eric coffers remark. he quotes every great cause begins as a movement becomes a business and e venn usually degenerates into a racket. it may be that major parts of the american conservativatism h become such a racket that a refounding of the movement as a cause is necessary. quite an indictment. but he s really sighing that what the conservative movement that we saw from the days of william f.bucley, jr., has gone to business and is now becoming a rack et and can they turn it back into a movement? well, i mean u it s a powerful analysis, particularly, because bill crystal was part of this movement that brought them to this point. it doesn t seem even controversial if you look at it objectively, what he s saying. i love this notion that they ve got to put together a panel and investigate what went wrong in
for these two political parties. plus, scandal, back stabbing and what may be the most stunning revelation ever about the cast of dallas. and the moment you thought you d never see. i m going to do this. good evening. we ll get to my interview with the cast of dallas in a few moments. but first, a big man with big ideas about politics, government and everything else. jesse ventura, a superstar of professional wrestling known as the body and a man who never holds back. every time he s been on my show, he says something out ray jous, unexpected and thought provo provoking. now he s back for more. his book, kwtjesse, how are you? i m doing well, piers, how are you? you are looking very well. two things i want to clarify with you. one is why you re not here with me in the studio. and rksz secondly, where have you been because you ve disappeared? well, first reason, why i m not with you in the studio is i have i ve quit flying because i have metal in my body. so ever
but he also knew that public servants weren t elected to do what was easy. they weren t elected to do what was politically add venn ta jous. it s our reasonability to put country before party, to put what s right for the future. that s what this debate is about. not about numbers on a ledger. not about figures on a spread sheet. it s about the economic future of this country and it s about whether we will do what it takes to create jobs and opportunity while facing up to the legacy of debt that threatens everything we ve built over generations and it s also about fairness. it s about whether we are in fact in this together. and we re looking out for one another. we know what s right. it s time to do what s right. thank you very much. thank you.
hugh shelton came out with without hesitation an autobiography. american caesars. and the man who invented the computer. and david and julie nixon eisenhower butt out put out a book about president eisenhower s last years. going home to glory 1961 to 1969. bill in palm strings, california, you are on the air. caller: thank you. i want to first express my thanks for book tv. i wish i could read all of the books that you do talk about. my question is probably more of a field question because i doubt that you have statistics. but what my question is there are some buddhist books out now from a young buddhist man who was doing testing on the mind and in the university of wisconsin. joyful wisdom and joy of living. and a scientist said that einstein said in his opinion that buddhism was the only religion that was cope steadic with the progress of science. i wonder if you have any feeling about the books today. are the books becoming more popular than 1780, or 90?
reading? caller: i m currenting downloading some f. scott fitzgerald, and those kinds of books in that era. and it s just so much fun to read them. a friend of mine, troy lee davis has been teaching courses. it s so much fun to read about and hear and go through these books with my ipad. thanks very much. host: thank you for calling in this evening. jenn risko, i want to add a tweet that we got to his comment for you to respond to as well. are there demographics for ebook reader purchasers? are they being adopted by folks above 50? james, of course, was 86. guest: so james is. [laughter] guest: yeah, actually, you know, we ve seen i haven t seen as much on this that i would have liked to. it seems like there are older folks embracing the electronic book market. i think sometimes i think it has a little bit more to do with what kind of a reader they are. so one the things that we saw recently in a study was that women who read romance novels, and i don t know if you