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e-book and $5 off lit fest merchandise. today s program will be broadcast live on c-span2 s booktv. t if there s time at the end for a q&a session with the author, we ask you to use the microphone locateed to your right. before we begin today s program, we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off yourdi cameras flashes. please welcome associate professor at the university of chicago and today s interviewer, jean daley. [applause] hi, thank you. i am here with david daley, no relationing, who is the no relation, who is the editor-in-chief of salon and has published this new book. there s been some controversy on how to say the title, but i think i m just going to say rat f d. so that s quite a story. you tell us a bit about how you came to write the story. absolutely, thank you. what really interested me was my own confusion over what happened in 2012. you have a president who was reelected with 332 electoral votes by 206, wins the popular vote by some 3 ....
in all 50 states, coming up at 9:15 melissa, influence of women and the tea party. historian pamela provides a history of guns in america. we finish up our prime time programming at 11:00 with the former state department official kayle whose book the mirror test takes a look at the war. it all happens tonight on c-span2 book tv. george gibson is the publishing director of blooms berry. worldwide publishers, the u.s. division of it, founded in 1998, the company was funded in 1986, after first harry potter novel they opened in the united states. what kind of books do you publish? about 110 books a year. largely nonfiction, we do 20% is fiction but a lot of history and politics and current events and food-related books, populist science, those are the four areas and memoir as well. well, we want to catch up with you at the publishing convention to talk about some of the books that are coming out this fall and you have one coming out on lyndon johnson. a woman n ....
you know i thought it would take a little break and i m reading, this is one of those classics were you see the movie and you want to read the book, the martian and i think in the where and i got intrigued by this new netflix thing a man in the high castle which is old books, 62 word when a payday used to read science fiction when i was a kid and for some reason i did. that went. guy named philip decker who is now dead. i just finished up a biography of roger sure no s wonderful book on washington which is a fabulous book of boy it s long. booktv wants to what you are reading this summer. post zone our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. george dickson is the publishing director of blue scary. what is blue saberi? blues berry in the u.s. is a division of the will of lounsbury worldwide publisher so the u.s. division founded in 1998. bloomsbury company was founded in 1986 and the first harry potter novel layup opened in the united states and the publisher the adul ....
you can watch all previous after words programs on our web site, booktv.org. george gibson, what is blooms bury? in the u.s. is a division of bloomsbury. it was founded in 1986 and then after the publication of the first harry potter novel they opened a business in the united states and i m the publisher of the date division. host: what kind of books to you publish. guest: we publish 110 books a year, mostly nonfiction. 20% is fiction, but a lot of history and politics and current events and food-related books, popular science, those are the four areas we publish in. some memoirs as well. host: want to catch up with you here the publishing convention. talk about the books coming out this fall and you have one coming up on lyndon johnson. guest: we do. called faustian bargain by and it s the story of the dark side of lyndon johnson. lbj accomplished an enormous amount as a president but had a very dark side, and this story is told through the lens of a m ....
his son across the country and an in-depth relation with technology and the pressing philosophical issues. i m going to be doing townhall meetings and meeting with local journalists and some of our role counties in michigan. i will be at coffee shops and do more townhall meetings. people come join me for part of the ride if they d like. we are going from town to town. i thought it was time to pick that book up and read it again. the book i m reading now is by edward wilson and his social con quest of the earth that talks about a humans journey and our development over the years and how individual selection and group selection form who we are and talks about our strong societies as a result of these evolutionary avenues that we have taken as a species and i have just ordered the meaning of human existence from him which is his capstone book. don t we all want to know the meaning of human existence? i m looking forward to reading the continuation of his social conquest bo ....