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Book tv. Thank you. [inaudible] heres a look at authors recently featured on book tvs afterwards. Our weekly Author Interview program. Natalia holt profiled the women instruments on the development of americas Space Program in the 1940s and 50s. Historian pamela haig looked at the history of gun ownership in america. And we reported on the history and rise of isis. In the coming weeks on afterwards, republican congressman will talk about his time as chairman of his committee on oversight and gov...

Genuinely aware of the fact that money plays a role in politics, but we are making the argument across a very dangerous threshold to the point has created such paralysis in our politics and policymaking that we are losing our democracy. Host what are the examples of what youre talking about . Guest if you look at every number associated with money in politics, theyve all grown exponentially in the last 20 years. Weve gone from 500 lobbyists 20 years ago in washington to h 12,000 registered lobby...

Well thank you so much for coming. I appreciate it very much. So many of you come from out of town. Thank you. [applause]. I appreciate that. What were going to do is let the party continue and you can hang around as long as you want. I will be signing books as long as there are people who want their books assigned to. Im happy to do that just to hang out. Please tell your friends about socrates in the city. Please read the book, please if you dont want to read the book at least by several copie...

[inaudible conversations] booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. Well, first of all, thanks to cspan for all you do on this front. Its very Important Service you give to the country. My folks are watching this. My kids will get a kick out of it. I hope they see their picture behind me. Ive got a pretty extensive reading list not only for the summer, but over the next year. I thought id start off with prayer for people under pressure by jo...

Encourage him and she even would, you know, talk about him when she was perform songs, she would adlib about him a little bit. Think that mr. White would be pleased with what we have done here. Highlighting a citizen of a person who lived in cleveland for a number of years, and not only contributions to the world but his contributions back. [music] for more information on booktvs recent visit to cleveland and the many other destinations on our cities tour, go cspan. Org cities tour. Representati...

[inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] heres a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. On saturday august 20 second, book tv is live at the Second Annual mississippi book festival held at the state capital in jackson. Features former Senate Majority leader trent lott a Pulitzer Prize winner biographer John Beauchamp. Coming up on september 18 is the brooklyn book festival held in downtown brooklyn, new york. Later the annual baltimore book f...

And residents or u. S. Interests, those interests are clearly impacted by the behavior of other countries. And the u. S. Tax base can be eroded not only by the behaviors of multinationals but by behavior of other governments. Thank you and thank you for the opportunity. Good to be here, don, thank you very much for this opportunity to speak about policy and reform. It seems to me ive seen this movie before, however. We all love to sit around and talk about policy. I will get to policy in a secon...

Be occupying. So yes he was a terrific guy and the only choice for a really successful first president because of the trust that people had in him, that he could in habit this presidency, and they could trust him in that position. But he brought with him some problems. A question i sometimes get and you probably do, as well if not washington, who would be the next obvious choice and my answer is, there wasnt another choice and thats kind of the point he was the in dispensable man. He was somewha...

Roll call vote. Then the ohio samesex marriage case and we will talk about the role of lgbt rights and Marriage Equality in the 2016 political debate. Also new orleans mayor and u. S. Conference of mayors in Mitch Landrieu will join Mitch Benjamin to talk about gun violence and Police Community relations. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live from the Democratic National convention beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern tuesday morning. Up next on the presidency, author kathleen bartolonituaz...

But there was another group of americans that worried about a weak executive that would be subject to corruption and manipulation, like a weak king could be manipulated by his court. And so for them, it stood to reason that they would be more interested in a strong title to counteract this weak this fear of a weak president. It seems like all sides agreed that the person should be George Washington. Yes. He was the obvious choice. He was really the most trusted man in america. And i would say th...