so i will just read this little moment from the end of the prologue and indeed the end of ernest hemingway's life, when everything is lost, but there is still something there. backward 17 days from his death, june 15th, 1961 rochester minnesota, a man in the psychiatric ward at say carries hospital there -- mary -- mayo clinic is writing a story to a boy onto small sheets of note paper with his trademark downhill slant and irreversibly damaged ernest hemingway is a in your plan scape a paranoid nightmare has found himself the kindest and courage and the city not to say grace to right to 210 beautiful words to a kid he likes very much. whenever i began to feel revulsion at his behavior toward other human beings, i would like to take out a copy of this letter. 210 words with so much emotion talks below the surface pile driven of acute observation of the natural world would be a half decent output. the of the '08, although everyone calls him for its has a congenital heart condition, the son of hemingway's small-town doctor who was also one of hemingway's favorite duck hunting companions. in the

that he was the ultimate writer, she was the writer that i wanted to be like and then i met ernest hemingwayand he turned out to be the biggest jerk that i met during the war. it doesn't diminish some of the good writing that he did but then subsequently, she wrote some pretty bad books which confirmed my opinion of him that i had gained during the war. but i met him several times but we were in a little hotel outside of paris about 25 kilometers outside of paris and of the hotel had taken in all of the correspondence and hemingway had gotten there in advance of the army and there were only about 35 rooms in the hotel. so some of the reporters couldn't get rooms. they were sleeping on the floor in the dining room of the hotel so there was a big tall guy who'd been to chicago. it was sent to the tribune. a big tall guy. his name was bruce grant. so he got into an argument trying to get him to release some of the rooms that he had taken over. so there they are standing in the middle of the dining room with the glass doors that open up to the garden and suddenly this little guy was still alive

have ernest hemingway call us and apologize to us, too! >> i love robert de niro.he embraces the audience. >> yes. people are crazy for de niro. >> yes. >> and life of pi. i didn't see this. i live with two cats so i don't know about being on a large boat with a large cat for a very long time would be a lot. >> yes. if you could see it in 3-d 3-d it is really something special. >> i think it is still out there. >> absolutely. >> what is it about? >> it is great. it is about a zoo in india that decides to move itself to canada. it is political problems, a small boat, a 16-year-old boy and a tiger. >> all right. let's take a look at life of pi. . >> my name is pi. i have been in a shipwreck. i am on a lifeboat alone with a tiger. please send help. [ snoring ] . >> it is so beautiful. it takestous a place we would not -- it takes us to a place we would not go to normally. it leaves you feeling you have been on a spiritual quest. that is ang lee. what a director he is. >> do you think they have a chance? >> no, i don't. but that is the oscars. >> i think this is "argo'

and, indeed, it's the end of ernest hemingway's life. when everything is lost, but there is still something there. looped backward 17 days from his death to june 15, 1961 at rochester, minnesota. a man in a psychiatric ward at saint mary's hospital at mayo clinic is writing a letter to a nine year old boy. and then writes it on to small sheets of no paper in his big round legible hand with his trademark downhill slant. and irreversibly damaged earnest anyway, his inner landscape now of paranoids nightmare has found within himself at the end of his life the kindness and courage and momentary lucidity, not to save literary grace, to write 210 beautiful words to a kid he likes very much. whenever i begin to feel repulsion at hemingway's ego and boorish behavior toward other human beings, i like to take out a copy of this letter. 210 words with so much emotion talked below the surface of the pros, the sentences piled driven by contain feeling and acute observation of the natural world, would've been a half decent output for a workday, even i

no one knows for sure, but these seem to be the last real senses ernest hemingway sat down on paper. amid so much ruin, still the beauty. thank you very much. [applause] >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> author jared diamond is next on booktv. he talks about what we can learn from traditional societies that exist in only a very few places around the world today but he also reflects on which people lived for the vast majority of the millions of years of human existence. this is just under one hour. >> it's my great privilege to introduce an invite doctor diamond to the stage to tell us all about the world until yesterday. let's give him a wonderful philadelphia well. [applause] >> let me first check whether you will be able to hear me okay in back. can you hear in that? it's a great pleasure to be back in philadelphia today and be back in this wonderful library to talk about subjects other than gall bladders. [laughter] instead, to give you an idea -- to give me an idea, how many this evening may find one about to tell you a practical guide,

and of course, the first public work of ernest hemingway, onion sandwiches wrapped in waxed paper. there's your piece of knowledge for today. thanks for watching. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> 51 years ago, john f. kennedy declared to this chamber that the constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. >> reporter: in the first state of the union address of his second term -- >> the state of our union is strong. >> reporter: -- president obama made a direct challenge to congress. >> let's get this done. >> reporter: as he laid out his vision for the country, the president repeatedly called on democrats and republicans to act. >> the american people don't expect government to solve every problem. but they do expect us to put the nation's interests before party. >> reporter: it all came on the same day speaker john boehner called the president out for not having the courage or guts to make tough choices on the budget. the president used the power of the podium to push back. >> some in congress have proposed preventing only the defense cuts. by making even