. >> joyce appleby would you doing these days? >> guest: i am waiting for spring to arrive in mexico's lichens are guarding. >> host: i still writing? >> guest: no i am not or teaching i decided after nine books sizes start reading other people's books and that is what i have been doing with great pleasure. great pleasure. >> host: to miss being a ucla? >> guest: and his the people but no. retirement is wonderful. just wonderful you can do what you want to do you have time to read the newspaper for two hours in the morning if you want. no. the only downside is it:chipolte page. >> host: what booker you best known for do you think? >> i don't know possibly inheriting the revolution which is a social history of the first generation of americans those born after 1776 with no colonial background they heard about the tradition from their fathers and grandfathers and if not that then perhaps the history of capitalism. i really don't know. you would have to ask somebody else that question. >> host: are you still active with the american

. >> host: joyce appleby, what are you doing these days? >> guest: what am i doing these days? i waited for spring to arrive in new mexico so i can start gardening. >> host: are you still writing? are you teaching? >> guest: no, i am not writing or teaching. after nine books i should start reading other people's books sonatas what i've been doing with great pleasure. >> host: do you miss being here at ucla? >> guest: i miss people from ucla, but no. retirement is wonderful. you get to do what you want to do. you have time to read the newspaper for two hours if you want in the morning. no, the only downside of retirement is that coincides with old age. >> host: what book are you best known for? >> guest: i don't know. possibly inheriting the revolution, which was social history of the first generation of americans. that is to say those were not 1776 and therefore didn't have any colonial background but inherited the revolution and its tradition from fathers and grandfathers. i think it's not that, perhaps the result is revolution, which is a history tappet is done. i really don'

. >> host: joyce appleby we have invited you to be on booktv for your most recent book "shores of knowledge" new world discoveries and the scientific imagination" what are you attempting to do with this book? >> guest: in right think the book. i love the cover. i did not design it. it is:this and ferdinand isabella and those native american cities brought back and pineapple's that is the anachronism the europeans fell in love with pineapple but it could not survive the trip so only came back as dried. and they would have trays and it quickly became a symbol of hospitality and a luxury. that with the eagle was the symbol for the americas. what i was trying to do was to answer a question. how is it the west known for its investigative spirit is the essence of western culture? how did they read these curiosity for the prohibitions the church had maintained? through the 16th century the catholics and protestants preached you were not to be curious about guards creation it was adultery and of the soul to talk about the tides are the shapes of the earth. how did they break through this? my hunch

. >> host: joyce appleby, what are you doing these days? >> guest: what am i doing these days? i waited for spring to arrive in new mexico so i can start gardening. >> host: are you still writing? are you teaching? >> guest: no, i am not writing or teaching. after nine books i should start reading other people's books sonatas what i've been doing with great pleasure. >> host: do you miss being here at ucla? >> guest: i miss people from ucla, but no. retirement is wonderful. you get to do what you want to do. you have time to read the newspaper for two hours if you want in the

and 9:15 booktv visits ucla to talk with historian joyce appleby about her latest book shores of knowledge. at:00 eastern the weekly standard's daniel halpern discusses his book clinton inc. with juan williams on after words lead at 11:00 p.m. hour prime-time programming continues with michael malone's book at the tech company intel and the men who created it. that happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> i was never going to stop driving my car except one day i was driving home and going down georgia avenue and i was a half mile from my apartment and my car all of a sudden caught on fire and i didn't know what to do so i just quickly rolled my window down and unlocked my seat belt and kept driving my car and managed to get it home and whipped it into the parking lot behind my building and jumped out of the car and after is that they my car never drove again. i felt terrible about it and since have the heart to call a tow truck and have them come and drive my for car away so i kept out back. and i was reading the washington post and they had this article about local eyesores. at the end of