he won among white men, white women in 46 states across the country. in the midst of an economic calamity somebody promising taxes, deregulating corporate market, how does that happen? and the answer is race in the next question is how can racism be working this way. this is not a story of hate every black person racism. some people characterize in by saying it is an excessive term. tea party folks, republican votes, they're people who are out there in the economy trying to make their way for contract under say when this happens and

there is as powerful narrative out there. the narrative is minorities. government will protect you. in no i know that narrative is wrong, but the narrative is powerful. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. faugh of with -- >> you can participate and our discussion at booktv.org. we will be posting video and review and articles up there tomorrow. the discussion will begin tomorrow. we will be posting the regular basis discussion questions. i hope you will be able to participate. bonnie morris's women's history

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>> i would say that i am working from nine to three. most writers who say that they're right there seven or eight hours a day are exaggerating. you just can't believe you sort of lose it after a while. the senate is it when you're working on all. the edges of your imagination start to blur after, i would say, best case, about three hours. but even when you're writing a nonfiction book, you know, you may be getting three good hours of pounding away. the rest of it is research looking in the mills, making in the cup of coffee. fiction usually begins with an identity, redemption, things like that. but the process picks of when i

start to become the protagonist. and that character becomes sharper and sharper to me. i think all writing is scared because it leaves a piece of yourself behind. let's say you are blocking drear 20's. almost no one reads it, but 20 years from now you will have children. you can show them what you wrote and they will understand things about you that they might not otherwise. and you want to always say, with writing, even in its most basic form, letter, apollo, and it confers a kind of immortality. we'll have that experience of loving, losing, opening a door and finding a card or letter.

still alive. so i think the more writing the better. [inaudible] >> you know, i think regret are things that a good columnist -- and that would like to think m a good columnist -- get out of work they publish. in other words, he's been a fair amount of time has -- at the computer back stopping this up. and you're writing constantly. even when you're writing about events parts of your brain of thinking how will this field engineers. hal unequivocal to want to be about certain things. so i think you do a lot of -- i would not at all call its answering. his more taking the long view. because of that i don't really have any regrets about anything

have written. [inaudible] >> don't race -- don't waste time. i don't know where she is, but she is not coming. at least she is never coming here. occasionally there is a bleeding fly. ..

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