. >> something called utopia parkway, and utopia was supposed to be utopia and it was a bunch of jews got together and decided to form a community but it never took off, but we still have the name utopia parkway, but there is no utopia. >> the artist joseph cornell that is magical box, yet his house on utopia parkway. >> i'd like to thank our speakers for this wonderful talk this evening, engaging conversation. on behalf of the library, we want you back when you have your next book ready. so when that happens, let us know. thank you everyone for coming. >> thank you. [applause] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> let me just say i think you could some of because of its very timely book, i hope you enjoy. i think it can be summed up in really one sentence, that seldom if ever in our history have we seen such a concerted, series of vicious personal attacks directed against any president of the united states. completely funded in this case by a pair of brothers, big oil barons, named the koch brothers, with the assistance of an

nethouva called utopia parkway was supposed to be utopia and was -- a bunch of jews got together to form a community and it never took off but we still hav the utopia.but >> joseph cornell had magical box on utopia park. >> i would like to thank our spkers for this wonderful talk gan nvsati on wyohe your next book ready. >> thank you. >> thank you, everyone eager to little for coming. [applause] oure wchoktvn ths and books every weekend. >> what areou reading this summer? booktv wants to know >> thereome ndfu ti ido am always interested in looking at the history and things that have happened. certainly robert caro's book, w t read.in a series about this one documents his fiers as vice president when he was running against president kennedy for the nominationnd pdendalow o that is a troubled time for lyndon johnsonnd president kennedy. they were certainly different in just about erype itas t otr i lyndon johnson's life. as he is passing into the presidency this is one of the more interesting times to see bearooe iredible job having looked at his other book and heard him talk about this bo

utopia became dystopia. >> red road. for more than 40 years, these imposing structures loomed over glasgow. they were the solution to a postwar housing crisis. >> look at this. if you are part of something big. look at the size of these. it is all going to disappear. >> weathered through years of neglect, who loved as they were loved. >> it is a dumping ground. >> of the man is 60 years old. he built a concrete castle that went from building to building. there are not many blocks dedicated to their memory. but it is always somewhat unique. the time they were completed, it has become something of an architectural experiment. home to almost 5000 people. they moved in on day one. they arrived at the tenement. >> we walk through their, [unintelligible] [unintelligible] i'm quite happy, i'm very happy there. very, very, very happy. >> everything is looking up at the development. >> red road came in the later part of those years. >> there is a pilot's eye view of the city. >> does go was faced with an acute shortage of combina

the woodsy socialist utopia that is pretty much scandinavia's scan da or scandananada. well, last tuesday night i reported that the country's official twitter account at sweden is handed off to a new swede every week. i believe that is also how the universal health-care system shares the country's one thermometer. now i, of course, wanted to have my turn as sweden's tweet wheel. i can certainly tweet for sweden. i will prove it. >> -- its was all part of a our top secret twitter takever project operation artificial swedener. and you in the colbert nation heeded my call to arms with your thumb. and unleashed a devastating tweet barrage of support. well, guess what, nation, the country of sweden has responded. sweden's official spokes swede sergio-- released a statement quote people who are not swedish, citizens, cannot take over the account not yet anyway. we have a very long list already. colbert will have to wait. i done know what that is in swed-- swedish. >> excuse me, sweden, i do not do patience. i've been thrown out of half a dozen performances of waiting for godo

of president obama's green air agenda that had an effort to create a government engineered green utopia. after the bankruptcy of solyndra and beacon power, taxpayers have a right to know how and why their money was spent in such poor ways. the committee as uncovered a troubling pattern of projects, receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies. the obama a mrgs frequently claims the 1705 loan guarantee program and other stimulus funded green programs create green jobs in america and will develop a strong american green energy sector. in contract to the optimistic predictions for the administration, at the last hearing before this sub committee, we heard from four loan guarantee recipient companies that were struggling financially. halting production, despite receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies. today's hearing will exam other beneficiaries. large, successful companies that had plenty of access to capital to fund green energy projects, but saw obama administration programs as an easier and more ro profitable way to make money with little or no risk from themselves.

op it is utopia because it does not exist. the latter part of the 19th century and dignity of workers h nto n ot w seilanat uee was but creativity but that is when it the world was first coming out o daf ivgep have had for most of history. dite ha e way, things were ethical question. >> i the book. >> thank you islamic the word catholic only popped up the dozen times. is that a marketing cision or there are all made some many catholics? >> you give me too uh it [laughter] that is made. i am a communicator. when i sat down to write i otthndda messpoeao. with non catholics of various sorts are you then nonbelievers except speaking at theou soio. deonal camyssenals argument is natural law i tried to find the komen grammar and that is what you see. thb is where you talk about charity. that you had done some charity work and t oths u touh was taken away from the pizza place? then you realized that you took ay from the hard working people could you expand >> iwas hard. i will recount the sry. d o wthor at the national institutes of

godfather of tv every where or as we call it at times warner, just the godfather, what is your vision for utopia. what is the ultimate end game in a dream scenario. >> actually agree with you. we all have to focus on the internet. you have to know what you are, you're an elephant not a lion. we have to as an industry look at the interfaces and let the consumers use the interfaces they want. so if they like an apple interface, a netflix design, you got to let them use that. don't get hung up on trying to control the interface. you'll still have your subscriber relationship. you can't develop the best world class interfaces at the scale that a distribution company has. silicon valley and the internet industry is a global industry, that's what they do. we should harness that and let those interfaces make the fundamental product right and the fundamental strength of your distribution system get more powerful. but harness them. don't try to hold that back. your consumers won't allow it. >> gentlemen, thank you all very much. ladies and gentlemen, my all-star panel. fascinating discussion. thank you v

i don't find that the utopia of having the artificial turf, the art tirble grass, it's more of a biohazard because it's designed for heavy traffic. president fong: thank you very much. next group, please? >> hello. my name is liam and i play on the s.f. united soccer team. soccer players are not a special interest group. we represent every zip d.o.d. -- code in the city. we are the future of the city ard -- and we are the city. artificial turf can be maintained in played on in all kinds of weather. 9% of be be players polled prefer artificial turf. the players who use beach chalet support the project. those who oppose it do not use the fields and use other areas of the park. also on turf you can't get rained out and even if it's raining i really do love soccer and would like to play soccer. please move forward with this project. thank you. [applause] >> are you with a youth group, sir? >> yeah. good evening, commissioners. leo cafferty. i'm with san francisco glen. we have 150 kids that pass through here and 150 kids waiting outside so we've opted to syndicate since it's time to go home an

karlin, let's talk about utopia. people would have memorandums of understanding, they work together, but in reality, if that system wasn't yet perfected, do families need to know they need to be persistent? family members are so key to everything we're talking about because, oftentimes, it's the family member that is the first and sometimes the only individual to begin to identify that something's wrong. and so family members in so many cases, i think, are the unrecognized assets, if you will, in terms of getting the treatment that individuals may need to those individuals. so it is critical that professionals within the department of veterans affairs, within samhsa and other agencies, are engaging with family members to provide the education, to provide the information that those family members might need to first identify that there is a problem and then to know what to do. what do you do when you notice that your family member has a problem? and it's critical that these partnerships that kathryn talked about are a

their lives to protect our freedoms is to hunt down and kill our enemies, not to build democratic utopias across the world. we don't have to the money to do that and it's not their job and unfortunately a lot of politicians in washington, when we get somewhere, they want to stay, rather than solving the national security threat and coming back home. >> thank you. >> would you cut defense spending to balance the budget? >> no. i do not think that the defense budget should be used as a purpose of balance. i think the defense budget should be keyed on exactly what i said, the vital national security interest of the united states. i think number one we need to stand unequivocally with the men and women of the armed forces. i'm most proud of right now i'm representing over 3 million veterans defending the mojave veterans memorial which we won 5-4 on behalf of the veterans. i don't think the defense budget is immune from pork. every budget cycle in washington the pentagon submits a budget of what the generals and admirals and military leaders say we need for national security and members of con

it's difficult for a dog to hold a grudge after entering utopia. >> it's amazing.ou'd think dogs would fight but they get along, wonderful. thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. you can keep track on twitter on abc 7 news bay area and talk about it on facebook.com. abc 7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> there is two bodies surface in separate parts of oakland. >> and victims of rape in the military. how a congress woman is helping those who feel helpless in this fight for justice. >> there is a summer drizzle around the bay area, i'll give you a look in the accu-weather forecast coming up. >> there is a search for clues but it's not the only homicide mystery for police today. there is a second body found in a second location. good evening, everyone, i'm carolyn johnson. >> and i'm cheryl jennings. police are asking the public for help in solving two mysterious deaths within hours of each other. abc 7 news reporter vic lee joins us live with the site of one of the discoveries. >> this is east oakland coliseum way is in front of me. and to my left about thre

he sees as a at that as an excuse for more government to try to reshape america in this socialist utopia that lives in the fantasy of his mind. saying that obama is probably happy to see these jobs numbers come out because it certainly didn't seem that way now but i think he's happy to blame it on capitalism and i think he's happy to see solutions in more government even though it's the government that is the source of the problem which i think was kind of ironic too in his speech today where he tried to figure out how we can help veterans returning from afghanistan or iraq get jobs and his solution there was maybe to fast track them so they don't have to test for all these licenses and certifications and take years of schooling and borrow all this money but what obama doesn't understand is that governments have erected these barriers he's trying to help the veterans get around federal state and local government barriers i mean that's an admission that the government is the problem. and you know what why don't we remove these barriers for everybody not just the veterans but how about eve

there was also a prevalent belief at e time ttace,hat a kind of wind utopia would evolve. the idea was that because confidents would be more quickly linked, people would get to know a eanoorearereld e ao belief that man will evolve in 3,000 years, cities would float in the air and man wouldn't live inhe sewldisd atmphere. fin raed sp aanou b more spiritual and a new breed of homo saens will evolve called altitude men. more than that as i was researchinthe book i began t e celebrity culture about which we are so inundated today really started to take place during this time and especially during this race. 267 had the . establishment of two national radio networks, nbc and cbs filling the airwaves with information. you had an elosion of the erreormas be yo had movies and in 1927 the talking movies. charles lindbergh, one reason he would become so well known is he was the most filndivua ha it was estimated that 7.43 million feet of celluloid was used on charles lindbergh which two million feet more indidualho t pncofy most films s. people were fascinated by all of these espec

. >> it's not utopia. everyone doesn't automatically understand everyone and live together. the best thing about that show is that in the best canadian tradition, it shows that when you screw it up and you misinterpret somebody, you get to laugh about it. >> that's it. >> i think that that is a great, great metaphor for how this country works. >> canada's economy is thriving because it actively seeks immigrants to fillet boar gaps and then branch those immigrants to full advancements and opportunities of being canadian. while new york city mayor michael bloomberg thinks our national policy is national suicide. i'm one of six children that my mother raised by herself, and so college was a dream when i was a kid. i didn't know how i was gonna to do it, but i knew i was gonna get that opportunity one day, and that's what happened with university of phoenix. nothing can stop me now. i feel like the sky's the limit with what i can do and what i can accomplish. my name is naphtali bryant and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now. gi

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our next guests are two fr two sides of the political aisle with a vision of a purple nation utopia. blue, get it? free from bipartisan posturing? can common ground be found before we fall off the fiscal cliff? lanny davis former special counsel to president clinton and michael steele, former rnc chairman. i started on you immediately. i said i miss the days when we had the great republican president. you said, i didn't work for bush. i said, i'm talking about clinton. that great republican clinton. >> he was. >> we have a rhino and a dino, don't we? >> you have a conservative and a liberal. >> let's start with i favor obama care. michael? >> you found one thing. >> i favor increasing taxes. i favor -- >> what do you mean? that's not in bowles simpson. >> bowles simpson does -- >> gets rid of loopholes. >> speaker boehner, one dollar -- >> by the time i'm done with you guys this will fall apart. i read what you said about we've got to stop the political posturing. he brings up issa. that's the best metaphor -- with the way the president has been electioneering, not governing for the

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. >> one person's utopia is another's dystopia. >> right. >> as well as people like me, you know, the rest of us who could at any time be completely bankrupted should we run into unexpected medical trouble but that's a kind of side point. sometimes you'll hear them throwing around this idea that republicans, if they only take a majority of the senate but not a filibuster proof majority, that they could use the reconciliation process to try to undo obama care that way. the reason they can't, i think this is important for people to understand, is because the congressional budget office has estimated that repealing obama care will add $145 billion to the budget between 2012 and 2019. one thing that always gets lost in this debate, partly because romney's been so dishonest by saying obama care adds to the budget deficit, is that this is a bill that not only kind of expands insurance to many, many millions of people, but it also attacks the budget deficit. >> right. well, i mean, that is the cbo estimate. i know some people may disagree but mckay -- >> i know, but republicans have their ow

and what they offer, this is interesting, what they offer, the dream, the sort of utopia, the vision that they have for the future of our country, is pure free markets. and they say this all the time. it's not me making this up. you go to any tea party rally -- >> that's right. we've covered them. you're exactly right. >> -- and they talk about this. if we can just get government out of the way and we can reach out, you know, and -- >> but getting government out of the way is what helped bring down the economy -- >> of course. but they say the only problem is that government, you know, yes, we deregulated all of that stuff, we deregulated all through those year, but we didn't go far enough. and so you can say to them, well, look at the record of george w. bush, the champion deregulator. look at all of the amazing things that he did to set wall street loose to deregulate. and they're like, well, george w. bush was not a real conservative. they say this all the time. it's very easy for them to, you know, because they're such purists and ideologus to excommunicate someone like george w.

and what they offer, this is interesting, what they offer, the dream, the sort of utopia, the vision that they have for the future of our country, is pure free markets. and they say this all the time. it's not me making this up. you go to any tea party rally -- >> that's right. we've covered them. you're exactly right. >> -- and they talk about this. if we can just get government out of the way and we can reach out, you know, and -- >> but getting government out of the way is what helped bring down the economy -- >> of course. but they say the only problem is that government, you know, yes, we deregulated all of that stuff, we deregulated all through those year, but we didn't go far enough. and so you can say to them, well, look at the record of george w. bush, the champion deregulator. look at all of the amazing things that he did to set wall street loose to deregulate. and they're like, well, george w. bush was not a real conservative. they say this all the time. it's very easy for them to, you know, because they're such purists and ideologus to excommunicate someone like george w.

will very moment of bipartisanship thrown into sharp relief by the split screens of -- >> living in utopia, but there's got to come a time when we can talk about the tough issues facing this country and the other side is not evil. other side is not trying to kill innocent people. they're just two different camps with two different points of view who want to come together and at least get 80%, 60% of what they can. >> i believe neruary is actually a month on the mayan calendar. coming up, the judge may have declared a mistrial in the edwards case, but will there be an impact on campaign finance laws? savannah guthrie is here to talk to us about it next on "now." if you're one of those folks who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... well, shoot, that's like checking on your burgers after they're burnt! [ male announcer ] treat your frequent heartburn by blocking the acid with prilosec otc. and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill a day. 24 hours. zero heartburn. support team usa and show our olympic spirit right in our own backyard. so we combined our

because we live in this fictional world of a blackboard where the professor can create a nirvana and utopia. the mine is capable of -- theuc. mind is capable of wonderful hallucinations.atholic some people in positions of power, i do think the catholic voice is morris ended today than it was 10 years ago, 20 years ago, so i am not discouraged. i was discouraged, i would go to the pub and say the hell with it. [laughter] i still go to the pub. t aughter] i'm going to be at the raymond royal at the world over. the media has been very good to me, on lou dobbs yesterday -- not everybody in the media is bad. just because many people tend to be on the left or center of politics does not mean they are all out to get us. it is a business, they do want an audience. many people will -- as i say, fair-minded liberals are not the problem. the problem is that hardo b quarter, which is increasingly h becoming part of their voice, ft is too, on the left. it is to defeat them with logic and reason. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> book tv has over 150,000 twitter followers. follow book tv on twitter tod