doctor eliot elliott angle of and see state. doctor there angle has talked on dickens for decades and tonight he shares his insight. we begin with this question why

doctor eliot elliott angle of and see state. doctor there angle has talked on dickens for decades and tonight he shares his insight. we begin with this question why christmas carol. >> i would love to say he was filled with christmas spirit. that was part of it. good to be honest he needed the money. this is a constantly reframe in dickinson's life. he was a generous man he gave away more money than most of us willr was raised in the shadow of the debtor's prison he has his father could never make a living it didn't matter how much money dickens ever had he was convinced tomorrow he would be back at that debtor's prison with his family. he felt that learning more and more money was the only way to protect him from the biggest shock of his life which it was when his father was escorted to >> money was important to him for security. how hot -- all to see what he saw his father escorted into present. >> eleven years old. are really bad age. young enough to be traumatized old enough for this to cinch and intellectually that this is

eliot and elliott was performing one of his plays for the first time since he was at a bed and breakfast and they asked him are you the author of the conservative mind and he was absolutely flabbergasted that anyone would know him like that and it turned out that the owner had just gotten a "time" magazine issue where the entire section was dedicated to his book. he was being interviewed on the radio throughout all of the 1950s. plus he had a regularly syndicated column in the 60s and 70s and people knew him from that as well. he also wrote short stories and a lot of people that know his stories, stephen king writes about him actually, that h but d no idea that he is also in the conservative mind and vice ver versa. >> for his stories good sellers? >> the world bear appeared as yu could expect and not any kind of gentle way that he called them rather gothic. it's not accidental that the publisher actually published kirk's early fictions so these are anti-daemonic, they are black masses and very involved in the way stephen king would be today. >> we are talking with bradley birzer profess