Bestselling non Fiction Books according to the Harvard Bookstore in cambridge, massachusetts. Aaron james looks at how Donald Trumps personality contributes to his politics and president ial campaign. Coots, winner of last Years National book award, explores the current state of black america in between the world and me. Next up, Matthew Desmond looks at urban poverty in america in evicted. Followed by hamilton the script of the broadway musical. Our look at the bestselling non Fiction Books according to the Harvard Bookstore continues sapeians in which a history professor chronicles the evolution of modern humans and the challenges facing our species today. And coronal University Researcher looks at how microbes affect human health in the human super organisms. And facing mortality in the memoir when breath becomes air. And nome chomskys book who rules the world makes the list. That is a look at the Harvard Bookstore best seller list. Many of these authors have appeared on booktv or will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on were website. One thing we like to do on booktv is preview upcoming book. And craig hodges is the author of long shot the struggles and triumphs of an nba freedom fighte fighter. Mr. Hodges, this is a june 4th, 1992 New York Times story. I want to quote and have you explain what this is. Craig hodges, the bulls threepoint shooting specialist and one of the leagues best, cited Michael Jordan and other players for failing to use their visibility to call attention to pressing issues. Guest first, i want to thank god for being here. I am a great fan of Civil Rights Movement. From 1968 on, my mom was the head of the Civil Rights Movement and to get a chance to study us and our situation, i was blessed to get a chance to say to college and study it, then get a chance to play pro g professional basketball and hopefully having an impact especially in the inner city communities. All of us athletes dont come with the biggest spoon in our mouth. We all have the same idea of wanting to do the right thing. I feel i have entertainment that is more to give and capable of giving more because so much is required. That has been my position all along. Host what is this article referring to specifically . Guest well, i think a lot of people may especially cheer in chicago media trying to pin me against michael from the stand point they said michael could do more in the community. And for me, one of things i feel and still feel is you can do more, but it is not on me or you to tell anyone what to do with their money. It is one of those things to try to lead by example and hopefully everyone can go along with it. Host were you a political activist while you played for the bulls . Guest i think that is one of the things the media calls you. To me i am a person who wants to see justice, a person who feels like growing up in the Civil Rights Movement and dr. King being my hero what he left the march and fighting racism and economic exploitation. Was it controversial . Guest yes. I think the biggest controversy was going to the white house and giving the president a letter. That was considered controversial but for me it was a cultural norm because where was taught to have pride in who i am, to study who i am, and to go out and make sure that you are responsible person because you have to fend for yourself. I came from a family that had great honor in the community. So i wanted to make sure i tried to do my best to make sure that carried on. The controversial part of it is there but i know the impact it had on my life and the effect it had on me financially as far as my family is concerned. Playing for a living is something this is your career. And the context is other people have more power than you have. Having won two consecutive games and two World Championships and not being able to get a job was crazy to me. It is still crazy to me when i think in terms of someone having an identity and they should get a chance to do what they do if they are not causing strife or pain to anybody. October 1st, 1991. What happened . That was after our first championship and we had a chance to go the white house and president bush host president h bush. Guest it was an opportunity to represent the community. Those who are disenfranchised and not a part of this thing. I want to write a letter to the president and know i am not counting on behalf of myself but i want lead the life mohammed ali did. I grew up in the projects in chicago heights. I would never had a chance to go the white house had it not been the chance for the championship. I wanted to utilize the opportunity the best as i could and respectfully as i could. It wasnt a matter of being disrespectful at all. It was a patter of those on the outside looking in. It wasnt about me having the gull to give the president a letter. Host what did the letter say . Guest it asked him to consider the issue of disenfranchised and knowing how we often time the scales are unbalanced when it comes to foreign policy. We can give billions for fighter jets, military movements, but when can we do something for poor people . They pivots back to dr. Kings movement because we if we can recfify the issues of the poor we will be a better nation. Host did you get a response . Guest not at all but not by him. The response was you cannot play anymore. It happened a year later but the whole thing was shocking because i was taught from Elementary School we wrote a letter to every. To our senators and mayors. And so why shouldnt i do that as a man seeing this was the opportunity and lets make the most of it. What was your reaction from the Chicago Bulls team . Guest my teammates and the entire staff saw me but this was the first time i was on the international scale. It was funny how my teammates at the time, we are at the airport and they are somewhat apologetic to me and to the audience they are going with it. It was funny to me from the standpoint like i said he should not feel uncomfortable. If you are feeling uncomfortable there is something on your plate and not my plate. It was a great day and for me one of it greatest days. The fact that when we went tothe capitol to the at that point in time, i felt like man, this is an institution here. It doesnt matter who is sitting in this seat or the white house this is going to continue to run. Host you put this in your book, craig hodges, how much money were making that year . Guest my last year i made 86,000. Was that a healthy salary then . Guest that was marginal. I was in my 9th season going into the 10th season. But the amount of money i could have received as an unrestricted free agent and the impact it could have had on the city is what i measured. I measured the gap of economics, the gap of jobslessness. If we have the resources then we can make a difference. We felt we can create jobs and do things that can ease the load on come team. From that standpoint, i feel like it was an opportunity to make something happen. Host what is your connection to arthur ashe . I was lessed to see him. In between the takes he would come sit down and meditate. That was so cool. So the next time i went out and hooped, the coach called a time out and i am sitting there are my eyes closed and he is writing something on the board and says what are you doing . He said you have watch me. For me, in my household they were family even though they were not there. My uncles, my grand dad taught me what athletes to watch and which ones not to watch and conscious athletes were the ones they told me to watch. Jim brown, mohammed ali, arthur ashe and there were athletes that impacted me. Host you write he introduced you to [inaudible] guest absolutely. At that time what it gave me was a chance to take a look at another part of the world and see how it impacted us and how we could impact it and you see that he took a you know, a fortified or a rating that i think we could learn from. Prom your book, there is a black studies major at long beach state, and learned at an early age that black people, even the wealthiest of us have been conditioned for the white man to sign off on our movement. Guest to that degree, where we right now, who do we make our allies . Often times we make allies outside of our community and that doesnt allow that trickle down effect to happen. So to me we are at a point where it is necessary for us to have freedom of mind, freedom of resources and movement from the standpoint i dont have to apologize for being black or apologize for doing things for black people so we can take a step up. We have taken advantage of our position and it is time to step up and make sure we can set things and agendas in place so our future generations shows it can be a leader in the community. Host when did you experience what i just heard . Guest probably when i was in Elementary School and when your family tells you you have to be back on this side of town by 6 00. Watch out being on the west side. It was all about infeinferance. It is about the day when a mother told her son when you see the police make sure you carry yourself in a certain kind of way