i can perhaps illustrate that by mention of a conversation i had with irving howe which i do describe in my book. irving howe was an intellectual whom i respected enormously and whose social democrat opinions which i shared. how could he so relatively uncritical of america's cold war behavior despite holding those social democratic views and he said something very interesting to me which i never forgot. he said, look, he said, i experienced in my generation -- he was only a few years older than i was. but it was a kind of generational difference. maybe i was slow to come into the fray. but he said the great betrayal was the soviet union and, of course, it was for him and so many other so-called new york and american intellectuals. he said anything america does to combat stalinism i'm for. and i thought to myself, for me, the great historical experience hiroshima. yes, i was anticommunist. but, therefore, my psyche, struggle with the whole idea of the world being blown up with nuclear weapons of hiroshima was the model. it has to do with the priorities what one sxflz one does. i've str

i can perhaps illustrate that by mentioning a conversation i had with irving howe, that i do describein the book. he was an intellectual i respected enormously and whose opinions i mostly shared, but i asked him how he could be so relatively uncritical of america's cold war behavior despite holding those social-democratic views, and he said something very interesting to me that i never forgot. he said, look, he said, i experienced in my generation -- he was just a few years older than i was, but there was a generational difference maybe because i was slow to come into the fray, but he said the great betrayal was the soviet union, and it was for him and other american intellectuals, and he said anything america does to combat stalinism i'm for, and i thought to myself for me the great historical experience was hiroshima. yes, i was anti-communist, but therefore, my psyche struggled with the whole idea of the world being blown up by nuclear weapons with her roche what -- hiroshima as the beginning model. it has to do with what one feels and what one does. other arguments with myself i h

. >>> how many of the former boys of summer among us once had a franklin batting glove? irving franklin has died at home in falmouth, mass. at first he ran his grandfather's scrap leather and glove business. they made the combat infantry mittens for world war ii, but then he turned to sports and this revolutionary idea of a glove you would wear when at-bat. the great mike schmidt of the phillies was an early believer and told franklin to put his name on the back of the glove. and, of course, the rest is history. it became the official batting glove of major league baseball. irving franklin was 93 years old. >>> the second court of appeals in texas has ruled that dogs are worth way more than they're actually worth. this was the case of a couple whose 8-year-old lab mix was accidentally euthanized by a dog shelter. the first court ruled they were owed only the "cash value of the dog." but the appeals court judge, who must be a dog lover, ruled they were owed more damages than that, because "dogs are unconditionally devoted to their owners." >>> up next here tonight, a woman makin

irv, illinois. go ahead. caller: i work for a non-profit agency for four years, and i was very much interested in cutting costs, and i lectured to other agencies on how to determine whether agencies were using funds properly. i helped to set the standards of accounting and reporting procedures for agencies in the 1960's and 1970's. i was very familiar with all kinds of fund raising. i was very much against most of the direct mail organizations because of the tremendous costs. they were making money for the organizations providing direct mail service, and very little wind to the agency's parent -- very little ones to the agencies. i had a lot of situations where i looked into certain agencies, and when we did set up the standards of accounting reporting, they were still able to get away with showing fund- raising expenses as programming expenses. i could talk for hours about this, but i will not bother you much more. they have an organization called giving usa, and i guess there is an offshoot of the that shows the amount of money that was being given to organizations. at the time i was working, about 85% of the charitable contributions when churches

irv, retired marine. -- ir: i'm not retired served in the army. but i certainly honor the marines come i don't know howbody could not. the helicopter that was part plane, part helicopter, and the blood and treasure the marines lost with that thing -- was that an example of a congress telling you what you needed? what is the status of the project right now? guest: thanks. again, another great question. let me congratulate you for your service in the army. i have operated many times with our u.s. army brothers, and they are tremendous soldiers and do what they do and doing extraordinarily well. i have a son who is a staff sergeant in the united states army and i am proud of him and what he does. he is getting ready for his second deployment to afghanistan shortly. i look forward to working with the army in the future. the question that you have four guards our -- the question you have regards our v-22, which can take off and land like a helicopter, vertically, but takes its engines forward and flies like an aircraft and very high speeds. there was a long time developing that airplane. it was something th

irv, retired marine. -- ir: i'm not retired served in the army. but i certainly honor the marines come i don't know how anybody could not. the helicopter that was part plane, part helicopter, and the blood and treasure the marines lost with that thing -- was that an example of a congress telling you what you needed? what is the status of the project right now? guest: thanks. again, another great question. let me congratulate you for your service in the army. i have operated many times with our u.s. army brothers, and they are tremendous soldiers and do what they do and doing extraordinarily well. i have a son who is a staff sergeant in the united states army and i am proud of him and what he does. he is getting ready for his second deployment to afghanistan shortly. i look forward to working with the army in the future. the question that you have four guards our -- the question you have regards our v-22, which can take off and land like a helicopter, vertically, but takes its engines forward and flies like an aircraft and very high speeds. there was a long time developing that airplane. it was somethin

irv, retired marine. -- ir: i'm not retired served in the army. but i certainly honor the marines come i don't know how anybody could not. the helicopter that was part plane, part helicopter, and the blood and treasure the marines lost with that thing -- was that an example of a congress telling you what you needed? what is the status of the project right now? guest: thanks. again, another great question. let me congratulate you for your service in the army. i have operated many times with our u.s. army brothers, and they are tremendous soldiers and do what they do and doing extraordinarily well. i have a son who is a staff sergeant in the united states army and i am proud of him and what he does. he is getting ready for his second deployment to afghanistan shortly. i look forward to working with the army in the future. the question that you have four guards our -- the question you have regards our v-22, which can take off and land like a helicopter, vertically, but takes its engines forward and flies like an aircraft and very high speeds. there was a long time developing that airplane. it was somethin

that is how i suppose i don't know enough about natural sciences to know whether that is typical, but you know, both cain and irvingurned into the great depression, when that didn't write itself with monetary policy as they thought it would, they both went back to the drawing board. that is when cain wrote the general theory, and that is when fisher went on. so, you know, economics, the interest in economics because people looking for, well, what was it that was missing? >> well, that is a very big question to leave it on. just one last thing. having written a book, are you more of the professions now or less the when you started? >> so, much more. >> that is very encouraging. a time when we have something, economic turmoil a very interesting insight. >> that was after words, book tv signature program in which authors of the lettuce nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policy makers among the soldiers, and others familiar with their material. airs every weekend on book tv at 10:00 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9:00 p.m. on sunday, and of a.m. on monday. you can also watch online booktv.org and click o