i can speak to you or you understand, but in germany or france or egypt, they won't understand it. so i'm rearranging my life. i can still write. >> georgie anne geyer's newest book is "predicting the unthinkable, anticipating the impossible" thank you for being on booktv. >> thank you. >> .net, booktv interviews rick bragg while touring birmingham, alabama as part of our cities tour of the king of the landscape of the southeastern cities. airports are not workers of the foothills foothills of north alabama. >> those people in the cover her workers from kind of the dark ages of the cottonelle in my hometown. those are folks who had survived the 20s, 30s, 40s and into the 50s when it is a brick oven and summertime, when the air was safe pick with fine cotton, that would fill their lungs with cotton favor. they would hang out the windows, trying to get a breath of air. kids would read by in cars and wagons and he is and it would scare them death. these were people that lost their thinkers, hands and arms to the machines and work for it. they had to work because they came down out of