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done is the site of the first settlement in what is now utah. nicknamed the junction city, alternately became the junction location for the union pacific and central pacific railroads. and is now considered one of the top 10 cities in the country to raise a family. by "forbes" magazine. with help of our comcast cable partners for the next one hour we will learn the history of the city from local authors. >> today when people think of utah they primarily think of two things. obviously, the mormon church and its influence but also lyrically speaking they think of the republican party as one of the strongest republican states in the country, both in terms of the presidential election and in terms of local office. for us particularly we were interested in whether or not a socialist or a leftist radical movement that existed in utah and we discovered in fact that it had. >> the big misconceptions that is only a child emotion and is something we get over my going to summer camp are going to

college and in reality it's a mental condition as was a child's condition but it's always played adults move but, of course, we tried to silence our homesick is because we think it makes us amateur. the more began to investigate a topic realize it was actually quite a prominent theme in american history but one that had been overlooked by historians. >> we'd get our special look at all with author val holley on offense infamous 25th street. >> twenty-fifth street itself is actually not that unusual. similar streets have popped up in other cities where the beaumont, texas, fort worth, texas, larry street in denver. but what makes august 25 street somewhat unique is the fact that it arose right in the middle of the mormon settlement. you had on the one hand the mormon peoples party which was struggling to regain control of the city.

and on the other hand, you had the railroad which was the economic lifeblood of the city which was bringing in non-mormons which swelled the ranks of the liberal party, and so the railroad which was the economic lifeblood was also leveling the playing field. you had the irony. i think in that context the guilty pleasures that were along 25th street were going to be just a little bit more taboo than they might have been in other cities. initially, after the railroad came, a number of hotels sprang up here at the ogden depot. and initially the railroads, the mayor, the city council did not want to serve alcohol. they said alcohol would demoralize the railroad workers. well, that didn't last too long. the city needed the money. and so within a year after the railroad came, the city council

licensed for solutions here at the railroad. and after that boos began to flow like the ogden river. at the same time, three blocks east of here where 25th street intersects with the main street in ogden, it was another hotel called the white house. the white house was initially run by an itinerant merchant named simon banta berger. he was a very important when he arrived in ogden but later he became the governor of utah. so with the hotels and restaurants here at the depot and the hotel three blocks east of your, or three blocks between them began to fill in slowly with boarding houses, rooming houses and saloons and bordellos and even some opium dens. it just so happened that people who came through here,

trans-communal passengers were interested in us time several quite different than those that mormon culture was accustomed to. the mayor for 15 years from 1934-1949, it was during these years that the 25th street wild reputation reached its highest point. he believed that licenses and fees are the best way to regulate establishments such as gambling halls. he also believed that 25th street allowed ordinary people to enjoy the same kind of recreation as members of private clubs. so you get more of that during his time than at any other time in history. there were a lot of notorious people on 25th street in the 20th century. the most famous of all had to be

rose devi and her husband bill devi. rose devi among other things ran the rose room. the rose rooms are right behind us in the second floor of the building on the corner. it's now called the ledge. it's the hottest place in ogden. bill devi had his own gambling club which is on the opposite side of the street, second for of that building where lucky flight pizza is. rose davie leased the building, and for your she ran it as a normal room in house. and then the mayor came back in office of the beginning of 1948. there's no evidence for this but i think that she thought now that harmon perry is back in office, maybe a bordello would stand a chance. so she decided to start

importing women in their as prostitutes. the rose rooms first blaze and the public consciousness on may 11948. the wildlife foundation was holding its annual party and the livestock policy and. and three strippers from the rose rooms were hired for the grand finale. they were passing around matchbooks with the rose rooms global on them, and the strippers names were written in ink on the matchbooks. well, the crowd became so unruly that they started throwing bottles on the stage and police rushed to the coliseum and arrested not the bottle throwers but the strippers. this was the first time the public editor heard of the rose rooms it within a few days after that they raided the rose room and they arrested rose devi not for prostitution but for distribution of narcotics. spent we are standing out in front of a couple of buildings which are both associate with ogden's most famous madame, bell

london. the one standing direct if it was called the london ice cream parlor. and this one was called the davenport saloon. it still refer to that. bell london didn't actually build these but she owned at one point and she was famous for keeping her office here. the thing that's most visually interesting nowadays is this passageway which you see between them. this supposedly was dealt for belle london by special arrangement with the buildings owner so gentlemen could discreetly go here from 25th street into the center of the block which was often stand-alone district. -- oddbins tenderloin district. this passageway leads to what was called electric à la. it was in the center of the

block and it was built in 1893. belle london hired a local construction firm to build a grand parlor house for her right with this parking lot is. it was called number 10 electric alley. the alley itself into the interior of the block from grand avenue, and on both sides it was flanked

richards was an early official of the church. and the problem with that was being perceived as more men was keeping outside businesses from coming to our gang. he wanted to bring outside into ogg in an americanized ogden. so what he did is change the name of the city the first year he was in office two names after the president said the united states. he named washington blvd. after president george washington. he changed grand avenue from yonge street and there's the

lincoln avenue now. we actually have 17 streets and towns named after the former president of the united states. the one he did not change as while avedon front of union station about five blocks from here because that was named for the early pioneers built to keep unions out and i guess he just doubt that was worth keeping the way it was. interestingly, being non-mormon, he definitely ran into problems with the lds people in town. so i think i got back in him by naming cecil avenue after mayor t cell. if you look at the air ministry, not much more than alleyway doesn't even go all the way through. >> next, we said down with susan matt, who gives a history of

"homesickness." during the 18th and 19th centuries, homesickness or nostalgia was considered illegitimate helmet that soldiers could be discharged for. ♪ ♪ >> when i did the bissonnet conception of homesickness is only a child motion and said that we get over backward to summer camp or college and in reality it's mental condition as well as the child's condition. it's always plagued adults on the move. we've had two sons homesickness because we're worried in access and secure. when i came to utah inserting in the homesickness was discovered that ms have not right there,

after i refuse a mental new research by homesick scottish emigrant, a barman woman who at come out here. i thought that's not part of any narratives i've heard about mr. migration that people were thinking of places they've left behind. backup may make you thinking my experience of being homesick was widely shared across the centuries. i moved with my husband and we're both very eager to come west. i suddenly realized once i was here how much i miss my family in the midwest. i wondered if i was strange in that way because i'd heard for generations that americans had been out west and never looked back and it was an easy process. i expected when i grew up by would leave home and get a job and suddenly found it very difficult and i was wondering if i was some sort of anomaly. the more i began to investigate the topic, realized it was quite a prominent theme in american history, but one that had been

overlooked by historians. i founded any archive they went to in the united states that could easily turn up people reflecting on their homesickness and the 19th century 10th century come in the colonial period, talking about how painful it was to leave home and family possibly have no chance of going back. how they struggled with that emotion. one thing that struck me was in the 19th century americans are very public about their homesick ness. they make the most popular song in america home sweet home. it was written in 1823 and for the next several decades it topped the charts and that one would bring americans to tears because everybody seems to have the 19th century. ♪ >> so is this common locally discussed emotion.

that's only developed in the course of the 20th century. in fact, it was so acceptable to be homesick at the military made accommodation were. all sorts of institutions recognized it was a real problem. for instance, during the civil war, people who are acutely homesick or called nostalgic. nostalgia used in maine strong longing for home and people thought you could die of it. over 5000 soldiers on the union army were diagnosed as being acutely nostalgic and 72 actually died of nostalgia. that's a serious homesickness is taken in the 19th century. here's a letter from a civil war soldier fighting for the confederacy in 1861. how i wish last night after reading your letter twice to be with you in our sweet children. i can hardly sleep. my thoughts are my happy home in our sweet wife. his expression of homesickness were absolutely typical of civil

war, soldiers, black-and-white, north and south. i read hundreds of journals and they all say the same name. unfortunately, dawson never made it home. he was killed in battle the following year. the symptoms of homesickness most common were fevers, rapid pulses, dysentery was often associated with the disease. heart palpitations, throbbing arteries. all of these are listed as well no correlate of the condition. they could get so that people could die the condition as a result during the civil war, both armies were known to discharged soldiers if they were truly homesick because the only cure for homesickness must return somebody home. failing that, you like get furlough homes, temporarily recovered. all sorts of interesting regulations like army bands were forbidden to play home sweet home because they were worried the sun would make soldiers passout or weep uncontrollably. today we would say they are not suffering from homesickness.

they probably have dysentery and depression is exacerbating the condition. in the 19th century, that mind-body distinction wasn't quite as well fleshed out and people believed the psychological condition could have bistro physical consequences. there lots of imperatives to move the 20th century. we became a global power emanated a military that could deploy soldiers all over the world. you see decreasing sympathy for the condition starting in world war i and can tendering during world war ii were people will still occasionally get diagnosed with nostalgia, but there's a lot more patience and a lot more sense that these people are big babies. during the cold war, one.are at the university of pennsylvania called mothers who kept their sons too tightly wound to their bank records america's greatest menace because they were raising a generation of homesick that would be unable to fight the

communists. military certainly drove the efforts to repress homesickness. so too did the rise of corporate capitalism. companies who deploy workers across the nation and across the world had some people choked in the 1960s that ibm stood for i have been people were relocated who were loyal to bureaucracy working whether it was the government for a private company, you were supposed to be footloose and go where needed. so homesickness in that context became an inconvenient emotion because if workers are constantly going home, soldiers leaving the battlefield to fight, that is not going to be a particularly effective workforce are fighting force. i think in the military in populations on the move, you do see this as a recurrent problem and one that people are really loathe to admit because it's a sign of dependency. it's a sign of weakness to say

you want to be where your mom is so your house and is or where your children are. people are resistant because it seems like this child come up of this emotion i thought originally my story was going to be people have learned to repress this emotion of her time. what i found was people have repressed the public repressions over time but in their daily life, what is the food they were eating at the sports teams they were rooting for from afar or the television programs they were watching baxter and in today's abatements remold homelands. they were still maintaining these very vital connections to home. even in the people there or face poking untaxed and it's not chatting with, there was a real effort to maintain a connection to home so that even always celebrate the 80th americans as rugged individualists who can move on, cut ties, never looked back, in our daily lives we don't fulfill the mythology. we are much more connected than individualists rhetoric might make us think.

>> a look at wisebird cookery with margaret siemer. she discusses the challenges of being in the book business. >> when i moved to utah in 1997, we were driving along harrison will of fired. i saw this building and absolutely fell in love and decided that one day i was going to own this domain and the stern and little bookstore that had been here for so many years. i approached the owner of the store if she would be willing to let us move into the bookstore. we were in the coffee business at the time and we have a very successful coffee shop down and waited. but we decided we would like to come appearing to ogden. at that time, she was kind of recessed into the whole idea. so we approached it several years later and in 2005, she actually agreed to let us put a little coffee shop inside the

bookstore. and that kind of gave us our foot in the door. and learned a lot about the bookstore business at that time. and it was all over, but the crying after that come in 2008 we bought the whole thing. the building, the bookstore and everything. so it was just a series of events that occurred that were very fortunate for us. this store was completely wall-to-wall, floor to ceiling, aisles and aisles of books. everywhere you looked there were shelves of books. obviously, it's very different today and that came about as a series of things that happened that the economy with amazon.com and so on so forth. people did not quite as much money to spend on their books. so we had to seriously, seriously think about how we were going to go forward with wisebird cookery. the bookstore has been here since 1978 it was started by two

delightful ladies that were schoolteachers in the community and we really felt that it had been such an important part of the history of this area do we really did not want to close their doors and we struggled with this for some time and finally looked at each other in the eye and said what is it that we know best? we knew the coffee business. what is it that we want to do? we want to preserve the bookstore at all costs. so we decided that we would rearrange things a little bit after we purchased the building, rearrange things a little bit to make it more of a community gathering place and it was the perfect combination for that. that's what we've done. over the last several years, we have brought it to what you see and hear today. there were a lot of people who were traditionalists and they wanted it left the way that it

was. we all have this wonderful secret place and our hearts where we think of little bookstores with their spiderwebs in their dusty bookshelves and so on and so forth. and wouldn't it be great if we could all exist with factory in? it doesn't happen anymore. so today we still have a lot of people that walk through the doors. just yesterday i had a couple common. they move to california 28 years ago and they walked back in here in the typical reaction as people stop and they look around and they say, where are all the books? in my usual response to that is welcomed to wisebird cookery. what is the last time you were here? quite obviously, between you and i., they haven't been coming in here guidebooks. so they are kind of it's not the little bookstore anymore. it isn't sadly little bookstores

don't exist thomas we do something a little bit more appealing to the community. this is the niche that we found that it's working well for us. i had the impression that most people were like myself. you know, they would come in and it would look for a book and they would browse the shelves and then they would leave what they buy a book and leave. people would come in with the intention of purchasing a book in the first place. what we're finding now, especially with the advent of e-books in the big chains, amazon.com and so forth, i totally understandably, people come in, they look for a book that piques their imagination or whatever and then they'll say i can get this for $10 less on amazon.com and they will turn around and walk away.

that was hurtful to me that people -- i guess its business and you can understand it, but it was good price to me that people would use a local bookstore owner and turnaround in they eye can get it cheaper from a big corporation that's not going to put anything back into our local community. we are very involved in my local fairs because the money we pay in taxes, the money that we paid salaries goes back into her community, whereas a lot of people are not really aware of the fact that when you purchase a book on mine or when you purchase a book from a big chain store, that money leaves the state. we do try to educate people from that point of view as well. basically i think purely because we have been so involved in our community, we donate to a lot of local charities, a lot of school group so on and so forth that

people have realized we are here to stay and it's just a wonderful place to com. >> we are standing here in front of the lds temple instead three talking about fawn brodie. fawn brodie, one of ogden and most distinguished literary products was born in ogden to a family that was very high in very act and the lds church. her father was an assistant to the church is highest count low the corner of a child and she had go who became president of the church in the 1960s. she fell away from the church in the 1930s and that mnf color and heard literary output. the song became popular for writing psychological profiles.

her most famous ones and the one still in print 60 years later was called no man knows my history, a profile and biography of joseph smith, founder of the lds church. it was published in 1945 and in that book she looked into his chariot to assist meant, first pointing out that he started his career as a treasure hunter and sending of a con artist, charging farmers to dig for treasure in their fields, never finding anything going on. eventually, he formed his own religion and preached that it became the church of jesus christ of latter-day names and ms. brodie talk about how eventually she became to believe that he really was a prophet of the church people in the book came out come he was you can imagine not well received by the lds church. she was six communicated from the church for apostasy in 1946. somebody in the church wrote a

counter argument to a book called no man, that's not history, which she left out. she went on to write other autobiographies of people like richard nixon. she wrote one of thomas jefferson and his relationship with his slave, sally having and died in 1981 in california. her book about joseph smith is still in print, still available today than you can find it on the shelf. >> now, from book to be stripped to ogden to learn about the history of the socialist movement in utah firm john sillito, history of "history of utah radicalism." >> today than people think of utah, and they think of two things. obviously, the mormon church and its influence, but politically speaking i think of the republican party that is one of the strongest republican states in the country and both in terms

of the presidential election and local offices. when john mccormack and i first started doing our research, we are interested if that perception of utah had always been the case. what we discovered is no common utah has not always been the bastion of republicanism that is today. one. during its history was very competitive politics. for us particularly, were interested in whether socialist, leftist rattle us movement existed in the discovered it had. that opened up some insight into utah history. when all the way back to the radical but the mormons in 1847. performance brought with them a kind of utopian socialism. they called it the united order, but it was very much a youtube via of everybody put an end to the community with the community needed and taking the radical

community and heritage in mormonism. the more we discovered is there a political movements here in utah similar to political movements around the country to chew on those communitarian editions in many people involved in utah were mormons. many people involved in utah were non-mormons. there is kind of a fertile ground for. in time. after a while, the mormon church and its desires to become more and then oppose an almost to forget that communitarian position. but there still elements in the late 19th century but we begin our research. during the late 19th century, the politics in utah were very, very interesting and very complicated. on the one hand, the majority are attempting under the pressure the federal government to do what they need to do to become a state. during that same period of time, we find evidence the radical

political groups, populist party emphasizing the question of free silver at the ratio of 16 to one. the populist party is strong in utah, partly because utah is a sober state. utep is 80% for the democratic candidate, william jennings bryan in 1896. even in its most republican. in the last 40 years, if not gone 80% for any presidential candidate. so you have a combination of the drive for statehood along with the existence of the people in utah asking similar questions asked around the country about the excesses of wild, the great gap between the very poor and the very wealthy and how you bring about them or just an economic society. in utah come you have the same forces populist party, knights of labor and others. then a 200 is a socialist party

has developed nationally in utah as well. for the next 20 years is very active in terms of elections in all kinds of that committees. we'd like to say it creates a kind of oppositional culture and the culture is political, electoral, but it's also social. it's also intellectual. and so the socialist parties please his deep roots in utah in those first two decades of the 20th century, which again are very complicated in the years right after statehood. what the socialist party begin seeking to utah, it is at the same time that the mormon church is trying to become much by mainstream and much more american in their nature. the socialist represent an alternative to that that many leaders of the lds church don't

appreciate. the irony is in our research will we discovered that is in many ways socialist party of utah is a lot like the socialist party elsewhere in terms of its ideology, and turns of his compensation with one exception. some 40% of the socialist party of utah are lds, many of whom are active in faithful members of the lds church. we like to tell the story that when i started doing our research that found people with names that are offered woodruff freckled 10 and joseph smith just a pearly prat washburn, good mormon names, we knew there was a mormon elements of the socialist party, a story that had never been told. we believed if we followed that story would help us not only understand socialism but understand the various tenant is that utah had exhibited in that period of time. the disparity between the two elements, mormon and non-mormon

to place at both levels. it took place generally in the politics at the time, but it took place within the socialist movement itself. there were a number of socialist who did not believe one could be a mormon and really be a socialist. they believed in the final analysis that mormon commitment to capitalism into the business was evidenced in that. i'm a and a commitment he may have had to the communitarian heritage. there were other socialist to realize because mormons were so dominant in utah, msn at a certain percentage of any movement would be mormon. more importantly, it gave them a certain validity that they might not have gained any other way. so it was an uneasy relationship in race. for mormons who believe we discovered one person who sent it this way.

mormonism is my religious name. socialism is a political faith and saw no contradiction between those developments. many socialists couldn't believe that could happen, but it did. and it happened more often than did not. utah's role in this period of time nationally was complicated as well. utah became a state in 1895. first election with 1896. in that election is a mention, william jennings bryan carries the state overwhelmingly running as the democratic candidate. in 1800 coming utah is solidly in the republican camp. there's the political machine in utah that is solidly republican. the second-generation mormon leaders are moving into the republican party were the first generation have been states rights and democratic. but because of the nature of utah politics, but because of the question of the attempt to deny us the tour guide was duly

elected senator, but also an apostle in the lds church, utah's role is minor in many ways although the attention of the country is focused on these interesting questions. is that political machine continues, utah becomes qaeda safe republican state. in 1912, for example, it is one of two states that the incumbent president, william henry task carries enough four-way election with roosevelt and kerry in part because of the division, said in part because the mormon church to regular republicanism and not looking to be really until, with some exceptions, and so the election afraid it was about a 1932. then utah's politics are very balanced and achieved or two tonight b-52, all for roosevelt and truman.

after that with the exception of johnson and 64, it's been overwhelmingly republican. not as republican as it is today. not to disintegrate, but it has been republican. the shifting from democrat to republican and that was caused by more national trends than anything else. both in terms of the period of timeboth in terms of the periodf time when utah was a competitive state for risk going for roosevelt, to press the senate and congress, was part of a national pattern. after world war ii has politics of the united states become more concerning, the politics of utah become more concerned. still competitive. really competitive until the 1970s. but that's part of it. what is also part of it is for many utilities -- you can, secretary of agriculture

hundredweight heights in our get the sense that mormonism had finally been accepted and was part of the american mainstream and many mormons sought to maintain a history major. there's a lot of factors going on. some national, and local commerce and involving personalities. it's a different history since world war ii than it was before. people often ask why is utah's such a strong republican state today? it's a combination of a couple things. i think utah's politics in the last 40 years have tended to be more conservative in the country, though the country has moved in a can that direction. i think the influence of the lds church on social and moral issues has been passed. that is the distaste towards a more conservative position. the opposition of the church to the equal rights amendment of

the night eumenes was a galvanizing event as well. so i think it's a convergence of forces within more conservative america and the age of reagan than i was before. i think that a good question that is us in the future when i get in line at want to ask you if they come up with finance. many times do people hate to to use any socialism in utah in the number, i say yes if they say must be very fitting that. if they know it's a thick book in a really strong tradition. must you tan are unaware of that. many of the families of the people involved themselves are unaware that their ancestors were involved in politics. when we tell the story in utah between 191923, individuals elected to office everywhere

from city level to the state alleges teacher say to let someone we'll overthrow the those people were elected. really in many ways they became what we congress the farmers who wanted to prove that an office, socialist and to be just as dependable words may be more honest than politicians in the democratic republic party. but there is a legacy there. it's a legacy that had its ups and downs. the socialist party and the united date decline in the 20s, reemerges in the 1930s, is consumed by the new deal era in and around the country, reemerges again in the 1960s. certainly political left reemerges in utah in that period

of time. you know, i don't know what the future holds. but the existence of the radical tradition excimer possible for people to say i believe. our preconceptions of utah don't always match the reality. what was in austin was a hopeless local people partner comcast in my booktv takes a tour of levers to universal social collection, home of pioneer journals. >> arafat for document into his jury in davis county. so we have over 350 manuscript collection and about 175 different autograph collections. but the collection that can range from corporate archives to club record two-family records. some of my most favorite things

are the family record because not only do you get the correspondence between family members, but a lot of times, especially in the early 1800s company the, people kept diaries, something a lot of people don't do anymore. these are diaries written daily accounts of events that happened in the local area to these local families. the diaries we are going to look at today are a series of diaries from 1884 to 1964 that were kept by dr. edward israel rich and his wife, l. myra rich. dr. rich was one of the first doctors here in austin. he was actually worth i to medical school in vienna, came back in 1894 and they have been best friends throughout that time while she was in medical school. but she's that she would marry him until he had a crack disparity established.

so he moved to ogden, bought a house, rented the building and started his medical practice. they were married shortly after that. this journal we are going to target this album i was journal, which of course is a very interesting year in not only local, but national news as well. ..

>> gave a splendid talk on regarding the number of tuberculosis cases from the hospital. also stressed the dangers of its spread to the influx of hundreds of people coming into our city. many having aches and our schools are in danger of spreading. since no examination is made of

either teachers or students. also public places are crowded, et cetera. it's really interesting to read through them, get not only the daily occurrences that happened in the family, nina, so and so was born or grandma came to visit today, or i washed laundry and baked bread. but then the also talk about some of the important local and national events that were happening as well. talk about operating, and before 19 can do was in hospital in ogden for the public. some of those operations have been on the table into peoples homes. if you had appendicitis, you would come -- to come to your home and operate on you there. this is 1954. this is dr. rich's diary. we'll skip to his january 6, 1954, the day his wife pass.

mother called me at 2 a.m. she had severe pain in her chest and left arm. i gave her dimmer all the while she was relieved of something, she did not rest. i remained awake and gave her sedation. at 6:30 the doctor came over and gave her more demerol. she slept for about two hours and then felt better. we took a to the hospital at 10 a.m. the cardiologist then took her and ran this pictures return to the room and was fairly comfortable. but sadly expired a few minutes later. cleeland was in the room with her and the doctor was just outside of the room in the whole. she didn't realize that death was so near. dr. rich ended up practicing for a total of 71 years. he would've practice slightly after she passed away. then his health as well start to deteriorate. he had a lot of problems.

he was known for delivering over 5000 babies in ogden. his legacy continued on because its sons and grandsons and further down the went into the medals school -- medical school. for me having these journals really gives that glimpse into life here in ogden during the early 1900s up to 1954. it goes far beyond sort of glossed over history of octave. you get down to some of the nitty-gritty things where he talks about people being defined or committed to its famous island. events happening. she went through every art opening, every social ball. she was there. she wrote about them. >> learned about the league of utah writers next from booktv's recent trip to ogden,

utah with help of our local cable partner comcast. >> i used to live in our from where we are now. and i started a writers group, sort of a writers christies group. and i in the local newspapers, often valley news, i put an ad in the newspaper just after we arrived in utah. and i put a little add saying i'm going to start this writers group and i invited local authors to come and want to be authors, to come to the first meeting. i was surprised there were almost 20 people there, you know, and then it sort of dwindled a little bit because one of the things i really feel strong about is that if you want

to be a writer, what do you need to do? you need to write. and i found out that a lot of people that want to be writers to go to meetings, they go to stuff but they never get to the actual writing part. some people also do not like to speak. of the people asked their opinion on. so i strongly believe that people should belong to writing groups, and you know, so the way, the groups i belong to, you meet every second week angel working on two projects and to hand and a chapter. the next week another chapter so it really encourages you to actually write. and then everyone in the group will give their input on it and

that's how you work on your writing style. one of the authors that came to the first meeting was a young adult author also living in eden. we decided that eden was the perfect place to have a writers conference. we thought perfect, we rented the place and it was a perfect place to the conference in the valley in autumn when it's just beautiful and also inspiring as a writer that time of year. we invited agents and everything from new york, california, and surprisingly they came. and authors from all over the country game, and it was a sold

out event even though we could only fit about 120 people in here. it was a wonderful experience, but the little group i had, what i called the even writers circle, we all club together and we did this writers conference. part of the conference was every offer that came dashing if you want to, had to be a part of a ghost story. our little plan will of the eden writers circle which use them like a little awards to these stories. and i told the right, you know what? we have to practice what you preach. so if you want people coming to the conference to write stories, if you want that, you also have had the experience of writing stories. and they're all going, no,

because some of the historical novels, all different genres. some of them never did a short story and especially not in a ghost genre. so that time, very mixed meeting. two weeks later and this is about a month before the conference, i came back to the meeting and i was just like so excited because each managed to write a ghost story. these stories were so wonderful. i was just amazed. it was based on the history in eden and the canyon where they all lived. and so the stories, i've got to put this together in a book. i've just got to do it. and most of the authors of these

writers had never been published. a were all so excited. i did this little book, and it's, you, like you can see, it's all tales from eden, liberty. if you look at it it spells h-e-l. i went with other writers that would put all this together, you know, the stories government to local publishers and we put together this little book. that's what i just love about books, two of local, all local authors do the stories and they went beyond the call of duty and really went and just did an amazing. the book, a combination of really wonderful stories, really talented authors and the history

of the area. >> we are standing in front of the london eye scream part of which use be one of the houses of prostitution in ogden back in 1930. this is where reuel miller found good business work as the mayor of ogden. he was in his 90s 20 years ago. he did in the 1930s he got a job from something called the american detective agency which went around following cheating husbands and things like that. the also sold signs of businesses in ogden which said this business is protected by the american detective agency. assigned cost $50. what the american detective agency did was provide protection to bars and places selling illegal liquor. if you're going to get rated they told you in advance so you could hide the liquor. if they wanted to arrest

somebody they provided somebody to sit in jail for you. mr. miller went to the mayor of ogden, and offered him one of the signs. and he said absolutely he wanted one of those because he at a bar over at the mouth of ogden canyon called the old mill. the next day, ogden came back with a sign and the mayor had a badge on his shirt and said, you are one of my special policemen. turns out a special policemen, his job was to follow the police officers, regular please force of ogden are bound to make sure they were collecting dress and bar owners quickly. he made sure all the money went into the proper pocket. non-gaap in the police officers pocket. his job was also to enforce bounced checks in houses of prostitution in ogden. he told me about one farmer up in fremont to have a good time down in ogden, and he went to

fremont and the farmers check bounced. mr. miller went to his farm in fremont, met the former at the gate and said he owed the city $300. the farmer said absolutely i'll pay right up. just don't talk to my wife. he said that was actually fine with them, no trouble at all. >> up next, eric swedin talks about his book, "when angels wept: a what-if history of the cuban missile crisis." the author spoke with booktv during a recent visit to ogden, utah with the help of our cable partner comcast. >> i would argue the cuban crisis because of what could've happened is the most important event in the 20th century history. we don't often think of it that way because it was the best of all possible worlds. the soviets withdrew and pretty much total humiliation,

khrushchev later lost power because of this. though on the part of the soviets they did get a promise from the united states the united states would not -- [inaudible] 1961 fidel castro had taken over cuba a couple years earlier. is slowly moved towards being about communist. there was a lot of opposition to him by different elements of society who have fled or were exiled. and the united states was concerned about a communist country that close to its borders, so they sponsored a brigade to be trained under caa guidance to prepare to invade cuba. and right after the john kennedy administration took office, they had this plan from the eisenhower administration and they launched the invasion after making changes to the plan,

which led to a debacle called the bay of pigs which was a disaster on pretty much every level, and one consequence is that khrushchev, the leader of the soviet union, decided he needed to help cuba preserve its independence, and so this is when he hatched the plan to smuggle in troops and weapons to defend cuba. this is a plan that he puts together and launches in the middle of 1962. and often people just think that he was planning on putting nuclear-tipped missiles on the island, but there was more than that. he was putting 50,000 troops on the island, he was putting the air force you know, basing submarine's there, and this goal was to truly be able to defend cuba from an american invasion.

it's not like the americans weren't thinking about an invasion. kennedy himself did not want to give an invasion by the military did. kennedy learned a lot of lessons from the bay of pigs. mostly learned how to better decision-making processes, better information flow from the white house. when a given missile crisis did happen in october of 1962 he was able to handle the situation much better. the message from the bay of pigs was very fortunate for the united states because it helped focus the kennedys aids on how to make better decisions. the military's argument was we cannot allow a satellite country of the soviet union, a communist country to exist within our sphere of influence, which is the new world. and this is something they should very much take care of. and throughout the entire cuban missile crisis, the advice of most of the military brass was

bomb and invade. they saw the cuban missile crisis as an opportunity to justify taking out castro once and for all. it's only later in the 1990s with the release of new documents that we've come to realize that the soviet union put a lot more on the island then we realized. not only were they putting on their strategic missiles which were designed to cities in the united states, they had put about 100 tactical nukes on the island which were intended to be used in battle. and if that had actually been used you could see escalation and the whole thing becoming a nightmare. so they had no idea. the military had no idea those tactical nukes exist. not only did kennedy want to de-escalate the situation, ignoring the fact that one of our airplanes was shot down over cuba and the pilot was killed, but khrushchev also started to

de-escalate immediately. my book, what i do is i try, i wanted to return contingency to history. contingency is the fact that at that moment in history, all options are available to decision-makers and the future is not known. and as so often as historians we will use 20/20 hindsight and condemn people for their decisions without remembering that contingency exists. what it is i wrote a book that is the to a history book from an alternate timeline. the first half is actual history leading up to the crisis, and then i have one event different, and that is the u2 that takes the photograph flies away led to what happens in the united states emphasize not just a quarantine island but the united states also decide to invade.

the invasion force is rapidly put together its landing. the soviet command on the ground uses one of his tactical nukes, blows apart the american invasion force. the americans withdraw. they are in shock. the military is in shock because they had no idea tactical nukes were on that either. the united states using a tactical nuke was breaching the barrier between conventional warfare and nuclear warfare. and so what they did is, and they're not sure what's on the island of. they don't trust their intelligence. so the united states uses hydrogen bombs and destroys cuba, just to make sure that they have got anything possible. once they have done that, there is one point, a light bomber that survives because it stationed at a plantation industry and not one of the regular christians. it has its own hydrogen bomb.

it follows its last mission and the so the plane flies to new orleans and drops a bomb on a. there wasn't infantry division that had been moved down to new orleans and was preparing to invade and occupy cuba. and now the united states is in shock because one of their major cities just got destroyed. cruise ship is in shock because everything, he lost complete control of events. at that point, khrushchev makes a critical decision, and that is the united states had overwhelming strategic superiority to the soviet union, and christian of new this. so he knew that it again to bombers flying and missiles line, but the soviet union the only way they're going to get intelligence on your states was to strike first. so he chose to strike first. once you choose to strike, the united states strikes back. i need to explain something

that's not common understood about this period, and that is john f. kennedy in 1960 in the presidential campaign argued that the eisenhower administration had allowed a missile gap to emerge and that the soviets had more intercontinental ballistic missiles than we did, and that the soviets were ahead of us in deploying strategic weapons. once he got into office he found out the truth, which was the exact opposite. they actually admitted it. the united states had about 200 intercontinental blessed missiles which could hit the soviet union. the soviets had 26 decades of the united states. the united states had almost 1500 strategic bombers. the soviet union had not quite 100. that's a unique had a lot more shorter range weapons as did we, so in my scenario in this general exchange, shorter range

weapons obliterated europe. gets caught in the crossfire. the united states gets hit by several dozen weapons, not 10% of the population is killed and that's horrific but it is survivable. the soviet union gets hit by so many weapons that about two-thirds of the population is killed and the soviet union is basically obliterated. i think there are people who asked what it because they like to play parlor games. which is okay, that's fine, but that's not serious historical inquiry. i'm interested in serious historical inquiries asking what if or counterfactual question. counterfactual questions properly ask a narrow in scope can illustrate the consequences

of the past so which were actively. and it can really help us learn to write references to historical events. i'm not one that would overdue lessons history teaches us. so on the other hand, when you're looking at foreign affairs, military affairs, history is our guide. >> standing in front of ben loman which is when the most prominent peaks over ogden. please note it is not -- the name ben loman refers to a mountain in scotland. treachery is the name of the mountain in scotland that this non-reminded only scottish settlers in the ogden area of. so they gave it the same name as the mountain of the remembered in their homeland.

we are talking about this non-connection with william hodgkinson. william was the founder of paramount pictures which distributes movies all over the world. in 1907 he lived in ogden and started one of the first movie theaters in ogden. eventually expanded his little movie theater empire taking over distribution of movies in utah, moved to hollywood where he started his production company of paramount picture. that theory has it that one day he was sitting in a restaurant in 1914 talking about a logo to represent his company, and he just sketched out a picture of the mountain he represented from living in ogden, surrounded it with stars and that was the paramount logo for years and years. and the mountain he drew was ben lomond. the logo has changed a few years ago. it's very stylized mountain now

with just a few stars over it. i think it looks more like mount everest than ben loman anymore. so that's the history. >> forward slash and on booktv's recent visit to ogden, utah and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> we are at the summit and that golden spike national historic site. walking you over to where the transcontinental railroad was completed. this spot right here marked by this guy is within inches of where the original ceremony was held on may 10, 1869. what you see right next to it, it was actually placed when they reserve a the exact location as

they were establishing the site and getting ready to set things up. so that is marking pretty much the exact location, within inches of where the original ceremony was held. the original, this is a replicate of them would've been lost in the 1906 san francisco earthquake and fire. all of the items that were brought out for the ceremony would have been brought by the central pacific out of california. included on this is a plaque that lists many of the dignitaries from that company, the central pacific in particular. when the transcontinental radio was completed it made a major impact in the industrial development of this nation. and allowed to grow not only in its economy and its ability to build within a nation but also to be, more impactful throughout

the world. at the end of the civil war was also a huge good in helping to build the country and then once they're able to settle the other areas, our country was able to become, or the united states was able to become a world power. >> this weekend a booktv and american history tv take a look at the history and lit array life of ogden, utah. throughout the weekend on c-span2, and today at two on c-span3. >> there's a lot more, a lot more disconnection, a lot more families are broken the should be broken. not talk about the worst terrible news. a dog that could families because of the stress of life, holding a job. living in that world, that working-class up and down world has put a lot of strain on people that can make sure they should have as mother father son. and even the addictions that are so rampant that because it's

easy to get trucks and our goal. i think all of this activity my story be more of the american story that a lot of people may be misspent former gang member and committee activist political candidate and karl sandburg lit array award winner luis j. rodriguez will take your questions, in depth live for three hours starting at noon eastern today on c-span2's booktv. >> up next on booktv, "after word" with guest host, executive director of the national lawyers guild. this week deputy editor of the futures magazine patrick tucker and his new book "the naked future: what happens in a world that anticipates your every move." mr. tucker is a communications director for the world future society. he argues date has created smart prediction models for individual behavior. he discusses the application with such accurate models with

surprising conclusions. this program is about one hour. >> host: patrick, your book couldn't be time to. -- couldn't be more timely. ..