fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful. certain things i love. bill's spy novels ever did that for me. bill was a mster o master of th syndicated column. he wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving column. i was reading this from the outside. it was filled -- it was a mournful column about this, very powerful. he could do essays. about truman capote's black and white ball. bill did that and he was a guest but he brings it alive. here is why everyone is talking about it. >> talk about bill as a new york figure. how important his run for mayor was and how important his new yorkness was. >> his run for mayor, it was in part a stung and tt and to get e brand out there. the brand of

fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful. certain things i love. bill's spy novels ever did that for me. bill was a mster o master of th syndicated column. he wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving column. i was reading this from the outside. it was filled -- it was a mournful column about this, very powerful. he could do essays. about truman capote's black and white ball. bill did that and he was a guest but he brings it alive. here is why everyone is talking about it. >> talk about bill as a new york figure. how important his run for mayor was and how important his new yorkness was. >> his run for mayor, it was in part a stung and tt and to get e brand out there. the brand of

fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful. certain things i love.e wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving column. i was reading this from the outside. it was filled -- it was a mournful column about this, very powerful. he could do essays. about truman capote's black and white ball. bill did that and he was a guest but he brings it alive. here is why everyone is talking about it. >> talk about bill as a new york figure. how important his run for mayor was and how important his new yorkness was. >> his run for mayor, it was in part a stung and tt and to get e brand out there. the brand of himself. he worked in the city. he had an apartment in the city. he lived a lot of his life h

again despite the rich outpouring of fine non-fiction writing in recent years the case could be made that tracy kidder may be our very best nonfiction writer. he is in fact the very definition of the literary journals, blending the records recording of a reporter with a sympathetic imagination of the novelist and the stylistics skill of a master craftsman. tracy kidder has produced work in the highest order since his early years reporting on the vietnam war for the "atlantic monthly." his first book, the soul of the new machine, thoughtful humanizing look at the emerging commuter evolution come akeem maturate reviews and achieve the rest of distinctions that won both the pulitzer prize and the national book award. since then mr.. has worked steadily on compressively varied subject matter. house takes this into the very heart of the american dream for the u.s. mr.. describes the day today frustrations and triumphs of his own attempt to build a home. among schoolchildren, mr. kidders spent five months in the racially mixed custom of this great teacher, to show in especially till what i

it's fiction. i don't normally read fiction. but it's a good read. >> the author, she's the editor of "letters from black america." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> author robert, give us an update? >> well, i'm doing the fourth one. third one i got the international book award here. and well, this is a long book. and i'm sort of in the middle of it now. you know, lyndon johnson, president, civil rights, vietnam, turning points in american history. that's an interesting book to do. interesting for me to try to do it. when do you see it being finished? >> i think i have two more years. >> how many years have been devoted to lincoln -- lyndon johnson? >> well, i started, "power broker" came a out in 1974. i started in '76 on lyndon johnson. i want to add it up, 33 years. >> what first sparked your interest in lbj? >> good question. i never look at my books as biography. i never want to do a book just about a great man. i'm interested in political power and how it works. and using a man's life to show it. with robert moses, i tr

you're favorite best non-fiction book of 2009 year raised dennis in bloomfield hills, michigan. go ahead. >> merry christmas, sir. >> thank you. >> caller: there's a lot of great nonfiction books that cannot and of a book about dred scott. the best this year was and the fed by dr. ron paul. we heard discussion back-and-forth about liberty and that sort of thing on the two parties but i think dr. paul kneal did in terms of the linchpin that's caused so many problems in the federal reserve system. it is a wonderful book, very well written, very down-to-earth and his humanity comes through. i would highly recommend it and the fed to everyone a merry christmas to you and all the listeners. >> host: and we covered congressmen ron paul talking about his book at ebook event this year on book tv. here is a look. scaap next federal reserve chairman i had some confrontations with and discussion with was alan greenspan and i tell the story about the time i think most of you here in this audience would know the story that alan greenspan of course was a supporter of and friend of ayn rand an

i believe my book once and for all proves that the sally story is pure fiction, possibly revisionist of politics him but certainly not historical facts or science. in my view, it reflects a recycled inaccuracy for over 200 years. let me preface my remarks by saying i am not a professional historian. i'm not a jeffersonian scholar. for the past 26, 27 years, my expertise has been in courtrooms giving the most persuasive arguments, getting incredible evidence to a jury. so as a civil litigator i have tried to analyze and research every scholarly book, article, committee report, 18th century letter and ancillary material relevant to the single, inflammatory subject of whether thomas jefferson had a sexual relationship with sally hemmings. in writing this book, i gained access to never before and seen correspondence, and personal interviews with jeffersonian insiders, intimately involved in the distorted and misleading bna. they revealed how evidence was manipulated into a censored pre-determined official conclusion giving the false stigma of jefferson's guilt to the american public. in

fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful. certain things i love. bill's spy novels ever did that for me. bill was a mster o master of th syndicated column. he wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving column. i was reading this from the outside. it was filled -- it was a mournful column about this, very powerful. he could do essays. about truman capote's black and white ball. bill did that and he was a guest but he brings it alive. here is why everyone is talking about it. >> talk about bill as a new york figure. how important his run for mayor was and how important his new yorkness was. >> his run for mayor, it was in part a stung and tt and to get e brand out there. the brand of

fiction. -- chandra -- genre fiction.bill was certainly a master of the 750-word, and he wrote a lot about if you get the best of those -- that is just murderer'' row. there are very analytical, they can be appreciative, they can be melancholy. he had a lot of voices he could summon. he could also do longer articles. there was a column about the effective end of the latin mass in catholic church and how that pained him. and it was a moving column. i am not a catholic, i was reading from the outside, but it was a mournful column, very powerful. he could also do longer essays. i was looking at one about truman capote in "esquire." it was like ancient social history, and it just sort of was brought back, to be poppy, fizzy, and so on. but he just sort of brings it all live. ok, here is what everyone is talking about. >> talk about bill as a new york figure, how important his run for mayor was, and how important his new yorkness was, if you will. >> it was a stunt in part. it was to get the brand out there. but it was also be

and fiction number six -- i've got ten and i won't go through all of them tonight but fiction number six is that hospitals that treat the poorest and sickest will somehow be better off under this program, but they're not feeling that way. they're not feeling they're going to make up for the fact that the hospitals that qualify as disproportionate share hospitals, those who serve a high percentage of individuals who are very low income or who have no insurance, they're going to lose $43 billion in cuts under this bill, that these hospitals that provide so much charity care and provide a safety net in the communities are going to suffer under this legislation, and they are telling me that. i don't know who in washington may say they're not but that's what they're telling me. and i think they're telling the truth. and, mr. president, one of the fictions is number five, is that average premiums are going to decrease. have you heard that? through this proposal? and senator evan bayh asked the c.b.o. about this and they said that families that do not receive coverage from their employer wo

system that base, as they've said and i parroted, erected and built a fikal character, convicted that fictionalcter, invoked class warfare to do it. and as john said, went to great lengths to take what are normal negative exonerating inferences and create bad evidence, if you will, out of them. >> larry: john, do you think they'll get a fair asneel. >> i certainly hope so. i think the pressure brought on for scrutiny right now, i think they will. the goal is to get the case out of perugia. get two new judge, six new lay jurors, a little more open minded and not infected by the media after the first month when this case broke. the parents have incredible resolve right now, more resolve than ever to bring amanda home and i know they're going to. >> larry: eta, are you optimistic? >> you know, i have to be. i mean, if i wasn't, i wouldn't get out of bed in the morning and i have to keep fighting for aman amanda. there's no way that we'll stop fighting for amanda. >> larry: curt, what about you? >> same thing. i mean, she is not going to be left in a foreign prison 6,000 miles away from us for some

had a great statement that i heard, which was they weren't trying amanda, they were trying some fictionalcter. it sounds like that's exactly what happened. >> edda, is that what you feel? >> oh, absolutely. it's amazing. everything that was said in court about amanda, we're looking at each other going who are they talking about. it didn't even follow the evidence of the people that knew her and testified about her. it was just weird fantasy, bizarre. >> larry: john, you've been involved with this and been on with us before about it. would this have been different if it was the united states? >> there's been injustice here, but this is just beyond the pale, larry. the manipulation of evidence, the unfavorable inferences drawn from those comment of circumstances and conduct was just a gross injustice here. i mean, what the prosecution did was take normal negatives and create evidence out of them. if flrp no fingerprints in the room, it's because amanda cleaned them up. when her hard drive was destroyed by the police, she must have done it. when the murder weapon did not fit the wounds on th

fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful. certain things i love.bill's spy novels ever did that for me. bill was a mster o master of th syndicated column. he wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving column. i was reading this from the outside. it was filled -- it was a mournful column about this, very powerful. he could do essays. about truman capote's black and white ball. bill did that and he was a guest but he brings it alive. here is why everyone is talking about it. >> talk about bill as a new york figure. how important his run for mayor was and how important his new yorkness was. >> his run for mayor, it was in part a stung and tt and to get e brand out there. the brand of h

and i don't read much nonfiction but it was certainly less fictional, less fictional than the bible. thank you. >> host: nextstep, palm desert, california. see under, your favorite book. >> caller: the late senator ted kennedy. post go thank you for your call. one of the events we cover this year harold evans in this book, my paperchase. here are some of the books on his reading. >> tonight really should be a celebration, not as me frankly, but of reporting. that's what my book is about. it's about what newspapers can achieve, not what an editor can achieve, but what the reporters on the ground can achieve here it post go tucson, arizona, that was harold evans i believe that his book party tearing washington at the british embassy. you like the culture of corruption? >> caller: it's an amazing book because it gives great insight into what happens in washington. it's particularly interesting because this talks about all the corruption that has existed before with obama and all of the people he's brought with them. earlier somebody remarked about rama manuel. well, that is detailed in

it's fiction. i don't normally read fiction but it's a good read. >> the author is pamela newkirk.'s the author of "letters from black america." thank you very much. >> thank you. >> you've been watching book tv on c-span2. .

what about another fiction? the president has promised -- you've heard other leaders on this floor have said this bill will not add one dime to the nation's surging debt, but by any fair analysis, the bill increases spending and debt. first, i have just got to say when you pass 70 new government programs, expand medicaid, create millions of dollars in new subsidies, how can that not reduce -- not increase spending? but the bill is -- is -- is structured in an odd way, really, so it doesn't add to the debt. why not? well, it's got taxes of of $519 billion. well, if you raise taxes, you can make anything come out to a balance. they call some of these taxes fees, but it's still taxes and increased costs. there is a $6 billion annual tax on the insurance industry as a whole. the people we want to reduce premiums, we raise taxes on them them $6 billion. $2.3 billion annual tax on the pharmaceutical industry. we would like to see less cost for drugs, not more. taxes on medical device companies, $28 billion on employer

. >> fiction? >> no, i do magazine stuff. i mean, i'm not reporting here. >> i didn't mean that. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> you know, this morning. [inaudible conversations] here's to you and your writing career. okay. >> hi, welcome. how are you? >> i'm carl gibson's significant other. it is so nice to see you. well, exactly. it is more of car crashes. a few white-knuckle moments. it is always fun. you know about that. >> yeah, you know, i do with i'm told. carl is very much, well, we have done a few things together. i'm forget to write people. she is amazing. >> very special. she had this morning. given who you live with. welcoming he is my doctor, too, too, you know. congratulations on your book. i'm going to get you to sign. [inaudible conversations] >> it is -- i have done the most writing. >> isn't that part of the program. you just turning them. >> i was always apprehensive. that was a publisher. >> right. >> i know what a book writer does and a reporter and all that. what is he doing next. >> too much. one of these days i would love ticket your ideas on how

>> i just made a film on the life of my mother, which is a fiction for television that is going on forin films in italy. >> larry: thank you so much, dear. give our love to everyone. we love you, sophia. >> thank you. merry christmas to everybody. bye-bye. >> bye. >> ciao, rob. >> ciao. >> larry: sophia loren, we lose the satellite. the rest of the cast remains to us. nicole gave birth to her daughter weeks before "nine" became filming. she brought her baby to the set. we're going to talk about kids and families next. (announcer) here's hoping you find something special in your driveway this holiday. ho, ho, ho! (announcer) get an exceptional offer on the mercedes benz you've always wanted at the winter event going on now. but hurry - the offer ends january 4th. boss: ah! thank goodness you're back. gecko: what's going on, sir? boss: we're slammed. tons of people interested in all the money they could be saving by switching to geico.. gecko: yeah, 'course. boss: boy, did we miss you last week. that temp wasn't working out at all. exec: took me all morning but i got those quarterly figu

this is not fiction. it is science.limate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economies, and our planet. this much we know. the question then before us is no longer the nature of the challenge, the question is our capacity to meet it. while the reality of climate change is not in doubt, i have to be honest, as the world watches us today, i think our ability to take collective action is in doubt right now. it hangs in the balance. i believe we can act boldly and decisively in the face of a common threat. that is why i come here today, not to talk, but to act. [applause] now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, america out bears our responsibility to address climate change. we intend to meet that responsibility. that is why we renewed our leadership within the international climate change negotiations. that is why we work with other nations to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. that is why we have taken bold action at home by making historic investments in renewable

they're using these justifications for enormous risks based on fiction. but i'd do feel an enormous intellectual kinship. if i had to list the people whose thinking have powerfully influenced mine, i would have nassim very high on that list. i think he is right. it is part of this desire that we have as humans to pretend we are far more in control of things than we actually are. we're not respecting the mystery and the complexity of the world we operate in. >> explain how he made his money. >> nassim had a contrary trading strategy. what he would do is buy "out of the money" options. he would buy a series of options on the stock market which would pay off only if stocks either wind up extraordinarily or, more important, dropped extraordinarily. he had an investment strategy where 99 days out of 100, or more likely 499 days out of 500, he would lose a little bit of money. but he was waiting for a crash. when the crash came, he could make millions of dollars. i think the trading firm in which he is involved with made last year an utter fortune. it is really

>> i just made a film on the life of my mother, which is a fiction for television that is going on for do in films in italy. >> larry: thank you so much, dear. give our love to everyone. we love you, sophia. >> thank you. merry christmas to everybody. bye-bye. >> bye. >> ciao, rob. >> ciao. >> larry: sophia loren, we lose the satellite. nicole gave birth to her daughter weeks before "nine" became filming. she brought her baby to the set. "s" stands for straightforward. as in up-front, honest... total transparency. straightforward is the way td ameritrade does business. simple, fair pricing. no hidden account fees. no shenanigans. just gptd value. real help. smart people who are easy to work with. that's what td ameritrade stands for. what does your investment firm stand for? it's time for fresh thinking. it's time for td ameritrade. >>> tonight on "360," an increasingly common medical test could be a killer. krvrks t scans have been found to deliver too much radiation. we take you up close with "360" m.d. sanjay gupta. this man is powerful and hated on capitol hill. because of him sena

five years ago that the models these traders were using to justify these enormous multi billion c1 fictionaid this in 2002. i feel an enormous intellectual kinship. if i had to list the people whose thinking how powerfully in the last month, i would put him very high on that list. i think he is right. as part of this desire that we have as humans to pretend we are in control of things than we actually are. we are not respecting the mystery and the complexity of the world operate in. >> explain how he made his money. >> he had a contrary trading strategy. he would buy out of the money options. he would buy a series of options on the stock market which would pay off only if the stock when of extraordinarily or dropped extraordinarily in other words, he had an investment strategy where 99 days out of 100 or more, actually, 499 days and five other, he lost a little bit of money but when the crash happened, depending on size of his position, he would make hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions. i think his trading firm made a -- a fortune last year. it is hard to do that. he wakes up e

again this statement is fiction. the overpayments, private insurance companies received under the current law to deliver medicare benefits have increased the cost for seniors today. so mr. president i would ask -- the in fact result in a 90-dollar increase to seniors to pay for the difference. so i would ask unanimous consent the full text be placed in the record and not in full, and i hope as we go forward here that it is the truth and fact that will prevail, not fiction we keep hearing to scare seniors. >> without objection. >> mr. president. >> the senator from wyoming. >> i would also ask unanimous consent that an article immediately following the speech be placed in the record called the coming this is a disaster by douglas, the same congressional bushel officer director that he was referring to that goes into a number of these points i will probably do leader apply want to get this point because i want to relinquish time as the senator from oklahoma might want. >> i thank the center. the question i was going to

maybe this would be a comedy if it was fiction. the problem is, this is not fiction, this is reality. this is what the white house actually had on their website that was supposedly showing the transparency and accountability for all the tax dollars that they said that they would display how that money was being used. so our local newspaper, we had actually inquired about this and our local newspaper zpw a little digging of their own and they called the white house and said, how is it that you can have this website that people are going to and you're showing districts that don't even exist, showing jobs created in places that don't exist, what's really going on here? and the first thing the white house said is, we're not certifying the accuracy of the information. that is the quote from the white house. they said they would be the most transparent administration in history, when finally passed, was showing the american people where billions of dollars of money that we don't have is being spent, their answer was, we're not certifying

i do not get a chance to do all lot of fiction. >> how old are you now? >> 48. -- 43. >> that had to be 18 years ago. we are out of time. michael fauntroy, thank you for joining us. >> for a dvd copy of this program, call 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q-and- a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> up next, prime minister gordon brown at the british house of commons. after that, the state department discussion on u.s.-latin america relations. with secretary of state hillary clinton. and then a hearing on the public transportation safety. -- the safety of public transportation. tomorrow on "washington journal," eamon javers john taylor talks about restructuring home mortgages. map youlevitt discusses the or rest of several americans in pakistan. and an author talks about his book, "putting medicare consumers in charge." >> if we had taken his advice, more people would be employed, more small businesses would have gone under, more remote ranch owners would have lost th

and cabinet ministers are affected by being in politics, and he's really doing the same thing in a fictionaland as i try to learn from him. >> american icons, three original documentaries from c-span now available on dvd. a unique journey through the iconic homes of the three blanches of american government. see the exquisite detail of the supreme court through the eyes of the justices. go beyond the velvet ropes of public tours into those rarely-seen spaces of the white house, america's most famous home. and explore the history and architecture of the capitol. american icons, a three-disc dvd set. it's $24.95 plus shipping and handling. order online at c-span.org/store. >> we're leaving c-span2's booktv programming to go live, now, to the u.s. senate in just a moment. when the senate finishes its work for the day on this sunday session, we'll return to our booktv coverage. the senate expected to vote on six spending bills that would fund a number of domestic and state department programs. the package of bills, known b as an omnibus, provides money in discretionary spending and about $1.1 tr

. >> safer: it sounds like science fiction, but the fact is, biotech companies and the government aref millions of dollars into research they hope will one day make it possible for us to grow new body parts. it's called regenerative medicine, and the goal is to help the 100,000 people waiting for organ transplants, and the thousands of veterans who return from iraq and afghanistan horribly maimed. so far, researchers have created beating hearts, ears, and bladders by manipulating cells in the human body into regrowing tissue. the hope is to one day profoundly change human lives. dr. anthony atala runs the wake forest institute for regenerative medicine in north carolina. you name the body part, chances are dr. atala is trying to grow one. >> dr. anthony atala: currently at the institute, we're working on over 22 different tissues and organs. >> safer: so, bladder? >> atala: yes. >> safer: heart? liver? >> atala: yes, kidneys, lungs. the possibilities really are endless. >> safer: are you suggesting a remarkable future of, when organs fail, we simply replace them and live to 120, 150?

perhaps pretty appropriate, because both of them are what i consider to be works of fantasy and fiction. this thing has 14 pages of table of contents alone. you notice how my voice goes up as i'm holding it. it just puts that my pressure on your speech diaphragm. so i just -- just wish that it was as valuable and would be as valuable to the american people as these "harry potter" novels have been. but let me just say one last thing before i close and leave the floor. again, i appreciate my colleague and i appreciate his graciousness in all ways. we've worked closely together on the intelligence committee, the judiciary committee and in many other ways, and i think he's one of the great additions to the united states senate. and in spite of his -- his dogged determination to support this awful bill, i still think greatly, very highly of him. but let me just make a few things clear to my democratic colleagues. i'm not a great believer that we should follow the polls at all but i think it's interesting sometimes to see what the american people are thinking. and my colleagues seem to think

of the fact that the intelligence is the only profession in the history of the world in which a fictional character who never lived is that least 100 times better known than anyone who ever lived. and of course james bond. we have brits, we may look a bit but the up and i haven't even undone the buttons on my jacket but i have secret fantasies in the global appeal that i think very few other nationalities have. the idea that a couple of years ago for example the number-one best-seller in france would be a book called harry potter. even schoolchildren in brooklyn are brought up to have secret fantasies of the kind which our friends in the european union will never come close to. one of the things that surprised me when i went to these wonderful wonderful files the other in the hundreds of thousands and millions inside tim's house is that actually came across one or two people who did things that even bond would not have done. here is one. look at that. it is not a very good photograph. it was taken before the second world war. anyone who was then to the house of parliament in london will t

campaign of course because trading dreams at midnight by by ann mckinney who writes these wonderful fictional stories about women, african-american women in the inner city so that was my fun book and still kind of a downer. crusco what is your preferred place to read? >> guest >> i read a couple of different ways. i read on planes. i have a kindle sali can travel with different books. on at home i have a special chair dedicated just to reading with a special task light and whole basket full of books next to it. >> gwen ifill if you want to see on a "after words" -- >> "after words" with jane goodall and john goodman continues. >> host: welcome back to "after words." we are speaking with jane goodall about her new book, hope for animals in their world, and i would like to talk a little bit about children and nature because in this country there is not any evidence that kids don't play outside anymore the way they used to. i have young boys and they play outside a lot but mostly, they play on fields surrounded by their parents. they don't crawl around in the stream bed. i don't know of anybody

fact and fiction bookstore in montana hosts the hour-long event. >> thank you so much.terrific to be here in montana. i've been on a book tour, i've been at 25 cities. now i'm home basically where the fire started. the source of the story and the source for so many joy for me in spokane and fishing in the creek and now trying to look at that time as a storyteller so thank you for coming out on this gorgeous, chris him wonderful montana night. the rest of us could look at us with envy. first i wanted to open with a wonderful quote from one of my favorite quote from an author who didn't have his first book published until he was 70 years old but it took a long time for that masterpiece and it was called "a river runs through it" and he said -- they were ministers kids, they grew up in montana. they were raised thinking that the world was full of love but as mclean said, my brother and i soon discovered that the world outside was full of bastards. the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets from montana. that just nails it for me. also, i should just say this, mclea

and the memoir has replaced the novel as the dominant form of creative fiction. despite the rich outpouring of recent years, a case could be made that tracy kidder maybe the very best nonfiction writer. he is, in fact, the very definition of a literary journalist, of the reporter with a sympathetic imagination and the still of a master craftsman. tracy kidder has produced work of the highest order since it's early years. his first book, the soul of a new machine, the thought of the emerging computer revolution came out to rave reviews and achieve that rare set that one both the pulitzer price and national book award in 1982. since then he has improved his metals in books. 1985 "house" takes us into the day to day as the triumphs of his own attempt to build a home. for among school children, he sent five months in the mixed classroom of a 5th grade teacher e to know in details what's wrong and what's right with our educational system. hometown published in 2000, he cast his eye on the american town of 30,000 with the main street and cast of real life politicians a

it sounds absurd, it sounds like science fiction like there's all kind of danger involved. one of the reasons why this proposal is being seriously considered is the nature proved does exist from the volcano in other words sulfur dioxide -- >> host: natural experiment. >> guest: there's a lot of elements to talk about and what we are advocating is that this kind of solution be considered, but on the table in addition to carbon mitigation ideas because of the problem is bad enough to worry about which we think it is you should look for a solution we think will work to cool the earth rather than gradually cut down on the carbon emissions >> guest: the key thing about this putting the clouds over the ocean or sulfur dioxide stratus shield is they are completely reversible and can build up today. within a year or two we could have these systems up and running in to get immediate feedback. as opposed to even if they cut or stabilize the emissions would be 30 or 50 years before we started to feel the effects. it seems to me if you thought about this differently there are two ways

it sounds absurd but it sounds like science fiction but it sounds like there's all kinds of dangers involved. one of the reasons why this proposal is being seriously considered it because the nature proof does exist from a bucket. in other words, sulfur dioxide -- >> a natural extent of. >> right. again, there's a lot albus of this to talk about. what we are advocating is this kind of solution be considered, be put on the table, in addition to carbon mitigation ideas because if the problem is bad enough to worry about a lot which we think it is, then you should look for solutions that we think will work to cool the earth rather than just a gradually cut down on carbon emission. >> i.t. thing about this is, either of the two schemes that don't are just described, putting the cloud over the ocean. is that they're completely reversible. and you could build up today. so within a year or two we could have the systems up and running. and we would get immediate feedback on whether they cooled the earth as opposed to even if we were to cut or stabilize or cut our carbon emissions that it would be 30

give you a heads up about a special hour about what you read in 2009, in particular, your top non-fictionf 2009. that will be at 9:00 a.m. eastern this morning. we will spend an hour talking about your favorite nonfiction books of 2009. michigan, next, look is a republican caller, good morning and welcome. caller: good morning america is mr. year. basically, i'm just calling about the american economy. in michigan, we are facing a 25% unemployment rate. obviously, the title to actions are going up. peacoat sure is going to run for governor and i think he will win in a landslide -- pete hope shirt is going to run for governor and i think he will win in a landslide. we need to stop printing money, borrowing money from china. michigan will never have -- are talking about my state. in general, i know the american economy is starting to come back a little bit, but i'm 30 years old, self employed. under the bush years i made six figures. under the democratic years are making half of that. host: what is your line of work? caller: it is a family owned seamless coverage of business. -- seamless co

there is a touch of fiction in this. in that the security council wanted to appear -- wanted it to appear that the united nations was assuming the responsibility for the disposition of political forces in iraq. but they were not assuming responsibility for the administration of iraq. the people in control of what was going to happen in iraq were in everybody's view without any doubt, the americans. so 1483 was actually rather a sats factory resolution from the point of view of the united nations but it made it appear that the special representative of the secretary general was going to be at the apex of a relationship, which in truth on the ground, he was not. he was, as i saw it, one of an equal triangle of responsibility and the u.n. and the u.k. were subordinate to the united states in terms of the physical presence on the ground of resources and capabilities. >> yeah. i think after the break, we may want to come on to the real, as contrasted with formal lines of reporting and authority. but i think that is probably a

americans have a little problem right now trying to distinguish between truth and fiction. what bothers me is that many people look at this hearing and thinking about some sensational incident. it's really about a failure that's plagued many institutions. a larger department has yet to really integrate all of the security components the committee has talked time and time again about the low moral among some of the uniformed officers. it's fallen on deaf ears. i'm sad to say we have apre 9/11 mind set we think we are invincible. the real ugly truth is, we don't even think about the secret service because we figure they have it all covered until something happens. that is when we start asking questions. i want to be in support of you tomorrow as well as today. it bothers me that now at the date we reated the department and the threats being proactive. this incident is a perfect example. you have been a director of the secret service almost 12 years i think. >> yes, sir. >> you started out in 1983, 1982. something like that. >> i want to ask you, do you agree we need real chan

again, this statement is fiction. the overpayments private insurance companies receive under the current law to deliver medicare benefits have increased the costs for seniors today. so, mr. president, i would ask -- they, in fact, result in a $90 increase to seniors to pay for that difference. so i would ask unanimous consent that the full text be placed in the record in full, and i hope as we go forward here that it is the truth and fact that will prevail here, not the fiction that we keep hearing to scare seniors. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. enzi: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: i would also ask unanimous consent that an article immediately following his speech be placed in the record called "the coming deficit disaster" by douglas holtz-eakin. that goes into a number of these points that i will probably do later but won't do at this moment because i want to relinquish such time as the senator from oklahoma might want. mr. coburn: i thank the senator. the q

that is because like the science fiction series, when you walk through the political star gate, a u.sntral travel forms -- from one universe to another universe which is a democratic universe there must be competent implementation and the initiative must generate its desired result. we used to this map and discovered that by simply visualizing it, helped visualize the problems. consultants are often called in when an initiative is in the ditch and the need to get it out of it. i am also a bit of a pessimist. this map, while technically correct, it really does not reflect the real world that i see every day. i tend to look at all the possible problems to success. the potential for failure lurks everywhere. any time you do a major government initiative. we identified seven hidden pitfalls which are the seven deadly traps on this journey to success. we're not going to go through all seven of the traps today, but to learn about them, we have to read the book and which means you have to buy the book which is available afterwards. if you take the process map, and you take the traps, and you

the average high-school graduate never read a whole non-fiction book in four years of high- school.cannot read nonfiction without counsel. i have to underline. but some electronic books allow you to underline. i do not know where we're going, but i like books. in colorado, where i live, you cannot get licensed as a teacher with a up the subject matter degree, and i believe in that. many of our education standards are about, and the schools are factors that turn out teachers. they do not get a good education. they are failing. you need to change that. i got a master's degree in education. but the program i was in was very good. it was about methodology. even when you get to be a teacher, every meeting is about methodology, about how to present material. but not about the material itself. you need some methodology. a friend of mine ran a conference in which she had professors, and coming in to teach. and she balanced methodology. howard gardner came, there were other people. but there was excitement. host: i knew someone who was a teacher, and she had been to create a with it was the

it will also be in addition to complying with fiction 404-a which requires management to rend ar opinion concerning internal controls. basically all that means is there is a plethora of other regulations providing for transparaphernalia sophomore these companies. will et -- transparency of these companies. let me give you an example of a company in my district, small company, 35 employees, capitalize $3.6 million. hardly a company that's going to cause pan knick this country if they fail. the c.e.o., the c.f.o. and other management, they're all located on the same hallway in the same building, there's constant communication between all the board of directors and they are a perfect example of a small business of which the government should not force new and now highly expensive regulatory requirements in order to have them check off some boxes on some forms. think about it. the hundreds of thousands of dollars that it will cost them to comply with section 404-b will be much better spent on developing new and more efficient generators which is what the company does to support our troops ov

persuaded to take this reference out by his friend who thought it would sound too much like science fiction? this led to him to remark that he was a genius, but he was not friendly. in his defense, he said that the constitution should be translated for these new technologies to protect as much privacy in the age of wiretapping and electronic age as this had in the colonial era. he was also deeply sensitive to the role of government regulators. by bringing new constituencies to the table, labor and business and government, it was interesting that he hated the word consumers. a thoughtful balance between the competing interests could be struck. that is why i think that he would have approved of the efforts we have made here today. we are going to proceed by way of this scenario. the danger of privacy -- they make this debate so relevant. i will begin with a scenario that many of you will recognize. and i will ask the panelists to talk about this. we will talk about the other scenarios. we released the text files for 650,000 users. we later apologized, saying this was an unauthorized move. we

required research which i have never had the pleasure of doing before because i write contemporary fiction. this process of doing research, i loved it. i have fallen in love and i don't know if i ever want to do another book without it but i haven't started the book yet and my nonfiction writing friends say yeah, the research, that is the fun part. wait until you have to sit down and write the book. the book will be a novel based on something that happened in my town in the '50s when i was growing up. >> where did you go up? >> elizabeth, new jersey. >> can you give us an idea of what the event was? >> i would rather not. >> children's author, judy blume, thank you for being on tv. >> thank you so much. it was fun. >> anthony pitch author of seven books including-- his new book out called they have killed papa dead, the road to force the arab abraham lincoln's murder and the rage for vengeance. >> i spent nine years researching and writing. i have tons of neira permission. the biggest thing i found was lincoln was going from the old senate chamber in the capital have been witness the inaug

this is not fiction, it is science.checked, climate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economy, and our planet. this much we know. the question then before us is no longer the nature of the challenge. the question is the capacity to meet it. while the reality of climate change is not in doubt, i have to be honest, as the world watches us today, i think our ability to take collective action is in doubt right now, and it hangs in the balance. i believe we can act boldly and decisively in the face of a common threat. that is why i come here today not to talk but to act. [applause] now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, america there is our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility. that is why we have renewed our leadership with in international climate change negotiations. that is why we have worked with other negotiations to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. that is why we have taken bold action at home by making histor

give you a heads up about a special hour about what you read in 2009, in particular, your top non-fiction book of 2009. that will be at 9:00 a.m. eastern this morning. we will spend an hour talking about your favorite nonfiction books of 2009. michigan, next, look is a republican caller, good morning and welcome. caller: good morning america is mr. year. basically, i'm just calling about the american economy. in michigan, we are facing a 25% unemployment rate. obviously, the title to actions are going up. peacoat sure is going to run for governor and i think he will win in a landslide -- pete hope shirt is going to run for governor and i think he will win in a landslide. we need to stop printing money, borrowing money from china. michigan will never have -- are talking about my state. in general, i know the american economy is starting to come back a little bit, but i'm 30 years old, self employed. under the bush years i made six figures. under the democratic years are making half of that. host: what is your line of work? caller: it is a family owned seamless coverage of business. -- seam

this is not fiction, it is science.hecked, climate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economy, and our planet. this much we know. the question then before us is no longer the nature of the challenge. the question is the capacity to meet it. while the reality of climate change is not in doubt, i have to be honest, as the world watches us today, i think our ability to take collective action is in doubt right now, and it hangs in the balance. i believe we can act boldly and decisively in the face of a common threat. that is why i come here today not to talk but to act. [applause] now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, america there is our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility. that is why we have renewed our leadership with in international climate change negotiations. that is why we have worked with other negotiations to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. that is why we have taken bold action at home by making histori