Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20150406

Guest once the government started using housing as a way to improve the economy, in other words, to improve the american peoples view of their government and how successful it is then it became a political issue instead of what it had been before which was simply a question of making sure that the market functioned well. Youre watching 48 hours of nonfunction authors and books nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. The 2014 Guggenheim Lehrman prize in military history, worth 50,000, was awarded on march 23 2015, in new york city. And now on booktv, the finalists from the prize read selections from their books followed by the award being announced. This is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening. A great pleasure to welcome all of you here this