one of it is for undergraduates. this civilization sequence. a year of american civilization, european, latin america. essentially all of the civilization complexes are of the world. i teach in the sequence. we do it china. another japan. the third quarter we do, you know -- and not really about the war, but the larger history going back to the 2500 b.c. and taking things fall word. >> host: this is the book, "vietnam at war." the author is mark bradley of the university of chicago. >> you have been watching some of our interviews with professors here at the university. more next week. >> we asked what i you reading this summer. here is what you had to say. ♪ send us at tweet at book tv to let us know what you plan on reading. you can also e-mail us. >> now, women in hezbollah. that is one of the most interesting aspects of society. i would like to say that the woman of hezbollah are the cornerstone of the movement and our what has turned it into something that has such an enduring and resilience bedrock. each time there is a work. 1993 and '96

after i graduated high school, i went to the undergraduate college in st. louis, missouri, and came out here for grad school. fell in love with the san francisco bay area appeared all my plans changed, and this became my home. >> [inaudible] do we end up with a wells fargo here? another bank of america over there? what projects as going forward? supervisor mirkarimi: you read my mind. that is a perfect segue. i wanted to talk about rezoning, areas that fortified neighborhood interests so there is not another chase situation or wells fargo, or what have you, that should put us in this position again. >> i worked as an environmental analyst for a number of think tanks and then applied to that trade in law enforcement where i went to the san francisco police academy many years ago, graduated from the sfpd class, trained in environmental forensics, both here locally, state, and finally by the u.s. epa in a training center, and i worked with the district attorney's office in san francisco for nine years becoming -- before becoming elected supervisor. i was one o

experience unparalleled to be able to study with and work for one of the great scholars as an undergraduate williams college is one of the very few places where that is possible. i thought i would talk a little bit about how jim came to write roosevelt, the lion and the fox. he claims that this is because his memory is not as good as his mind but actually it is because he is very modest and he doesn't like talking very much about himself. so i thought i would talk a little bit about how this happened as he is told me over the years and actually as i have gleaned it from other sources. perhaps to give a little bit of background on this, jim came into a family in eastern massachusetts that was not necessarily a new deal family, wouldn't you say jim? he had a father who was a dartmouth republican as i remember. there would be very large arguments add dinner and sometimes members of the family would go to bed without speaking. am i right on that? so that was his first exposure to the world of franklin roosevelt. it began to get him very interested. that fact did not prevent him in 1936 from bei

this is an undergraduate course. i was amazed. i got letters from three staffers at the federal reserve who wanted to take this undergraduate course. i couldn't believe it because there's no way they could get an mba degree. so clearly they knew something was pulling in their. the look in your book -- i looked at references to goldman sachs. behind almost every shady deal that has been exposed, for example, they ripped off dossey, you know, a colleague of mine made a joke that we could get the major investment tanks in china and russia and japan, we could cut our defense budget by $500 billion a year because there is not a single economy in the world that could do this in five years. but my question with goldman sachs in space. given the advocate deals, why would anyone in his right mind take the opposite side of the trade with goldman sachs? i mean, according to free-market economics, you know, they shady banker or some thing, people start doing business. and yet there they are bigger and better than ever. >> that only hold where

>> guest: you go out for the lampoon as an undergraduate, and the competition goes off a number of weeks and each week you write a short story or essay or in my case i wrote poetry. c-span: does it have to be funny? >> guest: yes. i was selected and then we had in which you are humiliated as a format war elevated. we were told we had to wear black eye patches and suit for a week which we did and you can see these people. then we had things like one of the so-called phools john not like was a man you had to go through this humiliating few days and play with trucks and what all the gates just before might class's were released and they are funny to undergraduates. so that's enough and then for four years i was an editor and just before i graduated we had done in my junior year a parody most people don't know about in the magazine and in new york base of that party and elected a lot and got in touch with us in my senior year. will you do a parody of us as our july issue? eub the editors and we will pick the pos but to compare eddy us, photographed the articles because we want to solve these

. >>> some stanford undergraduates are the first to use new technology to study human anatomy. it was developed by san jose based anatomahe in corporation with the university. students can explore muscles, nerves and cells. students can also observe ct scans of patients. >>> this is the main ingredient for our bay area cooling it was a spare the air day. the first day of summer. the heat advisory but that is all coming to an end as fog move spwaos the avenue of san francisco -- moves into the avenue of san francisco. there you see the fog coming across, that's the south tower of the golden gate bridge. that's about 720 feet or so. you can see the fog just underneath that. fog is going to thicken up tonight and that is cooling that will begin for us. here are the highs from today. significant numbers, no records but big numbers. 100 in concord, 100 in fairfield, it was hot where you were. it wasn't hot across the bay. temperatures a little bit cooler than they have been along the coastal sections. so tonight the fog comes back in. and with that fog we will see the temperatures s

wanted to pick my own courses because literature is whether vaunted to do anyway but if i was an undergraduate at was too rigid. >>c-span: how did you get on the national lampoon? >> guest: the harvard lampoon. >>c-span: i am sorry. [laughter] >> guest: you go out and the competition goes on for a number of weeks and you write each week stories are essays and i wrote poetry. >>c-span: doesn't have to be funny? >> guest: i hope it is i was elected then we had a week in which you are humiliated which is their form of fraternities and we were told we had to where we are a black suit for one week with the black eye patch i almost got hit by a car crossing the street and we were called phools you had to go through a humiliating few days such a great institution such as john updike but nevertheless lock all of the gates of 19 gates just before a night class is were really so big crowds are gathered and then for four years i was editor of the harvard lampoon which culminated just before i graduated, we had done a parity of the saturday review. it was a lovely literary magazine and the editors of psat

state of rhode island, southern rhode island, and then after i graduated high school, i went to undergraduateollege in st. louis, missouri and then came out here for grad school, which fell in love with san francisco bay area. all of my plans changed and this became my home. i worked as an environmental analyst for a number of think tanks and then applied that trade in law enforcement, where i went to the san francisco police academy many, many years ago, graduated as a academy class, president of the class. trained in environmental forensics, both here locally, state and federally by the usepa in the training center in georgia and i worked for the district attorney's office in san francisco for nine years before becoming elected supervisor. >> and you spent most of your adult life in san francisco. >> yes. >> why did you make the choice to live in the city? >> oh, my god, i had never been west of the mississippi until i came here. growing up, we read a lot in our household but many of the books that i was drawn to were from authors who either came from california or spent substantial time in

thousands of dollars even at that point i don't think so i live on one year of accounting i took undergraduate. i wrote millions of dollars on that one cause which i only paid two hundred dollars for i own a business i hired the best. people like it if you're not if you have a college if you don't have a college education don't even come to my office and apply to what you were did you go to college i would college in texas and you use what you learned every day absolutely do you think it depends on what field you're and possibly but let me tell you this without an education you just have a whole lot over time in life but we're also told that we all have to go otherwise we won't succeed. that's true that's true but. we're not i chose not to go to uni as you call it. certainly to go how much does college cost in poland and college for free. any of the states it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars so. the problem is the bottom line is that most employers still think a college education is important and ultimately it's their opinion right or wrong that matters. all their personal data just one

thousands of dollars even at that point i don't think so i live on one year of accounting i took undergraduate. i wrote millions of dollars on that one course which i only paid two hundred dollars for i own a business i hire the best people i can get if you're not if you have a college if you don't have a college education don't even come to my office and apply so if you where did you go to college i went to college in texas and you use what you learn every day absolutely do you think it depends on what field you're and possibly but let me tell you this without an education you just have a whole lot tougher time in life but we're all told that we all have to go otherwise we won't succeed. i chose not to go to uni as you call it out of time. and certainly it's a great i mean known to be way out of range and if you go to the top schools and you the rich people can afford it why is that don't do you think that would set us back over the long run in terms of what we can produce really is i think if you look around to economy and the rich are getting rich and the poor are getting poorer and the mid

fighting drugs i'm joined by geoffrey my run in newton he is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics at harvard university he's also a senior fellow at the capitol institute and he's also the author of the book drug war crimes the consequences of prohibition and in san diego we cross the eight hundred seven he is a senior partner at the ayso hutchinson law group all right gentlemen this is cross talk about means crosstalk rules in effect but before it let's have a look at a short report about this forty year old war. a worldwide enterprise worth some four hundred billion dollars a year illegal drug trafficking has become one of the most ferocious lucrative businesses in the world alongside only the oil industry and the arms trade and single largest market the u.s. is also the world's biggest consumer of cocaine heroin and marijuana shipped from colombia and mexico although the u.s. government has been hard pressed to control and for tail democratic straight drug related violence has. like wildfire across latin america and especially mexico our i

i was at uc berkeley in the 1960's as an undergraduate. so i had to look at that and ask how confused i was. when i look back on it, as everyone on this stage will tell you, their first stage was -- their first year was confusing, maddening. we were experimenting. we were experimenting perhaps with a lot more than you will be experimenting with. [laughter] nevertheless, we are here now. what is the common thread that connects all of us? college education. [applause] do not be fooled. do not let anyone tell you that without a college education, everything is fine. we are in america now. we are in international scene now that without a college education, you are nowhere in this society and going further down. i know you do not want to hear that because people think that other people did it. high-school would be fine -- high school would be fine. it would not be ok. the ok route is what we have to tell you about. you want to go someplace, your elders, people who have done it have to tell you the roadmap. you cannot invent the road map for you

thousands of dollars even at that point i don't think so but i live on one year of accounting i took undergraduate. no use of dollars on that one because for a child who paid two hundred dollars for i own a business i hire the best people i can get if you're not if you have a college if you don't have a college education don't even come to my office and apply to what you where did you go to college i went to college in texas and you use what you learned every day absolutely do you think it depends on what field you're and possibly but let me tell you this without an education you just have a whole lot tougher time in life but we're also told that we all have to go otherwise we won't succeed. faster than. our choice not to go to the community as you call it a time around if i see it needs a guy who's known to be way out of range and if you go to the top schools thing and he rich people can afford. it why is that don't do you think that would fetch us back over the long run in terms of what we can produce or it is. i think if you look around at your economy and the rich are getting richer and the po

>> i have an undergraduate degree. it is from penn state. no economics?> none >> i think it is an advantage. it is a dangerous thing. there is a lot of the gore and economics that can give you a false sense of understanding the world. it is easy to say you have it all in your head and it is a system. this is how it works. it is a challenge to stay humble about understanding, the more you get into it and the way you eat. that is what attracted me to his podcast so much. not only does he treat his guests with a lot of respect and dignity, but he also approaches his own biases or point of view with a lot of skepticism. there are limits to what we can know. be wary of certainty with regard to the economy. >> which one of the economist is dominating the thought in the united states today? >> it depends on how you look at it. it is still very much keynes. people who admit fans of his with hayek same. we have reached this in debt ceiling which is a strange wall. it is like the world is going to come crashing down. how can we not spend more money? how can we poss