. >>> spend this weekend clonal bo ohio as booktv and american history tv join the local content vehicle to look behind the scene of the history and literary life of ohio's largest city on booktv on c-span duobrows the rare book collection at ohio state university. and raldolf charged murder from colonial times to the present on american history tv on c-span 3 learn about ohio's connection to our 16th president. also discover how the prehistoric people created and used the largest question metic earth works in the world. history you are and literature with booktv, american history tv and c-span local content vehicles on c-span2 and 3. alice kessler-harris recounts the life of hellman. she was the author of numb numerous plays including "the children's hour" and "littlefoxes." this is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] thank you and thank you for coming. it was nice of you to be here this evening. i look to start by talking about we botder with lillian hellman and i'm doing read something from the book so you can get a sense of who she was. i start by the why bother question for the