he would write 17 "new york times" bestsellers.ore than 100 million copies of his books are in print. as he told charlie rose in 1996-- >> 3 cl and i write the way i do because i think it makes me more spontaneous. >> reporter: one critic called his work the verbal equivalentw3 of a high-tech video game. and he later branched out into video games like rainbow six, and splinter cell. if clancy loved the pentagon, he had little affection for the capitol. >> why does washington so rarely do smart things? >> i don't know, tell me. >> because we elect idiots. >> reporter: the difference between fiction and reality, tom clancy once said is that fiction has to make sense. anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: the cause of death has not been announced. that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. ca captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ea and across the countr >> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald call: they're n >

tom clancy, who wrote that and a string of bestsellers, died yesterday.ony mason has his story. >> reporter: tom clancy was too nearsighted to qualify for the military, so he wrote about his obsession with naval operations instead. >> the most important talent for a writer to have is persistence. you just have to stick with it. and it's hard. >> reporter: clancy was a maryland insurance salesman when in 1983 he sold his first book for $5,000 to the naval institute press. president reagan would call it "the perfect yarn." >> present you the ballistic missile submarine "red october." >> the story followed a soaf submarine captain looking to defect to the u.s. and take his sub, the red october, with him. >> the revolution now and then is a healthy thing. >> reporter: "red storm rising" and "patriot games" would follow. he would write 17 "new york times" bestserlz. more than 100 million copies of his books are in print paps he told charlie rose in 1996 -- >> the book acquires a life of its own and the characters acquire a life of their own. >> reporter: one c

greater israel max thanks so much for coming on thanks and just to clarify the new book isn't a bestseller yet but it will be if you're going to have viewers can help me. well max you talk about multiple forces that are driving this base of support for israel within the u.s. what are they. why obviously. there is the the israel lobby apac which is the key arm of the israel lobby as one of the most powerful forces driving support for israel the united states but also there is sort of a curtain of silence around the facts on the ground what netanyahu seeks to obscure in his own backyard and what i want to do with my book life and loathing and in israel is break that curtain of silence and get behind the veneer of propaganda that's been erected in this country and now you mentioned netanyahu his speech at the u.n. in new york and then him going back to israel to borrow a line university which is the academic base of religious nationalism in israel and spending fifteen minutes ranting about how the palestinians are the heirs to the nazis and how the palestinian national movement was directly e

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the coverage of sports, and the girls was a bestseller to this day.he bestseller in the uk and it out sells everything in this country too. s a moxie and grievance that has driven him. a sense that his father has never given him the respect that was due, and broadcasting more, and it has sustained his fading newspaper fortunes, and his love of television. >> his true love. moo >> reporter: and they have had to split the companies. >> you've been criticized from the right,s this a cruelty to his journalism, and a right for people who are critics and political opponents. and what happens been brought up, doesn't the other side do the same thing? if you're watching msnbc or some of the other liberal outlets online, there's very very aggressive position taking in those outlets too. >> i would say that what we operate? in some ways defined by murdock and defined either in relation it his approach or in opposition to it. >> so you think there has been a reaction to fox news? >> msnbc has been a profitable enterprise by observing it and doing an inversion of

dan brown's bestseller "the lost symbol" featured sinister freemasons in dc and the movie "national treasure" centered on a treasure hidden by the freemasons during the revolutionary war. but there was nothing fictional about this public meltdown in front of millions of people by the stenographer on live tv. >> deborah: miss reidy who was hospitalized was still under medical care on thursday. another incident of road rage. this time it's left a 20-year- old woman dead. police are still trying to fick out why a man -- figure out why a man became enraged and then started ramming one car before slamming into another car head- on. >> a terrified woman call 911 as the driver filled with rage tries to run her off the road. the gains,ville -- in gainesville, georgia. the driver 48-year-old michael williams is crazy out of his mind and he's about to cause a disaster. >> seconds later, williams tried to pass them by moving into the opposite lane. this is what happened next. >> this is all that's left. the red truck was driven by that raging maniac. he smashed into this white suv. instantly killing 20

that made the book a bestseller. he compliment ed the work and went on for "clear and present danger," "patriot games." when they became hollywood block busters we had harrison ford playing jack ryan. that made harrison ford this larger than life figure. alec baldwin also played jack ryan. ben affleck played jack ryan. in 2003 he wrote "the teeth of the tiger." he introduced jack ryan, jr., as the next big intelligence agent in washington. he has a book that will come out december 3. there is an unpublished novel that's coming out called "command authority." we'll see more of his work in a couple of months. it's shocking. >> i interviewed him ten years ago. i remember being dumbstruck by the level of access that man had. he had classified information, top level military that would gladly open their doors to him. it might be why he was intrigue ing. he had his finger on the pulse of how things happened. >> he was a former insurance agent. he started writing books that were so meticulous and such great political thrill

the san jose product talks about the controversy about his new bestselling book. >>> new at 6:00, a red hot day for a bay area solar company. san mateo based solarcity, it will nearly double next year. it sent chairs of the company, whose chairman is elon musk. the shares went up by nearly 20%. solarcity installs solar systems on roofs. >>> her title may be miss universe. she's not welcome on the premises of the taj mahal. at least not when shooting a commercial. >> it turns out commercial activity is banned at the taj mahal. 21-year-old olivia culpo was part of a footwear shoot at there this week. accusing her of violating the country's heritage act which could come with a jail sentence of up to two years and a fine. culpo who's now back in the u.s. tonight told her hometown paper she didn't want to take part in the shoot but was directed to participate. experts say unless she apologizes and destroys the footage, she will likely face some sort of punishment. >>> chemical weapons watch dog is the winner of this year's nobel peace prize. the organization for the prohibition of chemical w

. >> is first bestseller was published in 1984 and the rest is history. butpopularity skyrocketed he continued to live in maryland and was known for keeping a low row file. >> he was a man of few words. , he wasme i saw him always wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses. >> his friends saw a different side of him and says he likens elf were like many of the heroes in his books. >> most of the euros, and certainly tom, had a wonderful, soft side. no one ever heard about it. he did everything in and "awe shucks" sort of way. >> he was also a major philanthropist, giving millions of dollars for pediatric cancer research hospitals in baltimore. he was a baltimore in through and through. he loved loved the orioles, invested in the community where he raised five children, and he hopes his legacy will be remembered here now that he is gone. >> he considered this his home and the place he wanted to have an impact. and he did. thatm clancy told me once writing was not that hard. he said it was not brain surgery. the love for the orioles led him to join investors who

collection, "something i've been meaning to tell you," was published in 1974 and became a canadian bestseller. in "the view from castle rock" she wrote about three generations of a family that emigrated from scotland to canada. the work drew high praise from critics. munro is 82 years old. she said she has retired from writing. >>> nuclear regulators in japan will soon be getting international support in their effort to monitor the impact the fukushima daiichi crisis is having on the ocean. specialists with the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog will join teams checking radiation levels in the waters off the damaged facility. >> translator: monitoring radioactivity in sea water is very important. so the iaea would like to cooperate with the japanese authority. >> iaea chief yukiya amano offered the assistance to the head of japan's nuclear regulation authority shunichi tanaka. tanaka says working together would help alleviate concerns among neighboring countries. officials with the authority have been testing sea water in different locations in fukushima daiichi's port. they say radiation levels are bel

of the national library of china alan is also the author of several books including the national bestseller the world without us and his latest critically acclaimed countdown our last best hope for a future on earth alan joins me now in the studio alan welcome thanks for thanks for being with us to be here the essential story of count is the story of overpopulation it is it's something that i came to unexpectedly at the end of doing my last book the world without us which was really kind of a red herring because it was about how could we have a world with us theoretically wipe everybody off the planet so we could see how beautifully the planet would restore itself hoping that readers would ask well how do we have ourselves back to that picture of a healthy world only kind of in balance with nature and not in combat with it but i discovered that every four and a half days we were adding a million people to the planet and we still are and that didn't seem like a sustainable figure at all so i just raised it at the end of the book and sort of left the day living there and it became a really im

he has consistently been on the bestseller list. he has published his second volume of stories called "t.c. boyle stories ii." good to have you back on this program. chuck taylors on. i love it. >> you never know when you're going to be called upon to dunk. tavis: it is still killing. this would be hard to dunk at 918 pages. this is pretty dense. >> it is also -- i am sorry, i wrote a preface for it, it was a little bit valedictory. this is my career, this is what i have done. i am feeling pretty good, and i think it might have a few more good years left in me. so maybe we will see volume three sunday. tavis: you say that like you have questioned whether or not you have a pew good years left? >> i have been healthy. i get up and clean up after my wife and start typing every day. has 900 18 book pages because it has three books in it, basically. and 14 short stories create >> right. there is 58 stories in this one. four8i published my first collections. they squeezed the pages more narrow but it was a big book. 700 pages. all the sto

. >> 17 of clancy's novels were number one bestsellers.l made him popular inside the military and intelligence communities. tom clancy died yesterday in baltimore after a brief illness. he was 66. >>> and coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest on talks to end the government shutdown. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." s to end the government shutdown. i'm anne-marie green.e "cbs mo." e a mouth breather. a mouth breather! how do you sleep like that? you dry up, your cold feels even worse. well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip, and pow! it instantly opens your nose up to 38% more so you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do. sleep. add breathe right to your cold medicine. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. woah! what? it's called a smoky eye. [ female announcer ] you may not be the best at new trends but you know what's best for your kids. so we listened when you said gogurt should have

host and executive producer of conspiracy theory with jesse ventura that was on tuesday he's a bestselling author and his new book is they killed our president sixty three reasons to believe that was the fist spare seat to assassinate j.f.k. i know a lot about this and i'll get to that a little.

basement a bestseller after president reagan complimented the book.host of books centered around character jack ryan. in 2003 he published "the teeth of the tiger." that made jack ryan, jr., the central character. he has a book to be out december 3 called "command authority." that's the latest book in his arsenal he's had there. but, again, we are getting word in that tom clancy has died at the age of 66. we are still getting more details on this. of course we'll follow it throughout the day. >> he's from baltimore county, maryland. a long-time resident of baltimore. tom clancy dead at the age of 66. hopefully we'll have more information to pass along soon. we'll be right back . life could be hectic. as a working mom of two young boys angie's list saves me a lot of time. after reading all the reviews i know i'm making the right choice. online or on the phone, we help you hire right the first time. with honest reviews on over 720 local services. keeping up with these two is more than a full time job, and i don't have time for unreliable companies. angi

2006 the john grisham first nonfiction title which report on a murder case in oklahoma was on the bestsellers list that year as well as then senator barack obama spoke on national politics, the audacity of hope. >> i would like to start a conversation and this brings me to against the larger point, about what citizenship means. and what obligations to each other. and how do we create a stronger link between the decision-making in washington

host and executive producer of conspiracy theory with jesse ventura that was on tuesday he's a bestselling author and his new book is they kill.

host and executive producer of conspiracy theory with jesse ventura that was on tuesday he's a bestselling author and his new book is they killed our president sixty three reasons to believe that was the fist spare seat to assassinate j.f.k. i know a lot about this and i'll get to that a little later but first some current things what are you thoughts on what's been going on in washington with shutdowns and debt ceiling i think i think the shutdown is pathetic larry i think that here's my big question since the government shutdown now let's keep track of the number of days we should now have to pay taxes then should we good idea jesse you know if a shut the government down then there we should lose our tax obligation because what are we paying for this is something i don't stand we passed a health care bill you know the supreme court said it's a law you know they now don't want to obey the law exactly why. can you not obey the law again that's the democrats and the republicans larry i can answer for them my belief is that the american people should vote them all out of office all all of th

i followed taking on larry king and joining me is the spiritual activist lecturer a bestselling author and now a candidate for the u.s. house of representatives marianne williams.

i knowledge again i'm larry king and joining me is the spiritual activist lecturer a bestselling author and now a candidate for the u.s. house of representatives marianne williamson she made her announcement in beverly hills this past sunday running as an independent she'll run against a lifelong congressman henry waxman he's been there for thirty eight years why mariam well i think there's a new conversation that americans are having about our country and about life and about the world and this conversation is saturating so many corners of our society but it hasn't been able to crash through the ramparts of the of the political system and so the thoughts that dominate our our politics today are calcified thought forms they don't allow in the kind of thinking that is necessary to move us forward and so what we have is a diminishing democratic french fries and i think that it's going to be people coming from outside the two parties the two parties certainly have their role to play but i think what we need now is the voices of the american people unfiltered by the kind of chuckle that the

live politicking on larry king and joining me is the spiritual activist lecturer a bestselling author and now a candidate for the u.s. house of representatives marianne williamson she made her announcement in beverly hills this past sunday running as an independent so run against a lot.

show called conspiracy theory of jesse ventura and is now a bestselling author his new book is called they killed our president sixty three reasons to believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate j.f.k. while enjoying the earlier. break it all down. i want to get your take on the shutdown taxpayers elect congress they pay their salaries congress seems to have no disagreement on bombing countries and spine and they know that they have a ten percent approval rating so how is it that they have the gall to hold americans hostage indefinitely. i'll tell you it's beyond my comprehension i don't know how you know these congressmen and senators they shut the government down because they don't want us to have health care for everybody yet very themselves have four different plans they can each choose from for their health care provided by the government so it is not government run health care. to me it is indeed especially the g.o.p. cutting of food stamps at receiving millions of dollars in subsidies for their farms let's talk about your new book you're promoting it called they killed our pr

the planet are seized and profits funneled in the pockets of a few he's also the author of the bestselling book confessions of an economic hit man and hoodwinked he joins me now john perkins welcome back to the show. thank you ed it's great to be with you again john you allege that you were an economic hit man which you describe as a highly paid professional who keeps countries around the world out of billions of dollars are there any government documents that back up this decade's long global conspiracy. i think everything that's coming out around the n.s.a. and edward snowden's revelations certainly back an awful lot of it we're going deeper and deeper into this so i think at this point there's very little question plus we've admitted to overthrowing governments like most the deck in iran is a recent book about the dulles brothers who were involved in that we've admitted to overthrowing arbonne xin we want them out of the cia did that. in chile. henry kissinger's admitted to it it's yes there's a lot of documentation that totally substantiates this your book also claims that so-called ja

host and executive producer of conspiracy theory with jesse ventura that was on tuesday he's a bestselling author and his new book is they killed our president sixty three reasons to believe that was the fist spares a to assassinate j.f.k. i know a lot about this and i'll get to that a little later but first some current things what are you thoughts on what's been going on in washington with shutdowns and debt ceilings i think i think the shutdown is pathetic larry i think that here's my big question since the government shutdown now let's keep track of the number of days we should now have to pay taxes then should we good idea jesse you know if they shut the government down then there we should lose our tax obligation because what are we paying for that has something i don't stand you pass the health care bill you know the supreme court said it's a law you know. they now don't want to obey the law exactly why. can you not obey the law again that's the democrats and the republicans larry i can't answer for them my belief is that the american people should vote them all out of office all al

my politicking i'm larry king and joining me is the spiritual activist luxury a bestselling author and now a candidate for the u.s. house of representatives marianne williamson she made her announce women beverly hills this past sunday running as an independent she'll run against a lifelong congressman henry waxman he's been there for thirty eight years why mary . well i think there's a new conversation that americans are having about our country and about life and about the world and this conversation is saturating so many corners of our society but it hasn't been able to crash through the ramparts of the of the political system and so the thoughts that dominate our our politics today are calcified thought forms they don't allow in the kind of thinking that is necessary to move us forward and so what we have is a diminishing democratic franchise and i think that it's going to be people coming from outside the two parties the two parties certainly have their role to play but i think what we need now is the voices of the american people unfiltered by the kind of chuckle that the two par

the planet are seized and profits funneled in the pockets of a few he's also the author of the bestselling book confessions of an economic hit man and hoodwinked he joins me now john perkins welcome back to the show. thank you out it's great to be with you again john you allege that you were an economic hit man which you describe as a highly paid professional who cheats countries around the world out of billions of dollars are there any government documents that back up this decade's long global conspiracy hearts and everything that's coming out around the n.s.a. and edward snowden's revelations certainly back up an awful lot of it we're going deeper and deeper into this so i think at this point there's very little question plus. the knitted to overthrowing governments like most the deck in iran is a recent book about the dulles brothers who were involved in that we've admitted to overthrowing arbonne xin we want them out of the cia did that. in chile henry kissinger's admitted to it it's yes there's a lot of documentation that totally substantiates this your book also claims that so-calle

she's a health and well was expert a bestselling author a t.v. personality she developed zillion michael's body shred of fitness class now daughter crunch james a comprehensive weight loss system body revolution hits shelves this month and of course she was a major star on television for a long time with all those people losing all that weight did you ever think you would become famous absolutely not no no way how do how did you get that shocked he was kind of interesting i started training at seventeen and when i was twenty four i realized or i was pressured into getting a real job so i started working at a talent agency called i.c.m. and i didn't write and i worked my way through the ranks and i became a motion picture packaging agent and i just through a series of twists and turns i was not happy doing that job and there were agents only really know that there might as well actually good people because they are so they get you know biggest loser so when i was thirty when did i believing in god. adding into sports fitness again and. then they e

[inaudible] hunt for red october 1 put him on a new york times bestsellers list in 1985. -- ronald reagan said he could not put the book down. he started as an insurance salesman that had a great love of the military telling his publisher about u.s. intelligence with such incredible detail and accuracy. >> where do you get that information? i call it connect the dots. this is true in this is true. just connect the dots. the military brought him respect of other high-ranking fans. colin powell will said he lost a dear friend today. adding his favorite novel was clear and present danger. games are with page. among the 17 novels that appeared on this m -- the sellers list. -- best sellers list. >> he will always be remembered as one of the greatest authors of our time. >> we still do not know his cause of death. he leaves behind a wife and four children. >> and left behind quite a legacy. we want to get a check on the traffic situation. how is it looking? lindsay of volume on 66 headed westbound headed in the sunshine from the beltway. all lanes are open. not doing too badly at all. 270, all

his first bestseller was published in 1984 and his popularity skyrocketed from there. he joined investors who bought the baltimore orioles in 1983. wendy davis will make a big announcement today. herselfde a name for during a filibuster against a state abortion bill. she is expected to announce her bid for governor of texas. another tank has overflown. more than 100,000 gallons of water spilled and that link may have sent contaminated liquid into the pacific ocean. this is the second such leak in two months. the complex cleanup could take decades. offeringtomaker is furloughederments to federal employees. live with thes us bloomberg business report. good morning. >> good morning. the defense industry is the biggest recipient of defense contracts and will likely be the hardest hit by the government shutdown. there are 7 million a: full-time jobs tied to contracts. sikorsky makes the helicopters. more than 5000 workers will be furloughed if the shutdown continues into next month. general dynamics and huntington -- if they cannot get workers onto the site, they will not b

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