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but not huge rings of material that i think as i is they said was one of the most difficult on american life of anybody even though he is a judge and the president. thurgood marshall one of his dissents i believe it was and maybe it was in boston, he said that if america had done what it was supposed to have done in that time period, and he talks about this reconstruction period as a point of lost opportunity and i think that you cannot lame one person for all the good that happens or ...

dhaka as he died last year in september but we are joined by his son who will probably need no introduction of anybody watching this. watching this. he grew up in new york. lets see if i know your resume, use to be my boss, harvard university, worked for william bennett in the education department and now its a fine magazine where i used were called the weekly standard. >> guest: very well done. >> host: i thought we would start by talking about your dads life because i think neoconser...

recession was even lower than it was today. appealing to reagan democrats, independents, that politics of addition and not division which came from of rough term. what lessons do you think that any candid should take from your father success in 1984 going into that election with a rough economy, a lot of frustration, and being able to win that crossover appeal said decisively that he wins virtually unanimously. >> guest: you have a great sense of humor. >> host: it helps. >> guest: hav...

progressives understand in terms of how the system works and it will be dealt with. on some level he has a plan in terms of dealing with the obstruction that he is going to come up with in terms of delivering what it is that we really help from his campaign he was going to be able to deliver and whether or not there should be some hope, i guess, is what im looking for, ultimately if he gets another term he will be able to deliver on. >> good question. well said. i think he can rest ass...

Efforts in guantanamo. on the eve of the state of the union as obama will likely cast himself as a fiscal conservative, the democratic establishment is searching for an answer to the question, what happened to hope and change? joining us now is eric alterman, column nift for the nation and author of "kabuki democracy." if it were not for the system, barack obama would do it differently. >> i think thats the case. i want to say hed do it completely differently. but i think obama ran an honest pre...

coincide coincidental. theres the so-called carrier killer. its a missile designed to take out american aircraft carriers, that missile a fulfillment of a threat made back in 1986 when a chinese military officer told the u.s. embassy official said, quote, were going to sink your carriers with ballistic missiles. theres the missile. we cant forget how much theirre interest in cyber fare has been growing. to what end, surely only the chinese know. so where do we stand today? is the u.s. ...

>> guest: you know, im sorry -- i dont. >> host: then thats fine. ..eah, i dont have a feel for it. im sorry. >> host: thats fine. in the past year, book tv has gone to several book festivals. here are some of the ones that we have attended. weve either covered live or covered on a tape basis. that includes the "los angeles times" festival of books, annapolis, we covered the national started by laura bush, we were in austin texas for thee -- >> host: most of them were live in the past ...

hugh shelton came out with "without hesitation" an autobiography. "american caesars." and "the man who invented the computer." and david and julie nixon eisenhower butt out -- put out a book about president eisenhowers last years. "going home to glory" 1961 to 1969. bill in palm strings, california, you are on the air. >> caller: thank you. i want to first express my thanks for book tv. i wish i could read all of the books that you do talk about. my question is probably more of a field...

reading? >> caller: im currenting downloading some f. scott fitzgerald, and those kinds of books in that era. and its just so much fun to read them. a friend of mine, troy lee davis has been teaching courses. its so much fun to read about and hear and go through these books with my ipad. thanks very much. >> host: thank you for calling in this evening. jenn risko, i want to add a tweet that we got to his comment for you to respond to as well. are there demographics for ebook reader pur...

karen in detroit, youre on with jenn risko of shelf awareness. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. im curious for the publisher to ask, will writers begin to consider putting hyperlinks into their book to take readers to other spot or other locations that are relevant to the text of their reading? i think that could create a really dynamic reading experience. ten comments more than just reading the book, but then maybe a platform of going to a higher hyperlink. >> host: jenn risko...