i finished it and it was a chronological history of her life from birth through death. just about the time i was ready to publish it a couple of biographies came out about her and i realize my not was not different than the others that came out about her. and the salient thing about all of them was that all of her biographies had as its protagonists, the main character, a hero, john adams. the reason was he was involved of all of the great historical events of the period so when you start writing a chronological biography you keep landing and it that congress or the first continental congress or the peace treaty or one or another of the very famous in which john was involved and so the consequence he was the hero of her biographies so i started to think about how i could write to our hurt and keep the focus of the book on her? it occurred to me if i wrote about topix in her life in a woman's life that i could keep the focus on her and that is why i have written so extensively about abigail adams i have written two books because each one of them is written not chronologi

i have written two books about abigail because each one of them is written not chronologically but on topics in a woman's life about being a wife, being a mother, being a mother-in-law, about issues that were important and women's lives in the 18th century as well as today very often. and so i wrote a chapter on the correspondence between abigail adams and thomas jefferson that focused on the way that women and men who use language differently. i wrote a topic about the correspondence between abigail and james lovell, a member of the first continental congress, and that chapter focused on gossip because women talk a lot and with this chapter did is rescue the topic of gossip and say it is important in our lives. gossip is how we form communities and we know ourselves to be part of the community. anyway, i wrote these -- i've written 30 years about abigail adams and along came the clinton candidacy, and i thought wow, now is the time i should start writing about the marriage and focus on the marriage of abigail and john, which i did do. of course history changed in three years and hill

a lot of chronological right thing is that easy way out. i often take it. even if you are right thing the 800 wordbook the structure is the same as a good joke with the foreshadowing and finally at the end everything becomes clear and chronologically it works particularly with the presidential books for every second of their presidents' day is recorded and everybody who has contact with them but it is the high point* of their life see if you go 30 years later to them, they remember what happened. so basically i right before there is anything easier to be done in the hours between 5:00 or 8:00 or 9:00. >> duet until you have to do something else. i think one of the most important things i have learned, i took a film writing, it is a film writing weekend in new york city and that was really important because i learned there is so much going on in this period of course, in life that the only way you can do with it is it in the scenes. that is all i constructed the biography but you cannot tell people this happened and that happens. so that was a way to begin t

when i'm writing i tried to stay chronological because roosevelt lived his life chronologically. then i would get the dates of all the places and say that as an appendix. the date he declared something, i have that date. so now i have his biography, the dates of all these places, and i make sure they intersect properly. then i say, well i know, you don't create an everglades national park or grand canyon is the was not a fight, so was the champion that got the winning result? who was the great grand canyon champion blue was the great yosemite champion? then i bring them into the store. so i'm dealing with two time lines and then a cast of characters. >> where do you put it? is it on cards or pieces of paper? >> notebook after notebook, note cards, a yellow legal pads, spiral notebooks. output boxes by states for these. i also wanted a diversity, so i wanted devil's tower in wyoming, so i wanted to make sure i had a devil's tower box. if you went to the big horns in montana or wyoming, when he was a young man, so maybe arrange it in different ways. kaai'm terribly influenced by my

, chronological writing is the easy way out i think and i often take it.n as you are writing and 800 word book, the structure is the same as a good joke, with a foreshadowing an finally at the end everything becomes clear and chronologically that works particularly with the presidential box, where every second of the presidents' day is recorded and everyone who was contact with him, it is the high point of their lives so if you go to them 30 years later they remember what happened, but basically i write before there is anything easier to be done. [laughter] those hours from 5:00 28:00 9:00. >> i do the same. >> that is the first thing you do in the morning, before you have to do something else. i think the best, one of the most important things that i learned it, and i took a film writing, it was a weekend-- one of those thelma riding weekends in new york city and that was really important to me because i learned there was so much going on in this period and so much going on and wells lights too that the only way you could write successfully is then-- and

i fry too stay chronological because t.r. lived his life chronologically. i would get the dates that he saved, which i would put as the appendix. the date he declared something, i have that date. now i've got t.r.'s biography, the dates of all these places. i make sure they intersect properly. i say, well, i know -- you know enough about politics. you don't create an everglades naxal park or grand canyon if there wasn't some fight or something. who was the champion that got the winning result? who was our great grand canyon champion? who was the champion of yosemite, etc. i try to bring them into the story. i'm dealing with two time lines and then a cast of characters. >> where do you put it? on cards? >> sheets of paper. notebook after notebook. not cards. yellow legal pads. spiral note books. i put boxes by states for this book. i also wanted a diversity so i want a devil's tower in wisconsin. i had a devil's tower box. well, he went to the big horns out in montana and wisconsin when he was a young man -- and wyoming when he was a young man, so i think in

it means chronology, narrative. it means information. it means not assuming that every single library can be got from wikipedia. so, i think that is sort of absolutely critical apresent tissueship beyond which one can fool around with cross-discipline anywhere interests in university. so i hope we're on the same side. >> since you go to cicero, et cetera, is there anything peculiar about your approach to history and art that makes you such a fantastic sparkling with all sorts of things? >> i paid her to say that. [laughter] >> awe, shucks. i tell you, what's your name? [laughter] >> what's your telephone number? [laughter] >> i'm joking. i'm joking. yeah. i always -- you know, it i was laughed out. i wrote out reviews when my friend john gray started to introduce nonbook reviews and he knew i was doing this weird analysis. when i wanted to write a book about daily life in holland, about the culture being the richest and mightiest place in the world for brief generations. this is a kind of culture that is absolutely engorged on images, on

so, that when you start writing a chronological biography, you keep landing at the stamp act congress. or the first continental congress or the peace treaty. or one or another of the very famous events in which john as involved and the consequence was he was the hero of all of her biographieses: -- biographies: correspondence between abigail adams and to thomas jefferson tt focused on the way women and men used language differently. i wrote a topic on the correspondence between abigail and james lovell, who was a member of the first continental congress and that focused on gossip, because women talk a lot and this rescued gossip and said it's important in our lives, gossip is how we form communities and now ourselves to be part of a community. anyway, i wrote these -- so i've written for 30 years about abigail adams and along came the clinton candidacy and i thought wow, now is the time i should start writing about the marriage and focus on the marriage of abigail and john, which i did do. of course, history changed in three years. and hillary has become instead secretary of state. bu

you know, sort of zits one-to-on101.it means chronolog. it means chronology. it means a narrative. it means information. it means not assuming that everything reliable. it can be got from wikipedia. so i think that is the apprenticeship beyond which one can fool around fruitfully i think with disciplinary interests and universities. i hope we are on the same side. >> is there anything peculiar about your approach to history

at that time when i'm writing it, it becomes chronological. in 1988, he wrote this whole book. i can't write about 80 of them >> before i forget it, your wife ann and your three kids. what are their names? >> so nice of you to ask. my oldest daughter is six named after the painter thomas heart benton. second i had an unkell that was killed before i met him. i'm going to call him johnny. ke make that decision when he gets older. >> he's four? >> yes. my youngest is two, cass eddie is her name. it's from a character from on the road. it's an irish sounding which i like a lot. cassidyy, johnny, benny and my wife is formerly ann goldman of new orleans. we met there and got married. i have become a family man. it's changed my life. more than changing your life, i love taking them out. all they want to do now is go to the wild basis. we have a place in austin. i take them all the time to the study center. if they see a fish, they say a pemp. i have trained them to get them to start knowing all of them. they each have faff rite animal that's they've hoaned in all. without scag operati

and writing wise i stay chronological. and then i get the dates of all the saved. and the date he declared something, i have that date. so i have t.r.'s biography and the date of the places and be sure they intersect. and you know enough about politics, you don't create an evergrades national park or grand canyon if there wasn't a fight. who is the champion that got the result, and then i try to bring them into the story. so i am dealing with two timelines and a cast of characters. >> where do you put it? on cards or sheets of paper? >> yeah, sheets of paper, notebook after note back, and yellow legal pads and spiral notebooks. and i put boxes by states. and i wanted diversity, i wanted devil's tower in wyoming. and have that box. and then he went to the big horns in wyoming. and i would arrange in different ways. i think in terms of geographical places. i am influenced by my environment, and the place i went to, i wrote about. and then i collected like a stamp collector, and on the petrified forest. >> and so you are finish, and how are you accurate? >> it's the t

writing a biography of abigail adams and this was a good 30 years ago and finished it and it was a chronological history of her life from birth to death and just about the time i was ready to publish, a couple of biographies did come out about her and a realized that my biography was not different than the other biographies, that came about. came out about her and the salient thing about all of them was that all of her biographies had as its protagonist, main character, its hero, john adams. and the reason was that john was

then at the time i'm writing it, it becomes chronological. in 1908 i see from july 1 roosevelt created a group of national forests. i cannot write about 80 of them, so here are the three that i went to the focus on as examples of that 80. >> use in your wife ann and you moved to washhouston, texas. what are your kids names, the three of them? >> three kids. benton is the oldest daughter age 6. named after the famous painter thomas hart benton. i've modeled my career on him because he used to great murals of america and had all these characters that were in them. there could be the labor. i used to have prints of them in my bedroom that got me so excited. inamed by first daughter after him. second is johny brinkley. i had an uncle named johnny which i never met. he was killed in the second world war in bomb. he was a marine. my mother -- he was kind of a hero in my life even though i never met him because he died. i was also of a big fan of johnny cash. i went with jonny. >> are you going to call an johny for the rest of his life? >> johny. he

awad's quote based simply on chronology is wanting in light of had a ma's founding -- hamas' founding principles. as "the washington post" richard cohen wrote in april of 2009, quote, read the hamas charter, it is not some uplifting cry of a downtrodden people seeking its freedom but a repellent anti-semitic scree, end of quote. care's mission statement focuses on protecting the civil rights of muslims in america and on improving islam's image. but care's action under the umbrella of civil rights raises troubling questions. in november, 2006, the u.s. airways received -- removed six imans from a flight following passenger reports of unual behavior. investors business daily piece described the action this way, i quote, at the gate, before boarding the angrily cursed the u.s. and boughed to mecca and prayed very loud chanting allah, allah, allah according to the gate agent and another witness. on the plane they didn't take their assigned seats and instead fanned out to the front, the middle, and the rear of the plan. some back and forth speaking to each other in arabic. addeding to susp

or tomorrow morning i will sit down and look at those phrases that will remind me and give be a chronology to allow the memory to kick and. then i go to one of these their word to of days from roads to cross -- "roads to quoz" and is 517 pages i learned after "blue highways" in writing and i had no idea what i was doing, to put my life together so i was taking notes on the back of napkins and match bookspan trying to ride on the steering wheel on a van that i travelled and. at the time the roads and montana are not what they are today. the winds took chapter six of per year veteran know how many montana highways took away trying to read my handwriting. i learned early before you start trying to draft the book if you were working from a text that will fire your imagination you will write better so i started making these books from a ford give this word but i do not know another of the top of my head i try to make them as artful as i could. tried to write it far more legibly been i do with the little book then i fell in with images or pictures or anything that will trigger there are maps, he

but i do want to say the reason we are going over this chronology is because we have granted the fed enormous independence and there is sometimes the tension between the premise the of the taxpayers' interest and the power of the fed and the independence of the fed and that is why we are going over this. there has been a lot of back-and-forth today but basically what the facts are is that merrill got into trouble very early in 2007 when stanley o'neal was there. it was a very difficult situation. there is a merger proposal that is supported quite strongly between bank of america and merrill lynch. there was an agreement to enter into that merger, and then at some subsequent time, there were major losses. there were early losses, $8.4 billion that occurred in 07. it looked like an additional 12 billion was discovered by mr. lewis. .. there is an interesting e-mail from you. i'm interested in the taxpayer's position. it says -- this is from you, mr. chairman, to scott alvarez. "i had a good conversation with louis. he confirms his willingness to drop their opposition to the deal going

but i do want to say the reason we are going over this chronology is because we have granted the feddence and there is sometimes the tension between the premise the of the taxpayers' interest and the power of the fed and the independence of the fed and that is why we are going over this. there has been a lot of back-and-forth today but basically what the facts are is that merrill got into trouble very early in 2007 when stanley o'neal was there. it was a very difficult situation. there is a merger proposal that is supported quite strongly between bank of america and merrill lynch. there was an agreement to enter into that merger, and then at some subsequent time, there were major losses. there were early

and wonderful stories and anecdote after anecdote so the biggest challenge for me was to keep the chronologyf the case but not have the reader gets to make calabresi in chapter nine and tens of the early part of the book i am pulling a lot of the material for work to create a flow. >> jason, for you in my history in chicago instead of looking for books to write i always roundup to give myself in the head when eric since copies i love karen of sin in the second city and i think to myself with this book it was another kick in the head. why didn't i know this? why didn't i know this story? why didn't i know this story, jason? >> because he was good at what he did, he kept quiet many years. the crimes he was committing. i think he didn't want you to know it so that is why. >> but even after the fact of all of that stuff why isn't this kind of character and he's a very careful wifely tortured human being why isn't he famous in chicago? do any of you notice, can you tell me any counterfeiting story about chicago? >> he's famous in bridgeport. >> and they don't talk to each other. >> yeah, you keep

then at the time when i'm writing, it becomes chronological. i see in 1901, july 1, roosevelt created this whole groups of national forests. i can't write about 80 of them so here are the three that i went to focus on as examples of that 80. >> before i forget it, you said your wife ann and you moved to austin, texas, you teach in houston, texas. you have three kids. how old are they and what are their names? >> it's nice of you to ask, brian. i have three kids. my oldest daughter is benton who is 6. >> named after? >> after the famous painter thomas hart benton. i models my career as it were on thomas hart benton because he used to do these great murals of america and had all of these characters that could be in it. it could be the laborer and i used to have just prints in my bedroom that got me so excited of paintings. so i named my first daughter after benton. second is johnny brinkley. i had an uncle johnny which i never met. he was killed in world war ii at guam. he was a marine and my mother, he was kind of a hero in my life even though i

but if you rhine up the caron -- line up the chronology of the timeline of what's happened to individual free speech and personal freedoms and representation within iran, they line up fairly closely, and i think the lesson here is as iran gets closer to nuclear capability, it feels freer to deal as it will with its internal population. you see this in the accelerating pace of closures of religious newspapers, in persecution, just in the tone of the public statements you have. so i think in a very real sense the pace of the iranian nuclear program and the pace of the freedom of iran lead in opposite directions. the harder it's going to be for protests like you see on the streets now of having any sort of chance of not only succeeding because as ken illustrated it's a complicated process, but as having any hope of attracting international attention because the lesson of tiananmen, for example, in '89 is the fact that the international community doesn't meddle in the affairs of nuclear powers, so i think this is an important idea the regime is playing with as it attempts to secure long-term

action, sky was falling, very difficult time but i do want to say the reason we are going over this chronology is because we have granted the fed enormous independence and there is sometimes a tension between the taxpayer interest and the power of the fed and the independence of the fed. that's why we are going over this. there has been a lot of back-and-forth today but basically what the facts are is that merrill lynch got into trouble very early in '07, it was a very difficult situation, there was a merger proposal that you supported quite strongly between bank of america and merrill lynch. there was an agreement to enter into that merger and then the sub -- at some subsequent time, there were major losses, there were early losses, 8.4 billion that occurred in '07, looked like an additional 12 billion discovered by mr. lewis ong december 14, 2008, and then he announced his desire or his intention to invoking the m.a.c. then we have a difference of opinion and that is that on the one side some folks are saying that you or mr. paulson threatened mr. lewis, other people say it was simply iron-p

will sit down and look of these phrases in that will remind me of what was going on and give me a chronology and allow the memory to kick in. then i go to one of these, and there were two of these from "road to quoz." this is volume to from "road to quoz." you can see it is a that the income of 517 pages or something. i learned after "blue highways" and riding "blue highways" i had no idea what i was doing. i was merely trying to put my life together and if you read the book you know what i'm talking about. i was taking notes on the backs of napkins and matchbooks and i was trying to write on the steering wheel of it than that it traveled then hand at that time the tulane wrote and montana's were not what they were today. i took chapter 6 of prairie eric, i don't know how many chapters were on the montana highway and when i got home i was trying to read my handwriting. when it learned is that early, before you start actually trying to draft a book if you are working from a text that will fired your imagination, you are going to like it better so i started making these books-- forgive this wo