at some point you say dickens, dickens, and dickens. what was the dickensian nature of his life?lton was born possibly out of wedlock. his father split by the time he was 10 years old. his mother died in bed with him a few short years later. his brother was apprenticed to a blacksmith so he was by himself. ,he got sent to a cousin after his mother's death. the cousin killed himself, that he got part in charge of a trading charter. a clerk for a trading company. they treated sugarcane and rum, the key point of the triangle trade. he rode his way off the island. there was a hurricane that had ravaged saint floyd, and he had wrote a poem about it describing the carnage. fights that would straight astonishment into angels. this poem was used for relief efforts for the island. people set up a fund to get an education in a new york. charlie: here we have a great character, who dies at the end of the duel. lots of speculation about that. here we have that story. you have translated it into so much more. tell me about the ideas that you want to pour into this to make it a new look at the

. >> rose: at the point you say dickens, dickens and dickens, what was the dickensian aspect of his lifeed lock. he was-- his father split by the time he was ten years old. his mother died in bed with him a few short years later. his brother was apprenticed so-- to a black smith so he was by himself. he got sent to live with a cousin after his mother's death, the cousin killed himself and he bot put in charge of a trading charger, he was a clerk for a company that traded sugar cane, the key point of the triangle trade in st. croiss. and he wrote his way off the island. there was a hurricane that had ravaged st-croix and he wrote a poem about it describing the carnage saying that he saw sights that would strike astonishment into angels. this poem was used for relief efforts for the island and people took up a fund to get him an education >> rose: so here we have a character, a great american. we know there's drama that he died at the end of a duel. in which he may not have, in fact, fired his gun. >> lots of differing opinions on that. >> rose: speculation, all right. so here we have that

charles dickens has his american notes on new york, and he talks explicitly about pigs wandering the streets. a lot of the artwork of the era looks past the garbage or cleans the streets for new york and looks past the pigs and the smells and all of that. there is a cleansing that happens that sometimes overlooks that. walt whitman by the time he is writing, it is a little more -- a lot of his writing happens after that so he would be seeing that part. he might past by a piggery on a streetcar. charles dickens -- if you're looking for call language about pigs, that is the place to go. >> will you please join me in thanking catherine mcneur. engine is for a cocktail out in the lobby. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: you are watching american history tv on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. >> monday night on the communicators, representative diana from colorado and jim from rhode isla

. >> the first thing you should watch for is kim dickens. you know her as the detective who bust ben affleck in "gone girl". >> you've got five minutes. >> this very normal family faced with this out of control fall of civilization it feels like. >> thought you were another victim. >> no, i got my flu shot. >> here, she's a single mom and this is number two. kim's trying to keep her family together as los angeles deteriorates into chaos. her kids are played by frank and alicia. >> this explores the crumbling of society and how people discover this. and then what brings them together. >> stay down! >> things are getting worse. >> third, it's about origin. giving fans clues as to how and why the zombie epidemic spread. >> they should not worry it's a dilution of the walking dead. it's just an enhanced picture of what's happening somewhere else. >> when everyone's sort of deepest fear came to light. >> save her from what? >>> all right. you don't have to fear this tv news, but you might shed a tear. the notebook could be coming to tv. >> you ar

i always big - - think of the dickens and vice and in my case make it fast and quick and light i don't like anything to be too slow or convoluted and this is one reason i think of myself not as a critic but a literary journalist i don't want things to sound sober and academic or tedious to my mind. i was in medieval studies and i have read a lot of three books in my day. [laughter] i realize that serious scholarship and criticism has to deal with that but that is not my goal. my goal to read the book for pleasure if i like it i want to make other people like it and the pleasure i got for reading this book if i have done that i have done my duty to myself at least and to the author. who was the greatest latin america director of the 20th century? two obvious examples come to mind marquez is one that comes to mind pardon my accent but they are wonderful writers but there are lots of them. i remember those wonderful story the 100 years of solitude story the leading spanish jim portuguese translator as the publisher is ask him to translates and he said i cannot do that for five years he sa

lou: you can tear the dickens out of people but you can't say hey you are a great man or wom woman. > >> who do you like? >> i like a lot of people, i am a undecided voter, i do not like donald trump, he is interesting he is a smart businessman, very good at publicity. he can draw a crowd. lou: do you want someone duller? >> more serious with more gravitas and a better temperament to be president, yes. lou: much like ronald reagan, i remember in -- it was in '76, people talking about a b-movie actor with an itchy trigger finger with his hand -- >> come on lou. lou: around car arsenal. >> lower you comparing -- >> no concerns about conservatives by conservatives. >> here is where it comes down we have someone who is very strong on personalty. but you also need -- >> we should get that out of politics. >> we should like to see something out of policy, with his tax code we heard sometimes competing view points. lou: i think so too. >> yes. lou: good to have you both. >> thank you. lou: we'll talk more later. thank you. >> looking at our on-line poll results. 96% of you said no. how i wis

charlie: you would say dickens. what is the dickensian aspect of his life?: alexander hamilton was born possibly out of wedlock. his father split by the time he was 10 years old. his mother died in bed with him a few short years later. he got sent to live with his cousin after his mother's death. the cousin killed himself. then he got put in charge of a trading charter. he was a clerk for a company that traded sugarcane and rome, rum and slaves the key point of , the triangle trade down there. and he rode his way off the island. it was a hurricane that ravaged. he wrote a poem. this poem was used for relief efforts for the island, and people took up a fund to get him in education. charlie: we have a character, who is a great american. we know there is drama, he dies at the end of a duel, which he may not have in fact fired his gun. lots of different speculation about that. here we have that story, but here you have translated it into so much more. tell me about the ideas you want pour into this to make it a new look at the founding fathers, the american expe

overcome than great expectations and i don't just mean it's hard to slogg your way through a charles dickenscould get slammed though matter what is going on with the stock. such as the companies we have up front here. this morning, hayne had a solid quarter. up side guidance from next fiscal year. you think that's enough for the stock? but they got put through the meat grinder. down almost 7%. reason? the stock had run up dramatically going in to the quarter and some felt the quarter was not as strong as it should have been. sluggish sales in britain. should we be concerned here? something changed, or do we accept the fact that something happened and buy more in a high quality stock. take a closer look. hear more about the quarter and the companies prospects. welcome back to "mad money." good to see you. >> jim, how are you? >> have a seat. let's go right there. very jarring decline in the stock. some people felt that sales were down in the uk, 8%, gross margins not what we looked for in the thieunited states and gr sales not what we were looking for. what happened? >> first of all, come bac

with people like dickens, and collins, and faulkner, who all showed what could be done with this genre by people who had enormous talents. miss welty who some short stories what reprinted in mystery magazines and anthologies of literate mysteries. so they are on the same page. >> i think after ken miller died, eudora welty's attempts at fiction work were akin to writing mystery. >> were privileged to have an unfinished story that she worked on for years attempting to deal with her relationship with can in fictional form and his illness. even though it is unfinished, it is a beautiful thing to read, passages that will tear your heart out really and make your jaw dropped and tears come to your eyes. >> would you say little bit more about their love relationship? people are asking? >> i would say they had a beautiful, elegant, transcendent, plutonic, loving relationship. as far as we are concerned and we are considered the opinion of their biographers, it was an expression of love, very lyrical expression of love onto nightly they love each other. they told each other in so many words, sh

for many people to read shakespeare and dickens in a foxhole and in the bottom of the ship we could succeed at college. that is my presentation i would be happy to answer any questions. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> where to find these books? >> the answer is yes the answer is they were supposed to stay overseas but most people buy a book or to home because the ride take two weeks and it would be boring without any military maneuvers on the boat over. they brought to books home with them and kept up as mementos for stealth people were so desperate to make sure they with have access to the armed services addition south after the war they to a good group of books and mailed them so they would be waiting when they got home. u.k. and find them on-line or sometimes on ebay and other web sites. i have felt -- had some look at flea markets that my experience is over the titles that our less popular could be as cheap as the dollar but those like a tree grows in brooklyn or "the great gatsby" goes for much higher. >> were there any titles proposed but then decided were not appropriate? >>

>> i will start in the words that dickens gave us centuries ago, "it is the best of times, it was theworst of times, it is a tale of two cities." new orleans 10 years after katrina is definitely coming back. it is definitely thriving. it is definitely bringing in new generation of entrepreneurial spirit, new businesses, new restaurants, reformation of the schools, reformation of the levees and the water protection system. so there is a lot to celebrate, but never start a discussion about katrina without remembering the 1800 plus souls who lost their lives 10 years flood of thatat great city. we should always remember them. it was the worst of times because we still are in a city been institutionalized system and point of view where there are those that don't have our best interest at heart, if you live in certain parts of the city. it doesn't give the same attention and resources that it does to other parts of the city. new orleans is too small, and that is the real kind of worrying part to me. it is really too small to be so vulcanized when it comes to giving resources, when it comes

>>reporter: as dickens said some sun coming out parts of the bay >>reporter: but then coming there been some degree moisture to temporarily the spot of to the storm tracker 4 noticing pittsburg in antioch maybe perhaps striking the ground as been consistent maybe again and facilitating the heroes of the parent of a weapon talking about and it's been a climate control seven of the better packaging consent is on a 24 couple of hours of basic plan is for everyone to clear up this afternoon. >>reporter: as to get the sun to come out to clear some of the east bay of the peninsula north bay as well stay pretty good in the evening hours until it will report to fly across the bay area by tonight we will not see the germans and an intense amount in the fall as much as today as thing start changing to a lot of portion of the week that is a big warm up and store here is how your plan and forecast looks like the edges of a mouse across the sky conditions temperatures range 58 to 66 are ever and is the temperature of cost about 82 chemicals was taken about 62 and 74 pence,. >>anny h: and have an aru

my name is brian michael jean dickens. of the aspen institute homeland security group. pleasure to introduce you to the next panel. n ever worse now tha before. leading to the overall question, which is whether the admittedly brutal stability of the saddam , and theegime in iraq pre-revolutionary assad regime in syria were more in line with american interests. is this the best outcome now? that is a status quo antebellum. so what? i will leave that to the panel moderated by my friend eric schmidt. he covers terrorism and national security matters. he is the co-author of a terrific book. i'd wrought an extra copy. the untold story of america secret campaign against al qaeda. he has spent two decades covering military and national security affairs. troops toe dozens of iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, and africa. much.thank you very i want to thank you for allowing me to moderate a panel here. we save the most uplifting news for this afternoon. iraq and syria. you have the full bios in your program. general john allen, the president special envoy on global coalition to counte

my name is brian michael jean dickens. i'm a member of the aspen institute homeland security group. it is my pleasure to introduce you to the next panel. iraq syria, worse now than ever before. according to your ramsey will read that this program will explore isil's military successes in iraq and syria, we need to the overall question which is, whether the admittedly brutal debility of the saddam hussein regime in iraq and the prelude -- revolutionary assad regime in syria were more in line with american interests. is this the best outcome now? that is a status quo antebellum, i would add to that my personal comment, so what? i will leave that to the panel which will be moderated by my friend, eric schmidt. he covers terrorism and national security matters for the new york times. he is the co-author of a terrific book. i bought a next her copy to show you. -- and --an extra copy to show you. the untold story of america secret campaign against al qaeda. he has spent two decades covering military and national security affairs. he has made dozens of troops to iraq, afghanistan, pakista

. >> reporter: the six-episode series starring cliff curtis, kim dickens and lorenzo henrie centers aroundreporter: those famed walkers will be making a deadly appearance but with a different name. what are they referred to? >> they're people that have been infected because nobody definitively knows what it is. >> reporter: we're told this new show and its veteran counterpart won't have any overlap, at least not yet. some of the fans are hoping maybe, well, we can see some of those characters come back into this show. >> yeah. >> should they be hopeful? >> i can't give anything away that i'll get killed. >> reporter: it's that secretiveness on and off set that has both cast members and fans alike in the dark. >> we have got security people like watching every piece of paper on set. that's a part of what makes the show cool is we don't want to give any spoilers away. >> reporter: and hoping to keep "walking dead" fanatics tuned in. >> this is an important part of their franchise so there's a lot of pressure around all involved that it's successful. >> it's a passionate, loyal, huge fan base

caroline particularly liked dickens and especially liked shakespeare, so that might have been going onn this room. i think, too, that, of course, this might have been the room that inspired some of her art, because it has a beautiful view out the window onto the yard where her gardens were and where her flowers grew. there are -- there's a wonderful easel, which is a display easel, so when she finished a picture she might put it on that easel for her friends to admire when they came up for tea. there is a beautiful fan that was given to her by ulysses grant's daughter-in-law. and she thought it was so beautiful that she put it in a frame so that nobody could hurt it. she also would have probably done some piecework in here. she loved to do embroidery, and i think she -- and beading, that was very popular. and so i think this would have been a room that she worked in as well as entertained in. she did many community things. for instance, she was involved in the orphans asylum. she served on their board. she went to the orphans asylum at least once a week. she often made clothes or took

. >>> you know kim dickens from her tv roles. fans know her from the big screen on films like "gone girl". >> great movie. she is starring in a new series playing a mother dealing with the beginning of a zombie apocalypse. >> good morning. >> whatever you saw was real or not. >> it wasn't. >> thank you. >> you cannot enable him. >> i don't think he is lying. >> you think someone ate someone. >> a lot of blood. >> bad things happened there. >> that is setting it all up. >> welcome. >> happy to have you here. fantastic. >> "fear the walking dead" a companion series? >> it's not a spin off. there are no characters that overlap. it is a new creation. and it's like offering a new window into the apocalypse. el? >> it happens before. >> committing yourself to this? >> i saw a few and then when they auditioned i said what do i need to cram? what do i need to watch. i watched casting and producers and they said your character would not know what it looked like. so i sort of hung on to that for now. i'm going to binge it once it gets goin