i thought about a different book about washington by historian named paul longmore who wrote the book the invention of george washington and in that i found an opportunity because paul longmore included in an appendix to his book about washington's reading. and this was something that, you know, longmore basically says that washington the reader was practical, but not really all that bright. he's not that much of an intellectual. the appendix itself talks about the main topics that you'll find in washington's library, and sums it up by saying he's not that much of an intellectual and left it at that. for me, for longmore, it was my opportunity, what i viewed as his short fall and i'm sure if he was here, he would argue with me. but that's the fun of being a historian, we debate things, that for me, taking the -- what sharp had said about reading being political and reading being relative to a moment, and being practical knowledge that you can apply to your specific tasks in front of you, with the ball that i viewed longmore had ingloriously dropped. there was my opportunity for the di

i was reading one book called "the exposition." i know when washington came to possess this book -- the early 1760s. i am reading this book and its got its signature on it and it is really nothing else there. i am reading it and it is dry. i could not find anything that's there or relevant that washington would use. what is it that he's going to get from this -- so i am approaching this book and i am reading it and i am not getting anything. i sort of having a panic attack. i turned the page and i am a third of the way and i keep ongoing. i see two glorious thumbprints in the margins of the book that's much bigger than mine and clearly belong to hands that were bigger than mine. there were smudges. you know it is meticulous as washington was of book ownership. the oils on your hands or ink stain. and you know -- i am looking of the thumbprints, i cannot prove they are his. to me, it was like all right, these are here for a reaso reason -- they were dripping it. i was reading what was on the page and it was about the organization of bishop and d-- e was i

they don't do a lot of book importing. washingtonas to order his books if he wants them for the most part during the colonial period. he's got to order them from england. so, all right, if he took the time to order it, and specifically order a certain title or edition, that means he intended to use, it right? i'm just going to make that assumption. because he's not going to line his shelves with unread classics. he never invited anybody into his study at mt. vernon, ever. so he wasn't trying to put together a nice looking book shelf to impress. so books are expensive, hard to come by. if he ordered it, he was going to read it. another assumption i made is for the books he owned that were clearly his, i had to separate what was his from what belonged to the rest of the people in his household because in 1799, the law was that an estate inventory counted everything in the house, even the residents that were still alive. martha washington, bushrod's books, other relatives that had lived there or was on extended stay were also counted. i

washington in this way. she is here tonight to talk about her great new book. she is doing exactly what we would like to do in mount vernon. not the person that is just a marble statue although we love the great icon of george washington. we want to recognize that he was a human who lived in the world. it was through his mind. we do have a chance to have questions from the audience. we have made a special effort tonight to bring out some of the items from his library and you will see two tour it in the holy of holies. you will get a chance to get in there behind the scenes. it is a special evening and it is this an exciting one. everyone give a big hand. [applause] adrienne: good evening everyone. it is a privileged to be here i wasn't expecting that so thank you for having me and for allowing me to indulge you in one of the biggest things i have ever done. i just want to say by info of introduction, why i gave this talk. i was on facebook and when i was on facebook, it was the same day where i received this invitation and saw a suggested ad pop up. like mark zu

do the publishers want to have their books reviewed in the "washington post"? >> they say they do. there are fewer outlets than there used to be for book reviews. >> jonathan yardly? >> we lost him. he retired after many, many years. every week, sometimes twice a week or many years before i got to the post-but we still have michael every thursday. >> ron charles, how did you get into this business? >> i was an english teacher for many years which i loved but the paper grading was wearing me down. i thought if i graded one more piece of paper i would kill someone. a student's mother suggested i review books, and i bought a book, wrote up a review and sent it to the christian review monitor and they bought it ask asked for more. >> how many years were at the christian monitor? >> seven years. >> can a bad or good book review affect sales? >> there is some academics i read saying a review has a marginal positive effect on sale but it doesn't matter if the review is positive or negative. it is just getting the cover and name out there helps a little bit. i know there are positive review

i love the george washington book. i know how much research you did on that, says and i was reading a henry cabbot lodge two-part biography and it begins with the funeral and the affect it was having in france and england and how he was honored in those two countries. is that true? >> you know, it's interesting that george washington has really had a tremendous worldwide reputation. it was very swg to me when the book was published in england. i didn't know what the reception was, and the gist of so many of the reviews was, number one, extraordinary admiration that they have for washington. two, that they had terribly mismanaged the relationship. here washington was a raging aglophile. coveted commission in the regular army. he could have been coopted into this global military machine that the british had and they didn't. i think that george washington, like abraham lincoln, is a figure who has become kind of universal figure. i think that is true. >> yes, sir. >> you guys write biographies for presidents. in the last

next hour, a conversation with the co-authors of the washington post book titled "trump revealed: an american journey of ambition, ego, money, and power," an

so i've not only had to keep the entire ulysses s grant book suspended in my mind, but because of the show of hamilton and even washingtonmy brain is bursting with these books my mind is crying for the release. >> c-span: when will you finish the grant book and when will it be released? spee2 i'm hoping to finish the book this year and that it will come out next year. i've had so many distractions with the show, pleasant distractions with the show. that every time i think that the interest of the show is going to start to subside and actually intensify so i would love if grant comes out next year, not positive it will. >> c-span: do you think it will? spee2 i was was look for people who are misunderstood. >> guest: hamilton had been demonized in jefferson was this pure and virtuous man, he he was a tribute to the common people and hamilton was this villainess figure and he was a tool of the plutocrats. and i touch on that hamilton was really much more liberal figure than he had been pretrade. jefferson may be less so. simply with grant i was try to start out with some of the risk that a pardon around -- or grant the drun

joining us now from chicago and the publishers convention is ron charles who is the editor of washington post's book world. mr. charles, what do you do for a living? >> guest: i assign most of the daily reviews in "the washington post", and every wednesday i write my own review. >> host: of books? >> guest: of books, yes. >> host: how many books a week, seven books a week? >> guest: we review 20 books a week, and we get about 150 of them. >> host: about 20 books a week are reviewed in the post. >> guest: right. >> host: why isn't there a stand-alone book section? >> guest: there is online, but we decided about four years ago to spread the reviews out through the paper to try and see if we could find more readers. it seemed like a disaster at the time to me, but i have had to admit that we do, in fact, have more readers for book reviews now. we just put them in places that people read more. book world, the old book world, the supplement, was much beloved but tended to be the section that everyone put aside to read later when they had time, and that time never came. whereas now we're in there every da

>> yeah, you know, it's interesting that george washington has really had a tremendous worldwide reputation. it was very interesting to me when the book was published in england, i didn't exactly know what the reception was, and the gift of so many of the reviews was, number one, extraordinary admiration that they have for washington, two, that they had terribly mismanaged the relationship here. washington was a raging anglo file, regularly commissioned in the regular army. he could have so easily been co-opted to this global military routine that the british military had and they didn't. i think george washington, like abraham lincoln, is a figure who has become a figure that has become a universal figure. i think that is true. >> yes, sir? >> you guys write biographies for presidents. in the last few decades, the presidents themselves sometimes write their own autobiography, including bill clinton. these days, all the presidential candidates tend to write their own biographies and obviously some day would become president. my question is, how do you compare your works to the autobiographies they write? >> let me say one thing. at le

. >> this week on q&a, washington post nonfiction book critic carlos lozada talks about the books written by the 2016 presidential candidates. >> carlos with the washington post, a while back you went through a bunch of books written by presidential candidates. >> why? >> is started with donald trump when he launched his campaign this summer he kept talking about his 1987 book, the art of the deal. he kept saying we need a president who can write a book like this. he held it up embodying who he was. so i figured i would read it. i never read art of the deal. i thought i would write something about it for the post of course when i read it i realized he had written many books. three memoirs, so i decided to pick a few of them and decide what i could learn through his own writing. >> why did he particularly and all the candidates interest you. >> a lot of politicians memoirs tend to be formulaic. there prescreened and scrubbed, they project this wholesomeness and americanness. trump wrote his before i soon before he intended to run for president ever. the first word he is 41 years old. i tho

-- george interesting washington has really had a tremendous worldwide reputation. , it was interesting to me that when the book was published in england, i did not know what the reception was. expressed the reviews extraordinary admiration that to theve for washington fact that they had terribly mismanaged the relationship. washington was a raging anglophile with a coveted commission in the regular army. easily beene so co-opted in the global military machine that the british had and they did not. ,nd i think george washington like abraham lincoln, is a figure that has become kind of universal. i think that is true. you guys write biographies for presidents. the presidents themselves sometimes right there own autobiography. these days, the presidential candidates tend to write their own biographies. my question is -- how would you -- are your work to the [laughter] let me say one thing, at least on the candidates looks, we are pretty sure that they have not written them and we are not even sure that they have read them in some cases. [laughter] when i started working on grant, grant published very famous memoi

left-leaning, that's the two questions that i'm addressing in the book. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> the new washington postput together list of conservative books. the book starts off with george will's, the pursuit of happiness. william buckley, jr. is next with nearer my god, margaret thatcher discussing her time as prime minister of the united kingdom. the autobiography, undocumented mark stein is fifth. followed by the bloom's critique of american culture. next is senator with the debt bomb. wall street journal columnist peggy, the time of our lives is a collection of her columns and comes in eighth on the list. finishing off the new boston post list of suggested summer reading are randy barnett's examination of the constitution and how it applies to politics today and restoration, another book by george will on term limits and a functional democracy. book tv has covered many of the books over many years, you can watch them on our website incident booktv.org. .. "in depth" airs the first sunday of every month. "after words" is a one-on-one conversation between a author of a newly-released none fic

to make sure washington had weather was a horse or telescope basically there is one story that is in the book were a group of southerners than northerners and day got into an argument that the revolutionary war and that is about to break out and washington grabs the right there behind him even with all the major battles are going on. if something happens to washington's force and then the best he could but when washington woke up in the morning and went to bed at night it was his job to take off of big and take off his clothes a major washington had the food he needed his bible. basically he was washington's number two that everything around him that washington did not have to think about it. it's not like it was easy. we find people of a grandson but he ends up saying that lee was the second best horsemen in the country but when you start talking about body servants the men that were entrusted with the day-to-day care and keeping of the president got their clothes and bare legs to make sure they got up in the morning most of them lived right in the same room. >> you were telling a story in f

our look at the best selling nonfiction books at washington, d.c.'s politics & prose bookstore continues with national book award-winning author ta'nehisi coates. his look at the current black tate in america is called "between the world and me." jasmine ward is next with "the fire this time," a collection of essays and poems about race written by more than 15 contributors. nancy isenberg examines class in america and the political significance of poor quites from reconstruction to the new deal in "white trash." and carlo rovelli in "seven brief lessons on physics." that's a look at some of the current nonfiction bestsellers according to politics & prose bookstore in washingto

otherwise i want to point people to books that they'll enjoy, they want to read. >> host: in washington is it important that you review a lot of the political books that come out? >> guest: it is. people do turn to us a lot for that. we have a lot of expertise in that area. a lot of political books particularly now with the election coming up but all the time, we'll write on the history books, policy books, any books that would impersonal injury on law or government -- impinge on law or government. >> host: how do you develop your bestseller listsome. >> guest: the bestseller list is generated by nielsens, and they take from maryland, virginia and -- [laughter] d.c. yes. and that information is just given to us, and we filter out some things like textbooks, other things that might show up, you know, certain times of the year. as everyone else does with our bestseller list, to make it cohere to the editorial judgment. >> host: what are some of the best selling books in washington right now this. >> guest: it doesn't tend to differ that much from the national list. once in a while a confe

next hour, a conversation with the co-authors of the washington post book titled "trump revealed: an american journey of ambition, ego, money, and power," an and joining us now the table is marc fisher and michael kranish. what kind of reaction did you get from donald trump? guest: for this book, donald trump was gracious with this time. he spent 20 hours with a team of reporters doing interviews. the day before the book came out he tweeted, don't buy the book, it is boring. he cannot have read it because he did not receive a copy. people will see this is a thorough biography. let me beginsher, where you begin, his life story. he knew how to be famous, he knew how to win numbers, to get ratings. he made a lifelong study of how to create buzz. let's was one level up from flash. can you explain? guest: he has a hierarchy of reaction he can get from the media and he has made a lifelong study of manipulating the media and using the media. he learned at a early age that all publicity is good publicity and he genuinely believes that getting his name out there in all of these different ways

next hour, a conversation with the co-authors of the washington post book titled "trump revealed: an american journey of ambition, ego, money, and power," an and joining us now the table is marc fisher and michael kranish. what kind of reaction did you get from donald trump? guest: for this book, donald trump was gracious with this time. he spent 20 hours with a team of reporters doing interviews. the day before the book came out he tweeted, don't buy the book, it is boring. he cannot have read it because he did not receive a copy. people will see this is a thorough biography. let me beginsher, where you begin, his life story. he knew how to be famous, he knew how to win numbers, to get ratings. he made a lifelong study of how to create buzz. let's was one level up from flash. can you explain? guest: he has a hierarchy of reaction he can get from the media and he has made a lifelong study of manipulating the media and using the media. he learned at a early age that all publicity is good publicity and he genuinely believes that getting his name out there in all of these different ways

every week or sometimes more than that they keep the book cover they stand at a place in washington before ago to then i tried to get some good reading. then i have my on the plan book that i read going back and forth. loss surprisingly the two books i am reading here just finished is essentially the book from jack kemp of bleeding heart conservative i was a very good friend and colleague and we had a very good personal relationship is interesting to go back to read that history. also the latest book on politics is the book from mitch mcconnell the long road? the long game. i figured since he is my boss and gave me a free book i should read it. [laughter] i just read chapter seven i did not know this about you but then my book on the plane is a book about churchill written by the former mayor of london landed there churchill fame and i have read every book backing a crescendo that this is say different perspective i really recommend it is a totally different look so i am enjoying that i am in the middle of that now then i always have to be reading best buy book is i of the intellige

on saturday, september 24 book to be his life in the national book festival at the washington convention center in the nations capital. that includes other talks as well as your phone calls for authors. for more nation about the book fairs and festivals a book to be will be covered and watch previous coverage click the book fierce tab on our website on tv.org. >> is a summer of 1988, dukakis has really wind at his back. if you look at the polling some of those critical measures of tears about people like me he had a decisive advantage over vice president bush. but a real deficit when it came to would be a credible commander-in-chief. he was against the guy with vice president bush was a congressman, one of the youngest navy enters and world war two, envoy to to china, chairman of the rnc and the cia. so dukakis really had to build up his props to stay totally toe is being trusted with the u.s. arsenal. so beginning back in the primaries and the n1 a1 tank, the abrams 70,000 pound payment is a perfect example example of that. let's find more tanks to put them in the european theater, the

there's no better place to launch a book like this, it's a book about washington, washington, it's a book about the relationship between the supreme court and our politics. it's much more timely than what we imagined when we launched on this project about five years ago. to be here in what i think is maybe the most dangerous place inside the beltway because no one can walk into politics and prose without walking out with meant more books and spending more money than they anticipated. it happened to me just this evening. i'm going to start by reading the first couple paragraphs of the book and that will give you a bit of the flavor. he is not here with me tonight because he's on a long scheduled scandinavian cruise. he's a wonderful guy that i taught this material with andy teaches now at columbia law school. i'll just read the first couple paragraphs. 1987, an extravagant celebration took place in philadelphia to mark the bicentennial of the united states constitution. a quarter million people lined up for parade that included a 40-foot replica, at 4:00 p.m. the hour of which the dele

book "first dads." parenting and politics from george washington to barack obama. brian: joshua kendall. "first dads." at is this book about and where did you get the idea? mr. kendall: my last book was

washington, d.c. area. i found your book to be very meaningful.specifically, i sincerely respect the honesty with which you write about the losses that you have experienced in life. would you say that there are any reasons as mayor and governor and if so, why? certainly my life in the restaurant business spent a couple years in a high volume restaurant. i think more than that if you were working with a team of people in the weeds. everyone works together. it doesn't matter if someone is tall or small or has curly hair or polkadot it is that sense of service. sometimes for long periods of time and under great pressure to deliver something people want and need and it is a form of love in that sense of service and it does. you don't doubt that fire he or she leaves in a fury and they go out and trash your reputation all over town and you don't hear about it until it is too late. you've learned by listening to people you go back to the same. every time you repeat back what people are upset about, you validate their concern, they calm down. the way to

it's a book about washington, it's a book about the relationship between the supreme court and our politics, so it's much more timely, actually, than my co-author and i imagined when we launched on this project about five years ago. and to be here in what i think is maybe the most dangerous place inside the beltway, because nobody can walk into politics & prose without walking out with many more books and having spent more money than they've anticipated. that happened to me just this evening. [laughter] i'm going to start by just reading the first couple paragraphs of the book. that will give you maybe a bit of the flavor of what michael -- by the way, so michael is not here with me tonight because he's on a long-scheduled scandinavian cruise. [laughter] but he's a wonderful guy that i taught with -- taught this material with in seminars at yale law school for three years. he teaches now at columbia law school. so i'll just read the first couple of paragraphs. on september 17, 1987, an extravagant celebration took place in philadelphia to mark the bicentennial of the united states' constitu

book. "the washington post" put together a hit job book on me. don't buy. boring.m also looking at the back of the book which tells a different story. at first he says on april 12th, he's not going to be reading it. but then april 21st he says if it's a bad book it would be detrimental to me. it shouldn't be a bad book. if you're going to do it, you might as well get it right. this is a lot of fun, let's keep talking. >> he kept expanding the length of our interviews double, triple the time because he was learning stuff from us about his family and he wanted to tell stories about his past. obviously, his favorite subject is donald trump and that's what we were asking about. >> you also asked for serious topics. immigration. so much on the mind of so many people right now as we await his speech. what was it that you learned from him. if i can just read this quote because he ridiculed mitt romney's crazy policy of self-deportation. it sounded as bad as it was. he said in 2012 and he lost romney. all of the latino vote. he lost the asian vote and everybody that is ins

book. point.to make another george washington thought that one of the things it would happen, if you cut off the hudson, let's say, if you could do that. it was never could've been done. but if you had, he said we could if supply food for the army it was on the eastern side of the hudson. whether or not that was true, i would debate that. in any event, the americans never had any trouble going back-and-forth across the hudson. washington himself never had any trouble going back and forth across the hudson. he was never even inconvenienced, except once. that's part of the story, too. here and any -- and answer any questions you would like to ask. [applause] charlie: thank you, george. i would like to open up the floor for questions. i would like to ask you a question. always curious when we have authors in our store -- what are you working on next? george: my next book is the fifth book in a series that i started 20 years ago. sorry. i am a slow writer. only five books. it's about early american history from 1775 -- actually, of 1812.ugh the war and why did i concentrate on this? this is an i

we are actually doing quite well in large part due to the supportive community of avid book readers here in washington. we remain committed to bringing great book events and offers to the dc area. it's a treat this evening to have with us the colorado governor john hickenlooper, who's lived quite an interesting life and has gone and has some great stories to tell about it and recount them with candor and humor in his new book, "the opposite of woe" my life in beer and politics. it's fair to say john didn't take the conventional path into politics and rather protracted career he's the only wesleyan student he jokes to ever have received tenure. he works for a short time in the industry and then was laid off. but his entrepreneurial spirit eventually extend and he opened colorado's first brew pub in a warehouse district in lower downtown denver. the business took off and became a leader in gentrifying of the downtown area and a popular figure in the mile high city. in 2003 without ever having run for public office before, he got elected the mayor of denver and went on to serve two terms and was at one p

roosevelt was consumed lots of books, various interests, natural history, adventure stories, tales of western adventure, people like davey crockett, daniel boone, george washington president lincoln, , most of the books in the family library are books the family would have owned and he would have had access to and read. as i mentioned, as you enter the room, the house is lit by gas lighting. from the chandelier you can see there's an extension rose down to the lamp, which is also original to the roosevelt home, that was to transport the gas for reading. beautiful pocket doors, the dumb waiter system, the home had all the modern amenities that were available at this part of the 19th century. the pocket doors are also a great example of the roosevelt family business. as a common question we get here, obviously the roosevelts are doing pretty well for themselves, they are able toir fe sons. how did they make their money. it pays to get on the ground floor of anything in life, the roosevelts were very fortunate, they arrive around 1646. so by the time t.d. is born in 1858, they're well established both socially as well as financially on the island manhattan. they're

. >>> game number 3 in the books for washington. third games are always looked at as that all important dress rehearsal for the season. if you had to grade this one though, it might not get high marks. the game saw dropped balls by star receivers, off target passes by quarterback kirk cousins all while the bills rested five starters on defense. all eyes were on the $20 million franchise man after starting throw-9, 17 yards, and an interception, cousins finished up 12-23, 188 yards, and three touchdowns. everybody knows they have work to do. >> it's going to be four-quarter game for the 16 play this season. we're going to have slow moments or slow quarters at times. the key is going to find a way to circle the wagon so we put together a good performance. certainly in the time we had tonight, the body of work was pretty productive but there were moments where it wasn't as good as it needs to be and we know this. >> the look of the nfc east has changed dramatically. quarterback tony romo took a big hit thursday night. results of an mri

also, the latest book here, politics which fits from washington is mitch mcconnell's book, the long run-- what is it? "the love game". i thought since he's my boss and he gave me a free book i ought to read it, so since i see him every day i can say i just read chapter seven and did not notice about you etc. then my book on the plane is a new book about churchill that was written by the mayor of london. i'm a big churchill fan. every book i can get on churchill, but this is a different perspective and i-- perspective and i recommend it to people because it's a different look at churchill, so i'm enjoying the. then, my book at home, i always have to read a spy book. i'm on that intelligence committee and i love spy books, so "tightrope", a world war ii spy that was airdropped into france to report on the germans and so forth. absorbing novel, so those for recently have been my books and event i am stacking up ideas for the break here in august to hopefully have more time to read >> i hope to finish a couple of books. first of all, i'm reading freedoms, which was given to be -- me by sena

terrific book about folger who went on a spree to buy shakespeare's folio, a huge collection not just of folios but enough material on shakespeare at the folder library, and how it ended up in washington dc. i am also reading -- rereading the righteous mind. it is a book about communicating how we communicate in a more incentive way. if you picture an elephant, a rider on the elephant, the elephant is making the decisions, the rider merely explains what the elephant is doing. a lot of times you talk to the rider who is not making the decisions, you ought to be talking to the elephant. it is a good way to remember you should be talking to the elephant making the decisions. in a time of a political situation arena, it it is important to -- a book i am rereading. i am also rereading death of the national gallery a week or so ago causing accidental masterpiece, about how you see art. to me, because i am a great lover of art, you see beauty of art and every day objects and everywhere you look this is another interesting book. i like color, i like art, i do my own art, ceramics. reading, i want to mention, is foundational, english is not my first language and i credit a librarian in element

. >> host: i don't know if you picked up peter carlson's of "the washington post"'s book about kruschev's trip -- >> guest: no, i haven't read that. i am 59, so at the time i was like, 9, 10 years old. i remember it very, very well, following it on television and all those sorts of things. but, you know, she's got -- again, she's got one story after -- churchill, montgomery, you know, coming there and walking the battlefield with her grandfather and then fun stuff like here's the barn, here's the horses. used to run off, and the secret service would try to catch me and collar me or follow me. again, she's a wonderful, wonderful person. but what a treat. >> host: the importance of william shakespeare to our culture, our politics, in your view. >> guest: oh, pretty profound. next to the bible, shakespeare's probably had more influence on the way we think and the way we talk and on literature than any other person in, certainly, the history of our language. so, you know, and it's wonderful, obviously, it's great art. it's great plays, but it's great history too. i mean, it's a reminder, you

i keep a book on my nightstand here and my place in washington. e i go to bed i try to get some good reading in. then i have my on the plane book which i read going back and forth. so not surprisingly the two books that i'm reading here in indiana, just finished incidentally, jack chem's book, bleeding heart conservative. i was a very close friend of jack chem, coats family had a very good personal relationship. jack kemp. also the latest book here on the politics which fits for washington is mitch mcconnell 's book. the long road, what is it, the long road? >> the long game. >> the long game, the title. since he is my boss and he gave me a free book, i ought to read it. so, since i see him every day, hey, i just read chapter 7. didn't know this about you, et cetera, et cetera. then my book on the plane is a new book about churchhill that was written about it former mayor of london, boris johnson. i'm a big churchhill fan. i read ever book i can get on churchhill this is different perspective. i recommend it to people because it's a totally differe

like recreational already on the books in colorado, washington, oregon, alaska and washington, d.c. opponents, arizonans for responsible drug policy, tried to convince a superior court judge to get rid of 205 even though it easily surpassed the more than 150,000 voter signatured needed to get on the ballot, maricopa county attorney bill montgomery one of those opponents who wanted prop 205 off the ballot. week trying to convince the judge the petition's 100-word summary was misleading, but the judge flatly rejected their argument, ruling they knew what they were signing and it's up to the voters to decide. supports are happy with the judge's ruling. >> this is not a surprise. we knew going into this that this lawsuit was frivolous in every single regard. itwas ultimately a waste of the court's dollars, and the courts ruled against the prohibitionists in every single regard on every single merit. they were found to be wrong. it's exactly as we expected. >> reporter: now, we received a statement from arizonans for responsible drug policy. they are the opponents of prop 205, and they s

. >> next on american history tv, the author talks about his book, how james madison, george washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government. he reads passages from his book and discusses the leading men the earlysed republic. mount vernongton's hosted this hour and 20 minute event. in 1789.s new york we are standing approximately in front of federal hall looking toward the east river of new york. even though the buildings are high,our or five stories they have some of the bustle it has had for the last 200 years. federal hall, even though the image i will show you in a minute looks very austere and classical, it is here. this is another image of new york. it may be somebody in this audience, i would bet a buck probably not, knows that this house standing at the manhattan into the holland tunnel -- it is not there anymore. this was the house vice president john adams rented for the two sessions the first congress met in new york. why am i showing it to you? to convey some sense of how rural manhattan was in 1789. the city ended about where new york city hall is toda

next hour, a conversation with the co-authors of the washington post book titled "trump revealed: an american journey of ambition, ego, money, and power," an and joining us now the table is marc fisher and michael kranish. what kind of reaction did you get from donald trump? guest: for this book, donald trump was gracious with this time. he spent 20 hours with a team of reporters doing interviews. the day before the book came out he tweeted, don't buy the book, it is boring. he cannot have read it because he did not receive a copy. people will see this is a thorough biography. let me beginsher, where you begin, his life story. he knew how to be famous, he knew how to win numbers, to get ratings. he made a lifelong study of how to create buzz. let's was one level up from flash. can you explain? guest: he has a hierarchy of reaction he can get from the media and he has made a lifelong study of manipulating the media and using the media. he learned at a early age that all publicity is good publicity and he genuinely believes that getting his name out there in all of these different ways

i keep a book on my nightstand here and my place in washington so before i go to bed i always try to some good reading in. then i have my on the plane book which i read going back and forth. so not surprisingly to books and reading your in indiana have just finished incidentally. jack kemp's book. i was a very close friend, colleague to jack kemp. we had a good personal relationship and so it's interesting to go back and read some of that history. also the latest book here on politics which fits from washington is mitch mcconnell's book, the long road, what is it? along gain, title anyway. i thought since he's my boss and gave me a free book i have to read it. since i see them everyday, i just read chapter seven. i didn't know this about you, et cetera, et cetera. in my book on the plane is a new book about churchill that was written by the former mayor of london, boris johnson. i'm a big churchill than the i've read every book i can get on churchill but this one is a different perspective and a really recommend it to people because it's a totally different look at churchill, differen

. >> here's a look at some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to politics & prose in washington d.c. ed young examines the relationship between animals expect microorganisms that live inside them in i contain multitudes. georgetown university law professor rosa brooks looks at changes in the american military and how war is waged in how everything became war and the military became everything. the hour of land by terry williams celebrates u.s. national parks and argues for their preservation. j.d. vance's hill billy elegy is next. the late neurosurgeon paul kalanthi in his memoir, when breath becomes air. our look at the best selling nonfiction books at politics & prose bookstore continues with ta'nehisi coates. his look at the current state of black america is called between the world and me. jasmine ward is next with the fire this time, a collection of essays and poems about race written by more than 15 contributors. nancy isenberg examines class in america and the political significance of poor whites from reconstruction to the new deal in white trash. and carlo rovelli with

book section. >> host: ron charles is the editor of washington post's book world. this this is booktv on c-span2. >> guest: thanks so much. >> here's a look at some authors recently featured on booktv's "after words," our weekly author interview program. syndicated radio host dana lash contended the u.s. is dividing itself into two countries, coastal america and flyover america. "wall street journal" columnist kimberly stras el argued the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. eric fehr talked about his time in iraq working as an interrogator for a private military contractor. and in the coming weeks on aftercords, ann coulter will make her case for supporting donald trump for prime minister. georgetown university law professor rosa brooks looks at the expanded roles for the u.s. military around the world, and coming up former bush administration attorney general alberto gonzalez recalls his time serving in the justice department and as white house come. and this weekend -- come. and this weekend, seymour herrish on the killing of osa

surrendered his sword and to make sure that washington had whenever navy did whether a horse or telescope and ended if there is one story that is interesting in the bookhere a group of suborders and northerners got into an argument over in the kiev. billy and washington hereabout the argument that is about to break out. washington grabs his horse and galloped into the middle of the argument to break it up but bright behind tennis billie on his horse. even with all of these major battles washington is out there of a horse and billy is next to him. if something happened then believe would have to campaign of all along the best he could. but billy lee was there it was his job to take off his clothes, the whig, foods, his bible, and basically he is number two to make their everything around him washington did not have to feed about it. >> may find people in history food and that being robert week representative. he says that billy lee was the second-best course been in the country simply because he had to be to keep up with him. we these were the men that were entrusted have had day and care of the keeping. they got their clothes than their wigs to make s

his book "washington a life," wonle pulitzer prize in biography in 2011. in 2012 the musical "hamilton." annette gordon reed, professor of history at harvard law school and faculty of arts and sciences at harvard university. we won the pulitzer prize in history in 2009 for the hemmings of monticello. we all look forward to "the history of imagination." jon meacham is a presidential historian, contributing editor at "times" and executive vice president and executive editor at random house. his book "american lion, andrew jackson in the white house," won the pulitzer prize in biography in 2009. most significant to this audience may be his just-published book "destiny in power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush." our moderator is the director of the lbj presidential library in u continue and author of four books on the presidency. he is an analyst for abc news on matters relating to our politics and the presidency and he's written for countless publications. thanks to each of you in attendance for making this a very, very special evening and

at kramer books in washington dc, brookings institution senior fellow elaine explains why americans becomed with political leaders and how to re-forge their relationship. in mountain view, california, antonio martinez, former advisor for twitter and product master for facebook will provide an inside look at the future state of social media. friday at barnes & noble in south lake texas former sniper nicholas irving will discuss his missions as third ranger regiment, a look at some other programs booktv is covering this week, many of these events are open to the public, look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations]

. >> now mark, he has tweeted in the last couple of days in response to the book, the washington posty put together a hit job book on me, compromised of copies of some of their inaccurate stories. don't buy, boring. >> well, we're grateful to him for the publicity. put it on the cover and we asked our publishing to send him a nice fruit basket, but seriously, donald trump was well aware of the depth of research that went into this book. he sat together with us for more than 20 hours of interview -- >> during the campaign. >> during the campaign. he seemed to have endless time. he regularly allotted an hour or so to meet with us and spent well more than that. and he kept saying, i'm having fun. i'm learning things about my life from you. he's strikingly incurious about his early life and his ancestry and so we were able to tell him things about his own background that were fascinating to him. and so, that's all in the book along with this sense of him, someone who grew up in this cold and distant family and who has oddly been kind of starved for love i think through much of his life. a