. >> so what is clear it boosted the un military environment of merging man and machine. >> about 20 years ago i was doing research on my first book about african-american women in the north and i

came across an advertisement to the enslaved person who would run for the president's house in philadelphia nate 1976. was looking through microfilm and it made me pause to say who is the person that ran away and i thought i don't know this person and that was troubling to me because this is my area of expertise science of posted notes this end i had no idea who this was and there is something very compelling about this advertisement in that never escaped me. so i will come back to is this important story so

finish in the first book so here i m of many years later is of link the process to uncover the work and this is recovery work to specifically african-american history and in those archives and that the evidence does not exist and so what i will say there is no way could have written this book had not written my first book for those two are really doing the of work of the academics about ii in is

magnificent the many folks here is this room that we know about misjudging and you are among a small group of people with that expectation i want that to become a household name like frederick douglass the kashi runs away some of the title i will give you a? story this is one of my first choices for the title of the book and i presented and i hated it.

they said did give away the story. i said yes but so-- -- so does 12 years a slave. but with a history of how woman was a fugitive.

>> up next on afterwards bert white house offers his thoughts on how government is impacted by corporate money and special interest groups in his book, captured the corporate infiltration of american democracy. senator white house's interviewed by "new york times" investigative reporter eric lipton. senator, i want to set is up by asking why did you write this? simple question. >> the simple answer is i was getting really disturbed at all of the