jimi hendrix is still big bucks.e his image. >> it is an empire and taken ath long time to turn into an empire because there has been a lot of legal cases from family members and the father who inherited the estate had to sue to gain the rates back to the music. once they got the rights to the music back, what she is doing, she is selling, think licensing fees. she is reaping revenues through that. there's a big hp campaign that his music is featured in. they signed a deal with icm to do their own authorized biopic, not the movie coming out this summer but another movie that will include the music of jimi hendrix. there are kinds of ways she can exploit his intellectual property but the one thing about it is, it's a tough business. it is one of those things that puts you in court all the time. david: by the way, i've got a soft spot moo any heart for jimi hendrix, wood took, if you look real close -- woodstock. there i am honestly. honestly i was there, lee. its with the last, the last show of woodstock was about 8:0

they asked me to do a book jimi hendrix and i said no, i want to do a book about henry kissinger.because i was 29 years old and full of myself. [laughter] i had my contract and my friend soon end you know, dining at french restaurants and all that stuff hurts i said you give him mike david, david henderson wrote the best book on jimi hendrix. it is a classic. it is a classic he bought me a bottle of wine and $100 burden that was really awesome. [laughter] >> and i say thank you. i wanted to give time for the audience to ask you questions, and i'm sure that there are many. >> i'm glad you're turning it over to the audience. we read the japanese come the mexicans come a lot of us were very influenced and i was and one of my great and it is up to the great civilian poet and i was looking because i didn't know of any african-american individuals other than walker and i was looking for the influence so i read everything that i could get my hands on. also yeats in terms of his restoration of the irish people and the celtic revival and so forth. and it is to us as a people, we are trying

you know, he was like a 19th century jimi hendrix or somebody. so it was just really -- that was one of the things that drew me to his story. but, you know, the other thing i would say, too, like in trying to figure out how to tell the story, i began to think about other, larger question of the story of slavery in america. and one of the really, one of the linchpins of my novel becomes the draft riots in new york city in 1863 which, you know, as far as i know is still the worst example of race riots in america, but very few of us know anything about it, you know? so that becomes sort of the central piece of the back story in the novel whereas other things happen, you know, around that. so, you know, so part of the, part of my i project in the novel among other things was to bring tom's story, you know, to put tom's story back on the front page, so to speak, but also to, you know, to point to aspects of slavery such as the draft riots that we don't necessarily remember anymore. >> is there a counter master narrative you're taking aim at as you wri

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she has also published the mayor of harlem as well as the critically acclaimed biography of jimi hendrix which is the expanded version released 2009 with photos and more commentary by david henderson. he published the apology and an end to the magazine including the desk poetry reader and has read from his poetry from the permanent our cars from the library of congress the board of harlem and raised in harlem and the bronx now lives downtown. [laughter] she will be here shortly. mr. reid, i should call all of these writers professors. to abolish the incredible amount of work they have done not just as writers providers who are trying to shape how we understand who and what we are and what kind of knowledge we received such professor reid is the opener of the ever known to lifetime achievement award and the reader's digest award. nominated former pulitzer and finalist for national book award and professor at the university of california berkeley and founder of the before columbus condition perverting multicultural riding also apart of the group that offers a josef the new board and also i