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us a tweet at booktv. send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org.on the political leanings of professors in the united states. this is about an hour and a half. >> okay, we are going to get started, everyone. thank you for coming tonight. i am the director of the institute for public knowledge. on behalf of the institute for public knowledge at nyu,

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us know what you're reading this summer. tweet us @booktv, post it on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@ c-span.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. beginning at 7 p.m. eastern, justice sonia sotomayor gives the arthur miller freedom to write lecture. then at 8:30, booktv sits down with thomas sowell. at 9 on "after words," olympia snowe talks about her book, "fighting for common ground," with guest host ab stoddard of the hill. at 10 p.m. eastern, nathaniel philbrick on "bunker hill," and we continue at 11 with james zogbi. that all happens tonight on c-span2's book f. booktv. >> booktv continues with nancy rubin stuart. ms. stuart recounts the lives of revolutionary era women. peggy shipman and lucy flucker, wife of george washington's chief of around tillty, general -- artillery, general henry knox. this is a little under an hour. >> it's a pleasure to be here in this historic place, and, well, i guess the ghosts of history are here visiting us tonight. people often ask -- now can you hear me now? louder? okay. still not projecting. try again. people often as

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on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> now on booktv, vladimir alexandrov recount it is life of frederick bruce thomas. thomas, the son of former saves, lived and worked throughout the united states before leaving for europe and eventually emigrating to russia where he became a successful owner of numerous restaurants and theaters, then turkey where he ran several nightclubs. this is a little over an hour. >> it's a pleasure to be at the the bookstore, and thank you all for coming. so the story of how this book came about began six years ago for me when i read a sentence that changed my life. i was reading the memoirs of a russian singer who was very popular at the end of the first world in russia. his name was alexander vertinsky, and then he was poppe around in western europe. he described how in 1920 he escaped from the bolsheviks in south russia and landed in constantinople, and ten he wrote the following sentence which i'll translate for you from the russian. i began to perform, he said, in the outdoor entertainment guard b of our famous moscow negro -

us know what you're reading this summer. tweet us @booktv, post it on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at book tv@c-span.org. >> here's a look at some of the books that are being published this week. in "straight flush: the true story of six college friends who dealt their way to a billion dollar online poker empire and how it all came crashing down," author ben mezrich recounts the creation of absolutepoker.com and how the u.s. justice department ended its operations. historian joseph persico details president roosevelt's hands on involvement during world war ii in "roosevelt's centurions." in "midnight in mexico: a reporter's journey through a country's descent into darkness," mexican-american journalist alfredo -- [inaudible] reports against the threat on his life in 2007. dan savage, author of a sex advice column and founder of the it gets percent project, a prom to help -- a program to help prevent suicide against lgbt youth presents his thoughts if "american savage." in "flight of the eagle: the grand strategies that brought america from colonial dependence to world leadership," conrad black, founder of canada's