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but we have selected bocks for a variety of reasons. some of them have inscriptions by other famous people or by the authors themselves. two books in the collection that i just adore are books that are part of the armed service book outreach to people who are serving in the military. and so we have two examples of books that soldiers are sent or were accept i should say. i believe now they are sent books to read at the war front on ipods and other things. but at los in the olden days. >> what are the two books you have. >> i believe one is "tar disan" i'm trying to think what the other one is. but oh my goodness. >> while you think of that, in the exhibit, a lot of novels. >> yes. and novels are critical parts american cultural. not only novels that people read, the common people read, but some very highbrow and complex -- novels. some novels that appeal to people of all ages. some children's books that appeal to people of all ages. the "wizard of oz" charlotte's web hardly limited to a children's audience. >> "goned with wind is here t
but we have selected bocks for a variety of reasons. some of them have inscriptions by other famous people or by the authors themselves. two books in the collection that i just adore are books that are part of the armed service book outreach to people who are serving in the military. and so we have two examples of books that soldiers are sent or were accept i should say. i believe now they are sent books to read at the war front on ipods and other things. but at los in the olden days. >>...
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. >>> eagle forum founder phyls is next on bock tv talking about her book no no higher power obama's war on religious freedom. it was part the recent eagle forum summit held here in washington. [applause] >> tlause] phyllis received her bah ba where she worked her -- testing 30 caliber an mission. she severed a master degree from the harvard university. after the age of 50 she received her law degree? st. louis. she founded eagle forum in 1972a to encourage the grassroots to be p politically active.nd she lead the ten-year battle to successfully defeat the ratification of the equal rights amendment. she is the author of twenty books such as politics, nationa, defense, courts, feminism, andle even then phonic textbook for children called "first reader."s the newest book released this month is no higher power, obama's water on religious freedom. please welcome phyllis schlafly. [applause] [applause]er [applause] >> thank you very much, ann.the and gooda morning students. there are a lot of good books about obama. different aspecteds of his w career.as one o but there wasn't one on a ve
. >>> eagle forum founder phyls is next on bock tv talking about her book no no higher power obama's war on religious freedom. it was part the recent eagle forum summit held here in washington. [applause] >> tlause] phyllis received her bah ba where she worked her -- testing 30 caliber an mission. she severed a master degree from the harvard university. after the age of 50 she received her law degree? st. louis. she founded eagle forum in 1972a to encourage the grassroots to be p...
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what is great i call in the bock in the tight the awakening. the awaking. of the arab mind and the intellectual revolution with people understanding yes, it's poss
what is great i call in the bock in the tight the awakening. the awaking. of the arab mind and the intellectual revolution with people understanding yes, it's poss
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[applause] >>> is there a non-fiction author or bock you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org. or tweet us. compared u.s. constitution to the constitutions of the fifty states. in the hour fifteen minute programs he argues in many ways the state constitutions are better. [applause] [applause] thank you. first, i very much want to thank the people who came out and thank those people who might be watching this on c-span, at any time day or night. whenever it is you are watching. i appreciate that. i was told by both my wife and daughter after presenting some earlier remarks in [inaudible] why in new york that i should make it much shorter. which i will try to do. my hope is to talk for about fifteen no longer than twenty minutes, and then reserve a lot of time for the questions and comments and counter arguments that not only do i suspect that some of you have, but griffin some of the people in the room i know without you who have in fact i welcome. this is, we're told, the most important election in our lifetimes. and it may be that mor
[applause] >>> is there a non-fiction author or bock you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org. or tweet us. compared u.s. constitution to the constitutions of the fifty states. in the hour fifteen minute programs he argues in many ways the state constitutions are better. [applause] [applause] thank you. first, i very much want to thank the people who came out and thank those people who might be watching this on c-span, at any time day or night....
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and it brings the bock to life. i don't think there would be a book that is alive without her voice. it's -- something about having english as a second language. they drive 1940 -- he gets invited in seattle they drive across the united states in 1940. she records that as route 66 and stopping at gas stations. it's all there. >> her personal accounts are derivet it. >> she kept a suicide at the end show kept a journal until the end. she deserves a book of her own. it's not for me to write. someone else. >> in this incredibly life that he is leading in 1944, he encounters -- and their work for the first time. talk a little about that encounter and what happened. >> yeah. they were way ahead. they were -- they had built tsh there was no doubt no one argues whether they built it or not. it is a clear case of something that was first even though it can be traced to other people and to, you know, have james milely tracing it back. but it was a -- as he said, it was a pioneering thing, and because he was scientific advise
and it brings the bock to life. i don't think there would be a book that is alive without her voice. it's -- something about having english as a second language. they drive 1940 -- he gets invited in seattle they drive across the united states in 1940. she records that as route 66 and stopping at gas stations. it's all there. >> her personal accounts are derivet it. >> she kept a suicide at the end show kept a journal until the end. she deserves a book of her own. it's not for me to...
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[laughter] get your dad to read the bock. and the third thing that lead me down the path i had been working as he said in the public service sector in the legislature, and also in the city trying to pass public policy that i thought was really in the public interest, and it was so hard. and it was so hard partly because most people didn't understand what we were even doing. didn't know when we were doing. i see my fellow commissioner joyce here, and she was with me through part of this. and i thought, this is -- there's not enough information out there but basic public policy in every day implead that people are watching, reading with listening to. that lead me down the path. why a provocative title? "kill the messenger." the media's role in the fate of the world. whey came to always -- realize through the research of my book and my disser station is that mass media and mas media messages can be used for good, and they can be used for not so god. they can be used in a constructive and destructive way. most of the book is abou
[laughter] get your dad to read the bock. and the third thing that lead me down the path i had been working as he said in the public service sector in the legislature, and also in the city trying to pass public policy that i thought was really in the public interest, and it was so hard. and it was so hard partly because most people didn't understand what we were even doing. didn't know when we were doing. i see my fellow commissioner joyce here, and she was with me through part of this. and i...
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an point he feared he might have to spend his life writing bock. god help him. he blown half the fortunate on failed cattle ranches. ice storms have a way of doing that. okay. roosevelt is a strict, law and order republican and is holier than thou. he believed that bridegrooms should be virgin on the wedding night. he was against striptease shows, he hated racy entertainment. he wants to wipe out vice corruption in new york. it was one of the most craziest in the world. most new yorkers thought he was crazy or joking. within three months this is how a major newspaper portraited tr. [laughter] it's almost the premises for a sitcom early to dark comedy. harvard-educate reformer in to the brothels and gambling joints, stir slightly with tough irish cops and wait for the explosion. [laughter] manhattan in the 1890s this is timings square. still called long acre scare. no traffic lights or stop signs. no overnight parks streets seem wider. vehicles could ride in any direction up and down the streets. thieves stole more houses in new york city than the entire state of
an point he feared he might have to spend his life writing bock. god help him. he blown half the fortunate on failed cattle ranches. ice storms have a way of doing that. okay. roosevelt is a strict, law and order republican and is holier than thou. he believed that bridegrooms should be virgin on the wedding night. he was against striptease shows, he hated racy entertainment. he wants to wipe out vice corruption in new york. it was one of the most craziest in the world. most new yorkers thought...
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first of all, it is a pity that people get swept away by the main tight of the bock. if you read the sub tight of any books. they actually all very positive. believe it or not, i'm an optimist. i know, it's hard to believe. in dead aid, the subtitle? what was it? hang on. let me think about it. the subtitle was why it's not work and how there's a better way for calf. for those who read the book, you will know the first half was a critique of ade. the second half the book gave you a list of specific things that the world could try to improve africa's standing in the world. my second book subtitled the fifty years of economic falling and choices ahead. again, therest a critique at the second of the half of the book was saying this is where the mistakes have, made. here a list of things that can be done turn a story around. similarly with winner takes all, the idea here is that, you know, china -- we are playing a very serious game. you could argue zero game. they find a number of resources. china's resources and what it means for world. it's trying to arctic late what i
first of all, it is a pity that people get swept away by the main tight of the bock. if you read the sub tight of any books. they actually all very positive. believe it or not, i'm an optimist. i know, it's hard to believe. in dead aid, the subtitle? what was it? hang on. let me think about it. the subtitle was why it's not work and how there's a better way for calf. for those who read the book, you will know the first half was a critique of ade. the second half the book gave you a list of...
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i think it's in the bock. i'm not sure if it's not book. it came after the book was published. i read a paper called playing with islam. and you should unthat some of these trends are
i think it's in the bock. i'm not sure if it's not book. it came after the book was published. i read a paper called playing with islam. and you should unthat some of these trends are
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what's interesting to me is you really -- in the bock you really write about the way the legacy of trauma impacts you as a family. so even though we all know the landmark brown v board of education. you talk about the fact when it happened, the black children who went to the white school lost their black friends. couldn't make any white friend and couldn't stop living in the no-man's land. i don't think we get a chance to feel the price that those young folk paid in order for us to be where we are. we know it intelligently. we don't get to feel it. >> we started the baker county movement in june of '65. in august of '65, my sisters and about fifteen others decided to integrate the white school. when they -- i can remember the first day we took them. i had graduated, and was going off to college in secht. we took them to the -- we tried to to take them to the school. but the gator was about block away, stopping us. they couldn't start the first day, the next day they what we call -- we would do in the movement things would happen. you call the justice department. can't get justice. the sam
what's interesting to me is you really -- in the bock you really write about the way the legacy of trauma impacts you as a family. so even though we all know the landmark brown v board of education. you talk about the fact when it happened, the black children who went to the white school lost their black friends. couldn't make any white friend and couldn't stop living in the no-man's land. i don't think we get a chance to feel the price that those young folk paid in order for us to be where we...
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derrick bale wrote a bock called ethical ambition. he said powerful, how do i achieve success while maintaining my integrity. how do i achieve success while maintaining my integrity. that's important sometimes we goat point of thinking when we get to success and then because we see money or it fame or something else. that our sense of integrity disappears and it can become like it was saying earlier less important how you as a teacher is doing with the kids because now you get your 70,000 or 80,000 you get a salary so you have less value about concerning what's going on with the students. but if you understand that when you look in the mirror that's a whole bunch of hides -- eyes on you begin to understand what you do every day has to be questioned. that you have to look at what you do every day from the perspective of transforming the world and derrick bale said we have to think about we have to have passion, courage, willing to take risk and we have to be humble. if we look at those things it takes us back. true justice rights and h
derrick bale wrote a bock called ethical ambition. he said powerful, how do i achieve success while maintaining my integrity. how do i achieve success while maintaining my integrity. that's important sometimes we goat point of thinking when we get to success and then because we see money or it fame or something else. that our sense of integrity disappears and it can become like it was saying earlier less important how you as a teacher is doing with the kids because now you get your 70,000 or...
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the bock that many people are reading talks about great leadership. quotes some people talking about the worst congress they'd ever seen in terms of a gridlock. and we overcame that. just as i optimistic we will overcome the gridlock own capitol hill we have seen today. two ways around that our great leadership, "battleship" leadership, democrats and republicans working together as they did fifteen years ago for a plan budget in 1997, and secondly, tweets, blogs, social media, the american people have to weigh in. they have to come forward and say when you take deficit reduction action, good things happen in america. not only for our children, for our businesses, to project forward, predict what they can do for exports going overseas. for the tax code, thing good thicks happen to get our economy to move forward. let me conclude by saying in terms of the optimism they talk about harry truman once said this, and i quoted, no government is perfect. one of the chiefer have chew of a democracy is the defect are always visible and around democratic process
the bock that many people are reading talks about great leadership. quotes some people talking about the worst congress they'd ever seen in terms of a gridlock. and we overcame that. just as i optimistic we will overcome the gridlock own capitol hill we have seen today. two ways around that our great leadership, "battleship" leadership, democrats and republicans working together as they did fifteen years ago for a plan budget in 1997, and secondly, tweets, blogs, social media, the...
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and we have taken great pride in the fact that we have worked introduce bock choi. i think the think that food that doesn't have to be elitist at any level at all. >> amanda, maybe you want to speak to that coming from "the new york times" what we could consider the elite of the elite. [laughter] when it kind of call it food lifestyle, it automatically becomes elitist. you know, . >> having the opportunity to be. of foo foods that people are interested in, it's actually very simple, you know. >> bacon. agree beans. >> peasant style cooking in europe and now we're interested in -- that was fifteen years ago, now we're interested in, you know, growing our own and like, you know, curing and prepreserving these things like people who didn't have any money. >> and grandma. >> i think it's has to move beyond the lifestyle for it not to seem elitist. >> i guess for me the head scratcher, i mean, looking around this wonderful room full of people, is there not a foody -- is there a person who is not a foody here? is there a thing as food not being a lifestyle? food is what s
and we have taken great pride in the fact that we have worked introduce bock choi. i think the think that food that doesn't have to be elitist at any level at all. >> amanda, maybe you want to speak to that coming from "the new york times" what we could consider the elite of the elite. [laughter] when it kind of call it food lifestyle, it automatically becomes elitist. you know, . >> having the opportunity to be. of foo foods that people are interested in, it's actually...
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it was a nice ritual ceremony he signs the bock. there's a statute there. standing bold right out front. it was 10:00 30s in the morning, i think and i think the end of the center we crowded in to the officer we has the cabinet. it's 1:30. time for vodka. [laughter] so it was like, okay. that's how you -- you got to go with the flow. so i'm having at vodka and sipping the vodka, and i'm getting kicked under the table. your pinky doesn't stick out when you're downing vodka in russia. okay. here's my point, about that. many more points to come. i want to make sure we have time for q & a. we visited france, england with whom we have -- we were told a common language. [laughter] we visited all these countries, but here's russia i don't know the all of fa bet. i recognize a couple of them. some look like the letter pi. it's a different alphabet. when we started talking about space, there was a bond there that i did not share with any other community around the world. even though we were sworn enemies during the cold war, we alone embarked on that grandest of adv
it was a nice ritual ceremony he signs the bock. there's a statute there. standing bold right out front. it was 10:00 30s in the morning, i think and i think the end of the center we crowded in to the officer we has the cabinet. it's 1:30. time for vodka. [laughter] so it was like, okay. that's how you -- you got to go with the flow. so i'm having at vodka and sipping the vodka, and i'm getting kicked under the table. your pinky doesn't stick out when you're downing vodka in russia. okay....
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on bock -- booktv. booktv speer viewed professor bonnie morris at georgetown university about her book revenge of the "revenge of the women's studies professor" based on the one-woman play. this interview is part of booktv's college series. it's 45 minutes. professor bonnie morris in your book "revenge of the women's studies professor" published by indiana university. i want to start with chapter four and read a little bit. >> professor morris i'm sorry to bother you like this. could we talk privately for a moment? you see, i enjoy your women's story studies class. i do. i love it. i want to finish out my semester. my husband feels differently. he i hads it's a lot of radical i ideas and he wants me to drop your class right now. he doesn't like me going out to take a woman study class even though it's once a week and it counts toward me finishing my business degree. she are invited to dinner. i went to meet her husband and win his approval. i talked lightly about camping and hiking and movies while he stairedded at my bust. he stood up to shake my hand saying well, i guess i thought yo
on bock -- booktv. booktv speer viewed professor bonnie morris at georgetown university about her book revenge of the "revenge of the women's studies professor" based on the one-woman play. this interview is part of booktv's college series. it's 45 minutes. professor bonnie morris in your book "revenge of the women's studies professor" published by indiana university. i want to start with chapter four and read a little bit. >> professor morris i'm sorry to bother you...
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it's a bock about the american military which is great military history. it's wonderful ramifications for anybody a leadership role anybody that works in an organization to improve or die basically. >> we've been talking with scoit moyers who is publish of penguin press. >>> up next booktv in-depth the three-hour conversation with author and journalist anna qind less than. the pulitzer prize winning talking about -- she's author of ten non-fiction books including ""living out loud"" "being perfect qghts. and" lots of candles, plenty ofe cake." a memoir. >> host: what was your first job at "the new york times"? >> guest: i was a general assignment report which is what i wanted to be. po you go in in the morning, about 10/10:30. niewp hours meat me so happy, i'm not a morning person. you sit around and wait untilt somebodyun says quindlen, two bodies found a house of queens.. they have shut down kennedyght because of a bomb square. you get on the subway and take r a notebook and allow. i remember when i interviewed at the new york times when i was 24, i kept
it's a bock about the american military which is great military history. it's wonderful ramifications for anybody a leadership role anybody that works in an organization to improve or die basically. >> we've been talking with scoit moyers who is publish of penguin press. >>> up next booktv in-depth the three-hour conversation with author and journalist anna qind less than. the pulitzer prize winning talking about -- she's author of ten non-fiction books including...
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american sites and arty -- arty facts we talk to georgetown university history professor on the recent bock about the civil war. >> at beginning the war is about union for most northerners not all. but most. what, i mean, by that most of them where the war convinced that the united states has to survive. it has to survive so show the world that representatives and government can work. in 1848 a serious series of revolutions as they see it failed. they were failed democratic revolution and so as they see the united states, this is it. this is the world last shot. self-government works here or it won't be tried again. if the states think they can destroy the government which is how union soldiers see it. they didn't like who got elected. we said self-government doesn't have to work. we have to prove it survives. that's how they start. they don't have to be in the south very long before they begin to think, why did we get in to this to begin we? nay talked to southerners and slaves. they are struck by how we got in problem to begin with because of the institution of slavery. the if you want to
american sites and arty -- arty facts we talk to georgetown university history professor on the recent bock about the civil war. >> at beginning the war is about union for most northerners not all. but most. what, i mean, by that most of them where the war convinced that the united states has to survive. it has to survive so show the world that representatives and government can work. in 1848 a serious series of revolutions as they see it failed. they were failed democratic revolution and...
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that say all of that money will be used to defended out or bock in stock. i say so what, it will be good. it will be circulating in this country rather than staying overseas and creating jobs over there. it will be creating jobs over here. the fourth biggest problem that we face is one that al already dealt with, and, you know, we never talk about it in terms of deficit reduction. we need to make social security sustain belie solid over the next decade, social security will be $900 billion cash deficit. our plan makes it solid. fifth biggest problem is one that i heard, i think steve or bob talk about. and that is simply interest on the debt. we are spending $250 billion a year on interest alone. to put that in some kind of relative quotient, that's more than we spend at the department of commerce, the department of education, energy, homeland security, interior justice, and state combined. and if interest rates were at their medium level they were in the 1990's or in the first decade of this year, we would be spending over $650 billion a year on interest a
that say all of that money will be used to defended out or bock in stock. i say so what, it will be good. it will be circulating in this country rather than staying overseas and creating jobs over there. it will be creating jobs over here. the fourth biggest problem that we face is one that al already dealt with, and, you know, we never talk about it in terms of deficit reduction. we need to make social security sustain belie solid over the next decade, social security will be $900 billion cash...