capitol hill. representative john garamendi, what was on his reading this? >> a lot of things, first of all a lot of papers i have to read, various reports, some classified. ongoing work of the readiness subcommittee which is $290 billion of taxpayer money, that keeps me busy. however there's all the other things i want to read, a lot of history. right now i'm working my way through the disagreement between the habsburgs and the ottoman empire, 400 years of war and there is a great book called "enemy at the gates" which details every one of the battles and centers around the siege of vienna. why do i need that? if you want to understand turkey better understand the history of the ottoman empire and the relationships between that and western europe. also i like to do roman history. i have a book called the death of caesar which deals with that time, the intrigues. not quite into that kind of political intrigue but it is important to understand what was happening when caesar was assassinated, what were the politics and intrigues and then came across a book, library of congress has a wonderful program for members and guests and david mccullough was there a couple weeks ago and brought to is a book called the pioneers. really the settlement of ohio and the indiana area. may be useful to understand the history in detail in politics of that part of america. my work on the armed services committee and readiness, is the military ready for the task that they have. turns out in many cases they are not because of logistics. there are a whole series of books about the pacific war with japan, it turns out logistics was a major underlying issue so there's one book out there particularly interesting and that is the guadalcanal fight and it is called "neptune's inferno". there is another one written by the same author that deals with the rest of the pacific war. turned out the logistics were one of the key underlying factors of success. i need to know that because right now we're talking about big powered competition, china, russia, logistics, that's what i need to work on as chairman of the subcommittee of readiness. then when i get so sick and tired of all that which i will i pick up shakespeare's on its and work my way through them one at a time and try to understand what he was talking about, very interesting. start with the first one, end with the last one, talk about the transition of human life from being young to being old. i don't intend to be old but great to understand, very helpful to sit back what did the bard have in mind when he wrote the last sonnet. fascinating. so that is my summer reading. unfortunately all of the reports from the congressional research, all the reports from various things such as the council on foreign relations occupy more times than these other books unfortunately. >> watch the responses of other members of congress by searching what are you reading at, booktv.org. >> sunday at 9 am eastern a washington journal and american history tv live special call in program looking back at woodstock, the 1969 cultural and musical phenomena in. historian david farber, author of the age of great dreams, america in the 1960s joins us to take your calls. >> drugs matter but who takes those drugs and why do drugs have the effect they had in the 60s in 70s? something we are still wrestling with as scholars to understand. the technology of drugs, we have had people who have fought long and hard about this is imperative not just in understanding the 60s but the production of history, the drugs we use at a given place. incredible ability to change the direction of a given society. and the social movements of the 60s including woodstock and its legacy. woodstock, 50 years, sunday at 9:00 am eastern on c-span's washington journal, also live on american history tv on c-span2. .. one american news network offers her thoughts on how to debate the left. we visit bozeman montana to explore that city's literary site. now we kick off the weekend with the author dan help. thank you all for attending tonight. we should give a little bit of a background on my cell. my name is dan help. someone at ibm with the now deceased publication. saying that we had had more more new understandings about human nature

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