then on saturday, june 21st, the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library will hold their 11th annual roosevelt reading festival which features numerous author talks on the 32nd president. look for our coverage of the roosevelt reading festival on a future weekend. let us know about book festivals in your area and we'll add them to our list. >> matt taibi talks about the divide between the rich and poor in the united states and the problems that grow from the level of wealth inequality now. that's next on booktv. [applause] >> wow. thank you. this is a big crowd. i was actually at a -- i did a speech for a law firm in new york about a month ago, and the crowd was way bigger than i expected, and i was about to go up to the podium and i asked the partner at the firm, how did you get so many people to come to this thing? and he said that's easy. we told them you were ben bernanke. [laughter] >> so i don't know who they told you was coming tonight, but my name is matt taibi. i'm a reporter formerly of "rolling stone" magazine and

and on saturday, june 21st, the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library will hold their 11th annual reading festival which features author talkings on the 32nd president. look for our coverage of the festival on a future weekend. and let us know about book fairs and festivals happening in your area, and we'll be happy to add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv at booktv@cspan.org. >> booktv asked, what are you reading this summer? >> well, i'm going to read, basically, two books. i'm going to finish the warmth of other suns. i got about halfway through that book before i stepped away from it to finish my own. but i'm going to go back to it because it's a book about three families in search of a better life leaving the south and where they went and how they experience -- how their experiences were. so i'm going to finish that book. isabelle wilkerson, i think, did a great job. and then i'm going to turn my attention to this book, the south carolina roots of african-american thought, because it's a book of speeches and writi

on saturday, under21st, the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library will hold the reading festival featuring numerous author talks. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area. >> duke university professor martin miller spoke with booktv about the foundations of modern terrorism, which he dates back to the french revolution. this 30-minute interview, part of booktv's college series, was recorded at the washington duke inn in durham, north carolina. >> host: duke university history professor martin miller is the author of this book, "the foundations of moderner to: state, society, and the dynamics of political violence." there is a working definition of modern terrorism? >> guest: i tried to formulate one, which is a perilous path because so many others have tried. so, i think that the clear is way to understand what i've tried to do is to refer back to what in fact are two kinds of perspectives. one is the idea that governments and especially dictators, exercise terror against their own citizens, the hitlers,

franklin d roosevelt walking. it shows him struggling to get to his seat in 1937. he was paralyzed by polio from the waist down. but his secret service was good at keeping that a secret. >> in some instances they confiscated cameras and films to protect his image. they worked really hard to not think of their president as not being paralyzed. >> reporter: jimmy deshawn caught the footage on his family camera. the eight second clip is only one of two known phone clips showing the president walking. and it shows that the president was trying to live a normal life. >> that's fascinating. it's good to see that. thank you. >>> still to come on al jazeera america. 60 years after the landmark supreme court decision brown versus th education, educate to this day. america mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now >> well tomorrow marks 60 years since the landmark 1954 ruling that effectively ended segregation in u.s. schools but in dozens of communities nationwide the closure of schools has prompted a new fight for civil rights. >> in.

president franklin d roosevelt walking. this film pretty amazing shows him struggling to a seat at a baseball game in 1937. he was paralyzed from polio from the waist down. but they were able to keep that a secret. >> they worked really hard for people not to think of their president as paralyzed. >> jimmy deshawn caught these moments on cam are a. the eight second clip is only two known extended film clips showing the president walking. some experts say this film can solve a myth that roosevelt was trying to hide. >> thank you. the army corps of engineers has spent millions of dollars to try and protect endangered salmon from the bird called the caspian turn. the turn's breeding ground sits on the columbia river that sits between oregon and washington state. they have been feasting on young fish, threatening the salmon and steel head there. the government said they're making progress, but this started 20 years ago. we have more on this. >> reporter: hey tony, here is the basic question. how do you convince thousands of nes

>> franklin d. roosevelt, baby. yes! >> do you vote? >> i haven't voted in a couple years because i've had my own emotional thoughts about it. >> when you have voted for the president, what month do you vote? >> i think it was around spring. >> september? >> october? >> november. >> have you ever watched the o'reilly show on fox news? >> i've heard of it. >> my roommate watches it. >> i'm into the paranormal. >> i see dead people. >> ever heard of waterers wortw? >> no. i'm watters and this is my world out here. >> it was kind of grim, huh? >> it was pathetic. from phillies that really hurt. >> you asked how many snopeople? >> 12 people. >> 12 people got the quiz. how many passed? >> three. >> three people passed. >> and then 25 here in philly passed the hardest question of how many senators. only two people got that right. the easiest question was stripes on the flag, 13 colonies. >> i thought fdr in world war ii would be the one. >> only half got that right. >> looks phorfo phorid -- idiots for dumb people. do you just pick people you

>> roosevelt. franklin d. roosevelt, baby, yes. >> do you vote? >> i haven't voted in a couple of years because i have had my own emotional thoughts about it.>> i >> when you vote for the in president, what month do you vote in? >> when i do vote, it's right around spring. >> april isn't it. >> november? >> october? >> november?pres >> november. >> do you ever watch o'reilly factor on fox news?nov >> i have seen o'reilly a couple times. i like his show. >> i heard what it is. my roommate watches it. >> i'm in to the paranormal. >> ever heard of watters world? >> no. i'm watters and this is my world right here. o >> really really? >> oh, here now is jesse watters. so it's kinds of grim again, right?ow >> pathetic out there. it was a bad one. i'm from philly so that hurt. that really hurt. >> so you asked how many people -- >> -- 1212 people. the quiz?you ot >> right. >> how manyy passed? >> three. >> three people passed? >> three out of 12. when immigrants take it, 90%>> t pass. >> because they are studying. stripes on the flag, 13ripe colonies. >>

on saturday, under21st, the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library will hold the reading festival featuring numerous author talks. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area. >> duke university professor martin miller spoke with booktv about the foundations of modern terrorism, which he dates back to the french revolution. this 30-minute interview, part of booktv's college series, was recorded at the washington duke inn in durham, north carolina. >> host: duke university history professor martin miller is the author of this book, "the

seventy-nine years ago today, then-president franklin d. roosevelt signed an executive works progress administration - or wpa. it was a major component of the new deal, fdr's massive response to the great depression then crippling america's economy. in 1935, unemployment stood at 20 percent. the wpa put millions to work on massive public projects, building roads, bridges and dams. the massive infrastucture build cost 10 billion dollars - a huge amount of money equal to 172 billion in today's dollars. when the wpa was retired a few years later in 1943, almost nine million americans had done some sort of work through the program. it helped provide support to more than a quarter of america's families during the worst of economic times. in the end though, it wasn't the new deal and programs like the wpa that helped lift the country out of the depression, it was world war ii. even so, the wpa's legacy is still with us all these years later: 650,000 miles of roads built or paved; 78,000 bridges; 16,000 miles of water mains; and 24,000 sewage faci

president franklin d. roosevelt described it as a, quote, "a dirty jewish trick," unquote." franklin roosevelt talked like that? >> guest: yes. it's in the record. c-span: more than once? >> guest: yes. ah, that i don't know. but, of course, there have been all kinds of books written in recent years about how roosevelt, for a very long time, ignored what was happening to the jews in germany, did not take it seriously. this has been amply documented over and over again that -- that he simply didn't seem to feel that it was important. of course, we did not realize the full scope of the holocaust until after the war was over. c-span: where did you get that quote, though? is that something new that you found somewhere on ... >> guest: it's probably in one of the things i read, but it's been in print before. it probably is harrison salisbury's book "without fear or favor." it might be a footnote. but i've read every single book ever written about the new york times. it may have been in the private archives that they opened to me, but i think it's been in print and i think it's pr

harvey kaye recalls president franklin d. roosevelt's public acknowledgment on january 6 of 1941 of 4 freedoms that all people should be entrusted with which included freedom of speech expression and freedom of worship freedom from want and freedom from fear. the author argues reminder of the four freedoms could address today's political and social issues. this is about 45 minutes. .. >> i also eroded as a historical advocacy. for those who think we make too much of the greatest generation and its greatest leader i think we make too little of him. to give you a sense of what this is about icing we fail to remember what made fdr truly great. not just that we're feeling them but ourselves. with that argument and story and challenge i offered to you. we need to remember what

on saturday, june 24th said, franklin d. roosevelt presidential library will hold their eleventh annual roosevelt reading festival which features numerous author talks on the 32 president. let us know about book fares in your ariane and we will add them to our list, e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. >> we are back live at the gaithersburg book festival. next up is dan balz, co-author of "collision 2012: obama vs. romney and the future of elections in america" about the 2012 election. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> hello, ladies and >> the arts and humanities and all hall of you're encouraged to buy books. if you buy books and authors and publishers will continue to support this wonderful event which is such a great resource and asset for our community and county and benefits the local economy. if you enjoy this program and are able to do so please by one or more books. dan balz is chief correspondent at the washington post, former national editor, poli

d. roosevelt inauguration in march one nine hundred thirty three but unemployment remained in the double digits for the rest of the decade full recovery arriving only with the advent of world war two yeah well interesting bits there because remember back in the twenty's and thirty's you had the stock market bubble of the twenty's followed by the bust followed by the depression what's different about this era is that you've got the depression and the stock market bubble happening concurrently simultaneously that's the. financial engineering and the apartheid interest rate wall which is allowed for a depression to go on in much of america and in much of the u.k. and around the world while the asset holders are making incredible bubble like a mega zillions based on the appreciation of those assets which they can then use as collateral i see in the u.k. for example a new bank has just opened up where the top one percent of the top one percent can pledge yachts and monet's and fine jewelry. t

d. blue person of interest airs tuesdays at ten pm eastern on c.b.s. how did that come about how the person of interest become a person of interest i had long wanted to sit down with j.j. abrams we'd been sort of friends fans of each other's work and i came and we talked about a bunch of movie stuff and i said well i have this i have this crazy idea for a t.v. show and i found myself pitching it and he said let's do it i'd like in television to get your tie caught in a shredder four years four years later i turn around i've been producing t.v. for four years but is there greg involved greg i set down early because i knew that i wanted to collaborate on the show and jonah and doing television but he and all this experience from feature films and he'd come in and say i want to do all this in one only blow this car up and i said no we can't get it so why not i said because we don't have much money and we continually found ways to keep doing it didn't take off right away it was i've always l

d.c. this while there's a divide between the u.s. and germany over an essay surveillance so what will be on the agenda the latest on the chancellor's visit coming up. and at the capitol protesters demand that the president stop deportations are generating or excuse me gathering gathering in response to a record number of deportations under the obama administration more on that later in the show. it's thursday may first five pm in washington d.c. i'm in the area david in you're watching our team america we begin today with the latest installment of an r t exclusive series on military waste the u.s. military is now strategizing ways to draw down the troops in afghanistan by the end of two thousand and fourteen but removing american personnel isn't the only task at hand after a decade of war pentagon officials are trying to figure out how to drawdown billions of dollars in military equipment while analysts are looking at where the pentagon's spending went wrong artes make a lopez has more.

then on saturday, june 23st, the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library will hold their 11th annual roosevelt reading festival which features numerous author talks on the 32nd president. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@cspan.org. >> and the wonderful thing about the gulf coast is it's, i think, so underappreciated. and that's good because it gives us a lot to write about. if we were in new york or san francisco or chicago, thosegjqbz cities and places are all so well known and, of course, new york is the literary capital. here on the gulf coast we tend to think of that, say, from texas to the florida panhandle. there really is a pan-gulf sensibility. we have a similar environment, similar types of trees, live oaks, long leaf pines, palm trees, sandy soil, salt in the air. the gulf of mexico, of course, nourishes and supplies us with wonderful seafood. estuaries and rivers and places like mobile bay are wonderfully rich in tradition and culture. and