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And now im booktv we want to introduce you to bill thomas was the editorinchief of the doubleday books. What kind of books is doubleday published country doubled it publishes the approximate 50 books a year, half our fiction and have our nonfiction. On the nonfiction side we publish a lot of history, narrative and fiction politics and science. Host how long has doubleday been a business . Guest 1897. Host founded by . Guest someone named mr. Doubleday. Host okay. We are here to talk to you about previewing some of the books. Who do you have coming in . Guest i think we are three books that are...

What is conveyed on the back as well as on the front. Because you were forced at that time with the people at that time were forced to write things in a very short, succinct format it gives you an indication of what they felt was important. In many cases is very different from what we feel is important today. In some cases its very much like we do. They tend to stick with, in the words of joe friday, just the facts. They really believe that conveying the most important thing more important but it is you are real idea of what things, what people, what events were important in their daily lives....

A way of your countrys future or are over the next couple of decades. In it is intriguing question. A lot of the policies eisenhower pursued would appeal he did believe the government had a strong role to play of the for structure of the interstate highway system but he foresaw that the affair state is something that politicians that they cannot control is a runaway train and we saw the future more clearly with americas role in asia and the rise of china, the split without the fate of domestic politics. I can hear the historians it is called Douglas Macarthur a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize ...

Tomorrow on q a, former defense secretary and cia director robert gates discusses his book a passion for leadership. Lessons on change and reform from 50 years of public service. The program airs at 7 00 p. M. Eastern this week on q a, Boston College Law School Professor mary sarah builder discusses madisons hand which takes a critical look at the notes James Madison wrote during and after the convention of 1787. Mary sarah builder, you have a book out called madisons hand revising the Constitutional Convention. Whats it about. Its a biography of the notes , of madisons notes notes and madison...

He wrote a book not as many people know about. It is a short book and i think it is about the role of religion in america. I read polks diaries. He sat down and must have with a quill pin, this was 1840s, and he wrote sometimes lengthy notes, probably 1011 at night. Something like senator houston showed up at 9 p. M. For an interview. Took a long time but where read it all the way through. I dont know of any president who has written such detailed diaries. What is counterly on your reading list . I am reading a book at robert nole wrote. It is the biography of alex haley. He was a tennessee ma...