he is hemmingway's firstborn. he grows newspaper france and learns french pretty well, learns his way around the french countryside. here you can see him with earnest and his half-brothers and he is draft age. he's in and out of college at the beginning of the war and then eventually joins the army. no special treatment. he becomes an mp officer. he certainly would not have picked the mp ba tal general in which he wound up which was a ba tal general of black mp. he was not particularly racist. this was not a coveted assignment. any way, he made the best of this. he went off to north africa with this group. it was mostly enforcing regulations, handing out speeding particular kits, arresting people and that sort of thing and bumby gets kind of antsy doing this kind of work. he gets invited to a party, a highly social event in north africa and randolph churchill, winston's son, he was a handful. he fought with him on a lot of occasions and had successfully worked his way into british special opps. he wasn't ordered.

. >> i would like to did hemmingway kill himself? >> that's long and complicated. i think it's the long-term effects of drinking. he was probably an alcoholic physiological physiologically, probably even by this time hemmingway's productivity as a great author falls off dramatically, you know, the last great book he writes is "for whom the bell tolls." then he writes "old man and the sea." that's really the last home run he writes. everything else is falling off. he's deteriorating physically. i think it's a cascading effect from the alcohol. he's suspicious. he's irrasible. maybe he has some other conditions. i think he was -- i don't know. i hesitate to advance a diagnosis, bu -- mentally unsta. that played a role in him shooting himself, i believe. also, his father shot himself. earnest h ernest had a lot of trouble with his mom, never really liked his mom. after dad shot himself, ernest is kind of upset about that, mom for christmas one year sends him the pistol that dad shot himself with. so, you know, it's a sad story. it's one of those family lore things tha

you go out there looking for hemmingway, and you'll only find him in two or three finding aids. you wind up searching in things that might have hemmingway in them and on a really great day you find a nugget that you bring home and brag about at dinner. >> okay. well, thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you all so much for coming. have a great day. c-span's 2012 local content city tour takes our book tv and american history tv programming on the road the first weekend of each month. march featured shreveport, louisiana, with book tv at noel memorial library. >> he was a local man who was born here and lived most of his life. he started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued until he was in his 80s. over his lifetime, he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. one of the books i'm most proud of. it's in the original binding from 1699. and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name, i. newton. we're not pulling it out so much anymore because it is starting to f

makes you wish you were at hemmingway's taking in a beverage. >> absolutely. >> most of the activity is north of us. tomorrow through the weekend, probably the next chance of rain doesn't come until monday afternoon. mid-50s now. some 40s north and west. the coldest air is north of us, kind of comes through as a reinforcing shot of a secondary cold front that the will make its presence felt and tomorrow a true cold shot but a brief one that will linger tomorrow night. the winds, which will stay gusty, will not be there tomorrow night. tomorrow night will be chilly. we will not be as much -- see as much wind. across the mid-atlantic states, you can see exactly in ocean city that boundary pushing out. there's the cold front draped all the way offshore of new england journal of medicine to the caroline -- off new england, the carolinas and georgia. there were showers last night. the closest precipitation in northern pennsylvania. cooler dry air funneling in. that's some extremely dry air, chap stick type of weather tonight into tomorrow morning. through the day tomorrow more widespread