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And im a citizen of the world that certainly because of my own biography. Well, i fled from breslau during the bombardment cleaning. I grew up in a small town and libraries were how i got to know the world did north africa as a schoolboy. I was 17 or 18 and we drove folks are going to ban through all the north african countries. I was always drawn to Foreign Countries because i had this curiosity about how other people live, i think and work. And it was always worth it. Yes, im a citizen of the world, and this is the story of the found the story of the final year in the korea of a man. He has ...

A fiction rates continue to still plus an historic day at the turkish grand prix. Lewis hamilton has. Michael schumacher has full time formula one record of 7. Well talk math and held welcome. In peru, interim president. Manuel merino has announced. Hes stepping down less than a week into the job. Protesters in the capital being out on the streets celebrating the visit nation, which comes after a violent mass demonstrations in which 2 people died from gunshot or another. Took of the top job after parliament voted to oust president martin bisque. Out of the corruption allegations of the protest...

So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all t...

You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think ...

Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those pr...