including linda are about in her relationship with john f. kennedy. >> i argue that in the arafat was the great love of john f. kennedy's life and that includes his relationship with jackie kennedy, which is sad but i believe that to be true. that isn't to say he didn't love jackie buddy developed a real appreciation for all that she brought to their marriage. but before that, the woman he cared about the most was in the. >> we are located in what is now known as the pearl district. this was an abandoned used-car dealership. and it was approximately 40,000 square feet, all on one floor

and over the past 30 years we have built and expanded in the neighborhood around us has changed dramatically. so what used to be a light industrial district is now a late retail district and we are surrounded by wonderful places like anthropology and starbucks for reuse to be surrounded by auto repair shops and ball bearing manufacturers. ..

this is symbolic of all the things we have here at powell's books. the base of it says four things in latin.it starts off with vending lieberman: sell the book and on the side it says carpeting the room, sees the book. and over here it says: leave room, read the book and finally our favorite, by the book. >> what makes us unique is a combination of several things in one of the most important ones is we started out as a used bookstore so we sell used and new right next to each other and to us it's the content that is king and it doesn't matter where it came from so out of our million books, half of them are used, half of them approximately new. that makes us unique because you could be pulling a book off the shelf and looking at it and think that's going to be a $20 book and you are surprised to find out it's

$7.95 instead. so welcome, here we are in the orange room at the entrance. one of our two entrances into the bookstore.we have seven different color-coded rooms, over 1 million books and in this room we have our cooking and humor new arrivals and over here we have our used book by encounter. when you come into our store we are glad to do a couple things and first of all we are glad we have in almost every room information counter and a storm that and powells is famous for its store map. this gives you an example of how extensive our location is. and our store map also doubles as a poster so you can take it home with you. andconstantly be reminded of the riches that are in

portland oregon . i'm going to take you to probably the most popular section in the store and that's our literature section. but first we're going to go past hour second entrance to the bookstore. this is the green room. it's another cash register area and also a promotional display. i think the other unique thing about us is our breadth of inventory so we have over 1 million books but we have about 450,000 titles at any one time which means we have one or two of most of the books in our store which means we have a river that is miles and miles wide but about an inch deep so it's all about selection and variety. to give you an example of the breadth of inventory that powells carries, this is our dickens section and it starts

down here on the bottom shelf and it goes this entire case and up to the section here. so if you're looking for a copy of hard times, great expectations, you have eight or 10 different types of great expectations you can buy. you can buy the hardbacks, the paperbacks, the book club edition, art print edition, i fancy new addition or a nice older edition. it's a very encyclopedic collection of everything that dickens ever wrote. we had over 500 events at three of our stores and we also do off-site events at a large auditorium in portland and of those events they range from 8 to 10 people showing up for a debut author or poets to 500 to 1000 people showing up for jimmy carter, bruce springsteen and so we spent about a decade convincing publishers that

this is a great venue for authors and the incredible thing about portland which i think is one of those small town feelings it has even though it's turned into a big city is able here are avid performance goers. so we would bring somebody in and you think oh, 10 or 15 people would show up and 40 or 50 people would show up so the citizens of portland have been supportive of the authors who come and visit here and that just reflects back to new york and to the publishers and so we are now one of the top 10 places to send an author. so when bruce springsteen announces he's going on a book tour and is going to and bookstores, we are proud to say we are one of those 10 bookstores. >> first i want to say what a thrill it is to be speaking at powell and the life of an author there, various milestones, they are not

particularly happy ones. rejection, there's a young man in the back here helped rescue the book early on. but anyway, once you do get a little bit of momentum, thought that you would one day's be speaking at powell's is amazing so i'm thrilled to be here. this is one of the things on my bucket list and thank you so much for coming out. >> keep doing what we've always done which is we are passionate about the books that we sell. where passionate about the ability to hold a book in your hand and look at that book and the serendipity that comes with having this incredible assortment of books so when you are walking down aisles at the bookstore, you have 100 opportunities every minute for your eyes to catch on a different title, different author, different picture and that serendipity opens up a world to any shopper that is not replicable on any internet site including our own which is, that serendipity happens

when you are at a physical location. the importance of powells literary life in portland goes back to 19 71 when we started. 71 there was a flourishing news book and some new bookstores in portland, that has changed dramatically over the years but powells has not only remained but we've expanded. when we first moved into this building we were 15,000 square feet of books and now we are 70,000 feet of books. i think it's the reason that some authors moved to portland. we hear that often from authors that this is a resource for them. and it's a place where they can meet kindred souls and that includes authors coming through on to her so when an author comes through on tour, there will often be many authors in the audience as well listening to that person. so i think it's been a

nurturing relationship. authors have nurtured us and we've nurtured authors. >> next from portland author scott farris explores the life of inga arvad including her love affair with john kennedy and her connections to adolf hitler and fbi director j under hoover. >> inga arvad was one of the most alluring women apparently to ever walk the earth as she was a beautiful woman. he was missed denmark in 1931 but even as ready as she appears in these photographs people say that photograph didn't do her justice, you had to see her in person. he had extraordinary charisma and she's had a way about her that she would obviously take over a room when she would walk into it, turn heads and that was one reason she was such an intereg