Reagan biography and this is as good as i see. It is an easy read it i enjoyed the book you learn all lot not just about Newt Gingrich but the tide of politics. So we still have the saying that the file cabinet with four doors the first through third were newts it is in the fourth tour was his good idea is. That the party was moving out of ideas. Especially introduced to the Republican Party like corruption that is a permanent part of the Republican Party also which was the day picture before that. Also. You average kid widely on that. The contract with america was portrayed as principals. Many ways the contract with the referendum with bill clinton. And in that context could be decisively. To dave delaware portray the substantive nuance reading to replace the people in power. That was not conventionally conservative. He called himself a conservative but not really. Right team in 1974 advocating reagan challenge the incumbent president ford in the primaries. It is a visionary at the ti
About today. Guest thats the understatement of the century. Host why dont we start out by talking about Harvey Weinstein . That sort of the story that everybodys talking about right now. And every day some new atrocity occurs. Yesterday or the day before whenever it was three more people came forward with the idea that he had raped them. This has been going on for years and years and years, and there were eight settlements against him. Obviously everyone in the company knew about it. I have to say i wonder about his wife who i gather last night announced that she was leaving him finally. How she could possibly not have heard about this. But how do you think this happened . How was this allowed to go on and on and on and if nobody ever speak out until now . Guest because as as a sociy and as a culture we protect harassers. If somebody host y . Guest that is the 20 million question, why . Why do we do that . Is a because were protecting our own jobs . Is it because we are protecting a pe
[inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2. Joining us now from chicago and the publishers convention is ron charles who is the editor of Washington Posts book world. Mr. Charles, what do you do for a living . Guest i assign most of the daily reviews in the Washington Post, and every wednesday i write my own review. Host of books . Guest of books, yes. Host how many books a week, seven books a week . Guest we review 20 books a week, and we get about 150 of them. Host about 20 books a week are reviewed in the post. Guest right. Host why isnt there a standalone book section . Guest there is online, but we decided about four years ago to spread the reviews out through the paper to try and see if we could find more readers. It seemed like a disaster at the time to me, but i have had to admit that we do, in fact, have more readers for book reviews now. We just put them in places that people read more. Book world, the old book world, the supplement, was much beloved but tended
Section. Host ron charles is the editor of Washington Posts book world. This this is booktv on cspan2. Guest thanks so much. Heres a look at some authors recently featured on booktvs after words, our weekly Author Interview program. Syndicated radio host dana lash contended the u. S. Is dividing itself into two countries, coastal america and flyover america. Wall street journal columnist kimberly stras el argued the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. Eric fehr talked about his time in iraq working as an interrogator for a private military contractor. And in the coming weeks on aftercords, ann coulter will make her case for supporting donald trump for prime minister. Georgetown University Law professor rosa brooks looks at the expanded roles for the u. S. Military around the world, and coming up former Bush Administration attorney general Alberto Gonzalez recalls his time serving in the Justice Department and as white house come. And this weekend come.