>> well, elmore leonard has a new novel out and george pelecanos has a new novel out so i'm reading some new novels. i'm listening on recorded books driving over here and will listen going back to the history of jacksonion called waking giant. >> there's predictions books might go the way of news and that is all digital. >> well, the kindles are out there. i tend to like a great thump and a feel of a book in my hand but then i am a fossil. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our website at booktv.org. z is the author branding new york how a city of crisis was sold to the world is the book. professor miriam greenberg, when you think of new york city of the '50s and '60s, what do you think of? >> well, i think that new york in the post-world war ii period was in a position e$cof, you kn preeminence really of the united states and its fortunes were rising for a time. i think it was -- it was a famous kind of working class city to quote another book by joshua freeman. it was a city that had had a lot of business during world war ii and its industries had