Committed to some sort of democracy. Its not like we are saying we dont mind if we produce a bunch of students that are marcus and we think that would somehow, we would have done something wrong along the way. Host professor thomas with the decline in liberal Arts Education overall in the country are we losing civics . Guest thats a great question and should be a serious concern to us. In fact at the end of the book i oppose the great challenge in our day really is the potential commercialization and the career turn in liberal Arts Education which threatened to eclipse the more robust liberal arts element and when you think of how in the founding generation the biggest threat in some sense might have been from religion in our day the biggest threat will was a commercial nature which in interesting ways its probably because of the success of american constitutionalism. The forwardlooking version of it really wanted to create a thriving commercial society and we have done that but now do we need to correct back the other way and tend more to public obligations and have our institutions asked whether they have real civic obligations and whether they want to nurture those and their students . Host George Thomas government professor Claremont Mckenna college founders of the idea of a National University the founders and the idea of a National University constituting the American Mind is the name of the book. This is booktv on cspan2. Host bob weil is the publisher of live right which is a division of backs. Guest w. W. Norton and the oldest senator in america. But what kind of books do you publish . Guest mainly serious nonfiction literary fiction with a little edge to them. Books that can change the culture. Host we are here to talk to you about some of the books are coming out this fall and lets start with the series one. Guest its by david daily and it tells the story of how the country has been redistricted since 2010 to shift all these congressional districts over to republican space. Most of the architect of the program have this token and they will travel visa sex. You will see districts go to a garbage dump and pontiac michigan and it shows how the districts were created. The word was used by Edmund Wilson as early as the 1920s. Host we are being polite or use of the word that the whole word is on the front of the book, is no . Guest no the whole world is not. Its not on the front of the book. There are two asterisks and we call it but it was used by woodward and bernstein. Its a longstanding where they can thats political espionage and dirty tricks and sabotage. Host another book that they cannot already but it was a finalist for the pulitzer. Guest marching home is just a paperback, the first book i brilliant young historian and it details what happened to all the veterans when they came to the north, how they were forgotten. Research is oneofakind and it was just so unusual to get a finalist for the pulitzer. We are very proud of it. Plus who is wendy warren . Guest a lot of young historians. When the mac is a historian at princeton. She has rewritten art constitution. Shes knows how slavery was indelibly linked to the founding of america. 50 to 70 of the ships coursing of the new england harbor all were going to the west indies in the caribbean. She shows that many of the Founding Fathers like winthrop invested heavily in shipping. John winthrop, his son was in barbados in 1928 comics use may may 1626. Not for tourism. Host he was there for . Guest i was assuming he was prospecting. His father came over later. Wendy warren has written a major book. Host who is Shirley Jackson . Guest theres a huge renaissance and choose one of the architects and fiction of quality fiction in this country. She was franklin who is the author of this biography says shes the heir apparent to too and to hawthorne and she creates this womans life through her novel. It predates feminine mystique and is a stunning biography. Host why have a a lot of us not hurt her for . Guest most people have heard of or through the lottery. The lottery is one of the most famous short stories written in 1948. She was forgotten. Suddenly america is filled with fiction revival and she is suddenly over. As good as a novel coming out by allen moore. What is this book . Guest is one of the hottest novels in the world including in america. Its coming out in september. Allen moore is a graphic novel is that this is a tax novel which he worked on for 20 years. He lives a hermit like existence in northhampton angle and and he has written the story of life and the story of one family over 10 or 12 centuries. Its really an epic and its getting crowds of people. New york, everyone. It could be one of the monster works of fiction of this year. Host is called jerusalem and its 1200 plus pages. Guess who it is. Jerusalem is a poem by William Blake and its the story of blight and a family and the universe. I think its a work of fiction that will last for hundreds of years. G for victory, a huge, huge fanbase. Watchmen and you are going to see an explosion of interest in his work. Host is about the city of jerusalem . Guest its about the underclasses of northhampton angle and that jerusalem was written by William Blake and its about the poor people of england in the 1600s and he transposed it to northhampton. The characters would remind you, lot of the characters are its a very ambitious Exciting Book and i think it will explode. Host a couple of more books from live rightly want to share with you that are coming up. Eric j. Berlin. Guest a lot of people in your audience know of him. He has written a four century history of lighthouses starting with the Boston Lighthouse even until today what has happened to lighthouses. He tells the story of america through the lighthouses and what they do the more. He was a lighthouse keeper. Technology versus oldfashioned. Its a riveting book which for anyone traveling there are hundreds of lighthouses around michigan. He wouldnt know where they are in america. Tells the story of the most unusual source and who doesnt like a lighthouse . Shaneen digiovanni is one of the most pronounced profound war correspondents back in the world. Shes everywhere whether this great danger going on. The morning they came for us is all about what happened in syria. The prose is vivid and its a remarkable story of one courageous war correspondents effort to portray a country which is under siege. Host bob weil we dont cover many novels on booktv but we have covered this author, Winston Groom several times. Guest this is his first major novel since forrest gump. Its based on years of research. Any American History of the early 20th century and he takes you through these east coast industrial have to come down south to protect their property against wachovia. Its page turning fiction for anyone who really loves American History and wants to see the intersection of history and fiction in vivid historical character. Host bob weil is the publisher at live right and those are some of the books coming out by that company