and there was a book signed by john steinbeck. it was just a great catch. when we get something like that it cannot be they collectors or other dealers, they are quick to come in and make purchases. we started out as a pretty small store and it slowly grew over the years and had been able to adapt to the changes in the book trade, which had been pretty substantial with the introduction of the internet and changes in people's book buying habits. the people coming into the store was the dominant driving force for sales. we did some mail-order, but it was pretty small. once the internet started, especially amazon, that kind of changed people's buying habits. so we saw a reduction of people coming into the store, what-and traffic, and then increase in mail-ordered traffic and people order -- ordering over the phone, ordering by mail, especially ordering over the internet. affected us a couple of ways. one is that it is kind of driving -- driving down prics

john steinbeck, a noble laureate, has said years ago that the mind is the weapon. everything else is merely supplemental. that pretty much sums it up. anyone that wants to kill somebody is going to find a way to do it. timothy mcveigh tried to get into the special forces. they figured that he was mentally inept and cut him loose. and he went and blew up -- >> thank you. >> my name is margaret. i am a proponent of the brady bill. i am a gun owner. there are limits to most of my constitutional rights. i may not own a surface-to-air missile or a functional tank. i would never want to ban all guns. the time is now for reasonable federal legislation. it appears that the public and political will are now intersecting. a perfect storm, if you will. the time is now for a ban on assault weapons. i refer to high-capacity removable clips. i trust that the intent of this form is more than show and tell, and that vice-president biden's nationwide effort to pare the people will result in actual federal legislation without flaws. the nra does not speak for all gun owners. the nra

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-- from books by authors who have appeared as guests on this broadcast, to works by the late john steinbeck and a. a. milne, the creator of winnie-the-pooh. you can see a list at our website, billmoyers.com. many of you asked for my choice, too. this is it, paul krugman's "end this depression now!" it's both prescription and warning. our current obsession with slashing the deficit and avoiding that well-known and worn fiscal cliff is killing us, krugman writes, getting in the way of what really needs to be done, which is dedicating government to creating jobs and getting us back to full employment. he blames not only congress but the white house. paul krugman is professor of economics and international affairs at princeton university. since 1999, he's been an op-ed columnist at "the new york times" and now also writes a blog for the paper titled "the conscience of a liberal." according to the search engine technorati, it's the most popular blog by an individual on the internet. author or editor of some 20 books and more than 200 professional papers, krugman is a thinker so esteemed and wide

that the to wednesday and told matalin that he had been to california company william syria and john steinbecknd was going to be a writer. they had all these ratings yet done the been matalin's brother went into the trunk and there is nothing in there. that is sort of the fantastic life is family. and mandolin, you know, had these greater ambitions. purple model with bette davis. she wanted to be sophisticated and the moment she married dan diamond she was she would have to carry the load in this relationship. she was incredibly dependable and rose to the office of vice president of the bank in hawaii. president obama when i interviewed him describe the characters that have not been to much if interesting. he said he was a devotee of the very popular show in its grandmother was like peggy, who rises from the secretary to one of the great at people in that show. so you know, it wasn't always easy for berry to live in that family, but he never felt unloved. and interestingly stand was more problematic and really adored and showed as much attention as he could, even though he was trouble in other

john steinbeck, a noble laureate, has said years ago that the mind is the weapon.thing else is merely supplemental. that pretty much sums it up. anyone that wants to kill somebody is going to find a way to do it. timothy mcveigh tried to get into the special forces. they figured that he was mentally inept and cut him loose. and he went and blow up -- >> thank you. >> could we have peter alexander and fred rahm, please? >> my name is margaret tishma. i am a proponent of the brady bill. i am a gun owner. there are limits to most of my constitutional rights. i may not own a surface-to-air missile or a functional tech. i would never want to -- tank. i would never want to ban all guns. the time is now for reasonable federal legislation. it appears that the public and political will are now intersecting. a perfect start, if you will. the time is now for bands -- storm, if you will. the time is now for a ban on assault weapons. i refer to high-capacity removable clips. i trust that the intent of this form is more than show and tell, and that vice-president biden's nationw

that the two met when stan told madeleine that he had been to california and new william and john steinbeck and was going to be a writer. and they had all of these things, writings that he'd done in his trunk, and then madeleine's brother later went into the trunk, and there was nothing there. that's sort of the, you know, the fantastic life of stanley dunham. >> host: willie loman? >> guest: and madeleine, you know, had these greater ambitions. >> she, you know, her role model was bette davis. she wanted to be sophisticated, and can the moment she marries stan dunham, she realizes she's the one who's going to have to carry the load in this relationship. of she was incredibly dependable, um, and was, you know, rose to the office of vice president of a bank in hawaii. president obama when i interviewed him described them as characters out of "mad men" which i found really interesting, and he said testifies a deslow today of that very popular hoe and that his -- show and that his grandmother madeleine was like peggy who rises from being a secretary to one of the great ad people in that show.

john steinbeck, a nobel laureate and hell of an author besides, has said years ago, that the mind is the weapon and everything else is merely supplemental. that pretty much sums it up. anyone that wants to kill somebody is going to find a way to do it. it's easier to make a bomb. somebody will find out that's easier and kills a lot more people. timothy mcveigh tried to get into the special forces. they figured that he was mentally inept and cut him loose. and he went and blew up -- >> thank you. >> before the next speaker, could we have peter alexander, phil grass, hugh fike sr., orlean cole, and fred rome, please? >> go ahead. >> my name is margaret fishman. i'm a retired teacher. i am a proponent of the brady bill. i am a gun owner. there are limits to most of my constitutional rights. and the second amendment is no exception. i may not own a surface-to-air missile nor a functional tank. however, i would never want to ban all guns. the time is now for reasonable federal legislation. while i have advocated continually on this issue, it appears that the public will and the political

like everybody else keeps say, first thing you've got to do with the guns, john steinbeck said that the mind is the weapon, everything else is merely supplemental, and that pretty much sums it up. anybody who wants to kill somebody, they're going to find a way to kill them. somebody's going to find out a bomb's a lot easier and kill a lot of people like timothy mcveigh did, who, by the way, he tried to get into the special forces. they cut him loose, and he went and blew up -- >> thank you. >> thank you. >> before the next speaker, could we have peter alexander, phil graph, hugh fike sr., orrlean coley and fred rome, please. >> go ahead. >> hi. my name is margaret fishman, i'm a retired teacher from montgomery high school. i'm a liberal democrat. i'm a proponent of the brady bill, and i am a gun owner. there are limits to most of my constitutional rights, and the second amendment is no exception. i may not own a surface to air missile nor a functional tank, however, i would never want to ban all guns. my message is this: the time is now for reasonable federal legislation. while i have a