nancy, good morning. >> caller: you stole my thunder. >> host: what to do like about the book, nancy? elko it outlined the constitution and that tierney that is going on brain now in america, the liberal assault on the constitution. and they just outlined a page by page, word by word. caller: not one. host: what made you pick up the book? caller: i saw it on the "the new york times" list. host: thank you for all of your calls. there is more online. we have a great lineup this weekend.

every weekend [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the book was written, and then the paperback was done. then contemporary learning. turned it into a teaching tour

of colleges. it has taken as two years to get it, really. we have it ready to be launched with the academic year 2010. the website is interactive. television, voices, books, references, and somebody else created. i do a lot of speaking for it. [inaudible] >> yeah. yeah. just incredible. he is a remarkable man. i was so praised being involved with him. he did not read the book when it came out. somebody bought or he bought it. he stuck it on a shelf and then just fooling around having a cup of coffee saw this book and said, what the hell is that. he picked it up. but into enough of it. oh, so good of you to do this.

>> pleasure. pleasure. >> how are you enjoying? >> very much. very much. i've learned when we were reading your book, we grew up. >> nice to meet you. >> are you a reporter? >> i'm not. >> what are you? >> i'm a writer. >> fiction? >> no, i do magazine stuff. i mean, i'm not reporting here. >> i didn't mean that. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> you know, this morning. [inaudible conversations] here's to you and your writing career. okay.

>> hi, welcome. how are you? >> i'm carl gibson's significant other. it is so nice to see you. well, exactly. it is more of car crashes. a few white-knuckle moments. it is always fun. you know about that. >> yeah, you know, i do with i'm told. carl is very much, well, we have done a few things together. i'm forget to write people. she is amazing. >> very special. she had this morning. given who you live with. welcoming he is my doctor, too, too, you know. congratulations on your book.

i'm going to get you to sign. [inaudible conversations] >> it is -- i have done the most writing. >> isn't that part of the program. you just turning them. >> i was always apprehensive. that was a publisher. >> right. >> i know what a book writer does and a reporter and all that. what is he doing next. >> too much. one of these days i would love ticket your ideas on how this whole business has changed so much in the last 5-10 5-10 year. would not believe it. >> it has changed for the best. the good is that you can get print. so the digital book companies. that, in essence, will with

newspapers certainly so much. >> right. >> it's good. >> well, we can. at any rate i don't want to. >> no. >> congratulations. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> keep him going. keep him going. [inaudible conversations] >> hey, can i welcome you? >> british american. >> oh, you are? >> a government issue per se as much. try to understand what can the business we do. when, and i think you're a

talking about the july 4th speel. that was an unfortunate misunderstanding. just how important the trade is. as a corporation. so with the technology transfer obviously, my, god. you can't do this is your organization is overseas. it is a misunderstanding. [inaudible conversations] >> somewhat areas not all the congressmen understand. as a country we have not really brought our own.

so still a firm that was going to run it. nothing really changed on the surface. >> i'm sorry? >> the democratic congress is not any different from a republican controlled congress. >> i don't think there are going to be as effective. >> protectionism. >> absolutely, which makes absolutely no sense. for years the democrats, the way they describe it, when bush, when w. was elected the democrats went nuts. they lost their minds. and so for years there has been so much passion and hatred

against w. >> absolutely. >> is started a lot of adjustment. some good things were kind of passed on, you know. >> right. and now that they are in power what we are seeing is brewed force. >> is really is. >> very optimistic. less optimistic today. but, as you say, i'd think personally with that congress do too much. we have elevated expectations.

>> we did. >> to be fair. >> the expectations. >> that's very true. read there. >> thank you. thank you. >> welcome. >> nice to see you. >> i worked at homeland security. >> what do you think about the fort hood? >> i'm sorry?

>> fort hood. >> absolutely terrible what happened down there. >> yes. very tragic. >> very. >> one of my friends was based at fort hood. she was there when it all happened. >> well, one of your jobs. i'm holding you responsible. hello. nice to meet you. >> paula gordon. >> of course. so dramatic. gordon. >> this is my wife. >> thank you very much. brian kelly and misses kelly, a fantastic group. influence around the nation's.

>> very kind, indeed. >> always wanted a program seven years ago. >> i went down there. you asked all the right questions, even the difficult ones. it was tough to get away. >> it was a wonderful experience. we'll have to repeat it. >> wow, we will. >> i work for newsweek. >> well, never mind. >> the magazine is covered. >> we are very diversified. a very smart career decision. thriving business. >> well, western electronics. >> well, you are an electronic. i love it. [inaudible conversations]

>> you have a new book, if i am to believe the press called "my paper chase: true stories of vanished times". you, sir, are an editor, former editor of two of the critics is peppers in the world, sunday times, times of london. you are old enough to remember the madarine empire. [laughter] and yet you don't read this book until you are 81 years old. did you not accomplish anything until your late 70's? >> i had to have a life. i couldn't very well as bring it out with a newspaper in my hands. >> very tough on your mother? >> what i spent my life doing was writing and editing newspapers and books. don't forget to every story,

every night, you have to have a climax. now the climax is tonight. i'm on the colbert report. >> my book ok is available at fy local bookstores at a ridiculously cheap price. we still don't reflect the blood, sweat, tears, toe, and sacrifice. [laughter] >> one of the best parts. >> i like him. he makes me laugh like hell. give up giving a chimney sweep. >> you raise to every occasion. >> thank you. >> sir harold, well, somebody to call the bleep that is rush limbaugh.

>> what i don't like about editors, sir, it is just, isn't it? so you are just telling people what they can and cannot print in this newspaper. why should i let a newspaper or an editor like you filter what i get to hear when i can go to sm69 on her blog page. >> somebody like rush limbaugh is telling you about a global warming. don't you want somebody to print the truth alongside all the bullshit. [laughter] >> embarrassing. >> would you said was for rush limbaugh. >> and the whole crowd. and the whole crowd. >> i've lost my virginity.

the price didn't think he could get away with it. >> although, you know, millions of as well. >> a great reporter. can i meet these people. come here. come here. i want to meet these two people. come forward. come forward. this is paula gordon, major media star in atlanta throughout the nation. david yang is president, the emperor, the king. and john berry is one of of the greatest reporters who ever refused to accept my -- no. he was the star of the sunday times. >> wow, i must tell you but i have taken a sneak peek and read the book. >> good. >> real money. i'm not used to that.

and used to people sending my books. >> i'm side. i should have done it. >> well worth it. >> more than the index. >> the been very kind and nice. >> good. >> okay. >> john is a fantastic ryder. i can tell you hundreds of stories about him. now, but when the french, 1968 they had trouble getting in. a flood of paragraphs. we did eight states, 12 pages. the whole bloody lot together. i am never forget it. i don't think i've ever done

that myself. >> what i remember is that one of my reporter's do is is centric, he on the flight into paris, i'm sorry, not joe cared, william. he was dressed in a business suit. he had a large. he said tommy would you like. one that i know that is a revolutionary situation. >> alex. >> he is the publisher. >> yes. >> the trouble as i recall. >> yes. >> of laps of thanks to.

>> this is market stuff. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] >> getting on so well with the website. i am waiting now. and when that is done i can't put energy into. >> e-mail. >> no. i have no. i have absolutely no energy until i have gotten rid of everything. i did six. that was up at 6:00 this morning working on. >> no problem. >> i will do it. >> i know.

>> and searching. going back to bloomberg. >> right. >> sensitive. >> right. >> i'm so glad to see you again. >> yes. >> have a great admirer of yours. >> of feel like a dinosaur. >> i know i'll miss it up. i want to have a beautiful photograph. >> i might. i would insert about that. you give me an idea and i might >> collectibles. >> yap. >> we have got you back. >> congratulations. >> i might see you tomorrow. >> we are just testing. >> perry, it is nice to meet

you. you can't carry that. >> staying. to be fresh tomorrow morning. >> i never sleep anyway. i'm glad to be doing this. re-entering c-span. >> national. >> yes. >> thank you very much, indeed. >> here is this how to? i am going to say something here. >> i want to introduce you to somebody. john barry he said that major books where prospective. a huge controversy. i am sure you will like it, actually. he is here, and i'm going to

sure you. >> i am very interested to talk with you about your perspective on where you're going to my particular with regard to the changing business model. >> i'm not allowed to talk about that. he knows all the answers. >> tells of a great story of the going tough harvard. i don't need you. i can tell all i need on youtube. >> that's right. remember that. >> had to take it out. anyway, here is to ireland. >> this week. >> yes. i have got the best. >> that is wonderful. >> one-third irish, one-third in this command one-third welch. >> well, the irish have a lot of

sympathy for the welsh. if they had been able to this time they would be irish. >> is that a book? you can't the of the book without me signing it. >> i've got one. >> i'll sign it. two shall i make it out to. >> i will tell you that secretary powell is wondering a around looking for you. >> well, i have got to find him. name. >> trevor. >> very nice to meet you. >> how are you? >> work with harold.

>> hi. very nice to see you. [inaudible conversations] est. >> a gridlock. >> where is colin powell? i want to introduce you to my wife. very important. in the content. >> oh, wonderful. >> how wonderful. [inaudible conversations] >> he is here somewhere. there he is. okay. >> i've been looking for you.

>> nice to see you. >> how are you doing, harold? >> you know, the publication of this book. why haven't you aged as well? photographing. >> congratulations. >> thanks for helping so much. >> anything i can do. it's my pleasure. believe it. i know. [inaudible conversations] >> the just want to. they are recovering. >> give them some tamiflu, and they are fine.

are you going to give a speech? >> yes, in less than five minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you for being here. thank you for being here. >> it's an honor. an honor. >> really. the first drink. >> from earliest days. >> it's good seeing you again. >> am so glad you're here. [inaudible conversations] >> i know you are. i'm very excited for that. [inaudible conversations] >> is it as good?

[inaudible conversations] >> i don't know. and the stand. [inaudible conversations] i am not attaching with many people. i have done murdoch. >> my good friend. it is good to see you. congratulations on your new book. >> thank you. >> very positive. >> the guys knew me. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

>> constantly. torture in northern ireland. test some bit of wake up. >> war stories. >> yes. >> i see it every day. >> i've liked working there. >> with the kevin you there. >> nice to meet you. >> very nice to meet you. very nice. >> i know. >> very nice to meet you. it's very nice. >> this is my husband, allan. >> oh. [inaudible conversations]

>> we are going to talk later. and just couldn't decision over there. people want me to sign books. >> right. you have got to speak. >> i have got to speak now. >> very nice to meet you. >> thank you. >> i just spoke to donald. >> is a lawyer. came over. though, he did. i have bad news for him. >> yeah. >> is that all right? >> i would be. well, keep it from my wife. >> i will be on that. at one that does not tell your .

>> really. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome. i'm delighted to see you all here at the british embassy. and a special welcome to harold evans. we at the embassy are delighted to be participating in the the launch of harry's book "my paper chase: true stories of vanished times". the book covers a huge amount of ground from harry's childhood in the northern ireland and for a time, you want to know this, living a few hundred yards from where the jury the of later grew up. then on to his professional career as a journalist and editor, publisher, and author. but this isn't just another autobiography. this is also a biography of the newspaper industry over many,

many significant decades. the book describes that almost industrial process of producing newspapers over really the best part of the last century. now, all of that to has vanished. but the book is decidedly not. mark twain said and not an editor of a newspaper. alistair to do right and be good. harold evans is 14 year tenure as the editor of the times and then for a year as the editor of the times of london produced work of really extraordinary defined standards. in 2001 journalists named in the greatest british newspaper editor of all times. he championed the review of the

book in the new york times, a crusading style of journalism in which he afflicted the guilty and championed the innocent. and people of my generation got interested in national and international policy and very often did so because of the sunday times time because of its flair, cultural, and investigative zeal. but it is also a trans-atlantic story. i read the other day during the second world war in manchester. 1956 began a lifelong association. tee and tina have the cure for nearly 30 years. we were her contemporaries. she had a knack of stopping the traffic just as she has done here ever since. perry's american carrier to a camp to u.s. news when world report. a number of other top

publications. publishing and writing in fitting the award winning the american century. now, you are both now american citizens. i'm not holding that against you. you retained extraordinarily close links with the u.k. this embassy and i wish the book every success. it is a remarkable story. ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming sir harold evans. [applauding] >> i can't be elevated. i have to lower this. thank you so much for this excellent words. it is always good to come back to britain, which is where we are, british territory, you understand. not to get through the formalities of proving and hemet which is what happens, of course, when you go through any security. nigel is so lucky.

lived very close to me. he is lucky because we never met. [laughter] who knows what might have happened if i have met their gorgeous julia who became a scientist and ended up in the net to states. tonight really it should be a celebration, not of me, frankly, but of the reporting. that is what my book is about. it is about what newspapers can achieve, not what an editor can achieve, but what the reporters on the ground can achieve. that is why amputate the the honored tonight to have been bradley here who represents gentlemen at his best and many other eporters.

what is best is going on at the moment. few people apart from they read every newspaper everyday. so provides that guide as well. so celebrating reporting means actually, which all of us know what reporting is. news is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress. everything else is advertising. of course anyone would know the truth of that. when i was writing this book of wasn't really -- what i got nostalgic for, especially in these times when people are questioning what it might do.

what i was able to achieve was not by me. it was by these reporters. so when we were campaigning for victims who were bombed without arms and very often without armed and legs on government approved prescriptions. we won a great battle. and by the way, a dual citizenship. i don't know if that is going to make it difficult for me now. we were able to do that because the reporters in question actually studied the chemistry. i remember going along and seeing the molecular structure. and frankly nobody had done it. nobody had thought how the disaster occurred. ralph nader is here tonight and was a tremendous support in that campaign. a lot of you were supportive in all these campaigns. the d.c.-10 air disaster.

the largest air crash in the world at the time. congress began to invest. so the truth about what happened to create that terrible disaster was left to the press, and i'm proud of what the reporters on that particular story did. take another one, i'm sure boy. straight reporting is very important. very difficult. and we found it team was a great way to do it. a lot of the things i am very proud that the paper achieved was to bring some kind of

understanding of the history and the currents of what was going on in northern ireland. and john berry who is here tonight, the head of the in said team and his team working through some of this difficult introspective scum of fantastic reports. also when i was prosecuted by the ira, which i was for protesting some of their members stealing money, i would go to belfast. it was unfortunate that the time. took a wrong turn. to get down. and i got out. it reminded me of what the report calls were doing every ry day. that is what we are here to celebrate tonight. i have seen it happen. really the reporting is being squeezed out of existence often

by people. so a reporter or newspaper get into that. so i think we have to keep reminding everybody that journalism is not dead. delivery vehicles will change, and so it must change. said that is very important. have always been very grateful that my ground gave me the time to try and set out what a newspaper can do, not just the sunday times, what did newspapers can do everywhere. we are here tonight, very distinguished. my new in the 1960's. he went back and has created a most wonderful publishing empire, television and investigation. absolutely central to the concept of a new democracy is the press. so when we drink tonight let's

drink to reporting. thank you very much, indeed, all of you for coming tonight. [applauding] >> what's left of it around. >> i know. i know. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i am still pleased. colin powell. thank you very much. okay. thank you very much. hey. >> i was margaret paulson's producer at cnn. i enjoyed your conference last week. >> you were there?

>> i was. >> a great job. it is deborah, isn't it? >> yes, deborah. [inaudible conversations] >> i wasn't able to make it to the dinner at your home. conrad. >> it is. [inaudible conversations] >> quite right. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> you look absolutely. are you taller than am i? this man, he used to be a journalist. >> i know. >> you are so great. i'm really honored the

here. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> tina is here. >> what? >> she was looking for you. [inaudible conversations] >> all three of them. >> come on. come around. >> i didn't mention it. you a ride. >> all three of us. survivors. good to see you, ralph. [inaudible conversations] >> i put what i truly believe. >> a good review? >> yes. >> also in the chicago

sun-times. you knows sidney. >> never met him. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> so good to see you. [inaudible conversations] >> i love that. >> i didn't. [inaudible conversations] >> i didn't intend to show. [inaudible conversations]

>> for more information on harold evans and his work visit sirharoldevans.com. >> seventeen years old thoroughbred arab cross. wonderful, wonderful horse. my mother bred horses. i have always liked horses. this website.up around 6:30. i am in oregon city. he puts this set up, the material up at about 730. so about 630 and discussed, you know, what stories might go up on the side. we talk about what is going on and what people seem to be interested and, the big events in the world. then jeffrey gets the site of

somewhere between 60 and eight. so it is a busy time. i do columns. i do counterpunch material. columns. won since 1964. add to that every second tuesday. a syndicated column. then we are usually working on a couple of books for counter punch press which really, the dog, the get command the birds actually write everything for me. we try and keep quiet about that. >> could dictation here. >> come on. sit down. good boy. now. your miserable life as a dog. i like. some writers like no noise. i like animals. they don't criticize. and most all listed that.

as soon as you start talking for radio they drag you out. so anyway, that takes me through the morning editing for the books that we are doing. two or three book projects. but in the middle of all this because i like to garden and i have forces, i'm running around and and building things. kind of lurches forward through the day. we call this the cider house. we put this up three or four years ago. a very old technique of ramming earth down. i like thinking about things other than writing. i like to build. this is a square building going into a down going. >> the evening. unless i have to do something for and on to. of course england is eight hours for word. we have got to get something

done to someone's desk by eight in the morning you can do it until late at night. that is the shape of my day. i spend a lot of time passing on the telephone to three or four people. in olympia, washington. does the editing on the books. >> our business operations are run right here by becky granted. incredible efficiency, of course. we started thinking that we were publishing a newsletter. we wanted to keep in a more current form. our web stuff does not go away. it is all somehow in the vast black hole of internet communications. probably all ending up in

government archive. but we felt we wanted to put them in hard cover. we had done a whole bunch of articles about, you know, this idea of israel or an anti-semite which is absolutely nonsense. a very successful book, actually. we do our books in association with a bunch of pretty well organized down in oakland de. a k looks after a lot of the bookshop. looks after the bookshop. we also sell the books on our website. you know, people write and. it was not for us to do. we had a lot of articles. we get in to do some books that we like. again, it is not that expensive. if you can sell them and you have a web site which you can advertise all the time, we have done five or six books.

the latest one is in t. author. we have got a book, danny capacities book, how the irish invented science. it will be of very important book. big event. words you wouldn't believe like poker and jazz. it is a a really hole hidden parts of the american language etymology. three words from irish and american today. it's complete nonsense. millions and millions of irish people came to american speaking irish. the word to not go away. they just transmitted. the first person who has really counter it. he has shown how many of these, the most common words in the american language slang are pretty much straight irish,

gaelic. so the book and basically the politics of the bush administration. we have not been shy. criticized the clinton. we are pretty radical around here. we did a dime's worth of difference before the last election basically saying that there isn't really a dime's worth of difference in any way between the two parties. it does allow the democrats really bad. so we occupy a definite site. i would not want to say knees because knees seems to be very small. i think we figure pretty large. their must be more to like in the democratic party, their is a counterpunch. come over here and you can learn a lot. that is what we are really all about. the sound of my father get up at 530 in the morning on a

typewriter just like the one i've got your tracking away. you know, that was a different era. i grew up with hot metal type and newspapers. my dad who was a writer, a great writer, published his memoirs. you know, one telephone line to the outside world from southern ireland. you know, he finishes writing his articles. he jumped on his bike and ride 3 miles to the town. about the only time he ever got mad at me was when i get fed up with him riding into town one ad that down on his bicycle. he was serious. any other father would beat you. by a father did that for many years. 1930 to almost the day he died, not quite, 1980. i must have typed about, i don't

know, four or 5 million words of one of those machines. as indeed, most journalists and writers of my generation. the only person who still does that take is ralph nader. he got incredibly excited. i wouldn't do that. so that was my work habits. you know, the editing and all that. by wrote columns in new york until 1984. when i send an article to england by had to get on the subway in manhattan in the middle of the night to go down riding on the double a train all the way down. take the a train. i really did all the way to the south side of manhattan. then i moved to key west for a while. the early 80's. the fax machine.

thank god for the fax. fax and fedex. it got easier at that time in new york. and then, of course, you know, i only went on-line, my god, it must have been 2,000 bit. no, 1998 ward or '09. i was late. what are our work have is now? i thought i put the typewriter way. i'll have you at the end of the bit. that kind of treacherous about it. and then here i am. a laptop. i am a hunt and peck guy. 2-to the figures. no rippling arpeggios with all ten fingers for me hammering away at the keys.

people used to laugh at me because i would wear the imagery -- where the characters of the keys because i hit hit them har. ♪ >> coming up next book tv presents after words, and our log book discussion between a guest host and the book's author. this week jane goodall talks about her book "hope for animals and their world." she discusses her book with him john nielsen. ♪

>> host: welcome, jane goodall. >> guest: thank you. >> host: just to list the things you have accomplished would probably take most of this interview. we will go through an abbreviated version of that. founder of the jane goodall institute. author of groundbreaking studies of the chimpanzees that you observed. the author of several books including "hope for animals and their world," which we are here to talk about today. we might as will get to it. this book is a series of case studies. they are case studies of a species that have so far been saved from extinction. why did you write it? why did you choose this particular species? >> i wanted to help people understand that in spite of the doom and the gloom there is no question we had done so much damage to our planet and it is right to be concerned and very

concerned. there are two people who take this all aboard. this is lose hope and there is nothing. my crazy travel schedule has unable to meet to meet some extraordinary people who have done an extraordinary things have become passionate around a particular species or even an ecosystem. they won't give up. so these are success stories. they are deliberately selected, mostly from the people i have actually met or had interactions to. the book could be many times longer. there are more stories. in fact among some of the books, the publishers said, no, you have to cut. you can't have everything. so chosen to give people hope, to help people understand that even though in some cases we

have reached almost the end of the blood just have some determination and some optimism and the kurds, really, to withstand all those who say it is a waste of money, let them die with dignity in the wild. just leave them be. they refuse to listen. they somehow find the money and the energy and save them. >> well, you can see the passion that these people have been working to save these animals felt for them and the names that they have given them. looking to do and keeping track. there are chapters about the vancouver island named oprah winfrey. whooping cranes named tex and george. these are very personal issues to the people who are involved, aren't they? >> apps to the. you know, it is interesting. of course when i began studying

chimpanzees i had no idea from the point of view of strict science i should have given them numbers. well, i didn't know that. it just seemed ridiculous to me. said the chimpanzee's all had numbers. that describes their personalities and their minds and their feelings. when i got to cambridge university i was told this was all wrong. thinking back to my child to a teacher i knew that the scientists were wrong and i was right because that was my dog. you can't have it some kind of animal share your life and not understand that of course they have personalities, mines, and feelings. of course the deserve names. but even today there are people who feel, and probably rightly, that if they start talking in these terms about their animals they will be less eligible to getnt