and he has solved a lot of the biggest crimes that we have seen. he is a fox news contributor. he talks a lot about crime and juepx and detective work on tv. this book is probably a media-bias book. the media s role on both complicit and accomplice in solving crimes but also our obsession with crime as entertainment and his point that we ve probably gone too far in treating crime as entertainment and reality tv and how that gets in the way of solving crimes of investigators and police detectives doing their job and what it means for us as a society. so it should be a very interesting book and hopefully another good bestseller. marji ross publisher of regnery publishing. thank you very much. thank you very much. it s a pleasure to see you. .. discusses his book with the speed with the editor-at-large at esquire magazine and author of the year of living biblically and the mill would all. host: hello. my name is a.j. jacobs. welcome to booktv s after words. im the auth
now, booktv on c-span2. every weekend we bring you 48 hours of nonfiction books, public affairs, history and biography. starting saturday at 8 a.m. through monday at 8 a.m. eastern. .. lawrence lessig argues against the current state of copyright laws. he says the laws are outdated, don t reflect the sharing of information on the internet and stifle creativity. the carnegie council for ethics and international affairs in new york city hosted this event. it lasts about an hour. thank you very much. i hope you don t mind if i put that down. i confess i feel a little bit lost. i usually make presentations with the mack version of power point keynote. indeed, in the last five years, no one has ever asked me to speak without my keynote presentations. now they don t want me, they just want the keynote presentations, so i was a little skeptical that anyone would be here today. i thought this was a joke. i thought i would be invited to speak without it, but i m glad of to have
up next, author and historian john ferling joins book tv for a three-hour in-depth interview from mount vernon. the next three hours is your chance to take part in a discussion with author and historian, john ferling. joins as in depth welcomes the author of 10 books, including, almost a miracle, the american industry and war in independen independence. and adams versus jefferson, the tumultuous election of 1800. mr. ferling s latest book is the ascents of george washington, the hidden political genius of an american icon. good afternoon and welcome to this special edition of book tv s in-depth on this independence day weekend. we have live today from the home of george and martha washington, mounts vernon, 16 miles down the potomac river. at mounts vernon, we ll be live for the next three hours from the reynolds museum and education center and our special guest today is the noted revolutionary war historian and washington biographer, john ferling. dr. ferling, thank
peter rodman was. first is by henry kissinger and in his statement henry kissinger said, the highest task of a public servant is to take his or her society where it is two where it has never been. .. whether it in his service with presidents are active presentation if the great debates of our time from outside cover my he abdicated his beliefs in a way that set him apart to from and above the cayennes of ad hominem attacks in partnership that we have so often to base political discourse in the country. when he came to brookings peter quickly established himself above all others for an accomplished veteran of the ecological for the conduct was marked by a civility and generosity and he was an exceptionally generous and gracious colleague. this book presidential command is about how modern presidents succeed and fail. peter engages in the issues of leadership and how the president sets the zone. he explores the question of scope and the breadth of what a presidency entails
what are you reading? susan weinberg, publisher of public affairs books one is under summers reading less? the first book is a change of pace because republish nonfiction and i read a lot of nonfiction but i would hope i get to read in the master, it is a book that i know the publisher and and she gave me a copy and she gives me a copy and very often we trade books and talk about a two others books but once you ve found out i have got around to reading it it she was quite vexed and i thought publisher believes in a book that much i have to read it. i also just read it and am going to read another one of our books this summer, we happen have two books coming out that are wonderful about the islamic world, one called destiny disrupted in the history of the world through islamic eyes and in this it is a wonderful narrative history, we know the western narrative, the ancient greeks and romans but this is the islamic world narrative and how in the 19th century they came t