Many years, great house. Ive been at norton for 19 years which mix me a newcomer, and ive, you know, done the liveright division for the last six years. Host what are some of the books that liveright has coming out in the fall . Guest we have a great lineup this year. We have daniel allen who is a professor at harvard whos doing a memoir called cuz who was really destroyed by the prison system in los angeles. She is this brilliant academic who tells this sering personal story, which like the best muckraker books, really could change our understanding of the american way of incarceration. Host did you do her first book as well . Guest i did, i did her book. She is one of our greatest scholars. Shes one of several dozen University Professors at hard harvard, and this book is so surprising for her because its personal, its wrenching. I think its going to catch. Host another wellknown author you have coming up guest well, edward o. Wilson is doing a cook on the origins a book on the origins of creativity which few people have examined from a biological, genetic point of view. He examines how the human todays and scientists humanities and scientists must come together in the future. He discusses how humans are distinctly human through their language and through their creativity. People always said creativity developed 10,000 years ago. He said, not so. Its over 100,000 years ago, the paleolithic age. And he traces the history with really stunning results with music and speech and art and humanism. Host the lost founding father, william j. Cooper. Guest i love this book. John again city adams has quincy adams has finally come into his own. He was our most hyperintellectual president. Andrew jackson slaughtered him. The mobs came into the white house, and there was a man who the author, william cooper, says should be considered another founding father, our lost founding father. He came back to congress, he led the fight against slavery. They passed the gag rules of the 1830s to try to muffle his voice. They didnt they werent successful. He died on the floor of Congress Really against the mexicanamerican war in 1848, and its the last time that the southern and the northern legislators got together. His funerals the second largest of the 19th century after lincoln. It will move people to tears like a robert caro. I mean, bill cooper brings this guy to life, but its so topical. Its like what happens to a fail bed politician in a very failed politician in a very troubled, stormy time. Host does liveright do only nonfiction books . Guest no, liveright does superb fiction. We did, you know, weve had several bestsellers in fiction. Were doing the first three books called [inaudible] which are combined, his for first three novels all set in texas and a new introduction. Demonstrates larry to be the Great American writer he is. Host two books with american in the title, monica hess american fire. Guest its a Washington Post reporter who became fascinated by this very rural county in virginia which had Something Like 65 arsons. The area was burning up. As she discovered, it was a married couple or a couple who were p torching these houses. Once they were arrested, they turned on each other. And its this greeklike tragedy. Its compelling reading. Really examining the same kind of people of the hillbilly elegy, but its a very unusual story which i think will get a huge amount of press. Its beautifully written. Host american eclipse, david barron. Guest that is a very unusual book. David barron, pbs, npr, science reporter, den a book done a book before. He chases the eclipse. On august 21st, i believe, america will have its first total Solar Eclipse coast to coast in in 99 years. David, of course, aware of this wanted to do a eric larson thriller book on a previous historical eclipse. He found the eclipse of 1878 which went. Which went from the northwest down through texas x. He does this thriller of Thomas Edison thats early 30s, megalo maniac, wanting to prove certain experiments work. This woman, Mariah Mitchell from vassar, is excluded because she takes her truth there. And this very pompous, bloviated professor from the university of michigan, james watson, who wants to prove that vulcan exists x. He creates this drama out of these three all covering this great eclipse. You cannot put the book down. Host one more book we want to talk about is jonathan [inaudible] new book. Guest hes an alabama historian. He says that we really dont know the civil rights. We always cover the familiar stories. We cover the march on washington with, we cover letter from jail, we coffer the and he said that, you know, as the [inaudible] it came in through a traveler in alabama, scott cook, who told me, bob, you have to look at it. All this trial work about this man, caleb washington, who was awe rested in arrested in alabama for a crime he never committed, for killing a policeman which he didnt do. He was on death row for many years. George wallace stayed the execution because, ironically, he didnt believe in the death penalty. Later, when he was freed after three trials provided the evidence, he marries a woman from new york who is still alive who worked on his behalf, and they had six children. I was moved to tears two weeks ago when the New York Times book review put the review on the front page. And i said i cant believe that people are recognizing this story. Timothy tyson of duke wrote the review, and the book a thriller, but it really shows us how wide the Civil Rights Movement is, how little we still know. Okay. We just went through a lot of titles that are coming out. Whats your role with these . Guest in the books or in liveright . I mean host yeah. With these books that we just listed. [inaudible] guest it varies, but im kind of old school. Im half crazy. When im not at the office work all the time on, as everyone does we emails and meetingsing, whatever, i live to line edit. I love to sculpt words, i love to work with writers. And so on evenings and weekends and vacation, im communing with these wonderful manuscripts x. Its just the most exciting thing in the world to edit. I think its a craft which needs more attentionment attention. Im very proud to be doing it. Its time consuming, but its a love affair. And most of the books that i just mentioned i worked long hours with the authors in shaping them over various drafts to be the best possible books. Adding one of these authors, your verbs are muscular. Well, i was excited by that. You know, great writers love to be edited. Michael hour that, whose book alone were publishing, what a joy. Hes one of the greatest editors of the 20th century. And, you know, we have such a great time. And Francis Ford Coppolas book, wise cinema, coming in october. He came to us because he loved being edited. And thats one of great thrills and joying of the job. And i know ive trained a whole generation which are all over the business x that gives me about the greatest pride that people are continuing this craft of actual editing. Host bob weil who runs the living right division of norton. Liveright is 100 years old. These are some of the books coming out this fall. Guest thank you, peter. Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Next, the communicators with journalist walt mossberg. Then a discussion on the Economic Impact of opioid addiction. After that, a forum on the future of political parties. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cabl s