scott fitzgerald before i was born and i was born a. scott. never used andrew, used scott. >> dean sayer, who was he? i lived long enough to know who he was. i remember the name. what was his son like? he died since he wrote the book. >> this is the grandson. dr. grayson's son, yeah. he was a lovely man, maybe -- maybe the most gentlemanly virginia gentleman i've met. >> sayer? >> no, not talking about dr. grayson's son. kerry t. grayson. i learned from both of them, again it's this humanizing element, they both gave me that thing. but it was a really caring man. this was a loving father. this was a man with real tenderness of the people in his lives. he was strict as get out. they crossed him. there were two or three in his life he felt they betrayed him. never spoke to him or saw him. >> colonel house? >> he's one of them. the closest friend when he was a prince ton professor, who succeeded him is one of them. after hib bit betrayed wilson in a trustee meeting at prince ton, wilson never spoke to him again. just shades him down. >> colonel w

a mentor of fs scott fitzgerald. he five of the most important writers in the united states and around the world between the two world wars. 25 of the most important writers in the united states around the world between the two world wars. he moved to a place called hardwood and manufactured the american dream. >> 1998 was the bloomberg book. berg book. >> he fit into a pattern. i find it interesting to write biographies of 20th century american cultural figures. i would like to write about people where each one is from a different part of the country in a different sliver of the apple pie. samuel goldman was a polish illiterate. charles lindbergh was a midwestern figure from the heartland. theke to think about metaphors of 20 century america and who is the most romantic embodiment of the airplane? trolls bloomberg -- charles lindberg. is theother thing i find erg.rity about lindb there are people who worship this man or demonize him and think he is a horror of the 20th century. he was neither a god nor a devil. he w

scott fitzgerald. that is the author we talked about last time. tonight, we will be talking about the biggest initials in 20th century literature, j.d. salinger. a man so reclusive his first two names are still a secret. was it joe don? juan diego? >> joe da plumber? >> unfortunately salinger cannot be with us tonight, either mtv booked him to appear on the vma's, or -- [ cheers and applause ] >> stephen: -- or he died in 2010. only time will tell. but we have got a fantastic show later on we will be talking about salinger's literary influence with tobias wolff, author of "this boy's life" and we will be discussing the new documentary about salinger with its director shane salerno, who also cowrote the 1998 blockbuster, "armageddon". which is why at the end of the documentary, salinger blows himself up to save ben affleck. true story. [ cheers and applause ] >> stephen: that is based on a true story. now, salinger was fiercely protect if the of his privacy so let's invade his privacy in part one of my one-part series, better know salinger. >> j.d.

scott fitzgerald writes, the rich different from you and me when it comes to mr. ellison?ause with ellison, you're talking about a man who's got beneficial interest in this company -- he owns a quarter of the company. he controls a lot of the shares. >> founder. >> if you think about it, the paycheck may in the be anywhere near close to his financial interest in this company. so it may be about trying to align his interests with shareholder. and some would argue that he is already very much aligned. he owns a quarter of the company. >> yeah. i think the real question that i'm concerned about is this whole -- this whole yachting thing. is he spending too much time and too much money -- >> didn't he skip a meeting? >> oracle world. >> oracle world in. >> his team won the america's cup. congratulations. the question is, if he did that at the expense of oracle world, does that mean he needs to be paying more attention to what his shoeareholders want? i'm all for people having hobbies, but he should not have missed this meeting. >> you've got mark hurd, two very capable co-pres

scott fitzgerald talking about the rich different from you and i. now they're different over different generations. back in the day of the gilded ables back when they were building the fancy houses on rhode island, they had to live off investments and mommy and daddy's money. these days the top earning inging ingearns in our society are working now. they're working as ceos and entrepreneurs, but, still, a lot of their money is coming from investments, not wages. >> when we talk about money, we want to be clear. the top pretax $394,000. the top ten exceeding $114,000 for the household. why did it surge last year in particular thoughsome. >> there was ale of things. there's been changes to the u.s. tax law so a lot of wealthier families, individuals, want the cash out of some of their investment income to lower their tax bill for the coming year. houvgs these are long-term trends that have been with us for 30 years and that one-time tax law change isn't changing the real story here. >> the top 1% share income bottomed out at 7 .7% in 1973. 's been ris