Okay . Youve been a great audience. Thank you so much. [applause] okay . Visit booktv. Org to watch any of the programs you see here online. Type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. You can also share anything you see on booktv. Org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. Booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. In my book i decided to take the privacy investigations id done at the wall street journal a step further by investigating myself. Like what is known about me and what can i protect. And so i sought my data from as many places as i could find which, actually, was very few places. So, for instance, i identified 200 data brokers out there, but only a dozen would let me see my files because theres no law requiring them too. But interestingly, even in that small set of files it was shocking how wrong some of them
Miserly aspires to. A double lot. And the roots of the call socrates in the city speaker serious. A lot of people that you might have heard of and might not have heard of. Its a lot of fun. I really enjoy doing that. Anyone can see it online. We have been talking with eric metaxas, most recent book seven men in the secret of their greatness. Watching book tv and cspan2. Next from the 2014 conservative Political Action conference book tv talk to richard minotaur about his new book guys on target. In the book he chronicles the history of the navy seals and discusses steel operations going back to the vietnam war. Heels of reports and the actions of two seals in paris during the attack and the American Diplomatic Mission in benghazi, libya on september 11th 2012. Now joining us on book tv, author richard mentor. What do you write about . Days that interest me in the open interest of the people. Eyes on target is about the navy seals. Its a little bit different about the culture of the nav
Mind. You must fight confusion, you must fight fear. And this was when theres great physical fatigue and when theres great mental fatigue, your mind gets worn out. The ability to persevere through that mental fog is another test. And thirdly, to dominate your spirit, to drive your will, to constantly go forward. To be able to do those three things at the same time, there are individuals who can do one or the other or the third one. To really do all three is really extraordinary. And this culture that creates these unique people is under threat as our politically correct Defense Department begins to change what is culturallily allowed under this unique set of commandos is changing as well. And that was interesting to me, so thats why i wrote this book. Host are there women . Guest not yet. Although the Defense Department is certainly looking at this. There are former seals who have had a sex change operation, so some would say there are women now. But seals are unusual outliers. I mean,
And also very good about corruption. They went to get installed of big guns. That this is where were going is what fascinates me. Gaul other than the revelation i thank you had a lot of fun writing the book. Then you think now what am i going to do . But i really felt it was fun. Yes. Is there a movie deal . We are working on it. [applause] i will not say anything until it happens. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] here is in the house we have the book for sale on the counter. That was a wonderful presentation. Give her another hand. [applause] [inaudible conversations] host joining us now on booktv, what do you write about . The latest book is called the eyes on target about the navy seals but it is different about the culture culture, what makes them different and unique. They spend millions of dollars to discover how when a navy seal is made what makes some people make it through basic training and 70 fail their luck at demographics and family background and
Governments but that state governments were better providers of services. So they enacted in, believe it or not, 1969 or 70, i forget, something called general revenue sharing. In which this was an appropriation in the federal budget and where the money was allocated to states in accordance with population. And in accordance with certain demographic statistics that clearly were a reflection of need. That program evanesced in subsequent years, frankly, because there was no constituency that was for it. People at every local level liked it, but the education lobby, the construction lobby, the union lobbies, everybody had their own shtick. And maybe it cant work in the kind of political system we have in this country. What do i believe should be an answer . I think above all the federal governments got to put more money into infrastructure. You know, rich was just in boston recently with the head of the u. S. Chamber of commerce, and there are not very many, if any, issues that they would