channel. [applause] >> kind enough to hold up the share. [inaudible conversations] . [inaudible conversations]chair . [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] >> booktv is on twitter and facebook. tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our face book page facebook.com/booktv. >> presidential candidate often released books to introduce themselves to voters. here's a look at some recent books written by declared and potential candidates for president. former secretary of state hillary clinton looks back on her time serving in the obama administration in hard choices. more potential presidential candidates with recent books include former governor jeb bush in immigration wars. >> in early america newspapers were stress as vital to democracy. madison said that public opinion in our democracy is the real sovereign and then the congress passed the post office act which subsidize newspapers. that was vital to our early history, vital to the first 150 years of history. by the 1830s, 90% of the volume by weight of material that went through the post were newspapers but only about 12% of the revenue came from newspapers. that was all due to the subsidies that the early u.s. congress established. at the end of the nineteenth century there were in 1870, about 500 daily newspapers. by the end of the century there were 300 daily newspapers. toqueville fought newspapers work the key to the success of american democracy. in all those early years the newspapers provided the benefit of the country of diffusion of information. today there are plenty of other ways information gets spread about. plenty of other sources of diffusion of information. the key role for new speakers today is discovery of information. bart gelman in some of his thinking or speaking and writing about the subject when he sees a classification stamp he thinks of it as of yellow night and not a red light. very fortunately for the government did law pentagon papers case. they are far better off today that they lost that case than they would have been if they had the ticket because given that they lost the case, newspapers are able and willing to check with the government that the details in a story are not going to inadvertently reveal, let's say, the identity of an agent in egypt or something like that. and that is done and that is what is meant by the metaphor of the yellow light and not a red light and that is a good practice as long as journals do not wait too long or lose their vigor because they are checking on whether up particular story will an ad for and we do something that they wouldn't want to do. the new york times held that story about warrant was wiretapping that eventually came out in december of 2005 for whole year. that was too long. if that practice is done for a short time we have to worry about the future of investigative journalism. is it going to survive given the enormous cost of practicing good investigative journalism. maybe it is only going to survive in a few newspapers and is that enough? maybe it is only going to survive a few national stories and not local stories and that would be unfortunate. >> you and watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. here is a look at some books being published this week. in clinton cash peter schweitzer take a critical look at the money made by bill and hillary clinton since leaving the white house. at look for these titles in bookstores this coming weekend watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. >> up next from the national archives in washington d.c. a panel of historians explore the lives of the nation's first lady's. this panel coincides with the release of c-span's latest book "first ladies: presidential historians on the lives of 45 iconic american women". >> now, on with tonight's program. c-span's history series, first ladies influence a damage the interviews with more than 50

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