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. >> jason riley joining us on book tv in-depth, we thank you for the conversation. >> thank you. .. .. national archives foundation which supports her education and outreach activities and there is a gaggle of members of the board of the national archives foundation in the theater. nice to see you. check out archives foundation.org and to join them on line. a little-known secret i tell everyone no one has ever been turned down for membership from the national archives foundation. some of you think of archives as a place for dead people. writers who have not spent much time and fall back on adjectives like dusty musty, or crumbling much to the education of archivists and preservationists. some say the riches are buried. can study and of lifeless remnants of history, archives are filled with many lives, billions of pages contain stories of payments of ordinary people who intersected with recorded history. mo rocca tells a story of hidden records and send them into the world. with "mobituaries: great lives worth reliving" he looks at the lives of men and women, those well-known and tho

you can find us on @book tv on twitter. >> that book was written in the 2000's and it was about immigration i was working at the wall street journal at the time. i got a new position and asked me if i wanted to take over this piece. it kind of fell into my lap. i'm not an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. i did enjoy immigrant history. some of the arguments you realize as you write about it are old and it's been around for so long. so that book really came out of editorials at that time. it's sort of, i sort of expand on a lot of the editorial pages. over the decades. sometimes conservatives in particular. the foot of immigration view on the right you always have - - protectionist strain on the right. but that was never the dominan . reagan was extremely pro-immigrant. george w. bush and his father were both pro-immigrant. even the republican nominees that lost like mccain or romney were far more pro-immigrant than you had in donald trump. so this is not a new development on the right. although there is this faction, more anti-immigrant faction on the right but it's never been the pre

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. >> join us every third weekend of the month on book tv and american history tv as the c-span cities tour explores the american story. watch videos from all the cities we visited since 2011. follow us on twitter. >> university of michigan politics professor pamela brandwein discusses justice joseph bradley's dissent in the "slaughter-house cases," which concerned new orleans butchers' right to practice their trade after the passage of a louisiana state regulatory law. she explains how bradley's broad interpretation of protections conferred by the fourteenth amendment influenced later landmark cases. this supreme court historical society event is part of a lecture series on dissent in the supreme court. >> good evening. thank you for being here. i'm chilton varner and serve as president of the supreme court

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on the left side over there. thank you everyone for joining us. [applause] >> tonight on book tv and primetime from the story recounts the life of james williams, grand central terminal spread caps in the early 1900s. the creation of the estate in palm beach, florida, historian compares the debates of the 1960s to those that are happening today. he offers insights into becoming an entrepreneur and his founding of ameritrade and fusion gps cofounder discusses his investigation into trump in the creation of the steel dossier. check your program guide for more information. >> book tv recently visit capitol hill and asked republican senator john of arkansas about his reading list. >> i've got several books i'm working on right now. one of them is called 1944. myself and some other senators will represent the u.s., 75th anniversary.

book tv on c-span two. book tv. television for serious readers. >> joining us now is notre dame professor patrick demesne. here is his book. why liberalism failed. first of all, if you would, define liberal democracy for us in your view. >> i'm sure many of your viewers want to hear the or liberalism. i mean it as a political operating system of the west, the united states, britain, europe. , europe. the political philosophy done that gave rise to our constitutional order. the government's role and protecting those rights if you have a more libertarian view or making it possible for you to have the full enjoyment of those rights if you have a more progressive view. the purpose is to provide liberty and protect liberty. this very purpose in this very end is undermined to protect and give rise to. >> we will into that. ten both democrat, republicans, conservatives, do they do they all consider themselves to be liberal democrats to their extent? >> what we think of as our political spectrum is basically right-leaning liberals and left-leaning liberals or has been until very recent times. what we have seen in

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us on "newsmakers." we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. tv iss holiday week, book on c-span2 every day starting monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, charles schwab and his book, "invested." tuesday, louisiana congressman steve scalise with his book, "back in the game." wednesday, emily bernard, carolyn for shea, and shapiro talk about their perspective memoirs. thursday at 8:30 p.m. eastern, sarah and her book, "the cigarette." friday, donald trump, jr. and his book, "triggered." watch this special airing every week on c-span2. >> democratic presidential candidate joe biden spoke to voters in new hampshire.as part of the spinal campaign swing through the state this year. after taking questions, he met and took questions from some of his supporters. [applause]

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if you are in attendance, take a picture and send it to us on twitter, facebook or instagram. now it's book tv in prime time. in just a moment, historian alvin, thomas jefferson's egalitarian work cbs sunday morning correspondent discusses his book of obituaries that features politicians, scientists and entertainers. followed by university of virginia history professor who explores the political history of tobacco in america. in 10:00 p.m. eastern, in-depth interview with author and columnist, jason riley. for more information, check your program guide. ... thomas jefferson chair in american history at the university of virginia

one better and i'm going to give him the. then i think it fosters an atmosphere around it. please join me and thinking him all paul and joining us this morning. now on c-span two book tv more television for serious readers audrey is the author of this new book power to the people. she is also the founding director for security and new technology of university. how is it affecting violence. the growth of interrelated technology is used together everything from 3d printing to the internet. all of these things can be used together that is something that is actually in the second and third wave of innovation but is not completely unprecedented. if you look back at what happened at the end of the 19th century there is less to learn with what happened in that. understand better how we can deal more effectively with these technologies today. how would you be able to curtail the innovation. with the public getting a hold about lysing that information. in the 19th century there was different approaches in different things. was rather different. spread with no kind of regulation whatsoever. and the types of things that happened that they were self-regulating. you also had the r

us. that's what i see. that's what i hope they walk away with. >> the cranch span cities tour is exploring the american story. we take book tv and american history tv on the road to watch videos. c-span.org/citiestour and follow us on tour. continue our feature on laramie with the author and her book "women on the north american plain." >> people have one view of the great plains pretty much and it is the stalwart, pioneer woman and husband and kids crossing the plains. but that's only a very small piece of the plains' history. en we decided to edit this book, what we wanted to take an expansive look and go back to pre-contact wrm americans entered the point and come up to the present. the diversity of experiences of women in this region is enormous and focusing on that pioneer experience is somewhat limiting. >> can you give me an idea of hat makes up the great plains? >> the mass of the great plains at the university of nebraska constructed. wonderful book he edited called "the great plains." and he took 50 different sketches of people had of the great plains and overlaid them on one another and looks like a kind garthner with a huge magic marker go

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i am alyssa kane on behalf of myself and scott adams and the commonwealth club, think you're going for joining us. [applause] >> book tvers book fairs and festivals on the country. our 2020 festival season will kick off in january with the ranch writers festival in california. followed by a book festival in georgia. then in march book tv visits arizona for the tucson festival of books. and later that month the virginia festival of books will take place in charlottesville. for more information on upcoming book fairs and festivals into watcher previous festival coverage click the book fairs tab on her website, booktv.org. >> here's a look at some of the most notable books of 2019. midnight -- chernobyl they look at the worst >> in this room tonight, my mother ivory may poet in her own right. [cheering] how as a child i watched her every move seeing her eyes fall upon every word anywhere encountered in the grocery store, on the bus, pamphlets, the package labels, my high school textbooks, she was always wolfing down words insatiable which is how i learned the ways in which words work kind of sustenance to be a beautiful r

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. >> join us the first and third weekend of each month as we take book tv and american history tv on the road. to watch videos from any of the cities we visit go to c-span.org /citiestour and follow us on twitter@c-span cities. exploring the american story. >> lieutenant governor suzanne crouch, thank you so much for joining us today. >> it is my pleasure to be with you. >> give us some speckity on your state. where is indiana localed and for what would you say your state is best known? >> hoosiers are risk takers. i mean, we believe in those who blaze the trail for others. we embrace the american dream and we know that through hard work, our dreams can become a reality and we see the evidence of that reality in the explosive growth going on all over indiana. here in indiana, we understand that our future is being built today. and as a result of 14 years of fiscal conservative leadership at the state level, our economy is strong and it is getting stronger. indiana leads the country in advanced manufacturing. we're number one with the midwest. we're fifth in the nation for our business

book. revolution. thank you for your time on the tv. >> i appreciate it very much. >> i think the criminal justice system is an improvement over what it used to be poor, or from what my father and grandfather experienced in this country but is still not perfect. but i would caution against taking these examples to say they are typical versus exceptions are aberrations or to say the reason so many blacks are involved with the criminal justice system because it's a racist system i don't feel a lot of evidence for that and often times we had discussions over the racial makeup of prisons and jails that we don't talk about the racial makeup of people who perpetrate crimes you can't have one discussion without the other. as imperfect as the criminal justice system is and has been and continues to be there are behavioral differences among groups that are underrepresented in that system. . . . .

book tv is television for serious readers all weekend every weekend join us again next saturday beginning at 8:00 a.m. eastern for the best and nonfiction books. .. .. >> host: this week on "the communicators" we want to introduce you to jason oxman, president and ceo of a group called information technology industry council. mr. mr. oxman, who do represent? >> guest: ipi is a crystallization of the technology sector. we represent 70 of the world's largest and most innovative technology companies. we've been around for 103 years, founded in 1960 at the association of business appliance manufacturers, scales and time clocks and over those 103 103 years our industry has changed and so has iti. our representation of tech sector companies is quite profitable. >> host: how did you get into the splendid work? >> guest: i been in d.c. close to 25 years. i came to work on broadband policies after the '96 act passed at the federal communications commission. i've been involved in the tech policy sector, worked at the fourth trade association. iran the payments technology industry before joining iti. >> host: as you well know there are several trade associations that represent tech

us. is asking this question, which havens will attract investors amidst the trade storm? maybe wants to talk about your book and pitch us on what you think is the best place to hide your money. tv tod type reach out to mark. next, world leaders make their way to the nato summit and outside of london present from clashes with his french counterpart. of the bring you all details live on the ground with maria tadeo. also, bloomberg radio is a great way to catch up. on yourto catch up mobile device or dab digital radio. this is bloomberg. >> there are a number of members within opec who want to do that. 400,000, in addition to the 1.2. know, has, as far as i thought of less than 1.2. iraq's oil minister reiterating his view that the cartel should deepen its supply cuts. this is despite an earlier meeting ending without discussion of cutbacks. the meeting runs until friday. we see an upside oil prices. -- two oil prices. but let's get a first word news update. >> send rp try is no chief executive -- sundar pichai is the chief executive of google and alphabet. former executives will remain active members of the board but say they have never been the sort of people who hold on wh

join us the first and third weekends of each month as we take book tv and american history tv on the road, and to watch videos from all the cities we have visited go to c-span.org/citiestour and follow us on twitter on c-span cities. we continue our feature on laramie, as we take it to the museum, and a special exhibit on wyoming women's suffrage. hallwaye in the women's of the plains museum and the iverson mansion. we begin to tell the story about why wyoming was unique, granting women the right to vote, holds property and elected office. 1860 nine, our wyoming territorial legislature dictated this. it was signed by governor women, and itting is remarkable we have this copy that is so extraordinary, and you can see the fanciful writing that said what was happening in the west. because of this act, december 10, 1869, we have the first woman voter in the world, luisa gardner swain, the first woman theiff, martha atkinson, first women on a jury. we had all of wyoming's women able to be in the legislature, this is mary bellamy. esther hobart morris was the first woman justice of the peac

as for the kavanaugh story many of us followed it on tv in the media very loosely but ruth and researching her book but conducted nearly 300 interviews and reveals much we didn't know about how brett kavanaugh's nomination came about and pushed through the senate. beyond details about about kavanaugh's ascension and ruth places it in the larger context of a calculated three decades long conservative effort with control over the high court. that campaign is ruth describes ended up merging last year with kavanaugh's own secure spot on the court. it was a joining of two supreme ambitions and what turned into a very messy but flawed confirmation process is disturbing and lasting consequences for cat amount and our country. as with any good columnist ruth who has known kavanaugh for years offers own informed opinion in tells us very clearly in the final pages of her book what she thinks of the courts newest justice and his confirmation. her own judgment and very typical of ruth is very tough but also exceedingly fair. ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming ruth marcus. [applause] c oh god good

on book tv and you can find their program. s in their entirety at booktv.org. type the author's name in the search bar at the top of the page. >> joining us now on booktv is megan phelps, the awe for of the book, unphenomenon, a memoir of loving and leaving the westboro baptist church. where did you grow up and how. >> guest: i now up in to peak could kansas at the west proper church, start by the grandfather and my extended family, and at westboro we has the normal life. i went to public schools, played video games, made cookies with my parents, all wonderful memories but then there was this -- our lives were organized around this picketing ministry. from the age of five i went out to protest gay people, originally, and then from it there morphed to everyone outside of our church was headed for hell and we had a duty to warn them of the consequences of their sins and our whole lives were organize erred around that ministry. >> host: how did the picketing ministry begin enough you talk about the loving family you have in a normal childhood. when did the got hates fags signs come. >> in 18919 when i was five years old an incident occur --

doug, look at trump white house, journalist design increasing the use of technology, all start tonight at 7:00 eastern on c-span2's book tvon consult book guide or visit website c-span/book tv.org. >> i hasn't told my lawyers i was going to do it. my lawyers would have told me not to. if this is where justice in american has come down to, put me in prison for the rest of my life, go ahead and do it, i will not lie before god to save my hine or anything else. the highest standard will be judged by, i'm just not doing it. well, they had ridiculed before they threw us out, ridiculed by religion, you're asking us to trip the italy god intervened and god said, saunders got podesta's e-mails. and zelensky, you take a fact here and a fact there and another fact here and you weave them all together and your book is full of lies, he said i read your books, i listened to your live stream on the internet, i've researched for hours and months, your books are lies, i knew at the moment, i could see the whole thing was politically motivated, mueller was a political operation, they had convicted donald trump of treason, they just didn't

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i think that probably most of us read "little house on the prairie" books when we were young and watched it on tv. i was getting to be a teenager at the time and sometimes was a little skeptical and thought it was a little corny. we'll get back to that later. how long have you researched and studied and why did you start studying laura ingalls wilder? >> well, i discovered the books as a kid too and read them and loved them and thought they were fantastic. i think part of the reason i really loved them was because my grandmother and most of my grandparents had been farmers in the midwest. they were all immigrants mainly from scandinavian places and came to minnesota and wisconsin and were farming in the late 1890s in some of the same places, same areas that laura ingalls had lived. so i think it was really fascinating to me to discover these books that told stories that cast some light on what they must have gone through. and then as an adult, i had an opportunity to review the first biography of rose wilder lane, laura ingalls wilder's daughter, who was at one time a pretty well-known journalist

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book signing reception right outside. you are welcome to join us. thank you. >> this is american history tv on c-span3, where each weekend, we feature 48 hours of programming exploring our nation's past. >> next, historian nancy bristow talks about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated american civilians and soldiers during the final year of world war i and beyond. she also explains why the epidemic is not memorialized like the war itself, despite causing a higher number of deaths. ms. bristow is the author of "american pandemic." museumional world war i and memorial in kansas city, missouri, hosted this talk as part of their annual symposium. >> i do believe that is my cue and getthis direction our introduction for our next speaker. also, i would like to say before that, here is a little public service announcement. i will be stealing this line from dr. nyberg. potentially, there is only one thing you can learn from the world war. that thing would be -- don't forget to get your flu shot. [laughter] gentlemen, do remember that. we did get that wonderful thing called daylight saving

book signing reception right outside. you are welcome to join us. thank you. >> this is american history tv on c-span3, where each weekend, we feature 48 hours of programming exploring our nation's past. >> next, historian nancy bristow talks about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated american civilians and soldiers during the final year of world war i and beyond. she also explains why the epidemic is not memorialized like the war itself, despite causing a higher number of deaths. ms. bristow is the author of "american pandemic." museumional world war i and memorial in kansas city, missouri, hosted this talk as part of their annual symposium. >> i do believe that is my cue to head this direction

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us? he is not. >> sorry about that. >> terri, please go go ahead you know what, terry, we are going to have to put you on hold. we will try again. richard. michigan. >> you are on book tv. >> i have two questions. is there a prescription for reversing this where we are destroying our liberalism? is this part of the thomas coombs theory about paradigms once a theory starts to be established it destroys itself? that is it. >> these are both excellent questions. let me focus on the second one. in some ways, whether a system always has self-destruction. this is a very old view. this is the one that informed my book. it was a view that informed the great work democracy on america. it is the understanding that every political order has potentially the seeds of its own self-destruction. when that order in some ways becomes an extreme version of itself it can no longer self-correct. i think that we are at that point today. the liberal order is facing not a threat as it has from the outside, especially in the 20th century from communism and fascism, but a threat from the inside. whether or not this order has the capacity for self direction. >> vicki. san diego. good afternoon.

us to get together? [inaudible >> history bookshelf features writers of the past decade talking about their books. you can watch our weekly series every saturday at 4:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tvn c-span3. campaign 2020 team is traveling across the country asking voters what issues the presidential candidates should address. >> i want a candidate who will advocate for everyone regardless of how old they are, will kind of background they come from, what race or religion they are. i feel like that has not been happening the past few years and we need to get back to a president that will advocate for everybody. >> social justice. do what you plan to do to resolve the issues across the nation. >> my top issue is wealth and how it affects politics and how money influences our policies. >> [indiscernible] top issue is not a legislative issue. transparencyical is our biggest issue in washington and government in general. that is something they need to focus on that making sure the american public really knows what's going on because there are so many hearings and meetings that we can know about that are detrimental to politics. onthe candidates would focus being upfront about their v

use my smartphone and apple watch. it's so great that it can connect to my apple tv and you can get it to play your favourite moments. lots of smart speakers now have audio book services. onealled unseen — it's the first ever audio comic book. when you hear this sound... that is so cool. cover — the word "unseen" in bold letters. 0h, amazing! no—one ever does that, that's the typeface. describing the pictures and each panel, which is the big part of comic books. i can't wait for unseen‘s creator, chad allen, to release the next segment. i don't know who the hell you are! i do not know who the hell you are! oh, it's loading. i was also excited to try a new device from bristol braille technology. this device i have in front of me is called the canute and this is the very first ever several—line braille display. it sounds like a typewriter! using buttons at the base of the device, you can upload books, pdfs and documents. the multi—line layer is great forfeeling diagrams. it's an easier and quicker way to read. that's nice. you can use something like this and not have audio on, constantly all the time. are we reading braille? yes. i was even more impressed with the next devic

us today and join me once again and thinking her. [applause] >> the museum remains open until 5:00 p.m. so take advantage of that time. [inaudible conversations] >> now on c-span2 book tv, more television for serious readers. >> good evening everyone, thank you for coming out to our new store at south street seaport, we have been open for two months so welcome, tonight we are excited to have with us eric lichtblau with return to the reich whose life tells an incredible story of world war ii hero is in. based on research and interviews with him itself whom the author was able to meet only months before his death at the age of 94 returned to the rich is an eye-opening of world war ii heroism and it's an incredible story that i am excited to hear more about. eric lichtblau a two-time pulitzer prize journalist is a best-selling author of the nazi next door and the remaking of american justice. here was a washington reporter for the new york times for 15 years while writing for the los angeles times, the new yorker time and other publications. he has been a frequent guest on npr, msnbc, c-span who we have here tonight and other networks as well as a speaker of many universi

book tv this weekend. and every weekend on c-span 2. >>> join us monday for more from campaign 2020 with democratic presidential candidate tom steyer. he's scheduled to speak at a breakfast at st. anthem chej in manchester, new hampshire, live over on c-span 2. you can watch online at c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >>> next, a discussion on the political situation in afghanistan, and the role that taliban and other power brokers like the u.s., china, russia and pakistan may play in future peace arrangements. from the brookings institution earlier this week, this is just over an hour and a half. >> welcome. i'm mike owe han lon briefly playing the role of mc to say hello and welcome you before i hand it over to tom bowman. tom is a very distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. thrilled that he would join us. he spent time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u.s. combat units and other parts of the broader effort there that no of course is approaching the end of its second decade. before i hand the baton to him i'll introduce laura miller, who was the acting special representat

us on the book. in the immediate aftermath of the assassination, i'm going barely talkedeff about, the investigation, cover-up, the theater of the states attorney in chicago police doing a reenactment on tv to show how under siege they were from the bullets coming from inside the apartment, the seizing of initiative and making tours of the apartment on monroe street, public tours so we lined up in the streets in december and went through what was called the crib, and the funeral itself. ask about the instant, tenacious community struggle that immediately responded to , you hinted to the naacp report that came out, the african-american patrolman's coalition, the rainbow coalition, the people who spoke up. i would like you to talk about that and then the struggle in the media, the context of what happened and how that went down in the media. glenn, maybe you could talk about the states attorney leading the raid. the state's attorneys office just last week filed a subpoena against northwest journalism students, so we are in a similar thing here today. you to -- i want you to talk about how immediately the story of the raid was the struggle between the state and various powers that be in var

on book tv, c-span2. all previous "afterwards" are available as podcasts and to watch online at booktv.org. >> good evening, the presidential vibrate, i'm glad you're all here. it's a special night for us because the book itself is perfect for the kind of authors and book topics we like to have here at the presidential vibrate because it talks about congress and the president and how they work together even when they don't necessarily agree on things. i was looking up a speech that president carter gave in naming building in texas after congressman brooks and one of the things the president sent at the time was he's a new president who thought i'll just have one congressman who disagrees with me, i'm the president of the united states, it's no big deal. then he found out that one congressman was jack brooks and it was a big deal. it talks about how president and congress work together and i think at this time, it is very important that we hear that message about how they work together. we are pleased tonight to have his son here with us. jeb has worked in the financial industry and companies for more than three decades. he started his career at citibank in taiwan, vice president of cit

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us for the book signing downstairs. some of you have asked if you can purchase a book and you will have the opportunity to do that as well. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> tonight on book tv and primetime, recounts the efforts of the u.s. ambassador to japan to see the piece between the two countries prior to the attack on pearl harbor. university of massachusetts professor holly jackson profiles leaders of america's social and political movements of the 19th century. cofounder of kick starter provides this for creating a better world. university of maryland president, raymond shares his insights on building an inclusive, high achieving and innovative university. allen offers his thoughts on how sexual misconduct accusations should be handled. that all starts tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2s book tv. you can find more information on your program guide or by visiting booktv.org. >> recently on book tv, fox news contributor andrew our third offered his thoughts on the inclusion in the 2016 residential election. his a portion of that program. >> you have an american citizen who is operating as an agent of russia. the only due process that american is ever going to ge

on book tv, c-span2. all previous "afterwards" are available as podcasts and to watch online at booktv.org. >> good evening, the presidential vibrate, i'm glad you're all here. it's a special night for us because the book itself is perfect for the kind of authors and book topics we like to have here at the presidential vibrate because it talks about congress and the president and

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using political correctness to silence conservatives in his book triggered. in publishers weekly bestsellers list. his examination of how we misread strange words and actions. many of these authors have appeared on book tv you can watch them online.