Scott walker in on intimidated he argues republicans must offer Bold Solutions that have the courage to implement them. Virginia senator james webb looks back on his time serving in the military. Vice President Joe Biden by announce his presidency and he looks back on his career in politics. Chris christie and Martin Omalley have not release books. Coming up next on book tv, publisher adam bellow and mark powerline argue that americas intellectual habits are in decline. Can we begin . Welcome everybody, can i be hurt . May i be heard . Amid the herd, the hurt of independent minds. Hello everybody. I like a captive audience but this feels like a captive panel. Welcome everybody and thank you for coming. Am i over amplify . People have been telling me that for years. Welcome to our Panel Discussion on the state of the American Mind, the fact that you shown up here proves that you have minds whether you have minds American Minds proves to be seen. I want to thank the templeton press for c
What is the building behind us . Is the original 1905 branch of the Public Library where the schomburg collection arrived 1925 and behind that first for set of windows was the exhibition hall. This is in many ways a historic home this is an amazing institution to j. It is the critical part of the overall stability the director from the schomburg center. Thank you for your time. We have the editor in the Publishing Industry, a adam bellow what do you do for a living . Spec i have been a Nonfiction Book editor 27 years. I currently work at harpercollins for price specialized in publishing books by conservative intellectuals and figures i have an imprint and previously i have been there 67 years and never to other places in the industry with that crossover imprint called the free press. So when i started out it was the academic editor to go to academic conferences and University Departments do talk to. What are the offer it the authors to have worked with . That includes james wilson one
Frantic look at the evidence given in the hearings. A major bestseller that i published after that was called the bell curve by Charles Burney and Richard Bernstein and since then books of note, one of the books that im proudest of having published is called denying the holocaust by deborah dads, but that we had to twist evers im too published because she didnt want to give Holocaust Denial a forum. She said its not a good idea to publish a book about them because thats what they want. They want attention and they want to be taken seriously. We persuaded her that it was an important subject and interestingly enough she was sued in a British Court by david irving, a famous holocaust denier and she won. I believe he went to jail so very satisfied with that outcome. A few years ago in the earlier part of 2000 i published Jonah Goldbergs liberal fascism which was a lot of fun. More recently sarah palins going rogue and america by heart and currently a book by Peter Schweitzer who has been
I wrote about facts, not what i believe. Of course in the First Administration he gained after he went into training after the assassination recovery inch your 70s, thats no small accomplishment. We do thank you, tom, for this special look, and as he does say, its a very factbased, very interesting focus on a period of the president s life that we dont often see as clearly. We do thank you again for coming to join us, and thank tom. Thank you for having me. [applause] up next, author and think tank president , Arthur Brooks. The former french hornist, tunnel social scientist, talks about his research on charity, happiness, and Free Enterprise. The head of the American Enterprise institute is the author of four nonfiction books, including New York Times bess sellers by Gross National happiness and the road to freedom. Arthur brooks, where did the phrase, Gross National happiness, come from . Guest the phrase comes from the government of beaut buttan, who 30 years ago read the process of
And what were doing when we burn fossil fuels, is that we are taking carbon that was buried under the earth over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and we are transferring it back up into the atmosphere. So were basically running geological history backwards and at a very high speed. Were taking a process that took hundreds of millions of years to run in one direction, and were running it in the other direction in a matter of centuries. And if you were an alien and you came to visit the earth, you could easily conclude that what were doing, that the fundamental purpose of modern industrialized society, is to affect this transfer as quickly as possible. To see how much carbon we can get out of the ground and put up into the air and how fast we can do it. And thats a look at some of the chicago tribunes top books for 2014. To link to the full list and to see other publications selections, visit booktv. Org. Okay, now its time for hillary. You wrote that she captured your attent