now, amy gutmann come university of pennsylvania talk to the tv about her latest book, "the spirit of compromise." she talked about her role as president at the university. this interview recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia as part of booktv is college series and is about 20 minutes. >> you are watching booktv on c-span 2 and one of the things we like to do is visit college campuses. we contact you professors also authors and showcase books that she may not know about otherwise. we are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia this week and were joined by the president of the university, amy gutmann. she's the author of this book, "the spirit of compromise: why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it." president gutmann, are we a politically compromised? >> guest: we were created in compromise. a lot of people think of the revolutionary war, which separated us from our mother country. but if you recall -- i know you weren't there then, but if you recall historically speaking our founding fathers crafted a compromise that created

we're in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we're interviewing some professors who also happen to be authors. and we want to introduce you to the dean of the university of pennsylvania's school of social policy and practice. this is richard gelles on your screen. and one of his books, his most recent, is called "the third lie: why government programs don't work and a blue print for change." dr. gelles, i'm here from the government, and i'm here to help you. is that not true? >> guest: not true. >> host: why not? >> guest: because most government social programs which are designed to help people don't actually help. in some instances it is little more than the, i hate saying this, but the do-gooder full employment act. it provides lots of jobs for people who'd like the help, but at the end of the day if you look at whether the needle has been moved and people have really been helped by substantial government programs and substantial amounts of money, the bottom line is very rarely are people hemmed. helped. and i thought that that was a story worth telling. the idea came

jackson is a director of africanus teddies at the university of pennsylvania. he's the author most recently of this book, racial paranoia, the unintended consequences of political correctness. dr. jackson, when you talk about racial paranoia, who is paranoid? >> guest: i would argue we are all paranoid when it comes to race and probably for good reason. one of the points in the book is that raises a category itself is about the embedding of paranoia into the way they look a social life. for instance, the whole point is to say some distances are so paramount, biological, hardwired that we have to be on the lookout at all times and mixing of different ways in which we differentiate between us and them. greece itself is about fearing social paranoia. when you think about a country like the united states that's trying to work through its own history of racial antagonist and coming to have two models. one is we're transcending them in moving beyond, trying to build a multiracial community. .. the only reason why i feel like we have to be very careful about serious di

. >> next, university of pennsylvania professor joseph turow talks to book tv about the daily u, which looks at the power of the advertising industry in the age of the internet. it's ten minutes. >> university of pennsylvania professor joseph turow is the author of "the daily you: how the new advertising industry is defining your identity and your worth." professor turow, who is nicholas mega honest at the. >> guest: a professor at at m.i.t. who came up with the idea of the daily me, and that is that we will all get newspapers conditioned to what we care about because we'll make the decisions about what is on the paper. the difference between that and the daily you is the notion that a lot of what goes on under the hood of the web is not conditioned by us. it's created as a result of a whole lot of activities by marketers we don't even see or know about, and we have a extrapolation in advertisings that almost anyone, except people in the advertising industry-doesn't know about. >> host: what does that mean? the last 20 years advertising has changed drastically with the rise of cable an

we're in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we're interview something professors. who also happen to be authors. we want to introduce you to the dean of the university of pennsylvania school of social policy and practice, this is richard gelles on your screen one of his books, his most recent, is called: "the third lie: why government programs don't work and a blueprint for change." dr. gelless, i'm here from the government and i'm here to help you true? >> guest: not true. >> host: why? >> guest: they don't tallly help in some instances it's little more than -- i hate to say that's -- the good-gooddedder employment act, lots of people would like to help, but if you look at whether the needle has moved and'em have been helped by substantial amounts of government programs and money, the bottom line is very rarely are people helped. and i thought that it was a story worth telling. the idea came to me as i was being smuggled into the back door of the state house in the state of hawai'i for a meeting with the secretary, the speaker of the house. hawai'i was spending a h

professor at the university of pennsylvania. she's also the author of several books. at the university of pennsylvania today to talk to her about this book. "and justice for all." "and justice for all: the united states commission on civil rights and the continuing struggle for freedom in america" mary francis berry, when did the u.s. civil rights commission begin and why? >> well, it started in 1957. president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with secretary of state about the way the united states was seen around the world because a lot of the racism that was going on that people would hear about and read about. and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening whether it was lynching or some kind of discrimination that took place in the country. so the idea was eisenhower -- said he was going to ask congress to set up a civil rights commission which was put the sacks on top of the table. i'm told by one of the people who was at the meeting with he slammed at table and said they're going put the sacks on top of the table. and commissions as

>> host: sarah behringer gordon is a professor of law and a professor of history at the university of pennsylvania. this is her most recent book, "the spirit of the law" religious voices and the constitution in modern america, harvard university press. she is also the author of the mormon question and you refer to polygamy a couple of times in our short discussion here. with that -- was that the issue about the mormons, that really kind of got under people's skin and? >> guest: it was the most prominent one. there were others and in some ways if you think, say, questions of access to public places or religious speech in life as a key to the 20th century, then the 19th century, the really big question was would mormons be allowed to redefine marriage for themselvee legal system enough so that polygamy would be recognized and protected as a valid form of marriage by the secular legal system, not just by the church itself. >> host: are there parallels to gay marriage today? >> guest: there have been substantial parallels. one of the key issues for mormon apologists as well as for their opponents was

. >> you're currently teaching law at the university o pennsylvania, and director of the university supreme court clinic. what's your practical experience with the law? sunny was a federal prosecutor in new york city and i saw every kind of case. i saw people who were sorry for what they'd done and wanted a chance to make amends and the system didn't do anything to encourage it. i saw people angry and in denial and the system didn't confront them or make them fess up to what they'd done. i saw a lot of good well can meaning lawyers and professions who took it for granted ited a to be an assembly line but the defendants and jurors and victims were frustrated that they weren't listened to. >> host: how often were you approached for a plea bargain? >> guest: in every case. out of 100 cases, there were three jury trials and one person trial in a year, which -- one bh trial in a year which is typical. we can't do away with that system but at sentencing we can allow people to talk and focus on working and making restitution and apologizing. >> host: did you ever suggest that as a prosecutor. >> i

professor happ was interviewed at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. part of book tv's college series. >> host: university of pennsylvania history professor, stephen hahn is the author of this book "the political world of slavery and freedom." professor hahn, before we get into the subject of the book, what's the image on the front cover? >> guest: that's a very good question and the answer is i have no idea. the editor proposed -- thought it was a very eye-catching image and when i showed it to friends and colleagues they had no idea what it meant. it doesn't clearly relate to anything in the book but i think they were interested in selling books, and that's how they chose it. i think it is a really interesting photograph, and i think it speaks to sort of complex connections within african-american communities that involve gender as well as power. but beyond that, i don't know. >> host: well, professor hahn, what do going to the topic of the book -- what do we know wrongly about slavery in the u.s.? >> guest: well, one of the issues that i try to deal

political correctness" this is booktv on c-span2. >> host: booktv on c-span2 on location at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. at the annenberg school of communication currently joining us is the theme michael x. delli carpini what is the annenberg school of communication? >> we do research for the public consumption and a ph.d. training and graduate training that media and communication influence social practice and health and cultural practice. >> we're here to talk about your book "after broadcast news" media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment" but it seems that we have been to be -- debating the broadcast news scenario. to put it into historical context the basic argument is over the last 20 years there is a number of changes changing the

politics and the civil war south, the author is history professor stephanie mccurry of the university of pennsylvania. first of all, professor, what is this painting on the front of your book? >> this is a civil war painting of a going down, a confederate flag going down in flames. it is an allegorical painting, not a military history, but it tells you a little bit about what the book is about. >> start by giving us a demographic of the south in 1860. >> that is a crucial question because we went to war, try to make this new nation. smaller to start with, roughly 10 million people compared to the union's 22. already a tough blow, but i think the military it is not as much paid attention to as it should be. 4 million of those 10 million were blackened and slate. when it came time to mobilize for war we did not have access to 10 million people. they have access to allow white population of 6 million, half of whom were women, many of whom underage to. the demographics first tough to start with. >> have many white males at that point to the confederate have? obviously that was the base. >> right. well, i

professor at university of pennsylvania. former chairwoman of the u.s. commission on civil rights. here's the history of the u.s. commission on civil rights. mary frances on booktv on c-span 2. >> and now, john allison argues government entities and regulation constitutes ethnic collapse. it says to improve the economy, we need to adapt. free-market policies. it's about 50 minutes. [applause] ..

the author is history professor stephanie mccurry of the university of pennsylvania. first of all, professor, what is this painting on the front of your book? >> this is a civil war painting of a "battleship" going down. the con fred rate flag going down in flames. it's an al gore call painting. it's not military history. ting tells you about what the book is about. >> professor, if you would start by giving the demographic of the south in 1860. >> that's a crucial question. they went to war, tried to make the new nation, they were smaller than the union to start with roughly 10 million people compare to the union's 22. that was already tough row to hoe. age military -- it isn't as much paid attention to. 4 million of the 10 million people were black and enslaved. when it came time to mobilize the war. they didn't have access to 10 million people. they had access to a white population of 6 million. half of whom under women and half under age. the demographics were tough to start with. >> how many white maims in that point. >> obviously that was the base. >> right. well

from the wharton school at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia, jeremy siegel. >> susie: tomorrow on "n.b.r." the federal reserve kicks off a two-day meeting, its first policy meeting of the new year, we'll hear from fed chairman bernanke on wednesday. also tomorrow, we'll get a check on the recovery in housing, and its impact home prices and consumer confidence. and we'll see if ford motor's latest results can rev up wall street. >> susie: as tom mentioned, barnes and noble is looking to close a third of its stores over the next decade. so we asked some of our facebook friends when was the last time they shopped in a traditional book store. for many, it had been years. but sean says he bought one yesterday, when he needed a gift, and didn't have time to wait for delivery. kirby prers getting electronic books from his local library, and says he probably won't buy physical books any more. >> susie: tom, when was the last time you were in a bookstore? >> susie: that's "nightly business report" for monday, january 28. have a great evening everyone, and you too tom. >> tom: goodnight

we sat down with ste nose bibas at the university of pennsylvania's annenberg school for communication to discuss his book, "the machinery of criminal justice." he argues that our criminal justice system has become a process that values efficiency and speedy processing over reforming criminals and healing victims and their families. it's about innocents. it's about ten minutes. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is author and professor stephanos bibas whose new book, "the machinery of criminal justice," is published by oxford university press. professor bibas, do we have an efficient criminal justice system? >> guest: we've got a system tahas moved from what people expect it to be, a public morality play where we blame and punish and then reintegrate people who do wrong and heal victims to one that's been taken over by the lawyers. we have professionals who have maximized the speed of the system. it's hurried plea bar gaining that disposes 19 out of 20 cases. it's cheap, but it's bargained-for justice, and so the victims have no say, defendants feel like they've copped a plea or got

from the wharton school at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia jeremy siegel. >> susie: tomorrow on "n.b.r." the federal reserve kicks off a two-day meeting, its first policy meeting of the new year, we'll hear from fed chairman bernanke on wednesday. also tomorrow, we'll get a check on the recovery in housing, and its impact home prices and consumer confidence. and we'll see if ford motor's latest results can rev up wall street. >> susie: as tom mentioned, barnes and noble is looking to close a third of its stores over the next decade. so we asked some of our facebook friends when was the last time they shopped in a traditional book store. for many, it had been years. but sean says he bought one yesterday, when he needed a gift, and didn't have time to wait for delivery. kirby prefers getting electronic books from his local library, and says he probably won't buy physical books any more. >> susie: tom, when was the last time you were in a bookstore? >> susie: that's "nightly business report" for monday, january 28. have a great evening everyone, and you too tom. >> tom: goodnigh

at the state within this country and if you look at individual studies coming from the university of pennsylvania the harder part of school of medicine i believe it was emory university and others will show you that with guns around there's much more chance that you or your family are going to be in danger if you want that right you have the right in your home but i think that means we have a right to heavily regulate who gets those guns and have universal background checks you know ban assault weapons which you know hunter and anybody protecting themselves need and license and register in those farms like any other industrialized country has done the ones that tend to have fifty or one hundred murders by guns a year as opposed to eleven thousand or ten thousand a year we have here. another argument that we are hearing clever from the n.r.a. walling other advocates that the solution they're saying that the solution is arming our teachers putting armed guards in our schools and that's going to protect our children all in school that the answer what do you think about that approach. i have two kids

are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she takes as her husband, lover and king. and this is called the return. a lament was raised in the city. my lady weeps bitterly for her young husband. anana weeps bitterly for her young husband. woe for her husband, woe for her young love, woe for her house, woe for her city. dimusi was taken captive in aruk. he will no longer bathe in aradu. he will no longer treat the mother of anana of his mother. he will no longer perform his sweet task among the maidens of the city. he will no longer raise his sword higher than the kugar of priests. great is the grief of those who mourn for dimusi. anani wept for dimusi. gone is my husband, my sweet husband. gone is my sweet love. my beloved has been taken from the city. oh, you flies of

. >> host: university of pennsylvania professor, joseph turow is the author of "the daily you: how thenew adertising industry is defining your identity and your worth" and your words. professor, who is nicholas negroponte? >> guest: nicholas negroponte was a professor at m.i.t. who came up with the idea of the daily me. conditioned to what they care about because we will make decisions about what is on paper. the difference between that and the daily you is the notion that a lot of what goes on under the hood of the web is not conditioned by s. is created as a result of it will affect committees for marketers we see or know about. are they into a transformation advertising that almost anyone except people in the advertising know about. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: advertising has changed rascally with cable and the internet. originally, advertising was making an anticommercial and then putting on a few very popular newspapers, television, radio, magazines. with the right cable all of a sudden you had hundreds of channels. more so you have digital stuff and it becomes interac

now, in pennsylvania, university of pennsylvania professor brutally murders his wife dr. rafael brutally murdered wife. found blowjenned bludgeoned to death. murder alleged by the prosecution did not want to pay the $4,000 of spousal support that was awarded her. she was planning on moving out. getting her own apartment. she had already rented one. when this happened. he was able to strike a plea deal with the prosecutors and the state to plead to a voluntary manslaughter which carries a range up to 20 years and you the guidelines he received a range between 5 to 10 years. eligible for parole. he was denied twice and is he back up now. >> now is he going to get parole after five years. >> january 28th. >> let me tell the audience, this man, this professor at university of pennsylvania went to ivy league school. took a crowbar, a crowbar so voluntary manslaughter. he volunteered i don't understand why this was pled down voluntary manslaughter. >> right. he killed his wife with a crowbar. why are you pleaing it down? >> the prosecutor said well, it was a rage crime it wasn'

scott livan at the university of pennsylvania, who talked about how complex a surgery lindsay had signed on for. >> do you have normal sensation here? >> uh-huh. >> the hook-up of the new hand is relying on her nerves growing into the new muscles from the donor. the nerves have to grow into those muscles, which takes months. can take a year. >> so she may or may not get truly functioning hands back. >> we tell patients we can fail you. the operation can fail. >> reporter: what's failure? >> failure means the part doesn't survive and we have to re-amputate is transplant. that's failure. >> reporter: the preferred donor would be female with hands of the right size and a skin color that matched, and part of the wait for those body parts to become available. that was, of everything we discussed, the part lindsay found most difficult, about this unnamed donor that everyone was waiting for. >> i hate thinking about that. >> reporter: why? >> because, i just do. they have to be out there right now alive. >> reporter: because it means that that person would have to die. >> uh-huh. i think that w

and i became closer over the years as they passed, particularly after we both arrived at university of pennsylvania for graduate school back in 1988. the reason for this is simple but power. it reminds me of woody allen's line "90% of life is just showing up". milton had a gift for staying there. he stayed involves in everyone's life no matter they were. before facebook there was a milton. you talked about his family and how important it was to him and i thought the connectedness was related to that family and family business in politics from such an early age and campaigning and engaging in people of every background, at home or some junket in some part of the world. all of these were second nature to milton marks. i loved david talking about the seven phone lines at the house and brings back the memories of visiting there. there was always something going on at the marks house on jordan avenue. his parents rented out rooms to jewish refugees and this was before cell phone and the phone rang around the clock and various languages. it wasn't uncommon to run into a complete stranger in the kitchen a

. >> host: we talking with the dean of vandenberg school of communication from the university of pennsylvania, "after broadcast news" media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment" co-author bruce williams. michael x. delli carpini. thank you for being with us on the tv. >> host: 10 things congress does not want you to know how it does business. number four, to be unsafe noncompetitive season holds fund-raisers outside their districts to increase leverage over other members. number five, congress spends more than $100 billion every year on 200 programs that are not authorized by law. number six, congress routinely raids the social security trust fund to cover general revenue shortfalls. >> guest: looking at the appropriation bills and not done the last two years and say we appropriate x amount of money it is over $350 billion that which is not funded and it tells you there is the imbalance in congress had we appropriate funds we have not said we spend money on? that tells you the power of the benefit going back to what is the most important but is it more important to think wh

nancy snyderman at the hospital of the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia tonight. nancy, good evening. >> good evening, brian. state by state the number of cases of influenza and influenza related deaths continue to tick upward. in the state of pennsylvania, more than 20 people have been killed by this virus, and in the meantime, doctors and hospitals across the country are just scrambling to keep up. at 15 months, khalif hollins is one of the youngest victims. he has spent the last three days in the hospital. >> he cried and cried. he would just look at me and give me like a sad look, like -- help me. >> washington's children's national medical center is seeing a nearly 30% increase in emergency department visits. >> it's our very young and our very old, as well as our immune compromised patients. so by very young, definitely children under 2 and even under 5 are at higher risk of complications. >> at saint luke's patients medical center in pasadena, texas, where there has been an uptick in flu cases, the elderly are a major concern. >> they come in very weak and i

from the moment patients enter the emergency department at the hospital of the university of pennsylvania, precautions against the flu are everywhere. >> i want them to put a mask on, i want them to get some purell on their hands. i want to give them a tissue. >> reporter: masks, hand sanitizer, warnings, and lots of cleaning are all ways hospitals across the country are protecting their patients and staff against what is a very bad flu season. >> we have so many patients. >> dr. jill barron runs u-penn's emergency department. are you seeing a lot of influenza at penn? >> we are seeing a huge rise in our cases of influence. we don't want to get anybody else sick. >> reporter: 29-year-old kiana lunde allen didn't think she would get it, and now she feels miserable. did you get your flu shot? >> no, i didn't. >> reporter: and why didn't you get a flu shot? >> i really don't know. i don't usually get them. i make sure my children got them. but now i have the flu. >> reporter: the disease is widespread in 47 states. up since last week. and it's making headlines across the country. interest is

in a lab at the university of pennsylvania, vijay kumar is funded in part by the military to create autonomous drones that don't need external links and, like us, can sense their environment. what you see on this robot are these two chips here which are essentially rate gyroscopes. these play the same role as the semicircular canals in the human body located near the ears, which essentially tell us orientation. so the rate gyroscopes that are on board can actually measure these angular velocities at thousands of times a second. this chip here is the accelerometer and this allows the robot to sense accelerations in the lateral direction so these are analogs to the otolith organs that measure acceleration in the human head. narrator: when a human pilot feels an unexpected change in acceleration, he knows to adjust the aircraft. kumar: the robots do exactly the same thing. narrator: the sensors adjust the craft by changing the relative velocities of the rotors and allow the drones to follow a leader with precision. kumar: a fundamental problem in coordinating multiple robots is the ability to mai

. >> host: university of pennsylvania history professor, steven hahn the author of "the political worlds of slavery and freedom." professor, before we get into the subject what is this image on the front cover. >> guest: a good question. i have no idea. the editor proposes a very eye-catching image when i showed it to friends and colleagues they had no idea what it meant. does not clearly relate to anything in the book but they bring interested in selling books. that is how they chose it. is an interesting photograph, and speaks to complex connections within the african-american community with gender and power, but beyond that, i don't know. >> host: professor hahn what do we know wrongly about slavery in the u.s.? >> guest: one of the issues i try to do with is the process by which slavery ended and the geographical reach of slavery. the view that tends to be handed down, the country be divided between the free states and so-called slave states and the civil war growing out of that conflict. my issue is not if slavery is that the root of the civil war but what interested me was the rela

we have been talking to the dean at the university of pennsylvania whose most recent back is "after broadcast news. media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment." dean michael x.delli carpini. thank you for being on book tv on c-span. >> my pleasure. >> we're here with tim gay, author of assignment to hell. tim, why these five men during world war ii? because they made such an incredible contribution not only to wartime journalism but to the journalism that came after the war. all five office these guys made a profound contribution to the journalism that really defined our childhoods and our adulthood. it's not just cronkite and not just roon road-rooney, because of their success with cbs, but what journalism was. lieb ling, who wrote a great column criticizing the press and assessing the press' role in port war america, and hall boyles, 0 who ended up when hi finally retired from ap, in the early 1970s, to have written words for that great wire service than any reporter in its history. so all five of these men were in the war theater in the european and pacific theater. >> t

the university of pennsylvania there are cams that track you as you walk from one place to another. the world we live in. so we have to get used to some of this and other things we have to think about how we might legislate and have policies that might limit the way the data is used. >> what about the way that this data is currently benefiting, you know, people like first-responders? >> well, right now as i said before, this technology is really in a stage of infancy, but i imagine a day where the first-responders would really be robots. imagine a gunshot going off or 911 call and before you know it, there is a swarm of these robots with cameras and microphones that have the ears and eyes on the site, providing information to humans first-responders that eventually do arrive on the spot. heather: that is amazing stuff to watch. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. by the way -- >> thank you very much for inviting me. heather: catch nova's, rise of the drones, tonight. it airs 9:00 p.m. eastern on pbs. jon: i do love that. speaking of drones a toy company is making a mi

watch a couple of interviews from the university of pennsylvania. first at 1:00 p.m. eastern, we will talk to richard ellis about why government programs don't work and a blueprint for change. at 1:15 p.m. we will hear from

this university at the university of pennsylvania killed his wife a crowbar brutally. got five to 10. he was going to get out. >> on monday. >> this is the wife that got killed. the professor was going to get out on parole. there is the slob. is is it legal people were outraged here. and then the parole board reversed itself in pennsylvania because they feared you, ladies. >> maybe they were afraid we would annoy them to death. >> bill: they were afraid you were going to come down there. >> this was a great outcome. justice prevailed here. they rescinded their decision. >> bill: you guys did it. i didn't have anything to do with it. is it legal ladies did it. >> auto little overgenerous but thank you. >> bill: congratulations. we are here for justice, right? >> absolutely. >> bill: factor tip of the day. we might be able to get you some money. the tip 60 seconds away. >> bill: factor tip of the day. free money for some of you. first, the dvd will soon sell out. they are flying out of here right now. if you want to see the tape, go to billoreilly.com. see you next febru