. >> host: the name of the book is "tigerland: a city divided, nation torn apart a mam cal season of healing. "what book of yours are you best known for? >> host: that would be "the butler" turned into a motion picture. that starred, among others, oprah winfrey, forrest whitaker, cuba gooding jr., david, jane fanned fonda and vanessa red grave. a pretty special movie came out in 2013. i think you can safely say it sort of took america by storm. it was an mace ab amazing hart felt story of a gentleman i tracked down who worked for eight american presidents. his name was eugene allen, and he had quite a life. he started in the white house wore harry truman and went up to president reagan he had quite an epic life. >> host: author wil haygood, thank you for your time. ...