you're on with thomas friedman. >> caller: mr. friedman, i appreciate and applaud what you said about the golden rule and the need for morality, and i'm wondering if you are aware of the difference between an ipo, initial price offering on the stock that is just coming to market in order -- that a company raises money and creates jobs, and a regular stock purchase, in which money is simple my transferred from one stock owner to another owner, who byes that stock with the idea that it's going to go up and he's going to make money so with handicapping horses, or gambling in other ways, and i don't feel should have the same kind of a tax advantage, the capital gains advantage applied to both now. >> guest: it's a very interesting question. there's no doubt that with online trading now, there's a lot of people just rent stocks for an hour, a day, a week, or a month, and the they aren't long-term investors and that puts pressure on companies to to think short term and that tends to lead to less sound decisionmaking over the long run. s

you are on with thomas reagan-- friedman. guest: hello. i just finished reading thomas frank's book and he takes you a bit to task for insisting education is the path to narrowing income inequality, but you just can't take a call minor and send him to school and make him a software programmer, so if liberals want to win elections, what recommendations do you have for better government policy? guest: i didn't hear who the author was. host: thomas frank "was in liberal". guest: yes, that's kind of a caricature that i think you just take every home minor and turn him into a software engineer. that's a straw man. the point is not that we take every minor and turn him into a software engineer. the question is can you take a minor and give him a job as a smart technician working on an assembly line which is all computerized. can you take a miner and help him become a service worker, engage with people in multiple ways? it's ridiculous to think we will ask everyone to be software engineers. there are 70 jobs likence, t have in my book, jobs that c

the great thomas friedman. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. it is great to do a neighborhood concert. this is fantastic. thank you, we are in a golden age of journalism as regards to newspapers, the new york times and washington post. we are going at it every day. one of the people centrally responsible for that golden age is marty baron and it is an honor to be introduced by him. and if you would silence your cell phones or put them on stun i will be forever grateful. "thank you for being late: an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations". first question i always get from people when they hear the title is where from comes the title? "thank you for being late: an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations"? it comes from meeting people in washington dc, for breakfast. i like to not waste breakfast eating alone, i like to learn from someone so i organize business breakfasts and every once in a while someone comes 10 or 15 minutes late. sorry for the weather, traffic wa

you're on with thomas friedman, please go ahead. >> caller: hello, mr. freudman. i just finish wedding thomas frank's book, listen liberal, and he takes you a little bit to task for insisting that education is the path to narrowing income inequality but you justen can't take a coal miner and send him to school and make million a software programmer. if liberals want to win elections, what recommendations do you have for better government policyies. >> that's good good we. i didn't hear the hour. >> host: thomas frank, "listen liberal." >> guest: right. that's kind of a caricatureat you take every coal miner and turn him interest a software engineer. that's a strawman. the point is not that we take every miner and turn them into soft engineers. the we is can you take a miner and give him a job as a smart technician working on a assembly line, take a miner and help him become a service worker, engage with people in multiple ways. it's ridiculous to think that we'll ask everyone to be software engineers. there's so many job is call in any become stem jobs that combin

a standout among them is thomas friedman. [applause]

with featured authors including david mccullough and thomas friedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice, and best-selling authors michael lewis and jd van. the national book festival, lives starting at 10:00 a.m. saturday eastern on c-span2's book tv. announcer: president trump met with the leaders of the red cross, salvation army and the southern baptist convention at the white house to discuss ongoing recovery and relief efforts at the texas gulf coast following hurricane harvey. the president and the first lady will visit on saturday in texas to view relief efforts there. this is almost 15 minutes. trump: thank you very much. the first lady and i are pleased to welcome gail mcgovern of the american red cross, divot hudson of the salvation army and kevin easel of the southern baptist disaster relief. these people have been absolutely incredible when what they have done and would like to thank them and their staff for their incredible work that they are doing, and helping people affected by the hurricane harvey. it sounds a good very innocent name but it is not an innocent hurrica

thomas friedman will be down here later on our site taking your calls.up that is coming up in an hour or so, two hours. you can go to booktv.org to get the full schedule. easier than listening to mr. friedman, colin when we have that segment. coming up next, you will hear from author michael lewis emma but in the meantime, we are pleased to be joined by one of 362 americans who has actually been in space and that is astronaut leland melvin.s calle mr. melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. >> exactly. a dropped pass. i was a wide receiver on a running team and that means that they block a lot versus catching passes. we were at our homecoming game. i was running down the sideline. it was perfectly thrown in by hand and i dropped a pass in mym hands. the thing is, a scout is there for the university of richmond looking to see if i can place a wall for the team. he walked out of the stadium. my coach believed in me. get back out there and run the same play. this time i caught the ball in $180,000 scholarship to un

the next arthur you will see at the national book festival will be new york times columnist thomas friedman. thank you for being late, "thank you for being late: an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations" is the name of his most recent book. in the meantime we are pleased to be joined at the washington convention center by historian david mccullough whose most recent book is the american spirit, who we are and what we stand for. 202 is area code, 748-8200, east and central time zones, 202-748-8201, for those in the mountain and pacific time zones. you are familiar with his books. john adams, the johnstown flood, the wright brothers. that is a couple books. american in paris. there is a few of the books, we are here to facilitate that conversation. jeanette in sarasota, you are on booktv with historian david mccullough. >> caller: hello. >> guest: good afternoon. >> caller: i love your work, in bradenton i want you to autograph my john adams book but i couldn't get a ticket. here is my question, writing about abigail adams and we all know john adams's wife was the most libe

coveragell-day beginning today with featured authors including david mccullough and thomas friedman.ormer secretary of state, condoleezza rice. festival, liveok today, starting at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span two's book tv. live sunday at noon eastern, author and speaker eric metaksis. religion exists in america. we are defined by an idea. we are the only country in the world that was created and defined by an idea. in order to keep the republic as franklin and joined us to do we must know those ideas and understand them and buy into them and we must live them out. >>'s books include biographies on william wilberforce and dietrich bonhoeffer. join our live three-hour

thomas friedman of the new york times is the author. book tvs live coverage of the 20 17th national book festival now continues. next up is former secretary of the state and author condoleezza rice. her book is called "democracy: stories on the long road to freedom". this is book tv on c-span2, live coverage. [applause] and doctor rice is going to be interviewed for us by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg, our national book festival cochair and generous reporter mister david rubenstein. please welcome both of them and thank and enjoy. >> thank you very much for coming. >> thank you welcome to everybody, thanks for being here. it's a great event, great event. >> hard to believe but you've now been out of government for nine years so before we get into your new book on democracy which i highly recommend and let's talk about it in a few moments, tell us what you've been doing is you left government other than writing three best-selling books, this is a third but you are teaching at stanford, and what els

coverage begins saturday at 7:00 a.m., including pulitzer prize-winning authors david mccullough and thomas friedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice, and best-selling authors michael l ewis and j.d. vance. at 10 a clock a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> sunday on "q&a," anthony clark's book "the last campaign." >> every single comment i have received from how angry people are to learn what is happening or how flabbergasted they are. i have not received any kind of mileage -- "oh come i read it, i thought it was ok." >> why are they angry? >> their angry that these presidential levers that are to house records, they won't be open for years, and instead we're paying for celebration. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> news from the labor department this morning. 156,000 jobs were added in august. the unemployment rate picked up to 4.4%. some reports suggest that most businesses remain confident in an economy in its ninth year of recovery from the great recession. live picture now of a daylong discussion on the opioid epidemic posted by the oxford house. it is touching

i know this security council thomas friedman once said he would use the u.n. when it's in our interest and ignore it when it's not in our interest use it as an amplifier of u.s. power and that's not of course the right way to use a but you need i think if you look at the conflicts we have today whether it be in syria libya north korea etc you need these super powers to come to the table and to have the veto power of in so that you don't have a world war so to speak that you don't have unilateral action unilateral intervention in conflicts not intervention in other states i think is still i think us and. thank principal and it's not just the current administration it's prior demonstrations bear in mind who have violated that time and again douglas johnson in oxford i mean the reality is that some people around the world presidents and prime ministers i assume here they think they can act with impunity in their own country and get away with it of course and that in itself is a problem surely for the un because you then end up in a situation say such as we had in

featured authors include davis -- david mccullough and thomas freeman -- thomas friedman.ook festival, live saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. .astern on c-span two's book tv day,nday night on cue and we take a look at the book "the last campaign: how presidents rewrite history, and enshrined their legacies. " >> every conversation is been one of two topics. how angry people aren't what is happening or how flabbergasted they are to learn what is happening. mild. not received any >> why are they angry? think they are angry that we have these presidential library that are created to house records, instead we are paying for celebration and legacy building. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q&a. washington journal continues. >> we are joined now by myesha braden. she is the acting director of the criminal justice project at the lawyers' committee for civil rights under law. she is here to discuss president trump's reinstating a policy to allow local police departments to have surplus military equipment. myesha, thank you for joining us. >>

thomas friedman barely needs an introduction. [applause] >> he is an internationally recognized writer on the middle east, foreign affairs and the environment. michael lewis is famous for his books about finance such as liars poker but equally famous for his books about topics as diverse as adoption and baseball. his screen adaptations of the blindside and moneyball among others have been enormously popular. condoleezza rice. [applause] >> was the secretary of state of the united states, she is now on the faculty of stanford university traveling from california to be with us today. finally, mister david bell dodgy is back for a record-setting eighth time at the national book festival. his thrillers and books for young people have been read by millions. i am very pleased to be able to turn this over to the person who has helped make this festival possible, our cochair, mister david rubenstein. [applause] >> a true believer in the power of literacy and reading and what it can do for all of us. it would not have been possible to hav

eastern with featured authors including pulitzer prize-winning authors david mccullough and thomas friedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice, and best-selling authors michael lewis and jd vance. the book festival live today starting at 10 p.m. eastern on book tv. >> c-span cities tour in time. i'm and little spokane, washington with our cam comcast partners. today at 7:30 p.m. eastern, both economices they development of spokane with the author of spokane, our early history. spokane was built on the money from the mining district. 1883had the gold rush in and that led to a silver strike. it was one of the largest producing silver areas in the state -- in the united states. built fromldings are that mine. >>>> the life of one of the natn significant leaders and father of the national park system. a local author talks about his book. muir was probably one of the most significant environmental muir was probablye of the most significant environmental thinkers, leaders. he's basically the protagonist for the national park system. >> on sunday at 2 p.m. eastern, american history tv fea

a little later this afternoon, david mccullough and thomas friedman will both be doing call ins. -- that is what's coming up this afternoon. if you want to check for yourself what the schedule is, go to our website booktv.org. the schedule is on the right-hand side of the page. you can click on it, look at it, printed out, whatever you want. you can also follow us on social media as we will be doing behind the scenes videos and pictures from here at the convention center as well as posting schedule information. @booktv is a twitter handle. if you on twitter give us a follow we are also on facebook and instagram as well. those are some of the things going on here. let's hear from you now, what are you reading? tracy in hoboken, new jersey. your first. good morning to you. >> caller: good morning it is a pleasure to be on the show. i love this show. i'm reading a book -- selected writings and speeches by emma goldman.

with featured offers including pulitzer prize-winning authors david and thomas friedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and best-selling authors michael lewis and jv vance. the national book festival live on saturday starting at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span2 book tv. this is booktv on c-span2 in prime time visiting with members of congress learning about their reading lists and showing you some of those programs. representative phil roe is a republican from tennessee. >> i chair the veterans committee in washington and it's a book about ptsd, reintegration of our veterans back into society, so it's a great book i recommend that you read it. i serve also as the cochair and that the literacy caucus here in washington and one of the things i've encouraged evne

but they wouldn't turn his stuff around fast enough so he decided to start his own blog and now thomas friedman, i feel empowered. he is read in 30 different countries. he is a wonderful man. anyone today can participate in the global conversation and he taught me so much about that in his own country, ethiopia. i just presented him with a 6 page memo on how to write home. the world is a big data problem, this is my algorithm, how i cut through it and i thought about some of this before but never put it together until i did it in a memo for you. basically explained to him that a news story is meant to inform and it can do so better or worse, the post tomorrow will write a story about this festival and marty will tell them what they did better or worse. .. illuminating something for you and if i really do it well i do both and create heat and light and a reaction and i can tell if i've created heat or light by the reaction i get from readers. i didn't know that. that's a good reaction. you created some light. some might say, i never looked at it that way. that's a good reaction. i never connecte

with authors including pulitzer prize winning authors david mccullough and thomas friedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and best selling authors michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >> next on lectures in history, virginia commonwealth university professor karen rader teaches a class on mid-20th century educational films to teach students about nuclear warfare and science. during the cold war policymakers feared the u.s. population was following behind the soviet union in science education. the class also includes a look at animated programs, created by noted hollywood director frank capra in the 1950s. this is about 45 minutes. >> all right. so good afternoon and welcome. today we're going to talk about cold war era science education films, in particular ones that were made for tv and the classroom. now, we've been talking about classroom films before. really to do any kind of history of classroom films you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields. so i will be quoting and referenc

with authors including pulitzer prize winning authors david mccullough and thomas friedman, former secretaryf state condoleezza rice and best selling authors michael lewis and j.d. vance. the national book festival saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >> next on lectures in history, virginia commonwealth university professor karen rader teaches a class on mid-20th century educational films to teach students about nuclear warfare and science. during the cold war policymakers feared the u.s. population was following behind the soviet union in science education. the class also includes a look at animated programs, created by noted hollywood director frank capra in the 1950s. this is about 45 minutes.

thomas friedman of "the new york times" is the author. book tv's live coverage of the 2017 national book festival now continues. next up, is former secretary of state and author, condoleezza rice. her book is called "democracy," stories from the long road to freedom. this is booktv on c-span2, live coverage. [applause] >> dr. rice is going to be interviewed for us by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg, our national book festival co-chair and very generous supporter, mr. david reubenstein. please welcome both of them. and thanks and enjoy. >> well, thank you very much for coming. >> thank you very much for having me here and welcome to everybody. thank you for being here. it's a great event. great eventment. >> host: so, hard to believe but you have now been out of government for about nine years, just before we get into your new book on democracy, which i highly recommend, and we'll talk about in a few moments, tell us what you have been doing since you left government other than writing three best-selli

. >> five coverage begins at 10:0s including david mccall and thomas friedman.ormer secretary of state condoleezza rice, and michael lewis and jd vance. the national book festival, live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv. >> welcome to book tv on c-span2 in prime time. tonight, were looking at books been read by members of congress. the speaker of the house, paul ryan put out his reading list. here's what he had to say. >> every her book tv s members of congress with their reading. here's a look at some books paul ryan has on his list. his reading "washington the li life" an in-depth look of the first president of the united states. also a strong fathers, strong daughters by a pediatrician. she highlights the importance of the father daughter relationship. >> book tv wants to know what you're reading. send us your list via twitter book tv, or instagram at book -underscore tv. or posted to the facebook page, facebook.com/book tv. put tv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> speaker ryan mentioned the book on what george washington that when the pu

with featured authors including david mccullough and thomas friedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice, and best-selling authors michael lewis and jd van. the national book festival, lives starting at 10:00 a.m. saturday eastern on c-span2's book tv. announcer: president trump met with the leaders of the red cross, salvation army and the southern baptist convention at the white house to discuss ongoing recovery and relief efforts at the texas gulf coast following hurricane harvey. the president and the first lady will visit on saturday in texas to

and came back down before i went any further work here is the book "thank you for being late", thomas friedman of the "new york times" is the author. book tvs live coverage of the 2017th national book festival continues. next up is former secretary of state and author condoleezza rice. her burke-- book is called democracy, stories from the long road to freedom. book tv on c-span2, live coverage. >> doctor rice is going to be interviewed for as by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg, our national book festival cochairna and generous supporter mr. david rubenstein. please welcome both of. them. thanks and enjoy.nk you >> thank you very much for coming. >> thank you for havingnd me here and welcome to everyone. thank you for being here great event. [applause]. >> hard to believe that you been out of government for nine years, so before we get into your new book on democracy which i highly recommend, tell us what you have been doing since you left government other than writing three best-selling books, this is the third, but you are teaching at stanford and what e

with featured authors including david mccullough and thomas friedman, former secretary of state condoleezzaice, and best-selling authors michael lewis and jd van. the national book festival, starting at 10 a.m. eastern on the spans -- c-span2's book tv. announcer: president trump met with the leaders of the red cross, salvation army and the southern baptist convention at the white house to discuss ongoing recovery and relief efforts at the texas gulf coast following the hurricane. the president and the first lady will visit on saturday in texas to be a relief efforts there. this is almost 15 minutes. >> thank you very much. the first lady and i are pleased to welcome kill mcgovern of the american red cross, divot hudson of the salvation army and kevin easel of the southern baptist disaster relief fund. these people have been absolutely incredible when what they have done and would like to thank them and their staff for their incredible work that they are doing, and helping people affected by the hurricane harvey. it sounds a good very innocent name but it is not an innocent hurricane, that

prize-winning columnist thomas friedman is talking about his free."hank you for being >> live sunday at new eastern, author, speaker, and radio host and texas is our guest. >> america is not defined by ethnicity. every ethnicity exists in america. it is not defined by religion. we are defined by an idea. we're the only country in the history of the world that was created defined by an idea. therefore, in order to keep the republic, as franklin enjoined us to do, we must know those ideas, we must understand those ideas, we must buy into those ideas, and we must live them out. >> join our life three-our conversation. your calls, emails, tweet, and facebook questions live sunday at noon eastern on c-span2. >> now, a conversation on the trunk administration and its relationship with the press. from the american bar 's annual meeting. this is an hour and a half. george: welcome. thanks for coming on a saturday morning in the summer. i think we have a great panel here on trump and the press and the first amendment. before we do anything else, i would like t

authors include it is a column, thomas friedman and condoleezza rice. announcer: labor day weekend on american history tv on c-span3. saturday, on lectures in history, overpopulation. big one,ide was a pollution was a big one, nonrenewable resources, things like oil and gasoline but the super big one that really overshadowed birthday -- that first earth day was the prospect of global famine caused by overpopulation of the earth. announcer: also, the connection between herbert hoover and harry truman. >> they were transformed by the conflagration of world war i and they lived in the shadow of franklin d. roosevelt. the 1967: on monday, detroit riots. >> all of the energy and anger and activism that went into that moment had long been predicted. people had been begging for remedies to the housing discrimination. frustration cannot be understood as just chaotic and incoherent, it was a rebellion. announcer: three day american history weekend on c-span3. announcer: congressman randy weber represents the 14th district in texas which includes beaumont, please

right now, pulitzer prize-winning columnist thomas friedman is talking about his free."hank you for being >> live sunday at new eastern, author, speaker, and radio host and texas is our guest. >> america is not defined by ethnicity. every ethnicity exists in america. it is not defined by religion. we are defined by an idea. we're the only country in the history of the world that was created defined by an idea. therefore, in order to keep the republic, as franklin enjoined us to do, we must know those ideas, we must understand those ideas, we must buy into those ideas, and we must live them out.

with features authors including david mccullough and thomas friedman. former secretary of state condoleezza rice. and best-selling authors michael lewis and jd vance. national book festival, live saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> c-span washington journal, live every day. news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, michael greenberger director of the center for health and homeland security at the university of maryland discusses federal disaster relief programs. reverend johnny moore member of president trump's evangelical advisory board talks about the role of the board and their support for the president. my issue braden lawyers committee for civil rights under civil law discusses transferring military equipment to civilian law enforcement. be sure to watch washington journal live seven eastern on friday morning. during the discussion. >> next, sebastian junger talks about his book, "tribe: on homecoming and belonging". it explores what we can learn from tribal societies. he spoke at jones college pr

with featured authors including david mccullough, thomas friedman, former secretary of state hundley's arrest, and best selling authors michael lewis and jd bands -- jd events. starting live at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span's book tv. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> the u.s. chamber of commerce held its annual labor day briefing yesterday to discuss the labor force and the overall economy. topics included tax policy, immigration, employee benefits, and regulatory issues. this is just under an hour.