Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Lit Up 20160702 :

Between blacks and whites there is. Blacks can come in and tell their stories of what happened to them, whites can tell their stories and learn about the history that they were never taught. And when i was live anything Prince Edward reporting the book for one summer, i went to every event there for, you know, over the summer and went to weekly events there for a couple of years. And there are so many students who were affected that, i mean, i really could, like, walk into a Grocery Store and probably find, you know, five in a single outs to walmart outing to walmart. It was very rich with students that had lived that experience and from various perspectives, you know . The thing that i really realized when i started interviewing these students was that there were so many different perspectives. I had never thought of what life might look like for a kid who was 5 when the schools closed, right . So when i met someone, i said, oh, my gosh, ive got to cast a wider net. It was really amazing to meet someone who wasnt able to start their education until they were 10 years old and who was pushed through the school in seven years. And frustrated many teachers. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. [inaudible conversations]. Big black wig and sat on highchair and said she would answer any questions that the students had about her life. I said, it wasnt your time in the woods with dimsdale. She didnt answer that. [laughter] it was the way they prepared for the exam which i thought was marvelous. I also attended classes by another teacher and i will mention very quickly, he was more like a college teacher. Invisible man, and they did a structural reading and discovered by degrees in studying the young black hero in new york in the 30s, the novel that by studying structurally and putting together the elements to have novel they had to put their own personality. Combined literary analysis and selfanalysis at the same time. Now, i just want to tell you very briefly about two other schools i went to because i felt that theres no royal road to heaven. I like the literary education at beacon. You know, that old question of whenever you do any kind of education, does it scale, okay, youve dye scribe described something that works, does it scale . There are comparable schools like beacon. Theres no one like sean leon. I thought, where else . I had to get out of new york. I was very eager to get out of new york so then next year i went up to new heaven 14 to 15 times. 30 to 30 hours of another single tenth grade class. Not a good school this time. The principle described like a dumping ground. Two comprehensive high schools. They have to take everybody. Englishlanguage learners, kids who have been incarcerated. By the way the chart e schools push kids out all of the time. I hope you know that. When you see higher scores or Something Like kipp, they remove lowperforming kids even though theyre not supposed to. They remove lowperforming kids. And the teacher jessica was a local woman, white woman, black teacher and at first the kids didnt want to read at all. What was the point . Novels, poems, how is that going to help me get anywhere, how is that important to my life . She started reading in class outloud and got them to read and they read to kill a mocking bird which seems like an odd choice because this is a book that georgia 1930 and black students reading about white woman that gets beaten and brings an accusation of rape. They discussed in great detail the physical ailments of that life. What was the racial relations, who own property and who didnt, how did the law work, what did people eat, how did they get around . What is the purpose of all of this indepth study in georgia in 1930, the purpose was to get them to ask the same questions about their own lives. As i said before, poor kids dont have that, havent learned and graphed as a desire for information and im not talking about rake here, im talking about income so grasp the world and make ones way through it they know a lot about their families, neighborhoods, how to be safe in neighborhoods but they dont know what are the social and Economic Conditions around everything thats happening to me in a poor neighborhood in new heaven. She was trying by using the book to ask questions about their own lives. They began to read more. She was a very funny abrupt, loud, joyous woman, white teachers were would bomb at a school like this. Mostly that they loved her and wanted to perform for her. They began to read with some real pleasure and at the end of the year, she asked them to choose one of four books, the one that they liked the best they had to read it and write a report on it was long way gone, a boy warrior in sierra leon who was kidnapped by rebels and by his own account killed many people when he was 13 and 14 and so on. He kept high on cocaine most of the time. He eventually was rescued and came to the United States and was adopted by an American Woman who wound up at overland and where he had a good writing teacher and wrote an excellent narrative and kids were very alive to that kind of stress in anyones life. Not because of me, not because of ms. Valensky. Total coincidence. He gave a talk at the university of new heaven. She was able to take kids to see him and meet him so that they had read the book and a him for the time. Literature seemed real to them. I want to tell you very briefly about a third school, upper middle class suburb up the coast long island largely wealthy white kids, the schools that found out a few years ago that a lot of the kids particularly the boys were simply not doing the reading. Not doing it. They went on the internet and read what sometimes competent summaries of the great gatsby and mcbeth or some other online study guide or their tutor wealthy enough families to have tutors who took them through the books and they never really did the reading and even boosted about it. What did they do . Instead of the usual scolding or remediation they tried something very different . Theyre not the only school doing this. They allowed them to choose books of their own to read, not entirely, they didnt give up on great gatsby and robert frost and emily dickson. They could choose it from the school library, they could choose it from the library. Wealthy school had a library in every classroom. It didnt matter that it wasnt literature. It might be young adult, romantic novel, sports biography, the point here with grudging readers to get them hooked initialliy initially to read stuff that they really enjoy. Kids didnt have to read that in particular but they had to keep reading and have another one going and another one after that and log in every week and so on. Suppose they are reading nothing but Adult Fiction or horror fiction, you call a kid and say, okay, i see you like horror genre stuff. The movie survives because of teenagers, often teenage girls. The teacher would say, thats fine, let me point you towards some books by steven king who is a pretty good writer. Some of the early books the shining carrier are actually well written or let me tell you about this guy edgar allan poa, alcoholic genius of 1840 or robert lewis stevenson. The point is allow them their pleasures and passion and try to take those and elevate them and i have a lot of good stories, i think, about it and teachers have to keep it posted outside of the door at the moment so that theres a constant conversation of schools in the schools. What i have been trying to describe is how do you forge those links that create a lifetime reader and many variations on this, but you have to either appeal to what students need emotionally at that point in their life or what gives them a particular kind of pleasure they cant get anywhere else. Those are the two things. Now, i think i will stop at this point and thank you all for listening, and if there are any questions. Questions from the audience. I have a q amic here, raise your hand and i will come to you. It seems like a lot of what youre talking about is great unusual teaching, how do you separate that out . It sounds like a great teacher could do what youre talking about in any subject . Yes, i think we have to raise the pay and the status of teachers in this country. Way we treat them, the way the Republican Party teaches Union Teachers is disgraceful. Of course, there are terrible teachers and med i dont mediocre teachers but to denigrate them has been a disaster the last 10 to 15 years. Well, we dont need to talk about finland because its a small homogenius country. Briefly, the teachers are recruited from the top of the undergraduate class rather than from the bottom and that in relation to their peers at college they make 115 of their peers income as where in the United States they make 65 or 75 of their peers income that is those who go to accounting, law, engineering, any of the other professions. I think the recent failure of the common core has occurred because the developing the common core which may not be an idea, we need to raise standards wasnt build into teacher training, so what we did in new york state was to make increase tests definitely which resulted many people got very low scores, disgusting parents and teachers to tie that experiment whether a teacher is good or not is completely [inaudible] hi, i loved your book, it was so terrific to read about all of the great teaching going on. Thank you. And i have a question, slash, thought about books that are being chosen for kids to read, seems to be the same old, same old. Middle ground stuff like kill a mockingbird. And i would love to see kids reading more books of their own century like pulitzre prize, National Book do you have any thoughts . To kill a mockingbird is very good actually and a really feeling for the south and landscape and aspects of social life in small town. Im not going to knock to kill a mockingbird. Latinos students particularly enjoy juno diaz, the short wonders life of brief wondrous life of oscar wow. Tony morrison, i know Jessica Zelinski has been reading with her 11th graders, an essay this is an enormous success between the world and me. So yes, i think youre right. I dont think theres anything wrong with to kill a mockingbird grudging readers who are werent willing to read it all. I actually have a followup to that because i i was going to ask something rather similar. In terms of broadening the literary cannon, perhaps, is that not one of the ways to keep students reading, not only for latino kids but to broaden it in that sense as well . Sure, you have to get them started first. What this book is about beginnings, is beginnings, awakening hunger and can be taken in a lot of different directions, but its a whole i didnt even get into this a whole separate issue of increasing large latino population not just in school population, not only around here but, of course, in california and the southwest. That would be great book for someone else to write. I dont see why there cant be other reports like mine that is subjective reports in which someone is writing out of his own impressions of life and i do a lot of writing about the books themselves because i meant this to be for readers not a handbook for teachers but as a kind of introduction to these books again and excitement of reading them again. This elderly white guy going into different schools, thats just one book, i dont know why there cant be black reporter going into black schools or white schools, for instance, if thats the power discourse, what is it . How does it work . How does it benefit students . I would love to read that book, anyway. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. Over here. Thank you. I just wonder if you have any plans to follow up with any of the students that you met and whether you think theres any risks that having an extraordinary teacher for one year is a temporary phenomena and years later they might theyre interest might fade away if its not reinforced . There is the danger always but i dont know about you but i had a couple of extraordinary students and mediocre teachers and survived and you try to take into yourself whatever it is the strength that you get from the extraordinary teachers and to carry forth even when teachers were not so good. I went dead for a number of teachers in college. Theres always going to be the variability. I have stayed in touch with some of the beacon kids who are now getting their college stuff together, actually getting into schools. One of the things thats awful like hill house, to get everybody to college and theres no College Office. Theres no resource from safe haven to pay for a College Office. The parents for the most part cannot help them get through the maize of applications and loan applications, the whole financial stuff. Yale does pay tuition for those who graduate at new heaven high school with b average and local college. What yale doesnt do is to staff a College Office at hill house and keep someone there, you know, maybe four days a week and help kids get through this. So but, yes, i do keep up with some of the kids. Not all of them. Working in the schools, one of the things thats been pushed a lot, maybe its going away is the whole idea of nonfiction and the role in an english classroom, i was wondering if the teachers werent focusing on good nonfiction, im talking good nonfiction . Mr. Leons class was all fiction and so is mary and daniel youre going like because god knows how much he made up. Its suspiciously detailed about people were thinking years before he wrote it. The common core is pushing kids away from fiction to nonfiction. The designer of the common core, whoever had to read a novel on the job, and i said, well, no one except book reviewers. That isnt the point. Im one of those people that think that reading fiction is the way you know about yourself and youre enlarged and overwhelming and when youre home the process goes inward as well as out ward and you compare to characters that youre reading of and theres complex interaction of personalities and settings and extraordinary detail, a complete immersion which brings you back to yourself and so forth. So i think its essential that kids read fiction because they can read other people by reading fiction. They can develop all those qualities of empathy, percentiveness, understanding how other societies work that we dont get from the media. Necessarily. [inaudible] i dont agree with a lot of it. Thats between the world and me, the book thats ms. Zilenski is reading with 11th graders right now. He writes with metaphorical power. Thats real literary work. I have an accidental experience with my son who was terrible in high school and ended up going off with friends and drinking a lot and ended up in a in a Mental Institution in australia where they called me and i said, send him home, when he got home he was on medication and a wreck and i because i love literature i said, well, read to me outloud, so we started with Edmond Wilson because its factual and beautiful reading, just read to me outloud and we can talk. So he read that whole look and said well, i cant do this, its too long, its too much, i cant do it. He kept doing it. I said it doesnt matter whether we understand, we will talk, you know, but he kept doing it and then then the second thing we read was notes from the underground and started talking about himself. He develop it had most incredible relationship and then he read moby dick and, good lord, im trying to think now. He couldnt stop, he just kept reading out loud to me and then we talked about everything and before i knew it, he brought me conrad and then he brought me celine which i never read. Was he not a bigtime reader prior . No, before that he he failed high school, he was just awful. [laughter] and okay. This is a very happy story. And he ended up teaching kids at city college to read and write, they paid him 8 an hour to coach them, he had no college, but all kinds he started writing himself and now he writes a lot. Thats a great story. I know that the two points from my adult life when i was at my lowest i was saved and i think its because the characters are so egotistical that gave me strength. The first well, anyway, we will let it go at that. His Upper West Side book was planted bilious and angry and he lived around here a long time ago. Yes, anybody else . Well, thank you very much for coming. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause for author david denby. If you mention Beacon School at the register a portion of the proceeds will be donated to them and hopefully the library. Please, ladies and gentlemen grab a copy of the book if you dont already have one and line up and give us a moment to be set up and we will be signing this very important book that we should read. Thank you so much, everyone, youve been fantastic. Book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. At the present time im reading president kennedy, profile in power or profile of power by richard reeves. I heard him speak about the book at a conference and thought, you know, i want to read that book, its pretty heavy reading but has information about the president , some insight to him and his family and the issues he faced, the challenges he faced that i never, never seen before or heard of before, really, just highly recommend the book. Do you is your goto biographies nonfiction . I like biographies but, you know, up here theres so much we have to read factual stuff anyway. A lot of other stuff that i like reading, i like peters book, throw them all out, extortion, he had written good books about whats wrong with the government and i wish every american could read those as well. One second after with the New York Times best seller about the emp threat that most people dont want to think about in this country. About 20 good nonfiction books that i read this year so far and recommend them all. Book tv wants to know what youre reading this summer. Tweet us your answer at book tv or you can post it on our Facebook Page facebook. Com booktv. Here is a look on some of the books written by president ial candidates donald trump and hillary clinton. Donald trump written never enough by Michael Antonio in which profiles Donald Trumps Business Career and personal life as well as his president ial aspirations. Cnn political commentator jeffrey lord makes the case for a Prince Edward<\/a> reporting the book for one summer, i went to every event there for, you know, over the summer and went to weekly events there for a couple of years. And there are so many students who were affected that, i mean, i really could, like, walk into a Grocery Store<\/a> and probably find, you know, five in a single outs to walmart outing to walmart. It was very rich with students that had lived that experience and from various perspectives, you know . The thing that i really realized when i started interviewing these students was that there were so many different perspectives. I had never thought of what life might look like for a kid who was 5 when the schools closed, right . So when i met someone, i said, oh, my gosh, ive got to cast a wider net. It was really amazing to meet someone who wasnt able to start their education until they were 10 years old and who was pushed through the school in seven years. And frustrated many teachers. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. [inaudible conversations]. Big black wig and sat on highchair and said she would answer any questions that the students had about her life. I said, it wasnt your time in the woods with dimsdale. She didnt answer that. [laughter] it was the way they prepared for the exam which i thought was marvelous. I also attended classes by another teacher and i will mention very quickly, he was more like a college teacher. Invisible man, and they did a structural reading and discovered by degrees in studying the young black hero in new york in the 30s, the novel that by studying structurally and putting together the elements to have novel they had to put their own personality. Combined literary analysis and selfanalysis at the same time. Now, i just want to tell you very briefly about two other schools i went to because i felt that theres no royal road to heaven. I like the literary education at beacon. You know, that old question of whenever you do any kind of education, does it scale, okay, youve dye scribe described something that works, does it scale . There are comparable schools like beacon. Theres no one like sean leon. I thought, where else . I had to get out of new york. I was very eager to get out of new york so then next year i went up to new heaven 14 to 15 times. 30 to 30 hours of another single tenth grade class. Not a good school this time. The principle described like a dumping ground. Two comprehensive high schools. They have to take everybody. Englishlanguage learners, kids who have been incarcerated. By the way the chart e schools push kids out all of the time. I hope you know that. When you see higher scores or Something Like<\/a> kipp, they remove lowperforming kids even though theyre not supposed to. They remove lowperforming kids. And the teacher jessica was a local woman, white woman, black teacher and at first the kids didnt want to read at all. What was the point . Novels, poems, how is that going to help me get anywhere, how is that important to my life . She started reading in class outloud and got them to read and they read to kill a mocking bird which seems like an odd choice because this is a book that georgia 1930 and black students reading about white woman that gets beaten and brings an accusation of rape. They discussed in great detail the physical ailments of that life. What was the racial relations, who own property and who didnt, how did the law work, what did people eat, how did they get around . What is the purpose of all of this indepth study in georgia in 1930, the purpose was to get them to ask the same questions about their own lives. As i said before, poor kids dont have that, havent learned and graphed as a desire for information and im not talking about rake here, im talking about income so grasp the world and make ones way through it they know a lot about their families, neighborhoods, how to be safe in neighborhoods but they dont know what are the social and Economic Conditions<\/a> around everything thats happening to me in a poor neighborhood in new heaven. She was trying by using the book to ask questions about their own lives. They began to read more. She was a very funny abrupt, loud, joyous woman, white teachers were would bomb at a school like this. Mostly that they loved her and wanted to perform for her. They began to read with some real pleasure and at the end of the year, she asked them to choose one of four books, the one that they liked the best they had to read it and write a report on it was long way gone, a boy warrior in sierra leon who was kidnapped by rebels and by his own account killed many people when he was 13 and 14 and so on. He kept high on cocaine most of the time. He eventually was rescued and came to the United States<\/a> and was adopted by an American Woman<\/a> who wound up at overland and where he had a good writing teacher and wrote an excellent narrative and kids were very alive to that kind of stress in anyones life. Not because of me, not because of ms. Valensky. Total coincidence. He gave a talk at the university of new heaven. She was able to take kids to see him and meet him so that they had read the book and a him for the time. Literature seemed real to them. I want to tell you very briefly about a third school, upper middle class suburb up the coast long island largely wealthy white kids, the schools that found out a few years ago that a lot of the kids particularly the boys were simply not doing the reading. Not doing it. They went on the internet and read what sometimes competent summaries of the great gatsby and mcbeth or some other online study guide or their tutor wealthy enough families to have tutors who took them through the books and they never really did the reading and even boosted about it. What did they do . Instead of the usual scolding or remediation they tried something very different . Theyre not the only school doing this. They allowed them to choose books of their own to read, not entirely, they didnt give up on great gatsby and robert frost and emily dickson. They could choose it from the school library, they could choose it from the library. Wealthy school had a library in every classroom. It didnt matter that it wasnt literature. It might be young adult, romantic novel, sports biography, the point here with grudging readers to get them hooked initialliy initially to read stuff that they really enjoy. Kids didnt have to read that in particular but they had to keep reading and have another one going and another one after that and log in every week and so on. Suppose they are reading nothing but Adult Fiction<\/a> or horror fiction, you call a kid and say, okay, i see you like horror genre stuff. The movie survives because of teenagers, often teenage girls. The teacher would say, thats fine, let me point you towards some books by steven king who is a pretty good writer. Some of the early books the shining carrier are actually well written or let me tell you about this guy edgar allan poa, alcoholic genius of 1840 or robert lewis stevenson. The point is allow them their pleasures and passion and try to take those and elevate them and i have a lot of good stories, i think, about it and teachers have to keep it posted outside of the door at the moment so that theres a constant conversation of schools in the schools. What i have been trying to describe is how do you forge those links that create a lifetime reader and many variations on this, but you have to either appeal to what students need emotionally at that point in their life or what gives them a particular kind of pleasure they cant get anywhere else. Those are the two things. Now, i think i will stop at this point and thank you all for listening, and if there are any questions. Questions from the audience. I have a q amic here, raise your hand and i will come to you. It seems like a lot of what youre talking about is great unusual teaching, how do you separate that out . It sounds like a great teacher could do what youre talking about in any subject . Yes, i think we have to raise the pay and the status of teachers in this country. Way we treat them, the way the Republican Party<\/a> teaches Union Teachers<\/a> is disgraceful. Of course, there are terrible teachers and med i dont mediocre teachers but to denigrate them has been a disaster the last 10 to 15 years. Well, we dont need to talk about finland because its a small homogenius country. Briefly, the teachers are recruited from the top of the undergraduate class rather than from the bottom and that in relation to their peers at college they make 115 of their peers income as where in the United States<\/a> they make 65 or 75 of their peers income that is those who go to accounting, law, engineering, any of the other professions. I think the recent failure of the common core has occurred because the developing the common core which may not be an idea, we need to raise standards wasnt build into teacher training, so what we did in new york state was to make increase tests definitely which resulted many people got very low scores, disgusting parents and teachers to tie that experiment whether a teacher is good or not is completely [inaudible] hi, i loved your book, it was so terrific to read about all of the great teaching going on. Thank you. And i have a question, slash, thought about books that are being chosen for kids to read, seems to be the same old, same old. Middle ground stuff like kill a mockingbird. And i would love to see kids reading more books of their own century like pulitzre prize, National Book<\/a> do you have any thoughts . To kill a mockingbird is very good actually and a really feeling for the south and landscape and aspects of social life in small town. Im not going to knock to kill a mockingbird. Latinos students particularly enjoy juno diaz, the short wonders life of brief wondrous life of oscar wow. Tony morrison, i know Jessica Zelinski<\/a> has been reading with her 11th graders, an essay this is an enormous success between the world and me. So yes, i think youre right. I dont think theres anything wrong with to kill a mockingbird grudging readers who are werent willing to read it all. I actually have a followup to that because i i was going to ask something rather similar. In terms of broadening the literary cannon, perhaps, is that not one of the ways to keep students reading, not only for latino kids but to broaden it in that sense as well . Sure, you have to get them started first. What this book is about beginnings, is beginnings, awakening hunger and can be taken in a lot of different directions, but its a whole i didnt even get into this a whole separate issue of increasing large latino population not just in school population, not only around here but, of course, in california and the southwest. That would be great book for someone else to write. I dont see why there cant be other reports like mine that is subjective reports in which someone is writing out of his own impressions of life and i do a lot of writing about the books themselves because i meant this to be for readers not a handbook for teachers but as a kind of introduction to these books again and excitement of reading them again. This elderly white guy going into different schools, thats just one book, i dont know why there cant be black reporter going into black schools or white schools, for instance, if thats the power discourse, what is it . How does it work . How does it benefit students . I would love to read that book, anyway. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. Over here. Thank you. I just wonder if you have any plans to follow up with any of the students that you met and whether you think theres any risks that having an extraordinary teacher for one year is a temporary phenomena and years later they might theyre interest might fade away if its not reinforced . There is the danger always but i dont know about you but i had a couple of extraordinary students and mediocre teachers and survived and you try to take into yourself whatever it is the strength that you get from the extraordinary teachers and to carry forth even when teachers were not so good. I went dead for a number of teachers in college. Theres always going to be the variability. I have stayed in touch with some of the beacon kids who are now getting their college stuff together, actually getting into schools. One of the things thats awful like hill house, to get everybody to college and theres no College Office<\/a>. Theres no resource from safe haven to pay for a College Office<\/a>. The parents for the most part cannot help them get through the maize of applications and loan applications, the whole financial stuff. Yale does pay tuition for those who graduate at new heaven high school with b average and local college. What yale doesnt do is to staff a College Office<\/a> at hill house and keep someone there, you know, maybe four days a week and help kids get through this. So but, yes, i do keep up with some of the kids. Not all of them. Working in the schools, one of the things thats been pushed a lot, maybe its going away is the whole idea of nonfiction and the role in an english classroom, i was wondering if the teachers werent focusing on good nonfiction, im talking good nonfiction . Mr. Leons class was all fiction and so is mary and daniel youre going like because god knows how much he made up. Its suspiciously detailed about people were thinking years before he wrote it. The common core is pushing kids away from fiction to nonfiction. The designer of the common core, whoever had to read a novel on the job, and i said, well, no one except book reviewers. That isnt the point. Im one of those people that think that reading fiction is the way you know about yourself and youre enlarged and overwhelming and when youre home the process goes inward as well as out ward and you compare to characters that youre reading of and theres complex interaction of personalities and settings and extraordinary detail, a complete immersion which brings you back to yourself and so forth. So i think its essential that kids read fiction because they can read other people by reading fiction. They can develop all those qualities of empathy, percentiveness, understanding how other societies work that we dont get from the media. Necessarily. [inaudible] i dont agree with a lot of it. Thats between the world and me, the book thats ms. Zilenski is reading with 11th graders right now. He writes with metaphorical power. Thats real literary work. I have an accidental experience with my son who was terrible in high school and ended up going off with friends and drinking a lot and ended up in a in a Mental Institution<\/a> in australia where they called me and i said, send him home, when he got home he was on medication and a wreck and i because i love literature i said, well, read to me outloud, so we started with Edmond Wilson<\/a> because its factual and beautiful reading, just read to me outloud and we can talk. So he read that whole look and said well, i cant do this, its too long, its too much, i cant do it. He kept doing it. I said it doesnt matter whether we understand, we will talk, you know, but he kept doing it and then then the second thing we read was notes from the underground and started talking about himself. He develop it had most incredible relationship and then he read moby dick and, good lord, im trying to think now. He couldnt stop, he just kept reading out loud to me and then we talked about everything and before i knew it, he brought me conrad and then he brought me celine which i never read. Was he not a bigtime reader prior . No, before that he he failed high school, he was just awful. [laughter] and okay. This is a very happy story. And he ended up teaching kids at city college to read and write, they paid him 8 an hour to coach them, he had no college, but all kinds he started writing himself and now he writes a lot. Thats a great story. I know that the two points from my adult life when i was at my lowest i was saved and i think its because the characters are so egotistical that gave me strength. The first well, anyway, we will let it go at that. His Upper West Side<\/a> book was planted bilious and angry and he lived around here a long time ago. Yes, anybody else . Well, thank you very much for coming. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause for author david denby. If you mention Beacon School<\/a> at the register a portion of the proceeds will be donated to them and hopefully the library. Please, ladies and gentlemen grab a copy of the book if you dont already have one and line up and give us a moment to be set up and we will be signing this very important book that we should read. Thank you so much, everyone, youve been fantastic. Book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. At the present time im reading president kennedy, profile in power or profile of power by richard reeves. I heard him speak about the book at a conference and thought, you know, i want to read that book, its pretty heavy reading but has information about the president , some insight to him and his family and the issues he faced, the challenges he faced that i never, never seen before or heard of before, really, just highly recommend the book. Do you is your goto biographies nonfiction . I like biographies but, you know, up here theres so much we have to read factual stuff anyway. A lot of other stuff that i like reading, i like peters book, throw them all out, extortion, he had written good books about whats wrong with the government and i wish every american could read those as well. One second after with the New York Times<\/a> best seller about the emp threat that most people dont want to think about in this country. About 20 good nonfiction books that i read this year so far and recommend them all. Book tv wants to know what youre reading this summer. Tweet us your answer at book tv or you can post it on our Facebook Page<\/a> facebook. Com booktv. Here is a look on some of the books written by president ial candidates donald trump and hillary clinton. Donald trump written never enough by Michael Antonio<\/a> in which profiles Donald Trumps<\/a> Business Career<\/a> and personal life as well as his president ial aspirations. Cnn political commentator jeffrey lord makes the case for a Trump Presidency<\/a> in what america needs. Published earlier this year. Twice updated and originally published in 20011gwenda blair in donald trump the candidate. Hillary clinton political life over 150 books have been written about her or featured her ascii player. These include several released last year. Jonathan alan and the hills, amy, hrc. Chronicles senator clintons 2008 loss to barack obama and the rush to political prom neans, love her, love her not edited by joanne, essays by women that looks at how clinton is equally lotted and disliked. Unlikable. Media founder who runs super pac says theres a rightwing plot to derail in killing the messenger. Another Clinton Presidency<\/a> will be for the worse. [inaudible conversations]","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia800306.us.archive.org\/32\/items\/CSPAN2_20160702_103000_Book_Discussion_on_Lit_Up\/CSPAN2_20160702_103000_Book_Discussion_on_Lit_Up.thumbs\/CSPAN2_20160702_103000_Book_Discussion_on_Lit_Up_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240625T12:35:10+00:00"}