Wed like to hear from you. Tweet us your feedback, twitter. Com booktv. Now on booktv, from the 17th annual texas book festival many austin, texas, Robert Draper discusses his book titled do not ask what good we do inside the u. S. House of representatives. This is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Im evan smith, im the ceo andy editorinchief of the texas tribune. I am pleased to be here with myt old buddy, Robert Draper, av veteran magazine writer and author whose latest book is doy not ask what good we do. Robert is a familiar face around these parts having spent thei meaty, early part of his career as one of texas monthlysil marquee writers, in fact, us being up here together again ise kind of like dean martin and jerry lewis back on stage. Rkey [laughter] eing a bit together again is kind of like dean martin and jerry lewis back on stage. He is currently a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine and National Geographic and a correspondent for gq. His previous books inclu
my words are what i am. so i don t think you can run from what you say and what you do. reporter: a political wild card in the tea party s rise to power, sharron angle has two more months to convince voters to deal her in. one person who is closely watching the nevada senate vase rick sanchez. rick has a new book out called conventional idiocy. we got it right here. i m in atlanta where you usually are and you are in new york where i sometimes spend some time. we ll talk about the book in a moment. this whole tea party phenomenon. we ve watched this over the last 18 months since president obama has been in office. they are fueled by anger. a healthy dose of social media, something you know a whole lot about. what are your thoughts about the tea party movement and their impact on the elections this fall. well, there s no question that the tea party movement has been brilliant in its adaptation of social media. i write about that in my book. it s one of the phenomenons we ve seen