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look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> now on booktv gary weiss explore the political and social ideologies of ayn rand author of the fountain head and atlas shrugged. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you for that warm and flattering introduction. it is interesting if you listen carefully to margaret's introduction, you will notice you might ask yourself why did i write a book about ayn rand. after all i am not a philosophy professor. nor am i an economist. these are the areas ayn...

>> host: hello from the campus of u.s. be in los angeles where booktv has the los angeles festival of books. we are taking advantage of this beautiful location to do our monthly index program. our guest this month is tibor machan who is an ethicist and political philosopher and author of more than 30 books legal scholar papers and regular blotter. we will introduce him to you on our in-depth program for the next three hours. thank you for being here. let me start with people not familiar with your work. i described you as a political philosopher but tell us about your core philosophy...

and they came into power, all of those that have liberation are still in power. it is not in the interest of anyone of the other countries lose power because it is a bad precedent. that is the political conflict. >> host: i hope there is a solution soon. the book is "the fear." thank you for being with me today. . . >> for the next three hours, author and philosopher, tibor machan from the "times" festival of books. he has written extensively on morality, business, capitollism, and it includes "the passion for liberty," "puts humans first," and "the man without a hobby." >> host: hel...

and general philosophy like many classical philosophers. i think that you need a comprehensive approach to make out the case for various branches of philosophy. but, essentially, over the years i have come to believe that the classical liberal social-political stance, one that one associates with john locke, john stuart mill, thomas jefferson and so forth, is the sound position to take on political issues. as to ethics and epistemology and aesthetics and so on, that's another story. but if you were talking about politics which is what most ordinary folks are interested from philosoph...

>> anne heller and jennifer burns offer their ideas on ayn rand. she focuses on the allies and foes and ms. heller researchers the author's childhood and upbringing. the cato institute in washington d.c. hosted our 15 minute event. >> today we are going to talk about two major new books on ein rant and the fact that they testified to the continuing impact of america's most influential novelist of ideas. in the past 66 years, more than 25 million copies of radiance books have been sold. sales have surged recently perhaps in response to the financial turmoil in the takeovers and bailou...