Authors recently featured on booktvs afterwards. Our weekly Author Interview program. Fred bear looked at present right eisenhowers final days in office. New york magazines Jonathan Chait waited in the legacy of president barack obama. And journalist sophie areport on how ukraines past conflict with the soviet union has impacted his current political landscape. In the coming weeks on afterwards radio host hugh hewitt will outline how republicans can lead america out of political gridlock. Doctor sylvia will discuss how our bodies react to fat. An author and journalist Sophia Nelson will reflect on the Founding Fathers calls for a unified america. This weekend Alfred University philosophy president everest was the cot discusses whether frugality is the key to happiness. You are right we are bombarded every day from all sides with adverse aby this, by the and the other. The basic message is that if you buy it you will be happy. You will be more attractive, sexier, youll have better vacations. You will be more likely to you know, make riches or whatever. The question you have to ask though is is any of that true weight is actually true that this symbolism produces happiness. It seems to me that there is plenty of research on this that point to the fact it is just not true. There is a consensus amongst social amore or less which exists. Get out of poverty certainly improves your level of happiness. To achieve basic level of comfort and security, those are desirable and your happiness will increase. But at a certain point it really does not make much difference. Afterwards errs on booktv every saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous afterwards programs on our website booktv. Org. He said the most interesting thing about this race is it was the dumbest raise possibly in American History it was totally nuts. How does that compare to 2016 . Well that one was dumber actually. Which as part of a heartwarming thing when you think about it. You know William Henry harrisons race, have to say i was talking and i was talking to a really famous historian who i cant quote because he belongs to another News Organization and it cannot be courted by me but i was saying how terrible it was. And i said what about william and Henry Harrison and he screamed at me. It is even worse than William Henry harrison and i was like wow, this is a discussion nobody else in america is having at this moment in time. [laughter] the great thing about that one was it was the beginning of popular vote so they were trying to think about ways to settle things. And accidentally they stumbled on the idea of settling William Henry harrison as this humble soldier living in a log cabin drinking his hard sided remembering how hard he fought with the boys. And his father signed the declaration of independence. He was born on a plantation. He went to medical school and but, they created this thing. This guy and they would have all of these log cabin parades with floats with log cabins and they got to drink a lot because of the hard cider connection. So there are a lot of riots and drinking going on. And they trade Martin Van Buren his father was a humble bartender in upstate new york as this rich guy who ran around wearing Womens Clothing and had the shrubbery in the front of the white house reshaped so