problems we have done dvd is which focus on political prisoners in the united states broke we also do audio lectures with people who may be best known for their written books and have best-selling books what they have to say our various subjects of current events is equally important so we tried to prevent -- present the film the audio so people can explore the ideas whatever format is easiest. >> host: outside of dvd is and cds in regards to books you're putting out rethinking about putting books and other formats? as you talk about it digitization. >> guest: we don't have a choice in this matter. re-export everything as the

e-books there also published as a pd f and also in the various hand-held device which is the sony reader are the amazon kendall i do not expect them to catch on too widely but if you want them to catch on that is what we're doing. >> host: your the co-founder what does it take to start a publishing venture these days? >> guest: the simple answer isn't believable about station now dedication to work 20 hours straight to go without sleep of course, it takes a lot of money. being a non-traditional publisher of political literature we do not have a great deal of money. we do have a sustainer program called the friends of pm press friends pay $25 per month they get every release it is a great value because we do two

or three releases every month that way we have a sustainable pace we can count on to help out with the print cost. >> host: crapo para. >> >> thank you for coming up my name is pat hickey i am the reason you're here and i am here to share my book to shamelessly self promote it and read some things and take your questions and talk a little about this taco boy -- "tahoe boy" that we started the beginning and read you just the first paragraph. maybe that is enough.

finding happiness is hard to do even growing up in a picture-perfect paradise like lake tahoe is not easy. friends of mine got lost looking for in america is year round play ground. many went elsewhere a sojourning for their piece. i did two before i came back to find mine back home. maybe really that is all that needs to re-read by will find some other things. writing the book about tahoe is a metaphor like kansas was to dorothy in the "wizard of oz". there was no place for her like home if anybody was fortunate to grow up in lake tahoe the place mark twain calls the fairest place, to paraphrase on god's green earth, a very, very fortunate

to have grown appear but tahoe is more of a metaphor for the happiness i saw it in my life like each and every one of us hear. i have my 96 roll father here tonight and let me read you a little bit about the family that were early pioneers in the tahoe area. i had these marked so it was supposed to work. i will come back to its. let's forget that for the moment. one of the reasons i wrote to this book about my life was that it endearing 60 i happened to be married to an

asian wife who i am the recipient of an arranged marriage so that is something different. but in asian culture the year 60 represents the completion of a cycle and the beginning of the next phase of your life. i am hearing that and for me it was special to write about what had happened in my life up until that point* of reaching 60 and what it meant to me. one of the things that happened growing up at the lake i had an experience on a good friday at st. theresa's parish where i was a member as a catholic young person. i had an experience on good friday being an altar boy walking around the stations of across and i really wondered why jesus had to die or why the '60s song came up where he

said why do the good die young? the kennedy was added to that end i wondered at the time baby jesus should have been added. that led me too whether thoughts and i sat there in the pew of my church in the the -- as a 16 year-old and i wondered what would happen if i die? who would come to remember me? more than that i thought what would i say to those or had i said the things to those that i loved and cared for in my life i concluded i never had. so i guess one way it was an opportunity to say thank you for all of those people that cared for me that meant something in my life and writing a book like this gave me the opportunity to do just that. again than re-read just a little bit about the family that came to the carson valley

in the 1800's. from all accounts grandpa pact was enterprising cuss not foolish enough to remain good tour poor irish farmer knew there was the wise enough to become a land rich american richer instead he harvested ice out of the frozen dupont. you have seen it on television, the broad it is the one nba legend and charles barkley slices is pollen to the celebrity golf classic that hazard is the only distinction that i know of that both sir charles and my grandfather first ads incessant labor grow another highest in and mark twain roughing it a over friday's station and served as a pony express station four snowshoer thompson and his beleaguered

mail carriers as well as a place for grandpa pat to get a back door plate of irish stew from sister maggie park. one more word about my grandfather i said no one can say for sure my grandfather was used as a model for the 1930 the iceman cometh but he did resemble the central character in two important ways. he loved to talk and he loved to drink but not necessarily in that order. so my irish relatives are giggling and resonating with that one. later in life i went to boarding school in the '60s at berkeley which was a wild place to send a guy like me in the middle of the '60s. in 64 i went away to st. mary's college a number of tahoe parents ascend the firstborn rails there from -- 27 from discourage of

public education it was too early to know madonna was a product of a catholic high school. the school was all boys all the time it would cement and there was constant thoughts about imaginary girls broke other things that happen at a boarding school makes you long for things that you don't have like a car with no female contact. once per year the ladies of the nearby st. joseph's school would grace the gym with their presence we would act as if it was no big deal but secretly each freshman border was after shaving his brains out in anticipation with a dance encounter with other than the 27 year-old friends. that was boarding school that led to other things. i came back with all of the friends from tahoe. the "tahoe boy" model is get in fights at the legion hall

with of valley boys hour associated press came up and probably tangled the back of the day. we were invited to come back to salt do st. mary's i returned to south tahoe this is about life that south tahoe high school. spring baseball was more like a combination of ice hockey and mud wrestling abandon the national pastime. for early season practices the team would head to the desert east of carson city they're rival dust devils would lend us equipment for play. after the day's scrimmage requirements and the back of a pickup to go jackrabbit hunting but no one before after the great daniel boone has managed to shoot a jackrabbit with anything other than a shotgun.

you should not be surprised that anyone in our bunnies safari did not produce intended results but fortunately depending on how you view such matters there were other nearby adventures in the desert waiting for us. one of the senior outfielders as a just a truth or dare session at the moonlight ranch. for those, i will skip about the brothel although you know, about nevada's second most famous vice but making contact and pour attempts psat man humor most of the team watched as dalliance turned over their dollars to the madam inside that trailer. names have been forgotten to protect the innocents that was lost. but for the question and answer session. names have fed forgotten to protect the innocents that was lost. one boy confessed the captives oxon during the mostly sordid

affair a metaphor for purity now breached his white sox were a remnant of the decency even a $10 lake could not remove. enough of that. maybe it is a tell-all book maybe i should say i am running for office i will run for reelection again for everything is out there because a republican, have to have an affair these days. and i love my wife much too deeply. i don't know what is happening to the republicans. maybe it is something in the water. i did run for office in the state of nevada scrub was a citizen legislature that serve one term and was done. i guess many thought that is the way it should be. some stayed and took care of business but i was a flash in the panel. one of the reasons i quit double bounce around you will have to buy the book to get it in chronological order i came to the conclusion while our

four children were all teenagers that somebody could probably fill my seats in the assembly but not my shoes as a father. i turned my back on the assembly after many good experiences and a few frustrating once but have the honor of doing it anyway here in nevada. for those who are not from here we all admire mark twain the best thing he ever said about the legislature is it needs every two years for 60 days he said nevada would be better served if they match every 60 years for today is. that was true 130 years ago i do have a good face for the radio so rush limbaugh to i had known in a small market i talk about him going about

going to washington for the first time but i got to report on nevada and its quirky characters. one negative have the privilege of reporting on this one. one such story on may 14, 1992 when i reported that god almighty had filed for office. the radio report said many americans are happy that h. ross perot has stepped down of the corporate ladder to run for president but one individual from reno is about to top him. if he is to he says he is then u.s. senator harry reid may be about to meet his maker. that is right god almighty has filed to run for his senate seat in case you're wondering he is a democrat. 56 rolled he was allowed by nevada state law to file and the name he was commonly used

by and he had a faithful follows ship the people called him god almighty i editorialize a bit and i say no one has us to wonder or one house to wonder what god almighty will think of a vote or none of the above which is another option in nevada but why would you want to join the u.s. senate with 99 others who already think they are him? [laughter] this fight of my higher connections i never could get annette interview with god almighty. the last thing i will tell you this is my marriage i did have a unique background in my married life and a very happy one. we all like to think we found a match made in heaven. mind was all but the show little more liberal because i

believe in a certain person who we really thought was arranging our marriage and have been and i was a participant in that affair that many of you watched on television with 2,000 couples stressed that madison square garden. i was among those. but let me tell you how i met my beloved wife. i matter for the first time on top of a garbage heap in the basement of the boston sheridan the thanksgiving holiday weekend of 1978 reverend moon was a close to your conference by pitcher matching. she had a lot of faith. [laughter] he had just completed the men engaged to career women had only one thing on our minds. the colonel was the translator brought the envelopes from career with photographs and

letters in between the guys were trying to ambush him to see the woman who would be the eternal made. i rates did for the right moment the evening of the vip events after the transmitter came back to his room i agree 210 anxiously and went into his room and he said all of the manila envelopes are there and find yours there was a bunch. but no pat hickey and he said i don't know where it is i am sure i brought it. he had no idea where it was but i did what effect have fallen off of the dresser and the made it made the mistake of throwing it away? after having some experience as eight dae from my dad's

garbage business unfortunately he did not keep it but i knew the facility as modern probably had the garbage chutes to dump the discarded waste. i went down to the front desk and explained my situation to the night manager who was already befuddle from the request to smuggle stuff into the us three he summoned a security guard they took me down to the basement and i began my pilgrimage through the garbage in search of true love. how about that? they could make a reality show on the asperger after rummaging for two hours i spotted the corner of an envelope protruding from the bag saying a prayer at the moment of our introduction i open the bag and found the manila folder with my name on it tears mingled with garbage stains at exactly to 58:00 a.m. on the morning of

november 25, 1978, i saw her for the first time. i swear she was there with me in spirit which is primarily how we would conduct our court ship for the next four years of our engagement. years later we were together in chicago with the reverend moon he visited the city and joking with me to be too close for my spouse it was a problem in the early days where they kept their young in part by keeping them chase. abstinence does make the heart and other body parts fonder. i said since he had arranged my marriage and the first place i said he has no one to blame but himself. he laughed and and i escaped judgment for the meantime growth enough reading. thing keogh

[applause] coming back from a finding the piece and happiness that we all seek and living on both sides the secular and the sacred point* of politics and religion. i am grateful i was part of the old religion, the catholic tradition and i am grateful to both has been a great experience for me and my family and my children who grew up in a unification family and went to catholic schools and reverend moon is said to start a charge -- church here there are too many so we sent our kids to catholic school so we have day makes and match shake and bake marriage of face and everything else but at this point* i would like to thank you and open it up for a little dialogue we have a couple members of the press you would like to watch me

squirmed but who has a question about the book or about me? >> [inaudible] >> i expected that question. the funny answer with every joke there is truth was to explain to my four kids why they have such a crazy old man. but more than that i wanted to bring a certain clarity to the first part of my life, for me, right thing always allowed me to see myself in ways that maybe i did not observe fourth get a perspective on. i was left to right growing up and maybe some people do not get around to doing one but i had the time and a cabin and a supportive wife and i am pleased to say my kids have enjoyed it in spite of all of the shocking things they

suspected and confirmed about me in reading the book so that was very fulfilling. i am glad to share my experiences i think a lot of people who grew up in the '60s that have read the book so far it brought up a lot of memories for them and i feel somewhat successful that people found their own memories as well. thank you. >> how long did it take to write the book? >> it took me about three years. i had a laptop, went fishing and we have a little cabin that got me away from things. the hardest part of writing a book is reading it and rewriting it before it gets to the editors. not so much writer's block but

a et if you write about yourself along the way for it pretty sure you get sick of yourself. and i experience that why am i writing about myself? who wants to know yes i am a first-time author writing about himself. i am not sure who is interested. but that is how long it took me. >> what time of the day [inaudible] >> i would say late at night when as a 58 year-old i do not sleep as well as i used to it and i would get up and get some clarity and some quiet. and i would rights. one of the things i did probably for the first three months i just wrote down memory is in no chronological order and visited from time to time when all is said and done

most of those things were in their. we all have a selective memory some people said i did not include everything i probably chose some things and is regarded the rest i am sure i disregarded things that maybe did not put me in such a flattering lights buds i put sunday in their to embarrass myself but nighttime was a good time but you have to read and rewrites for it to be acceptable bryophyte ever get around to it it would be about somebody else i like to write a biography. >> do you keep a journal throughout much of your life? >> writers are famous for doing that and people would be

inspired and they are told to keep a journal but i did not. i kept one upstairs it was more mental and memories a but i think one should of their serious about writing. >> desert any truth to the rumor you're writing a second book? >> my soul mates made to -- she is capable of writing her own book but that is up for her to do. >> did this completes a mission that you had in life or do you feel it is the beginning of a new stage in

your life you have other books that are not your own personal memoir? >> this was not so much a mission but somehow i was compelled to get it out of me and to write it. i do enjoy and i guess i will find out if i have enough schools for others to enjoy it enough to warrant to me to write something else. i really don't have something in mind but i would rather read about somebody else for sure this next time. there is no sequel. i don't know what it would be. didn't make the movie? we would love that. they ever want to make a

beautiful movie think of how nice the background would be. that is streaming at the best. one book that i read that was made into a movie is out in the country? what was that? it into the while. we visited alaska and saw the bus where he died if you saw the movie and it was a great interesting book it was not really his story but a bunch of stories like him searching it was a great movie made by sean penn but it was kind of sad. i think there are stories with better endings i am not sure mine is its but i don't think all movies have to end with somebody finally finding it like to men but the so far out of touch he dies on the bus before he can get back to

enjoy his life. i would be happy if somebody wants to make something out of it but i'm not counting on its. >> so much has changed since you're a kid like in the newspaper business some of the catholic church, when you write a memoir [inaudible] did it clarify that? >> yes i say in the first line of the book finding happiness is hard to do but fast forward to the end but after all finding happiness is good to do but happiness for me meant being able to return home as a prodigal son my dad would

concur you welcome to back after an unusual sixties life we heard parts of but coming back home and finding the love of the of home, family, guaranteeing one of the chapters in the book after being so religious i said becoming a father and finding god. to me know traditional unorthodox religion can compare with the experience of guaranteeing if god is something like love or the father that our jesus prayed about that means being a parent gives you the birthday experience to share that in common with the divine as much as any other earthly experience. the greatest thread was to come home with family, children, have the opportunity to live with them to be a bigger and better% from what they'd learned to

love and have a life of that has complemented my life. those are the things i think you find happiness and for those of us in the '60s we rebelled against many of the values of our parents but i am so grateful to have come back and found the things they thought were most important which are love, family, the children, a community and natured to return to tahoe, the smells, the sounds the place is that of a visited with old friends. and adjust to reconnect. those are timeless pro. >> when you left your cousin

always ask about you where you were but no one really knew. because a great concern because i had a dream of us getting closer in that period of time. and then with the marriage then as the kids come into the cars and ballet i have a real estate office there they sell flowers and books and paintings and whenever but i would say did you happen to be somewhere in this state where you ran into 39? i would love to see him.

some people ase mitel came on and others were what are you talking about? somewhere there is a connection that came through. i am happy you are here. it was great. it was that i read sentiment that we have got a. >> thank you for the sentiments and welcoming back the prodigal son like the father in your case the cousin has welcomed me back. there is a line in the book on my way to have been i put my family and parents of through hell. there is a lot of truth to that. but home is something new is wanted to return i took the reverend literally he talked about home town and i did it.

i was so happy to reconnect there were others i have lost touch that i have regained contact and i think the book will call me to do that. >> i really enjoyed [inaudible] the going through this and reading about all of this to answer the great questions of life [inaudible] >> that is one of the ironies of life i have had some a question some degree seeker then i thought i had all the

answers. the ironic thing was i had two sons that never asked any of those questions when i was ready to tell them. [laughter] that is the irony of life. right? i should say this. i have a lot more questions than i do have answers these days and that is probably healthier. i think we probably need to retire over to the book signing since our good friends that c-span have so much time for this. maybe one more question if somebody wants to get one and? then we will do some book signing? if not? thank you very much. i wanted my wife to come up. i have written about the beautiful picture. she has a great kodak face. [applause] this is the mother of our four beautiful children and my

wife. thank you. and my 96 year old father is here to why write about in the book and you will get a kick out of them if you think i am a wild child i am a chip off of the old block. thank you very much and i do appreciate it. thank you for coming. >> pat hickey was a leader of the unification movement from 1973 through 1992 for the next 10 years he was a political reporter and columnist at several media outlets in nevada. he also served two years in that nevada state assembly eighth. for more information visit tahoeboy.net. >> the publishing imprint 12 publishes 12 books per year. publicity director at 12 what is some of the books you have coming out and later 2009? >> this summer we're

publishing the waxman report in july. it is a look at the landmark legislation the congressmen has been involved with with tobacco, clean air, nutritional labels and he explains how coalitions are built on how you collect votes and of course, the congressmen has a couple of big bills this summer. >> host: did you approach him or did he eight approach to? >> guest: our publisher approached the congressmen and said he would be the perfect person to explain how congress work and "atlantic monthly" has written him and he has done a fantastic job. >> host: another book? >> he has lived a fairly phenomenal life born in 1926 raised by greek immigrants went through the depression era in nebraska and worked at his father's diner.

he was secretary of commerce for nixon and comment chairman and ceo of lehman brothers and also co-founded the blackstone group and here we are and he has a bird's-eye view of this is that few people would have. >> host: to our these authors? >> a journalist and writer the number one seller of what should i do with my life? they have taken of a look, a cultural look the way we raise children. they have discovered there are key twist that science has overlooked and research shows conventional wisdom of raising kids is all wrong. they won a national magazine award for a piece on praise. turns out that if you praise your children gives them confidence but overpraising

your children the study show will in fact, make your children less inclined attempt to do things they don't think they're good and furthermore more inclined to cheat. there are chapters on siblings, a gifted programs come attesting for private schools it turns out the testing for gifted programs they do in kindergarten and for private schools they have retested these kids three or four years later and they found they have misplaced these kids a 73% of the time three years later they have developed differently and a different rates and some of the kids should not be in a program they are in. >> host: is it risky in today's economy to only published 12 books per year. >> guest: i think it makes a lot of sense because we put all of our energy marketing an editorial on one books for a full month without distracted by another campaign and we can be creative not just published

one way by publishes several ways one example would be the wire in your life. on one hand he is the world's leading authority on deception he is the chair of behavioral science at university of massachusetts and he has written this book he went to the national archives and that he thought he would listen to the nixon tapes and he discovered that even the experts could not tell when nixon was being truthful. it is not about your bernie madoff for it clinton in that lies that on average we tell eight -- three lies every 10 minutes nice to see you. you look good. i feel well. the more we're told the moral level increases clinically

depressed people have more accurate use of the cells than that strong people who want to maintain their ambition. it is not just about the small acts but also how to handle lies in the office and in the bedroom and that the dinner table. we've published this as a psychology but, of the book about business, about becoming more of asserting yourself. >> host: how far in advance to you plan you're 12 books per year? >> guest: we have acquired, we have a schedule through next august. we have august 2010. we're starting to think about the following fall. not all many skiers have been delivered but we know what is coming up. there is some great stuff coming up next year. >> host: as the editor what do you do? >> guest: 90% of my job is

promoting the book but i also have the opportunity to added to one book per year. i edited one novel last summer i am working on a one it book right now from producer jerry weintraub but i look at those that come and i will weigh in on the proposals are publisher is reading and let him know whether i think we can spend a full month promoting this book. that is what we're thinking about not just great riding but a singular book which there are not other books like in the market but also is as a writer and a us object we can focus on for a full month beyond coverage? >> host: 12 books.com is the website.

>> the younger brother of president nixon gives a look at the only president to resign from office he also share pieces of the nixon family life previously and revealed to the public. it originally aired on "washington journal" and is a 50 minutes we went to welcome edward nixon and the nixon family portrait thank you for being with us. >> host: why this book and why now? >> guest: this question always comes up. it was in my mind for a long time. i have my brother who is two years older or two years younger was pretty close to the end of his life and he had not hodgkins lymphoma which got him one year later he said you have to write this book i cannot finish it.

but we have to straighten out the story and get those innuendos in place and give us the right facts. it began but it took a long time to get it going. >> host: let me read a couple of exurbs but first of all use a dick was the most self disciplined person i have ever known >> guest: i think that is altogether right on target because he was so affected by his older brother harold when he passed away. i was three years old when harold died. and arthur was gone five years before i was born so here he has two brothers and tough times. and the depression years is just about where i began and he really sought to find an