Encouraging people to take their seat good evening, everyone. Im the new executive director of the center for biography, which is celebrating its tenth year now all data shall be white at the foundation, and i want to advertise first of all our new alliance with bio. This is the first jointly sponsored event with them but also courtesy of will swift of the president we are also going to be doing a cosponsoring of their great annual conference on biography next may that will also be happening here. I also want to advertise and put out the word we have a decembe december 15 deadline for the new annual fellowship and there are four fellowships given out every year for aspiring biographers, so if you know anyone, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i am just thrilled that we are able to do this event to honor bob and i introduce now will swift and we will take it from there. [applause] those of you that dont know it stands for the Biographers International organization and i want
Candidate hillary clinton. All quiet on the western front was First Published in 1929. The book is an account of a german soldier serving during world war i, it was described as one of the greatest books of all time. He is reading a biography of former president Richard Nixon and that is look at what donald trump is reading this summer. A division of www. Norton, the oldest independent in america. Of the 90 what books do you publish . Guest serious nonfiction and literary fiction. Books that can change the culture. Host we are here to talk about some of the books coming out this fall. Lets start with a serious one called rat f. Guest rat f is by david daily and it tells the story of how the country has been redistrict it since 2010 to ship all these congressional districts over to the republican base. Both of the architects have spoken with the author and traveled these districts and you will see district to go 30 miles like michigan, and pontiac, michigan, shows how these districts we
Booktv, post it to our face book page, or send it to booktv cspan. Org. You are watching the tv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Here is our prime time lineup for tonight. Starting at 6 30 eastern Charles Lewis founder of the center for Public Integrity examines the way people in positions of power manipulate the truth to achieve their goals. At 7 45 congressman paul ryan talks about conservatism and the future of the republican party, talks with former governor and republican president ial candidate mitt romney. Afterwards at 9 00 a. M. Eastern dr. Ben carson talks about political and social issues of the day with chuck todd of nbc news. 4 profiles three women, students, a single mother and grandmother who are deployed to iraq and afghanistan at 10 00 p. M. Eastern. Then wrap up tonights primetime programming with lawrence goldstones recount of the right brothers efforts to be the predominance name in manned flight. It all happens tonight on cspan2s b
Bestsellers according to barnes noble. Booktv asked what are you reading this summer . Well, im looking ahead because we have the iowa first in the nation caucus, and iowa has made a recommendation to new hampshire, South Carolina and along of the rest of the country. So ive been involved in that process for a number of these cycles and as the president did this come to i want to make sure i have the considered judgment of a couple of scholars that are written on the topic. So one of them is grassroots rules written by christopher hull who happens to be my chief of staff. I want to poke through that carefully and analyze the studies he has done and probably challenge a moment about any other conclusion to a strong and see a that fits with what i know and my expense in working with the iowa president ial caucuses. And also caucus chaos, a new book written by dave price. Dave is a journalist and a reporter for the television station in des moines and hes really paid a lot of focused to t