here is one of charles dickens desks, his chair, his lamp and his calendar set to the date he died on june 9. the story goes that when the berg collection opened in 1940 and it was a big event mayor laguardia was there it's all fact that we have a tradition that the mayor being rather robust gentleman sat in this chair and burst through the caning. and then it was retained so supposedly that is the only original part of this chair. >> host: but that's not documented story? >> guest: i have not seen it documented in any way that is passed to the oral tradition. >> host: thank you for showing us her collection. >> guest: my pleasure, thank you for being here. mary ruwart and jeff waddoups talk about the minimum wage law and whether it's beneficial. the two spoke at the freedom is the largest libertarian conference in the country for about 15 minutes. ♪ >> thank you very

and here is one of charles dickens tasks. his chair, his lamp for electricity and his calendars that the debate he died, june 9. the story goes that when the berg collection in october of 1940, was a big event and mayor laguardia was invited here that is all fact. we have through moral tradition that the mayor, and being rather robust gentlemen sat in this chair and burst through the caning. supposedly that's the only non-original part of this chair. >> but that's not a documented story? >> i've not seen it documented in any way. but that was what was passed. >> thank you for showing this regular collection. >> my pleasure. thank you for being here. >> and booktv is on location with the new york public library in mid town manhattan. ann thornton is joining us from the library. but you do your quick >> i am the director of the research libraries for the near public library. >> what does that mean quick >> or for research libraries. this one in midtown manhattan. the schaumburg center for research in black culture. the library

and here is one of charles dickens' desks, his chair, his lamp which has been retrofitted for electricity, and his calendar set to the day he died. june 9th. the story goes that when the berg collection opened in october of 1940, it was a big event, and mayor laguardia was invited. that's all fact. but we have it through oral tradition that the mayor, being rather robust gentleman, sat in this chair and burst through the caning. so -- and then it was recaned. so supposedly, that's the only non-original part of this chair. >> host: but that's not a documented story? >> guest: i have not seen it documented in in any way, but that's what was passed to me in oral tradition. >> host: thank you for showing us part of your collection. >> guest: my pleasure. thank you for being here. >> here's a look at -- >> next booktv is live with steve almond, author of "against football -- >> top of the list is syndicated radio host steve harvey: >> that's this week's list of nonfiction bestsellers according to the washington post. >> next, booktv is live with steve almond, author of "against football," and

it is charles dickens. this is what white liberals do.they talk for days about it until everybody leaves. what were we discussing? >> the phone and the security and whatnot. people that need more security are actresses with little bits of dignity left. that's pretty much it. i think the normal regular joe guy is putting out more perm -- personal information. >> he brings up a point that you would like to get your phone hacked because it could boost your career. that was the point he made. >> well, this is -- the fbi is upset with apple and google because they say these phones are too secure now. they can't get -- they can't tap in and get their information. everyone wants more secure phones after they had their naked pictures leaked. i think maybe these actresses and all of us who have naked pictures on our phones, we should take one for the team and let that stuff leak out and everyone gets a thrill and we forget about it soon so we can make our country safer. >> that's incredibly fill an throp pick of you. was that the right word? >> i

we have the archive for manuscript of great authors, walt whitman, charles dickens, and just recently added tom wolfe. and you can walk in to this building, going to one of those special collections, show no documentation, need to have no fancy job, ask to see anything and we will make it available to you. rather quickly. >> everybody can see that? >> anybody. >> how many of those 20 million books are available to check out and take on? >> so the majority of the books, something in the vicinity of 14 million books circulate. and then there's again six or 7 million books that are the core of the research collection, of course add to that is all this other material. we have one of the world's great map collections year, a genealogy collection, but it doesn't stop and we've been collecting for over 100 years. >> what would the new york public library system mean to an average new yorker? >> so i think something like a third of new yorkers depend on the library to be able to read. because they can't or don't afford books. something like a third of new yorkers depend on the new york public

. >> yes, there is a website which does contain those images and here is his chair, charles dickens chairis calendar sets to the day that he died on june 9. and the story goes that when the collection open in october 1940, mayor laguardia was invited. but they had it is a tradition that the mayor who was a rather robust gentlemen, supposing that that was the only non-original part of this. >> that is not a documented story. >> that was what is fascinating in the tradition. >> you for showing me your collection. >> it is my pleasure. >> this week, the national book foundation announced their long list for the national book award for nonfiction. the list will be shortened to five nominees next month in preparation for the announcement of the winner on november 19 in new york city. this year's national book award long list titles for nonfiction are roz chast, "can't we talk about something more pleasant", "john demos, "the heathen school", a story of hope and the trail and the urge of the early republic. >> this is a story of faith. to help to understand our history. we don't like to think m

look back on the season just past we compare it to the summer before, i know what am i reading a charles dickensnovel? we've got look four heat waves in 2013. during that summer. one of them was eight days long. that was a typical summer for here in philadelphia but summer of 2014, two heat waves, both of them in july, both of them, three days long. the warmest temperature we have had all summer was that 96 degrees on the first day of july. so, yeah, much cooler then we usually have during summers around these parts. wind speeds right now as we come back to right now, 12 miles an hour out of the west, in the 14 miles an hour range in mount pocono, and as you go further south we have a 13 miles an her breeze. i think these will all pick up that breeze was in wildwood. 53 degrees in mount pocono. sixty-one pottstown. 65 degrees right now in philadelphia breezes making it feel chillier at 65 in atlantic city. seventy in wildwood. cooler air has in the filtered in just yet. cold front came through a couple hours ago and we don't see any rain, you sort of see bound dry there just off shore but it did