tweet us, twitter.com/book tv.r post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> and best selling author susan orlene is our guest on book tv. her newest book is coming out this fall called the library book. susan orlene what happened on january 29, 1987. >> what happened on that date was what turned out to be the largest single library fire in the history of the united states. a massive, massive conservation at the los angeles public libraries downtown branch. ended up destroying 400,000 books. damaging another 700,000 books. and closed the library for six years. >> why am i just learning about this in 2018? >> really the main reason why i did the book because when i heard this story, i was shocked to think that i, as a person who two read a story about a library fire as a writer and a reader and a lover of libraries, why did i never know about this? i went back to look at the newspapers from that date to see what could have happened that somehow superseded this in the news. and it turned out to be the

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv post a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv. >> simon & schuster, what are some of the books that you all are publishing this summer and fall? >> we have a really strong list beginning this summer. we have a book coming out in july on indianapolis by lynn and sarah. this summer a reunion of the remaining survivors. the indianapolis is the worst naval disaster in history. and the captain was court martialed and exonerated. this is the first instance of exoneration and sarah has been obsessed with the indianapolis when she was a kid. and vincent you might know is a be selling writer of biographies. and it's new information about indianapolis, but you sadly don't see major works of nonfiction written by two women. we think it's a really important book so that will be in july. in august, we have some really tremendous books. what i'm thrilled about is one by a science writers, writes for national geographic, best selling, and on the ebola crisis. he's writing a book for us called tangled trees. and he's writing

tweet us, twitter.com/book tv, or post a comment on the facebook page, facebook.com/book tv. >> shannon as our guest on book tv. she has a new book coming up calling, how safe are we. it deals with her time as secretary of homeland security. she's former governor of arizona currently the president of the university of california. when you are secretary of dhs, first of all, should dhs have been created? was that the right thing to do? >> guest: i think it was the right thing to do. for a variety of reasons, the most important was to put under one roof various departments that were spread throughout the government that facilitate effective communication in a more efficient management of our security apparatus. within the department of homeland security you have land borders, air borders, air travel, if fema, you have cyber security, and intelligence and analysis function. it does make sense that there be one department in which all of the functions her house. >> you are the first democratic secretary of dhs following the bush administration. it's early on has a gelled more than it was? >

. >> booktv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you, tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> what has happened now is every single group in america feels threatened, not just blacks and other minorities that feel threatened. whites feel threatened. a study in my book says 67% of the white working-class feels that they are more discriminated against then minorities. it is not just muslims and jews and buddhists who feel threatened, christians now feel threatened. with the me to movement it is not just women, but men, straight, a moment when every group feels threatened and every group feels tribalism, thinks that the other tribes claim to be persecuted and discriminated against our ridiculous. that is part of it. the second reason we are where we are has to do with why you are the expert on this. when you read a lot of stuff in the papers, it is wrong, there's all this swinging around white to premises white nationalism. it is not helpful to call half of the country white supremacists. it is not what is happening. what is

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> i mean, i think more and more cities are realizing they need to have something like a livable wage. and the truth of the matter is a lot of people in the private sector are realizing it as well. companies like jpmorgan, just to select one -- >> yeah. >> -- have a major commitment in detroit. and they're doing it in the form of banking branches and opening up opportunities for financial literacy. and so a lot of folks in the private sector are realizing we create a better society, a better market, a better set of consumers if income and wealth are more broadly shared -- >> right. >> -- in society. now, let me make a quick point on the difference between income and wealth, because it's pretty interesting. income is what people make and spend, and, you know, whatever's left -- so income is in and out of our live ares every month, every paycheck. and on that score, minorities in the united states make something like 70% or so

booktv is on twitter and facebook, and we want to hear from you, tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. booktv continues now with radio and tv host michael -- who talks about why his political views have shifted over the years. ♪ ladies and gentlemen -- i -- i was -- i was for the the iraq invasion but against cuban embargo and supported capital punishment but i think there's too much fighting in hockey i was for for profiling at airports post 9-1-1 and i supported harsh interrogation methods at guantanamo bay for presumed terrorists pretty conservative stuff -- but i believe in the legalization of both pot and prostitution. i want to end the s.a.t., the scholastic aptitude test but teach cursive writing to high school students and for breaking up pennsylvania's state monopoly on the sale of alcohol. but i would like to see the u.s. treasury discontinue the manufacture of the copper penny. those are all my opinions. for at least they were at the one time as expressed in columns that i've written. maybe at this point i should be saying

tweet us, twitter.com/book tv or post a comment on the facebook page. facebook.com/book tv. here's a look at some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to the los angeles times. topping the list is the soul of america. the look at critical moments in american history and how they relate to today. then we recall the life of the last survivor of the atlantic slave trade. that's followed by investor and venture capitalists on how tech companies use goals to achieve growth and measure what matters. then it is i will be gone in the dark. michelle mcnamara's search for the golden state killer who has been charged with one dozen murders and 50 sexual assaults in california during the 70s and 80s. arizona senator's reflections on his political careers, the restless way. our look at the best-selling books continues with mark manson's advice on leading a happy life. michael's report on how psychedelic drugs are being used for medicinal purposes in, how to change your mind. then the report on the role of the state department in "war and peace". then it's recounting the

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv post a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv. >> simon & schuster, what are some of the books that you all are publishing this summer and fall? >> we have a really strong list beginning this summer. we have a book coming out in july on indianapolis by lynn and sarah. this summer a reunion of the remaining survivors. the indianapolis is the worst naval disaster in history. and the captain was court martialed and exonerated. this is the first instance of

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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> good evening. can you hear me? congratulations and thank you for coming out in this weather. you guys are the troopers. you want to give yourselves a hand? [applause] my name is elise adler, and i work for the nashville public library, so it is my absolute pleasure to say welcome and, again, thank you for coming out especially in this weather and to be here with us at lipscomb university for our salon at 6:15 with cal turner jr. in connection with dave ramsey. and i'm especially excited tonight because this is the launch event for mr. turner's new book, so you guys will have your hands on it first. i do want to let you know that coming this spring we'll have dorothea benton frank, just one of the authors at future salons, so check out the web site, salon at 615.org. or like us on facebook, follow us on twitter, however you guys want to stay in touch, just stay in touch, and then you will know all the latest authors that a

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> good evening. can you hear me? congratulations and thank you for coming out in this weather. you guys are the troopers. you want to give yourselves a hand? [applause] my name is elise adler, and i work for the nashville public library, so it is my absolute pleasure to say welcome and, again, thank you for coming out especially in this weather and to be here with us at lipscomb university for our salon at 6:15 with cal turner jr. in connection with dave ramsey. and i'm especially excited tonight because this is the launch event for

tweet us, twitter.com/book tv, or post a comment on the facebook page, facebook.com/book tv. >> shannon as our guest on book tv. she has a new book coming up calling, how safe are we. it deals with her time as secretary h

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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv.mment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> look, the ethos of texas, look -- look at this another way. travel outside this country. and ask somebody to describe an american to you. and the image that they will conjure somewhere in the back of their mind is very much texan. very much the image we all have. of the cowboy. it is very much that image of the individual. that is really not been the case for 100 years. in texas. that has not been who you really are, it has not been who we really are. as americans for 100 years. we are a largely urban country. and you are the fastest urbanizing state in it. but there are values that need to be preserved. their interests that need to be preserved going forward. there does, there is going to have to be a reckoning. you guys all know what rule of capture is, right? i do not to explain that to anybody? there is going to need to be a reckoning. on rule of capture. and not just here folks. we may be the only western state that does a good p