to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org, tweet us @booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> and while in corpus christi we spoke with norman delaney whose book "the maltby brothers' civil war" tells the story of two brothers who ended up on opposite sides of the civil war. >> in regards to the civil war it was a brothers' war. it was such a great tragedy in all, too that divided so many families. but as far as the personal relationships, they remained very very close as it had been before the war and would remain afterward. you know that cliche blood is thicker than water, and i think it really holds in the case of, well certainly the maltby brothers. my book then, "the maltby brothers' civil war," concerns three of these brothers. henry maltby, he was the second brother, second son of david maltby from ohio, and he he originally came to texas. he wanted to establish the newspaper "the ranchero," so that was when the younger brother, william came down here. and referring to the older brother, jasper maltby he has no linkage whatsoever with texas. jasper maltby also from the

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to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org, send us a tweet or post on our wall at facebook.com/booktv. >> what we witnessed in the first couple of months of the uprising was something that i found inspiring as a student of history and of politics and identity all over the world. i have come to believe is a child of triangulation and moderate reform that radical change is impossible individuals can work hard, they can maybe nudge government policy one way or another. and i believe that government and state systems were hard things to turn that was naÏve idealistic, foolish to think otherwise. and so the moment that lasted about a year after the first uprising began showed that in fact it is not impossible. in this case that this had happened and millions of people who were terrified and refuse to utter even the smallest political speech or suddenly from one to the next willing to rush towards police that were shooting them dead in the interest of the slogan that was taken and social justice and the fall of dictatorship. to me that was mindbending and very humbling and as an individual,

to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org, tweet us at booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> really it was what convinced regulars that an electric car was a viable consumer option and it caused them to develop a set of rules that would come to a much larger package of air pollution related rules that essentially set out a timeline for innovation and said in 1998 2% of the cars that are sold in california have to be electric. and by 2003 10% have to be electric. >> but that failed. >> i would say it didn't feel. it was postponed, and one of the good things about this policy was there was a built-in mechanism. every couple of years didn't come back and say this is working, is it not working, what isn't working, is technology ready? and then they would also fight a lot with automakers about it. >> how did the automakers feel about the cost? >> i don't think you like dimensional, probably tasseled likes them but it's been an evolving relationship to address times the relationship has been more or less saw but in general relationship has been characterized by a series of very ca