so there was a mess even in his own lifetime, herman melville actually in one passage of moby compares unfavorably to hercules. so in his own lifetime he had to live with this lithology and i guess like jeff i was interested in sort of the contrast between them left and real person and that is what fuelled and animated the book. >> we are finding in the time that we live the story of the west and western history is very much contested ground in america and part of what a lot of people called cultural war is going on for a heart and soul of our national identity and all of these characters are western characters. i consider bonnie and clyde with pretty boy floyd and the clincher captured by the arizona authorities not far from where we are sitting back to indiana. i certainly consider bonnie and clyde the last of the western out walls and mobility and they were very identified with the west but the worst in the current controversy we see in western history today and so of course certainly custer who ase at the center and has been for 50 years now the sort of struggle for ownership of th

there was the mention in moby dick.ing just blew up, and i certainly in his career he realized he needed to kind of seize control of all of this press. and he tried to hire a writer to tell his story. washington irving came very close to saying yes to doing sort of a definitive book about kit carson. if he had it probably would have never written "blood and thunder." instead a series of hacks that kind of worked on a story. and he also wrote, dictate i should stay because he couldn't write, a and autobiography which is very, very bare bones. but this is kind of like the opposite of custer, or maybe the opposite of buffalo bill. someone who was never successful in turning his same into something bigger. he died essentially a popper. he could never seem to capitalize. nor did he have the inclination to capitalize on his same. of asserting something that he spent his whole career grappling with and try to figure out why does this country back east that i ran away from seem to need a superhero to personify this movement. >>

about 800 have come from mobis, another korean company that followed hyundai here. lot of people are happy about this? >> yes, we are. as a matter of fact, i'm one of them. >> reporter: in all, local officials estimate more than 20,000 jobs have rippled out from the hyundai deal. building up south alabama one job, one car, one minute at a time. tom foreman, cnn, montgomery. >>> all eyes are on capitol hill. momentarily president barack obama will be heading to capitol hill, a meeting with democrats during a caucus trying to make his final push to get legislation on health care pushed through. then we just understood from our professional hill correspondent brianna keilar reporting that the house rules committee decided the house will not use what's been considered a controversial deem and pass method. instead, they will be voting the house vote separately on the senate bill and then vote on the package of amendments of that senate bill, as well. all that scheduled for tomorrow. we will hope to find out what the president seems to think about this kind of movement on

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about 800 have come from mobis, another korean company that followed hyundai here. a matter of fact, i'm one of them. >> reporter: in all, local officials estimate more than 20,000 jobs have rippled out from the hyundai deal, building up south alabama one job, one car, one minute at a time. and this is really more than the story of a company's success. we can all see that, looking for the sales of cars around the country. it really is the story of a commune's success in finding a way to draw in a big business at a time they needed it here. not only did it work, it's paved the way for others. kia is opening a big plant in georgia and likewise there will be a rippling out of jobs from that plant that will come over here to alabama, as well. so, many, many, many people here very happy about the efforts that their leaders here made to build up this part of the country, and it's helping them build up their individual communities as well. and hyundai is not unhappy about it either. >> absolutely. a great success story. that's good to hear. tom foreman for us, thanks. >>>