of these great books, so this is a collection of essays that has pieces on people like saffo or john webster for important but also the creator of the regency romance and the grade science fiction writer, tomorrow james to is the master of english ghost story. i tried to talk about books that shape their imaginations and people keep going back to throughout their lives and as i say, generation after generation. >> let's go back to genre fiction. is a marketing ction? device. >> the nineteenth century was the great age of storytelling, that same people would write all kinds of books, arthur conan doyle wrote historical novels, sherlock holmes mysteries, go stories, he wrote every sort of book and story that he thought he could sell. it was only later that we started assigning genres. one of the things i have worked hard at as a critic is to encourage people to ignore the genre barriers. great books that really speak to them in areas that they tend to dismiss. i don't read a regency romance. but george o'hare's books are as witty as jane austen, similar to it. it is a shame to dismiss such boo

every bit as much as presidents and some of those names storing up today, henry clay, john calhoun, daniel webster, charles sumner, and i believe ted kennedy will take his place richly and that ante on as well speak to steve mcmahon two make it as a giant of a man, he touched many people i was one of them. it was an honor to work with him and to know him and the senate will never be the same. >> chris: your thoughts about this day snack it's emotional for us who care deeply about him and or so for people who knew him better than i did but it said mark about that and when i think most americans remember for a very long time to do thank you all so much for being a part of this day, helping take us through it and explain it all to us. ted kennedy delivered to many eulogies and has 77 years, to his brothers, to his nephews, to his friends, to his colleagues are it but there's one that stands out when he said goodbye to his mother rose in 1995 at her funeral in the church in boston's north end, when she died at age 104. that they kennedy said of his mother, at this moment she is happily presiding at he

and he had letters from many of its former senators, like daniel webster and john quincy adams, hangingalls, inspired by things heroic. he was a civil war buff. when we were growing up, he would pack us all into his car or rented camper and we would travel around to all the great battle fields. i remember he would frequently meet with his friend, shelby foote, at a particular site on the anniversary of a historic battle just so he could appreciate better what the soldiers must have experienced on that day. he believed that in order to know what to do in the future, you had to understand the past. my father loved other old things. he loved his classic wooden schooner, the mia. he loved lighthouses and his 1973 pontiac convertible. my father taught me to treat everyone i meet, no matter what station in life, with the same dignity and respect. he could be discussing arms control with the president at 3:00 p.m. and meeting with a union carpenter on fair wage legislation or a new bedford fisherman on fisheries policy at 4:30. i once told him that he had accidentally left some money -- i reme

john parker is an absolute genius like a tasmania and devil from the little cartoons. >> host: he gives the context. he was the guy that founded, co-founded webster-- >> guest: got kicked out of glaxo and was the founding president of facebook because he basically was looking for his next billion dollar idea and when you meet john parker he is a crazy kid like the bad boy at silicon valley dressed in our mauney with beautiful women and walks to a restaurant and everybody loves john. but he is in a whole other world of smart and was looking for another idea and basically opened up a laptop and salles facebook come the original facebook which was very kind of, you know, just a page basically and reads like 20 to 30,000 people when he saw and he decided this is the idea. so he flew out, researched, met mark and eduardo in new york. there's a great scene in the book this takes place. they are at john george crestor of i think and it was like a dog and pony show he showed this is what i can do for you and i was a kind of love fest between him and mark but not so much between him and eduardo and it was the beginning of the end of their relationship sea

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webster, that's long gone. >> do you agree with that? >> it is long gone, partly because of john kennedy who wanted to turn the oval office into what he called the vital center of action. and there is no question, i think pat is right that you have to take the family as a whole and in that family you see the evolution of american history, as you look at these faces, his first wife joan kennedy, as you -- joe kennedy jr., a member of congress, as you think about american history, his son, a member of congress, patrick, you see that evolution of american life from the cool new frontierism, to the hot liberalism of bobby kennedy in 1968, who had begun, as a very tough minded democrat, you end up with ted kennedy holding the torch for the left. and that is a remarkable thing to be given to one family, to be able to trace our history so cleanly. >> the family, the kennedy family is finally filing out of the jfk library. they are going to be making their journey to our lady of perpetual help. there is maria shriver heading in -- heading out of the jfk library. and, mika, you look at th

the authors are james woolsey, william webster, michael hayden, john deutch, james wessinger of formerectors of the cia. >> thank you and i will also introduce he will keep the record open for this because of course there are equally impressive people who take an opposite view and those letters will also be placed in the record but to both pro and con the record will stay open for 24 hours. anyuch records and any such letters. >> mr. chairman, thank you for having this hearing. i am on record as saying that this, the idea of creating an independent, and then not sure how independent it wod actually be, unaccountable, a truth commission is a bad idea. with all due respect. the suggestion that this subject can be delve into somehow in a non-partisan fashion, to me, asked us to suspend our power of this belief on those who ha worked here and over the last six years in my case, and ignore the fact that we have already had 150 oversightearings on the subject. we have loved more than 320 hours of witness ttimony and unclassified settings, transcribe more than 3,200 pages of witness testimony

john kennedy would have been in the 1950s he created a committee. teddy shares all their qualities. henry clay, the great legislator. daniel webstere great orator. teddy may not have had the stern oratory, but you have taf and norris and the various progress southeasts who all their lives fought for that cause. he fought for the leb cal cause. senator van denburg, he is all of those things. at the same time he made the people in massachusetts feel like he was one of them. i thought when we were sitting vigil during the days that he was taken memorial service, that you want those people to come through, ordinary people. every one of them knew him. governor packard said i knew him before i met him. the people in massachusetts met him. you see the people coming by. they're saluting him. their red sox hat comes on or they're doing the sign of the cross. they all have a story. he tells helped my grandmother. he helped my son. he was there. he put all those things together. i think he might be the greatest all-around senator of all time. >> bob, you were so close to him throughout his career, but in that 1980 bid, tim russert asked abou

webster, jack rice and tim griffin. a very interesting piece in politico, and it reads, a handful of well known and ambitious progressives in the upper chamber are eager to carry on kennedy's legacy. john the call chemical mixture of cleb, seniority, personal charm, legislative savvy and ideological zeal that made kennedy the most effective senator in a generation. todd won stebster, what senatord closest fit that description and fill that bill? >> it's going to be hard to fill those shoes and it will take years and decades. a couple of people come to mind, one is shearer of ohio. he's a real progressive, unabashed progressive, shearer brown is a tough one to watch. the state of ohio may mean that it's harder to get re-elected but he is certainly one to watch. another one that's often overlooked, not only because she's only about 5'6". she's on the health committee, she's the first woman on the veteran's committee, she's on the appropriations committee, meaning that she makes a lot of deals and can work both sides of the aisle. but is a very, you know, very effective legislator, very hard working legislator and i think is another one who is still on the rise. >> tim griffin, why did co