story. the new c-span online store now has booktv products. go to c-span store.org to check them out. see what s new for booktv and all the c-span products. booktv recently visited capitol hill and asked democratic congresswoman dina titus of nevada about her reading list. well, mostly, unfortunately, i have to read news analysis and policy-like papers and academic journals. but when i read for entertainment and pleasure, it s usually when i travel. i just have come back from greece, and so i was reading books either by greek authors or about greece. i ve done that a number of times in the past and have been through kind of the usual suspects, durrell, chiarelli, mandolin, nicholas gage. so i looked for something a little bit different. this time i read a book called the silence of the girls, and this is a mann booker award winner. pat barton, a british writer, and it s the iliad as told from the perspective of a woman. on the lighter or maybe darker side, i read a co
page and searching the video library. we have more now from the lincoln annual symposium. and the overall successes and failures of reconstruction. they discussed educational opportunities, land redistribution, and voting rights as well as the politics behind these reconstruction measures. this is about 15 minutes. 15 mi. the title of this panel may be a little bit deceiving. it s if i can read it here. voting rights for black freedmen, what went right and what went wrong. so it seems to be couched in the erms t terms of voting rights and it is about reconstruction. i think you all know that and get it, because what undermines the whole progressive effort for reconstruction is the lack of voting rights for those freed men and women. so we re going to expand this beyond voting, but we just couldn t get there as a nation with the 13th amendment, final freedom, with the civil rights act of 1866. it didn t give voting rights to the african-americans, and neither did the 14t
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of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications rose: and so you began how? i was in love. rose: is it luck at all or is it something else? rhythm and how it moves people. rose: what s the object lesson here? sprinting a marathon. rose: tell me the significance of the moment. rose: this was the week donald trump met with republican congressional leaders in an attempt to unify the party. isis claimed responsibility for a massive car bomb in baghdad. and stefan curry of the golden state wariers was the first player to be unanimously chosen as the week s most valuable player. here are the sights and sounds of the last seven days. a baghdad car bomb kills dozens. kim jong-un changing his tune. north korea will not use nuclear arms unless threatened by nuclear weapons. we won a big victory in west virginia. can hillary clinton still facing a stubborn bernie sanders on her left. i am looking forward to debat
if you do it right, get the parody and make it look like one of the things that s somehow funnier, because it subverts your clappings to the movie to watch documentaries. it makes you feel like i m watching this thing that feels and looks like an important movie except there is one little thing off from it. ian mcewan and documentary now!, when we continue. rose: funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. ian mcewan is here, his novels include the children act, atonement and the comfort of strangers. his 1998 novel amsterdam was awarded the mann booker prize. his new book nutshell is told from the point of view of an eight-month-old fetus. first time at this table. welcome. thank you. nice to meet you. what a concept. where did all this come from? the first