>> in -- again, as mentioned, i'm in the edgar allen poe room.i'm not much of a believer in the super natural. the houses i showed you earlier -- there. are across the street the home of the women that are accused. i found this story while i was living at -- with my wife ashley at 5229 camp street. and 5229 camp street -- and, you know, i began with the story of voodoo kidnapping. and then i found these women who were accused were operating the hospital. 5229 camp street is exactly across the street from where a good portion of my story took place. i'm sitting in my house looking out at the same view they would have looked out on. i started drinking. it -- it seemed like a remarkable co inns deny, and it is just that, a coincidence. but it was in a city that's sort of spooky. it was sort of an uncanny moment. >> thank you. any other questions? ok. well, thank you. you've been a great audience. \[applause] >> and feel free to e-mail me, ma ross. i would love to hear from you. thank you for coming. \[applause] >> you are watching american history t

. >> he makes edgar allen poe look like sister teresa. [ laughter ] but he's very funny and very goodguy. >> you do an imitation of miller. >> jimmy: i do a imitation of dennis miller. it's more like, "i haven't heard this much silence since i saw a chuck chaplin film." that's it right there. there you go. i've got to work on it. i haven't done it in a while. [ applause ] let's talk about the book here, "killing patton." congratulations, a number one. >> thank you. >> jimmy: i don't know much about patton, except that he was -- it was george c. scott who played him in the movie. >> people think that george c. was patton. great performance, 45 years ago. the reason i wrote this book is because we need leadership in america. and this guy was a leader. like him or not, he was a tough guy. he was a leader. he was the most feared american general. the nazis actually -- they moved their campaigns away from him. he beat rommel. and he was a guy who just told it like it was. and after world war ii ended, he wanted to fight the russians. because he thought stalin was just as bad as hitler. and

. >> it's nice to be here surrounded by pictures of edgar allen poe and books about pow and baltimore in many ways has a feel a lot like new orleans, an old port city with traditions and a quirky and sometimes spooky history. and i always kind of feel at home in baltimore just as i feel

i was an early reader of edward allen poe -- edgar allan poe. of his most famous stories are about revenge. her friend of mine, alberto mangel, a writer and collector of stories was working on collections called dark waters and black arrows. he said canadians have not written any revenge stories so i thought we will have to change that. [laughter] i wrote my own story back then and they were quite interesting to write. >> do you like male or female characters better? >> to write about? fondly well but i'm very of gavin in this second story, a grumpy older man. he's a poet so he's grumpy and a very articulate, verbal way. he's married three of his students one after the other and the one he's married to now is quite younger than he is so it makes for an interesting situation but he's the former a fantasywho was writer. she put gavin inside her fantasy cask but inside a wine where she's kept him for about 50 years. >> you are so bad. this is the one in which setting him on fire. >> a nursing home? >> upscale retirement home called ambrosia manner,