. >> if you would like to join the chat room to talk to roberta schaefer email us at booktv.org. >> phyllis work to raise through college on the night testing shift and received a master's degree from harvard. after 50 she went to law school to receive for degree s in st. louis andta founded poun eagle forum to encouragectiv. edassroots to be politically phl active and led the tenuree and battle to defeat the gratification of the erahe amendment.ower she has books on politics, national defense, the courts and even a phonics textbook for children. lae book she has about now sch is called "no higher power" please welcome phyllis >> tnk you [applause] much,nd g >> there are a lot of good books about obama's but not o there was not one on the important issue that i calle on "no higher power" obama's war on religious freedom. barack obama said we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the united states. natn u few americans realize how radical that was in what he planned not merely to spread the wealth as he told joe the plumber but transform america from one nation in pledgeuide fro

schaffer about these books and give your input what books you think should be included e-mail us at booktv.org. >> we have to be clear about the very many ways we own ourselves and make decisions that history is phenomenal or vital or special. >> former president of bennett college rights and comments on politics and economic history. next sunday your questions, call, e-mails and tweets for surviving and thriving, 365 fax. in depth live at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv. you are watching booktv. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. up next, bob deans argues the republican party which in the past has supported the barn and the protection is largely beholden to corporate polluters and tea party activists. his book is "reckless: the political assault on the american environment" 11 and he speaks at the national press club in washington for half an hour. >> good evening. with thank you very much for joining the action fund this evening. my name is melissa harris and i am communications director. this will include remarks from the action fund director and "reckless"

shaffer about these books and give your input on what books you think should be included, e-mail us at booktv.org. .. >> this is just over an hour. [applause] >> thank you. there is nothing probably worse than adding to your own resume. but it is a very important addition to what we are saying. the most passionate, the most interesting learning times i had were in 1976 and 1988 during the carter campaign, where i was in the pit at cambridge survey research running all the analysis that john gorman, and the partner pack udell was on the plane and working with the speechwriters. and a lot of my job was to coordinate between stu eisenstadt and the policy people. the speechwriters while everyone else was running around. i also had a rather's real expense in 1980, because i helped practice the debates before the real debates. i will explain later why this was an uncomfortable experience. not because who am i to play reagan, but because you might think it is a dream to grade the president, to tell him why is the economy in the tank, it is in fact very disconcerting to cluster the president. [laughter]

schaefer about these books and get your input on what books he think should be included e-mail us at booktv.org. >> what are you reading this summer? book tv lost no. >> and reading a book called values to action by kramer. the professor at kellogg school of business. a wonderful book. a recommended highly. i just finished reading a book called currency wars. that can render its author. it's about international economics and what is happening to us. finally, i just finished a book called unaccountable which will be released in september written by marty carry his one of the leading surgeons at johns hopkins hospital. >> for more permission on this and other summer reading less visit. ♪ team [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] at a time. [background noises] [background noises] >> ladies and gentlemen, chief executive of the hachette book group. always difficult to tame a crowd of publishers. it's my great pleasure to welcome you to the 175th year celebration for the wonderful little, brown & co. to celebrate 175 years of great autho

go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. author edward kline visited us at freedom fest in las vegas to talk about "the amateur" looking at president obama before and after he reached the white house. he's what he had to say. >> well, the book currently on your screen spent several weeks on the "new york times" best seller list, many weeks as number one. he's our guest on booktv on c-span2. where did you get the title for the book? >> it came from a meeting that bill clinton had in new york, north of new york city where he has a home. he invited -- this was back in august 2011. he invited his wife, his daughter, chelsea, and a bunch of friends to meet with him because he had news. he had done a secret poll. this was in 2011, sorry. the polls showed if hillary clinton would challenge president obama for the democratic presidential nomination in 2012, he thought she could win. she was surprised by this. she said, bill, i'm the secretary of state, i have lunch with the man every thursday, what about loyalty, bill? he said, there's no such word as "loyalty" in p

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