of the benjamin franklin books. those are exceptional because of the appreciation that he had in his life for a lot of different skillsets . and the way he worked to develop different skill sets, i think the same thing for jefferson. a lot of different skill sets being someone who was an agrarian and a farmer who was a financier, who had interest in just a lot of different sectors of his life. those help children to realize they don't have to do just one thing. >> host: do you have any authors who live in your district? >> guest: yes. we do. we have plenty of authors. johnmeacham lives in asheville now , for lives in nashville. you've got stephen mansfield who is in nashville and contemporary christian world, you've got michael w smith who is there, amy grant, steve buchanan, he's also in the church with us. >> host: there's a big publisher intown named thomas nelson in nashville . >> guest: the southwestern company is also there. they are too often nashville's oldest companies and people many times will say how did printers alley, about? they think it's a bunch of honky-tonk, they d

. benjamin franklin led a working man's revolt in pennsylvania. one of the only times there was an actual in the street pitch fork yielding mob in the american revolution demanding the right to vote for all men regardless of whether they owned property. franklin said today a man owns a jackass worth $50 and he is entitled to vote but before the next election the jackass dies and the man can't vote. who is the right of the suffrage? the man or the jackass? he may not have said jackass but that was the quote. throughout every step of the history, while some americans demanded their voice at the table and the right to expand democracy, others fought to hold them back then and now. john adams was a gast at the idea of expanding the right to vote to men without property. he was urged to do this in massachusetts and he said it a terrible idea. women will demand to vote and lads will think they are right and everyman will demand an equal voice. john adams said there will be no end of it. and he was right. that is a pretty good prediction of what happened over the next two centuries. the n

the pulitzer prize for his biography on franklin roosevelt and benjamin franklin, has written a book about the korean war to my face off between the unpopular president truman and the seemingly popular general douglas macarthur during the period when mccarthyism which is coming to the fore. the chinese had overrun korea and macarthur wanted to use nuclear weapons to stem the flow. truman disagreed and they had a titanic power struggle. this is one of those moments that is just as dangerous as the cuban missile crisis but not as well known. it cements the idea that civilians have control over the military. he took a principled stand and push back. there was a behind the scenes fight in congress which was republican dominated. again at great narrative historian who does all of his research, surrounded in deep textual research and then brought to vivid life by tremendous record these are the three books we're most excited about this all. >> host: you will see all the authors are booktv this fall. bill thomas is the editor and publisher of doubleday. thank you. >> booktv records hundreds

benjamin franklin, and their early founding fathers to have these secret ceremonies tuesday the only secret of the masons the you can get all that they want. >> philadelphia is elaborate to george washington but does that help keep this simple? trying to raise money. >> did other ordinate statutes influence them? >> no. that third was in the 1820s else looks like old-fashioned milk bottle made out of stone. you can see it. almost every city the have a huge equestrian square. there are 31 states in the union and he is the only american to have a state named after him. in their name after european royalty. so he is the most memorialize man. >> obviously it was filled with that question of where was built? >> yes. what they originally were thinking is where today it is in line with the capital and lincoln memorial it is 300 yards east of the line between the white house and in jefferson memorial. and every time i see a picture i want to do this. [laughter] but i didn't so now what you >> >> any other questions? >> how did they stay intact? if they are just pieces of stone and? >> a dimension i

groups over all of our long history. one more thing being from philadelphia, benjamin franklin, are steamed for her father was upset about the germans in 1780 philadelphia. there is this place called germantown. he said they are so clannish and they are not getting with the american program. going back to the earliest days of the republic, we identified the other and reviled them. >> to reset, there's a fascinating story about how guantÁnamo diaries got published. talk a little bit about hold the whole process works. >> share. my cocounsel for >> with mohamed ooh, they gave him a note that the military had provided to him and wish you had written many pages of his story. the months following that, we started to get letters from him, pieces of the diary. we have a full 400 pages of his story. under the system at guantÁnamo, everything a detainee rights is present to be classified and the only way his legal team can share with someone outside of business security clearance to senator clearance process. we attempted to do that and the government refuse to do it. the next seven years

benjamin franklin butler who were embarrassing in politics, riding their military career, and then five of these men who were officers become president of the united states. five of them. and two of them are assassinated. you and i know a whole lot about kennedy and lincoln but i suspect we know very little about garfield and mckinley. indeed, william mckinley, was probably the most popular president of his day, of any leader we have had in the white house. everybody loved big bill mckinley. he was napable, a -- amiable, a loving father, his wife suffered from epilepsy and he had her sitting next to him and if she had a seize sure he would lean over and put a napkin over her fate and then when the seizure was over he would pull the hand kerchief back and go on his way. there was no reason to -- i'm bag historian with a light touch. he was just -- there was no reason to kill him, and the man who shot him was an anarchist who believed to many poor people, and rich people were exploiting them and if he killed the leader of the rich people, it would be a blow, and the reaction to mckin

-time finalist for the pulitzer prize with franklin roosevelt and benjamin franklin has written a book about a moment in american history during the korean war a face-off between the unpopular president truman and nixon in the popular general douglas macarthur during the period when mccarthyism was coming and the chinese had overrun and macarthur wanted to use nuclear weapons to stem the flow and truman disagreed and they had a titanic power struggle. this is a moment that is just as dangerous though not as well-known. they also submit the idea that civilians have control of the military because it's unpopular, he pushed back and there was a behind the scenes fight in congress which was republican dominated. a great narrative historian who does all of this research, grounded in tact the research brought to vivid life by a tremendous writer. these are the three books we are most excited about. >> you will see all three authors on booktv this fall. bill thomas is the editor and publisher of doubleday. thank you. >> welcome to las vegas on booktv, located at the southern tip of nevada at