on afterwards president reagan's ambassador to the u.s.s.r. on mchale gorbachev's role in bringing down the soviet empire. his book is superpower illusion. and inventing the idea of a white race in the history of white people. find the entire weekend schedule at booktv.org and follow us on twitter. >> the national book critics circle authors of books of six categories. fiction and general nonfiction, biography, criticism, winners in each category are presented their awards and joyce carol oates receive the lifetime achievement award and check if joe is given a prize for reviewing. the new school in new york city hosts this event. is about an hour. >> it is my pleasure to welcome you to the awards ceremony at the national book critics circle. we want to welcome everyone who attended the powerful evening of reading by the nominated raiders. you will lead it you experienced something wondrous and where. we want to welcome all the critics who came from newspapers and magazines all across the country. the graduate writing program is honored to co-sp

president reagan's ambassador to the u.s.s.r. on the gorbachev's role in bringing down the soviet empire. princeton university professor on inventing the idea of a white race, it in the history of white people. find the entire weekend schedule at book tv.org and follow us on twitter. >> "washington journal" continues. host: julie appleby of kaiser health news. the health-care bill has been passed and signed. when does it take effect? guest: a very good question. parts of it take effect this year. the majority of it, the big things people heard about, are probably a little further out, 2014 -- the federal subsidies to help you buy coverage, the exchanges where you will go to buy coverage, the in -- requirement insurers not -- people who have pre consisting conditions. host: pre-existing does not take effect until then? guest: there is one area where it does, that is children under 19 with a pre-existing medical condition. remember, there was a bit of a flap about that last week. does the law say you can't reject children under 19 o

later, the ambassador to the u.s.s.r. on mikhail's role. and from the virginia festival of the books, rebecca skloot. find the entire schedule on booktv.org. >> if you have a process where it takes years to get an answer, and you are bogged down in the courts, which is what is threatening the industry now, that is not a good answer for anyone, and certainly does not make the agency affected. former congressman on calling for the federal government to take a fresh look at communications policy. monday night. "washington journal" continues. host: jonathan is our border with the dailycaller. congress is in recess right now. what they doing back in their districts? what is the agenda when they return? guest: many people think that members of congress are lazy and always taking vacations, but when you work in washington they're working pretty hard at home over the brakes. they are doing all kinds of events in their districts, at least most of them. town halls, meetings, county fairs, or breakfasts. they're usually pretty busy at home, getting a f

you could talk about contemporary politics pataki about how little the united states knew about the u.s.s.r. at the beginning of the cold war and world war ii. people were brought into government service to learn about russia through the u.s. government and how into the '50s and '60s as the cold war became more a part of american life our america learned about the soviet union and historians, people who knew the language, study the economy, literature and bring us through the point* to understand rise and fall of the field of sovietology that was a large part of the population. >> the final book? living in the '80s you can see ronald reagan and the stock exchange and madonna. >> it is strange to add it a book on a point* one has lived through. this i thought was important to do more history about especially for students because the college-age students think of this as history just like world war ii. this is original essays that were put together and has a large range of writers and one piece by a conservative politician and also a piece by a record producer so we have a fun book and someth

the u.s. and u.s.s.r. anymore. critics, what they've seized on is this idea that american nuclear power, muscle, sult matly what has deterred aggressors in the past. as you look at this decision, how does this deter a country like iran or north korea from going away from their nuclear ambition? >> first of all, we have still a very powerful nuclear arsenal. the nuclear posture review sets forth a process by which we will be able to modernize our nuclear stockpile to make it more reliable, safer, more secure and effective. we have, in addition to the nuclear deterrent today a couple of things we didn't have in the soviet days. we have missile defense now. that's growing by leaps and bounds every year, significant budget increase for that, this year both regional and the ground-based enter separate tors. and we have prompt global strike, affording us conventional alternatives on long range missiles that we didn't have before. believe me. the joint chiefs of staff and i would not have wholeheartedly embraced, not only

iran possesses most immediately and ideological component and religious component that the u.s.s.r. sky details like the fact we don't have steady communications with the iranians. we don't have a good idea of their intentions are red lines. these are prerequisites to a stable deterrent relationship with the soviets. with the soviets, we theoretically have the idea that we can figure out more or less what they could do under any circumstance in any given time and that is what made mad work. we don't have all of those components, all of those ingredients necessary for stable continent and deterrence. so that option i think is fairly problematic. and then on the right side of the spectrum is this idea of confrontation. the idea that a nuclear iran whether it is a nation of nuclear programs, and you hear a lot about the japanese model, the model of nuclear development, stopping just shy of having an authentic capabilities they can spread across the threshold of the feel threatened. this is a little bit academic i think because what you are talking of is a country building an infrastruct