he was illegally suspended from the practice of law because he absolutely dominated the criminal law. they could not beat him. and so i ask that when you go about talking about these things, mention alton because our children need to know, we have a lawyer still alive that when these cases. ..

>> i thank you all for your conversation. >> thank you for joining us. [inaudible conversations] [applause] >> this event was part of the harlem book festival. for more information visit us online at qbr.com. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. here are some programs the lookout for this weekend. at 1:30 p.m. eastern, booktv brings you the 20th annual collegiate summit here from several authors, including stanley kurtz and ryan anderson. for a complete schedule, please visit us online at booktv.org. tomorrow at noon, is your chance to talk to ben carson.

doctor ben carson is alive on sunday to answer your e-mails, calls, and tweets. watch booktv all weekend long. for complete schedule visit booktv.org. >> welcome. mark twain wrote about virginia's territorial enterprise. finally, welcome to the city that served as the headquarters of the virginia railroad. from 1869 through 1950 the railroad ram. ♪ ♪

♪ >> welcome to carson city on booktv. with the help of our charter communications cable partners, we bring you the capital of nevada nestled in the sierra mountains. for the next 90 minutes we explored the history of the solar stage with authors and history of carson city, beginning with samuel clemens, also known as mark twain. >> he arrived and he was 26 years old. a very formative period and light. then the notoriety lay the

foundation to the man that would become one of the most great writers in american history. he came here on august 14, 1861 in his brother had been uploaded content appointed by abraham lincoln. sam was looking for a chance for jobs. they boarded a stagecoach in st. joseph, missouri and found their way to nevada. when they arrived here, it wasn't too long before sam discovered there wasn't much in the way of job opportunities and this is when he began to explore nevada territory. he went up to lake tahoe. what he was doing there is trying to establish a claim.

a timber claim. unfortunately he starts a fire at the lake and he would go to aurora and then come back and hang around carson city. then he would go up later in the year and then he went out to unionville looking for a silver mine. that is the one thing about sam clemens. how do i get rich quick. he has come back again with his brother, this time trying to decide if he can make it big in aurora. he gets a lot of money from his brother and then he is writing for more money and more money.

he is getting nowhere doing this. he gets asked to extra work in virginia city and now he is starting to write his brother for his newspaper in peacock and other places. so he's using this name, this pen name, josh. and he is beginning to develop this voice. a lot of it is based on exaggeration and satire and hyperbole. it ended up being an empty hole. but the thing was to come here and make your way and we will give you a reporter's position. that's what he did in september of 1862. at that point he is writing all of the time for the papers. he's developing a profile and

people are enjoying these stories and he's starting to make a name for himself. he would find his way back here before his brother lived here to get the name mark mark twain. now, where does that come from? well, became a steamboat captain . well, he like that when he came here. this is a story that generally indicates the generally accepted point of view was mark twain was a steamboat captain. so here it is.

january 21 from 1863. published february 3, 1863. from then on he is mark twain. the newspapers in the world would pick it up. newspapers in sacramento. mostly in the western united states through the use of the telegraph. although he says some things that they don't know it's the truth or not. he has one story about a family east of town where a man kills the whole family, scouts his wife and brings her scalp in to town. he turns himself in and it is horrible. it is just horrible. so he said, i told you i would

give you a hand here. a lot of people have made some enemies. so i would like to capture mark twain. he likes to manipulate people. people enjoy his writing, but sometimes they don't know when he's telling the truth or not. it is like the precursor to the red cross. and he said some of that money is going to a society back east. interracial mixing. that is very tough stuff to achieve. of course, he is from missouri and he has his own kind of racial ideas and dynamics that will play out in huckleberry finn. but those women take exception.

but he also says that they haven't been paying towards the fund with their money. and he says, again, i didn't mean that to be public. i didn't mean that, it should not happen. a lot of people are so upset over a talk of a duel. so he essentially challenges him to a duel. ultimately things got so hot that he hightailed it out of nevada territory in 1964 and went to san francisco. so he was here between august august 14, 1851 and in that time frame, that is when he became mark twain. there was a crucible that he experienced. he got the name in the voice.

he introduced him to the new york city audiences. so this is the beginning of mark twain. doctor mark twain left the nevada area in 1824 and got himself into trouble in san francisco. he went to the hawaiian islands, and with his experience there people wanted him to her and she first time that he ever spoke for a paid audience was here in carson city at the presbyterian church. his brother was a trustee in the church. now he was working for the big bucks and going to cars he came back in 1866 for the first timeince he hightailed

it. there were some people who wanted to play a little trip on sam about what is calledthe divide. they robbed him of his watch. then his friends returned his watch. he was even angrier. mark twain always had a little soft spot that way. that incident is one of the great ones the kind of shows his temperament. because he was quick to anger. he did not like people playing with him. so after he went to europe and the middle east. he began to write stories in the

newspaper about that experience. he came back in april of 1860 and he had never witnessed anything like that. and he describes that he was working for other newspapers in a very descriptive way how this man died and i remember the final word in all the lifeblood going out of his body. and i think that this move him to a point when he was against capital punishment. he reacquainted himself with people and we're back in virginia city. when he bid everyone goodbye, it was the last time that samuel clemens overcame back.

the perception of him being the talented batboy with the passage of time is going to modify. in 1866 there were still people who wanted to play a little bit. by the time he came bckheec figure. of course then he never comes at pnt. but he is embracing himself as a great american writer. he had spent time here and i think that probably what was the critical publication, because nevada territory through his

eyes brought attention to this area. they appreciated the fact that he was part of their experience. arguably mark twain played a role in the nevada writers hall of fame. i consider him in terms of stature, the greatest american writer that ever found his way through nevada. but when you look at great writers anything of mark twain -- you think that this is where the man was born. the man mark twain grew to maturity here and the people of nevada embraced him as much as the people in connecticut and new york and missouri. without the carson city experience in the nevada

experience, samuel clemens could've never been who he was is mark twain. >> now more from carson city. booktv sat down with two authors who tell the story of the dam birds. >> he was one of the sellers that came to the united states in 1848. he found that living on the mississippi was not quite the life that mark twain for trade in his book. together the dangberg brothers went to work together in a flour mill and then they moved to illinois where they were, from

for threeyein 1853 hearing on tt stories about the gold rush and california, they decided to make the move west. they did this by buying 200 head of livestock and driving them from st. louis to california. it turns out that could be a very profitable venture. because even back then things are more expensive in california than they were in st. louis. you could buy a cow or an ox for five or $10 in st. louis. same animal would cost $50 or more in california. it was a profitable trip for them. they arrived in dayton, nevada, in 1853, they immediately went to work panning for gold in the carson river the next day. they did this for about three years, operating with mixed results. some days were exhausting, some is not so much. he did that for three winters. one of the letters that we

recovered, he said that he gave up gold-mining because there was no water in the river in may of 1856. and they couldn't wash away the dirt. so he took up his supplies. h would go to sacramento and he would buy supplies like liquor and food and clothing and things like that. bring it back over the hill to the carson valley and sell them to the immigrants. those who are crossing on their way to california. keep in mind a lot of immigrants , if they got too late to the foot of the sierras, many of them had to spend the winter in the carson valley and that is when he started to notice how they hate grew so well along the

river and how good it was for the cattle. he started accusing leading cattle. he would buy one of oxen and horses from the immigrants. he might buy two or three of them. and give them one healthy animal in return. then he would, you know, make those horses and oxen halsey again on the hay that was growing near the river. he did that for probably three or four years before you settle down. he got his first win claim here in 1856. that same year when he gave up gold-mining. they built a cabin about 1 mile from this location. they settled there and we believe that was when they return in the spring of 1857. they probably went to sacramento and had to stay there until the

snow melted. then they came back to the carson valley when they arrived at their cabins. the gentleman was sitting on the front porch with a couple of his cronies and rifle laying across his lap. and he says, well, i jumped the claim and what are you going to do now. he was a wise man. but he decided looking at the situation that it was one that he could not win. he just walked away from a land claim in making about 1 mile south, up the stream on the river. and he settled here at the dangberg ranch in 1957. the original two room cabin was constructed that year. then they added another partner to their group, a carpenter, who helped construct the house.

they believe that their partner was added so that there is someone always at the ranch and they wouldn't have to worry about being claim jumped again. this only lasted for about a year and then they split up in 1858. but then they started to add to their claim here. they started to raise cattle. they started to file more. one of their biggest early products here was dairy products. but it was such a precious commodity back then. he would actually make thousands of dollars worth of butter and sell it in places like sacramento. there's a great story about him. on his way back he would be caring about excess of a thousand dollars cash and he was worried about being robbed. the story goes that he would travel with an old indian and he

would send the indian and to beg for food and shelter on their way back. so that everybody would think that they were destitute and didn't have any money. then of course when he got back to the carson valley, he would deposit his golden cash into the bank. that is one of the ways that he made a healthy profit. he married margaret dale harrison 1856, she was known as maggie. her brother the same as george washington dale junior. they had many children. they have several boys and one daughter, in 1873. albert drive is a young boy. so there were only five

children. all four sons were involved in arranging business initially. they all grew up here at the ranch until years later, clarence, youngest, decided that this lifestyle wasn't for him. so it what was the older brother in the three older sons that continued the tradition of farming and ranching after he passed away. when the dad died in 1904, the family owned in excess of 3000 acres. very impressive considering he started with 112 acres. he never sold a single acre of land that we can tell. you get everything that he

worked hard for. the suns had a different idea about how to run the business. especially fred. unfortunately, fred had some bad habits. it got them into trouble. one of them was gambling. he was a notorious gambler and he also went to have a good time. he also liked to drink and he encountered serious financial debacle please. we believe beginning around 1912 he went broke about that time. unfortunately his bad habits created a risk between he and john. that sadly was never regain. what happened was fred would start to use some of the company's assets and some of the companies money to pay down his gambling debt. we know that when fred lost a

band of sheep in a poker game, it was definitely interesting. he was almost giving away card games. he started to take money for the company to help make up for. once they discover that, there was a real problem between john and fred, especially. sadly george passed away in 1936. they were civil enough to each other to run the business after george passed away. and the rift between the two

just got wider and bigger. sadly it was never resolved and finally they had to take his name off the count. he was the most powerful man in douglas county. when he died in 1946, he was completely broke. but what ultimately happened was the family had to go back to work. mom and her sisters for the first time in their lives, they had to work to support the wano money coming in to pay the bills. so they had earned the money to keep the family here at the homeland. the sad part about it is that the ranch was owned by the company, yet the family was living. and john's family actually

served an eviction notice here at the ranch on christmas eve. trying to evict fred's family after he passed away in 1946. it was really sad and desperate situation for the family. a group of local value residents onto the company to try to save it for the family after the death of the son. this group known as the minority shareholders tried to save the company. they could not do it. it was the swing vote. he ended up taking control of the company. the dangberg family was forced out. one of the shareholders went to bat for the mom and sisters. he was able to secure them the ability to inherit the home ranch for 1 dollar a year until

the time of his death. that is what preserve this property. otherwise there would be no pocket and i'm sure this would've been lost as well. sumac they went from only 37,000 acres to how much now? >> the family owns absolutely none. sadly there is not one building that bears the name of dangberg in this entire valley now. the reservoir is to be named after them. but honestly now there's not one part of western nevada history in this area that the family did not touch and play a large role in. this man was a real pioneer that the things that we can all see today. the valley would look like this if it wasn't for mr. dangberg

sr.. his legacy will live on forever even though the name is not here, we all know who is responsible. >> i am told that when my mom brought me home and i was about six weeks old, boy as he is dangberg. through the third grade i knew my last name is dangberg. and so through third grade when we had a teacher coming in. and finally i figured out what that meant. i finally put it together that year that my name was charles

shard. i knew that there was something haywire going on. i mean, i was just caught in the middle right after world war ii started. you can almost feel the tension coming down. my granddad would tell me stories and i was up early one morning when my granddad came in. and i said i never saw this before, and never saw anything like it. but my grandmother really laid into him. i knew that there had to be something going on there. i really figured it's none of my business. but you could see that we had to get our stuff.

we closed out the butcher shop and we had to do everything ourselves. it is very interesting. but i do remember that. i wish i could put my finger on exactly what it was. but i never will forget bill parks coming out your.. he served an eviction notice on my grandmother. my good parents were both involved. as i told conrad when we started this, let the chips fall where they may just go for it.

maybe putting this out to someone wouldn't stumble into the same trap as my family down. and one of the family story told the waiter was. just the way it was. that is primarily my reason. we were in the process of putting this together and so we did our best. >> we took a recent trip to nevada with charter communications. we sat down with the author of "the infamous king of the comstock." he tells the story of william sharon who profited it from the silver mining boom at the

comstock lode. >> who was william sharon? >> we are sitting here in the railroad yard in front of one of the steam engines that they used to run stuff up to the comstock or back out from the comstock. william sharon created that. his story starts way before he did the train. he is a little bit older from the young people coming up here. he was in his 40s. he becomes the wealthiest of the mine owners for a time, anyway. >> where did he come from? >> you came from san francisco.

so he was in real estate. a very bright man. and also a really ruthless man. but he had a small fortune, $150,000. just starting in san francisco. he loses his fortune and has to start over. and there is a man that becomes his partner named william ralston. he started the bank of california, which was the largest institution in west. people treated it as if it was the united states treasury. so he has sharon come up to the comstock and looks around at how disorganized the mining appears. he tells ralston that we could

start to branch out and make some money. so he signed him up as a partner and they are going to make a huge fortune. >> how is the comstock organize one you came here? >> for one thing they saw these huge mills to process the order. the iron ore. so everyone started loaning money to these guys building the mills, 2% a month. now that is 24% a year. the guys that had been loaning money early appear, they were charging 5% a month interest. so everyone switched over so

that the bank ended up owning 7 mils altogether. they have talked those mills from the bank. >> if you could go back a little back, what happened to nevada at this time? >> this is the 1860s in the minors out here, the civil wars going on.

one of ralston's individual individuals comes in and says, you have to get mr. sharon out here. you have to get them out of here. he's playing high-stakes poker every night. cf. what was he like as a

person? >> well, he was an interesting person. but he had a dominant personality. his buddies were saying that he was determined. so this is what they did. members of the wealthiest people in san francisco are friends of members of that.

we are talking about how they get this going. he was a businessman. at one point the yellowjacket line which is over the hill from here strikes a fantastic vein of gold and silver and everybody knows about it.

so he has a superintendent of the yellowjacket mixed in. what that does is causes the mills run 24 hours a day. he was another brilliant guy. one of the guys problems was that they got deep underground, it was flooded out for weeks or

months of a time. they would come underneath the minds and then dig up to the mines themselves. they thought the minors and the people that control the mining had a really good plan. and they pledged $600,000 to help get that tunnel going. especially if we went through this little town called dayton. all of the profits and mills and all of that d wn there. were those would be the profitable ones in virginia

city. sharon talked to the mine owners and asked them to give back to the railroad and that is exactly what happened. at the same time,t the counties that were involved, he gets them to pledge $500,000 each. by his own blood and poker playing, he said he is going to build that railroad over the counties and they would lose all this money. he had all of these mills back here in this county. but nobody called it to come up with this money. so he built this railroad with over a million and a half dollars. he and his partners, and ended

up spending $45,000 to build this in its heyday. the san francisco chronicle said that he was making no less than $2000 per day. >> so what exactly did this involve? >> well,s bringing people and supplies up to the comstock. taking the iron work in the mills. this includes the order iron ore and whatever else back out. taking a back out. >> did he work with partners? sphere just come and he did. except that his friend, ralston who took him into a partnership when he was broke, he was known as the man who built california. he controlled all of this money

with the bank of california. and he invested in everything california, starting with the california wineries in the first to invest in now. he built the grand hotel. he built new montgomery street and he did all of this. but at the same time nobody knew where one stops and the other started. so in 1875 there is a depression across america. were actually it started a couple of years ago to virginia city ralston had been spending

money that really they didn't have and they are supposed to have $2 million in their vault in august of 1870. there is $500,000 and then a bunch of ious from all sin. when that happened, this is where his poker playing comes in. in late august sharon goes into the mining stock market and throws all of the stocks out there for sale. and they say it was the largest sale in the history of the stock market. there have been rumors about what was going on. about ralston overplaying his hand when the pattern. in an sharon was trying to get money to save the bank of california and and he had that

money in wells fargo bank, part of his own money. but the rumor had spread and by 230 in the afternoon, the bank in the street outside the bank crowded with people. they think the bank is going to collapse. if ralston could make it to 3:00 o'clock, he could get the wealthiest people to stand behind him and he might be able to save the bank. he just can't do it. by a quarter to 3:00 o'clock, the bank of california realizes that everyone is in shock. you can imagine the u.s. treasury. now, everyone's worried about the depression. ralston ends up signing his property. and the next day he swims out to

the san francisco bay and he drowns. it is a huge loss for the city and his stream of the procession is a mile and a half long. the common people loved him. it looks like the post is really headed for a depression. especially until he is liable for this stuff. he goes to the wealthiest in san francisco and controls in and says he wants to play on their civic duty. others he guarantees that he will give money to the bank's and guarantee their investment. he raises $7.5 million and the

in the bank reopens. it's one of the great banks of the american west. it is all because of william sharon. >> how powerful does he get? >> is the most powerful man on the comstock. he is a center senator from nevada. he has only moved to san francisco. he is living in san francisco and is supposed to be representing nevada in the senate. but at that time, that is when the bank collapse occurred. in the six years he's a senator, he unraveled all the ralston has . it was one of the worst records that he had as a u.s. senator as far as attendance goes and he ends up being the wealthiest man in california for that time.

he is paying for several years. paying 150 of all the taxes in california. >> we talked about him as a businessman. what about his personal agenda that was going on a macbook was going on the? >> he was married and had three children. even before his wife's death. he was known as a womanizer and at one point he signs up back in the hotel at glenbrook. so it was pretty well known that that was going on. a very interesting episode takes up the last third of the book that i wrote about him. his wife dies. he is getting on a train to go back east. he is no longer a senator. they arrest him.

he is charged with adultery. no one knows anything about him being remarried. so this scandal and a huge surprise to everyone. it turns out that a woman named sarah shell came from missouri and her parents have had money but they are both deceased now. she is claiming that they were married and that she has a handwritten contract with both signatures on it and she had some letters and notes that are addressed dear life.

so it is just like she sues him and divorces the state issue. one of who is steven fields who is the longest-serving supreme court justice. the u.s. supreme court. it claims that he is a citizen of nevada.

she is going to go to trial. and it's a scandalous trial. there are individuals that testify that they have helped. the ones that are testifying for sharon are saying yes, she was trying to gain his heart. so i gave these potions or how to do it or whatever. she was doing it to hang on to her husband. the trial was really a crazy

circumstance. so either way she would win at the state level and would be granted a divorce. at that point she marries david perry, her attorney. right now goes to the federal court and steven stephen field, the supreme court justice. it goes all the way to him. and he wants a contract in those letters. there have been testimony during the state trial. some have said that it was forgery. when he says that in court, she stands up and says, how much are

these people paying you to make this decision. sharon died in the future. he died after the state court decision. he said that this court case was a legacy. >> what was his legacy in the state of nevada? >> it is just not as great as you would imagine for all the railroads. they are running again from carson city to appear. so they will talk about william sharon. there is a building in town called the sharon house. way more stuff named for william ralston, for example.

was not as ren thought. >> when did you first hear about him? >> you know, i had read a lot about history. always when you read histories about the comstock, there is something about william sharon that would only be a few lines or a paragraph. he did all of these great things. >> next week we take you on a tour of the carson city library. were susan shows us the nevada history collection.

>> here in the carson library, this has to do with carson city and city history and nevada history. he would run this from the comstock lode down to the carson river. it is very important and then

the rest of the book consists of all these hearings that were held. it helped to provide ventilation for the mines. drainage for the mines, fresh air for the m you can still to this day go and see where he this exit is. this is a book called the big bonanza. he found his way to virginia city. he is originally from iowa. they are he picked up this pattern as a writer.

and as the newspaper that mark twain worked for. and hr of the paper eventually. he and mark twain were friends. then they actually wrote to an editor on the east coast suggesting that he might be a good person to talk to about the comstock lode and this is the product. when it comes to carson city, it represents the history of our town in pictures. one very interesting piece represents the colony school and the students of the early 19 hundreds. the n american individuals

attended the school but were they learned about this book has a lot of interesting pictures. we h a large desert in nevada every september there is a huge happening there. people gather there on the desert and essentially camped out for a week. they have this event called burning man. people build giant structures and ie bicycles and try to get around. at the end of the week they burn

this giant structure that is called the man, and they burn him down. this is definitely a collection for the public. it is available anytime that we are open. the books and the cases are not checked out. there's at least one copy of everything we have available for anyone who would like to look at it. >> susan chandler is next on booktv. she joined us on our recent visit to carson city. susan talks about her book, "casino women", and the role of women in the gaming industry of nevada.

.. and it is backbreaking labor. one of the most interesting things in researching the book is just cumbersome to be more familiar with how hard made work arder because if you have been in a hotel, the beds are bigger, the delays are

heavier. s and hair dryers and all ofes. that that needs attention. so it was not necessarily there 20 years ago. it is one of the top two most dangerous -- housekeeping, most dangerous job categories in the united states because there are so many injuries, you know, back, shoulder, knee, all kinds of injuries, dislocated wrist, housekeeping. so that is one side. and on the other side then our people like cocktail waitresses, you know, very skimpy uniforms that, you know, provide the sexual allure and have always provided sexual allure for taverns and bars and casinos. so it is fascinating to see and

read the accounts of early gaming, the big game mobil's who talk about money and beautiful women singing together like magnets. and i am not sure if it is true or not true, but gaming has consistently felt that beautiful women very skimpily dressed are key to bringing people into their casinos. i am not sure if it is true or not. but that is the idea. if you are in northern nevada, which is in general not unionized, you begin at minimal wage. and a tiny, tiny raise is like $0.10 per year, $0.25 per year.

and as a consequence you can't really live on that amount of so in consnc work one and half jobs, to jobs. and they have of very harde making ends meet. in las vegas it is highly organized. people often don't know that las vegas is a big union town. like detroit or san francisco. a big union town. hour and have a beautiful4 per benefit package. the new york times called it the rolls-royce of benefit packages. certainly better than mine. it is free to the member. soditions are greatly different.

for cocktail waitresses in northern nevada they also make minimum wage, but they get tips. and in smaller casinos you really have to work hard for tips. and cocktail waitressing is also heavy labor. you can imagine carrying naturally, it may weigh 20 or 25 pounds, wearing heels, hiking many miles per night. so a cocktail waitress in he nevada can make, you know, -- we interviewed people who were proud to make 35, $40,000 per year. in las vegas the tips are higher and cocteau waitresses and a good area of the casino can make well over 50, $60,000 per year. the union is interesting.

it is a culinary union, which is part of an international unions 60,000 members in los vegas. and that is one of the largest, if not the largest local in the country. unions sometimes are a mixed bag. but the culinary union really is this is an large part due to the women's factor. they really care about the families. it is one reason why they fight so hard for the benefit package. and they developed what they called the culinary academy where you can go if you are a brand new employee, go and get trained in how to become a housekeeper. if you are already an employee, may be working in the kitchen, you can go and get trained to become a sous-chef's or, you

know, some high up position. if you need help with immigration statu w english language you can go and get help him and go to class is and that sort of thing. they have collected several of their own members to the legislature. day are quite powerful politically. i think probably a obama's election, the fact that nevada has been blue for the last two presidential cycles is largely due to the union and its ability to get its members and their families out to vote. it is a very politically conscious union. i think if you are interested in an area, finding out what really makes an area, a state, a city

take, one of the very best ways to do it is to look at the economy and the life of working people. i am a big admirer of the interviews with working people. like if you were in detroit, you would find out what the auto industry was and talks of the workers. if you were in central california, trying to find out about corporate agriculture and interviewed farm workers. in nevada if you want to find out what makes the state go, you research the gaming industry and what it means to the thousands and thousands of people that work in it. and in that case and for me, especially women, because i do believe that women are key to the gaming institution, almost as if their lives are invisible

and this respected. like a maid, the big, corporate bond heads like steve wynn, the women that work as the maid is this respected. and babbitt i think that is -- and i'd think that is a terrible thing. people worked tremendously hard. they work for the casino and their work for their families. they work for the community. and that means a lot to me to be able to share those stories. >> now, a tour of the private mark twain collection of carson city, nevada residents jerry bartholomew. jerry bartholomew has amassed over 1,000 mark twain items since he began collecting in college. >> i've been collecting mark twain since i was in college, which has been like at least 45

to 50 years ago now. everybody read huckleberry finn, tom sawyer when they were kids. those were special editions made for kids, but if you get into the original works we find out they are quite a bit different than the ones that everyone thinks they are. so i just discovered a whole different dimension to mark twain and what is usually given in, you know, grammar school or grade school. when i first got started and lived in l.a. for a time. there were dozens and dozens of used bookstores down there. i used to just go down there on the weekends and sort through all of the books. i found all kinds of interesting stuff down there in los angeles. and all cities have an old town that is full of bookstores. used to be, anyway. not so much anymore. i have books and three different rooms. i would say there is maybe a thousand are 1500 different volumes. not all written by mark twain,

because i have reference books, biographies, books about mark twain, criticism, eccentric. check out the first editions and year. this antique cabinet with the glass doors has most of my first edition mark twain. i think there might be a few in the other room. and also, it has, on the top, all of the mark twain limited edition books because they put out -- so, there must be a dozen of them up there. they put out all of his novels and a limited edition. so those are all signed and numbered. there are also several norman rockwell's of their because he did illustrations for tom sawyer

and huckleberry finn. back in the early part of the century. i am not sure the exact year. and let's go over to the other room. now, this room has more modern books, biographies, criticisms, reference books. and i like to kind of keep it cluttered because it looks kind of like an old used bookstore in this part right here. you don't come across as much anymore. on this wall behind a glass cages -- the glass doors by have that first original set that i mentioned earlier, these three

and show you how fragilean there really are they all have their guilt title on the spine then you open it up and the leader not, when i first got these, some of the more uncut along the bottom. back in the old days they used to print books, like four pages on the sheet and then there have to cut them. some of these had to be cut at the bottom by hand. that is life on the mississippi from the date on there. can't read it.

the copyright. this book isn't that old. this book is from, like, the omete set of that edition that was part of wote buying all of these other books. when i foundhis said there were about six or eight volumes missing. when i finally figured out which ones were my way to becoming a full-fledged collector. i finally collected all of those volumes for this particular set. so it is complet in the meantime i also collected several other complete sets, like the one on top which is basically the same books just from a different publisher. and then the ones in the middle ear with the yellow dust covers, those are from the mark twain project in berkeley.

they have been putting out annotated scholarly editions for many years, and i have all those and then on this wall over here are books about mark twain, also my 16 no one collection is here. i'm not sure it is appropriate for mixed company, but that was a little racy story that mark twain wrote when he was being kind of a rascal. this is -- it's hard to see what that is. it is called a manuscript addition, the adventures of huckleberry finn. there are two volumes. i will show you the first year really quick. it is not super rare, but what it is is a reproduction of the

original handwritten manuscript that huckleberry -- of huckleberry finn in mark twain's hand showing some of his changes , corrections. it is kind of a -- you know, a student or a scholar would be interested in having a spirited shows how he makes changes to the manuscript after he has written a. so this is a 2-volume set. i have one for tom sawyer as well that is in there, but it is very similar. so that is pretty neat. have not had that al for years. [laughter] this is kind of a special piece here. i got this from knick career niche who was the famous mark twain collector who is now reached -- disease, but he gave classes and seminars on mark

twain. he wrote this book and put it together and inscribed this to me. this is a 1998. so you want me to read what that says? >> sure. >> is says about 90 years after mark twain took this trip, the journal and photographs find their way to me, meaning neck. what a thrill it was. anything can be anywhere. happy hunting. so he encourages people to keep looking around. anything can be anywhere. kind of like jack. another aspect of mark twain that i got into more recently is a miniature book. all of the books in this cabinet have some tie-in with mark twain. they are either -- they were either a story about him or one

of the stories that he wrote that was translated -- sorry, not translated, but many tries. so this is a story you wrote about the civil war called lock. and these are -- these have bookplates in them from previous owners. some of this is famous people from the miniature book world. and the art work is all miniature rise to. and then it is just illustrated and bound. and this is an interesting one here. a little, teeny weeny book. i don't know if i can get it out of there. do you want to see that? i'm not sure. i think it is by barbara. she is noted for doing really

the smallest miniature works. and she does all of this art work by hand. and it is actually printed. you have to read it with like at 20 power -- a ton the power magnifying glass. well, it is kind of like all long-term project, i guess. i have been working on it for 40 years plus. there are still things that i don't have. a lot of it is monetary. you know, i don't have the first edition, huckleberry finn or tom sawyer. not only rare, but many thousands of dollars. i just have not forgotten those or even seen him recently. so hopefully, you know, that might change in the future. >> for more information on book tv recent visit to carson city, nev., and the many other cities

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>> well, we want to introduce you to a 1-time of 33. new books coming out. >> guest: double author.

>> host: double author. >> guest: how exciting is that? my books are "dot.complicated" for adults and "dot." for children. i spent the last eight years working at facebook, building my own company in silicon valley. one thing i realized is that there is this whole world that people are fascinated end of entrepreneurship, technology, and this will demystify it. so "dot.complicated" takes a look at this crazy tech-obsessed world we live in and how it is changing our careers, lives, and families. >> host: how do you do that? >> guest: it is interesting. i talk a lot about finding balance. there has been a lot of talk about work life balance, but if you, and from work and are still buried in your cell phone, sitting on your laptop next to your husband at home, you are still working. you have not really found that balance. so i talk a lot about how to find tech-life balance in your

home, in your job, and your love life. and kind of all areas of communication and. >> host: are you saying, turn off your devices and go office but? >> guest: you know what, i think there is a time in a place for everything, but i do think that if you take a little bit of time to unplug and remember that there is a world when you look up from your screen and you can enjoy it, it makes you all the more productive, refreshed, relax, and you return to that on-line world. >> host: is there a danger of too much technology? >> guest: i talk a lot in my book about the phenomenon, being closer to friends, but farther from french ship. we now live in this world where you can literally keep in touch with thousands and thousands of strangers, and when you have ever met, but if you are buried in your device you are ignoring the people you love right next to you. so i think we really have to be conscious. technology, we can do amazing things with technology. it is so powerful. facebook is such an incredible r that we

open devices, not the devices on a gas. >> host: have we -- our people recognizing that today? >> guest: i think so. i think i recently started here in the last weeks and months a lot of chatter about the pendulum kind of going back from being a 24 / seven connected all the time and wanting that to people wanting some time to unplug and disconnect. all these vacations the you can go on, digital detox with a collector phone at the door or even a hotel in d.c. that locks your phone up when you check and . >> host: people are responding ? >> guest: people want that. people are paying for that. people are really seeing in recognizing that we are almost kind of tac addicted in tech obsessed and our culture and that we need to kind of reclaim a little of our life back. but that also drew me to write a children's picture book because it is not just the adults that are tech obsessed. my own 2-year-old son will literally walk up to a picture

frame and swipe it and ask for elmo or barney. so we have -- we live in this culture. our toddlers are tech obsessed. a really wanted to write a children's picture book on the same topic of criticizing tech-life balance. >> host: so when it comes to the children's book, how do you approach it? >> guest: the children's book has a strong female tech character named dot. a really spunky little girl. she, you know, has hurt tablet and her phone. she is talking to everyone all the time. and term on kind of forces are to go outside into the real world. the second half of the book she has all these amazing adventures in the real world that kind of echo what she is doing on all of these digital devices. so it has a very happy, lovely ending. >> host: so, randi zuckerberg, as a former marketing director for facebook, are you being disloyal to your old company? >> guest: no, i think facebook is an amazing, amazing tool.

it is used for so much good. i had a front-row seats in the role of shaping elections and alembics and responding to natural disasters. i mean, even if you looked at what just happened with the tornado last week and the ability for people to go on to social media and immediately provide relief, there is nothing like that in the world. i just think that we need to always remember to find the balance because you have people who you love and live to you, real people. and so it is all -- everything in life in moderation. ♪ what does your brother think? >> i think he is really excited for the book. you know, we are just putting the finishing touches on their right now. no one is ready yet. we will see. >> host: where did you grow up? >> guest: right here in westchester new york. and it's great to be back in new york. my parents are both doctors. my dad is a dentist and my mom is a psychiatrist. my dad, it was very -- he was

tech savvy from very early on. i talk about that in my book, my first introduction, the magic of technology that came to my dad and his office and just really the impact that it had on our whole family. you know, obviously the impact -- impacted had with facebook and have a chance dollar bus. >> host: when did you get involved with facebook? >> guest: i got involved in 2005. i was working in an advertising agency right here in new york city. i started really to hear about this amazing sight that my brother talked about how much it was taking off. i was working in digital marketing at the time, and he needed someone with knowledge in digital marketing as a new space. i went to california and was blown away by what i saw. when you read my book, i had an amazing experience at facebook. i use facebook all the time. it is up positive, feel good

story about how technology can make our lives so much more amazing. also a little reminder to find balance. >> host: you also have of website. >> guest: i do. >> guest: that's right. so in the book because it's kind of a long lead time for publishing, i did not want to put specific applications and web sites. you never know in technology what might be outdated by november when the book comes out. i also watched a companion website where people can get, you know, updated recommendations, breakdowns, the latest applications, given to you and your big sister guide to the modern world style. >> host: so if someone goes on the website and they read, what will they be able to the consolidate or what will they be able -- >> guest: we have a twice weekly newsletter that you will get that kind of breaks down everything that is going on in the modern world, the latest tech, how tech and helping your family and your life and your career.

we will also be launching our broader rub sight around the same time as the book, and you will be able to get lots of great content from our team, guest writers and kind of join the community. ♪ and "dot." is also coming up in november? >> guest: that's right. just in time for the holidays. so if you're considering what to get for your tech-assessed friends and family for the holidays, you can now have an adult book and a children's picture book. >> host: and we have been talking here on book tv with new of 33, "dot.complicated" and "dot." both coming up in november. >> guest: thanks. >> when it reached -- we reach a point where you have to have a certain philosophy because of the color of your skin? when did that happen? [applause] a repor