times and won 18 times working his way from city councilman to president of the united states. truly a small are republican states in. he was the last president to write his own speeches and kent three collections

is, once opened, you can never get it closed again. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to yuma, arizona and themany other cities visited by our local content vehicle, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >>> on a recent visit to london, booktv sat down with acclaimed historians, philosophers, literary critics and more to talk politics, war, history, religion, and culture. watch these interviews every sunday at 6 p.m.. we start with ac grayling, a professor of philosophy at college of humanities in london is the author of 30 non-fiction books, most recent, "the good book," and "the god argument." >> host: you're watching booktv on c-span2, and booktv is in london interviewing some authors, and joining us now is professor ac grayling, author of 30 books, most recent called "the god argument,," and in that book, you write the burdens of religion are both social and political. what do you mean by that? >> guest: well, we need to look really across the landscape of history to see how devicive, how many conflicts, how

[applause] >> for more information visit the author's web site, operation storm book.com. >> now on booktv, ms. snbcs co-host mica brzezinski and joe scarborough sat down to discussion their thoughts on obesity. the role of processed foods and reflects on her own body image issues. this is a little ore an hour. -- little over an hour. [applause] >> i'm over here. i like ed's dramatic reading. >> that was awful nice. >> come to every book tour stop. >> i need to clear up a couple of things he said. i don't play a slob on tv. i am a slob. mika and i had this assembly line. would make henry ford proud. and we that this assembly line and were doing very well, being very supportive co-host and i was opening the books and alice was passing it over and then mika was signing it and then passing it on. and then ed brings in doughnuts. and i went for the chicken wings. >> uh-huh. i was -- it was all going very well. >> i swear to god, mika brings chips. ed brings federal doughnuts. i think we all know -- >> where are they? >> i won't feed those to my dog. >> they're good. >> i used to live in oklaho

the problem. >> host: booktv on c-span2 talking to professor robert proctor from stanford university from history and science professor his book "golden holocaust" origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition" >> host: "in excellent health" setting the record straight on america's health care" the author dr. scott atlas but also a senior fellow here at the hoover institution at stanford what works about the american health care system when you looked at in the larger sense? >> that could take up the entire interview but what works rarely is what the book is about which is the actual medical care and availability or access as well as implementation or introduction of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of diseases. in fact,, a lot of the impetus was to clarify the background information that people don't really have despite what has been said about the u.s. health care system and the bottom line is with both access and quality of care. >> host: cost? >> it is an issue in well-documented and i concur with the documentation that the u.s. is the most expensive system for health ca

the future. >> host: booktv viewers want to contact you, is there a website? >> guest: yes, if they were to look at the new college of the humanities, that's the college of which i'm there, and they will get hold of me through there. >> host: "cheers, america," how an englishman loved to learn america, mr. webb, when were you in the states, and why? >> guest: i was sent to the united states in 2002. >> host: sounds like a sentence. >> guest: well, to be honest, at the time, it field like one. i didn't know anything about the united states. i was based in brussels for bbc, the bbc correspondent there, got a call, do you want to go to america? i thought, well, i don't know anything about america. i don't know anything about the politics. never had a particular interest in the place, but i do not one thing. i know this from films, it's sunny there. i'm sick of living in brussels where a friend said it's like the inside of a milk bottle. in the olden days, milk came in bottles that got clouded up, and that's what it's like to live in europe's capital. we give it a

. >> learn more about the south carolina statehouse as booktv and american history tv look at the history of literary life of columbia, south carolina. at 6:00 p.m. eastern on booktv and at 5:00 on american history tv. >> china's roland relations between north and south korea. and strategic and international studies, and demilitarization. and the unification of the peninsula. the discussion was hosted by the institute for corean-american studies. >> thank you for coming. you guys are all real loyalists, thank you for coming. before we start, this is friday afternoon, very important. the president of south korea just finished a visit to washington and now in south korea. and we think this c-span people. and way beyond this particular room. and let me briefly introduce the speaker. and recently he also said the officer asked the secretary of defense. and in washington. so it is all yours. >> thank you for the invitation and interruption, i am no longer teaching at georgetown and retired from there. good to be here and appreciate the invitation. the outrageous threats uttered by north korea'

eddie's book the way of the knife, he joined the booktv at the l.a. times festival of books to discuss this book and you can watch that discussion online at booktv.org. kevin williams and is fifth on the list with his book arguing the united states government is disintegrating, the end is near and is going to be awesome. 6 is david stockman's the great deprivation, the corruption of capitalism in america. booktv recently attended a book party for his book and you can watch that book party on our web site booktv.org. robert keyser presents his thoughts on the way congress operates with his book act of congress followed by william bennett's book on analyzing higher education. is college really worth it? senior editor at texas monthly's book on texas is ninth, big, hot, cheap and right and richard hoss argues the united states must reduce its involvement in foreign interventions with foreign policy beginning at home. to see more on these books and a list of best sellers on political bookshelf go to public.com/book shelf. >> where in the department of rar

misunderstand an argument. >> you can watch this and other programs online at the tv.org. >> charles johnson is next on booktv he recounts the tenure and subsequently disregarded. this is about an hour. >> and want to thank you all for coming here today. it is quite an honor. i often find myself wishing that i were in the company of people that i meet here. and i truly wish that i had known i had applied to school many years ago. calvin coolidge was her last classically educated

recent visit to yuma, arizona and the many other cities visited by local content vehicles go to c-span.org/localcontent. up next on booktv jonathan rieder recounts dr. martin luther king jr.'s letter from birmingham jail. jonathan rieder report on the effect the letter and the civil-rights movement and dr. king's believe in the urgency of the movement. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening. welcome. we are pleased you have joined us this evening. also want to welcome our good friends from c-span who are kidding tonight's program. it will be broadcast on booktv at a future time. also please note we have books for sale in the back and i am sure our authors will be happy to sign those for you. the doors are locked. you cannot leave until all the books have been sold. martin luther king often quoted the nineteenth century abolitionist thomas parker who said the arc of the universe is long but bends toward justice. i was thinking about that today as we set up and prepared for this program because today is april 9th. on april 9th, 1963, 50 years ago this very day, four young black college students walked in the front

every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules out of website and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> from politics and prose in washington, d.c., marie arana is next on booktv. the former editor of chief of the "washington post" book world recalls the life of simon bolivar, the venezuelan general dubbed the george washington of south america, liberated six countries in south america from spanish rule. this is a little under one hour. >> so many friends in the audience. i'm just going to pretend that i am sitting by my fireplace at home with john, and talking a little bit about this book. it's such a pleasure to work on, and people find that hard to believe because it's not an easy thing, writing a biography of a very famous leader, on which everybody has an opinion, on whom so much has been written already. it is true that there are 3683 books in the library of congress on simon bolivar. i would say 90% of those are in spanish, so i am lucky there. but this is

on weeknights watch key public policy events and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. see past programs and get our schedule at our web site, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> marina von neumann whitman, daughter of mathematician john von neumann was the first female to serve on the president's council of advisers you should president nixon and -- under president nixon and in the 1980s she served as vice president and chief economist of general motors. she's next on booktv discussing her memoir, "the martian's daughter." >> in his 1999 autobiography, the physicist edward teller wrote this of the group of geniuses gathered together to work on the hydrogen bomb: we are martians who have come to earth to change everything. change everything, they did, and among them, of course, was the brilliant mathematician john von neumann, father of what we now call the von neumann architecture for modern computing and, of course, so much more. today is not necessarily about john von neumann, of course, but it is about a martian's daughter, marina von neu

look for these titles in bookstores in the coming week, and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> there is no word the processed food industry hates more than the a word, addiction. and i do try to use it sparingly because they can rather convincingly argue that there are some differences between food cravings and narcotic cravings, certain technical thresholdings. however, when they talk about the allure of their foods, again, their language can be so revealing, they use words like craveable, snackable. >> salt sugar fat is our online book club selection this month, and it's your last chance to finish up the book and watch more video of author michael moss at booktv.org. share your thoughts so far and see what others are saying on twitter at hash tag btv book club and on our facebook page. then join our discussion online at both social sites tuesday night at 9 eastern. .. >> guest: we first have to

and every week in the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. ou can see past programs and get our schedules at our website. you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week.

book to find out how his mom got his brother dennis into the military. . >> you're watching booktvn c-span2. nonfiction authors and books. >> i don't mean to put you on the spot, but representative tom cole. what summer reading are you doing? >> i am reading some wonderful books. i got halfway through this book, a cornell graduate, we probably don't have the same politics, it is a compelling life. i think that, you know, this will be such an interesting case study. you know some of the legislators, it's interesting to get that perspective. there is a book that i just ordered and jonathan martin of politico put this on my radar. this is a guy that was very narrowly vice president instead of truman in 1944. and continued to play an extraordinary role in politics and became one of the architects of nixon's campaign in 71 and 72. that just popped up working with terry hopkins in the 1940s. it was a pretty neat political work. i like to read about the process trade i like to study history. i do seem to learn better in history. >> up next, andy goodman. the host of international radio pr

>>host: abraham sofaer from the hoover institution "taking on iran" this is booktv on c-span2. >> it was one of the most famous women of the 19th century. she was an author, the wife of a u.s. senator who resigned his senate seat was -- seat and abraham lincoln was elected and came home to became and a bit to candidates jefferson davis and she kept a diary throughout the war and it is one of the most famous accounts of the civil war. there are about 70,000 books written about the civil war and one of the three most important not only for its own literary value, but because she was there. it is source material and almost referenced in any historians. what i wrote about mary chesnutt is a two volume book for the first time reunites 200 of the photographs that she collected with her diary which were certain now and intention all along buthen if a finished we found them at it epa but here at the library they are reunited with the manuscript. we read the -- have this book to show when she was so ahead of her time but she was really a great team epic like the odyssey and creating an epic on

. >> on a recent visit with the help of a local partner, booktv took a look at colombia's cultural and literary history. columbia hosts more than 15 museums and is home to the state's largest university, university of south carolina. in a liberal arts college for women. >> i'm elizabeth and i'm the director of the urban department of where folks at the university of south carolina. welcome to our fault. today we'll talk about the aerial collection of historical astronomy. we are fortunate to receive this collection of 5300 books in 2011. robert aerial was a gentleman for his sumter, south carolina came to the university with english nature. he had this interest in astronomy. he continued to buy more and are sophisticated telescopes. 50, 60 years later he had over 5300 books and over 200 telescopes and scientific instruments related to astronomy. this is the book that started it all. this is a field out of the sky that william tyler checked out so many times eventually realized he needed to buy one and this is an incredibly well used comal well loved but by no means the earliest book in

the great introduction. >> congrats. >> on a recent visit to london, booktv sat down with great britain's most acclaimed historians, philosophers, literary critics and more to talk politics, war, history, religion, and culture, for the next several weeks, watch these interviews every sunday at 6 p.m.. we start with richard, the author of four nonfiction books including american insurgents in "unhitched" discussing communism, resignation from the party, and discussions of the arguments of the late christopher hitchens. this half hour interview startings -- starts now. >> host: now joining us on booktv in london is author richard seymour. introduce yourself to the audience. >> guest: okay, well, i'm a p had -- ph.d. student, i write for the guardian newspaper, wrote a few books and blog as well. >> host: what's the blog called? >> lenon's tomb. >> host: why? >> guest: what's worth rescuing from the 20th century communism, if you like. that's what i spend a lot of time talking about. it's just generally for left wing politics. >> host: are you a communist? >> i would describe myself as a socialist because i don't wan

information on these and other interviews from london, visit booktv.org and watch booktv every sunday at 6 p.m. over the next several weeks for more. >>> now on booktv, effectively, author of "the vagina monologue" talking about her body in the language of the world talking about women's rights issue in the democratic republic of congo and dealing with cancer. this is about an hour. [applause] >> hi issue everyone. [cheers and applause] thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] thank you so much. so happy to be here, this is a really wonderful space. the energy is so good here m thank you for that wonderful introduction, and i'm having such an incredible tour, and i'm -- i just get more emotional every place i get. i think it's because this book is, as you said, a book that kind of burned through me like a fever, and it's so physical and so of my body, in my body. i just want to say to all the activists here, i'm sure there's plenty, thank you, thank you, thank you for all the amazing work you do for so many years here. [applause] a real particular thank you to all of the women and men who are working

this weekend the history and literary life of yuma, arizona. today at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. and sunday at 5 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. >> and now, david kirp profiles the union city, new jersey, public school system, once one of the worst school systems in the state. union city now graduates 90% of its high school students, and 60% of them go to college. mr. kirp argues that these gains have been achieved by an emphasis on early education, supportive teachers and outreach to parents. this is about an hour, ten minutes. >> creation and eventually wind down the division that was implementing the court decisions. it's clear that i'm not an educator, and i didn't know what to do. but fortunately, i had spent some time in union city, and i had discovered that even though this is in hudson county, even though that this was a story that needed to be told, and i used union city as an example for the other 30 districts. and thank god for union city. i wouldn't have known what to do otherwise. but david and i are here tonight to talk about this very important

the god argument." >> host: you're watching booktv on c-span2, and booktv is in london interviewing some authors, and joining us now is professor ac grayling, author of 30 books, most recent called "the god argument,," and in that book, you write the burdens of religion are both social and political. what do you mean by that? >> guest: well, we need to look really across the landscape of history to see how devicive, how many conflicts, how many difficulties created by divisions among people of religious outlook. the burden there is not just a historical, but contemporary looking across, for example, the middle east and south asia. we see difficulties too, and in our societies, and so there is a great burden. one thing that i wanted to argue for in that book was a different way of thinking about the ethical, which is to say all those questions we ask ourselves how we relate to one another, what our speedometers -- responsibilities are so they don't cause divisions. >> host: professor, hasn't religion helped define what good and moral is? >> guest: people say this. the young religions of the world, jew

the body. victorian-era doctors attribute hysteria to an inbound @booktv balance between sexual organs and the brink of problems we regard today as associate with a motif of hormonal fluctuations were also prominent in the diagnosis of hysteria. the context of this victorian era belief reaches back much further in history. as we know, many of perceptions of women painted them as weaker versions of men. the monthly cycle was catalog as evidence that they were near a leaky vessels inferior to men in ways both physical and emotional . unfortunately, this association between hormones and character is one that follows women while -- well past mitty will or even be modern times. for alysian the doubt about her symptoms chipped away at her confidence, which combined with her age and the accompanying assumption that and people are not supposed to be sick exacerbated the underlying problem. by the time she entered college, which is when she had what she no-no's was her first true slow and she was also experiencing a worsening of reflex disease. whenever i saw the university health center doctors about

library created to engage the community and dialogue about issues important to the region of the world carried booktv learned about in our recent book contributed to yuma, california. >> as you may know, nancy pearl who was the library and in the late 90s and early 2000 started a program hit the state library started when the arizona, so we piggyback on that idea. we started in 2003 and that was an initiative of the yuma sun. the next year we were just sort of talking about, what is that we really want to do with this program and with community partners can we bring in and really make this successful? the yuma sun newspaper and county library partnered productively brought on board the arizona western college library, northern arizona university library and the arizona western office of diversity. we had a lot of input from the community college with the high schools to ask what kinds of programs they were looking for what they thought their teachers and students would a lucky man. he took another gear to bring that together. which formally 2004 with the devil's highway. very understanding that was o

the author. this is booktv on c-span2. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> dave psi run, sports columnist for the nation, presents his thoughts on politics and sports next on booktv. the author's essays range from soccer riots in egypt and the 2012nfl lockout to the inner workings of the ncaa. >> it's great to be here. it's actually an honor to be at powells. i know there are binders full of writers who want to speak here, so i'm very happy to be asked. i guess the mitt romney jokes are over. [laughter] okay, the book is called "game over: how politics has turned the sports world upside down." and before i start, i want to say something very brief about the passing of venezuelan president hugo chavez, seriously. because it actually speaks directly to the main theme in "game over." chavez is known, of course, for many things. his legacy is going to be debated for years. and yet one of the things that he did which is not discussed at all, i haven't seen it in any of the to obituaries, is that he ws probably if number one international thorn i

at noonurs live sunday on the booktv. forlarence thomas sat down a conversation about his life and career earlier this month. on the high court since 1991 discussed the law profession and the interworking said the court. this event was held in pittsburgh. it is about an hour. the story of your life growing up is really a remarkable one, justice thomas. do you know what part of west africa your family came from? >> i think they lost the itinerary. [laughter] no, that was in the 1700s. i don't think anyone quite knows. for those who are from the deep south, much was unwritten. the people are into their genealogy now. i have no idea of much of my own genealogy. some of my relatives told me we do not want to know. but, the answer is no. it is unfortunate. that is one reason why in the last few years we have tried to focus on trying to retain some of what is left of that culture. when you look across the country, you see the fine buildings, the sandstone buildings, the beautiful architecture. there is much of an effort to prese

the spectrum. then christian carroll discusses his book she talks about her life and career it all happens tonight on booktvtonight. here's a look at some of the festivals happening around the country. on saturday, may 18, but tb will be live at the gaithersburg book festival. check us for updates of live coverage. it is the largest gathering of oak cellars and retailers and industry professionals in the u.s. it features over 500 authors and this year it happens on thursday, may 30 through saturday, june 1 heard the tb will be live june 8 and 9 at the "chicago tribune" printer is fast, check our website at booktv.org could get updates on our coverage. >> the 15 annual harlem book fair in new york city. the festival highlight the awards show and presentations. ..

the material. it airs every weekend on booktv at 10 bm on saturday. 12:00 and 9:00 p.m. on sunday. 12:00 a.m. monday. you can watch it job line. go to booktv.org and click on after words on the upper right side of the page. >>> charles johnson next on booktv. he recounts president calvin cool a.j.'s tenure. this is about an hour. plls i want to thank you for coming here today. it's quite an honor. i'm not ab aloom. i find myself wishing i were. i can take some satisfaction in many of my professors were classmaters or teachers of the teachers the hillsdale college. i wish i had nobody of it when i applied to school many now seems like many years ago. calvin was our last classically educate president. and i think he would have felt right at home at hillsdale. a school founded on the truth that all are created equal and sent many of the best and bright toast fight and even die so lincoln's home right might -- hillsdale motto pursuing truth; defnlding liberty. for those who understand that those who control the schoolhouse door ultimately control the white house. our subject is education. and what

>>host: the author of "the beauty bias" professor rhode published by oxford, booktv is on location andord university. >>host: abraham sofaer "taking on iran" senior fellow at the hoover institution and abraham sofaer is the current strategy of sanctions working against iran? someone i can put pressure on is blown negative revolutionary war and the answer is no. >>host: you talk about the revolutionary guard corps. who are they? >> created under the new constitution in 79 with the assignment of defending the islamic character of the iranian revolution. they have an enormous amount of assets and respond line negative and with two be the defense industries that have their own army company for -- error force and navy and can control the missile program and under the ayatollah. they also have an item that does assassinations abroad and right now the scorer's out today is the group said is hoping to day. >>host: we will get to the exportation but what about the president of iran? >> and the president has his own area power but the i rgc asks about the ayatollah and he is under the present th

way to give people a taste of the books that is available. >> host: melanie phillips folks are being a joel published today. california thank you for holding you are on booktv on c-span2. >> caller: good morning. first of all, have you read anything about the extreme christian right in america that once the theocracy or the radical to allow shi'ah lot to dominate i don't know if you have written about the promise makers but do you have ideas how to store rational discourse? >> that is a humdinger of a question that i spend a lot of my time but all i can do is in gender those that right in the same type of fame and with this conversation that we find it very difficult to get the debate going in and hopefully this is the only one to operate. how did you shift a culture that has gone wrong? and has gone wrong and all these wa wrong and all these ways to house do shifted back again? this is beyond one personal we can do for the like-minded is make our voices heard it is a strange chemistry that i think happens that all of us are saying these things and everything looks selfless man to and the kaleidoscope has been shaken and then sent -- suddenly somebody says

the food giants hooked us". michael moss sat down with a booktv at the l.a. times festival of books to discuss his book and answer your questions. .. >> the venezuela general dubbed george washington of south america liberated six countries from spanish rule. this is a little under an resource. there's so many friends in the audience so i'll pretend i'm by the fireplace at home with john and talking a little bit about this book. it's -- it's such a pressure to work on, and people find it hard to believe because it's not easy writing of a very famous leader on which everybody has an. and on whom so much has been written already. it's true there's 263 books in the library of congress, and i would say 90% of those are in spannish, but this is an extraordinary life and a life that was lived in the largest sense, treechs through most of south america, and a life lived large in other ways as well. he was very dramatic and commanding personality. he was called iron ass by the soldiers riding 75,000 miles to liberate the six countries he liberated, really, an extraor

there the problem, a similar one, focusing on short-term thinking. and this is not @booktv the reason i focus on that piece of the profession is twofold. i spent 30 years there, so i know a pest to come aid is at least supposed to be the pinnacle of the profession. it is supposed to be the guiding lights that shows all of the rest of the profession. what has happened at the largest law firms, the in l.j. 250 or the m lot 200, picture category. you're going to pick up the same firms, the same kind of phenomenon, although the analog there is to the u.s. news and world report ranking, something called the am law 100 or 200. in 1985 the american way started drinking law firms, and then rent them according to growth, size, and profit. all the sudden things that were not topics of discussion and polite company, like how much of the people made, became open and available for everyone to see. and what has happened as a result is law firms have coriente themselves, and a half to qualify this by saying that not all law firms are like. there are differences among them, and there are e

giving people a taste of the books that are available on embooks.com. >> host: margaux inver vermont, california. >> caller: good morning and thank you for having me on booktv. i have two questions. one is about the extreme christian right in america and, for example, i would love to read what you have to say. how can we spare rational discourse? thank you very much. >> i devote a lot of my time to this. and all i can do is try to envision it. getting the debate going, and this includes the debate that we have going. and when you ask is actually a deeper question. how do you shift the culture that has gone wrong. you know, it has gone all these ways that i think have gone wrong. friends and family. had he shipped it back again? it's somehow to make our voices heard. all of these things are going on as it was. the changes and suddenly people are saying something quite different. and you're thinking, where did that come from? well, society works with a different level at the same time. but it is actually underneath. they are processing and thinking men after time, that suddenly pops up. so that's all we can do, is keep the same things that we can and try to p