the way until the time that ray bradbury got married to. i wrote about it in the american conservative a month or so back if you want to check that article on line about ray bradbury. also right about him in "blue collar intellectuals". when it came time for him -- she graduated high school in 1938. came time for him to go to college. the tragedy was he couldn't go to college. one of these rick santorum guys -- guys rick santorum was talking about. he couldn't go to college. the money to do so in the depression, rather than go to college ray bradbury went to the library three days a week. he did this for years, he read and he read and he read. at 18 years old ray bradbury had a better understanding of education than our society does all these years later. today is all that piece of paper. we give you that paper, that paper and so on. ray bradbury could have cared less about the diploma. all he cared about was learning. one of the things i love about ray bradbury is when people ask -- he is the only blue-collar intellectual who is still aliv

bradbury got married. i read about that in the american conservative i also write about him in blue-collar intellectuals. but the point* is when it came time to graduate high-school 1938 to and go to college, the tragedy is he could not. just like rick's santorum was talking. he did not have the money. it was a depression. rather than go to college you went to the library three days a week. he did this for years. you read and read and read. it struck me at 18 years old he had a better understanding of education and then our society does all of these years later. today, all people care about is that piece of paper. they could care less the learning and the education that comes in between. ray bradbury could care less about the diploma. he cared about the learning. one of those intellectuals that is still alive where did you go to college? the proud alumnus of the los angeles public library. that is wonderful. my voice needed that. the common denominator denominator, lowe's, minh intellectuals the outlook al

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there's a great biography of ray bradbury but not a lot out there. i hope the very least with "blue collar intellectuals" to spark some interest in figures who haven't gotten there do and i hope i have given them their due in this book. thank you for coming out. [applause] >> booktv has 150,000 twitter followers. follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on booktv, marwan bishara talks about revolutions that made up the arab spring. he argues the uprisings have a long history that has been largely ignored by the media in the west. this event was hosted by georgetown university center for contemporary arab studies in washington d.c.. >> ladies and gentlemen. good evening and welcome to the central cities. i am prof. of history and director of the center and i am delighted to introduce our distinguished speaker, marwan bishara, senior political analyst of english. marwan bishara is a familiar face and voice to you as

the house is in bradbury. it's 32,000 square feet. 7 bedrooms, six fireplaces and a two-story library. there is a pool, 15-person spa, 2,000-bottle wine cellar and 10 car garage. it took nine years to build and 2010 forbes called the area the most expensive zip code in the nation with the median home costing $4 .3 million. so if you are on the lower end, you don't have much. >> maybe pool our allowance together. >> what do you do with seven bathrooms? >> who knows? >>> coming up, state lawmakers are apparently living the life of luxury. >> and the extravagant trips renewing calls for reform. coming up. >>> and how far would you go to find your lost cell phone? we'll tell you how a woman fell inside a trash chute looking for one. >>> and it's official. bart is extending to the south bay. coming up, hear how much the federal government is chipping in and we'll tell you where those new stations will be. >>> a rogue u.s. soldier goes on a killing spree in afghanistan. now washington is trying to contain the politi

number of negative data in japan we have a new report which showed that it does through output and bradbury fell on the expectedly and that was the to lower overseas the bad for electronic goods as well as cars and with the auction decreased to one point superset of compared to january and the home color had different information information of type investors there and that's basically real a stock shares a drop suddenly and that was after the arrest of two prominence real estate property brokers and they were really in their brothers that were arrested on suspicion of bribery all right let's move on to oil now which is raising its losses after suffering the biggest decline in a week and there we had lain on the price was basically that u.s. stocks are on the rise in the western countries who are discussing the possibility of putting their strategic world reserves on. the markets are moving on to currencies the euro is slightly lower against the us dollar and that's ahead of a meeting of you finance ministers and they will be discussing whether to increase the euro zone emergency interventi

homes don't usually cost this much in bradbury but it is the most -- one of the most expensive zip codesn the nation according to forbes magazine in 2010. they cost 72 million instead of 78 million. i'm still searching for someone here who has 78 million dollars laying around. >> you will be searching for a long time. better shot finding rain this week. >> 78 million raindrops, a billion or something like that not worth much maybe worth a little turn sprinklers off, get reservoirs filled, get that snow pack it all starts tonight enjoy today good morning coming up on 5:18 emeryville towards san francisco fairly clear this morning temperatures cooler this morning you will need to does for mid to upper 30s inland to -- to dress for mid to upper 30s inland. mid to upper 40s monterey bay inland salinas, 38° in gilroy. three highlights of a very action-packed forecast partly sunny, quiet last dry day today heaviest rains wednesday cold, wet weather this weekend with snow in our mountains around the bay area. today temperatures ever so slightly warmer to about the same as yesterday. santa rosa

bradbury.nder why. the asking price for this mansion, $78.8 million. jon: .8 3-dz. jenna: they have a huge kitchen, that back doorway has a massage room attached to it. the giant bedroom, complete with chandeliers and pool table as well, and a massive walk-in closet. it's just nice to just take it in! and we have probably a few more cars to buy to fill this garage, it holds about ten cars, and if you need to go to the movies, you don't need to drive, just walk down the hall, you have your own thaoert. seventy-eight point eight? what would you offer? onjon is there room for my workshop and table saw. jenna: important questions. you have to ask. jon: bet you could get it for 75. well, we're going to be talking more about the news of the day. "happening now" will be right back. ow. two of the most important are energy security aneconomic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundre

the house is bradbury is 32,000 square feet with seven bedrooms, six fireplaces and a two story librarypool and 15- person jacuzzi, 2,000-bottle wine cellar. 10-car garage. a 3-d theater. this is my favorite. a temperature controlled trout pond with a two-story waterfall. >> you're a big fisherman, right? >> just who doesn't need a temperature controlled crowd pond? in 2010 forbes called it the most expensive zip code in the nation with the median home costing $4.3 million. >> i might afford one bathroom then done. >>> st. mary's men's basketball team heading for the ncaa tournament this weekend. the first opponent is purdue on friday. they will be in the midwest bracket. the gaels did a little traveling. they beat gonzaga. they clinched the berth for the second time in three years. they are thrust into the national spotlight which means an unofficial holiday for students on friday. i don't think i within the to school on friday in college anyway. >> or early in the morning. >>> cal is also going dancing earning one of the final at large bids playing south florida on wednesday in the pl

did yoever read the book by ray bradbury called fahrenheit 4? yes. that 451 is what? that's the temperature in fahrenheit degrees at which paper burns. that was about a book-burning book, yeah? watch this, gang. fire city. that thing is burning up. look at that all right. okay. why with the wood but not with the metal? neighbor time, neighbor time. okay. what would be the answer, gang? heat transfer is-- most of the energy here went to what, the paper or the metal? metal. the metal. how much was left in the paper? none. and before i can get the paper up to 451, i've got to make that very, very good conductor back there at 451, too. and that takes a lot and lot of energy to do. and so you didn't see the paper ignite. it never got to 451. this is considerably more than 451 degrees, considerably more. when i wrapped it around the wood, look the wood is all scarred now. look at that. you saw the paper light up why? because i didn't have to heat up all the wood to 451, just the surface. see? just the surface. and it--right up easily. but around--on a piece of meta all the

there is a great biography of bradbury but there's not a whole lot out there so i hope at the very least intellectuals have sparked some interest in the figures they have not gotten their due and i hope i have given them their due in my book. thank you so much you guys for coming out. [applause] >> up next on booktv, so born in an hour-long program where we invite guest host to interview others. this week linda killian's new book "the swing vote" the untapped power of independents. in the political writer and columnist argues the growing group of u.s. electorate is more united than its party affiliate counterpart. she discusses the power of independence with democracy editor-in-chief, michael tomasky. >> host: linda killian, welcome to after words. great to have you. tell us what is the swing vote about? >> guest: well, "the swing vote" is about our political system. it is sort of where we are added where everything is right now, but the impetus for the book was that 40% of all american voters are independents, more than either republicans or democrats, which to me means they are dissati

tom bradbury from itn. >> mr. president, great you have agreed to learn about cricket. to tell you a test match takes five days. so it will be a long trip. on serious subject of syria you say you want assad to go. you canted qaddafi to go and he didn't for a long, long time. specifically have you discussed possibility of a no-fly zone? have you discussed how you would implement? have you discussed how you would degrade the syrian defenses?. have you discussed those time issues? >> what i want to say, tom, our teams are working together closely on this issue. our focus is on trying to achieve transition, not trying to implement revolution. the fastest way we to end the killing we want to see is see assad go. we should help bring that about, bring diplomatic pressure, political pressure and kofi annan can bring to bear. that is where our focus is. our teams all the time as i put it, kick the tires, push the system, ask the difficult questions, what are the other options, what are the other things that we can do and it is right that we do that but they're not without their