darwin wrote a life of erasmus darwin, his grandfather, and we have a book that erasmus sent to benjamin franklin in the book room of the library of congress. and this darwin, his daughter, and we have two books written by his grandchildren. this period piece -- period piece, a cambridge childhood written by his granddaughter. and then this blue book here, the world that fred made, an autobiography written by the grandson whose mother died at birth and he spent most of his time growing up with charles darwin and emma, his wife. and here we have the two-volume correspondence of emma darwin, his wife, a century of family letters. >> it seems like charles darwin did a lot of writing. >> yes, he did. he certainly did. as i said it's going to take 36 volumes just to complete his correspondence. >> how long has that project been underway? >> it's been underway for at least 20-ñ years. and it's expected to go another 20, 25 years. and it is available online. the correspondence is -- and you can find the website from the library's press release. >> in general, these books -- where do they come from? thes

>> two books i have recently finished work walter isakson's biography of benjamin franklin and taylor branch phos biography on king. i really enjoyed reading those. the two books i want to read this summer, have to find time his team of rivals, the book about the cabinet and the sociologists at harvard. so come and visit to books at wunsch weafer myself. i have two young children at home. we are on the fifth harry potter book read downed by the end of the summer we may be through that whole series. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information visit our web site at booktv.org. >> next, booktv brings to selected programs from the 2009 virginia festival of the book in charlottesville. first, michael dirda, pulitzer prize-winning book critic for "the washington post" discusses his book, classics for pleasure. this program is 17 minutes. >> michael dirda, a longtime critic at "the washington post" and author of the book classes for pleasure, how do you find-- the fine classic? >> classic is a book that people keep going back to generation after generation. it doesn't h

secret spots, things like benjamin franklin's nudist past. >> right, where he used to sit in a room nudee're looking forward to see this week. our producer wouldn't let us see it ahead of time. we'll see what it's about coming up. but ron has the rest of the news. >>> good morning, everyone. we begin with breaking news, the remains of captain scott speicher whose plane was shot down on the first night of the gulf war 1991. speicher had originally been classified as killed in action but that was changed to missing. authorities say information from an iraqi citizen has helped them locate the remains. >>> and three american soldiers have been killed today in a battle in afghanistan. three other u.s. troops died in a separate attack on saturday. july was the deadliest month for u.s. troops in afghanistan since the start of that war in 2001. >>> and a massive manhunt is under way in israel for a gun man who opened fire in a club for gay teenagers. killing two people, 11 others were injured, four of them seriously. >>> and finally -- how about that, huh? that is the sound of an attempt to set

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thomas jefferson and george washington and james madison and james monroe and patrick henry and benjamin franklin, everything that they did was illegal, so that the rules ought not to be reasons why you do or don't do anything. one of my great teachers, henry david thoreau, who reminded us about the importance, not the importance, the necessity of civil disobedience, that all these rules that we have, you know, when my mom, my beautiful mom was born in 1916, she was four years old before women even got to vote in america. and the women, i mean, half the population of our country was not involved in any decision-making in the first almost 200 years of our history. how absurd that is when we think about it now, and how did that change? because people said, the hell with those rules, i don't care whether it's legal or not legal, if it's not moral and i have rules within me, i have to go to those. these are memes. i don't have the energy. i'm too tired. it's a meme. one of the commitments i made, and my kids have never heard me say it, is that i'm tired. i just, it's a word that i stopped saying in m

wolf presents his thoughts on the different ways that people like benjamin franklin, w.e.b.bois, henry ford and elvis presley learned and the elusive definition of a good education. r.j. julia booksellers in madison, connecticut, hosted this event. it's 45 minutes. >> thank you. first of all, it's great coming to this bookstore. i was saying that it's great to have this independent bookstore. i actually don't believe they're a dying breed. i know the statistics say that but i think in the hard times to come, this is going to be the kind of place people are going to support and want to be part of and when someone says, do you agree to that other chain store, they'll say, no, i don't do that anymore 'cause i want to do my hometown bookstore. i think that may be the way it's going and turning arouow

series that takes 25 projects and looks and in particular large historical figures, mark twain, benjamin franklin, we do a series that looks at historical pieces, wonderful for educators, home schoolers, curriculum, serious nonfiction, a lot of journalism pieces that we have on any thing from finance to pop culture, and a lot of fun arts and entertainment titles. we really embody the spirit of this publishing. >> associated with the university? >> we are not associated with the university, chicago review press is the parent company to independent publishers group which is a large distribution company with a wide variety of publishers we distribute in north america. chicago review is our publishing editorial arm. >> we have been talking with elizabeth malzahn of chicago review press. >> put tv sunday, the future of the american conservative movement with direct mail fund-raiser richard victory at the freedom fest this weekend on c-span2. >> this summer book tv is asking what are you reading? >> as the author of a new book about how congress really works, called the waksman report, i hope people wi

>> i think the problem is this, benjamin franklin had said that compassion can be counterproductive. i'm a compassionate person. you know, we give money to different charities, i volunteer at church, and what can happen is compassion -- he said that compassion that allows a drunk to increase his drunkenness is counterproductive, compassion that allows weakness and dependence is counterproductive. and all these things the government has been doing over the years, completely counterproductive. and it's taking the drive out of people. i mean, if you have two hot dog stands, my friend karen told me this, you have two hot dog stands, a $2 hot dog here and a free hot dog line over here, i'm going to the free hot dog line. >> i'm going to the $2 hot dog line so i don't have to wait. it's easy and don't blame the american people to use these programs because they're there but when another one is implemented, once the government puts their fingers in everything, you can't take that out. sean: i want to tell you, i think the reason you've been under fire is because what you said to arlen spect

that nameless bald was later joined by other bald trailblazers such as benjamin franklin, dwight eisenhowerull from "night court." [ laughter and applause ] yes, the balds are as american as baseball, momand apple pie, in as much as this traditional american pastry is not typically served with hair. in fact, the balds have much in common with the mighty bald eagle, proud, strong, and on the verge of extinction because no one will mate with them. [ laughter ] but through it all, they've persevered because they're smooth, they're virile and they get to take quick showers. they are the balds, and they are tonight's target demographic. [ cheers and applause ] when we come back, we're gonna play "cell phone shootout," so stick around. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ guy 2: dudemadden?ou get the nw guy 1: no, not yet. i gotta get to walmart sometime. guy 1: (cou) somebody said they have a bunch in stock? guy 2: oh yeah, there your can just get it and go. guy 2: i mean, you know, that's what i heard. guy 1: you're totally playing right now, aren't you? guy 2: no! i don't know what you're talking about.

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got to philadelphia, he went and introduced himself to the only american he had ever heard of, benjamin franklin. and he walked into ben franklin's office and he said, i'd like to take your test for military engineering. and ben franklin looked at him like he was from mars and said we're a country of farmers and merchants and we don't have an army much less for military arming but we have somebody who knows a lot about geometry and he asz the test and he said you're in charge of building forts. so he builtv'w forts across6Ñ river, thÏh"elaware river from philadelphia at forts mercer and billingsport and while he was building these forts he realized the british ships would go into delaware and bombard philadelphia. so he started building what's known a boat. these are basically wood gentry trunks that were shaved down and they would put iron tips on the end and they would put under water so when the british chips would sail in they would puncture the bottom of the ship and then they would sink. the americans said this guy knows what he's doing. so they made him a colonel of the engineersñ and th

one of the first to be wrote about it was benjamin franklin. one of the things that is great about doing research for this book, and i hope it comes across in reading it, is so much of these conversations are preserved in the correspondence between these people. and because he was in leeds and franklin was most of the time in london, a lot of their important conversations actually took place in forms that we can see the actual original words of. and franklin wrote back to priestly after he got word of this experiment, and he took it to kind of the next level. he said that sounds like a rational system. it sounds like probably a system that happens on a kind of a global level. all around the world wiese and seen things like fire will purify water. and it probably makes sense that the earth need some kind of dish nature need some kind of mechanism for purifying the air so it would make sense that probably plans are doing it. so right there you see this collaboration between the two men were priestly has half of an idea and franken has the other h

benjamin franklin, george washington?u are the five founding fathers for a new black nation in panama because i am about to free all these slaves, and i want you to take 'em all out of here to panama, man. so it's, there are these two things going on in lincoln's head at the same time. that's why he's fascinating. he's fascinating. but i liked lincoln. don't get me wrong. when you see this film -- and i hope you will. >> when does it run? >> tomorrow night at 9:00 on pbs. it's, he's better for being complex. and i wanted to show the historical profession that you don't have to mask his warts. >> uh-huh. >> that you don't have to diminish his dimensions. that lincoln in three dimensions is infinitely more fascinating than, you know, the cardboard cutout that we were raised with that he was the american christ. that's ridiculous. nobody's that good, nobody. and lincoln wasn't. in this book i include his dark jokes, he liked black-faced minstrel singing, he used the n word seven times in a speech inheartedford. look at that

>> two books i recently finishes were the biography on benjamin franklin and partying the waters. they are different books. i need to find some time for the "team of rivals." they also have a new book out "more than just race." those are two books. i have young children, and i'm sure we'll also be reading harry potter. >> to see more summer reading list and other program information visit our web site at booktv.org.

at the time of the revolution, benjamin franklin said, a third of the people weretories, they favored what the british were doing. and a third were true blue. and that's all you here in the audience. . . >> it seems like we are losing the war in the media. what can we do to solve that problem? >> i understand your concern. i don't care how the media covers it, in august, we have been winning the war and we can go on and win the war if we keep at it. [applause] the big question is, are we going to keep at it ase active, involved citizens? will week's debacle, passionate? are we going to keep in everybody's faces and every member of congress in august and september, october, and november, however long it takes? [applause] we go to donald preston, let me give you the list of the order. if you could start making your way to the isle. first, donald preston -- president barack obama said at a town meeting that the medicare advantage plans don't work. i have had people's choice 65 for years and it works for me. no charge for operations including hospital stay and doctors is an example. i agr

. >> rob: benjamin franklin. >> bob: hamilton. >> rob: it's all about the ben gentleman plains! >> bob: hanley ramirez here. 1-1 -- 1-2 -- 1-1 top of the fifth. i like the way we mix baseball and history here. jason bergmann was up last inning. after the marlins hit two home runs, one of them by the pitcher. hanley ramirez pops one a mile high on the infield and gonzales has it. >> rob: he is throwing them off their game. you hit them, walk them, and he pops up. >> bob: and he is hitless beyond the fifth inning. jorge cantu is next. a beautiful sky as we look out west. aren't the days getting shorter now, since about two weeks ago? that is a good breaking ball to cantu. a hard luck oh-fer two. he's hit the ball hard up the middle twice. morgan took one hit away from him and j.d. martin took the other, so he pulls it for a single. willingham had to get over and box that ball down that thing was really skirting on the grass. it will be just another wired wednesday tomorrow with nyjer morgan. it will be fun to listen to him. you'll probably hear some quick- moving footsteps and we'

the only thing they knew about benjamin franklin is that he's on the $100 bill.his president proposes, no matter how beneficial. this is all about destroying obama's presidency, and unfortunately, there are enough suckers in this country to do their dirty work." marilyn writes from nashville -- "democrats should go it alone. the president has bent over backwards to include republicans. so far, the right has no plan, no platform, no strategy, no cooperation, no integrity and no truth." say nothing of no concern for the citizens of the country. j.w. in atlanta -- "no. if the package doesn't fly with bipartisan support, it ought to be postponed and rethought. the problem in health care is cost, and tort reform plus product pricing have to be addressed in a big way. we can't afford any political shenanigans on this matter. best to cool down now and try again later." bobby in georgia writes, "the president, the house and senate have no choice. republicans never intended to help reform health care. after all, what did the republicans do about health care reform when th

at the time of the revolution, benjamin franklin said that 33% of the people were tories. they favored what the british were doing. 33% were timid, and 33% were true blue. and that is what you get in this audience. [applause] in franklin said that the battle is for the timid, to get to the people who have not made up their minds yet. that is what i am trying to do. trying to making sure that the voice of the american people is heard and that the knowledge is there said that people will come to the santa clara -- the same conclusions that we do, that this is not what we want for america's future or for our children. >> lanny, did you have a follow- up? >> it looks like we are losing all war in the media. what can we do to solve that problem? >> i understand your concerns. but i don't care how the media covers us. in august we have been winning the war and we can go on and win the war if we keep at it. [applause] not to me, the big question is this -- are we going to keep at it as active, involved citizens? are we going to stake passionate and keep in every phase, every memb

. >> i'm saying that thomas jefferson and our founding fathers, benjamin franklin, patrick henry says that the general welfare clause should be used in the confines of the powers of article 1, section 8 of the constitution and nowhere is anything about taking over any kind of control over the health care system enumerated in article one, section eight. >> the debate when you were hearing from people in the audience, what are they saying to you when they spoke. do they want you running for office? >> yeah, i've had people talk about that ever since over the last week and it might be in the future and it might not be. but i definitely got a lot of good response from it. >> we noticed senator mccaskill was not at the town hall which i find odd. it was organized by her, but they sent the representative there. what did you want the senator and people to know what you that night? >> the point i was trying to bring make my bringing up my oath, members of the armed services are issued armor to go to battle and they should file the constitution to the letter of the law and that's why i brought