it was for me such a privilege to get to know no harper lee and her older sister alice lee and to have them share these stories with me, those that chose to share and a privilege to share them with you. some of my favorite times as "harper's" for example were around the kitchen table and the house i rented next door to the heirs. i hope you will just pull up a chair to the kitchen table with us and let's share some stories. let's celebrate with no harper lee and her equally remarkable sister alice lee and also the friends in the family in that town who so generously helped me to understand the context of their lives and of that town. please pull up a chair and let's have a good chat around the kitchen table. >> well, that was short and sweet. we will just get right to it. >> i have been edited for some time now is i was preparing this book and i'm always trying to see if i can use fewer words which is not usually the first option that comes to mind. >> no editing this evening. you are carte blanche. >> all right. >> i think a great opening comment, if you would share with the audience

as i would have liked to was this and alice that i've mentioned, perimeter and sister, who liked harper lee and alice finch lee, had a playful sense of language that was fun and the way of looking at the world and so they would have aunt alicei m aliceisms the would bring up every now and then. one of my favorite was the term that having been through some of the weather, having a bit of weather today was another expression i remember when trees were ready to blow down. she had created this term for the weather that was a cross between us cyclone and a typhoon. there was some amusement on both sisters's parts that she had gotten a digital clock, also familiar with heart medication perhaps. and never could quite gets to rate that this was not a digitalis clock. showing the time. they had such affection for her and some of the relatives, mr. nash, harper would say i am driving like mr. nash. mr. nash was married to there and's kitty who herself referred to him as mr. nash. a bit of a more formal generation and mr. nash would say money by driving rather slowly and conserving gas. so if someone

wouldn't survive and she couldn't begin digesting formula in a pediatrician by william harper and 10 years later, louise lee was 10 years older than nell harper when nell harper lee came in an upstairs bedroom in their old house on alabama avenue. the name was a thanks in part to this pediatrician who i am sure could not imagine would know that his name was, you know, in this streets of london and all kinds of places that he couldn't imagine being a part of. >> another nugget does wonderful to reading your book is one i don't know that we could take a couple more in the old clock on the wall is taking. did either nell or alice address the truman capote issues concerning the probability he wrote "to kill a mockingbird"? >> yes, just a wee bit. [laughter] and i think in that wonderful video that i just saw for a first what a treasure. i thought she so captures nell harper and alice in a couple of stories. i'm sorry. tell me -- i was not fundamental sidetrip here. >> about nell or alice addressing the issue of truman capote might've written "to kill a mockingbird." >> yes come i think alice's phrase about that

their mother's sister who like one nell harper lee and one alice fellowship. lee had a playful sense of language that was such fun and that i think was a part of looking at the world really. and so they would have aunt aliceisms was how i came to think of it, that they would bring up every now and then. and one of my favorites was the term sifal ooh,-- sifaloon was one of the, it was aunt alice's term she had created for weather that was a cross between a cyclone and a typhoon. and i think there was some amusement on both of the sisters' part that she had gotten a digital clock. i think was also familiar with heart medication perhaps and never could quite get it straight that this was not a digitalis clock. [laughter] telling the time. they had such annext for her -- affection for her and for some of the other relatives that we talked about. mr. nash, every now and then nell harper would say, oh, i'm driving like mr. nash. and mr. nash was married, i believe, to their aunt kitty who herself referred to him as mr. nash. [laughter] a bit of a more formal general

but things did you find inspired harper lee?mach such an appreciation of someone who knew the depression and of course captured it into such an iconic way and to tell ikillin mockingbird was always impressed whatever somebody's background or family history of people that had that perseverance to work hard a lot of times for not very much pay provide for families, it was values from their father that they both talked about that you see in the book and the way that they lived and that was one of the ones that was more striking in my conversations. their appreciation of how hard it was at the time i was living in monro and the respect for the people who found a way if they had the opportunity to provide for a family and to persevere over time and i think an appreciation that although like a lot of families in the depression, they certainly knew hardship. they knew people who lived so close to the margin to how much a family can get by in a year and in an appreciation to how many people manage to do that in such difficult circumstan

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that was his opinion on that and i love harper lee's "to kill a mockingbird" and that is based on her life. and truman capote is in there even. >> host: they were childhood friends. >> guest: and another example is tennessee williams "a streetcar named desire" and that was down in new orleans and "marooned". so this is a technique and what you do. you are just re-creating something you have been a part of and witness too. >> host: you are seeing it more as a recreation. >> guest: what i tried to deal with neal is try to get everything correct. there is a transcript of every word spoken by him on the apollo 11 mission. there is back channels here also where they talk to flight directors and whatnot that doesn't go on this official air to ground. now he also told me this direct. i have it quoted as closey as you can get it. where i wrote him or have neal told me this or that during the conversations where they talked about him being the commander of apollo 11. i have transcripts from them where he is giving them to me and he and i talked about it. he told me, for example, they saw when

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that and i just love harper lee's to kill a mockingbird. truman capote. >> right. top of france.and another example is tennessee williams streetcar named desire. down in new orleans. it's a technique. you just recreating something. >> you are comfortable basically writing dialogue, conversations. as an historian i am a little more cautious about writing a conversation without a very sound source. you're seeing it more of a recreation. >> well, i am recreating it. plus the fact was there. what i did on dialogue to my tried to get everything absolutely correct. what i did was, there is, as you know, a transcript of every word spoken by him. you can see that. let me put a little caveat in here. there are also back channels when they talk to a flight directors that doesn't go on this. now, he also told me this direct, the stuff that i have in there. and i've done it quoted as closely as i can get it. i have guys. he told me this periods during the conversations, they talked about him being the commander of apollo 11. so i have those. i have transcripts of them. he is giving to me. he

many of us did not have it be conceived notion of view or the book or writing about nell harper lee. you did it in a marvelous manner and in a respect for manner. i feel much better having read it and thank you for your gift to the literary world. thanks to 15 and before we thank all of you for coming, somebody is really going to be happy. but for she draws the name and before everybody's mad at her she didn't draw it yours, let's tell this young lady how much we officiate her. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. if a georgetown person wins the drawing, it is going to be mighty suspect. >> i want you to know how to take his seat because these are strictly by the numbers. >> i will not load and i will pull from the middle. >> pull from the middle, okay. first, read the row. >> all right. we will do this for some drama appropriate to a theater. >> the row that has been written or. >> the row would be jay. and seat number -- >> are you ready? all right. we owe jay, c. 26. [applause] >> this is for you, rather jay, seat 46. [applause] >> your name as p

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. >> it is like harper lee.ou can shoot as many blue jays as you want. >> i agree with that in theory but when almost drops on your head. >> but they do kill all these other things and flies, too. >> i know, i saw charlotte's web. i agree with you on every count. >> you remember the babies? joy and arannia and nellie. she was nice to the pig. >> agreed. >> a report from the "l.a. times," you know, sorkin thinks nobody's moving into the city -- actually, when you look at what happens to animals in urban environments, some of them thrive. like raccoons apparently do very well in urbanization because they learn to become urbanized. pigeons do very well. >> they eat garbage. >> most of the time people do not do well like humans do not do well in urban areas because you're all too close together. >> you get grouchy. >> i'm kidding about the humans. but that was actually for andrew. but they have -- they're checking now, scientists, to see how some species do, urbanization, and spiders do very, very well. and you migh

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what things did you find inspired harper lee? >> she had such an appreciation for how hard people work. especially as someone who knew the depression and captured it in such an iconic way in "to kill a mockingbird" was always impressed. whatever somebody's bat round, whatever their family history with people who had the perseverance to work hard, a lot of times for not very much pay provides for families. it was -- i think there were values from their father that they both talked about the ec and not vote, the ec and the way they live in now as the ones that was the most striking in my conversations with them. their appreciation of how hard it was what a lot of families not only the depression, but at the time i was living in monroeville and the fact for the people who found a way if they had the opportunity to provide for his family and to persevere over time. i think an appreciation that although like a lot of families in the depression, they certainly knew hardship. they knew people who lived so close to the margins, to how mu

the pacific ocean followed by the mockingbird next door:a look into the life of reclusive author harper lee. ninth is can't we talk about something more pleasant? a memoir. michael lewis wraps of the list with flash boys, a report on high frequency trading on wall street. that is a look at this week's nonfiction hardcover best sellers according to npr. >> booktv is on facebook. like us to the publishing news, scheduling dates, behind-the-scenes pictures and videos, either information and to talk directly with doctors during live programs. facebook.com/booktv. >> now on booktv, coverage from the annual roosevelt reading festival from the franklin roosevelt library and museum in hyde park, new york. over the next three hours five authors will present their books on the 32 president and the events that marked his tenure. we kick off

alabama many of us did not have a preconceived notion that you are the book we are writing about how harper lee you did it in a way and a marvelous manner. i feel better having said it thank you for your gift to the literary world. before we thank all of you for coming, somebody's really going to be happy that i wanted but id everybody -- before she draws the name from before everybody's mad because she didn't draw viewers. let's tell this young lady how much we appreciate her. [applause] >> thank you. it was the first time to draw it into the specular. >> of the seats are strictly by sikh member so my cousin, i'm sorry. >> i will not luck and i will pull from the middle. >> put your glasses on. the first, first. >> with some drama appropriate to the reader. >> the row would be j.. seat number seat 26. this is for you bro j. seat 26. [applause] enjoy your book. it. [applause] can you tell the microphone so you won't hear us talking [laughter] thank you so much for coming. we appreciate it. >> it's a pleasure spending time with you. [applause] >> one of the first things i did when i was research

a look at the life of harper lee ann at 830, rick santorum speaks with leadership summit and then theniversity of michigan professor reports on the impact of the millennial generation at 9:00 p.m. at 10:00 o'clock, "after words" with cheryl temple. she argues that a desire to monitor and control the public is at an all-time high at our programming continues with ralph nader who calls for an alliance between progressives, conservatives, and libertarians, to take on issues like corporate bailout, pentagon spending, and civil liberties. that happens on tonight's booktv. >> in the 1930s and early 40s, my family traveled all over the country coast-to-coast and i went to five high schools in four years but i was never in a classroom with african-americans. so even though i was in the north society. and i was in the army in early 1945 and was trained for the invasion of japan and i was down in georgia for the first time in the out where i saw jim comerica at its worse -- jim crow america at its worse. and so i was on from a ship, i was able to go in the hole of the ship to keep this down and