dickens. >> everybody thinks we have learned everything we need to know about charles dickens but there has not been eight biography in over 20 years this is the first cradle to grave and a couple of decades. there is new information, new research and with dick and three think there will be some good books for sale. >> who is our third? rick a very distinguished historian or critic he writes a column for the nation and magazine and this is a posthumous that he left behind more people think it is more interesting to think of and the warhol then to look at his paintings or his large but this shows what he did to the meaning of the american icon how he has become the most significant and how did that happen? largely through working with it iconographic subjects like the campbell soup can and this takes a look how you defines what it means to me iconic. >> as director of the press what decisions do you make on a day-to-day basis? two make easier to say what i don't. all departments run up to meet marketing, and a tour, financially, starting of course, with the books. we have a staff of 14 e

since i have been shown charles dickens's desk upstairs.the french revolution, he gets in his wheel barrow around the corner. this was a kind of bulger contamination. this kind of monck locked himself in the archives. then tuned in to the mysterious 5 that came out of the rose, historian's job, the objective presentation of archival material. editing was scholarship, interpretation was in the position of your subjective views between you and the surviving evidence of the past. the english historical review was the institutional expression on that view. now a different view survived in a funny way. that says there is no history without personal interpretation. history is not the record of every one. having completed something like that. history is, above all, ordering what does not count. i am feeling big for a second. he describes himself as a historian. what does that mean? what does the literature from the greek meaning? it doesn't mean -- it doesn't really mean story. the record -- it means inquiry. from the very first sentence, he turne

when you get past the fact charles dickens wrote a tale of two cities you write during the realm of controversy or it has so many pages. i knew this was a problem because i had spoken by 2003 on 100 college campuses. and one very poignant moment came when i spoke in minnesota, and a young female student whose sister had been murdered in a state where there was no death penalty and had taken up criminology to heal her wounds asked me if there were any articles or any books that supported the death penalty. i asked her doesn't your criminology professor tell you that there are such books and she said no. that still shocks me but it is an index how widespread this problem is on american campuses. another part of the modest proposal is if the professor has an opinion or perspective, he should not or she should not lead the students to think that is a scientific perspective. it is an opinion and there should be other perspectives available to the students. again, it should be obvious. i think most americans, sure the teacher should not mislead students into thinking that there is only one way of loo

but he also had in mind since i've just been shown in the state of shock and reference, charles dickens'sstairs the relationship between deacons and thomas carter. carlisle, we are told and i think it is true we yield much of the library of the french revolution in the wheel barrow around the corner from chelsea and that was just the kind of things that he hated. he felt this was the kind of full or contamination. and instead what the historian had to model himself on simply locked himself in the archives, opened the boxes and then tune in the mysterious star track way to the mysterious vibes that came out of which he was the interim locker. the job was self-effacing and, the objective presentation of rall archival material to the students that would then go. so editing and interpretation was a no-no, interpretation was the position of your subjective view between you and the surviving evidence of the past and the english historical review that was found dead was the kind of institutional expression of that super a exterior view of what history was. now, a different

dick's guide to dating at sea, or they run out the worst of times, a tale of 3 cities by charles dickens. we created the idea. at 4:00, we started the editing process of organizing these. we also said to the director, we are not sure how the book will come out so we need a few covers we can look at, and pick the best one when we have contributions and comments from people at the show. >> when you pick a cover, is that one of the first things you do? >> no, but it is one of the first things you do when you're getting ready to publish. that is when you know what the book is. it is an important marketing tool, it is the clothing that the book wears in public. we never send about naked. >> we have 4 covers up here. why did you decide on this one? >> when we put these 4 together, we got a lot of comments, but the thing i love to watch when people looking at covers is their visceral reaction because once you start talking about a cover going into it, people in bookstores don't discuss the covers, they have a quick reaction which is am i going to pick this book up or pass it by. when we have th

the characters in here and the dozens of characters in their our people i daresay dickens couldn't --oe we've the clown bomb vara, that might be a little bit to verify for the c-span book thing. [laughter] but that is one thing, jeff and jason, you must have said my god, am i lucky to have found these people. >> for me especially i was sent there by the paper. [laughter] it was -- wife felt as a writer there was so much good material, number one just don't screw it up basically. it is a curveball, it's going to go. but the biggest challenge for me is i was taking the best of the trial try again to stretch it out and use it as material that would be in more of an narrative form especially the testimony of the main player in the case is a guy named nick calabresi who is the first member of the mob to testify against the organization and he testified several days in chicago and poured out tons and tons of interesting information and wonderful stories and anecdote after anecdote so the biggest challenge for me was to keep the chronology of the case but not have the reader gets to make cal

testimony, which i'm not going to summarize because it's in the record, i felt a little bit like dickens. i was talking about the ghost of compensation, past, present and future, and i want to refocus on what's what on now. because i did disagree with a statement made by mr. alvarez about the fact that they have gotten the message. in fact, we see is that we have particular concerns about efforts to circumvent even the preliminary constraints already imposed. executives will always be more motivated and agile than regulators and legislators. with regard to pay structures, i support indexed options, with regards to board of directors it's very important that they have the vulnerability to remind them who they represent, that they can be removed if they don't represent shareholders. and with shareholders i really want to focus on the collective choice problem, was called on by economist rational apathy and suggest possibly the appointment of independent voting fiduciary. finally the billions lost in the financial market meltdown are dwarfed by the loss of reputation and brand of american f