. >> fiction, as well, not just writing notes and writing about medical things but writing fiction and you published some fiction pretty much immediately after you finished medical school when you were still a very young woman, graduated quite young. did it occur to you that one possibility was just to stop all the medicine and just live as a writer or was that not a possibility? >> no. i started writing since i was a child. as i told you to the first letter of god and then i wrote many other letters to authority people in school and i was really very challenging the authority at home and in school, and i was always feeling that there is something wrong in school. or in the street. because in the street when i used to walk, the boys used to throw stones on me because i was a girl. they threw stones or say some bad words about me. so i was furious. i was not treated like my brother or like boys in the street. in school, the girls who came from the higher classes, from rich families, they were treated much better than us girls coming from poor classes so i was angry and that's why i was

but very accurate fiction. i'm sure exactly that you what he would have said. he went quite a bit the way towards that. but an accurate portion of the. >> host: your new project crossed over the world. >> guest: lowell it is exciting, we have been doing it for a couple of years but is new in the sense that this week is the big launch in washington on mhz where jazeera english comes to america to washington in a big way starting on march 1st which is exciting because we started that with 50 countries and 80 million homes. now it is up to 100 countries and 140 or 150 million homes so it's very exciting and exciting that it is coming. two your neck of the web starting next wednesday. >> host: sir david frost, thank you for joining us on c-span. >> guest: is a pleasure the german chancellor angela merkel is in washington to meet with president of, nancy pelosi. she spoke with the library of congress about german relations, global climate change and foreign policy issues. issues introduced by former nebraska senator

to you, and i think fiction can often be more true than books about policy or history. the -- my two themes this year are immigration and south asia. i'm not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own they really don't need me to support them, but i'll tell you what they are. one is netherland which has received all kinds of awards by joseph o'neill who's part dutch and part irish, and he has -- it's a book that takes place in new york post-9/11. the second book is the guernsey literary, and i always have to stumble over the name, the gurns si literary and potato peel society which is a book about the guernsey during world war ii and is a really delightful book about some women who get together and try to think of ways of sab tablging the germans who are on the island, who occupy the island, and it's part of britain, and the germans actually the nazis occupy the island. and the third book which really doesn't need me to promote it is unaccustomed earth. and that segways into the -- in fact, it represents both genres that i want to introduce to

if we are going into the fiction category, although this is non-fiction fiction, quirky, some people don't necessarily appreciate his sense of humor. i personally find him hysterical. when you are engulfed in flames is a book that came out i think probably a couple years ago that has been sitting on my nightstand, that one will get red especially. a good play in a book or a pick me up for those days when i just can't slog through much else. what is also going to get read this summer because i have a two and a half year all the, in a lot of bugs that i don't have any choice but i will read them every night and for those of you with young kids nine to recommend little neighbors on some sense street, it is a little bit quirky, it doesn't really make any sense but those are most books for kids. i have a lot of things to look at which distracts him for a good long time. by the end he is so exhausted navy on have to do one. the scary books are high on the list as well as for the wild things are, all is a classic so is to be moved a movie. so those are my summer books. i just hope i get thr

>> doesn't he say now that's fiction what he wrote? >> well, he says it was in the list and what does he say, creative memoir as if you go to barnes and noble and there's the creative memoir section. >> no, now that he is coming out with the paper back of the book. >> on that, yes that come on, he is a lawyer. when he says it's fiction you interpret as nonfiction? >> correct. i think he has dirt on her and forced her hand. i think that is what he did. because -- >> when i write my book on oprah i will tell you whether you are right or wrong. >> when will that be? [laughter] >> i hope it will be soon. >> who among those have you written about, where was there a the most blue back? >> i will tell you you would think the most would be frank sinatra because he was mobbed, no. the pullback, they're real blow back as far as death threats came from the nancy reagan book. >> really? >> yes and the mainstream media got so crazed because i had written a book about, that was the last book and i wrote about the rise and demise of a political dynas

mark twain was one of the great writers of fiction in american history. unfortunately for the readers of the nevada newspaper about a century and a half ago, he wrote some of that friction in the guise of journalism. for instance, he described the discovery of a petrified man in the nevada desert. he wrote as follows: the body it was in sitting position, the attitude was pensive, the right thumb resting against the side of the nose. no it wasn't. there wasn't any petrified man in the nevada desert a century and a half ago, at least not as far as anybody knows. he also wrote stories about indians being smothered to death and about a mining speculator mark twain hated the notion of financial speculation, about a mining speculator being murdered quote, his throat cut from ear to ear and bearing in his hand a reeking scalp from which of the warm smoking blood it was still dripping. didn't happen a. but despite all this and more stories equally fictitious, mark twain was unrepentant. he thought readers wanted and occasionally deserved a respite from the tedium

guest: that is predominantly written by -- it is fiction but very accurate fiction. i am sure that is exactly what he would have said, though he did not quite say that. but he went quite a bit of the way toward it and so one. but an accurate portrait. host: your new project

finally the one fiction piece of fiction that i want to read this summer i hope to read and some others but i definitely want to read the new book, a mad desire to dance, because he is such a terrific writer and what he writes is so important. i was really moved by what he said a few weeks ago when he spoke openly about having lost his foundation, so much money with the bernard and made off fiasco. he was so smart and he has lost millions, but this is a book of islam that continues what he has been riding for some years about the holocaust so i want to get to this book if i can the summer. those of the five books. i plan on meeting this summer and hope to get to them all and start of some more. >> you are obviously a busy man and, if we find to reading, where do your reading and find time to do it? >> i tried to read a little before i go to sleep at night. i tried to read on weekends, just go out on my deck in the backyard and relax especially if the weather is good. whenever you can. i am a busy guy, i don't have a whole lot of time to do fun rating, but she made time and it's importan

he created this fictional character but the history behind it is all accurate. it's sort of an mystery of ancient rome during that time. so i've had a lot of fun reading about history and even going to fiction to further inform me about that great time period in terms of ancient rome. i think in this time of barack obama, one must read team of rivals which is a great story about abraham lincoln not only bested his rivals, but then had the intestinal fortitude to bring all those rivals into his cabinet, each of whom thought he was smarter and each of whom thought he should be in that swivel chair, not abraham lincoln. it's a great story and it really illuminates a lot on american history. another book i read in the last year or so, i've read a number of military histories. the coldest winter, which is a wonderful story published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war. not a lot of single volumes on that period of american history and really well, well done. rick atkinson has published the first of two books on the second world war, and specifically the

so, i have had a lot of fun reading about history, and even going to fiction, to further inform me about that great time period in terms of ancient rome. i think in the -- this time of barack obama, one must read for everybody, doris kearns good win's book, i team of rives, the great story of how abraham lincoln not only bested his rivals but had the intestinal fortitude to bring all of them into his cabinet, each of whom thought he was smarter than lincoln and each of whom thought he should be in that swivel chair and not abraham link son and it is a great story and really illuminates a lot about american history. and another book i read this last year or so, is a book, i read a number of military histories, david halberstam's book, the coldest winter, a wonderful story, published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war. not a lot of single volumes on that period of american history and really well, well done. and rick atkinson is working on a trilogy and published the first two books on the second world war, and specifically, the first volume on the american involvement in nor

>> you know, my own influences growing up i never read that much fiction. i read biographies and history and part of made this so attractive to me is a project was because i felt as a journalist i almost felt i had a responsibility to preserve it for the city so i didn't want to write and lawbook only people who filed a mob would be interested in a wanted to write a history book. >> the best journalism reads like fiction so i wondered if you had any -- >> i will speak for jeff and say that -- [inaudible] >> when i was a kid i probably read tolken. >> you want to get back to that mic >> i don't know if i am correct in my thinking or my thinking about everybody in this room, but i know if some of us felt we could get away with things that we can't get away with we might tend to do those things. i just wonder did you notice any mentality, these people had to have a mentality to think they could just do this and there were you know, we don't do things because we are concerned about doing the wrong thing and getting caught. i mean what was the mentality of these

we do a wide variety of both fiction as well as nonfiction. our fiction is classic reissues. we have a wide variety of books that have gone out of print and that we are bringing back for the beloved fans. than we do a wide variety of nonfiction popular science. we have lawrence hill books. this is our imprints that focuses on feminism, peace, justice, african-american interest and latino interest. we do kids books. we have a fantastic for kids series that takes 25 projects and looks at in particular largest oracle figures, mark twain, benjamin franklin. we do kids guide series that looks at historic abuses, all wonderful for educators, homeschoolers curriculum. and then we do serious nonfiction, a lot of journalism pieces that we have on anything from finance to pop-culture. and we have fun arts and entertainment titles that we also do. we really embody the express. >> associated with the university? >> know, chicago review press is actually the parent company to independent publishers group, which is a large distribution company that has a wide variety of publishers that we

i really care about like individual conscious and morality in war, but i want to approach it from a fiction perspective, try and reach a different audience. >> for more information about the booktv bus, visit our web site at booktv.org/booktv bus. >> financial times reporter gillian tett's new book fool's gold, gives an insider's look at how a team at jpmorgan produced a record in banking. financial times hosted this event at their headquarters in new york city. it's about 50 minutes. >> i realize it's quite an ungodly hour, and you've all got busy lives, so thanks very much. what i want to do is talk about how and why i wrote this book and give you a rough sketch of how the book's constructed as a story and then open it to questions. feel free to chuck at me whatever you want. the origins of this book really started five years ago when i was working on the lex column with some of you in the room who were there as well, and at one stage i was asked to try and do a quick sketch of what i thought were going to be the key themes going forward for lex to cover. so i started off listing things l

and finally, the one, the one fiction, piece of fiction that i want to read this summer -- i hope to read some others, but i definitely want to read elie e wiesel's a mad desire to dance. i was really moved by what he said a few weeks ago when he spoke openly about having lost his foundation, so much money in the bernard madoff uproar, my fiasco. he was so smart, and he's lost millions, but this is a book, obviously, that continues what he's been writing for so many years about the holocaust. so i want to get through this book, if i can, this summer. those are the five books i plan on reading this summer. i hope to get through them all and then start on some more. >> well, you're, obviously, a very busy man. if we find you reading, where do you do your reading? >> i try to read a little bit before i go to sleep at night. i try to read on weekends, i just go out on my deck in the backyard and just relax, especially if the weather is good. you know, whenever you can. i am a busy guy, and i don't have a whole lot of time to do fun reading, but you make time, and it's important. and i re

now, the first goal, create jobs, is a fiction. the second goal, to control the climate from bad humans, is not going to have any because of this legislation. and the third thing of this legislation, it costs too much. we can't afford. we can't afford it even if it safes jobs or safes the planet. the 1,200 pages is not going to result in what we were all promised. so those are two items i see as a major problem. and another problem i think that is very paramount is the fact that we're going to turn our lives, our businesses over to government control. the government's going to control all energy in this country and going to tax it all. you turn on these lights here in the capitol, the government, they don't have to pay their bills. you turn them on at home, they are going to home, natural gas, hot water heater, they're going to go up. gasoline, that's going to go up. because everything that uses energy, which is everything, will cost americans more. the energy companies, the ones that stay in america, they will pass that tax on to

guest: that is predominantly written by -- it is fiction but very accurate fiction. i am sure that is exactly what he would have said, though he did not quite say that. but he went quite a bit of the way toward it and so one. but an accurate portrait. host: your new project, "frost over the world." guest: yes, we have been doing it for a couple of years, but it is absolutely new in the sense that this week is the big launch here in washington, mag, where al jazeera comes to america, coming first year to washington on m agreed with h.con.res. providing for reset of the senate and condition of the house of representatives in reach the conclusion of the house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lace before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, madam, this letter serves as my intent to resign effective today, john kline, member of congress. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the resignation is accepted. for what purpose does the gentleman from washington rise? mr. dicks: i ask unanimous consent t

pÑvÑpt kÑ bachmann in other words non-fiction category of comics is pretty darn small and too much of it is by harvey and myself. [laughter] so we are very much hoping that this kind of comic will be a gateway drug for young people to go ahead and read the books, but also that the art which is made by comic artists would be taken seriously as a form of art and understood as such and appreciated as such and it may overcome the great difficulty which is these books are expensive to produce because you have to pay artists. writers don't have to be paid if they teach some place and generally are not paid. artists me to be paid and secondly these books don't cost so much because they can't have a heavier price themself been over someone. these are serious disadvantages but at least in terms what critics are beginning to say we seem to be going some place. >> i think that especially younger and readers are enthusiastic for graphic novels, and they have sort of gandy cultural and critical legitimacy allyson beck -- becktell's book was a finalist, will persepolis -- people are reading them. >

>> we focus on fiction primarily to readers. it's a lot of military history for collis, general history, a little politics and current events and a lot of pop culture to mix it up a little bit, music and music history. >> speaking of pop culture what is this book? >> this is called goodbye 20th century, dave ridley reviewed in hardcover and we brought out the paperback edition. >> what is it about? >> it is about the band and the grunge music movement. >> lissa warren is president of da capo press. >>> i had no desire and that was the condition which i agreed to take this. >> coming up next, booktv presents "after words," an hourlong program where we invite a guest host interview authors. this week nevada elementary schoolteacher tierney cahill discusses her book "ms. cahill for congress" the story of her and probable campaign for u.s. representative on a dare from her sixth grade students. with only $7,000 in campaign staff of 12-year-olds, she won the 2000 democratic primary and nevada's second district. she discusses her book

every weekend, the latest non- fiction books. on saturday, how do you run for congress with $7,000 endorse sixth grade students managing the campaign? she is interviewed by the washington d.c. delegate. . . if we have a lawyer here in town, if i wanted to get title for, he said it wouldn't be any use, could not read it. earlier today the president congratulated congress for passing the bill to regulate tobacco products. he also expressed hope that the election in iran would lead to an expanded dialogue. from the white house, this is five minutes. >> good afternoon. i just wanted to give a quick statement about the tobacco legislation that passed the senate yesterday. this bill has been in long time coming. we have known about the harmful and deadly effects of tobacco products for decades. each year, americans pay $100 billion in added health-care costs due to smoke, each day, 1000 young people under the age of 18 become regular smokers. for over a decade, leaders of both parties have fought to prevent marketing companies to preve

it is fictional i do not know too much about it so i will check that out as well. i am always fascinated by the search for osama bin laden and i will read a book from the former cia agent that was in charge of the unit's searching for bin laden recently wrote an op-ed for "the washington post" that got a lot of attention. have not read any of his books this is called marching toward hell. america and islam after iraq. another one is called your 15 club it is a golfer out how to book and focuses on the mental game and written by a sports psychologist it has taken a few strokes off of my game and i can take all the help i can get. that is what i am checking out this summer. ng of these sessions is not allowed. now, to the matter at hand, our panel -- >> and, in i have to admit to i am a little mystified by bad. with the author's three have today they do not have works this is serving up the gates of the 21st century although paul bridges the 19th and 20th centuries than paul's work and richard has rescind a book that spans the 21st century rather than standing at the

realize what kind of a book to this is because this is not a history book, not a novel or a work of non-fiction, a serious analysis, it is a book of stories broke and i think this is how long they are. sometimes they are half a page, most of the time they are between one and one 1/2 pages. just for fun would you read it the first tory just to give us an idea? >> guest: born of desire life alone no memory, it had hands but no one to touch. it had a town but no one to talk to. by four was -- it was when life was known but then he spoke the arrow split the lives down the middle and a life was to. when they caught sight of each other they've lost and when they touched each other, they lost again. >> host: that is a great example. of course, it made me think of genesis. >> guest: yes. our part to a real-life is part of daily life. >> host: it is one of the most affectionate pieces in the hundreds of pieces i think you said there are 600? >> guest: very, very short stories. who finally survived after a process of for announcing and sacrificing. there are some other short stories in the first version

caller: congratulations with your new book i think you have the market on the fiction ultimate universe. first of all, you said something about the general supporting donald rumsfeld. he fired every general who tell them he needed 20,000 trips. he wanted to go in with 50,000. he fired a couple of them. either they agree with him or they were out the door. he was completely dominating. hughes instrumental in selling the lies about iraq. he was talking about weapons of mass destruction. boo, you all get scared. he participated in the writing of the document called "project for a new american century suzy which basically said we should dominate the middle east -- anything less than that pearl harbor type of event would not be enough to motivate america to go off and meet that agenda. guest: donald rumsfeld did not fire a general shensecky. actually, he did not fire any general. he only fired tom white, the army secretary. a number of people feel ihe should have fired more people. his successor bob gates has dismissed six senior officials. he did pull the rug out from under shensecky by all

anyway that -- in a way that the cost is truly -- host: the editorial it is called "the cap and texas fiction. house speaker nancy pelosi has put cap and trade legislation on a forced march through the house, in the bill may get a v

caller: congratulations with your new book i think you have the market on the fiction ultimate universe. first of all, you said something about the general supporting donald rumsfeld. he fired every general who tell them he needed 20,000 trips. he wanted to go in with 50,000. he fired a couple of them. the message twas that you were either with him or out the door. he was talking about these mushroom clouds of mass destruction and the destruction of the united states. he also participated in signing a document that i recommend everyone looked up. it was called "project for the new american century ." it said that we should dominate the middle east. it said that only a large event would motivate the united states to attack iraq and afghanistan. host: there is a lot there. we will get our guest's response. guest: he did not fire the general, although it is commonly thought that he did. the only person he fired was the architect -- army secretary, tom white. a number of people feel he should have fired more people. his successor, bob gates, as now dismissed six senior officials. he did pul

chance to talk about this on the c-span because it does not bring enough action to you and i think fiction can also be more true than books about policy were history. my two themes and this year our immigration and south asia. i will not talk about three paper books that are so popular on their own they really do not need me to support them but i will tell you what they are, one is motherland which has received all kinds of awards by joseph o'neill, he is part dutch and part irish and is a book that takes place in the new york with 9/11. the second book the currency literary and potato peel society which is a book about world war ii and is a delight will block the -- book and women to get together and think of ways twos sabotages the germans to occupy the island because it is part of britain and said journey -- not seize occupy the island. the other book is unaccustomed to earth. that segues and in fact, it represents both genres that i want to introduce today. one is a novel about immigration. if this with a constantly reaffirming story about people coming to united states to reinvent the

caller: congratulations with your new book i think you have the market on the fiction ultimate universe. first of all, you said something about the general supporting donald rumsfeld.

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the one piece of fiction i 12 to read this summer, i want to read others but definitely the new book a mad desire to dance because he is such a terrific writer brac oe you rights is so important for our was moved by what he said when he spoke openly about having lost his foundation with so much money in the bernie madoff uproar and fiasco. he was so smart and has lost millions but this is the book obviously that continues what he has been writing about the holocaust for our want to get through this book if i can this summer. of those of the five books i plan i hope to get through them all and star on some more. >> host: you are a busy man. where do you do your reading? >> guest: i tried to read before i go to sleep, i try to read on the weekends i just go out on my deck in the backyard especially if the weather is good. i am busy i do not have a lot of time to do fun reading but you make time. it is important. i really do appreciate books 57 wolf pulitzer thank you very much. information, visit our web site at book tv.org. >> and we >> we are back live from chicago with this month's

so, some of the new non-fiction we have got. >> so the book tv viewers know city lights as a bookstore and your offices are on the second floor. how did city lights start and who founded city lights? >> city lights publishing was actually started in 1955 by lawrence burman get a and many people know who he is. he is one of the most renowned poets in the world. he began the publishing company with a collection of his own poems called pictures of the gain world. that was the first book in the city lights poets series which has gone on to continue publishing. we have about 60 books in print right now in a series. >> so, tell me a little bit about the bookstore and the publishing house. how does that work? is there synergy between the bookstore and the publishing house? >> yeah, i would say at one time most of the people that worked in the publishing company had worked in the bookstore. the person that is now the editorial director worked for over 15 years in the bookstore and is now leading the way publishing excellent books for city lights. we are in the same building. it is quite symbio

those 10 minutes of fiction, there are one or two bits of the throughout. but basically i thought they did a fantastic job. i basically thought it was a really good film, and i am honored to have been featured. host: if we have time we were short excerpt, but let's go to maggie on the phone. caller: thank you for c-span to the reason i am falling mr. frost is basically i've been trying to call this morning regarding governor sanford in his relation, the situation he is in and how he is being disgraced, and how nixon was disgraced. i am very concerned for governor sanford. it seems that he has lost everything, and he obviously loves that woman. i wish the papers and the people would leave him alone for a little while. guest: interesting, yes. there is a perpetual debate, and we come on it from time to time about what is the public's business and what is not. for instance, the doings of governance and so on, those obviously valid. but then, i mean, obviously with the stories of children about 15 or something, they are not running for office. a politician has

. >> coming up, more non-fiction authors and books throughout the weekend with books on the economy, a former investment banker john talbott exposes myths concerning the recession and what it will take to recover, and jay richards and what it will take to ease poverty and help the environment. also, concerning overeating. david kessler explains how americans program by too much sugar, salt, and junk can control their eating habits. afterwards, from the garden of eden until today -- this author recounts the history of the world through a collection of 600 short stories. he speaks with columbia professor john dinges. our website has the entire schedule and great features including streaming video and easy to search archives in simple ways to share your favorite programs. booktv.org. >> the sec should be a model for fairness. monday, on the communicators, a discussion on president obama's choice to lead the federal communications commission with andrew of broadband census.com and with this other guest of the news wires. monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. "washington journal"

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. >> bill buckley edited a magazine, he wrote 56 books, nonfiction and fiction, he sailed the world. was there anything he wanted to do but never did? >> priscilla? he did say -- there is a questionnaire, frost wrote these questions. if you could come back, what would you want to be in your next life, one of the questions i remember, he answered, one of the questions was is there any challenge you wish that you had? he said he wished he had an excellent, comprehensive memory. i thought his memory was pretty good. it is interesting that he would say that. when you think about it, in terms of social class, he met everybody. there was an awful lot of stuff to remember. he told it to us. entertainingly and delightfully. he seems to have felt he could have done it a little better. he had a full life for what he wanted to do. one of the things he said in his letter to me when he said i was not going to succeed him, he said you don't want to be in a job that is not suited to you because responsibilities become after -- asphyxiating. even at the time, i was going through wailing and weeping,

every weekend, book tv has the latest of fiction books and others on c-span2. saturday on "after words" they will talk about a book from eduardo galeano. it airs sunday night at 9 eastern. also sunday, but some the economy. former investment banker will expose miss about the recession and what it will take to recover. -- will expose myths about the recession and what will take to recover. and the formedavit kessler willk about overheating. there is lot more on "book tv." our website has all the programming and several new features to share your favorite programs. >> now house republicans outlined their health-care plan calling for universal access to insurance while rejecting the concept of a government health insurance option. health care legislation is being debated in house and senate committees. this is >> we want to work with president obama to make sure that we have health care reforms that will help all americans have insurance. if you look at the plan that will be unveiled this morning, which take the current health- care system and improve it to make i

limits isn't really an american word and it is a word we brush up against with a sense of fiction. jimmy carter was a wonderful president in some ways but absolutely hopeless at that. he didn't really want to bring together american ingenuity and resourcefulness in the sense of sustained patriarchs energy. he wanted to make us feel sinful with the mischievous man that he was had a point when after listening to one of jimmy carter's on the television set on till the last night i had in realized god was a member of president carter's cabinet and ferociously cabinet god as well. so there is this sense of america and the title of the book is slightly over queued. the american future, a history was born out of the conviction there are certain moments even though it is thought to be in some anno note to project from the present moment as from the past because of the way obama was and it historical stories he liked to tell and because of the first pri history in american public culture i must say the first time that i realized this is when i was young also in cambridge i was having to tea

>> we have publish non-fiction primarily. one of our missions is to make sure they books fit into our core areas where we know we are going to be able to find success for readers. it is a lot of military history for us, a general history, a little politics, a little current events and a lot of pop culture to mix it up a little bit, music history. >> speaking of pop culture what is this book? >> this is a book called goodbye 20 a century ago it has been favorably reviewed in hardcover and which is part of the paperback edition. it is about the band and the whole grunge music movement. the. >> allyssa born is vice president of da capo press. >> sunday on c-span's to's booktv, former reagan advisers marden and and les anderson on why the president believed destroying nuclear weapons would bring an end to the soviet union. on after words nicholas schmidle talks about his two years in pakistan. he sits down with "new york post" columnist ralph peters and next weekend for the holiday three days of booktv starting friday morning at

witte fiction. there were only 2.3 million muslims in america, where obama said there are 7 million. also, mr. obama claiming that islam promotes tolerance and dignity when non-muslims living in islamic nations are subjected to oppression. host: i will not go to the point about the number in the u.s. but i will share with the top five muslim nations. there are -- indonesia, pakistan, bangladesh, india and turkey. guest: the point the caller makes is interesting about in the arab world they have a tendency to see america as threatening because it is very secular. europeans tend to think we are very religious, but they see america as being disruptive partly because of its secularism. and there are different attitudes. but i think the president was right to extend a hand. if you do not try to extend a hand it becomes a self- fulfilling prophecy. you have a much more polarized environment. given his life story, he

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it is a fictionalized autobiography of a woman sold into slavery who chronicles her life in magnificent fashion. someone knows my name, the book fief and as i said, pat conroy's south of broad that comes out august 11th. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information visit our web site at booktv.org. per >>> coming up next, booktv present "after words," an hourlong discussion between a guest host and the author of a new book. this week, nicolas schmidle, fellow at the new america foundation, talks about his book, "the live or perish forever." it's an account of the two years he lived in pakistan beginning in 2006. mr. schmidle discusses

where do you off load those >> every weekend, though it is non-fiction books and authors on c-span2's "book tv" twoonie cave hill gave an interview on sunday. and joel rosenberg discusses his book. and what is next for the economy? stephen maur and former reagan economic policy advisor. and later, foreclosure nation, sherry olson on the housing crunch and where it is heading. look for our entire schedule online at booktv.org. >> here is our present policy. and we are really anxious and eager to stop the bombing, just as the reader to stop the war. >> telephone conversations with the nine final months of lyndon johnson cozy presidency on vietnam, you and appointees, and his troubles with picks for supreme court justice. listen saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span radio in the baltimore area at 90.1 fm, online ad c-span.org and on xm satellite radio channel 132. >> how did house and senate negotiators were cut their key differences on the spending bill? >> in the house, the chairman of the appropriations committee said that this conference report was not going to pass the house if i

it's not an awful, it's non-fiction but it's a great piece of writing and nicholas schmidle, the book is "to live or to perish forever," and as a fellow writer im just plain jealous. congratulations. >> guest: thanks, ralph. ..  >> let me begin at the beginning. i am not bill buckley or writing for him. i europe around in new york close to rochester a midsize upstate city with my parents and my older brother bob. in the fall of 1969 that i was a freshman in the public high-school i did not know anybody who went to a private one. my brother was a junior at yale. every weekend since he had gone away to college i wrote him on a small black middle typewriter that belonged two mom, a letter rehearsing the events of the week. basketball games, school plays, a little tryouts and tidy disasters bullets of adolescence and dramatize. one week the news barged in the home theater. with the vietnam war called for a nationwide moratorium on october 15. the moratorium look to be on the big campuses with boycotting campuses and glasses were planned. some kids and my high school decided to join him.

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. >> bill buckley edited a magazine, had a television show, wrote 56 books, nonfiction fiction, skied, has a cia agent, sailed the world. anything you know that he wanted to do that he in fact never did? >> priscilla? he did say -- there's a questionnaire, and it's like a parlor game, you know, if you could come back what would you want to be in your next life, and so on. and one of the questions i remember -- because he took it. he answered those. and one of the questions was, is there any talent you wish that you had? and he said he wished he had an excellent and comprehensive memory. i thought his memory was pretty damn good. that's interesting that he would say that. and of course when you think about it, both in terms of his social class and the impact he made and the profession he followed, he met everybody so there was an awful lot of good stuff to remember, and he told it to us, you know, entertainingly and delightfully, so he seems to have felt that he could have done it a little better. he had a full life for what he wanted to do with it. one of the things he said in his let

i think you ought to market on the fiction ultimate universe. first of all when you said something about the general supporting rumsfeld, rumsfeld fired every general who told him he needed 3,000 troops to pass iraq. he wanted to go on the 75,000 fired shinseki and other generals so you either agree with me or you were out the door. he was completely dominating. he was also talking about these mushroom cloud destruction and the entire structure of the united states, you are all going to get scared. he also put dissipated in finding the document called project for a new american sentry which basically said we should dominate the middle east and anything less than a pearl harbor type of event will not motivate the united states to the walls and attack afghanistan. >> host: lots there, we will get the response. thanks for the call. >> guest: rumsfeld, just to correct the record did not fire general shinseki although it is commonly thought that he did. actively he didn't fire any general. the only person he fired was the army secretary tom white, an

stonecutters and so forth, that she really touches something that even graphic novelist's work basically fiction novelist in pictures, rarely manage to do and she does it from the makings of people's lives. but also very much like being psychologically in tune with exactly what studs had in mind. i sure do hope that the book is successful enough for us to do some more studs terkel's comics because i think i would aspire to do that almost more than anything i can think of as a comics editor. >> i just want to make this point. there is a guy who is one of my favorite writers and to influence me and to anticipated studs terkel. he is a guy from chicago. his name is george. you know, he was from indiana, from an agricultural area. he went to perdue and then he came to chicago in the 1890's and got a job i think with the chicago record and at that time the colombian national exhibition or exposition-- was taking place and they sent him out. they just sent him out in the street to interview. he could do anything he wanted, so he would just interview all these different kinds of people and it was just

>> bill buckley edited a magazine, had a television show and wrote 56 books, nonfiction and fiction, played the harpsichord, sailed the world was there anything that he wanted to do that he, in fact, never did? [laughter] >> priscilla -- he did say there's a questionnaire called the prust questionnaire. it's like alc parlor game, you know, if you could come back what would you want to be in your next life and so on. and one of the questions i remember because he took. one of the questions is was there any talent you wish that you had, and he said he wish he had an excellent and comprehensive memory. i thought his memory was pretty damn good, but, you know, that's interesting that he would say that and, of course, when you think about it, both in terms of his social class and the impact he made in the profession he followed, he met everybody. so there was an awful good stuff to remember and he told it to us, you know, entertainingly and delightfully so he seems to have felt that, you know, he could have done it a little better. he had a full life for what he wanted to do with it. one

finally, the one fiction that i want to read this summer, i hope to read others but want to read the new book, a mad desire to dance. because he is such a terrific writer and what he writes is so important. i was really moved by what he said a few weeks ago when he spoke openly about having lost his foundation, so much money in the bernard madoff uproar, fiasco. he was so smart and lost millions, but this is a book obviously that continues but he has been writing for so many years about the holocaust so i want to get through this book if i can this summer. those are the five book is plan on reading. i hope to get through them all and start on more. >> you're obviously a busy man. where do you do your reading? >> i try read before i go to sleep at night. i try to read on weekends. i just go out on my deck in the back yard and just relax, especially if the weather is good. whenever you can. i am a busy guy. but you make time. and it's important. and i really appreciate books. >> wolf blitzer, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program infor