but with dylan it's completely different. 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 t

with dylan, it was completely different. he spent years writing his journal. the most common word in his journal is "love. he was a loving, sensitive boy with a whole lot of anger. it was directed inward. he was angry at himself for being such illusory, such an outcast. he was not. that is how he saw it. host: to atlanta but we go. your favor nonfiction book of 2009 triple caller: ♪ . caller: good morning and merry christmas. i learned agreed deal from this book. host: tell us a piece you learn from a. 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. the work we enslavey wreere re-. i am surprised african-americans survived in this country. i went to " tv and a welfare -- a win to booked tv and heard someone died there. do you have any information or can you show some video highlights? host: i will ask our producers to get information for you. there is a piece yesterday in the book section of "usa today" looking and authors who passed away in the last year, including bob mcd

the dylan of fortune that was made entirely in china.t turns out that grandpa adela no, warren delano was the american opium king of china. it turns out that franklin, the fortune that sustain the life of franklin delano roosevelt was made through illegal drug deals in china. you can't make it up. but this was the hidden history that i was finding out there on this imperial cruise. folks, if you read this book and you are surprised by what you find, i mean, i am with you because i didn't realize there was this much out there that we didn't know that was still left to be discovered, and i was writing the buck. i wondered why and you might wonder the same thing as to page through it. this is my third book about matters between america and asia of. i have seamen written about a lot of may him over the last 100 years out there in the pacific and after writing my first book, the "flags of our fathers," i wondered what i could do about all of this, so i established the james bradley peace foundations. for the last ten years we have been sendin

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 switch to coal mines, to work in coal mines and be treated so poorly. i am amazed african-americans survive in this country at all. also, bill, i

bandshell overbake a nice jewish boy from dylan, south carolina. who grew up in a nice town where his father and his uncle ran the local drugstore. he was known as a really smart kid in town. his sat scores were public information because they were so high. and he was very good at spelling, good enough to make the national spelling bee at the mayflower hotel here in washington where he bombed out on the word edelweiss. [laughter] >> it turned out there was no movie theater in dillon, south carolina, so he hadn't seen the sound of music. [laughter] >> he was probably going to end up at the university of south carolina or the university of north carolina, where his parents had gone. 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

with dylan, it was completely different. he spent years writing his journal. the most common word in his journal is "love. he was a loving, sensitive boy with a whole lot of anger. it was directed inward. he was angry at himself for being such illusory, such an outcast. he was not. that is how he saw it. host: to atlanta but we go. your favor nonfiction book of 2009 triple caller: ♪ . caller: good morning and merry christmas. i learned agreed deal from this book. host: tell us a piece you learn from a. 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. the work we enslavey wreere re-. i am surprised african-americans survived in this country. i went to " tv and a welfare -- a win to booked tv and heard someone died there. do you have any information or can you show some video highlights? host: i will ask our producers to get information for you. there is a piece yesterday in the book section of "usa today" looking and authors who passed away in the last year, including bob mcd