It slowly began to sink can that there is something. That working in conjunction with this rising popularity of all things southern about the same time is going to make kentucky look appealing and another reason that the balance south was having a resurgence of popularity about this time in the late 1890s early 19 hundreds is because the daughters of confederate veterans are going all over the south and building memorials to the confederates. We got one in lexington. This is what started the entire research for me. I wondered whyi wondered why we can have a guy a horse in front of an old courthouse confederate guy who actually was courtmartialed always waiting for courtmartialed to take place when someone often because he lost control of his men. His own army is going to courtmartialed and. Now he is made into a hero in lexington. He was raised here. He is on this horse and still is downtown. Why could this happen when we were union state . We were not neutral, as they taught generations. We were only neutral for the 1st few months until the Confederate Army invaded the state. Kentucky had make up its mind. I would suggest largely for economic and business reasons and the influence of henry clay who had wanted his country to remain together. He was known as the great compromise or. He made all kinds of compromises in congress and with other states trying to hold off the civil war because he wanted the United States to remain together. So we wentso we went with the north. We were union state. What is a guy doing on a confederate produced prize memorial downtown . Because these women s the daughters of confederate veterans are going everywhere with this huge undertaking of monument building so that future generations were not forget the Confederate Army the confederate soldiers, the Confederate States of america. It was an era of memory building. Now we are getting this image of a southern kentucky cast forever and a bronze statue. It is no wonder people started thinking we were southern. And so that helped fortify this image that kentucky is completely constructive. It never was at all but it helped grow the horse industry at a time when southern west was very popular. You have to understand that the horse industry is fragile here. We have the bluegrass, the soils that people have always believed is very conducive to sound horses, strong horses. We have the knowledge the history the stallions great mayors. Could that all be taken away in a heartbeat . Well, maybe not a heartbeat, but by other states offering better incentives. We fought this battle for a long time. There are multipletheyre are multiple reasons. You cannot take it for granted that the horse industry is here. People fought hard during the era of my book after the civil war through the early 19 hundreds. They fought a huge battle to get that money here to get that industry back here where it has been. I believe that it was in danger of leaving her permanently at that time being so fragmented to different parts of the country that we might really have been known as the horse fuppercaseletter for that. For more information go to cspan. Org local content. President ial candidates often release books to introduce themselves to voters and to promote there views on issues. Heres a look at some books written by declared president candidates. I stack them up next my bed make the stack a little higher. One that im reading what i am hoping to read the 1st book to my son gave me a really provocative story about debt and humans use of that over time. In anthropology and economics work that is entertaining in the way its written. I just under read that. Ive been dropping hints. Fathers day is the sunday. I want to read the book the millionaire in the board. The soldiers were an industrialist in the 19 teens and 20s he and his wife developed an obsession with buying 1st folios of shakespeares works. They did that and ended up creating the Folger Library which is an institution here in washington that i loved. A knew book is an published about his obsession and dispose to be exciting. Book tv wants to no what you are reading this summer. Tweet us your answer or post on our facebook page. Here is aa look at the current bestselling nonfiction books according to publishers weekly. One of the things we like to do on book tvs preview some of the books that are coming out in the fall. We will be talking with some authors whose books are coming out in the fall. Now joining us Hunter College professor and author newestnewest book is called the guest of the shooters banquet. You open your book with a dream. Why . I open the book with a dream, to dreams. Because they are in part what began the journey of the book. Both of the dreams of from childhood. One of the dreams is about being hunted down hiding terrified for my life. The other dream is about being a murderer and trying to hide the evidence. I had them for years as a child. As it turned out i lined much later that my mom shared one of those dreams the 1st time. She was an immigrant from lithuania. She lived through the war theyre with her dad and her siblings. And as many people move through war and suffered trauma she had a dream with her sister sharing the same dream for years about being hunted down. Somehow i inherited part of the stream life. And i think one of the curious things for me as a writer and just as a daughter is why have the 2nd part of the dream the 2nd dream and not just the 1st. When did you discover why you are having a 2nd dream well, i discovered it about five years ago when i 1st learned that i come from a blended family. My father died ten years ago, and Eastern European jews. My mother is lithuanian catholic firstgeneration. About five years ago in a conversation with my mom i learned that her father, the lithuanian grandfather i loved was not just a resistance fighter against the russians. Hehe had actually been a chief of Security Police under the gestapo start world war ii. And instantly i felt you no in. Range of emotions the need to find out what that meant. Importantly in lithuanian 95 percent of the Jewish Population was exterminated. That was when the moment i learned that we had had this position during the war the 2nd dream began to make a little sense to me. Back them up in conversation just five years ago. Well, you know theyre were many years where i thought that it was a dark threads running through the lithuanian side of my family the narrative in my family had been that my lithuanian grandfather had been a hero. He had fought against the russians. He had save the children his wife had been deported to the gulags during stalins purges prior to the german occupation. And you know as in many families those stories are not ones he tends to pick apart. You expect them. Their came a time in my life command i think in part the passage of my dad and part having an amazing adopted stepdaughter who is from a countrya country where it is difficult to find your birth parents and asking questions i thought to myself, you no command i i if i have questions or need asked my one remaining parent, this is the time. So we sat down over coffee and i began to ask her questions about her mother father and the conversation evolved into this discovery. And i have to say that you know, i as soon as she told me. She did not use the word collaboration of course. I felt all this it has taken me all this time to ask. I was stunned. My own reluctance to open a door. And i think that is not an uncommon experience. Many people feel that way. Did your mother feel relief for telling you . Was the shame involved . Was it secret . She certainly did feel relief. I think that there was reluctance. I think thats had she known that my experience of hearing these words would compel me to fairly relentlessly go about the business of researching who he had been during the war she probably would not have told me. But then i cant speak for. How well did you no your grandfather . Well, i you know he was my lithuanian grandfather. I adored him as a young person, child. I would say he was in my life as a fairly dominant figure until i was 13 or 14. For differentfor Different Reasons i drifted away from the side of my family. You know, he was a loud joyous loving grandfather. And its you know theyre were a few instances. There was one instance where he said something to me which in retrospect i now realize was terribly an appropriate that the time i was young and it did not resonate in a way. But i left them. Who was what was during the Research Like . It was starting from zero in ignorance. And really finding an amazing team of people every country i went who became not just you nos translators for hire the people who really were interested in the project and that was terribly important. I felt a lot like a detective. One of the many books that i read and obviously, obviously,obviously, you know, 400 pages of archival material in many different languages but it actually, a classic text and unsolved homicides, especially long unsolved homicides because one of the things i wanted to be certain of was that i was not going through supposition, proximity to make assumptions about my grandfather and what he had or had not dones. I really wanted to source whatever learned very carefully and i also found out that in order to find out about him i had to really find outs about this area where he was partially in charge my region of lithuania theyre was a very complex region. There was a total immersion. And my Research Involved polish material material from russia lithuanian archives archives and the Holocaust Museum here individual interviews, witnesses, survivors. And there were dead ends. And then something would happen and i would start again. There were many surprises along the way. Give us a taste, one surprise. Early on i went to the Holocaust Museum in dc. I had asked. I was completely inexperienced. Poetry is what i teach. So i had 200 microfiche reels waiting for me none of them in english. Im embarrassed to say although now i can read and speak a little at the wayne and Little German from a tiny bit of polish from the midwest. That is my only excuse and a bad ones offer not knowing more languages. Anyway i took for microfiche reels. Captured german records during the occupation lithuania that had originally been part of the soviet trove of archival material, and in the soviets had returned it to lithuania cold when he is a given its of the Holocaust Museum. So i knew the spelling of the town of my grandfather was based. I began going through the german documents. And as it turns out with the germans over two hours its one of those languages that actually is easily noble. I began to understand what i was reading. I was distracted. So much material. I was taking notes on many different people who had nothing to do with my grandfather, but all of it was fascinating and horrifying. And then after two and a half hours i was exhausted and i felti felt foolish. You know, what am i doing here, what am i looking for. I didnt have any background grandfathers history during the war. And it really felt like a fools errand. I remember my got up to use ladies room, came back and said ten more minutes. And i put in last real. I started hitting the fast button and i toldi told myself know, no cheating. You have to look at each document one a time turning the dial turning the dial. All of a sudden theres my grandfathers name. This is handwriting. Theres a report lithuanian and is another report and another report another report. And that was one of the beginnings. Without giving away what you did discover about your grandfather and his connection to the gestapo now that the book is done where are you with this . Are you result . No. In terms of my you know, Family History and my grandfather i dont want to say too much because it will give too much away. I think you know, theyre is an excavation of a mass grave going on in belarus right now that has been three different generations of war. Im very interested in going theyre and reporting and writing about that. And i think that is part of my lack of revolution. I feel like this is started me on a journey and it has not endeds. I also hope and suspect that the publication of this book will actually give me more information fill in some of the gaps which is already started happen little bit. Im hopeful level in more. Is your mother still live . Years. As you read the galleys of the book . She is not. She has asked for a copy of the book when it comes out, but you know this is painful for her. Im not sure how much is going to read. I made a pact with early on and told her that i would not share any material with her unless she specifically asked for it. So what she will do with the book, you know, i dont know i honor her choice whatever that may be. Final question,question, what is the jewish side of your family saying to you about this project . s. In the beginning my wonderful jewish and surely davis clarified. Dont keep silent. Silence is the big it is the word of there generation, but she has become an incredible ally and it is really not just proud of me as her niece the feels that this is an incredibly important part of history and honors by effort to uncover what i have managed to uncover. The book is called a guest of the shooters banquet. My grandfathers as has passed, my jewish family the search for the truth that comes out in the fall of 2015 published by bloomsbury. Rita gave this is the author. On sunday august 2 book tv is live with Medea Benjamin my cofounder of the Political Advocacy Group code pink on indepth, live monthly show. She is the author or anger of nine books including her most recent an investigation into the use of drones for military purposes, drone warfare other titles include the meaning of the revolution which examines cubas use organic agriculture and stop the next one now on how to create political change their activism. Her other booksher other books cover topics such as how to eight People Living in the third world profiles of Inspiring Women and further examinations of cuba live on book tv sunday august 2 on indepth. You can participate by sending your questions or comments to facebook. Com book tv on twitter for colin. And now on book tv we want to introduce you to northwestern Professor John marquez who is assistant professor of africanamerican studies and the author of this book black brown solidarity racial politics and the knew golf south. Professor, before we get started on the specifics what was your goal . Are we trying to accomplish . I think there were a series of goals that i tried to accomplish. The book begins my interest in the book begins around 2,002. There was an incident of Police Brutality in my hometown which is the bluecollar suburbs of the houston metropolitan area. Fortyfive yearold mexican immigrant was beaten and choked to death but for what police officers. The incident was caught on videotape. A grand jury was convened to decide whether or not charges we will be pressed against the officer. A grand jury decided not to press charges. The videotape revealed it was a clear act of police aggression. The medical examiner report that was released by the Harris County medical Examiners Office ruled the death a homicide by mechanical association and repeated repeated blunt impact trauma. As a result of that ruling by the grand jury and activist awakening transpired and in my own community. I was interested in that activist awakening for a variety of reasons other than it being in my hometown it was the 1st monumental time the people of color in the committee specifically africanamerican and latino people organize themselves in the fine ask a protest against the judicial system and police. Secondly, it involves a coalition of africanamericans and latinos working together spearheaded largely by africanamerican leadership. And i found that significant for a variety of reasons that are cover our conversation. The 3rd thing that i found interesting about it was the strong role that women played in establishing some of these coalitions and maintaining that voice of protest in the committee when in fact the condition that they were organizing against disproportionally affected boys and men of color specifically black and brown boys and men that i found be an interesting and unique opportunity to write about gender dynamics. Who is Luis Alfonso Torres . The victim, the 45 yearold immigrant from mexico that lost his life became the celeb in the committees for residents to kind of organize for the 1st time in the history and vocalize affiant protest against what they felt was systemic injustice. Baytown is a bluecollar suburb of houston formed largely around the oral refining industry. Baytown his home to the exxon mobil refinerys which throughout most of its history is one of the largest refineries of its kind in the world. Has a complex history industrial boomtown type of history behind it as well. Africanamericans and latinos have grown in number in the committee over the years and relationship to the expanding oil industry. There is this global local endemic. As us interest and access to oil reserves across the world has grown since world war ii so have us refineries grown as a way to process the oil. Refineries no that they need workers. So as some of these corporations have moved more toward seasonal contract laborers africanamericans latinos, and other minority groups have moved in to assume those jobs and are largely responsible for the booming population in houston up until this day. The intention between africanamericans and latinos . Absolutely. There is tension between africanamericans and latinos in every spaces where they coexist across the nation. One of the things i want to capture in the book was the solidarity between groups and with regard to political solidarity is much more number of than a noun not something that one accomplishes, not a milestone or condition of one reaches for something that is practiced in our everyday experiences within justices to how we view social relations in our committee. As there is not a comprehensive or monolithic solidarity within the black or brown population theyre is aa comprehensive or monolithic solidarity across the two populations either. One of the things i want to. Out in the book was to settle led showed a light on th