jeff guinn has written 15 books in his career. he's also a graduate of the university of texas. for six years the book editor at the fort worth star-telegram and now he just informed me that his publisher informed him that his book the autobiography of santa claus published in 2003 has now 500,000 copies sold which is pretty sweet so congratulations on that. and naturally once you've read about santa claus and have a huge success you want to write about psychotic killers. [laughter] so he then turned down to go down together the untold story of bonnie and clyde published by simon and schuster in 2009 and he is currently working deciding to switch sides and go with fell after seeing what happened to bonnie and clyde he's now working on why it occurred. at the end of the table is hampton sides who did not go to the university of texas but did barely crawl through yale university and by of actually seen the paper to read i didn't believe it until he showed it to me. he is from memphis where he is born and raised and he has had a very successful career in journalism. he is editor-at

mentions, you know, the candidacy of custer. >> yes, sir. >> thank you. >> i have a question for jeff guinn jeff, i'm wondering in your research and in your writings so far, what has surprised you most about the story as you've uncovered it? >> the things that are amazing me the most are some of the history of southeast arizona and the absolute combination -- sort of -- it's almost a drug-inducing atmosphere and so enticing of tombstone, elegance and decadence at the same time that i think so many folks out there have -- have misunderstanding of what the town was like. what arizona territory was like. there's so much more to the story than i ever would have guessed and there's so many people who have very strong opinions about all of it and at least half of them no matter what i write will decide i'm an idiot and probably evil besides. but that's what makes it fun. there's so much more to learn in this story than i had originally thought. >> and yes, sir, one final question. >> yes. this is for jeff also. ever since the 1920s people have been writing books about tombstone and i know you had

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