Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20140308 : vimarsana.com

Is there a Nonfiction Author or book youd like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv cspan. Org or tweet us at twitter. Com booktv. The three elements of the triple package are, first, a sense of exceptionality, and you can get it from lots of different sources, but its just a feeling that youre special and destined for special things. The second element is almost seemingly the opposite, and that is a dash of insecurity to offset that exceptionality and feeling that you havent quite done enough yet, youre not quite good enough yet. And the third element is impulse control or selfdiscipline and the ability to persevere and resist temptation. Individuals who have these qualities who grow up in america, they tend predictably Second Generation to to have a kind of interesting, Creative Destruction relationship between their culture and American Culture such that Second Generation kids in immigrant communities start very typically looking back at their parents and brand parents generation and saying, you know what . We dont want to do success the way you told us to. Were not interested in those jobs you said were the only ones, and instead they make their own decisions whether its to be a standup comic or an artist or Something Like that. And yet what weve found is aspirationally at least these same qualities can help them do that and achieve very different kinds of goals. Superiority, insecurity and impulse control, the triple package, tonight at 10 eastern and sunday at 9 on after words, part of booktv this weekend on cspan2. And for marchs booktv week club, well be discussing peniel josts biography of stokely carmichael. Go to booktv. Org to enter the chat room. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. Heres our prime time lineup for tonight. At 7 p. M. Eastern, James Barrett talks about artificial intelligence. Then at 8, Elizabeth Colbert presents her thoughts on the sixth extinction, an unnatural history. At 9 p. M. Eastern, learn about slavery and e chance base from david lye bran davis, and at 10 p. M. After words with amy chua. And we wrap up tonights prime time programming at 11 p. M. Eastern with talk about how the pharmaceutical, gun and Auto Industries have negatively impacted public health. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. There was a poll done in 2013 after the 2013 after the second inaugural which asked americans if Ronald Reagan were to to run today against barack obama, who would you vote for . They said reagan by 58 . Over obama. And thats right after obamas reelection. In 2013. Heres really fascinating, how was obama elected principally . The youth votes, right . The youth vote. That same poll they asked people ages 1834 who would you vote for, reagan or obama . They picked reagan. They picked reagan. Unlike the gallup, gallup does a president s day poll every president s day, annual president s day poll. Theyve been doing this 13 times since 2001. Reagan placed first among the American Public as far as question whos your alltime favorite president. Reagan got it in 2001, 2005, 2011, 2012. And reagan usually finishes in the top three. Typically beats lincoln. [laughter] imagine that. Imagine that. There was an, there was of in june 2005 a poll done by aol and time warner. Aol online surveyed americans, and they didnt give them a choice. They asked them to put in whichever name they wanted, who is the greatest american of all time . Not whos the greatest president , whos the greatest american of all time. 3. 4 million 2. 4 Million People responded which any statistician will tell you is far and away a representative sample. I mean, you maybe need only 500 people to do some of this polling. And reagan won. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Jack shaheen is the author of a is for arab. He joined john tchen and dylan yeats to talk about the history and current use of arab and asia