the exploits of four win on the front lines of the civil war. british iranian foreign affairs journalists looks at the capitol city of iran in city of life, love, h for truth in teheran. christian o'keefe remembers the life of 1970 medical innovator and reconstructive plastic surgeon thomas voter in dr. motor's marvel. look for these in bookstores this weekend watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> that is flood dome of the capital, taken from the washington convention center which is in downtown washington. it is this year's site at the national book festival. the national book festival, begun in 2001 by first lady laura bush and continues many years. between the washington monument and the capital, this year we are inside at the convention center, having issues with the national park service and the library of congress and reseeding grass etc. etc.. is that a full day of coverage on booktv from the national book festival coming up in a minute. well-known author talking about his book, the life and death -- "the good spy: the life and death of robert ames" and then the granddaughter of nikita khrushchev will be

the exploits of four will and on the front lines of the civil war. british iranian foreign affairs journalists look at the capitol city of iran in city of lies:love, sex, death and the search for truth in tehran. kristin o'keefe remembers the life of nineteenth century innovator and reconstructive plastic surgeon thomas motor in dr. motor's marvels. look for these titles in bookstores and watch for authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> i have enormous respect for bowls and simpson. they are great guys and the thinking at the time is here are the numerical benchmarks you have to pass any budget plan to stabilize your fiscal situation. i didn't like some parts of what they did and thought it was missing a lot so we put our own together and exceeded those benchmarks. we assumed the president would do the same, if he didn't like simpson-bowles he would put his own plan out meeting these benchmarks to stabilize their fiscal situation and he chose not to do that either. was set up by his executive order and so we really did expect him once we decided not to support it, the house republicans, and go do our thing, we thought he would tria