october. lissa warren da capo press talking about some of the books. this is booktv on c-span2. you are watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. is a look at what s on prime time tonight. c-span2. booktv, television for serious readers. kareem abdul-jabbar, searching for your book, writings on the wall: searching for a new equality beyond black and white you write it is as if we invented the most precise and what are you talking about here? guest: i m talking about the fact that most americans don t appreciate the fact that their vote means a lot. and their opinion means a lot. so they have the ability to have their voices heard and acted upon in our great democracy, but they don t take advantage of it. so we have this really incredible democracy that gives the average person power and the average person does not vote. i think it s a shame that of all the developed democracies in the world, united states is last in voter participation. that really b
century. when what happened at the other end of pennsylvania avenue on capitol hill metal mattered much more than the executive is doing. and the powers weren t associated with the culture personality. now we live in a media culture. there s something manageable about the singularly of the presidency and congress seems willing to go along with this they have moved everything to the other end of pennsylvania. before we get started here we were talking about the gettysburg address. what were you saying. in the age of media even with wonderful glorious c-span whether we know how important it was. it would be very clear that only you would cover it and chances are that the main networks in the cable might say that there was a dedication of a cemetery but i can imagine the cynicism of somebody standing up in front insane while he was talking they try to distract attention from the disastrous military campaign out west. we would never hear it. but then with the tsunami of all of
you can talk about things that went wrong, but you could communicate love for the idea of a service. the extraordinary variety of people went there. we have people with great physical disabilities who are president for longer than anybody else but cannot stand on their own. we have people who are just [inaudible] [inaudible] history disappear and my thought is the word history is mostly made up of the word story plus a hello. we are to be telling our children interesting stories. host: and ken will be with us to take our calls. we ll put the numbers up on the screen. . . they moved up to almost parity with lincoln. lincoln took care of the greatest crisis. the depression and the second world war. he is very interesting. you can win a trivia contest. he won three national elections in a row. but as is the peculiarities of the american democracy is the electrical vote that matters. as they found in 1876 and grover cleveland found out when he won the popular vote he won the
apparently they made it. another stumble for the beleaguered jail system. believe it or not, inmates are known for making their own alcohol from prune juice. we have to remember that jails are inherently dangerous places. and things got out of hand when the deputies smelled alcohol in a protective custody jail cell. they escorted one of the inmates. one was complaining. the other inmate struck, kicked actually the deputy in the face. the deputy got his hands and knees hurt. a third suffered violent injuries. this comes one week an nbc bay area obtained leaked memos in 2014. they warned the camera surveillance system is joupt dated and that it jeopardizes security. it is still very dangerous. the sources say they do try to do a good job but morale is bad them say they worked mandatory overtime daily. and deputies are leaving the department because they don t give support from upper management. lori smith has been under fire because of it. the spokesperson says the co
myron belkind is at 107th president of the national press club. the trochlear 2 year career with the associated press and he has covered many world leaders. he received his b.a. in 1961 from ohio state university and an m s with high honors in 62 from columbia university, graduate school of journalism where he won a pulitzer traveling fellowship. when he retired in 2004, myron solyndra national press club, assumed leadership of the national correspondence committee, he worked to expand the club s international activities and attract more members from the international media, international organizations and diplomatic missions in washington d.c.. also in that year he began his second career as professorial instructor at george washington university. as far as the rest of it, i am going to leave this up to mr. myron belkind. you can tell by his journalistic background that he is going to do a great job with senator mccain and ask some pertinent questions about the book. we will