stephen l.. >> they may stick around the little bit, it come up and talk or have books signed please complete your evaluation forms one more round of applause. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> jesse was born in charles county in 1859, he was a local boy if you will, he was born with a slight defect in his right eye. it looks really white and because of that people made fun of him quite a bit. his family, his schoolmates, he

was abused because he looked a little bit different and he really got beat up for this, really got abused at school children who were much older than him and much bigger than him really made and paid dearly for that and his own father believed maybe he was possessed some kind of sign of the devil, something terrible within him. his father really abused him terribly so he grew up knowing quite a lot of the. the only way he could control that, he started abusing children who were much younger and most smaller than he was. people didn't know it was actually in doing that early on. they found out in 1871 when children across the street in chelsea started suffering and talking about a young boy who was the printing them and taking

some places give them candy, taken to the circus, just be friendly to them and eventually started taking them into sheds, places that were far away from the city and there he really abused them, cut them, burned them, sexually mutilated them. the city didn't really want to deal with that. it was a very local story, until boston realize something more was going on and the boston globe got wind of it, an article was published in 1872 and as soon as that hit people realized people had something more on him and maybe his mother recognized there was something about the description people were giving that sounded familiar. she learned that maybe if this boy that people didn't know too much about, she had an inkling

her son was doing that instead of telling the police what she did was take the family away from child stone and move them to south boston, figured maybe away from the environment things would stop. instead what she did was just take the problem away with her because the abuse started off again in boston. over there, he almost right away became isolated he became lonely, children didn't want to play with him so he started walking the beaches of south boston and over there he would come across little children who would have -- who were kind of lonely as well and he started using them as well. he got away with that for quite a long time until one boy who was not as fragile as the rest

of them gave the detectives the clue that really helped them to figure out who was doing this. justice kennedy was the little boy who told them that she could give him a good description because he recognized this really tall boy who was doing these things, had a relief and looking lie and because of that narrowing down the person they were looking for, started looking all over the city, detectives looking through the schools, looking all over and still didn't find him. jesse pretty much gave himself up. one day while walking home from school he decided it would be fun to walk into a police station just to see what was happening and he opened at the door and walked right in and one thing he saw, first person he saw was this little boy he had just abused and the pointed a finger at him and pretty much he

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literary sites and talked with doctors. this weekend books on standardized testing in public schools and how presidents handle crisis situations. for complete schedule visit booktv.org. >> if you ask what do the british fear the most, they fought the sterling gained 4 fanatics and they were fanatics engage mostly in political assassination. there were never more than 5,000 persons including support. what they always worried about was what numbered 60,000 members at least, then they realized both of those paramilitary forces decided to actively participate, holding on to palestine would be untenable. of course as you know there was a brief period after world war ii when they allied and engage in attacks against british targets.

as you pointed out the radar stations along the coast the intercepted ships bringing illegal immigrants. in june of 1946, the night of the bridges, a photograph in the book where they blew up the bridges linking palestine with lebanon, syria and and jordan. the key with the importance nuance shift in the book is following the king david hotel, that is another controversy i couldn't get into because they had a role in selecting targets a more complicated story but after the carnage that arose, this alliance fell apart completely in generally speaking after 1946 they concentrated almost exclusively as you describe, information operations and illegal immigration. they no longer attack the british but that was where the importance surfaces in constant beekeeping a much smaller force

constantly keeping that pressure on the british in making rules untenable in the sense there was the large garrison guarding against a revolt, having trouble defeating 5,000 loans 60,000 men at arm's. i am not trying to say one was more important than another but as someone who spent his career studying the effects of terrorism and political violence on government decisions of the making and trying to understand countermeasures that and be used to defeat terrorism that was my interest, and why i thought the story, at least in the english literature is pretty much neglected. in the hebrew literature is very contentious and controversial because as you described, the new zionist organization, revisionist party opposition to the labor zionist was precisely this issue in socialism versus

capitalism. still woven into the fabric of the israeli policy today but in the english-language a lot of these debates especially nuances are less well known. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> joining us on booktv is politics professor at princeton melissa lane. she has written a new book published by princeton called the birth of politics "the birth of politics: 8 greek and roman political ideas and why they matter". with a successful politicians. >> the greeks managed in different cities states to develop the world's first democracy produced works of