>> i got into biography when i was a student of charles dickens, particularly. i was attracted to someone who had a great influence on dickens, thomas carlyle. and essayist and author. and, i got the sense that this was someone who was victorian. but, he brought up resonances of a personal sort. a victorian gore vidal. i got entranced by the mystery of this man. he was witty and caustic like vidal. a more elaborate prose writer than vidal. more difficult to fathom. in the general reading world and the academic world. this was someone who attracted me and i wanted to write a narrative, as opposed to writing analytic and academic material. i wanted to reach a wider audience. there is no modern biography of carlisle that i felt represented him well. i jumped into it. >> what year did you do that? >> a long time ago. i am kind of old, at this point. when did i do that? the 1970's. >> you cannot be sure of the publications date. charles dickens in 1969? >> that may, indeed, be correct. i was a professor at queens college in new york. by profession, i was a victorianis

i have you a charles dickens in 1979. what really doing back then the? >> i was a professor at queens college. i was in very distantly now at the torilla nest, a recession in british literature. i began to define myself as a biographer. i spread my wings so to speak and said i can immerse myself for four or five or six years or so in the life. not only in the loss -- like that thomas carlyle and dickens. and then moving to the 20th century. .nd american literature then i got somehow fascinated by lincoln. when can as a writer. i began to immerse myself in 19th-century american history. from lincoln, because he tovoked in me and suggested me my next subject on john quincy adams. >> if you were in a classroom and had a bunch of people who wanted to be biographers, what would you tell them? give us an idea of what they need to do to be successful? >> so many different kinds of biographies and biographers of course. you would have to look at the individual to say what are your talents and how can this interface with the challenge of writing the biography? yo

notion that you could use some kind of game, some kind of logic chopping, worst kind of what charles dickensould call ifoggeryther he -- pett to help them buy health insurance and the glee with which they found his niche that they can fashion two, contrary to the overall intent of congress, as is crazy. his bookice scalia in on interpretation gives an example of an arizona statute which, because of where the commas were placed, they had to repeal all of the laws in the state. nobody believes that you can take some kind of letter listed meaning so contrary to what everybody understands. >> let me add to this 2-1 decision. lawyerss, i think you go full-court. will it happen this time? if it does, what will be the likely outcome? the -- to thees 11 active judges get to participate, but the two judges on the panel that have taken senior status, they also get to dissipate. recused forne is some reason, there will be 13 judges that will hear this case. i believe the government will petition and i'm almost certain the court will grant it. i think it is very likely that the full d c circuit court of

centuries some of the capital's oldest watering holes have been graced by the likes of byron keats charles dickens and even queen elizabeth the first but it could soon be lost orders for the u.k.'s taverns the british beer and public says they're disappearing at a rate of fifty per week mutating into ubiquitous convenience store chains supermarkets and most often housing this house has been parts of old london town from the seventeen hundreds it looks quaint but it was recently sold by its owners first staggering twenty seven million pounds and guess what the developers want to do yes turn it into apartments calling time on centuries of alle swelling socialising prices for housing in the capital are sky high which is why pub learn. lords are cashing in to ego property developers is that there are intrinsically appealing buildings well built often in the victorian era with current touristic that are attractive to residential. it's happening across the whole of the capsule at the moment the resolute pub in london's eastend didn't live up to its name after the landlady knocked it down and turned it i

. >>: good morning let's take a look at the charles dickens the best of the terms the worst of the times. >>: but had >>: the best of times where the a's the worst times are in fear giants fan. >>: after the game the other night the giants may be splitting this thing midi says no doubt of who is the better team right now. as a parent they that they have a they blew a guided the half gave lead and 21 days. >>: people get tired says this is such a general statement to make. they should've done this they should of the that but i think days are just flat out better. the hook, they have three catchers that are good. you can argue all your this guy had a bad day or if this guy gets better but sometimes you just have to realize the a's just have better players. >>: they definitely do that's my new look with all-star rocks but the giants put something together and they in there is hope that they could rekindle the magic they had earlier in this season. >>: their one game out of the repaid stuff that assail the radio and getting tired of it. but i always that if you get the team then spends the m