you can buy the hardbacks, the paperbacks, the book club edition, art print edition, i fancy new addition or a nice older edition. it's a very encyclopedic collection of everything that dickens ever wrote. we had over 500 events at three of our stores and we also do off-site events at a large auditorium in portland and of those events they range from 8 to 10 people showing up for a debut author or poets to 500 to 1000 people showing up for jimmy carter, bruce springsteen and so we spent about a decade convincing publishers that this is a great venue for authors and the incredible thing about portland which i think is one of those small town feelings it has even though it's turned into a big city is able here are avid performance goers. so we would bring somebody in and you think oh, 10 or 15 people would show up and 40 or 50 people would show up so the citizens of portland have been supportive of the authors who come and visit here and that just reflects back to new york and to the publishers and so we are now one of the top 10 places to send an author. so when bruce springsteen announces

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think all you have is the hardback because you want a really good hardback. >> no one gets everythingright. there are sony details in the roosevelts were so secretive in their own way, but how much do any of us know about anybody else. what about your parents? my mother died last year and i went through her staff cleaning out her houses and i learned a lot about her and she was my mother, my best friend, so when you're dealing with a stranger, someone a historical figure like roosevelt where there are sony documents anyway-- what are there a million documents in this library? you can expect a get everything right. i know a lot about fdr and i didn't catch any mistakes. >> thank you. >> . one thing that people don't really know about missy being sort of the unofficial ambassador to the catholic church. so important. >> yes, thank you. that was fdr's deadly secret, which as an important source for me. as a catholic, the catholic voting bloc westermann is the important. he carried like 89% of the catholic votes and in keeping that relationship good and strong was important. there were a

very unusual and bookstores did not like to sell them because it didn't make as much profit as the hardback. rare. there was a new idea spreading, the paperback book, which is much easier and cheaper. so, that is one change going on. time, just to show the beats were not the only source of what was counterculture, there was also the time, avant-garde. strongnt-garde is a challengeeople who mainstream culture, but not for my beatnik point of view -- from a different angle of vision. one of the examples, one of the earliest ones in new york malvinay are julian and beck to open a theater in new york in 1951. challenge mainstreamthe becks were anar chists. the purpose of their theater was to jar the audience and step outside of their mainstream cultural values. at least challenge the cultural norms of the 1950's. they performed only radical new plays in small spaces. they were cheap to rent and very few props. no scenery ever. their theater company attempted to engage the audience. their theory in theater was quite radical. the separation between the audience and the performance was to be minim