the miami book fair concludes with author michael moore at 6 p.m. eastern time, you can watch that at booktv.org. well, one more call-in segment on booktv on c-span2 coming up, and that's with jim lehrer. recently, mr. lehrer sat down for our "after words" program with gloria of cnn to talk about "tension city." here's a little bit of video, then we'll be back live with mr. lehrer. >> guest: presidential debates have become the only time with with -- where the candidates, usually two, sometimes three, are on the same stage at the same time talking about the same things. and they come usually in october with the election pretty close, maybe a month or only a month or less away. the polls show that in up in probably 90% or more of the people have already made a decision as to who, for whom they're going to vote. but for whom they're going to vote decision, some of them are leaning, some of them are not, and mostly what they want to do, the issues are pretty much on the table, and people have decided whether they're in favor of lock boxes for social se

chat -- jeht mahal to talk about herblock you may remember her at the national book festival and then jim lehrer will be speaking in chapman hall as well and in the miami book fair 2011 concludes with author michael moore at 6:00 p.m. eastern that is

another chance to hear jim lehrer talk about the presidential debates and finally, the miami book fair international concludes with michael moore and that will be webcast of the teeth did or or you can watch of mine. two ways to watch. you can watch you can watch several author of s or go to the website for the full schedule. randall kennedy sat down for our after-hours program interviewed about his newest book the persistence of the color line we'll show you a small portion then we will be back live as he will take your calls. >> guest: i think barack obama has satisfied realistic expectations. some people truly did have unrealistic expectations in some people who were swept up to have a who put an end. >> host: they thought he was a savior. >> absolutely. the sense that the day after he was sworn and there would be a new blank page in everybody would be completely different. as he filled that? no. but that was not even expectation if we talk about black america, i think most black americans actually had a more realistic notion to recognize number one that what he was inheriting was t

chat -- jeht mahal to talk about herblock you may remember her at the national book festival and then jim lehrer will be speaking in chapman hall as well and in the miami book fair 2011 concludes with author michael moore at 6:00 p.m. eastern that is nine booktv.org as well. one of the co-founders is ms. caplan and he joins us now on our set. how did this get started and when? >> this is the 28 the book fair and it was started because the president of miami-dade college called a number of us together in an attempt to bring life back to downtown miami was suffering from rough economic times and it is thought if we could bring literary culture to downtown we might be able to unite the community at the same time to bring some focus. >> host: the owner of books & books and your invited to participate. >> we had been opened two years. will be open and 30 years. >> host: what was a festival like 1982. >> the first was 1984 as a two day festival but even then we had significant authors, even allen ginsberg came the thing that was so heartening was when you thought of miami back in 1984 you did n