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[inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2. Joining us now from chicago and the publishers convention is ron charles who is the editor of Washington Posts book world. Mr. Charles, what do you do for a living . Guest i assign most of the daily reviews in the Washington Post, and every wednesday i write my own review. Host of books . Guest of books, yes. Host how many books a week, seven books a week . Guest we review 20 books a week, and we get about 150 of them. Host about 20 books a week are reviewed in the post. Guest right. Host why isnt there a standalone book section . Guest there is online, but we decided about four years ago to spread the reviews out through the paper to try and see if we could find more readers. It seemed like a disaster at the time to me, but i have had to admit that we do, in fact, have more readers for book reviews now. We just put ....
Section. Host ron charles is the editor of Washington Posts book world. This this is booktv on cspan2. Guest thanks so much. Heres a look at some authors recently featured on booktvs after words, our weekly Author Interview program. Syndicated radio host dana lash contended the u. S. Is dividing itself into two countries, coastal america and flyover america. Wall street journal columnist kimberly stras el argued the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. Eric fehr talked about his time in iraq working as an interrogator for a private military contractor. And in the coming weeks on aftercords, ann coulter will make her case for supporting donald trump for prime minister. Georgetown University Law professor rosa brooks looks at the expanded roles for the u. S. Military around the world, an ....
Shiites and master saudi arabia with all sorts of horrible things are happening. I dont think so. And so there we are. You ask about the president not getting involved in syria. He just put 200 special forces troops into syria. As far as i know, recognized by the u. N. After reigning power and the russians are there with approval by the theory of government. The iranians are there with approval. Hezbollah, the shia group from lebanon, they are there with approval. The precedent for 250 special forces into israel without that casualty . Its a point of view. The world sees what he does. Ill tell you something else. If you think the number of american troops into iraq is three or 4000, im telling you this for a fact times that amount and maybe even more if you count the pilots and crews that are doing the bombing in the ocean. Thats telling the truth to the people about some basic stuff. And that is that he had on the other hand, i also think its going to be the greatest president will ha ....
And we think the sponsors for the panel on the president ial year. Here to say a few words about the panel is andy taggart andir also coauthorau along with face organizer jerry nash of the boo mississippi politics. Its really a privilege for my partners and i got anty to pt opportunity to participate in this way and i thank all of you for participating the this is an extraordinary gift that the board and a paid staff of the book festival have contributed to our state and the sponsors are thrilled to have a chance to be a part ofchance t it. [applause] also welcome to the great treasure that ooh our State Capitol represents for all of us. You all if we were playing whats my line, among the three gentlemen to my left, one of them would be able legitimately to say im a pulitzer prizewinning president ial biographer, one would be able to say im the former majority leader of the United ....
Resources of that, it means they are going off of some other beat and keeping our streets safe, going away from looking at white collar crime, others that need to be looked at. In many cases the victims of those crimes, could be spouses that are abused, it could be people who are robbed or ripped off by inscrupulous scam artists are frequently afraid to report that crime because they are afraid that the very same agency that theyre supposed to trust to report that crime could in fact be in league with another Government Agency that wants to deport them and thats the problems with 287g and some of the other informationsharing protocalls. For Community Policing to work its hard to have the trust and support of the community. And by the way, if these criminals go unprosecuted in our community and unpenalized for taking advantage of somebody and that not being reported, th ....