and then i'm goi to your bookcase, if you've got a bookcase. what are you reading? because if you're reading, the children will be rding. do you know what i'm saying? [applause] >> you develop a culture. you develop a culture within the context of your own home. and then i'm going to your dvd cmllection and s what movies, especially the movies that are wrapped u in brown paper bags. what are you looking at my? and go to your cd question i trk collection. is this booty call musical great black music you are listening to. all this defined as. and you go to the children drew. getting back to your question. and what'sn their walls, darth vader, mickey mouse and donald duck. and you wonder why they're confused. [laughter] >> you wonder why they're confused or so we are one of the few people who let alien culture in our homes here a therefore defined as. and you cannot, you walk into almost every blackcomb 24/7 you find the most dangerous monster of the 21st century, television, on 24/7. you know what i'm saying? i toasted all the time if you're going to stay you got to t

. >> to what degree did the books in this bookcase reflect your reading? >> some of them, some of them are in some of them aren't. i am always reading a lot of different books at one time. the book that is that the most impact on me, which i read for the first time in the army is witness by whitaker chambers. i have this copy. i have come by yeah, i have the preface and so it was early 1953 inactive duty in the u.s. army. i read the newly published witness. this is had an enormous impact on me. the book that said the second most impact on me is the way the world works. >> how old were you when you read it, do you remember, in general? >> yes, i read that in 1978. had a huge impact on me. which i talked about in my memoir. that was, i think the three points in my, for points in my development as a human being were reading witness by whitaker chambers and then, in 1976 i voted for reagan over ford in the maryland primary, which i always considered, a lot of people thought it was a liberal democrat and it turns out i was a registered republican. it turns out

. >> i used to spend the first week of every summer vacation building bookcases. partly, it is what we call historical, and accumulated mass. there is a rough organization, philosophy of books. these are the mathematics books, science. on the left is american history, then we have the classics. >> what about the physical way that you read? the time of day and how you do it? is that important to you? how do you do that? >> actually, i am in this chair, i will commit an indiscretion and say very often i am in the back. incidentally -- in may look like an ordinary bathtub to me. it was done by students, it was done 40 years ago when i moved in here. not a tile has ever come loose. those are my dolphins. >> you do a lot of reading and writing here. how did that start? why do you do that? >> it is nice to levitate here. the mind gets to work more easily when the body is floating. >> what about these -- here you are -- what was that occasion? >> that was the national a humanities of metal. here we are. a big ugly metal around my neck. >> what books do you keep in all a

and then i'm going to your bookcase, if you got a bookcase, what are you reading? because if you're reading the children will be reading. that's what i'm saying. you develop a culture -- you develop a culture within the context of your own home. and i'm going through your dvd collection and see what movies -- especially the movies that are wrapped newspaper brown paper bags, you know, what are you looking at night and i'm going to your cd collection is it booty call music or great black music you're listening to you. this all defines you and getting into your children's rooms what's on their walls, darth vader and donald duck and you wonder why we're confused. so we are one of the few people who will let an alien culture into our homes and therefore define us. you walk into almost every black home 24/7 and you find the most dangerous monsters on the 21st century on television 24/7. if you're going to study you turn this off. you can't multitask and read alice walker. you can't multitask and read toni morrison or richard wright and so it becomes culture. my wife, dr

here is in the case of an instance of a bookcase, they are kind of dedicated i guess to subject areas. what you see here are all of the releases of the library of america which is now 26 years old and i guess it is 130 or so books that are double shelf year so actually the library of america's down below. they are back after as we used to say in an aviary so these are all library books, it is one of their most remarkable publishing programs in the history of the united states. absolutely wonderful. authoritative editions, what constitutes the canon of american literature and i find them so useful all the time. i never know what i'm going to need something by abraham lincoln or henry james or longfellow. and did a piece on long bill last year for the smithsonian magazine, quoted some abraham lincoln letters and a little piece i wrote about abraham lincoln's reading. they are marvelous books and the other books in his bookcase are largely but not entirely analysts say most elite literary biography books about authors, primarily books in their work in dallas say however many there are ye

. >> i used to spend the first week of every summer vacation building bookcases. partly, it is what they call historical which means accumulated mass. but there is a rough organization. these are philosophy books. these are the mathematics books, there's science. on the left is american history, then the classics books. >> what about the physical way that you read, the time of day and how you do it and how you sit. is that important to you? how do you do that? >> actually i sit in this chair, i will commit an indiscretion and say very often i'm in the backslide. incidentally, it may look like an ordinary bathroom, that was all done by students, it was done 40 years ago when i moved in here had not a tile has ever come loose. we have alumni in sister alive visit. >> so you do a lot of reading and writing here. >> yes. >> how did that start? why do you do that? >> it is nice for the body to levitate. the mind gets to work more easily, you float, you lose your weight. >> what about these -- here you are with president bush. what was that occasion? >> that was the nat

me back to the ford presidential library in ann arbor michigan where the national archives has a bookcase full of documents called richard cheney files which are his files when he was the chief of staff to gerald ford and watergate and vietnam and when you go through those files and the fights happening then and the memos back-and-forth to each other it becomes crystal clear that cheney had been on a mission since that period to roll back or fight the battle over executive powerr6t that had a re after w@vergate and vietnam when congress, after 20 or 30 years of being asleep at the switch during the early cold war rose up and began performing oversight again and began passing what was called framework statute, statute intended to regulate how the branch goes about its business and efforts to rein in the so-called imperial president that had arisen from nixon. and the white house that hadn't looked like an delete commiserate direction. it looked like an outrage. the power was to stop it at the time, but flash forward to 2001 and suddenly they are in the position to fight those battles and w

andretti and right beside jerusalem have a beautiful baltimore oriole up on top of that bookcase. and right below it is a baseball autographed by robinson. so we have different forms of sanctity in my study here. >> that is a hand-painted icon of the black madonna, the great image mage in poland. and she keeps an eye on me as well. as does over here, this might be of interest. this is a representation of edith stein. martyr at auschwitz in 1942. that is a relic. that ia piece of the wedding dress she wore on the day of her final profession. so i have got edith's diner and and the blessed mosser and john paul ii. the great theologian of religious freedom who appears to be tilting a bit here. >> can i ask you about all these metals? >> well, some of these are words that i have been given. some of them are just decorative. this is, perhaps, of intereqt. this is called the glowing artist gold medal. the republic of poland for contributions to polish culture. i am very proud of the fact that i am one of two non-poles to have received that since it was created. i think this is justne of

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i think, looking at the essential chomsky edited by anthony arnove, this bookcase that is on the cover is filled with noam chomsky's books. he has written over 100 of them and you is not just writing. because, when he explodes the allies, he is saving lives, because the lies take lives. i don't know who said this quote, but someone once said, i think back on my life at all the times that thought it went too far and i realize now i didn't go far enough. well, i think noam chomsky has clearly gone the distance, and as we celebrate his 80 years, i am encouraged by a woman, who told me about celebrating her grandmother's 106 the burke the ander grand mother stood up at your party and said, to be 100 again. we look forward to hearing noam chomsky for many years to come, beginning with tonight. noam chomsky. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thanks. it was really exciting to watch amy a couple of days ago when she was interviewing judy. it is an amazing achievement. i want to go to the whole story but she took a lot of courage and effort to win a completely unprecedented case and i don't t

like the iphone it is three to eight-- rating curator by the public and the editorial staff and a bookcasesoss servicing new talent. indexes over 20,000 works most of which can be clipped and read next by the public we need the same kind of innovation for video and here it will not be true the public or meaningful without broadband. public stations are moving from being media entities to being community have set use information and communication infrastructure and physical plans to foster such as an engagement with each other and information that makes a difference in their lives. these hubs connect technology to expression it to action and they grow the public media audience as well as the appetite for broadband and underserved populations especially if they think there is something for them and for the expression they can contribute in the eighth. to link it at shin it requires new media makers. several new nonprofit at outfits have a minority is that these minorities with multimedia production including the national black programming consortium which has activated hundreds of new voice i

while he and nancy were in the kitchen, i walked over to the bookcases and and began examining the tight. they were almost without exception works of history, an ex -- economics, and politics. they included the road to serfdom, of a good witness" -- and a local of the road to witness". that is not good enough for me. i began taking out the books on the shelves and looking at them for the. white women not to. i said it was ok. -- my wife told me not to. i said it was ok. here i realize it was the personal library of a serious, thoughtful individual who had arrived at his conservatism the old fashion way, one look at the time. history is filled with examples of books that inspired and motivated for good and for evil. without crop marks's manifesto marxism might have remained an obscure theory and not become the power that caused the death of an estimated million victims in the 20th century. without "common sense " quit the merkel parliament and of have been inspired to challenge the greatest military power on eart. some posted gutenberg modernists argue that new media have rendered books a

the area, the mattress they were sleeping on is now covered in glass, this bookcase, obviously fell down on them. his 3-month-old baby was in the crib right here. somehow he says he managed to get his family out alive. a 4-month-old baby died in this house when the entire ceiling collapsed on him. his mother is wounded in the hospital, his father wasn't home at the time. and his father is too distraught to speak to us, even stand and look at the house, understandably so. >>> the banner here basically says no to al qaeda, no to a return to the dark days of iraq's sectarian violence. it is hung on one of the many burnt out hulks of vehicles here along with plastic flowers, very much a sign of defiance. cnn, baghdad. >>> residents who we spoke to in the area, betty are absolutely livid. they think that the iraqi security forces failed them. some went so far as to call the iraqi wars as lazy, incompetent, and unprofessional, and others were calling for the u.s. military to come back in. betty? >> arwa damon joining us live. we want to talk more about this. this week's attacks are not only ca

my parents had bookcases where we could pick up books by w.e.b. du bois, ja rogers, donner merkel and others. i took this realty for granted until i was at queens college as an undergraduate in the 1960's where there was no black history. there is now but there was on then. fortunately, the 60's witnessed a radical student movement at queens college and as unlikely as it is now, those of us in the naacp were considered radicals. [laughter] one semester the so-called radical student associations because they were about three or four of us pulled -- i mean groups -- pulled our resources and invite malcolm x to give lectures on campus. their impact was unforgettable upon her mind growing black consciousness. i discovered black history as a legitimate field of study not just a narrow discourse i heard from my father. as a developing intellectual, i began to probe and ask questions, but only one of my professors responded, solomon when nec who taught early 19th century united states history in a traditional way that did not include a role of blacks, an

while he and nancy were in the kitchen, i walked over to the bookcase and there -- in their den and began examining the titles. there were almost without exception works of history, economics, and politics. they included conservative classics. whitaker chambers, and a book i had never heard of. the law. that wasn't good enough for me, so i began taking up the books from the shelves and looking at them. my wife said don't do that and i said it's ok. they were dog year these books. here i realized, was a personal library of a serious, thoughtful, individual, who add -- had arrived at his conservatism the old-fashioned way, one book at a time. history is full of examples of books and inspired and motivated for good and for evil. without karl marx's manifesto, he might have remained an obscure theory. without a conservative mind, conservatism might have remained ignorant of its reach and -- of is a rich and intellectual heritage. some post putin kurd modernists argued that new media art like the internet, has rendered books irrelevant. you often hear the dismissive comment, i don't have time