edward klein's new book about president obama. amateur barack obama in the white house is keeping the number one slot on the new york times list of best sellers for a second week but while the public seems to be embracing klein's exposee the media and "new york times" not so interested. why is that? >> might be that the new york times is not terribly interested in what ed klein has to say. >> no? >> that might hurt president obama. what is striking it the way the media trying to help the administration or even ignoring their own books. you think would have been available to people in the past and the washington post even downplayed that. normally on the front page and put it on page 6. >> according to amazon it as deeply the david moranes book a deeply reported generational biography teeming with fresh insight. masterfully drawn from hundreds of interviews and goes on and yet not getting a lot of attention. >> byron york did a great article about this comparing it to the book that came out about george bush called fortunate son th

edward klein's new book about president obama. amateur barack obama in the white house is keeping the number one slot on the new york times list of best sellers for a second week but while the public seems to be embracing klein's exposee the media and "new york times" not so interested. why is that? >> might be that the new york times is not terribly interested in what ed klein has to say. >> no? >> that might hurt president obama. what is striking it the way the media trying to help the administration or even ignoring their own books. you think would have been available to people in the past and the washington post even downplayed that. normally on the front page and put it on page 6. >> according to amazon it as deeply the dav book a deeply reported generational biography teeming with fresh insight. masterfully drawn from hundreds of interviews and goes on and yet not getting a lot of attention. >> byron york did a great article about this comparing it to the book that came out about george bush called fortunate son that has inf

that number one, edward klein argues that president obama is unfit for the presidency with his book the amateur. second is the greatest warrior by david limbaugh. in his book, mr. limbaugh because what he believes is president obama's want a republic. cheryl strayed recounts or 11-mile -- 1100-mile hike. followed by a book about a prisoner in world war ii. colin powell is that, with his

the amateur is it the title of the new book by new york times best selling author edward klein. he joins me now. great to have you here. [applause] >> let me start, because i know that there are going to be some people who say, okay, this ed klein guy writes a very negative book about barack obama, amateur, not prepared for the presidency because ed klein is a right wing fanatic on the fridge. your background is new york times writer, news week, new yorker, you've written for all of the publications last time i've checked aren't exactly considered right wing. >> that's right. >> did you have an agenda? i've been a reporter for 50 years and i decided that this was the a phenomenon that we decide today investigate. a guy who came out of nowhere, african-american senator who accomplished nothing, had no experience, somehow hypnotized millions of people into voting for him and gets into the white house and is the first time we've ever seen anything like this, amateur in the white house. to me, it was a great story, a story that needed to be told, because it had a direct impact on th

klein, "the passage of power" is number two. and "the president's club" co-written by nancy gibbs and michael duffy is at number 10 this week. they were featured on c-span's "q&a" program and the interview is available on our web site. coming up in a couple of minutes, we'll turn our attention to the euro and the future of the european economy with an expert from george mason university and later, mona yacoubian of the stimson center will be joining us to talk about the developing story in syria. but with the help of our partners at cox communications cable, all week long here on c-span 2 and c-span 3, book tv, a look at programming from american history tv and book tv, our look at wichita, kansas and it's featured all this weekend and the city itself is called the air capital of the world. lon smith is among those we talked to, the executive director of the kansas aviation about the early days of american aviation and why wichita, kansas has attracted so many aviation pioneers in the early 20th century and we're featuring wichi