fiction" created opportunities for some of merck's most famous writers like erle stanley gardner, ray bradbury and raymond chandler. pelecanos says the writing sprang from the minds of men and women traumatize by war. >> it seemed all sorts of horrible things, seen a lot of death. they came back and started writing these very, very dark books. chandler when describing this genre famously said the streets were dark with something more than night. >> reporter: some literary critics were unimpressed but pelecanos says "pulp fiction" is an important piece of literary history. >> as a cultural artifact it is important to keep all of them. and recognize that that the genre produced some true masterpieces of american fiction. >> they transported readers to new and different worlds. >> that's the value of fiction, isn't it. to be able to put yourself in someone else's place for just a little while and experience that. and that's what these were. >> an experience the library of congress is now preserving for future generations. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> the largest u.s. naval destroyer ever b

did yoever read the book by ray bradbury call fahrenheit 451? yes. that 451 is what? that's the temperature in frenheideees at which paper burns. that was about a book-burning book, yeah? watch this, gang. fire city. that thing iburning up. look at that all right.kay. why with the wood but not withhe 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 ch was lt in the paper? none. and before i can get the paper up to 451, i've got to make that very, very good conductor ba 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, lookhe wood is all scarred now. look at that. you saw the paper light up. why? because i dn'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 heat is conducted all

i also borrowed lines from ray bradbury and gave him credit as well.y're arguing about whether things are properly footnoted. there are technicalities to this. but nothing i said was not given attribution to where it came from. i talked about a movie, gattica. it is a copyrighted movie by the screen writers, i gave every bit of credit to where that plot line came from. the rest of it is making a mountain out of a mole hill from people, i think basically who are political enemies and have an ax to grind. >> because it seems that it is not the first time. the web site buzzfeed they said that you borrowed several lines from wikipedia for a speech in june -- >> i think once again. i think once again. >> the movie stand and deliver. >> once again, a disagreement on how you footnote things. i think people footnote things different in an academic paper than in a public speech. if we were to present any speeches for publication that have foot notes. and the speech, take the time to foot note things. i think it was very clear the plot line was not something i c