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Joining us once again on book tv is congressman gerald connolly, democrat from virginia. Give us an update on your reading list, congressman. Peter, as you know i read at least a book a week and the last broadcast, the book read update, there are two i want to start with. One is this monumental biography of Frederick Douglass by david wright. Its probably the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass and especially with whats going on in the United States and its fight for Racial Justice nobody...

Came to do this show you heard about the hacking of twitter, the fact that trump asked out onto facebook get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years, and actually wrote a column recently questioning why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact check the president. Tell us your take on this. What is this relationship between facebook and the white house, between facebook and free speech . Im going to throw you a big question to launch you off track you first, thank...

Points the s p which is then up five out of the last six weeks and up the last six sessions in a row is up by 5. 5 this morning and then the nasdaq which has been this incredible out performer for months on end is the other performer this morning its down by 13 points but remember nasdaq was only down friday after being up for several sessions in a row. Setting a new high every one of the closes. The s p is less than 1 from its all time high. Its up back in february the treasury markets youll se...

Back at this particular moment and talk about facebook the inside story couldnt be more timely. I am just going to start off we have a lot of places to go with this kind going to start with something timely. This morning as we came to the show you heard about the hacking of her and the fact trump has gone to facebook to get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for things over the years and i actually wrote a column recently about why Mark Zuckerberg hasnt fact checked. Tell us about ...

So in other words if he looks good on tv you are learning about his ability to be president. Turns out that worked really well. Kennedy begins a huge change in our politics along with the debate with nixon. The other big change, clinton uses talkshows in a way nobody used them before, going on jack par and used the internet very well. The fundraising piece in the outrage peace. Twitter interested me because donald trump is not able to use the persuasive power of twitter for any of the programs h...

Between joe biden and president donald trump. Nt it. Guest biden has an advantage here. Because the democrats have a formidable machine, andnd they n the president ial race. The last three cycles. Hillary clinton beat donald trump by two and have points although that was closer than it looked because the race especially was over after early chvoting. In the democrats have been to enough boats. Biden is ahead in pauls hair. Only slightly outside of the margin of error. In the recent polling. Ther...

But as you know, im a big fan of yours. Is a huge fan of your first book on google. An audi come back at this particular moment talk about facebook on the inside story couldnt be more timely. And just going to start off. We have lots of places to go with his been going to start off with something timely. Literally this morning as we came to the show you heard about the hacking of twitter. The fact that truth is now going to facebook to get his message out. And facebook is a lot of criticism for ...

Four years ago. Her book already a bestseller wabestseller. Welcome everybody. We have great session here. Really a celebration are brilliant timely new book and sign for us to an important discussion about what is going on in the critical region of the world. Of course, the star todays performance is the author of that great new book. Michael osman who is a tremendous historian and scholar of contemporary asia. And he is a distinguished fellow. Bernie is also a great friend. Really is wonderful...

Most mysterious first lady we have ever had in modern times. You think that is true. I certainly do pretty so i set out to do this because i thought there was this strange void of facts and information. In keeping immigrants out. It was just shocking how little is known about basic biographical information. Donald trump has been in the public eye forever it seems like. Why do we know so little about melania . There are a lot of reasons. One is she only arrived in america at 26. So i had to trave...

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