and potowatomie in particular is still a quite spooky place and has an excellent little museum of john brownin a cabin that his half sister lived in and where he spent a lot of time. so if you haven't been there, i'd really recommend -- you're lucky to be quite close to these brown-related sites. >> my second question is more personal. >> sure. >> i know you're married to geraldine -- >> yeah. >> do you read her books and make suggestions, and does she read yours and make suggestions? [laughter] >> right. the question is, you know, whether my wife and i read each other's stuff and make suggestions. yeah, we do. we work about ten feet apart, and we used to be journalists together and write stories together. and but then she went to the dark side and started making stuff up and writing novels. [laughter] so i think i'm of less use to her than she is to me. i, i love reading fiction, but i have no idea how to do it, at least, you know, not intentionally. so, but yes, nothing goes out of the room without, you know, having edited each other. and, you know, it's not always easy. um, but we have ve

bro "midnight rising: john brown and the raid that sparked the civil war"" it folks a familiar images the l larger than life abolitionist that adorns the walls of ourat state capitol ina topeka. brown, in his mid-50s, waged a d bloody renegade war to end slavery that started in the kansas territory, and ended when brown was captured after his famous rate on harper's ferry. n relying on his self-proclaimed archive a defeat tony horwitz blocked the path to harper's ferry, at the same time and on the same date, october 16th,ame as brown and the band of made it -- mandate. he relied on written archives to write about a sharply dividedvid country in the fiery incidents leading into the work. with yuri contemporary parallelf "midnight rising" confirmsst history does repeat itself. please help me welcome back to ppchita tony horwitz. [applause] >> thank you, beth. [applause] thanks for that kind introduction and historical museum and watermarks books and cafe, it's great to be back in wichita. this is my second consecutive book with the strong kansas connection. i don't know what that means,

. >> up next, tony horwitz recounts abolitionist john brown raid on it -- october 16th, 1858. he reports on the early exploits to abolish slavery pronounced by acts of violence against pro-slavery settlers in kansas. his court trial following his capture, and how his act of defiance contributed to the national discussion of dissension. this is about an hour.vening. >> good evening. thank you all for coming. our thanks go to the historicalg museum for hosting house, toordn book tv for recording this ecial presentation, and especiallyie tough maggie richards for arranging this return visit -- visit by tony horwitz. bro "midnight rising: john brown and the raid that sparked the civil war"" it folks a familiar images the l larger than life abolitionist that adorns the walls of ourat state capitol ina topeka.

"midnight rising: john brown and the raid that sparked the civil war," evokes a -- brown, in his mid 50s, waged a bloody renegade war to end slavery that started in the kansas territory and ended when brown wased captured after his famous raid on harper's ferry. relying on his self-proclaimed archive of the feet, tonyar horwitz walks the path to d harper's ferry at the same time -- late evening -- and on r the same date -- october 16th -- as brown and his men did on the night of the raid. he writes about the sharply divided country and the fiery incidents leading up to thelead civil war. ar. midnight rising confirms that history does repeat itself but questions whether ways justify means. please help me welcome back to wichita tony horwitz. [applause] >> thanks for that kind@ñ introduction and historical museum and watermark books, it's great to be back here in wichita. i realize this is my second consecutive book with a strong kansas connection. i don't know what ha means, but i seem to be drawn to your state or at least the darker chapters of your history. [laughter] um, i'm going

brown's mission with the emancipation prola mission. and one of his -- proclamation. and one of his most famous speeches shortly before he's assassinated by john wilkes booth who was at brown's hanging -- so it's all these connections -- you know, lincoln gives this second inaugural address in which he talks about every drop of blood drawn by the lash will have to be repaid, you know, by blood drawn by the sword. and this is an eerie echo of brown who says before he goes to the gallows, of course, the sins of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. so these two figures who start off in really different positions kind of come together in the end. [applause] that it? we're all done. thank you. [applause] i don't know why i'm clapping. >> every weekend booktv offers 48 hours of programming focus on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> next on booktv, justin frank, clinical professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral science at george washington university, presents a psychoanalytic study of president obama. it's about 50 minutes. >> okay. let's get started. i am barbara meade, one of the found

in addition, judges like albert tuttle, john browne, john minor wisdom and frank johnson jr. were appointed to lower federal courts and played key roles in desegregating the south in the 1960s. to screen candidates for such posts, eisenhower relied on his attorney general, brownell who was instructed not to place a known segregationist on the list of judicial candidates. so true to greenstein's thesis, eisenhower gave considerable power to a man he trusted who could make the president's objectives a reality. nichols also reminded readers of the other accomplishments of the administration that have received scant notice over the years. eisenhower was able to use his credibility as a general to generate compliance on military desegregation so that in less than two years, all combat units were desegregated. he also desegregated schools on military bases in the south before the brown decision. as well as veterans' hospitals. he used the power of persuasion and the prestige of his office to encourage integration of movie theaters and public accommodations in washington, d.c. and u

connected he was the chairman of both organizations for twelve years and for nine hundred ninety nine john brown lowbrow i'm sorry he was also on the goldman sachs board for i think some of the most profitable years for b.p. and goldman sachs. during that really sort of happy time which they had and the reason that this worked max i think was that they in essentially being very astute people. b.p. realized that they were always hedging their production they were always selling futures contracts they were always protecting themselves against a fall in the price by selling futures contracts and they had a very very big book of contracts i remember that from my ip to. and so this is our far this goes where as g.s. c.r.u. the fund which came into the market took a long term position on the other side of the market what they were doing was they were basically taking all of them or you risk and offloading the risk of holding dollars and if you think about it what b.p. were doing was laying off the risk of holding or. taking on the risk of holding dollars they were so b.p. were hedging their production

changed as a people and a country as a consequence, and if you think that's an exaggeration when john brown and his band of men in kansas heard about what had happened to sumner, that's what caused them to attack and make us become known as the pottawatmie massacre that inflamed that country when it broke. one thing happens after another like in real life which is one of the many reasons we have to do a better job of teaching our children and grandchildren in history. [applause] i want to read you something written by a boston irish boy who is about almost 21 years old, not quite, who had no money no friends in high places, knew no one in paris, no contact, spoke not a word of french, but he was am bishesz to be a painter, and so he went to paris to study art and he succeeded in a great fashion which is a story unto itself. here's what he wrote. "in those far off days, there were no art schools in america, no drawing classes, no collections of fine plaster cass, and very few pictures on exhibit. i knew no one in france. i was greatly, utterly ignorant of the language. i did not not what to

people in the country as a consequence and if you think that is something of an exaggeration when john brown and his band of men and kansas heard about what happened to some are, that is what caused them to at tak and became known as the potawatomi massacre which is blamed on the country when that story broke to get one of the lessons of history is one thing always leads to another just as in a real life which is one of the reasons among the many reasons we have to do a better job of teaching our children and grandchildren history. [applause] i want to read you something written by an irish boy who was almost 21-years-old, not quite clear that no money, no friends in high places, but he was ambitious to be a painter, so he went to paris to study art and he succeeded in a magnificent fashion which is a story unto itself. here is what he wrote. in those far off days there were no art schools in america, no drawling class's, and very few pictures on exhibit. i knew no one in france. i was utterly ignorant of the language. i was not yet 21 and i had courage and an experience which is sometimes a

well, john, governor brown gave his state of the state address this week. and he's been touring the state ever since. well, what's the essence of what he's saying? >> you know, belva, i think the essence of what the governor is saying is trust me. trust me on my plain for the future of california. trust me on my plan for spending cuts. trust me on my plan for why we need additional taxes. and, you know, last year, the governor spent all of his time here at the state capital trying to bridge the divide among legislators at the state capital and dealing with these budget issues. this year, he takes it on the road and he's got to try to bridge the very different viewpoints of where california should go with voters. and i think it's a pivotal year. i should really tell you, i think it's a pivotal year both for this four-year term of jerry brown and for the jerry brown legacy is whether or not he can get voters to sign onto his vision of the future. >> but i think we talked about this before. he really has a challenge here, right? he's pushing his project like h

john brown, who back in 1859 died along with his six sons for the cause of freedom and against slavery. fast forward a couple of generations, and argentinean doctor went to cuba to fight, also, for freedom. and i think in today's world no matter where you are, what color your skin is, we can all see truth, and we can all see injustice. and here in new york there's a stop and frisk policy that plain bely violates the -- plainly violates the fourth amendment, however, it's only brought against poor black and latino men. and i think whatever your color is, as human beings, as americans we have to stand up for the constitution or for the spirit of the constitution, the declaration of independence that says god gives rights to men, that men cannot take away. and, again, thank you for what you do, and we would really appreciate you to help voice the stop and frisk in new york city against the violation of the fourth amendment. >> guest: well, i've already told carl dicks and cornel west the next time they go up and get arrested at a stop and frisk event in harlem, i'll join them. i've got a

and my hero, john brown. when you look in many his eyes, you see the same love. this individuals made the ultimate commitment. they didn't make a partial commitment. john carlos did not make a partial commitment in 1968. if it was partial, i wouldn't be here in 2011. my day is done. but my day is not done because the war that we started years ago, long time before '68, it still goes on today. 1968 -- [applause] i'll tell you guys about those applause in a minute. i got how much, a minute and a half? [laughter] all right. well, they got a time schedule, so we got to keep up with it. so anyway, in 1968 when you sit back and you think about it, we were young and idealistic as david said, and we had a vision, a paradigm in terms of how can we make society better. we looked at individuals that stood up, and all those individuals died just like the one individual that stepped out to try and move that pebble. he couldn't do it by himself. dr. king died. gandhi died. malcolm dies. because they was out there by themself. they was the leaders by themselves. then we said let

john brown, senior political analyst and editorial director of the national.les are getting way too long. and allen is joining us as well. a republican consultant and cnn political contributor. he said something interesting. he is sort of gloating about how his candidate is now the front-runner, but first, second, or third will be fine. is that a contradictory statement? kantd candy, why don't you start. >> it depends on who he is third to. if he is third to rick santorum or rick santorum and ron paul, that's ok, because they don't think they are viable. that's ok with mitt romney, because they don't knowledge that either santorum or ron paul have the wherewithal to move much beyond iowa. they'll be there, but they are living off the land and all that kind of stuff. but i think who can't they lose to? newt gingrich or rick perry who both can raise money pretty quickly. >> i feel like we are watching something like a 2010 when harry reid and his allies picked their opponent. they wanted sharon engel. romney forces here have gone after newt gingrich. attacked ri

i thought i saw scott brown and john kerry sitting together. i could be wrong about that. but.... >> ifill: scott brown, the republican from massachusetts and john kerry the democrat. >> brooks: there's a big of a jovial show business aspect. there's sort of a pep rally after that. so when you're in the room, the atmosphere is actually pretty good no matter how partisan they are in real life. >> ifill: let's get back to what we expect the president to say. what does he say? we've already heard prebuttals not only from romney but john boehner the speaker of the house who will be sitting right behind the president tonight. not happy. >> marcus: of course they're not happy. it's their job not to be happy. as the senate minority leader famously said, his goal is to make sure that the president doesn't get elected. i don't think other than cheerinthe troops and cheering some mom and apple pie things you're going to see a lot of eagerness to embrace the president's views tonight. >> brooks: there's an argument about capitalism though. if you go on the campaign trail the republica

i thought i saw scott brown and john kerry sitting together. i could be wrong about that. but.... >> ifill: scott brown, the republican from massachusetts and john kerry the democrat. >> brooks: there's a big of a jovial show business aspect. there's sort of a pep rally after that. so when you're in the room, the atmosphere is actually pretty good no matter how partisan they are in real life. >> ifill: let's get back to what we expect the president to say. what does he say? we've already heard prebuttals not only from romney but john boehner the speaker of the house who will be sitting right behind the president tonight. not happy. >> marcus: of course they're not happy. it's their job not to be happy. as the senate minority leader famously said, his goal is to make sure that the president doesn't get elected. i don't think other than cheering the troops and cheering some mom and apple pie things you're going to see a lot of eagerness to embrace the president's views tonight. >> brooks: there's an argument about capitalism though. if you go on the campaign trail the republi

john: why? >> let me give you one example. he built a business, st. louis cardinal, he was rough anti-deal republican. he built a championship series. he had the st. louis brownsis baseball we're talking about? >> baseball, he builds it up if into an empire but he couldn't, it was against the law to admit blacks to baseball and he had jackie robinson but other people those other people were punishing themselves for their racist acts. so he left for the brooklyn dodgers and they ended up winning championships. st. louis cardinals did not hire a single black player until 1958. >> john: people hired black players because it was good for business? >> it was good for business. >> and perception is racist and government has to protect us from that. at the time it was government that was racist enforcing jim crow. even southern businesses fought that. >> government was ricky's problem. he had to escape the government of missouri. down south, there are companies like pepsi that advertise to black consumers. >> john: they were doing it when it was illegal according to the government to share pepsi at the lunch counter? >> these ads came out before people knew who marti

john? >> reporter: scott, governor jerry brown discussed his proposed budget for california late this afternoons staff mistakenly released it online today instead of next week as planned. but, still, getting it out early did not dampen the bad news. >> we're making some very painful reductions. a mother and kids are getting the same welfare check in real dollars that they got in the 80s. >> reporter: governor brown is predicting california's deficit for the fiscal year to be $9.2 billion. that's much better than last year's $26.6 billion budget gap which brown tackled by cutting welfare grants and assistance to the elderly and disabled. still, the governor wants to raise taxes on those earning $250,000 or more and boost the state sales tax by a hal cent. if voters don't go for that, the governor will call for an automatic cut of nearly $5 billion from public education. that equals about three weeks of school. >> as willie sutton said, when asked why rob banks, he said "that's where the money is." edge station a lot where the money is and if you don't have money it comes out of schools. >> repor

[cheers and applause] all white folk ain't not going to become john brown overnight. that's not going to happen. [laughter] it's not going to become miles orton overnight. but if they're trying to fight against racism, you have got to help them fight against racism. [applause] come together. let's fight against this homophobia. make sure our jewish brothers and sisters feel open if they're willing to be critical about the state of israel vis-a-vis the occupation. [applause] see what i mean? that's very important. palestinians, they've got to keep track of the humanity of the jewish brothers and sisters as they join too. because if we're talking about love, justice and so forth, a higher standard for all of us. all of us will fall short. each and every one of us will fall short, but we'll know what the standards will be, and that's what we've learned what martin was talking about in the '60s. they said we need martin king so bad, if we could just put a smile on his face from the grave, ooh, that would be a major thing. because he been weeping for 30 some years every da

i was a big fan of the pope, blue, british isles scene, mississippi john hurt me, sonny terry brown mcgeei played some blues harmonica. >> did you learn that open tuning style, slide style? >> i have not picked up a slide in a long time, so i do not want to embarrass myself, but yes. it was a lot of folk music, blues and early on. i fell in love with the sound of the steel string guitar. there are a lot of idiomatic thing that it does well. i studied classic guitar a bit, but the steel string, for example, we do something called a hammer on and pull off, which is -- >> you get three note for the price of one. >> you plug the string but you get four notes. i always think of that town at the the prototypical steel string guitar sound. british isles, a caltech music. i learned all the paul simon songs. as i got older -- >> he is a hell of a guitarist. people do not realize. he is not flashy, but if you try to learn his tunes, they are really hard. >> he is a brilliant guitar player. i eventually got interested in jazz, world music, everything. maybe that is one of the reasons. i enjoyed so m

john brown, senior political analyst and editorial director of the national. way too long. and allen is joining us as well. a republican consultant and cnn political contributor. he said something interesting. he is sort of gloating about how his candidate is now the front-runner, but first, second, or third will be fine. is that a contradictory statement? kantd candy, why don't you start. >> it depends on who he is third to. if he is third to rick santorum or rick santorum and ron paul, that's ok, because they don't think they are viable. that's ok with mitt romney, because they don't knowledge that either santorum or ron paul have the wherewithal to move much beyond iowa. they'll be there, but they are living off the land and all that kind of stuff. but i think who can't they lose to? newt gingrich or rick perry who both can raise money pretty quickly. >> i feel like we are watching something like a 2010 when harry reid and his allies picked their opponent. they wanted sharon engel. romney forces here have gone after newt gingrich. attacked rick perry heavil

[applause] all white folks aren't going to become john brown overnight. it's not going to happen.it's not going to happen overnight. [laughter] but if they try against racism you have to help them fight against. come together. let's fight against this patriarchy. let's fight against. make sure of our brothers and sisters feel open if they are willing to be critical about the state of israel and the occupation. [applause] see what i mean? that's very important. palestinians. they have to keep track of the humanity of the jewish brothers and sisters because if we are talking about love, justice and so forth, it is a higher standard for all of us. all of us who fall short. each and every one of us. and that is where we would learn what martin was talking about in the 60's. we need martin king so bad and if we can put a smile on his face from the grave that would be a major fan. because he had been waiting for 30 some years. every day. every day. even with black presidents he's still crying. he is. so he loves the symbolism but when he looks on the ground and sees the precious human b

jackson browne didn't like it when john mccain used "running on empty." >> thank you, everyone. ♪ shetom petty issued a cease and desist order to michele bachmann for using "american girl." a shame, too, because as you can see, michele bachmann has some moved. former florida governor charlie crist was forced to grovel on youtube as part of a settlement over the use of the talking heads "road to nowhere." >> the use of david burns' song and his voice in my campaign advertisement without his permission was wrong and should not have occurred. >> reporter: and as for mitt romney and kid rock? ♪ you can let me down >> reporter: the romney campaign made sure to get mr. rock's okay before rocking out to "born free." ♪ i was born free >> reporter: because what kind of untamed stallion doesn't ask permission? i'm john berman for "nightline" in manchester, new hampshire. >> john berman and his unique take on the trail there. well, tomorrow night, here on abc, be sure to watch diane sawyer and george stephanopoulos moderate a presidential debate on the eve of the new hampshire primary. and on su