but also i have been really struck by people saying how they just can't recognize the alexander cockburnthat they look up on the internet as the kind of generous friend that they knew in person. there are a lot of people who have mentioned what a great guy he was and what a nice man he was and you know not just words of condolence but really a sense of somebody who listen deeply to people and was a thoughtful friend. there are many other sites to him that you won't find -- you will find acerbic and contrarian and those words on the internet and they bear no relation at all to who he was and how people experienced him. cynical, not for a second and cynic never. contrary and? what does that mean? obviously all those words are just kind of words that people pull out when they don't know what to say to someone and they don't know very much about somebody. so yeah this book really contains a lot of who he really was. >> me to set the table and we will answer anymore questions you have and we will share other information. the book table is in the back somewhere. >> the registers at the front.

alexander will be recalled here by andrew cockburn who is not only alexander's youngest brother but washingtoneditor of harper's magazine and the author of the most recently book from donald rumsfeld. daisy cockburn will fall up and will take just a few questions, but if you want to get close to any of us and answer any really personal family questions, you have to have a purchased a book in hand. [applause] >> a master salesman. i think alexander would be happy right now, not just at this happy crowd come here to review his career, and maybe even buy his book, but also glorious past two weeks when the war party has been utterly confounded. the punditry who meet en masse ranks as leaders in sea have been thrown back by the collective shout from the people. i can sort of, i couldn't put it as well as he could but i can certainly here is tones of exultation as this very revolutionary event for the last couple of weeks, about humiliation of the idiot john kerry and perhaps there would've been a very commentary on maybe prose style of the newborn pundit vladimir putin. are really serving as an exa

see a complete schedule of the day's events and also a look at a late alexander cockburn's book a colossal wreck. aero difficult political scandals and american culture at 9:00 on sunday. a:00 p.m. sunday your thoughts what does not apply here. >> up next representative john lewis, a democrat from georgia. the 14 term congressman talks about his role in the civil rights movement, race relations in the obama event political partisanship on capitol hill, he has written wind: a memoir of the movement," "across that bridge: life lessons and a vision for change" and "march: book 1". >> congressman john lewis, who is elwin wilson? >> guest: i'd met him in 1961. i was part of the freedom ride. we left washington d.c. on may 4th, 1961, at 18 of us, to test the decision of the united states supreme court to end segregation in public transportation. my seatmate from washington d.c. you must understand in 1961, black people and white people couldn't be seen together when you get out of washington to try to go to north carolina or georgia, alabama, mississippi. we were on our way to new orleans. we di