>> just like davi crockett's last stand at the alamo, the outcome of this showdown will be rememberedoughout the nation for the next ten years. >> publishers will take what we do here and it will show up in every state. because traditionally texas and california drive the textbook market. >> it wilit behooves publishero pay close attention to the standards. they are out to make a profit and in the state board of education through the curriculum standards has told them what the customer wants. they have to provide that product. >> the textbook market in america is worth a chopping 9.5 billion -- a whopping $9.5 billion. texas alone appropriated $465 million this year. one of the three largest -- the three largest publishers are ready to business in the lonestar state. they declined our requests for interviews. >> they listen to what we say. they come to all our meetings. >> we will move to the next section, world ouija original graphy. fox news approached a rep and he said he was instructed not to talk to the media. our cameras captured some 20 hours of click aircrafts as board members

>> just like davi crockett's last stand at the alamo, the outcome of this showdown will be rememberednext ten years. >> publishers will take what we do here and it will show up in every state. because traditionally texas and california drive the textbook market. >> it wilit behooves publishero pay close attention to the standards. they are out to make a profit and in the state board of education through the curriculum standards has told them what the customer wants. they have to provide that product. >> the textbook market in america is worth a chopping 9.5 billion -- a whopping $9.5 billion. texas alone appropriated $465 million this year. one of the three largest -- the three largest publishers are ready to business in the lonestar state. they declined our requests for interviews. >> they listen to what we say. they come to all our meetings. >> we will move to the next section, world ouija original graphy. fox news approached a rep and he said he was instructed not to talk to the media. our cameras captured some 20 hours of click aircrafts as board members grappled over a seemingly

. >> well, i will tell you, it was walt disney's television show davy crockett starring fez parker. i didn't see the show. i was actually in england at the time but i got the comic book and i read that comic book. it truly -- it sounds corny but it inspired my whole love of history and i went from there to custer and just kept going following the donovan road. and i decided i'd become a historian 'cause i just loved history so much. and it's been a great choice. it's been a great ride. a great profession. >> well, for me it was tarzan. [laughter] >> well, that was the first -- when i was sick one day when i was 9 years old my mother bought me tarzan and, boom, over the next two or three years i read every book that existed and read nothing but fantasy and science fiction for the next several years until i was about 16. now i'm allergic to elves, dragons, wizards, all that kind of thing. but that got me hooked. i don't know how it led here but i found i was a decent writer in high school. did the usual newspaper thing. didn't follow into college as these two gentlemen probably did. b

ct's the motto of davy crockett, us congressman from tennessee:et 'be sure you're right, then go. ahead.'ad. >> guest: right. t c-span: where'd you find that? >> guest: well, that -- again, that is -- that actually was iny my father's collection.me some of these came from dictionaries of quotations, somn of those mottoes.ie, that particular section you'ret. looking at was difficult not to assemble but to decide what toiw include in the book because i had limited space.ude in and i thought, well,it wastac inportant to include the mottoe, of the states.udd and i wanted to include some personal mottoes, mottoes of historical figures, that sort of thing, or organizationsa that people are familiar with. and i also wanted to try to try communicate some of the eclecticism of my father's original collection. i used to go through there andaf see this wide range of things, some of them quite humorous, others serious, others just -- just interesting because of the juxtapositions they created. th so in that particular section, h tried to do that,these justi -- these juxtapositions of personat