it has been quite a career and, you know, the late jimmy breslin once said of mike royko of the chicago paper when they were doing a sum of the columns, they're trying to get quotes and everything, he said he's the best, is any? that's all he said. that's what they say about david zucchino. [applause] >> thank you, jim, for those stories. were those true? all right. thank everybody for come out tonight. i really appreciate your interest in the book. i would like to ask how many people have been watching the impeachment hearings? and i think they are still going so do i hear a motion to call this whole thing off? will go to bar, turn on the tv and watch impeachment. no motion? all right. i use like to start off by asking people how many of you were aware of the women 10-q or massacre or what if you want to call if we came across this book -- the wilmington coup. i had heard about this until about 20 years ago. .. i find out he's one of the leading speakers on the white supremacy campaign that the subject of this bookin 1898 . when i was in that i went to kingsstadium . i didn't know who

one of the most interesting things was jimmy breslin wrote "the roaring 20's were born in toledo ohiouly 4, 1919 at this fight." the people that came to this fight -- the list is incredible. toledo at the time was really centrally located within the railroad system. it was easy for people to get here and plenty of hotels, and 80,000 seat arena, it was the perfect venue for the biggest fight of the century. announcer: you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country as c-span.org/city tour. this is american history tv only on c-span3. announcer: sunday on reel america, fdr and world war ii. -- athousand a program 2008 program that focuses on fdr's involvement with wartime issues. here's a preview. ♪ we are now in this war. we are all in it, all the way. woman, ande man, child. the most tremendous undertaking of our american history. we must share together the bad news and the goodness, the defeats and victories, the changing of war. narrator: to fight a global war, the united states needed to mobilize the entire population. the government turned to