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CSPAN2 Book TV August 10, 2009

campaign called this is new york which interestingly associates that luxury image with a very kind of utopian a utopian kind of diversity that harkens back to the early days of i love new york. i think that juxtaposition of a kind of longing, a utopian longing with this luxury-oriented, elite-oriented comodification makes these campaigns successful and to have people not think so critical about them as i think they should. as a sociology professor at u.c. santa cruz why are you writing a book called branding new york ? well, i recently relocated to santa cruz, not that i wouldn t have been interested in it otherwise but i lived in new york for 20 years before i moved to california. and so and over the course of living in new york, i became, you know, very fascinated with the sociology of the city, the history of the city. i was myself a media maker, a representation of the city. and i became fascinated with this period which i see is really formative in the con ....

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CSPAN2 Book TV August 2, 2009

that was complicated. once you re there, it didn t seem that complicated but the logistics, for instance, of trying to do interviews with gay men in baghdad, i could not do those interviews in the green zone so i had to hire security to take me into the red zone because gay men could be killed trying to come into the green zone. it s dangerous for an iraqi at the time to come in to green zone because it would indicate he or she is probably working for one of the foreign governments. or the iraqi government, which is not necessarily always considered a legitimate government by some people there. plus, you have to wait in line for hours sometimes and insurgents are actually some of the guards who are searching you. so the safest thing to do was to do the interviews with the red zone. i was told it was a bargain, $500 to go a mile. now when i go back i ve been told i could walk around much more easily in baghdad ....

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CSPAN2 Book TV July 19, 2009

the 17-volumes of vince flynn and this new young author called lisa lutz. she s a young, hip, funny reader and writer. so that s the if i can get through that this summer, i ll feel good. i m looking forward to my summer vacation and my summer reading. i m going to read adam gopnik. this is a long shot but i m reading this about the story of lincoln, darwin and modern life. and that s my lead-in. and then i carry my books about lincoln and my books about fdr, which i take on each trip and then forget to read. but i will do it this summer. to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our website at booktv.org. .. rap diane wei liang talks about growing up in a work camp during china s cultural revolution. her participation in the student democracy movement and june 198090 ann and square demonstrations that ended with the massacre of hundreds of government citizens by china. the world affairs council of dallas-fort worth is the host of this ....

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CSPAN2 Book TV July 11, 2009

booktv s web site. booktv.org. we want to thank him and the staff of mount vernon, virginia. here george washington s home for being with us on this sunday and independence day weekend. thanks for watching. thank you. next month, news analyst and fox news political analyst juan williams will discuss still rights and race relations in the u.s. culminating in the election of president barack obama. the documentary writer has authored or coauthored 6 books including eyes on the prize, thurgood marshall and enough. coming up on book tv, the late robert mcnamara from 1995, talks about his book in retrospect, the tragedy and lessons of vietnam. afterwards, congressman and an nbc host joe scarborough on the budget ministrations, and the obama presidency. afterwards, it is on sunday night. books on the economy, the international financial collapse was predictable and is far from being over. allan ross tells us how second grader beats wall street jurors. what to do about th ....

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CSPAN2 Book TV July 3, 2009

russia. i live here, and i don t speak a word of russian. so that was my first problem. secondly, the book really follows the story of russia itself in 19 and early 20th century russia through emancipation, to industrialization, to all of the labor strikes, the fall of the czars and of course the russian revolution. and i have never studied russian history, another problem for me. as you probably figured out by now if you have tasted some of the moscow mule, walking in. this book is about a man who made vodka, and i am not much of a drinker. [laughter] so the question why would i write this book is a very good one. and the answer simply is it was just too amazing of a story to ignore. when i was the legal affairs editor for businessweek magazine in 1996, a man came to see me. and he brought with him a long white scroll that he unrolled on a conference room table there and it turned out to be a smirnov family tree going back to the 17 hundreds. and he began to tell me ....

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