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gene. ingratitude the late position all of her his life and that s a look at from the current nonfiction bestsellers according to the los angeles times. many of these authors have appeared or will appear on book tv. you can watch them on her website, book tv.org. up next on book tv, debbie cenziper and jim obergefell talk about their book, love win . this weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the supreme court ruling making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello, welcome. the lgb t was, back in 1983, 33 years ago. as a nonprofit it has a threefold mission, one career. we offer seminars and workshops on career transition and professional development number two, community. we help members build lg bt business relationships at breakfast and after work mixers and three, culture. we program theater parties, screenings, walking to ....
landscapes. i wanted to write a little pamphlet-y kind of book that took eight issues that i care about and, incidentally, where i think i m in the majority of public opinion. i don t think i m a barricaded minority with some weird, outlier ideas. i think i m in the majority on issues like war and peace, issues like mass incarceration. so what i wanted to do was take it out of the frame that s been given to us and make it kind of in the form of a manifesto, this is what we re fighting for. i wanted to say that, you know, let s just take one example, health care. so the debate is obamacare or the way it s always been. i reject that. i want with free health care for all. and i wanted to break the kind of, you know, duality that we sometimes get trapped in. and the kind of framing of issues that i think is wrong. schools is something, as you know, that i m passionate about. so the framing of the debate is those who want to privatize and crush the unions and measure educati ....
[inaudible conversations] booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they re reading this summer. well, first of all, thanks to c-span for all you do on this front. it s very important service you give to the country. my folks are watching this. my kids will get a kick out of it. i hope they see their picture behind me. i ve got a pretty extensive reading list not only for the summer, but over the next year. i thought i d start off with prayer for people under pressure by jonathan aiken, written by a former member of the english parliament, so he knows a little bit about pressure, and i thought i could learn something from him. troublesome young men by lynne olson has to do with the rise of a small band of conservatives in the parliament during the churchill period and kind of motivated by i m a member of the house freedom caucus. we have 40 or 50 great folks that are trying to solve some of the fiscal problems. and just kind of represent ....
facebook.com/booktv. there has been no experience more challenging, more rewarding and more humbling than raising our daughter. and we have learned that to raise a happy, healthy and hopeful child it takes a family. it takes teachers. it takes clergy. it takes business people. it takes community leaders. it takes those who protect our health and safety. it takes all of us. [applause] .. to raise the village you don t just make family come you don t need each other in the community can you need a president and you need no clinton. host: amie parnes, what do you hear? guest: pioneer and a strong message of what she is trying to put out today, which is stronger together. her newest campaign message, she has had quite a few of them. this is not made where she is trying to reach out and send her populist message and say we are all in this together me. it is interesting to hear what she had to say that anakin carrots two where she is today. host: hasn t been consisten ....
[inaudible conversations] thank you all for being so patient. i m along with my wife, and on behalf of the entire staff, thank you very much for coming out on this afternoon. a few quick administrative notes, now would be a good time to turn off any cell phones or something that might go beep. when we get to the q&a part of the session, because we are recording this for our youtube channel and and c-span book tv is here, we appreciate it if you have a question, if you would step up to this microphone here so it can be recorded and also heard by everybody else in the audience and at the end normally for those of you who have been to events before we would like to ask you to fold up your chairs, well, don t do that today because we have another event coming up. it s not often that we have a head of state here at politics and prose. in fact, it s pretty rare and at the moment it s pretty rare because she s not with us yet. [laughter] but she s on her way with an esco ....