>> watching my dad, learning the little tricks to being a good wildlife officer. like don't slam the door when you get out of the car, that sort of thing. because they hear you and it's over. so i couldn't wait when i got old enough and i graduated from college, i wanted to be a fish

and game warden myself. >> and hear about redding's writers' forum. >> coming up next month we have elements of fiction and after that the craft of writing a memoir. and then following up with that we have -- we're going to have a presentation on writing biography. so we keep it as broad as posable to keep the writing interests. >> sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, tour the shasta dam. >> 2/3 of a mile from one end to the other. it's 883 feet thick. so it's actually thicker than it is tall. so from here when we look up at the dam we really get an idea of just how massive shasta dam is. it's like a 60 story building standing in front of us. weighs 15 million tons. >> redding, california on

c-span's book tv and sunday on c-span 3. working with our cable affil yates and visiting cities across the country. sunday night on afterwards. pulitzer prize winning journalist helene cooper in her book madam president, the extraordinary journey of ellen johnson surleaf. sheez rr interviewed by karen bass of california. >> when did you first meet madam president? >> known about her all my life. she became famous -- well, she was minister of finance in 1979/1980 when the coup happened. by that time i'm 13 or 14 and knew who the minister of finance was. she knew my parents. she was somebody that, as a

child growing up in liberia i'd heard of. she was always criticizing the same government that she worked for and in 1985 when she was arrested and thrown to jail by samuel dough i heard all about that and she became at this time