tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> here is a look at some books being published this week. the daughter of winston and clementine churchill recounts her time in "a daughter's tale." neil borofsky argues that the officials who perpetuated economic crisis pander to big banks instead of considering public interest. a member of the judicial watch resents his thoughts on the obama administration, including obamacare, they allow, and guantÁnamo bay. in his book, the corruption chronicles. in global weirdness, severe storms come and deadly heat waves, rising seas, and the weather of the future. journalism and research foundation climate central analyzes the big questions regarding climate change. look for these titles at book stores this coming week, and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> the inventor of information, and also, books about claude shannon, which is by james book called information and by george dyson on mr. turned and mr. shannon. claude shannon is a great figure from be

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booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> on booktv's recent visit to jefferson city, missouri, with local cable partner media, we spoke to local author clarence y.h. lo. his book, "small property versus big government" takes a look at what he calls on the social origins of the property tax revolt. >> good evening. here in california and the primary tomorrow people have the rare and no doubt pleasing opportunity to vote their taxes down. to tell politicians that they will pay this much and no more. proposition 13 it's called, and it's an absolute flat ban on how much property tax they can charge homeowners. it is thought to be as much a vote against big expensive wasteful government as it is against the property tax. >> for 25 years without increasing taxes on property. now to chance for the people to say something. >> its excessive spending. it's getting out of hand. kind of like a boston tea party that we are saying we have had it. >> whenever you have the real estate boom, that sets in motion the assessment of increases and individual paying the h

send us an e-mail at book tv at c-span.org. tweet us at twitter.com/booktv>> known as fsg in the book publishing world, this is one of the oldest book publishers in the united states. joining us here at book expo america in new york city is sarita varma, who is the director of publicity for fsg. we want to talk to her about some of the new books coming out by thipublisher in the fall fall of 2012. i want to start with william chase's new book, "bill and hillary: the politics of the personal." >> yes, he is a professor at duke, he is a specialist and race and gender studies. he gives us a fascinating portrait of the relationship and how hillary supports bill during his various personal crises. he actually afforded her the opportunity to increase her platform publicly and become more prominent as a politician. in turn come in the same thing happened with bill. the way it is look at the new partnership in a modern presidential relationship between the president and the first lady. it is a really fascinating but didn't really fascinating insider book. >> is ther

send us an e-mail at book tv at c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> and now joining us on book tv is scott moyers, publisher of penguin press. we want to find out some of the new titles coming out in the fall of 2012. i want to start with the patriarch. >> a sort of extraordinary story . ted kennedy before his death reached out to david nassau, author of the atlantic biography of andrew carnegie among other things, and give him an extraordinary offer which was to say he gave an exclusive access to the kennedy family paper some of the papers of his father, joseph kennedy, which had never been shared with any biographers , and there were no strings attached. no family review. and david spent years on this book the to the archives, digging passed the myth and release starting from scratch. one of the things these papers allowed him to do, of course, is to get a kind of closer to the emotional core of joseph kennedy because of his letters were voluminous and had never been used. i think crucially david was, for the first time, really able to follow the money. the kennedy famil

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