ause] [applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured? send us an e-mail. tweet us or post on our wall >> bill gates recently released a list of seven books is reading this summer >> they get one week. and he has this moment at the beginning where he looks around when he 1st gets asked you have to go train girls. you know, what kind of assignment is that. at the end of his eight days with them these women may end up being tuskegee airmen. i don't want to use language in the book around children, but read the chapter. there is a lot of colorful language where he just has these moments. they are serious. if they want to be here and i'm sure i said: dickinson everything i no. what he found was that they have heart and great. he asked them to climb up and down with body armor it's hard for a lot of them. and the confession white who goes up and down three times using just apologized for not using her legs. if you do out there were you doing here in the fight. you care to be there. all that want to do is get the job done. they start to prove t

topeka focusing on nonfiction authors also are there any nonfiction books or authors who have had an impact on you? sam brownback: a lot, i'm reading one now that i have reread several times. a guy by the name of watchmen knee. he was a chinese writer that wrote a series of books, the one i am reading is called the " normal christian life." he ended the last 20 years of his life in prison in china. for his faith. it is a beautiful one. i'm just starting coral sandberg's book,

some think he is the greatest nonfiction writer we have ever had. i am the author of "man in profile: joseph mitchell of the new yorker." he was born in fairmont, north carolina. he grew up on a cotton and tobacco farm. he is one of the kids that grew up in america all the time. they grew up in nowhere and that they would end up in new york. a great american story that still happens to this day. one of the things people like about joe mitchell is that he wrote about things other people would not write about. he wrote about people that other folks would not notice. he coaxed out of them stories that were the most expensive human stories and made them into art. joe mitchell probably knew the city than almost anyone. he knew new york really well. one of his famous subjects was joe gould, who was basically a bomb writing the oral history of our time but was a vagrant in greenwich village. all of new york was joe's home in a sense. joseph mitchell was influential in terms of nonfiction writing in the second half of the 20th century. he demonstrated you d

topeka focusing on nonfiction authors also are there any nonfiction books or authors who have had an impact on you? governor brownback: oh a lot that have. i am reading one now that i have reread several times, a guy by the name of watchmen need-- he was a chinese writer who wrote a number of books, and one he wrote is "the normal christian life." he ended the last 20 years of his life in china, but it is a beautiful one. i'm just starting carl sandberg's book, when he boiled all of his other books on lincoln, the "the prairie years and the war years or coke ." lincoln is a revered figure across the country. kansas came into the union at the same year that lincoln was coming up, and the kansans were passion abolitionists, we were passionate for lincoln. and he said if i were a young man now, i think i would go to kansas. so we came in with lincoln, and we have stayed with him. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring to be good, kansas. our cityoeies tour staff travel there. learn more at c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, ev

for nonfiction it is important. is not as important for other genres like the new york times is not as important for romance writers for a cookbook necessarily. it really is the kind of book. a fantastic review in the new york times can help the book enormously. on the other hand not getting a review or getting a bad review is not the kiss of death. i have seen books the got terrible reviews and gone on to sell very well. the review relatively few books. that is the hard part. it matters greatly to the author. the new york times can only give you so many, they are limited by the number of pages in the book review and i know they have to say no to a lot of books they wish they had the room to cover. that is just -- all waste was then a hard position. >> host: that wasn't a set up. maybe it was. booktv went to the new york times and we did a profile interview with the editor of the new york times book review section and he is a level of what she had to say. do publishers want their books reviewed in the york times? >>

three full days of nonfiction authors and books. some of the topics that we're featuring this weekend include the iraq war, america's infrastructure, terrorism washington, d.c. and the civil war, and first ladies. some of the authors you will hear from include former senator george mitchell, cornel west, dana perino and walter isaacson. for a complete schedule of our entire weekend you can go to booktv.org. you will see the schedule on the right-hand side of the page. follow us on facebook facebook.com/booktv or @booktv is our twitter and dell where we send out a lot of updates and publishing news throughout the weekend. booktv on this memorial day weekend, three days of nonfiction books and authors. booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> thanks for asking. as you know i taught economics for the past 18 years. i went to seminary before that. i usually like reading combination of economics and ethics. on the stump speech people thought that was humorous joke. i take it pre

there are certain kinds of nonfiction with an impact. and knowing you are reaching, if you are writing or entertaining, make people laugh or have given that kind of thing. >> host: jamie raab how would you describe your job? >> figuring out what to publish and most of all, that is not easy. talking about it all the time. it starts in house. i say it is the business of passion. it is an editor finding a book saying i want to buy it. and how to get leaders excited. how to get them to know about a book and a group of people in house to make people outside the house come to the book. >> is that a fair comparison for companies? >> the ceo probably has more of an umbrella position looking at operations. publishers as i practice publishing, really focused on what to acquire and how to get it out into the world. we think of it in a different way. in some ways we tell each editor, the publisher of this book and drive down the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership and tell editors at 10 points you are always selling. you are always selli

. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and doctors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> several programs this weekend. today booktv coverage of the third annual san antonio book festival, panels include a look at life on the aircraft carrier uss george h. w. bush. internment camps in the united states during world war ii, a latino america and more. tomorrow we are live with john negronson which includes so you think you have been ashamed, the psychopath test and the men who set don't. you will enter your questions from noon until 3:00 eastern on in dead. afterwards, the life of first lady michelle ng obama from her childhood to the white house. also this weekend, rod blagojevich talks about being prosecuted along with his brother, former illinois governor rod blagojevich. new york times columnist david brooks dissects the idea of character. former treasury secretary henry paulson takes a look at the evolution of china's capitalist system and much more. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> theodor

to nonfiction with the book called i am becoming a novelist. he says his job is to have a fictional dream mine is to create the non-fiction dream but anything that takes away from that is to be avoided rather fancy language are bad punctuation and the thing that takes you away you don't like that either? so my feeling is it is terrible but they tend to be in the form of of glossy signature. maybe there are even to. is like a lighthouse beacon you sit here to read the book you have the temptation to look for photographs is great every time you leave the story this opportunity i want to avoid that. she felt the same way the rise and fall of the third reich hiroshima had no photographs. i don't have the photographs [laughter] >> i noticed that your stories have a lot of death. are you drawn into that aspect? >> death? it is what makes things compelling. tragedy if what i was to write about it is where the stories are. it's not like i am hunting. it is just what happens. plus world's fair was not that dark. [laughter] >> en no you didn't have anyth

. >> every weekend booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. keep watching for more here on c-span2 and watch any of our past programs online a booktv.org. >> eric larson is next. he talks be in sinking of the lusitania, british oceanliner by a german u-boat in 1915 and the influence of the vent on to america's entry into world war i. [applause] >> you can't believe how excited people are so see you. i'm not kidding. they came for you. no other author could have done this. >> tell that to my daughters. >> they're not impressed with you? i want to talk about a little bit about this idea of why we are so intrigued by the idea of the doomed ship, and here's my theory and you tell me whether this fits what you're thinking. is it something about the adventure and the optimism of the voyage, colliding with this tragedy that the passengers don't know that they're sailing into? its like the collision of those ideas? >> no. >> come on. >> no. i actually often wonder about that myself. the thing that drew me to the lusitania was the fact i have this mari

stomach i have divided into fiction versus nonfiction because when you sell a novel you are selling the entire novel. i started publishing you used to be able to sell a novel and a partial. these days unless you are a best-selling author those are gone. the jk rowling could send a partial but the novelists i'm dealing with are either first of the list were on their second or third book and said they don't sell that on a partial. >> i sold a partial 1200 pages. at the time we didn't know that it is going to be quite so long so i think the contractor said 100,000 words or 150,000-watt 600,000 which is what wound up being. these days you have to solve the whole novel so to walk you through it i sold a novel this past week where i started working with director in october of 2013. i read around christmas. we gave her editorial notes so the entire process has been a good year and a half of her doing to huge rafts and fixing it and this is the novel we love and we are like yes you have to fix this and the beginning. [laughter] so to rewrite and one finish. so that's took a year and a half and

. >> is there a nonfiction author of look that you'd like to the featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at defend.org or send us a tweet at booktv or post on our wall at facebook.com/booktv. >> edward kleinbard before you joined usc law school as professor, what were you doing? >> i was chief of staff of nonpartisan joint committee on taxation. the staff works to provide lawmakers with information about how changing tax laws are going to affect tax revenues in the future. it does so in a nonpartisan way which means that it has republicans, democrats, house and senate and it turns out that it means that you are the easiest dog in the room to kick. >> okay, so if i were a member of congress and i said i wanted tax system that is this or that. it's your job to draft that the mac's. >> at. >> regardless of what happens? >> yes. and i think all of us appreciate that responsibility to try to take it seriously and we tried to deliver what the bosses are asking for. >> you have also penned a book, "we are better than this: how government should spend our money." in this book y

he current best selling nonfiction books according to the "washington post." >> this weekend, booktv is in topeka, kansas, with help of our local cable partner talks communications. michael church of the kansas state archives looks at the life of local pioneer samuel reader who kept a diary for 64 years beginning in 1849. >> samuel reader was a kansas pioneer, farmer, soldier artist and photographer among many other things. he kept a daily journal from 1849 all the way up until 1913. from age 13 all the way to a 78 i believe. and the diaries were donated to the society by his daughter right after his death in 1914. he created 15 journals over the period of his life. but we only received 13 because in 1890 his farmhouse burned and they were only able to save 13 of the journals. two of them volume one and volume four, perished in the fire. apparently is influenced by a great reading of the journals of lewis and clark expedition and you want to keep a daily journal like they did and it was a special interest in their illustrations that they included and he wanted to illustrate. he was i

three full days of nonfiction authors and books you can follow us on facebook facebook .com/book tv. publishing news throughout the weekend. book tv on this memorial day weekend. three days of nonfiction books and authors. >> let me say, journalists have an aversion to become the story. that certainly has been judy miller's preference. a decade ago she ended up the subject of not one but two controversies, one involving the question of iraq's alleged pursuit of weapons of mass distraction and the other involving the disclosure of cia operatives here to discuss those experiences and much more call chronicled in her new memoir. the book covers the whole span for long, accomplished career before and immediately after the attacks, a pulitzer prize. during the run-up to the iraq war she wrote a number of high profile articles that later turned out to be based on information. many critics >> a former critic. >> the story her 5th book. biological weapons the 1st gulf war in the holocaust. in the office. lighthearted. her story or stories raise important questions about the practice of journ

we are interviewing local nonfiction authors. other any books or authors that have had an impact on you? governor brownback: a lot have time reading one now that i have reread several times. a guy by the name of watchmen, a chinese writer that wrote a series of books. the one i'm reading now is the normal christian life. it is a beautiful one. i'm just starting carl sandburg's look, when he boiled all of his other books down on lincoln. lincoln is a revered figure across the country. we came into the union at the same time lincoln is coming up and the kansans at that time were passionate for lincoln. he said once, famously, look, if i were a young man now, i think i would go to kansas. we came in with lincoln and we have stayed with him. >> bleeding kansas refers to a series of violent political confrontations between anti-slavery and proslavery groups along the border of the kansas territory and missouri. the influx of proslavery and free state settlers during this time helped establish topeka as a major political and commercial

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@cspan.org tweet us @booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> the thing to notice about the progressive era is that there was a lot of national discussion at that time about these challenges. that's what teddy roosevelt especially was doing but a lot of other people too at the national level. pardon me. but most of the actual policy innovations that came to fix that problem did not come from washington. that national conversation gave oxygen to local reformers in places all around america. and so the innovations in that time came from, you know, galveston and toledo and the wyoming territories. and the isle of kansas. the american high school, god did not invent american high schools. high schools were invented by small towns in iowa and kansas and the midwest in this period so that kids -- with the idea that these are all our kids, we're all going to be better off if we give them a free secondary education, you know, free secondary educ

we'll cover top nonfiction authors and books. next weekend we're live at book expo america in new york city. and beginning of june we're live for the chicago tribune, a three-hour live in depth program with lawrence and watch for the annual roosevelt reading festival from the library. in the middle of july we're live with the african-american literary event with panel discussions and at the beginning of we're live from the >>> privately funded effort to remove urban blight and unhealthy living conditions in east baltimore. using a housing court and inspections by city officials, the program fined property owners and encouraged them to repair sub standard conditions. the program was sponsored by the national association of home builders it seemed like another world, deserted unpeopled, but not without a life of its own. [dog barking]. >> it is another world, i suppose, to most people. an urban jungle. but though it may seem a jungle in its ugliness and disorder its real life is in the people who live here. people with the same nei

three full days of nonfiction authors and books >> good evening. it's my pleasure to be back here. i was telling someone that for 40 years five times he year i came here. and so i have almost reverential feelings for this place. and i hope a similar motion will be developed for my book at the end of this. [laughter] washington versus jefferson the conflict that continues to trouble america. the conflict between george washington and thomas jefferson? most americans are unaware that such a thing ever existed. but little has been written about the differences that have developed. martha washington told the visiting congressman the two worst days of her life for the day george died and the david thomas jefferson came to pay his condolences. [laughter] and little doubt. she also knew that jefferson's dislike of washington had become so intense he had avoided attending his funeral even though he was vice president at the time. ultimately they became enemies. james madison's brilliant political theorizing on the admiration and was forced to choose between these two tall antagonists. duri

topeka focusing on nonfiction authors also are there any nonfiction books or authors who have had an impact on you? sam brownback: a lot, i'm reading one now that i have reread several times. a guy by the name of watchmen knee. he was a chinese writer that wrote a series of books, the one i am reading is called the " normal christian life." he ended the last 20 years of his life in prison in china. for his faith. it is a beautiful one. i'm just starting coral sandberg's book, the one on his story of lincoln. i am looking forward to finishing it. lincoln is a particularly revered figure. he is revered in kansas in that we came into the union in the same time he is coming up. the kansas people were passionate abolitionists and for lincoln. he said, once famously, if i were a young man now, i would go to kansas. so, we came in with lincoln, and we have stayed with him. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring topeka, kansas. our staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. to learn more, visit c-span.org. you are watching american history tv, all wee

. >>> this summer "book tv" will cover book festivals around the country and top nonfiction authors and book. we're live at book expo america in new york city where the publishing industry showcases upcoming books. in the beginning of june we're live for the three-hour-live in-depth program the pulitzer prize winning author lawrence wright, and 4 phone calls. watch for the roosevelt reading festival from the frankly d. roosevelt presidential library. in july live at the harlem book fair, the nation's flagship african-american literary event with author interviews and panel discussions. and at the beginning of september we're live from the nation's capital for theonal book festival celebrating its 15th year. that's a few of the events this summer on c-span2's "book tv." >>> on april 13th 1865, a day before his assassination, president lincoln left the white house on horseback for his cottage retreat in northwest washington, d.c. this would be lincoln's last ride to the cottage before he was shot at ford's theater by john wilkes booth. to mark the ride's anniversary lincoln's cottage host

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. >> this summer booktv will cover book festivals from around the country and top nonfiction authors and books. this weekend we're live at bookexpo america in new york city where the publishing industry showcases their upcoming books. in the beginning of june we're live for the chicago tribune printers row lit fest including our three-hour live "in depth" program with lawrence wright and your phone calls. near the end of june watch for the annual roosevelt reading festival from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library n. the middle of july, we're live at the harlem book fair with author interviews and panel discussions. and at the beginning of september, we're live from the nation's capital for the national book festival celebrating its 15th year. and that's a few of the events this summer on c-span2's booktv. >> and booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> i've got a couple books set up. one, i'm a lover of biographies, so i've just found two. one is called rebel yell, it's about stonewall jackson. and it's -- >> [ina

. >> is there a nonfiction author of look that you'd like to the featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at defend.org or send us a tweet at booktv or post on our wall at facebook.com/booktv. >> edward kleinbard before you joined usc law school as professor, what were you doing? >> i was chief of staff of nonpartisan joint committee on taxation. the staff works to provide lawmakers with information about how changing tax laws are going to affect tax revenues in the future. it does so in a nonpartisan way wh

. >> this summer, book tv covers if he is testifies around the country, top nonfiction authors and books. we are live in new york city this weekend for the publishing tri show cases new books. in june live

. >> that was "after words", our signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists and public policymakers and others familiar with their materials. it airs every weekend at 12:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on sunday and 12:00 a.m. on monday. and you can also watch "after words" online. just go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the series and topics list on the upper right-hand side of the page. >> republican senator mike leigh is next on the tv with his new book. he argues that portions of the u.s. constitution are currently diminished from the fourth amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizures to the origination clause states that all tax bills must originate in the house of representative or senators. >> hello, i am the president of freedom works and i'm here with my glee from utah who has written a new book that is important, "our lost constituion: the willful subversion of america's founding document." thank you senator for being with us. >> thank you it's good to be with you two i have really enjoyed reading thi

we are interviewing local nonfiction authors. other any books or authors that have had an impact on you? governor brownback:

crowded hours was at the top of the nonfiction bestseller list for every city east of the mississippi on november 3, 1933 area that was the week eleanor's book hit the stands. it's up to the one and only made the top of the list in washington where it beat crowded hours of the top spot. as it turned out to the books were on the introduction to what became the long meeting. the next round was touched off by will rogers the famous actor writer. he was a handful of prominent people who was a friend to alice and eleanor equally. in august 1945 to 55-year-old was touring alaska when his plane crashed upon takeoff telling him. his column had been a fixture by 40 million people a day. they needed another informed phil rogers space. .. the editors of the united feature syndicate or eager for, to compete. naturally eleanor's name was on the short list. at the time of its launch only 25 papers that the column which was called my day. we focused on washington politics and the dance of legislation. a broader and softer report on the people and events that will through their active life. if alice

. >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org tweet us @booktv, or post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. >> host: and now joining us on booktv on c-span2 is usc professor frank mcadams who's written this book, "vietnam roughriders: a convoy commander's memoir." professor mcadams, what's a roughrider in the vietnam era? >> guest: a roughrider in the vietnam e era were from the first marine division. and we ran the trucks up and down highway 1. right out of da nang, south to hoi january and an boy and north through the notorious and stretchous pass to -- [inaudible] and points north. anybody who went on those convoy s through one of the dangerous passes in vietnam they just nicknamed us the roughriders. and it was sometime in, before i got there in '66 or '67 that when i got there they told me i'm going to the 11th motor transport battalion, those are the roughriders. >> host: first of all, what is highway 1? >> guest: highway 1 was the main highway in vietnam that stretched from the delta wh

every weekend 48 hours of nonfiction authors and topics. we are on location at princeton university and we are visiting with some professors who are also offers. joining us now is the economics professor who has cowritten a book called house of debt and how it caused a great recession and how we can prevent it from happening again. professor, how did you and i caused a great recession? the >> basically we give the answer get the answer in the title which is debt and the important thing to understand is why it can be harmful for the economy. that's what the book is about is understanding the mechanisms to which it can at times be destructive. we talk about the mechanisms for the macroeconomy and towards the end of the book we talk about how we can remedy the situation and improve the way the financial markets work and the way that we can benefit and at the same time minimize the negative consequences of some of the excesses that it builds up over time quite naturally for various reasons, but we need to have a system that can deal with this o

booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. television for serious readers. >> first up this weekend on booktv geoff dyer talks about his experiences while living aboard the uss george h.w. bush. [inaudible conversations] >> hi, everybody. my name's clay smith. i am the program director of this festival so thank you for being here. con fronting the -- confronting the drizzle or the mist or the rain or whatever we want to call it. you're not here to hear from me, you're obviously here to listen to geoff dyer. let me tell you a little bit about geoff and he and i will be in conversation for a while and then we'll open it up to questions from you all. geoff dyer is the author of four novels two collections of essays and seven genre-defying titles and they are but beautiful, the missing of the thome, out of sheer rage, yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it -- [laughter] the ongoing moment and xona, a book about the film "stalker." he is the co-editor of what was true: the photographs and notebooks of william getny. he's a

world-class industry as well as known industries throughout the world surely this is resulted in an itch nonfiction of increased taxes and other revenue to the city's government in the past the city's disconnection makers have struggled to provide essential services to those who have fallen by the way side and other cities have ignored the poor the city thas has tried in the midst of those services the lower case management provides guidance and encourage time and day to day to younger adults and seniors with disability the case managers can readily identify with clients issues abuse in some cases they have once walked the shoes of those they served we want to make sure that the oz issues stay before our supervisors - with new to the city's coffers a great opportunity for the city's decision makers to set an examples for other municipalities i encourage you to share those financial blessing to encourage those cases managers and on the firing line by increased funding to the cb o i'm confident that those new day of san francisco we will rise to meet the challenge - >> sir thank you very much sir i a

but the story they discovered in a nonfiction writing class is so surreal, you would think it had to be fiction. so this where it happened? >> yeah, this is where we met. >> reporter: lizzie and katie walked into this columbia classroom as strangers two years ago. lizzie enrolled in the class just 45 minutes before it began. it's the first day of class. >> professor asked us what in our life was stranger than fiction or what drew us to writing nonfiction and so lizzie mentioned she's adopted. katie could hardly believe lizzie's answer. she said a couple of details that i knew matched up with things i knew about my biological sister. she said she was from new jersey, she said that she had a child. >> reporter: after class katie decided she couldn't wait another day to solve a life long mystery. >> when she followed up with a rapid-fire of more detailed personal questions, were you given up for adoption in tampa, florida, to a woman named leslie. i was like whoa whoa whoa. i paused and the room froze and i said is this real life? >> reporter: lizzie, now 35 and katie, now 34 are sister

three full days of nonfiction authors and books. some of the topics we are featuring this weekend include the iraq war america's infrastructure, terrorism washington, d.c. and the civil war and first ladies. now for a complete schedule of our entire weekend you can go to booktv.org. used to the schedule on the right hand side of the page. you can also follow was on facebook, or at booktv is our twitter handler we sent out a letter schedule updates. and publishing news throughout the weekend. booktv on this memorial day weekend three days nonfiction books and authors. >> cokie roberts, political commentator for npr and abc news is next on booktv. her book "capital dames" recounts washington, d.c. during the civil war through the lives of many of the women who lived and worked in the capital. following this talk from politics & prose bookstore in d.c. we bring you a book party for "capital dames" from the museum also in washington. >> i just want to say it such a personal pleasure for me and for brad it was a porsche not here to post

. >> [inaudible conversations] >> every weekend tv offers programming focus on nonfiction authors and books. keep watching for more here on c-span2 watch any of our past programs online at booktv.org. >> republican senator mike lee from utah is next on booktv with his new book. he argues portions of the u.s. constitution are currentlyhe ar diminished from the fourthre amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizures to the origination clause which states all tax bills must originate in the house of states th representatives. >> my name is matt kibbe, i'm president of the freedomworks and i'm here with senator mike lee from utah who has written a new book, an importantpre bookh "our lost constitution: the willful subversion of america's founding document."e thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you.ica' >> i really enjoyed reading this book and wanted to start with a question about your interesting to upbringing. you discussed the constitution of the separation of powers when you were just a kid at the dinner table with your parents.sc th >> we did. powewhen i

. >> this summer, book tv covers if he is testifies around the country, top nonfiction authors and books. we are live in new york city this weekend for the publishing tri show cases new books. in june live for the printers row lit fest. near the end of june, watch for the annual roosevelt reading festival from the presidential library. middle of july, live at the harlem book fair with author interviews and panel discussions. at the beginning of september live from the nation's capital from national book festival. that's a few of the events on cspan2's book tv. each week, american history tv real america brings archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. 50 years ago lip done johnson delivered his first policy speech regarding the vietnam war, carried lives from johns hopkins university in baltimore to an estimated television audience of 60 million. he want to answer from those that thought the united states wasn't doing enough to help south vietnam, titled peace without con quest, the address attempted to explain why southeast asia was a vital interest to the united stat

three full days of nonfiction authors and books. some of the topics that we're featuring this weekend include the iraq war, america's infrastructure, terrorism washington d.c. and the civil war and first ladies. some of the authors you'll hear from include former senator george mitchell, cornel west, dana perino and walter isaacson. now, for a complete schedule of our entire weekend, you can go to booktv.org. you'll see the schedule over on the right-hand side of the page. you can also follow us on facebook, facebook.com/booktv, or @booktv is our twitter handle where we send out a lot of schedule updates and publishing news throughout the weekend. booktv on memorial day weekend, three days of nonfiction books and authors. >> i think this is sort of a hidden story, but a fundamental issue that had cropped up in the 1970s and early 1980s. it was fundamental in terms of how you viewed our chances to prevail at what president kennedy called, you know, the long twilight struggle. and the genesis is in the early '70s the cia was estimatin

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[inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and daughters every weekend, booktv, television serious readers. >> we have several programs for you this weekend. .. >> new york times columnist david brooks dissects the idea of character. former treasury secretary henry paulson takes a look at the evolution of china's capitalist system and much more. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> we kick off booktv this weekend with a program from politics & prose bookstore in washington d.c. with garry wills who questions whether pope francis is capable of producing significant change within the catholic church. [inaudible conversations] [applause] >> good evening everyone. thank you all so much for coming out tonight what an outstanding crowd, i'm not surprised. you've all picked a very good event to come to. i'm lissa muscatine and our staff and my co-owner and husband brad graham welcome all of you to this evening's event. just in case you're new to our events professor wills will speak for a bit and then is ha

i think television in the form of everything from live television all the way through to nonfiction content, news, so forth, documentaries, fiction, drama, comedy, it will grow a lot. the reason i am so confident is that the number of people who can receive streaming video in the world is like two billion people, on its way to 5 billion people by the end of the decade. right? so i think in the future, if you want to watch something, you go straight to it. you just google it and go straight to it. or you go to youtube and go straight to it. or, new bundles. if you were ever going to buy netflix stock, i would never recommend buying it, but on a day it's dropped 25% it might be worthing thinking about. i think netflix could have a billion subscribers by sometime in the early 2020's. like, i don't think there is any reason why it cannot be absolutely gigantic. and then amazon will be very big, i think, and hulu. the new aggregators, the new bundlers, will be large. >> what is the future of apple under tim cook? will apple be a big player in television? >> it looks promising. it looks extremely