farmer. agriculture that i was mentioning, the idea you could leave medicine in the united states and the work in agricultural ethiopia and find yourself contributing, doing in some ways better, feeling more alive, more in the charge, more influential is surprising to some people. he had 400 employees, he drives five cars, has a white and two kids, doing really well, running this business in ethiopia. that is a really exciting dynamic for so many people like myself who are first second-generation immigrants to realize your home country has opportunities you are uniquely positioned to seize. that will be and essentials piece of africa's growth story. for >> unfortunately we are out of time but that is a fantastic place to leave it for now. this book is full of brilliant

stories like that that wraps the anecdotal around a kind of analytical strands so the book is "the bright continent: breaking rules and making change in modern africa," dayo olopade, thank you for being here today. is a brilliant book. if you want to understand the continent better, you will buy it. >> thank you, good to be here. [applause] >> thank you for attending today's session. thank you to our moderator, doug foster and our great author, dayo olopade. e-book "the bright continent: breaking rules and making change in modern africa" on sale now in the main lobby. she will be signing copies just outside the auditorium for anyone interested. thank you very much, enjoy your afternoon with the bit fast. >> c-span2 providing live coverage of the u.s. senate

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moines >> the first day we opened the star we had so many authors coming in asking if we would carry their book. it takes up an entire wall of the store now and we represent 400 authors. it goes back to the great literary tradition we have. >> carl weeks collected the books he did because they were important historical works but he believed books themselves were worth their art and had a worth beyond the words on the page. >> we start with dave price author of "caucus chaos." >> caucus cycle is unique

because whatever is happening in the world and the country and the field of presidential candidates. but the 2012 cycle was more unique because almost every single person who ran was a front' runner. so it was chaos because i felt it summed up the feeling of the whole experience. >> do you think what the tax rate would have to be to honor the promises of social security and medicaid if we raised taxes and raised them as they are? right now they take 15% and that would rise to 44%. >> i am on social security! >> i am glad you are on social security. hold on a moment. >> you came here to listen to the people so listen >> no, i came here to speak and

you can answer questions. hold on a second and i will let you speak. >> social security! [chanting] >> iowa has never seen a caucus cycle like in 2012. this isn't meant to be a history book, though. this went through the rise and fall of every candidate so we understand what happened but more importantly why it happened. mitchell bachman, to her credit, was a serious creditability contender for the presidency, which in this state is no little thing. iowa is one of the two states to never send a woman to the governor's mansion or congress -- mississippi is the

or one. it is tough turf. and for a while she looked like she could be the first one. >> the winner of the 2011 iowa straw hole is congresswoman mitchell bachman. >> in the end it probably killed the straw poll because she had a collapse as people focused on what she said and the way she ran the campaign. she employed. >> the people of iowa spoke with a clear voice and so i have decided to stand aside. and i believe if we are going to repeal obamacare, turn our country around and take back our countery, we must do so united and rally around the person that our country and our party and

people select to be that standard barrier. >> rick perry got a lesson in his own way. he got in late. he stayed a lot of time away from the state. we talked about this in the book, rick perry chose to spend a lot of time outside of iowa. he didn't get in the coffee shops and get in the church basements and work people over. he seems serious in 2016. i think you will see him and you have. he came to iowa and is getting involved in local dinners where you can meet people. that is the lasting lesson for people is you have to get out

here. newt gingrich was a front runner for a while as well. people knew him. but he ran a different campaign. people that didn't like him said his campaign was more about promoting his last book, movie or his wife's latest book. they didn't raise much money or spend a lot of time here and the whole three marriage thing didn't go over well. he had his moment and was gone. ron paul is one you can say has a long shelf life here. he ran in '08 and '12 and he more than doubled his support from those times. his people were organized and he found a way to get people engaged in a way they never had.

thee were people that never voted. he had really young people showing up at the events. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you. and i think you might recognize my wife -- her picture is on that cook book. anybody see that cook book? thank you so much. what a delightful crowd. sometimes i say that is a good speech but that was a good crowd. >> he laid the groundwork for a while and the libertarian party took over and people didn't like it and kicked them but. rick santorum is like the little engine that could. he came here and no one knew who he was. the thing he accomplished was he

got his screw ups out of the way when all of these cameras were not around him. his sound bytes and answers were ready for everything. and he had good philosophical debates back and forth and knew what to say and how to get his point across. as iowa gave up on the candidates, santorum was the last one standing and had a surge the final week of the campaign. >> thank you. thank you. [ applause ] >> game on! [ applause ] >> his legacy is that he showed if you work your butt off iowans will give you the benefit of the doubt and if you are in the game

at the end they trust you and met you numerous times and will support you in the end. everybody was built up and whether it was the candidate's fault or choices the campaign made everyone plummeted down with the exception of mitt romney who was steady and had the same support in 2012 and 2008 but that wasn't a good thing necessarily. >> i am running for everybody in the nation. i care deeply about all of the citizens. you take care. thank you. >> the caucuses are a unique event some would say a spectacle. you have 2012 with all of the attention but only 122,000 took

place in the caucus so you are talking about a group of passionate people showing up. it is different than a primary. you are talking about an event where everybody has to go somewhere, usually around 7 o'clock, and you have to give a couple hours of your time. if you remember, there are three people involved at that night: ron paul, rick santorum and mitt romney. as the night war on we could see paul wasn't going to win. at 1:30 in the morning the chair stood up and announced mitt romney was the winner. what we see on caucus night, he was warned, may not be what we see because there is a

certification process no body cares about usually. we had chaos leading up, super chaos on the night of the caucus and more on the nights once they figured out. there are 17 different p prestincts and they had to go back and certify them. they never counted eight of them for? reason. some all of the volunteers were supposed to turn it over to the state. the party said they never got the results and some people said we gave it to you. to this day and probably forever it will not be solved. so those eight prestincts will never be counted and in the end

it showed rick santorum up. but matt strong was hesitant to call rick the winner and that escalated the tension. and in "caucus chaos" rick santorum had a shouting match about how this was going down. >> we don't know what the final vote tally is but congrats to rick santorum. he has worked hard in iowa. we will it has been a great victory for us. and ron paul had a great night as well. >> if you look at caucus night by the numbers, strong was right. by the numbers romney did win by eight votes. the challenge was because it was so, so close, the closest it has ever been in the history of the caucus, that could change once

getting through the certification process. it took a couple week and the campaigns were fighting here because strong, after going through the certification process, he and his staff were saying it was a tie and that made the santorum people. when it was eight-point margin you said romney was the winner. now you are counting the votes you found, and santorum is up by 44 you are saying that is a tie -- 34 -- how can that be? so a state central committee got involved behind the scenes and they forced strong and had several versions of the news release they were going to send but they agreed on one where he said santorum is the winner.

>> thanks for coming out. first, a few things need to be cleaned up to explain the caucus certification process. in the 17,066 certified p prestinct rick santorum was the winner. >> the way it went down with matt strong is a mystery. people assumed he was running for the u.s. senate and using the state party chairmanship as a launch for this. but people have different views on how this went down. in this state they are supposed to remain neutral and he said he

would, but the santorum folk and the social conservative folks thought he wanted mitt romney to win. they felt like he should have stood up at 1:30 in the morning and said this is unprecedented and the closest we ever had. eight votes between the two and we have a certification process we will know through and make sure everything is counted. it is a 14-day process and we will know but it is an unbelievable neck. he didn't do that. because he stuck out and said romney won, he hung his reputation between a lot of people because they could not fathom how he could do that when

there was a chance that romney didn't win. it damaged his reputation permanently in some people. but when the senate race came he wasn't a candidate and people point to that one night on caucus night that destroyed his chances of becoming a u.s. senator. after the caucus night debacle and he was force today declare rick santorum the winner he resigned under pressure from the state party. it doesn't look good to people where at the end of the day you never found 8-1700 prestec nkts. you know they had to figure out okay this was a big black eye and we have to heal this and

move on. now if rick had won iowa would he bee the republican nominee and the president of the united states? that takes many steps to get to that point. but there is no doubt it hurt him momentum wise. if he could have come out here getting the upset over the romney he gets the spotlight leading to new hampshire. it makes him more of a player for a while. there were long-term implications. romney had to reach out through the general election to repair the feelings with the rest of the state. he was never super poplar here. his popularity was the same in '08 with 1-4 republicans

supporting him in both caucuses. but longer-term the party had to do serious damage control and get out front and work with the other states to make sure iowa was first in 2016. but frankly they had to work to change the rules >> we had to make sure the certified votes reflect how iowans voted accurately and the understanding here in iowa that our team here is temporary caretakers of the first elimination status and the caucus and we need to get results and records >> they want numbers that night or the next morning if super close now. so that is something they immediately took care of. bigger picture is huge changes after this happened because the moderate/establishment looked at

the results when mike huckabee won the caucus and then rick sant santorum. that conservative wing hasn't grown but has changed over the years and they are thinking the moderate type isn't a good reflection thon state of iowa. as they look ahead to 2016 they want this playing field open to everybody so they want to be more accommodating and the party has gone through numerous changes since then. aj spiker took over, he was a higher up for ron paul's

campaign. short-term social conservative former state legislative danny carol was put in charge but they didn't like him and he is out and they are trying to go to an establishment type-leader to look beyond and make it more agreeable for all candidates. for the democrats the challenge is you had president obama in office eight years. the economy isn't where people want, if you look at the polls he is not particularly strong nationwide and in iowa and it might be significant in this state because this is where the started for him. he came out of nowhere in '08. it was all about hilary clinton and john edwards. but obama came in, organized like crazy, won and kept the incredible infrastructure

together to help him win in 2012. but now as people look at how he has governed the country, and doesn't matter who is in charge you always get fatigue, so republicans as they nite amongst themselves on what a republican even is, there is a challenge to get people as motivated as last time. as we stand here the biggest name everyone is expecting to get in the race is hilary clinton. and people are excited about it but you have to some democrats to liked the newness and uniqueness obama brought in '08. things that came up in hilary clinton's past will come up again. will it be hilary clinton and maybe one or two lesser knowns who want to fight the good fight but can't do it in the end? that could be a disadvantage for

the democrats. the republicans have their own battle going. they don't like the term civil war but they have a battle going. will it be ugly or nwill they find a way to surge into the 2016 election? overall there is no doubt there is going to be much more scrutiny in 2016 because of the way 2012 went down. the high profile moment for the state and they screwed it up. you cannot get the winner wrong. so they put checks and balances to try to make sure it never happens again but they also beyond that, beyond the reputation of it, they want to make sure in some people's mind that a candidate no matter where he is or she is on the political spectrum when it comes to

republicans can feel like he or she has a chance to win and that is important because they don't want to be a narrow edge social right state. this is a purple state and has been historically. it is almost evenly divided. that is why they get the recognition they do. they pick different types of leaders and it is a like a pendulum swinging back and forth. it is a swing state and history shows it has been that way and there is no reason to believe it will not stay that way. >> during our trip to des moines we sat down with rekha basu to talk about her problems for women in the west. her book is called "finding her voice." >> it was written about women over a 20 years period since i

came here. i moved to iowa from the east coast. i was raised primarily in new york. when i came here i was armed with the new yorker sense of injustice and absolute -- meaning no injustice should go unpunished or unacknowledged. i found that iowans were kind, caring people with a great sense of community but didn't speak out enough when something was wrong or someone was being discriminated against. i saw a lot of different cases of discrimination against women, especially in smaller community communities, and they were public institutions like the police department or the school system and often times women were not raising their voices enough about it, we are not

protesting or championing their causes. and yet a lot of women were trying to make a difference in dealing with cases of inquali inquality -- inequality -- and injustice. i thoughted writing columns about that. in a small town called pleasant ville, iowa there was a coach who kept winning games but was accused of sexually harassing two students who helped him and when they complained about it the community turned against them and were hostile to the two because the coach was winning and coaches in small towns are extremely poplar people so going against the institution made them a puryea. and a couple woman came forward

who had the same man as a coach 30 years ago and they said he had sexually harassed them but the school district never listened then. so you know there was a pattern. and women would see the girls coming toward them and spit at them or say things to them on the street because they didn't want them saying bad things about the coach. so it was all kept under the rug and the school board voted to do nothing. and i wrote a paper saying why would the coach get away with this and the community line up with the coach. at that point, the iowa board of educators did suspend his license so some justice was done. i started writing other columns

like that. i have written about the people that brought about change and i will give you an example. this is one of my favorites. in aims, iowa there was a group of middle school students and they had been getting sick and tired of the fact that the boys in their schools were wearing hooters t-shirts to schools. i am sure you know about hooters restaurant. it is a change and poplar for that game and hooters the word is an illusion to women's breast. and some girls thought this was want the best move. they wanted to make a point and didn't want to get anything banned or anything in trouble but wanted to make a point about how it made you feel because of a shirt you are wearing every

day about your gender. so they designed their own shirt called cocks: nothing to crow about. the girls tried get permission to wear the t-shirts for one day so they could make a point and the permission was deniedenied. a couple kids wore them anyway and a couple turn them inside out. the ones who wore them got suspended from school. so for 1.5 years these boys were wearing hooters t-shirts without consequences and the girls and some supportive boys tried to just for one day to show what has been going on trying to do the opposing message when it made boys the target and the school wouldn't tolerate it. the girls were savvy. they were reading the paper and

reading my column and they contacted me and said we would like you to come to our school because we are having a public forum and the president of the american civil union leader is coming. and the students with the hooters shirt was about sexism and ours is about free speech and offensive speech. so they brought the school to its knees. the school district was forced to admit they made mistakes and that story went national and i was getting request all over for the t-shirts i had come up. it was such a creative way of calling attention to the situation and yet when faced with a situation like that the school tried take away the young girl's voice and giving the

boy's voice for all of these months. that was a story where i didn't have to do anything except make the world aware of what is going on. my columns are distributed one day a one and one is sent out nationally a week. i think most of them have a national impact and some are about national figures as well. i wrote about the nuns on the bus tour when nuns were protesting against paul ryan's budget saying it was undermining social securities and priorities and i got a chance to sit and talk with them about their prippr priorities. or sister helen coming and

talking about her anti-death penalty crusade. and i had a chance to sit down with her and interview gloria steinam about feminism and the changing faces of it and the impact it has had or not had on young women today compared to my generation of women. and then there are stories that maybe the person i used -- this is a vehicle i often use in trying to get across the point and that is i use a person to exlimpify an issue. the issue is usually global. i interviewed a woman saying she wanted to get the word out about

being transgender. he was born in a female body was identified with males so much more and was going through the process of taking hormones and trying to change her identity. and back then little know about this. but she wanted to follow along with me so people could understand what it meant and i did that and i think it opened up a lot. she is creative and a filmmaker and wanted to talk about this wasn't something she considered a choice but something that was inherent in her and she wasn't meant to be a woman but was meant to be a man and watching how other people reacted and how she was able to reestablish a love life and continue to do her job so that was an educational

piece for people across the country. similarly the have been columns on encrotchment of women's right lake walmart refusing to carry the morning after pill. that has national implications for women. many stories start here but are relevant to anybody anywhere in the country and even beyond the country. the column that had the most impact on me and changed by life and got me thinking about why this is so important was one involving a catholic student in des moines who said she was raped at her school by a fellow student. this student came from a well-placed family. the father was in broadcast and

a well-known name and she came from the wrong side of the tracks. single-parent household, low income household, no access to people with clout in the community. so she didn't get any justice. she didn't even come to the school authorities and say she was raped. she started mouthing off people people were harassing her, supporters of this young man who she said had raped her. so she was mouthing off in class and getting into trouble because she was so angry. so the police did a little digging to find out why there was the tension between the group of students and they found out because this man allegedly raped her into the school, in a

closet, near the utility room. so the school expels the girl for mouthing off and not handling it well. doesn't do anything to the young man. so it is favoring the perp traitor of this crime. it is all alleged at this time. i talked to the police in west des moines and asked if they believe the woman and they said they did. her story added up and his didn't. he moved away to a southern state and i wrote a column called is daling punishing the victim and i talked about the injustice of expelling this young girl who was a rape victim she said and nothing was done for the young man who did it and no charges filled against him.

i spoke to the young woman, she allowed me to interview her but we didn't use her name. some time passed after i wrote the piece and i was contacted by a girl in the south where this boy relocated. and the girl said to me i go to school with this boy and he raped me. i looked up his name and googled him and found the column of him raping another woman in iowa and i would like to compare notes so can you put them in touch? that spoke volumes and told me there was bases for this. it is too uncanny the circumstances and they were similar to the one the original girl told me about it. nothing came of it and he wasn't prosecuted in either case. but years went by.

it was 15 years after writing this and i came in 15 years later and there was a message on my answering machine and she said to call her with her name. the name didn't ring a bell. i called her back and she said i am the one you wrote about 15 years ago and i have carried that column around with me for 15 years. i moved to another city, gotten a lot of therapy, and become a counselor of sexual assault victims myself and i am fine. my life is okay. but she said so many times i reread that column as i did last night and shed a few tears and thought i should tell you often that has been the only thing from killing myself. knowing that somebody believed me because everybody else didn't -- the law enforcement, the community, the school and

even my own mother. it chokes me up every time i think about that incident because how close someone came to ending her life because she was disbelieved and how important it is to tell these stories and advocate for people who can not advocatie for themselves and how pig-headed we can be as institutions for not getting it and undering what we do to young women when we dissempower them that way. that is why it is so important to understand the stories and the roots of rage kept in the covers. so many women have good reasons to be enraged about how they they have been treated. but when we can speak up and share the stories things change. even if that is one person not killing herself. >> alice myer talks about owning

beaverdale book and the current state of the book industry. >> we are in the heart of beaverdale, a wonderful area in the northwest area of des moines. it is known for its brick houses. forbes magazine named it one of the prettiest areas in the country. we have a fall festival here that brings thousands and a farmers market during the summer and shopping and restaurant opportunities here for people. one of the things that happens, especially if a person is first coming in, they will come in and say this is just like that store in the movie -- what is it called? you have mail. and they are so appreciative. it is small enough we can know our customers and serve them

well. obviously we cannot carry everything in the inventory we would like to but once they realize we can order a book and have it within a couple days are happy with the service we give them. beaverdale books was meant to be a neighborhood bookstore. we sell new books, we have a little bit of everything from children's section to best sellers to fiction, lots of non-fiction sections, too. one of the things we are most proud of is the local author section. we have a great iowa writer section. a lot of the authors are protest. the first day we opened the store we had so many authors coming in asking if we would carry their book. the section start would a couple book shelves filled with their books and now it takes up one wall of the store.

we represent about 400 authors here and it goes back to the great literary tradition iowa has. 60% of the section is self-published and they write fiction, memoir, poetry and we have authors published from major housings. if an author comes in with a book for the selves we will accept that. my philosophy is anyone putting themselves out there, writing a book and going through the work, deserves space shelf. we do monitor it and part of the agreement is if it doesn't sell within a period of time they can take the book book.

we are able to be part of the community. i have lived in beaverdale for almost 25 years and we are able to support organizations for literacy and reading; we have worked with a program called everybody wins that does readings in schools. they have adults coming into the school and reading to kids. we had therapy dogs in the store and kids come in and read to them. we support a lot of causes and give donations. last year we did 70 in-store events and 50 off site events. we host book clubs, writers groups, a pickup place for a community supported agriculture that people come twice a week to pick up their produce. we have had campaign events here, political events -- politicians chose a bookstore

because they know that people like to gather here. we are very lucky in iowa that we were one of the first in the nation states as far as caucus, ours is first in the nation so people are esitute and well read. the bookstore is about a thousand square feet. our events are back in the non-fiction session and we have seating with 12 people so it isn't huge. we have had events with 70 people in the store. we joked if we have 13 people week we can say it is standing room only. bookstores say a lot about a community. a community without a bookstore is sad. when borders closed a lot of communities lost their

bookstores. i know in rural areas here there are not bookstores and people don't have that option. so i think it is important just like libraries that bookstores are here. the online presence of other places is a challenge and some of the chains. when i opened the store in 2006, i was aware of, you know, the chains and online presence as far as books were concerned, i know a lot of stores in the '90s got caught by that and as a result we lost a lot of independent bookstores but i went into it eyes open concerning that and we weathered the economic crisis and the e-book surge in 2010. we realized people coming in saying they might have an

e-reader but prefer books. i think people are starting to realize that. i was at a meeting the couple months ago, and we were told of the e-readers sold about 20% haven't been activated so i think people want their books and as long as they do we will be here for them. >> up next william friedrick talks about "investing in iowa" the life of times of sam hubbell. >> he

>> he was from connecticut and didn't see a future there. so he said i would like to stay and his dad said okay, gave him a five dollar gold piece and his dad went home and he stayed there. his office in des moines was a year and he went to sioux city and branched out. he read the law in sioux city and wanted to get back to des moines. the civil war stat started and a partner in a law firm he was

interested in went to lead a regimen and he left. cassidy and poke was the name and cassidy left and it became poke and hubbell. he was criticized by some for not volunteering for the war. some democrats did this and were accused of being copper heads or anti-war or pro-southern. but i think he wasn't interested in fighting. and like jd rockfeller, a lot of business man didn't join to fight in the civil war and made a lot of funny. so f.m. hubbell is one of those woo didn't fight and made a lot of money. he made a lot of money buying distre distressed property. he realized if he spent cash on land and foreclosure properties

he could make a lot of money. he went almost broke buying up the properties but when the economy turned around after the civil war he made a lot of money. after going into real estate, working for the poke and hubbell with a specialty in real estate; but they realized there was opportunity in railroad developme development. they began to sponsor railroads that connected through the bigger ones and considered life insurance as a business they thought. they could take money in at 4% and lend it out at 10%. hubbell put together a group of investors and they started the first life insurance company west of the mississippi river.

insurance became one of the biggest industries in des moines. once f.m. hubbell started this others saw opportunities and insurance companies began to move in. bankers life started in 1869 or so and that was the principle company and other insurance companies followed. there was synergy in having expertise. i think the most important move was the creation of equitable life in iowa. it became a major insurance company and when it was sold to ing it was sold for 2.2 million in 1997 so it accrued a great value over the years. des moines wouldn't be the way it was without the hubbell influence and also them giving

millions throughout the city. i think one of things that is so impressive with the hubbells is the family continued to hand the business down throughout generations. businesses are difficult to continue beyond one or two generation and the hubbells did it for four or five. >> booktv is in des moines this weekend. we take a tour of the salisbury house and gardens which has 3,000 rare and first edition books >> we are here at salisbury house and gardens that is in the south of grand neighborhood here in town. it is a home built be carl and edith weeks. they broke ground in 1923. they wanted to immolate the great english manner homes here in iowa and des moines. carl himself didn't come from money.

everything in the salisbury house and gardens is this rurali result of a self-manmade story. his family had difficult financial times and end up moving to kansas when carl was a young boy. they tried to make a go on a ho homestead. they move back des moines in the 1890s and carl enters the pharmaceutical field. carl going to pharmacy school and graduates and through this work in the pharmacy field he develops what becomes literally his million dollar id which is cosmetics. he develops women's foundation and markets this under the armon cosmetic company.

the company was incorporated in 1915-1916 and then them and the early 1920's he becomes a millionai millionaire. by the early 1920's carl, edith and their four boys have gained enough wealth to think about building something like the salisbury house and gardens. they go to salisbury england and saw the king's home build over the 14th-16th century and it is this house that is the inspiration for the salisbury house and gardens here. in 1923 they broke ground here. it is finished by 1926 enough for the family to move in and

totally finished in 1928. carl weeks was a man of many varied interest. one of his most amazing is the collection they gained from the sku sku sculpture and the medieval manuscripts. it is incredible. car weeks collected the books he collected not only because they are important historical works but he believed books were works of art and had worth beyond what was on the page. he collected "leaves of grass" by walt whitman. it changed over time but for

carl it was the art of collecting such worth that it reflected the elements of the craft. this is our first edition "leaves of grass" by whitman from 1855. the cover has been detached so i will remove it. you can see on the inside reviews of whitman's work he had pasted on the inside of this first edition. this was a book he had printed himself and sent copies to renowned writers of his day most famously to ralph emmerson who writes back and says i greet you at the beginning of a great career. and in secession editions he

includes this blurb from emerson without his permission on the spine of the successor books printers. one of the most famous interiors in literary history is here. whitman doesn't sign his name but includes this image of himself opposite of the title page. he is aiming for the american voice in literature. he is portraying himself as this american coming out with this version of poetry to lead to establishes the first american literary voice. and this piece particularly transitioning from the discussion of the religious text also suggest the diversity of carl weeks collecting. he focused on religious text but

also included others as well. he also collected a variety of first edition of ernest hemmingway's work. this is the green hills of africa and this is a great piece because it illustrates the personal swipe between hemmingway and weeks. so we have discovered he is refer to a bar that was discovered in key west. one of the bars we famously frequented. and we have a post card from hemmingway to weeks. he had planned a trip to florida

and hemmingway is saying he is not going to be in florida at the same time he is fishing but there has been great sail fishing. so we have drinking and fishing. and we have a photos of edith weeks, his wife, at another hemmingway haunt. so the first edition is great but we have that personal connection between the two as well that is really fantastic. another wonderful component of our collection is our james joyce collection. we have first editions of many of his books. this particular work that we are seeing now are the galley proofs for tales told of sheman sean was part of works in progress by

james joyce was published as finnegan's wake. it was published by the black sun press and these are handm k handmarked and signed by james joyce himself sometimes. all of these objects speak to the long history of book making. from the earliest strips to the bible leaf which of course marks this fundamental shift in european history and book making in particular to books being printed in a language every person on the street could read and then we go from the modern era to see them taking advantage of written words and using it in

innovative ways. ... and different constituencies we bring to the property. for running of the house, funding is through our private nonprofit corp. oration house foundation, after the foundation took over late 90s to 2,000s down to the house, new wiring

was run through the house, the library itself is -- the whole house is secured, the library has its own fire suppression system and security system as well so we really strive to maintain that balance between keeping the house open to the public, adhering to our mission of sharing solve very house and finding a balance between sharing and interpreting and preservation and conservation of our incredible collection this we have. >> with the help of our cable partner, we spoke to william friedricks about "the real deal," the life of bill knapp. >> bill knapp won the highest civilian award in the state of iowa. others who won include grant wood, kerri chapman, a huge

award in aisle of. after the award there was a reception for him at terrace hill and bill sat down in an antique chair, the first lady came over and she said do you know who's chair you are sitting in? note, i don't, that is hubble's share. i happened to be talking to him when that happened. it seems to me the perfect statement, the 19, 20th century business and tipping his hat to the twenty-first century businessman. bill knapp had a huge impact in a several ways. first of all bill knapp better than anyone i have heard of can envision a piece of land and imagine what its future can be.

with that he seems -- what direction the city is moving so over the last few years, buying land on the periphery of the city and the development move that way, makes a lot of money. he has been very significant on the periphery of the city since the 1960s. he will be interested in downtown demolition, hotel savoury a dilapidated hotel in downtown des moines, spent millions refurbishing it and that tied him to the downtown des moines community with a group of businesses, and the only way to encourage more development was to put together land that in courage the developers to come in, and to

developers. the leading purchaser, played a big role in bringing capitol square, a big building, played a big role in bringing downtown housing into the area in the 1980s, downtown housing, the civic center and apartments, responsible for bringing in the condominiums at the high-rise luxury developments, played a big role downtown and there has been a new organization called the des moines read development company which is doing the same thing. and to come in and develop those properties. the des moines read development company which is bill's idea is involved with the new ymca, adding on the courthouse annex

and moving in a big convention hotel in downtown des moines. bill knapp hated farming, couldn't wait to get off the farm, took the opportunity of world war ii to get off the farm, joined the navy at 17 when he graduated in 1944, 5 in the pacific 52 years, he was a landing craft high does that took troops back and forth to okinawa, came back to iowa, married his high school sweetheart, involved in manual labor, hated manual labor, hated having a box. he loved being his own boss and didn't like being told what to do. tried to a restaurant, the guy could be in my own boss and it was true he bought a building in alantown, but realized a restaurant is too much work. bill and i mean put the building

on the market, a real-estate agent listed it, had a client see the building that the real estate agent couldn't show the building so he asked bill if bill could jettison building and bills that no case of build of the client, sold the building and was mad because the real-estate agent demanded his commission and bill set i sold the building and when the real-estate agent said no, that is the deal, i get a commission he said i'm going into real estate, i can do this. he joined a small firm, quickly became the biggest real-estate agent for that company and when the owner couldn't pay his commission the owner gave build the company. bill ran the company in 1952 and built that into the largest real-estate company in aisle. bill -- bill knapp is the best dealmaker there is an easing his ladys and continues to close

deals. there is no separation from business and social life. it is all one life. i got a christmas party that bill knapp 11 bill gives every year. times last to leave and tried to say thank-you to bill and to jerry nugent, the chief operating officer for bill knapp properties was thanking bill and saying thank you for the party, great party. how many deals did you close that the party? only three. it is typical bill knapp. he was a democrat from early on, he inherited that political angle from his father, but if connected to democratic politics, bill knapp becomes the most influential democrat in the state of iowa from the mid 60s on. use a must see for anyone trying to raise money, so -- still is today. carol hughes is from a reckless

background, grows up relatively poor, he is a trucker, gets into politics, runs for governor in 1962. that year or maybe in 61 that bill and accuse me, the campaign for governor, came by and made a donation and they became fast friends. once he was elected hughes terms three terms as governor and then one term in the u.s. senate from iowa. bill knapp is one of his closest friends and advisers. harold hughes was governor when the interstate for being built through i. i'll. many noticed that bill knapp had land along interstate accidents and thought that was increasingly peculiar so many accused him of getting inside information from the governor about we are going to put an exit here so buy land here.

the purchases came after was published in the newspaper that the exits were going there. bill worked hard to push use to run for president. built set up a use for president office but it didn't work out because information came out about harold hughes when he was involved in seances and talking with the dead and that sent his presidential aspirations. his rivals would say he looks very hard, they might characterize him as crass but they would have respect for bill

knapp. some would say there were behind closed doors details. i don't think that was true. critics might pick up on that under handedness but for the most part, he had a lot of respect in the community. >> now from booktv's trip to des moines we hear from the editor and president of "the des moines register" and president of nbc news michael gartner on a roll of editorial writing in public discourse. >> i was sitting around talking with some friends in the freedom forum one day and by that time i was fascinated by editorials and had written a lot of editorials and somebody ought to write a book and they simply do it? i said sure. of the upon myself to find the four best editorial writers as it happens there was one of each of four generations starting with the inventor of the editorial page in the old new york tribune, the first paper

that separated opinion from fact and a man named henry waterson who around the turn of the century, after that, and the gazette was the small-town editor but really an adviser to presidents, one of the great, great muckraking magazines of the time that had a great editorial -- great reporters, and then the wall street journal, who i had known personally, vermont, connecticut, i said how did you get the name? everyone in the family was named after states. he had an uncle from wisconsin, they were all named after states. when i came out to the mollen, he asked me i understand you are

leaving, i said yes. are you going to be in charge of the editorial-page? i said yes i am. he said had you ever written an editorial? no, i haven't. he said the know-how to write them? i said no but i suspect you are about to tell me. said come on down and let's have a cup of coffee. i went to his office and we sat around and talked and he said the key to an editorial is this, give the of this side the facts and give your side -- don't cheat on the fact. don't cheat on the facts. lays them out. don't just give one side of the facts but as you analyze, as you offer your opinion, give your side the fatah. put a thought -- though lot of thought and so the reader has the facts and the reader can understand your thinking to get to the conclusion you got to and i thought that was great advice. i looked for each use, i wondered what newspapers said when the japanese were in prison when world war ii broke out.

one newspaper said it was an outrage. but nobody let it pass or thought it was a good thing. the new york times came out against women's suffrage. how could that happen? you look at editorial that was really interesting that were surprising. i learned early on, with the wall street journal in 1960 and sitting with a copy editor, and a man walked by injured sleeves and looked at me and said what are you doing? i am trying to make the story understandable, and he said good just remembers this, the easiest thing for the reader to do is quit reading and walked away and -- probably the only thing i need to know in life about being a newspaper editor, who was that?

he was the genius behind the wall street journal. he wondered the news room. that is the most important thing i ever learned about baseball, when i was 15 years old, in the register one night. i had been to a baseball game at the park and the umpires kicked someone out and i went back to work and the umpires waited for this was writers to get off work and i went to one of the umpires and said what does a guy have to say to get kicked out of a baseball game? anything the ends in you. i thought that was pretty good. that is what i know about baseball in the editorial writing. there have been great editorials and some of them very short. the philadelphia daily news had

this editorial about franco. it said -- the headline said ideas dictator. they say only the good die young. francisco franco was 82, seems about right. that pretty much sums it up. there is another one in the philadelphia daily news that talked about a criminal, it is about time for leonard edwards to take the hot squad, wanted him to put him to bed, to sit in the electric chair, you don't see writing like that. in the discussion, the chief executive of the freedom forum, don't forget about ben butler, we talked about this editorial which ran