us much more than we are willing to acknowledge. thank you very much. [applause] >> booktv of 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. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week: >> look for these titles in bookstores in the coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv.org. >> by far the most jaw-dropping aspect of life in crystal city was the fact that the camp was the center of fdr's secret prisoner exchange program. one of the lessons i learned through going through all these documents and interviewing all these people is that by whatever name it is called -- internment, preventive detainment or just flat imprisonment -- the practice of incarcerating immigrants with blood ties to countries in which the united states is at war always exists in part for the purpose of exchange. it works like a human chess game. each side tries to get back their own citizens without giving up their highest value prisoners. some of the people in crystal city were probably they probably should have been at crystal city. chr

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our face book page facebook.com/booktv. >> in 2008 i got a call from a very well-known correspondent and he was a very good friend and we worked together extensively in iraq and afghanistan. called me up and he said hey, man. talks to everyone at the same tone whether it is the taliban me, his girlfriend, doesn't matter. i got a great assignment. and he said it is on the taliban in pakistan. i remember my husband sitting next to the world his eyes and said you are not going to meet the taliban. i didn't answer. dexter went. i learned not to answer. dexter went to pakistan and spent months trying to line up access and the thing about south asia and had to and culture it is tribal culture, when they invite you to meet then they will protect you with your life. so we knew if dexter was able to line this up and they invited us and we would be relatively safe. the one thing we had to worry about was in order to reach the commander he was negotiating with we had to cross through two other commanders's territory. we got the permission and the

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> there was an ecosystem of liberalism which doesn't exist today which was quite important to the story of building pressure on congress by 1964. and so there's a lot of examples in the story of how this worked. the march on selma is a very important example of this. lyndon johnson unlike the depiction in the movie and i can talk about this later, was fully in favor of voting rights. the administration was working on a bill and negotiating with the senate, but he wasn't prepared to send the bill to congress yet. he was scared in january of '65 that he didn't have all the power everyone said he did. and if he did that too soon that this bill was going to fall apart. and part of what the movement did in selma, part of what king the legislative strategist does is to build that pressure through the protests, through the images through the confrontations to create an atmosphere in congress where waiting was no longer permissible. to get across the fierce urgency of now. liberals also did other organiz

tweet us twitter.com/booktv, or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. spent each month representative tom cole of local releases a reading list on his website. here's a look at the congressman's recommended books which focus on the life of the way the eisenhower. he is totally reading those angry days which looks at the internal debate of the u.s. involvement in world war ii. .. see what other books congressman kohl has recommended visit kohl.hoss.gov. >> george friedman talk about the future of europe and potential for conflict in coming years. it is next on booktv. no [inaudible conversations]

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our face book page facebook.com/booktv. >> in 2008 i got a call from a very well-known correspondent and he was a very good friend and we worked together extensively in iraq and afghanistan. called me up and he said hey, man. talks to everyone at the same tone whether it is the taliban me, his girlfriend, doesn't matter. i got a great assignment. and he said it is on the taliban in pakistan. i remember my husband sitting next to the world hi

you can also contact us electronically, send an e-mail to booktv@cspan.org, or you can send a tweet to twitter.com/booktv. chris kyle, in your book you write that you were not the best shot at all. in your class. or at before you went into the seals. >> guest: no, sir. i never claimed to be the great itself sniper. -- greatest sniper. i was, you know, through sniper school i was middle of the pack when we graduated, i almost failed out of sniper school. it's just everyone tends to think when you get these number of kills that all of a sudden you're this great sniper and that's not the measure of a sniper. the measure of the true greatness of a sniper is to roll everything all in one. i mean it's the stalking, the observation, everything. and that's why in my mind carlos halfcock who, you know i think it's 93 confirmed kills i think he is the greatest sniper ever in history. and not just america, all over the world. he's the guy that would go in by himself, you know, sneak in, take his shot with a lot less you know, capable weapons than we have today and optics but he would take that shot and then

[inaudible conversations] >> booktv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. tweet us, twitter.comslash book tv or comment on facebook.com slash booktv. >> russ roberts talks about adam smith's take on human nature and his writings on the pursuit of happiness. this is about 50 minutes. >> thank you. it's great to be back in st. louis and to see so many old friends. that porch star is a true story. fictionalize it it a little bit but i thought it was a good example of personality responsibility and learning about risk and danger. i'm talking about adam smith. adam smith is probably the second best thing to come out of scotland. the first isn't golf. but you may know about his famous book, which is the wealth of nations. you may know he was a free trader and you may have heard of the invisible hand. what i want to talk about tonight is smith's other book, called "the theory of moral sentiments." maybe the greatest self-help book you have never read. what i try to do in my book holiday how adam smith can change your life" is give you a window smith's psychology, economics, and apply t

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> fred and his partner were desperate for business at that time and they get over whatever misgivings might have had about doing business with soviets and it into a $5 million deal to modernize the soviet oil industry by upgrading 15 refineries and in doing so they would really put the soviet union on the path to becoming a superpower that it would eventually become. fred spent three months in the soviet union in 1930 overseeing the construction of these refineries, and he is horrified by what he sees. he later writes that russia is a land of hunger misery and terror. he returns home vowing to do everything he can to stop the spread of communism. in the ensuing years he becomes a very outspoken anti-communist it and in 198 is among a select group of american businessman who are summoned