>> i'm just now finishing dan brown's, the last demo, which i have been reading by listening to it on cd in the car. and in terms of the book i am reading, it's actually holding in

>> well, i'm just now finishing dan brown's "the last symbol, " which i have been reading while listening to it's on cd in the car. in terms of the book i am reading it is actually hold it in my hand is a book about running, and the title is what i think about when i'm running." i'm not a runner, but it is what went through his mind and all of that. that's where i am. >> i fully expected to hear some public policy title from you. >> i read that public policy stuff, but that is where my job. i do that's on company time. no, all of that is very important to i read for a living. on my own time i read for joy. >> jim lehrer of the "news hour." >> "after words" with peniel joseph and kevin merida continued. >> host: welcome back to book tv's "after words". we are talking with professor peniel joseph. and a very interesting book, which i rmend. "dark days, bright nights: from black power to barack obama." it's a great piece of work, and congratulations to you. >> guest: thank you. >> host: let's talk a little bit about, you mentioned in your book some of the media coverage. you make reference t

>> now, i'm just now finishing dan brown's, which i have been reading by listening to it on cd.he car. and i, in terms of the book i am reading, it's, actually holding in my hand, is a book about running, that japanese lott novel is. and the title is, what i think about when i'm running. i'm not a runner, it's about what is going through his mind and all of that. it's nonfiction. i was trying to have a nonfiction and fiction thing going on at the same time. that's where i am. >> i fully expected to hear some public policy title from you. >> i read that public policy stuff, but that's for my job. i do that on company time. know, all of that is very important to me obviously. but i read for a living. and went my own time, i read for joy. >> jim lehrer of the news hour.

what we announced this short list in the third week of september right between the release of dan brownw oprah selection, placed strategically but the great thing that happened with this program as we did it all summer, was it brought together-- and remember one day in the grove a glenny conference room we had jamie and patricia from barnes & noble, we had jeff from straus and ivan and i'm not going to be able to name everybody by either on the phone are in that room we have every major retailer, reporters from amazon, from the aba. most of the major publishers together time to come up with a way to make people aware of the six great books and it was a very inspiring moment. we set out to pope and i think we hoped we might get to where 3,000 votes. we set this out on line. we had a five week voting period. we optimistically said to the board that merkel was 5,000 votes and we ended up getting over 10,000 votes so i think to thank you to all of our partners and that the endeavor. i think we helped raise the awareness of this award and worked at the national book foundation does and now i

you could be in a dan brown novel i guess.but the simple fact is, that you're there because we recognize early as a nation in this last entry, it was important to keep monetary policy separate from fiscal policy and monetary policy independent. so that's a long explanation of support for your position. and two stepping into this. you are as you said audited in every area in a very open and aggressive way, and we have access to those audits that everybody has access to those audits, except on the issue of monetary policy. that's the way it should be. i want to get into this too big to fill issue, because i haven't figured out how we addressed this yet, but there is a proposal that came out of the house banking committee that said that healthy, well capitalized, vibrant, energize institutions, which have no definable risk to them, will be subject to the potential breakup, and that break up will be determined by an independent group of politically appointed people are maybe even members of congress for all i know under the struct

i am james brown along side dan, coach, shannon and boomer. we are followed by "60 minutes" and "cold case." it is now going to be indianapolis hosting the new york jets in the a.f.c. championship game next sunday. dan: hats off to the jets. they are a physical football team. they beat a really good team in the chargers. chargers killed themselves, 4-13 on third down. bill: i have to question the decision of norv turner to go for the onside kick. he could have gotten it back around midfield if he kick its deep. shannon: i want to talk about what the jets did do. they ran the football very well. stayed in the game to the fourth quarter with a chance to win it. boomer: if the jets have it kicked off to them, that fourth and 1 they have no choice but to punt it. a lot of people will wonder about norv turner out in san diego. james: we will take a quick time-out, come back and wrap it up after this. ♪ see you there! ♪ michael phelps fuels up with the mega tasty subway® turkey melt. a protein-packed powerhouse on freshly baked bread -- so he can ge

brown, dan marlley. that team was a championship team. we didn't win it. michael stood in the way of a whole lot of teams winning it at that particular time. but we were a championship team. we were young, very tough-minded disciplined team. we just got the bad breaks, you know? one thing about basketball, man. you're going to run in to some bad breaks. going to be fulfilling at times but it can be so humbling, it can. one thing that pat riria riley there's pain -- there's winning and there's misery. regardless of how many games you won, you remember the misery more than anything. the division championships and everything was great back then. but we couldn't get over the hump and we made it i had a pretty good job, but it wasn't what i wanted to do, and i thought, i don't want to do this for the rest of my life i probably don't want to do it tomorrow. i told my dad, "i want to start a brewery." i told him, "i think you're crazy." i started sam adams with boston lager to make rich, flavorful beer. and he went and sold it one bottle at a time. no one had tri