twitter.com/booktv. >> host: so, carla hayden, give us a preview of this year's national book festival. >> guest: this year's festival is exciting, and i must tell you it's going to be one of my favorites, because i am a big nonfiction fan. and the types of authors that we're going to have from david mccullough to j.d. vance whose book is on every reading list that you can imagine and every book club, it's just an exciting time, so i'm thrilled. [laughter] >> host: how many authors do you invite? >> guest: oh, my goodness. when you think about a one-day festival, the national book festival, and you have over a hundred authors from children's authors, illustrators, graphic novelists, all of these different authors there all day, over 100,000 people come in and celebrate books and reading. you can't have a better time, i think. and i'm a little prejudiced because i'm a librarian, but i have to tell you any reader or anybody that wants to get inspired, the book festival is the perfect place. >> host: this is the 17th year of the book festival. your second -- actually, your first. or your

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, i am tonya, i want to thank you ever so much for coming in this evening. we have a great lineup of different authors throughout the year. we do upwards of 400 events, so ubookstore.com or this handy little flyer will tell you more information about different can events that are coming up. but right now we're so happy to welcome a new northwest author, we'll claim her as long as we can with

twitter.com/booktv. >> we are exceptionally excited to welcome steve early, the second time we have hosted you. steve is here to talk about his book "refinery town: big oil, big money, and the remaking of an american city" about richmond, california. it is exciting to see good, well researched, deep dive into what works in organizing. one of the problems with our media landscape is could find 1700 pieces on what the president put out on twitter yesterdat

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> can you recount for us the focus of the blackburn affair and the underground railroad? and the role that it played. >> i think earlier we had a sculpture. let me see if i can go back to it. that ed dwight, who was a fantastic sculptor and he did the sculpted down at the waterfront where you have these, a group of black people looking across the detroit river to canada. i think it is the next one here. many people have come to detroit and sometimes i guess they scratch or heads, what is that all about? this symbolizes the terminus of the underground railroad. we have people like maria lambert, george baptiste, william webb, -- you can go on and on in terms of these pioneering abolitionists. they were joined some extent to fight abolitionist man of them being quakers because we and lambert had been schooled and educated and lived among the quakers when we left trenton new jersey and arrived in detroit. he for me is a phenomenal individual because he was like one of the main conductors of the undergroun

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tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is liz, i work with the events here, and i would like to welcome you this afternoon to politics & prose. today we'll be hosting willard stern randall for his new book, "unshackling america: how the war of 1812 truly ended the american revolution." just a couple of quick things, now would be a great time to turn off your cell phones. we have c-span booktv here with us, and you don't want to be the person whose phone rings in the recording.

tweet us, twitter.com/booktv. or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, i am tonya, i want to thank you ever so much for coming in this evening. we have a great lineup of different authors throughout the year. we do upwards of 400 events, so ubookstore.com or this handy little flyer will tell you more information about different can events that are coming up. but right now we're so happy to welcome a new northwest author, we'll claim her as long as we can with no apparent distress, rachel pearson. [applause] >> all right. thanks so much, tonya. can you guys hear me? nope? can you hear me? wonderful. yeah, thanks so much for coming out. really excited to share a little bit of the book with you guys and hear your questions if you have any. and so this is a book that i wrote primarily based on experiences i had in medical school working in texas where i cared for folks in pretty marginalized communities, so at a free clinic, at prison clinics, at some border clinics and in county hospitals in central texas.

tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. booktv continues talks on space exploration, astronomy professor chris impey talked about his book "beyond: our future in space," a look at the next generation of space exploration. >> we want to introduce you to chris impey. what do you do at the university of arizona? >> associate dean of the college of science and professor of astronomy. >> how long have you been here? >> guest: 30 years. >> host: what does that entail being what you are? >> guest: i keep a little piece, i teach online classes, over 100,000 cute my

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twitter.com/booktv. >> we are exceptionally excited to welcome steve early, the second time we have hosted you. steve is here to talk about his book "refinery town: big oil, big money, and the remaking of an american city" about richmond, california. it is exciting to see good, well researched, deep dive into what works in organizing. one of the problems with our media landscape is could find 1700 pieces on what the president put out on twitter yesterday but an actual helpful account on how to organize with community guess that is grassroots and corporate power, asking too much. i know the richmond, california story is an incredibly important story, has really been told, i have seen a couple articles about it but it is one of the real stories we should be learning especially in baltimore, in terms of deindustrialization, racism, poverty and one of the most important things is lack of luxury to get hung up on not working together, like baltimore, richmond too small to have too many sectarian divisions and what is exciting about the richmond story is a found a way to get over those divisions

twitter.com/booktv. >> host: so, carla hayden, give us a preview of this year's national book festival. >> guest: this year's festival is exciting, and i must tell you it's going to be one of my favorites, because i am a big nonfiction fan. and the types of authors that we're going to have from david mccullough to j.d. vance whose book is on every reading list that you can imagine and every

tweet us at twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page; facebook.com/booktv. i will begin with questions and make the floor available to you to ask him, fonder, argue with him, whatever things you have. tonight -- microphone. i will. i will. we are delighted to welcome to what is called memoirs of are formed skin heads. christian is here to shed light on his unlikely path as the son of two hard working italian immigrants to becoming the leader of the chicago area skin heads when he still a teenager. after leaving the violent movement he was part of during his youth, show less text 00:59:40 unidentified speaker he started a program called life after hate a non-profit helping people to disengage from hate and violent extremism. in 2008, christian decided to share his journey from hate to love in his look and published a book called romantic violence: memoirs of an american skinhead. following the talk i will ask him a couple questions and then you can engage with him. christian, the floor is yours. [applause] >> thank you very much. to engage. [applause] >> it i

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