my man dillon berger, we will go behind the wheel to show racing fans what it is like to go 120 miles per hour. stay right this because net impact is coming right back. >> welcome back to the best of net impact 2009. >> you may remember our report on washington capital's alex ovenchin a player loaded with family and forks he has major endorsements and commercials and his own clothing line and that's just for starters. earlier we asked the hockey superstar if he is overwhelmed by all of his success. >> in washington it is a pretty cool thing. you go in a shop or you buy some stuff and shopping and people just say hey alex, good game last night, critical game. it is very fun. >> one more interesting thing, this tough guy on the ice actually admit that had he cries at movies. well, actually, so do i. go figure. finally, let's have some fun, some fast fun, some of the best work happened this year when our reporters got right in the middle of the action in this case, speeding through the turn at 120 miles per hour at the famous dover international speedway for chris miller it was time to s

but for a uniquely american story, there was a guy in dillon, south carolina, six years older than ben bernanke, a black eye named ken manning. can mannings family had warm feelings toward the bernanke family because bernanke's drugstore gave credit to black people. and not all the other people and the vendors in that town would. in manning threw another american miracle found himself going from a segregated high school in doland south carolina to harvard. he was taken -- since you asked. [laughter] >> he was recruited into a program run by the national presbyterian church. i think it was, which took out the black kids in the south and sent them to private high schools to finish their high school. he didn't want to go to a private school, so he went to north haven connecticut where he lived with a family of pediatricians, a jewish pediatrician which becomes relevant and what do north haven high school and they went to harvard. he came and told ben bernanke's parents that his son was too good to go to unc, or usc. despite what people in the south carolina think in north carolina. and co

my man dillon berger, we will go behind the wheel to show racing fans what it is like to go 120 miles per hour. stay right this because net impact is coming right back. >> welcome back to the best of net impact 2009. >> you may remember our report on washington capital's alex ovenchin a player loaded with family and forks he has major endorsements and commercials and his own clothing line and that's just for starters. earlier we asked the hockey superstar if he is overwhelmed by all of his success. >> in washington it is a pretty cool thing. you go in a shop or you buy some stuff and shopping and people just say hey alex, good game last night, critical game. it is very fun. >> one more interesting thing, this tough guy on the ice actually admit that had he cries at movies. well, actually, so do i. go figure. finally, let's have some fun, some fast fun, some of the best work happened this year when our reporters got right in the middle of the action in this case, speeding through the turn at 120 miles per hour at the famous dover international speedway for chris miller it was time to s

douglas dillon and his wife near westminster, england.nels were only eight feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here our ceilings were 11 feet high in that room, so the upper portion and lower portion were painted in. >> from 1948 to 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography on truman, david mccullough wrote about the president's temporary quarters. "the house itself, even with the quick cosmetics applied the year before, was not only nothing very grand, but a bit dowdy. it creeked and groaned, trembled noticeably when streetcars passed by outside. its dark old cellar was full of rats, as was well known by the seet hated ever to go down there. of all the presidents they had known, some of the secret servicemen would later say, only harry truman would have been willing to live in the place." but not everyone felt that way. margaret truman remembered it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with the place the mom

dillon spent two years writing his journal and the most common word in his journal is love. it's completely unexpected trade to meet dylan was the revelation of his case. he was a loving and sensitive boy with a whole lot of anger, but his anger was mostly direct it in word. he was angry at himself for being such a loser, such an outcast. he wasn't. it was objectively untrue, but that's how he thought. >> host: to atlanta we go. here is an independent color. what was your favorite nonfiction book of 2009? oligo good morning and merry christmas. my favorite book is douglas black men. i believe he cover this book on c-span as well. the subtitle is displacement of black americans from the civil war to world war ii. and i learned a great deal from that book. >> host: tell us a piece that learned from it. what did you learn in particular? >> caller: well, i learned how the christians back in those times could be arrested simply for just walking out in the street and not having a job. and they were reinflate to coal mines to work in coal mines and to be treated so poorly. i'm amaz

but with dillon it is completely different. he spent two years doing his journal and the most common word in his is loved. it is completely unexpected. to me dylan was the revelation. he was a sensitive boy with a lot of anchor but his anger was mostly direct inward. he was angry at himself for being such a loser, such an outcast. he wasn't, it was untrue but that is how he saw it. >> host: atlanta here is an independent call. what was your favorite nonfiction book 2009? >> caller: good morning. merry christmas. >> host: same to you. >> caller: my favorite book is slavery by another name by douglas black men. i believe he covered this on c-span as well. the subtitle was real enslavement of black americans from the civil war to world war ii. and i learned a great deal from that book. >> host: tell us a piece you learned from it. what did you learn in particular? >> caller: i learned how the prisoners back in those times could be arrested simply for just walking down the street and not having a job and they were free inslee switc

my man dillon berger, we will go behind the wheel to show racing fans what it is like to go 120 milestay right this because net impact is coming right back. >> welcome back to the best of net impact 2009. >> you may remember our report on washington capital's alex ovenchin a player loaded with family and forks he has major endorsements and commercials and his own clothing line and that's just for starters. earlier we asked the hockey superstar if he is overwhelmed by all of his success. >> in washington it is a pretty cool thing. you go in a shop or you buy some stuff and shopping and people just say hey alex, good game last night, critical game. it is very fun. >> one more interesting thing this tough guy on the ice actually admit that had he cries at movies. well, actually, so do i. go figure. finally, let's have some fun some fast fun, some of the best work happened this year when our reporters got right in the middle of the action in this case, speeding through the turn at 120 miles per hour at the famous dover international speedway for chris miller it was time to start your engi

douglas dillon and his wife near westminster, england. eight feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here our ceilings were 11 feet high in that room, so the upper portion and lower portion were painted in. >> from 1948 to 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography on truman, david mccullough wrote about the president's temporary quarters. "the house itself, even with the quick cosmetics applied the year before, was not only nothing very grand, but a bit dowdy. it creeked and groaned, trembled noticeably when streetcars passed by outside. its dark old cellar was full of rats, as was well known by the seetervice men who hated ever to go down there. of all the presidents they had known, some of the secret servicemen would later say, only harry truman would have been willing to live in the place." but not everyone felt that way. margaret truman remembered it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with the place the mom