hemingway does not give up. if you have something on your mind, a sheet of a printed carriage, you will finish it. that is one thing he did well. there are not many unfinished pieces. finished pieces had multiple endings. there is only one person he would invite to edit his pieces and that was gertrude stein. he trusted her immensely. one of my favorite stories is when his publisher wrote him back about a book where he used the "f" word. max bergen wrote back and said the world is not ready for this. hemingway said this is the word that describes the character best, so it stays in. they write back and forth about the "f" word being used in the book. hemingway is working on another book. let's just print, publish, and get the money rolling. max perkins thanked him for removing the word. hemingway wrote him back and said, thank you. go fornicate yourself. hemingway's characters are big. he is a hunter. he is a fisherman. he has an ego larger then his own life. that is what people believe, what you tell people abou

the tradition of writing in key west, going back to ernest hemingway and before ernest hemingway to people like john , mark twain passed through here during the civil marti was here as an activist and was writing about the cause while he was here. key west has attracted writers for a long time and has engaged the imagination of writers. hemingway certainly put it on the map. he was here concurrently with wallace stevens and they were followed by elizabeth bishop, tennessee williams, richard wilbur, james merrill, ralph ellison. just an amazing number of writers who have lived in key west and whose works have been impacted by key west. we try to make sure literary heritage in key west is not just something you read about, but something that is ongoing and a living tradition. that key west remains a place for great writers to live and work and for passionate and engaged readers to spend time and participate in that history. >> david mcconell is the author of "american honor killings." he sat down with the c-span cities tour in key west to talk about his book. isid: the title

hemingway andest it is a galley proof of "to have and have not." some of the directions have been him.en on the margins by some of the hemingway experts is onold me his writing here and his editor maxwell perkins is on here, too. cuba and hent to left some documents stored in sloppy joe's bar. not" is the have story of key west, the only one of his novels that was based in the united states. wealthy people living here and the locals, who were fishermen and the waterfront people. it is the story of how they interacted with one another and what happened. key west is often springs to mind hemingway, but the other author who lived here the longest was tennessee williams, the playwright. this is tennessee williams speaking here at the library in 1975 when our auditorium was dedicated in his name. , hisnally known playwright --ys were made into movies "streetcar named desire." he was considered the foremost playwright in the country. he was also the leading founder in an open gay community in key west. if you visited key west or have seen anything about

literature had change so much by that point with the introduction of hemingway and fitzgerald and whatnot. a lot of people thought the twist anything was a little kitschy. it worked well sometimes and sometimes he painted himself into a corner and had to pull the rug out. i think over time he is maybe not regarded as highly here in the states but we get a lot of visitors from asia and japan korea, russia where some of these tales are universal tales they have tweaked and they resonated across the world. what makes o. henry pot -- popular is that he dealt with universal themes, such as in "the gift of the magi." everyone knows what it is like to rub two nickels together to buy a gift for someone. he is a champion of the marginalized. a lot of his subjects are about regular old people. that is mostly in new york. a great story "a cop and the anthem" is about a homeless person who is trying to get arrested so we can spend the night in jail and have a warm night and emile. -- a meal. he ends up instead finding salvation in another way and that is the twist. o. henry's characters are the numbe

today we head to key west, florida, and visit the earnest hemingway house and learn about the jewish history and talk with the author of a book called quit your job and move to key west, the complete guide. >>> now a look at the history of the gridiron club dinner. starting in 1885 the event features journalists and politicians and government officials. the president usually attends. clarence page talks more about the dinner, usually held each spring in washington. >> clarence page, a columnist for the chicago tribune and the president of the gridiron club this year. let's talk about the club itself. who are its members, what is its mission and how do you become a member? >> the club itself was started in 1885 by a newspaper reporters here in washington who i like to think started the club because the proper societies of washington wouldn't let them join their clubs. it started with three reporters from philadelphia, as i understand. and ever since then, at that time, the active membership has been limited to 50 people. and then there are -- what are called the associate members who

. >> caroline hemingway, there's dismissed as anecdotal evidence.hen your mother is raising children and you see first hand difference? >> well it's miserable as anyone parent will attest to have your kids wake them up and get them out the door. any parent will see, and i saw on the weekends, on snow day, school holidays. we had a happy family, kids had breakfast in the morning. we have morning that are miserable. getting them out of bed. they wouldn't eat breakfast. it was too early. and it was a challenge. >> when you hear 7:45 start time, a lot don't think of how you have to move back from the 7:45 date, hour to when the alarm clock goes off. to when it gulps something down, when they are at the bus stop, in the carpool. what time do they have to get up. school started at 7:20am. backing up. we get the kids out of bed. maybe at 6:45. they never had brek past. >> it was too early for them. children. >> a lot of kids are in high school. they'll drive themselves. my middle son told me how he is pinching it to get them to work, school, the 20 minutes

historically that people know who hank cochran was and what he did, and he always wanted to be the hemingwayy music, and i think he did it. >> it's stunning when you look at the body of work that he was able to accomplish and stay relevant for so long. that's way out of the ordinary. >> ♪ i've got everything ♪ everything but you >> they will be recording hank cochran songs way down the line and probably not even know who he was. >> i think it's really important for people to understand where country music came from and the era of the '50s and '60s, which is hank cochran, harlan howard, willie nelson, roger miller. these guys set the standard for writing songs. >> ♪ don't you ever get tired ♪ of hurting me ♪ he was responsible, really, for me going to nashville and getting a job writing for pamper music. hank had a lot to do with me getting started. >> i met hank. he reached out his hand and had a cd that already had my name on it. i kind of gathered that this wasn't by chance. >> shortly after he first met him, hank was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, so for the two years he lived after th

hemingway says the dominant feature of warfare is chance. even our commanders didn't expect it. they were pressing for the planes. they get into production late but it shows up just in the neck of time. those are the stages of the air war. any questions on the? that? student: with the initial bomb runnings, when the bombers would be turned with the flight that carried them out, would they be waiting for them? prof. miller: not necessarily. they went in waves. even when they had the mustang. they fly out with thunderbolt coverage to hanover and then the mustang would take off from england. they would overtake them. then there will be another fighter group waiting for them while they returned. once they got to the target they were on their own and they start back. they are picked up. , if it is armines mustang it is going to pick them up. the thunderbolt is not going to pick them up until you get to the german border. they depend on those guys all the way. student: for they have counted ,n for the missions they ran like the fighters shooting at ground targets? prof. miller: as par

this chance thing that hemingway talked about. you could have beautiful weather when you went out, for the targets you were bombing, but overcast sets in. a storm front pants -- hits. and in england, your base is clouded up. ordinarily you don't fly in this weather. this weather grounds everything. but you have to landed it, or else you die. >> when he came to getting weather reports over germany, how is that usually done? >> they intercepted german radio signals. they picked up german weather reports. they are meteorologists -- england always gets continental weather. there are meteorologists are trained in picking up continental weather. you also had weather planes and observation planes over the target. they'd fly on the day of the mission and try to assess the situation over the target. leave atmbers would 8:30 in the morning, they would be flying over at daybreak. .nd they would report back and you flew. you never factored in home weather, the mission it just went forward. in these patients there was no turning back. in the i

seen a lot of authors who he had championed had progressed far ahead very successful such as ernest hemingwaywhere fitzgerald was not doing well at all. the story is thinly autobiographical. the story of emmett monson, slender and darkly handsome with the type of expression that made photographers say mr. monson could you manage to smile once more? i think fitzgerald would be in awe of his success today. >> nuclear debate. >> you're going to hear a lot of arguments against this deal. >> president obama goes on the offensive against a sharp opposition to the iran nuclear agreement. >>> atomic anniversary. marking the day that nuclear weapons became a trair fieg reality. terrifying reality. fighting for our allies. >> everyone came back here except him. >> americans working to

and the great man was on display, showing grace under pressure, which ernest hemingway described as thege. and showing how real and genuine his faith is. and again, showing his ability to connect with ordinary americans. you know, in many ways, jimmy carter is the greatest former president we have ever had. >> yeah. well, let's talk about that, because even he -- you know, he volunteered some information, and then he was asked a lot about his years after leaving the white house, working in 80 countries with some of the poorest of the poor. this is one of his responses when asked about his accomplishments post-presidency. >> we actually interact with families and with people who are going blind, or who have guinea worm and so forth. and going into villages and learning about them and what their actual needs are and in meeting those needs with the superb medical staff, i think has been one of the best things that have ever happened to me. >> so one of the best things that ever happened to him and that he impacted the lives of millions of people. he talked about more than 70 million people

we will visit the ernest hemingway house. h historyut the jewis and talk with the author of the book "quit your job and moved to key west." the tour of key west is wednesday at 6:00 p.m. on c-span. florence harding once said that she had only one hobby, and that was warren harding. she was a significant force in her husband's presidency and adept at handling the media turned despite her husbands infidelities, his death in office and her own poor health, she would help to find the role of the modern first lady. florence harding, this sunday night at 8:00 eastern on "first ladies, influence in image: examining the public and private lives of the women who filled andposition of first lady" their influence on the president for martha washington to michelle obama. sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. ♪ >> so thrilled and excited to be here. and i want to thank c-span for covering the national book festival. we have a beautiful sunny day, and i hope the camera shows behind me how huge the crowds are. i'm

ernest hemingway had something to say when he called courage "grace under pressure" last seen thankso a trio of young americans on a fast-moving train on foreign soil. that's "hardball." thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight -- >> they're taking our jobs and money. >> reporter: after a freefall on wall street, scott walker demands the cancellation of the chinese president's state visit and donald trump says "i told you so." >> we have nobody that has a clue. >>> plus, jeb bush takes on trump at the border. >> if he was interested in a more comprehensive approach he might want to are read my book "immigration wars." >> and defends his use of the term "anchor baby." >> frankly, it's more related to asian people. >>> this rumors about biden 2016. >> he's the original authentic candidate. >>> and the americans in paris who stopped ag

so did ernest hemingway when he went over. in 1944. he flew a couple of raf missions.hose were the guys that came back and reported what it was like inside the plane. one report i read in the stars & stripes magazine, the reporter said that it is in the re-feeling when they closed the door. the propellers go. there is no way out. it is like if you do not want to go on the roller coaster and you are in and off. you are off to war. there is no stopping it. anyone else? we not getting very far in this. this is good stuff. , ok,g from their intermittent flying. bucolic. these are the boys you're up against, the german air force. some crack outfits. --y flew with no missions with no limits on their missions. they flew until they died. they were hit pretty heavily. gallant --lph golland. he went toe to toe with hitler who accused them of an absence of bravery. that would drive adolph nuts. one time, he pulled off his nights cross and threw it on the desk of the furor. hitler did not do anything. here, curtis lemay, he is a guy who arrives in october of 1943 and he teaches th

ernest hemingway had something to say when he called courage "grace under pressure" last seen thanks to a trio of young americans on a fast-moving train on foreign soil. that's "hardball." thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight -- >> they're taking our jobs and money. >> reporter: after a freefall on wall street, scott walker demands the cancellation of the chinese president's state visit and donald trump says "i told you so." >> we have nobody that has a clue. >>> plus, jeb bush takes on trump at the border. >> if he was interested in a more comprehensive approach he might want to are read my book "immigration wars." >> and defends his use of the term "anchor baby." >> frankly, it's more related to asian people. >>> this rumors about biden 2016. >> he's the original authentic candidate. >>> and the americans in paris who stopped a tragedy. >> he seemed like he was ready to fight to the end so were we. >>> "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. on a day when the stock market panicked amid worries over chi

he passed shortly after 1910, literature changed so much by that point with the introduction of hemingway and fitzgerald, a lot of people thought the twist anything was a little pitchy. it works really well sometimes and sometimes he kinda painted himself into a corner and and had to pull the rug out. i think over time he is maybe not regarded as as highly in the states, but we get a lot of visitors from asia, korea, japan were were some of these tales are universal tales and they resonate across the world. i think what makes a henry popular is he dealt with that universal themes like gifts of the magi, everybody knows what it's like to know by present for someone. he's also sort of a champion of the marginalized, a lot of his stories the subjects are about regular old people. that's mostly in new york, for example a great story is the cop in the anthem. it's about a homeless person who is trying to get arrested so he can spend the night in jail and have a warm night, and a meal. he ends up, instead finding, instead finding salvation in another way and that sort of the twist ending but i

a famous quote from earnest hemingway, a character asks another character, how did you go bankrupt?e other one says, gradually and suddenly. that's what we found in the industry as we look at, you see a long period of gradual change where incumbents say, all right, this new technology is coming. it may eventually affect our core customers or core products but it's happening in an incremental way, a predictable way and i don't have to worry about it. some day, some event happens or some critical mass is reached, some product. somebody finally gets the right combination of technologies and a business model and they put it together and they let it go and it's facebook. all of a sudden, you know, all the rules are changed. and i think that's the general trend we're seeing. as you talk about in the book, the price performance and size and power utilization also very important of sensor technology, you know, computing stuff, is getting better all the time. you keep having this more is law type of effect. it now becomes cost effective to start introducing intelligence into more and more th

this isn't ernest hemingway. this was just a working newspaperman turning out six articles a week, week after week. yet he achieved a kind of closeness with the american people that no other writer did. died, manypyle people thought they had lost a close, personal friend. what i want to do, instead of talking now how to do journalism , i want to talk about how this one journalist made such an impact. especially what that means about the portrait, the understanding the publicr ii received. how that affects the way journalists do their jobs as war correspondents. first, background. he was old for a war correspondent. he was just turning 40 years old when the war began. he was a little guy, skinny. bald. he had this long face. nobody would look twice at. he had never been to war before. he had never been in the military. he had been too young to serve in world war i. he grew up on a farm. he wanted to get away from rural life. he went to college. he went to bloomington. he decided he would like to become a journalis

1934 and he passed shortly after 1910 that literature has changed so much with the introduction of hemingwayand fitzgerald. a lot of people thought it was a little kitschy. it works really well in times of them can they paint themselves in a corner and have to pull the rug out. i think over time is maybe not regarded as highly here in the states but we get a lot of visitors from asia, japan, russia for some of these are universal tales that they have tweaked and they resonate across the world. what takes all henry possible as he dealt with the universal themes that gift of the magi. everybody knows what it like to rub two nickels together to buy a present for someone. he is also a champion of the marginalized. a lot of his stories in the subject are about regular old people and that is most late in new york. for example, a great story as the cop in the income about a homeless person who is trying to get arrested so he can spend the night in jail and have a warm night and a meal and he ends up in bed fretting ovation in another way. but i think o. henry characters are the number one thing peo

think of the works of robert gray's memoirs of an infantry officer, ernest hemingway t.s. eliot all of the western front. the watchword is disillusionment. a fierce cynicism about liberal democracy, christianity and achievements of western civilization. the show shop veterans wandering europe in the postwar years, becomes a walking metaphor for most or much of postwar europe. the main character who expects to return to civilian life weary, broken, burnt out, ruthless and without hope. the mood is acute among the writers, artists, public intellectuals that affects middle-class europeans as well. listen to a story in his book the twilight years. dismay with the mainstream comes turn for the generation living after the end of the first world war the prospect of ending a crisis new dark age became a habitual way of looking at the world. although his catholic faith remains intact, j.r.r. tolkien remains the collapse of all my world that began with his deployment to the western front. well, trench fever takes tolkien out of the war. july 16, 19 night teeth moves back with his in

lot of authors who he championed had progressed far ahead and were cervixful such asern northwest hemingway while fitzgerald was not doing well at all. his story is thinly auto buying graphickical and a line in the story is describing the man named emmet monson, described as being slender and darkly handsome with the sort of expression that made him say can you manage to smile once more? i think fitzgerald would be in awe of his success today. i think he'd be happy to see his name on the pages of the magazine, as well. >> you can order the magazine at strandmag.com. >> coming up from doha, reports from inside saudi arabia on a suicide bombing that killed 13 security officers. >> wait, is that a camera? >> at the real issues facing american teens. >> whoa, code red. >> dreaming big. >> i gotta make it happen and i'm gonna make it happen. >> choices made. >> i'm gonna lose anything left that i have of the mexican culture. >> fighting for their future. >> it is imperative that i get into college. it's my last chance to get out of here. >> the incredible journey continues. >> hello and welcome

ernest hemingway, farewell to arms. all quiet on the western front. the watch word is disillusionment. a fierce cynicism about liberal democracy, christianity, and the achievements of western civilization. the shell-shocked veterans -- thousands of them wandering the streets of europe in the post war years. the shellshock veteran becomes a walking metaphor for most or at least much of post war europe. remember the main character in "all quiet on the western front" who expects to return to civilian life, weary, broken, burnt out, and without hope. this mood is acute, yes, among the writers, the artists, the public intellectuals, but it affects ordinary middle class europeans as well. listen to a story in richard's book the twilight years, dismay was a mainstream concern, he says. for the generation living after the end of the first world war, the prospect of imminent crisis, a new dark age, he says, became a habitual way of looking at the world. although as catholic faith remains intact, j.r.r. tolkein bee moans the collapse of all my world that began

today we head to key west, florida, and visit the earnest hemingway house, learn about the cities jewish history and talk with the author of a book titled, quit your job and move to key west, the complete guide. >>> four months after the terrorist shooting at charlie hebdo in paris, a panel of american cartoonists discusses the role of satire in journalism.the ge the george polk seminar hosted this event in new york city. f >> let me quickly introduce our panelists. tomorrowne gary trudeau will receive the george polk career award. his doons bury comic strip has obtained the status of a great s american institution. years for 45 years, he has spared no public figure or ill-conceived y policy in the unique approach to political commentary. he stands alongside such cartoonists as walt kelly, paul conrad and our next panelist, jules feiffer at the end. jules feiffer, brilliantly cartoons apilled in the village choice for 42 years. author of 35 books. he's written novels, plays, movie scripts and an acclaimed e autobiography. he received a george polk award way back in he1961. th he said to

americans are flocking to cuba again, small yachts licensed to carry tourists arriving in havana's hemingwaybor. >> the thing we found here, just a richness of a culture that i didn't have any idea existed here. >> reporter: and this morning, john kerry landed in cuba, the first secretary of state here on the island since 1945, marking a new era in cuba-america relations negotiated by presidents barack obama and raul castro in secret talks revealed last december 17th when american contractor alan gros was release from a cuban prison. >> more opportunities for american and cuban people. and begin a new chapter among the nation of the americas. >> reporter: today the american flag flies above the u.s. embassy for the first time since 1961, raised by the same three marines who carefully took it down and folded it 54 years ago. >> i'll be saluting it when it goes up and be proud. >> reporter: not among the invited gets today, cuban dissidents. they will meet separately with secretary kerry at the ambassador's residence. david? >> jim avila in cuba. thanks. >>> over to dan harris who's following

certainly some ambulance drivers such as the literary giants ernest hemingway or john does passos saw their fill of c arnag ande wrote stories that created lingering impressions that americans wanted to distance themselves from a perpetually war racked european society. in stark contrast, hoover's veterans, veterans of hoover's organizations did not feel the work was in vain, and photographs of belgian children eating food and smiling with the stars and stripes on the left confirmed for americans the value of ingratiating foreign populations and developing in cultivating a love for america due to american generosity. now, the memoirs of american humanitarians associated with hoover their letters to family and friends, their correspondents their diaries even their obituaries testified to their firm conviction that the most meaningful work they ever did and some of these become senior american officials, was saving the lives of children. we can find that type of evidence actually at the hoover presidential library in his collections. hoover's deputies, disciples would be a better word,

embassy, later he took a walk in old havana and then visited the home of ernest hemingway, is american here. a real symbol of the culture that u.s. and cuban people share. it's a long road ahead back from 50 years of acrimony between cuba and the united states. particularly on the issue of human rights. now, secretary kerry said that he saw this increased engagement with the cuban government would lead to an improved human rights record. eight months in you see dissidents are increasingly being arrested and detained, lack of freedoms for cubens on the island. secretary kerry chalked that up to old habits die hard. i pushed him about whether it's business as usual for the cubens. take a listen. >>> if eight months isn't long enough, how long is it until you will have a measurable amount of success? >> well, the announcement was made eight months ago. that we were going to move towards this policy. but we have to negotiate for many of those months on the actual process itself. i don't think we're -- we're not even yet -- today, we raised flags, we've opened embassies. you've got to give

certainly, some ambulance drivers, such as the literary giant ernest hemingway or john des pasos created the idea that americans wanted to distance themselves. but in stark contrast, hoover's veterans or veterans of hoover's organizations did not feel their work was in vain and photographs such as this of belgian children eating food and smiling with the stars and stripes, nonetheless, confirmed for americans the value of ingratiating foreign populations and developing and cultivating a love for america, thanks due to american generosity. now the memoirs of american humanitarians associated with hoover, their letters to family and friends, their correspondence, their diaries, even their obituaries testify to their firm conviction that they're in, that the most meaningful work that they ever did. and some of these become senior american officials. the most meaningful work they ever did was saving the lives of children like this. and we can find that type of evidence actually here at the hoover presidential library in its collections. now hoover's deputies, perhaps disciples would be a bet

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. >> key west is often springs to mind hemingway, but the other author who lived here the longest was tennessee williams, the playwright. -- ourtart our future feature with a visit to the home of ernest hemingway. dave: i've had the privilege of not only working here at the

a lot of that we can thank to arm and assuming way -- two on assuming way -- ernest hemingway. he didn't intend to stay but he fell in love. first the artist and the writers come in, then there are people that really appeal to them. any have people who follow that. when the community is told with artists and writers other people's day that is the town for us. that is what has happened to key west. it goes through that process. it is almost like you have a secret. eventually the whole world knows. it's great because now that we are on the map it brings in a lot of those people. different creative types. the arts organizations have grown. we have the studios of key west which bring in arts of all different kinds. for the number of people here the opportunities are incredible. the main thing i want people to get out of reading my book, i want them to know it is ok to follow your dreams. they don't have to quit their job and moved to key west. ricacan go travel in costa . there are so many possibilities. the book is presented in a lighthearted way. it is a complete guide. this give