they get trapped in the isolation, which comes back to why it shouldn't just be a women's issue. right over there. >> hi, i'm not sure -- i don't think this is -- it's not directly related, i guess, to either "the feminine mystique" or your book. what's your take on women who are floating along, using the gains that the second wave feminist movement has made? i'm talking about politics and sarah palin and her ilk that used the language that, you know, comes about in "the feminine mystique" and the second wave made popular in order to in a sense roll back the gains that second wave femme -- feminism has made and it was a cultural touch tone for?

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>> there's good quality child care for kids who come into the world. in my mind, it's more complicated to say who is a feminist, and who is not, and even what is a feminist to a man? sometimes i feel uneasy saying i'm a feminist when i'm talking to a group of working class guys who want to know, you know, what am i trying to offer them? what am i offering them? they tried to be good husbands, fathers, providers, and yet, they are falling behind, and so, i think we're in a situation where developing tactics and strategies and alliances is a lot more difficult when it was just against the series of laws that we could all come together on.

now, our differences about class and race and politics and religion and region are coming to the floor. yes? >> actually, i just was going to say we need to end it here, so i wanted to thank you and everybody for coming, and thank you for introduction. i wanted to remind everybody we have the books here available for sale, and i don't know, maybe, you'll find both. [laughter] >> i'm not signing any books, that would be way too -- [laughter] >> in any event, thank you very much, and i hope everybody has a great evening. >> for more information, visit stephanie coontz.com.

>> host: on february 16th of this year, the borders bookstore group declared bankruptcy. joining us to discuss the impact of this bankruptcy is sarah wineman, the director of the new public's place. how did it get to the point of bankruptcy? >> guest: well, i think it's been a long time coming as

quarter after quarter borders has lost money. they went through a number of management changes, especially at the top. i think there were four ceo's in the past four years, but this story can date back to the beginning of the 21st century i suppose. things like their website connected to website in 2001, and they department reclaim it until 2008. their e-book strategy was never at the same level as amazon's kipped l or barnes & noble with the nook. it seemed they operated a few steps behind every other retailers, and combining all the additional factors that have been impacting the publishing industry, especially in the print side, in combination with mismanagement, it really didn't come as a particular surprise that borders declared chapter 11. >> host: you mentioned the amazon connection.

what exactly did borders do with amazon, and in your view, what kind of mistake was that? >> guest: well, to reiterate, back in 2001, borders had had its own website, but instead of running their own e-commerce selling books themselves, they connected with amazon. essentially, they gave up revenue to their competitor in order to make certain things easier. in doing that, it was a devil's bargain because they didn't own their own online property. by the time they changed directions, there was a ceo who said this is not a good idea. reclaiming it in 2008, by then, amazon had already introduced the kindle, barnes & noble's nook was in the works and would not be introduced in the twine, but when borders developed their own e-book strategy in selling some additional e-readers, they

were never able to catch up in terms of appropriate market share. >> host: what happens to the borders e-book reader, the kobo? >> guest: well, any e-books bought through border's website in their words are perfectly safe. it's interesting that the other partner in australia which incidentally franchises the border's name for various bookstores also declared bankruptcy over there, so i'm hopeful that kobo's assertions are true, but i think it will be interesting to see if, in fact, the e-books people bought through border's sites are safe and people can read them and so on and so forth. >> host: borders has 642 big box stores across the country. how many are they closing? >> guest: closing 200 and the going out of business sales are, in fact, starting tomorrow. i believe that the liquid dation

sales will be between 20%-40% off. those are already going to be in the works. they already, i believe, started shutting down the cafes at the superstores, and it will be very apparent walking into the 200 stores designated for closure that you'll see the going out of business signs and be able to get the books, cds, dvds and other appropriate merchandise at those prices. >> host: how can barnes & noble maintain its strategy? is it all about the e-books? >> guest: i don't believe it's all about the e-books. it may come down to this which is barns -- barnes & noble the people at the top value books more than anyone else. with borders since there's a tremendous turn of management changes, they brought people

from outside companies who had experience in general retail who may not have realized their experience did not necessarily translate into what's appropriate for the book business. the book business is very quirky, and it's not always been the best fit with respect to what public companies in particular need. for example, expecting and demanding higher and higher profits. the book business operates on a very tight margin. 1% is average. you're lucky if you get up to 3%. as a result, this sort of uncomfortable fit operated by people who with respect as experienced with how the book business works probably added to border's troubles. >> host: will you look at the bricks and mortar business of book sellers, what do you see in the future? >> guest: it's interesting you say that because i'm believing more and more we may be witnessing the natural end of

the chain bookstore business which essentially started in the late 80s and early 90s when borders expanded, when barnes & noble expanded and there were massive superstores that stood alone. part of them were part of malls, but most were entities to drive up to, park your car, and go in and be part of the greater experience than just browsing for books. in hindsight i do wonder if perhaps we were fooling ourselves that this could last as long as it did, and maybe 20 years was the natural life cycle for such a thing. we'll see, especially as digital sales keep growing, perhaps we'll see a greater preponderance of smaller stores. many have opened and they face the pressures debated over the last decade, but the ones that opened and are really trying to engage both within the communities and develop a small

e-book strategy, they seem to have the best chance for survivalment i think we'll see more of those. the ecosystem is going to change. it will certainly impact how publishers perhaps sign up browsers and what sort of advances they are paying, and what books will be most visible, but to say that the shrinking of of -- [no audio]

>> guest: there's too much with what happened with services when they went into chapter 11 administration. eventually, they went into chapter 7. numerous reports indicated publishers are not happy with what borders has in mind. top priority, for example, seems to be highlighting the borders rewards plus card, but as customers come in and this company is in trouble, do they want to redeem their plus cards or sign up with a membership with a company that they feel doesn't have a future, unless they have a rock-solid strategy,

they may see the same sort of results, but at the same time, we will want to know several months at the earliest. >> host: thank you for joining us on booktv. >> guest: thank you so much for having me. we're talking about a secret gift. tell us, what is the secret gift? >> a gift may in the depths of the great depression in 1933 by an anonymous donor to 150 families, and his identity remained unknown for 75 years. two years ago, a suitcase was handed to me that contained hundreds of letters from that period, and the identity of that secret donor was my grandfather. >> and can you tell us more about the gift? what was the donation? >> the gift was $5 to 150

families who had written to him, and for the last two years, i tracked down their descendants to learn about the gift, did it affect their lives and change their fortunes. that's what the book is about. >> thank you very much for your time. >> next, frank brady examines the life of boib fischer, his issues with the united states, and his reemergence with conspiracy theories and suffered from pair -- pair know ya. this is about 45 minutes. >> i would like to start off, this is not a reading in evening, it's just simply a talking and then q&a.

i want to start off, if i may, to read something from the book to set the mood, and i'll set the scene that was in the 1960s when bobby fischer was going to go to argentina to play in a big international tournament, and so here we go. "a week before he left for argentina, bobby and the author of this book had dinner, a hang out of abstract expressionists, and one of bobby's favorite eating places. they were having a conversation at the bar, and andy warhall and others dined at a nearby table, not that bobby noticed. he just liked the food the restaurant served. it was a shepherd's pie kind of

place, and the people what preferred talking that are not celebrities rather than just taking note of just prodigies. we slid into the third booth from afar and ordered bottles of beer. the waitress didn't question the age even though he was only 17 years of age, and 18 was the limit at that time. he looked like he was 18. bobby knew the selection without looking at the menu. he hack led an enormous slab of prime roast rib that he county souped in a matter of minutes. during the lull in the

conversation, it was typical with bobby because he didn't talk much and liked silence. i asked, boib, how are you going to prepare for this tournament? i always wanted to know how you did it. he seemed unusually chipper and became interested in my interest. here, i'll show you he said. he sat next to me, cramming me into the corner. next, he retrieved from his coat a chess set, all the little pieces lined up in their slots ready to go to war. i don't know if you've seen one of those, but they are hardly larger than an index card. he started out with a massive preparation. he said, hold it again. i'm prepared for this asking.

he showed me the progression of the game. a draw from two years earlier. he took me through each making a choice, one moment warning another, and a next. the variety of choices bobby walked through was dazzling and overwhelming. inin thes course of his analysis, he discussed the ramifications of vacations of tactics and why one would be advisable or not. it was like watching a movie with narration, but with difference. he connected the moves with his commentary. i couldn't follow the tumble of ideas behind the attacks and shadow acults. he said, you couldn't play there. i didn't think of this.

oh, was it kay? the set was so warn from thousands of games that the little half inch pieces almost fell into the slots at his will. all the images were warn off. he went on and discussed the style. he said, did you read the book? i said, no, isn't it in russian? he looked annoyed and amazed that i didn't know the language. well, learn it, he said. it's a fantastic book. i'm not playing for a draw. resetting the pieces in seconds without looking and he said, these hearts prepare for because he can play any game, positional or tactical or any opening. he began to show me from memory

game after game with the openings that he had played against bobby's favorite vaitions. multiple outcomes leaped from his mind. he didn't define himself to just efforts. he took me on a tour of games that louis paulson played in the 1800s and others from the 1920s and others who had just been playing weeks before at games he got from a russian newspaper. all the time eight possibilities, suggested alternatives, selected the best lines, discriminated, decided. it was a history lesson and chess tutor yal, but mainly, it was an amazing feat of memory. his eyes slightly glazed were fixed on the set that he held open in his left hand talking to himself, totally unaware of my

presence or what he was in a restaurant. his intensity seemed greater than when he was playing in a tournament. his fingers sped by in a blur, and his face had the slightest of smiles. he whispered barely audibly, al, if he plays that, i can block his bishop. in his voice, it was so loud that the customers stared, he won't play that. i began to weep quietly aware that in that time suspended moment, i was in the presence of genius. [applause]

we'll talk, have a q&a. there's a microphone there from c-span. they are filming this for future broadcast. first, attempting to do a number of things when i began to write this biography of bobby fischer. those of you who don't know how to play chess at all, read this book, okay? this is not a chess book, but a biography, and, of course, it's of great interest i would hope to chess players because you don't have to know the game well in order to enjoy it. i had written a number of other biographies as the man said, and i approached bobby's life in the

same way. as a biographyer, -- biographer, you take a microscopic look at life. i attempted to leave no fact behind. i mean, that's the way i approach all of my books. i want to know everything, every trivial fact, okay? i may not use it, but it gives me confidence that i know my subject, and i may use it somewhere along the line, and, you know, there was no library unvisited. there was no archive that or no research that was unexamined on my part, and in addition to approaching this as a biographer or researchers, i was also an official witness to a participant in bobby's career. i was the director of one of the first tournaments he ever played as a child in new jersey at the

old hotel that doesn't exist there on the board walk anymore. bobby was 10 or 11 or whatever, and his mother was with him. i didn't talk to bobby at that time, but i noticed him. he was a mag innocent for people because he was so tiny, the youngest person in the tournament, and everybody watched him. i noted who knew he would become what he became, but i noted how serious he was. he really took his time, really concentrated. it was really great. we also played, bobby and i played in the same tournaments over the years. we never met in an official tournament game. we were light years away in terms of ability, okay? but we did play perhaps speed

games over the years. don't ask me who won, but he was an incredible speed player, by the way, and it was very interesting to watch him play speed chess. it was like basketball, you know, neighborhood or playground basketball, a lot of trash talk. what, you're playing that against me? how dare you. that kind of stuff. you're a kokhroach. well, i'm an elephant and elephants can step on bugs. i was there. i was also the arbiter of the u.s. championship where he won all of his games without losses, without draws. it had never been done before or

done sense, and it may never be done again. i was right there, this boy, this entire time. i had an opportunity to study him, and observe him. i talk about that in the book, of course. i also defended bobby when he got into a big conference match, and bobby was forfeited, but i stood up for him and backed him up in print. it ended up being a lawsuit with fischer suing, and because of my constant championing him, i lost my job at chesslife magazine which i founded. we bonded. i was in iceland with him for actually the two months. i came early and left late. during the time that he won the

world championship, so, and i also looked at this book, this biography, through the eyes of a friend. i was his friend. we had falling outs -- falls out? whatever we had, we had arguments. [laughter] there were times, many, many years where we didn't speak, and so that was -- but i did feel he was a friend. we dined together. we played chess together, of course. he came to my house and read chess magazines. he swiped a lot of those magazines i might say. he -- we went to parties to the. i taught him how to play billiards. we were friends. so that was my focus. study bobby fischer as a

biographer, as an official chess arbiter, as a director, as a player, and as a friend, and i can tell you as i go through this in the book, bobby had an extremely competitive personality no matter what he did, not only in chess. i mean, he was a good swimmer, for instance, and going through high school and in grammar school and camp in the summer, he would swim, and bobby would be -- when they had races, bobby would be in the water before everybody was in mid dive. he was just fast, and he wanted to win, and when he got older and the teams and when he went up to his 0s when he -- 20s and when he went on, he played tennis, and he beat everybody in tennis other than the pros.

he wanted to win everything he did, and so i go into that and talk about how his competitive personality. he also had a phenomenal memory. when he was preparing for tournaments, there was books of competitor's games, hundreds and hundreds of games, and there were about 10,000 moves, and with the games, he sent you the book and said pick out a game, fell me when it was -- tell me when it was played and who he played against. okay. 1978, played -- and rattled the rules. he memorized the 10,000 moves. i mean, that's just one of his memory feats. i can tell many, many other stories, and i do in the book actually about how good he was,

and he had a total focus on chess. many people, as he was growing and got older, they said bobby doesn't know anything about chess. well, i don't know if you read the book, "the outliers," and how it talks about how to achieve success, it takes 10,000 hours. that's 10,000 hours a year for 10 years to become good at something. no, music, don't they. i mean, i know psychiatrists, you talk to them, they know the mind, the interpretation of dreams. they know all kinds of things, but many of them don't know

about art or literature or music or life even, you know, they know how to analyze you, and i'm not -- i see one psychologist in the audience. i'm not putting psychologists down, so yeah, he spent a greater portion of his life studying chess. so what, he became the champion of the world, and that was sort of interesting, and so that's part of what i do in the book. i tried to approach and confront some of these misconceptions about him that -- and bay from the -- by the way, from the time he was in his 20s when he won the world championship until he died three years ago, just almost exactly three years ago, he studied constantly all kind of books, and this is not a defense of bobby, and i'm going to get to the bad parts of bobby. he was a vivid reader, and he

could talk about the discourses of israelis, the causes of war, he had become an intellectual in the 40s years from the time he won the championship. he stopped studying chess and studied other things which is very interesting, so my specific approach in the book was to show very specifically how bobby became good read this book, and maybe you'll become good too. i don't know about that, possibly it can help, maybe inspire you. there are no diagrams here, but it may inspire you to become good like he did. i wanted to show that, and i think i have. the hours of practice, how he

did it, how he analyzed it, and so forth. i also showed the difficulties he had. he came from a poor family. his mother, i wouldn't say -- well when bobby was born, she was homeless, and they had to live in hospice, then a trailer, and then they finally moved to manhattan and then to brooklyn in a small little, you know, walk up apartment for $56 a month. he never had government support like the soviets did. soviets got their country retreats, salaries. they could do anything they wanted, spend all their time playing and studying chess. bobby didn't get that. he got absolute zilch in terms of support, and that bittered him a lot by the way. i got into that. of course, i talk about his fall

from grace, and why did he refuse $10 million that he actually had from his attorney for sponsorship of products and for, you know, entries in attorney's fees. he put it down and went off into the nether of the sea section of los angeles and lived there for 0 years. he -- 20 years. he disappeared. he would not do any interviews. he wouldn't do anything. the other question is why did he become antise metic? he was a jew. his mother was jewish completely. the fa ternty was up for grabs, one of two men, we're not positive who that man was, but both of them were jewish and

when regina married a second time, he was jewish too. he denied training, and yet i have found evidence that he really did have a bar mitts fa. why did that happen? well, you'll have to read the book. [laughter] you know, we'll get into it. i do get into it, and i offer speculation. you never know what's in someone's heart. you know, when you write a biography, how can you take a life and cram it inside the pages of a book? it's too difficult to do, but in any event, it's there, and i discuss it. it was rough, and he became anti-american, and i became ballistic, and i didn't want anything to do with him over all of this, and then i started to think, well, maybe if you're

jewish, you say, i'm not listening. it's possible that, you know, that's your point of view, and i start thinking of others, frank sinatra. listen to that music. he was rotten, so -- [laughter] so can we indeed accept the art and divorce the man? can we honor the art and what he accomplished, and divorce the man? if we can do that, then, indeed, i started to think in a philosophical confrontation with myself, should i write this book? i had gotten many offers to

write this before. should i write it or not? i said i think i can split it. i can honor bobby's accomplishments while also denigrating his absolutely horrible and obscene comments about jews and about america, so this book is not a memoir of myself in any way, shape, or form. i'm practically invisible other than the piece i read you where i met with him in the cedar tavern. i'm hardly in the book. it's bobby's story. it's bobby's life. it's a great odyssey of what he went through, truly a rags to riches story in many ways, and he ended up, you know, before he died, as a multimillionaire.

it has shakes speerian overtones, and it's truly the stuff the greek legend, so that's about all i have to say, and let's have a q&a. [applause] remember, wait until the microphone comes around. >> at the end of his life, where did he get his money? >> well, in 1992, he played -- violated sanctions that the united states had against serbia. he played and it was a $5 million match, and he ended up winning $3.5 million, and he lived on that.

>> wasn't most -- [inaudible] >> how are you? >> i'm great. >> was there a swindle by the banker? >> no. there was a million dollars in television rights that bobby never got, but the $3.5 million definitely he got it in cash. his sister flew to belgrade, stayed in the hotel, it was exchanged, took a train to switzerland and deposited it at the union bank. he had his money. >> isn't the u.s. trying to take his money? >> yes, and they still are. he violated the sanctions and he should be fined $50,000, but on top of that, he stopped paying taxes in 1977. he was so anti-american, and so i don't know how much -- you know, he wasn't making a heck of

a lot in the 20 years, the wilderness years, when he was living in l.a.. there were some royalties from his books, but he still had to pay taxes on that. they are trying to get a lot of this money, and who knows, they may do it. it's up for grabs now in the courts. wait, there's the microphone. >> i wonder if he made a will. where did his money go? >> he didn't make a will, and the money still exists. now, he spent it and he died in 2008, so, you know, he had those expenses. he brought a house for his girlfriend. he brought her a condo, and supposedly there was $2 million

left of the $3.5 million. >> did he believe -- did he believe the things he said or just being provocative, and did he have friends in high school? >> were you in high school with him? >> no, no. >> you're much too young. [laughter] somebody is here who supposedly went to high school with bobby. are you still here? in any event -- [inaudible] >> hi, frank. i met him at a residence site, and he used to work around the campus there and he carried a copy of the russian journal in his back possibility. i went to brooklyn tech, but classes were nearby. >> okay, we'll forgive you.

>> did he believe the things -- >> yeah, i believe he did. you know, at the end of his life, he came out with what seemed like a terribly pretentious statemently saying i'm not just a chess genius, but a genius in all things, and he believed that. that was the point with bobby. even when he was younger, whatever he said, it was. he just, you know, i mean, he believed it, and you either accepted it or not, and sometimes, he was, you know, seemed very irrational and ortray, but, indeed, that's the way it was. he believed it. he just wasn't being an actor. yes? >> hi, oh, i'm sorry. hi, frank. just the chess question. you said they played speed chez

as a game. did bobby ever play blindfolded? >> yeah. he rarely played blindfold chess, but he did. i know that on a trip from the duval trip to cuba as a young man, he played blindfold chess. what's it take? six hours? during that time he played blindfold gails, but the opponent kept disturbing the game, but bobby, you know, he always played blindfold chess because he went over games in his mind, so, yeah. >> what made him anti-american? >> there was a story that appeared -- a series of stories that appeared in "life" magazine about bobby, and the writer who

is now dead, brad derra, wrote these stories with a contract from bobby that he would not write a book about him, and a year and a half after the match was over in 72, he came out with a book, so bobby sued him in court for, i think it was, believe it or not, $100 million, and bobby always had problems with lawyers, decided to handle the case himself, and so the brief was scripbled on yellow paper, and eventually it was thrown out of court, and bobby claimed there was no justice in the american jurisprudence system, and so therefore at that point, he said i'm not paying taxes anymore. i don't believe in america. it's a corrupt government.

>> good evening, frank. i just want to thank you for giving to us the second book. i have the first one you wrote, and many of the things you're saying now, when he was giving speeches and that's i want to cross you, he kept losing, and i enjoy your book. it's interesting, and thank you for the second part of it. >> thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. one over here, and then we'll come back to you. >> were there ever any clinical, mental issues that were attributed to him given his statements that he made? >> no psychiatrist that i know ever said anything along that line, and i interviewed a number of psychiatrists who knew him, the latest being dr. magnus who

was with bobby during the last months of his life. that doctor said, and i'll give you the quote that's in the book, "he was disturbed, paranoid, but he was not schizophrenic or psychotic." he's an md and director of the largest mental institution in iceland, a very reputable man. he came from a troubled childhood and was mixed up, but clinically he was not paranoid schizophrenic. he had those tendencies as most of us do to some extempt. [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> because it's the end of his life, and i wanted to show that, and it's the end of the game.

>> [inaudible] >> thank you very much. >> [inaudible] >> thank you. anymore? yes, back to this man. brooklyn tech traitor. [laughter] >> how well would have he have done in his prime? >> well, you know, how would dempsey done against tyson, you know? those kinds -- that's a kind of very difficult thing to compare, things that cannot really be compared. however, i think bobby fischer was the greatest chess player that ever lived. there may be others coming down the line or japanese american player just won one of the strongest chess tournaments ever played just a few days ago, and he may surpass what fischer did, but up until now, fischer i claim is the strongest player.

fischer was away from the game for 20 years. if he had not been away from the game for 20 years and then played, i would say that fischer would win. of course, opponents would deny that. [laughter] yes, back there. >> hi, professor brady. >> good lord, a former student. wait, wait, wait -- your name will come to me. don't tell me. it will come to me. >> i'm dating myself because i called you professor brady. >> that's right. >> lily port. >> very good. that's it. i was on the phone with my dad the other night and told him i was attending your book signing,

and he played with bobby fischer at the manchester chess club. he said that at times bobby would play multipl people at one time, and he was always ten steps ahead of anyone, so no one really one, you know, against him, but he mentioned his mother had a lot of influence on him, and can you elaborate on that? do you think that that really propelled him to say the things he said later on in life? >> his mother was a great influence on him in many wayings. she helped his career. she was like a professional press agent almost. there was not a newspaper in this city she didn't go to to get press for bobby. she encouraged him. did they have fights? of course. just like we both probably have had with our parents when we're

16 years old. yeah, they had fights, but that's another misconception that i try to straiten out. they loved each other, were in contact all of the years. he wanted her to come back. she got her dock rat and medical degree in later years. wanted her to come back to the united states because he missed her. when he was on his death bed, he asked for a photograph of her. they loved each other, and she was a professional protester, but she was left professional protesterrer, but the pawn doesn't stray too far from the queen. [laughter] he became a protester, but sort of on the other side, an my americanism of sorts -- anti-americanism of sorts. she had a great influence on him and she was both mother and

father to him because she was a single mother. okay. couple more questions, couple more. we have time, sir? two more questions. >> hi, it must have been a really unique experience for you as a biographer to revisit a subject that you had written about so many years earlier, and i can't imagine now writing profiles that you must have developed a familiar bond with bobby, and i'm just wondering how that's affected you over the years. you touched upon it to a certain degree how it affected you as you saw him change and generate through the years and what ewe feel ultimately was your relationship with bobby? >> well, as bobby changed, i changed, relationship changed. when i wrote the first book, i

didn't have a doctorate. the thing about getting a ph.d. is you learn how to research, and if you don't, heaven forbid, so i went ahead and learned something, and i learned something, and i wrote many other books between the first and this one, about nine or ten other books, so i changed, and as i told you or as i mentioned, i felt badly about his anti-american statements and his 9/11 statements, and i was horrified, and i had to take a couple years to get over that, and when it i did, i said i should tell this story. there's nobody better in the world that can tell bobby fischer's story than me, and so, therefore, it was an obligation on my part in a sense to tell that story, and i think i've

told it accurate and an honest appraisal of his life. we got here, here. sorry. >> did he try and physically -- did he train before matches? >> absolutely. swam, played tennis, lifted weights. he was a very physical person, and, you know, his walk, if you saw him, he was like a tennis player. he would swagger because he was too this stuff, playing playingbasketball. he was a true athlete. during the wilderness years, he didn't do anything, but he was a walker too. he walked miles and miles and miles. he walked my legs off.

thought nothing of walking from the noarn side to the lower west side in an evening. miles and miles and miles. he loved it. he was a fast walker. practically if you were next to him, there was a wind because he walked so fast. he was in terrific shape all his life, and he really trained before each match, so i think that's about it, unless someone has one anxious, question they want to ask. >> i wonder if he had any romantic relationships? was he ever married? >> never married. he was in prison, and the woman he was living with in japan came quite honestly in a gamet to get him out of prison so he became -- he would be looked

upon as a japanese citizen, but he wasn't married to a japanese woman and got married in a prison. that was at the end of his life. he was in love with a 17-year-old girl at 49 years of gauge. nothing happened, but he was in love with her. there were occasional romantics in his life. i go into that in the book. well, thank you very much. [applause] >> that was frank brady discussing the life of bobby fischer or booktv. this program will reair tomorrow, february 20, at 8:15 p.m. eastern. >> we're talking about her new book. can you tell us what it's about? >> the rise of islamic world. we are witnessing an islamic movement driven by a minority in

the religions that's trying to cause problems around the world through terrorism and bringing that, their islamic religion with it. that's what the book talked about. it talks about the history of radical islam, what's it's doing in europe right now, what's happening in the united states as well, and why we need to be mobilized to understand where the threat of radical islam is to protect our society. >> what are the findings you have? >> we are finding out that the terrorist organizations are well organized whether in europe, united states, or os australia. they are linked together through the internet. al-qaeda, that means the base in arabic is nothing be an umbrella with other organizations that share goals. we have been hearing about the muslim brotherhood and considering what's happening in e just a minute, the muslim brotherhood is the mothership basically that launches the

terrorist activities. they were founded in 1948 and has islamic organizations including al-qaeda. the book is dedicated to the muslim brotherhood project and in particular to the muslim brotherhood projects in north america. >> tell us about your background. how did you become an expert in terrorism in the middle east? >> well, i was born a and raised in lebanon, and any 9/11 happened to me personally in 1975 when the red call islamics blew down my home burning me under the rubble. i was in the hospital in two and a half months, then lived in a bomb shelter under gone for seven years of hi life hiding to survive. i was very concerned about national security even as a child. i grew up, and i went to israel and was the news anchor and a journalist to understand what was happening around the world. what contributed to certain

movements in the world, and i was a news anchor in the middle east from 1984-1989. as i reported world events in the 80s, i started connecting the dots and realizing that the name of the perpetrators were always the same. the names were always the same. ahmad, ale, the name the victims were russian or jews or christians. i can go on and on, and i started connecting the dots and realizing what i used to think was a regional problem between a majority of muslim middle east trying to kill and expel the jews and christians was a worldwide problem, but the world didn't connect the dots. when i came to the united states, i thought i left all that behind me. september 11th changed everything for almost all of us in the united states and the world, the way we