deuce ac hemingway continuing to be popular as a classic writer as mark twain? second question would be when hemingway was a live, how did the adaptation of his books in 2 films, what was his reaction? was he favorable with how hollywood treated his novels? do you think he might still have been happy with them or not today? >> on the mark twain question, we were just talking about this culture of celebrity. biographer suggested in the 20th century he was as famous as mark twain had been a century prior. do you agree with that? his persona and as well known as he was? >> absolutely. the public followed his adventures avidly because he had been a journalist himself and knew how to make a good story. he came back from world war i as a young man, 19 years old newly wounded in the war. he had a story when he got off, he wore his battalion tailored uniform and a cape and walked with a limp and knew how to build his reputation. >> do you have any more for their caller? >> i am pleased the caller is teaching hemingway and we heard from others that hemingway is very much

i want to welcome everyone to what mark twain calls a classic summer day in san francisco. i am proud to be here as part of this announcement, and i am here on behalf of my colleague jane kim, who is stuck in city hall. the two of us have the honor of representing the number one place in san francisco where people come to shop, and hello to everyone on the cable cars, spend time in our incredible city. this is an announcement of how we build 21st century city -- cities, how we can create communities on very busy dance streets. we know it takes a village to create a parklet. i want to thank the city department for being our partners. dpw, oewd, mta -- these acronyms refer to organizations and thousands of hours done to come up with this. three years ago, when i first came into office, a number of merchants from union square came to me and said, david, we would like to tax ourselves more. we would like to triple the size of the business improvement district. today's announcement is part of that portion of that amazing vision. i want to thank the in square business improvement

mark twain's notion of corruption i think was mostly direction of the body politics, the politicianswere for sale, definition of an honest congressman is when he was state bought. so it was the crushing of the political realm in particular that bothered him. you have some of that on your mind but as i read, you have an even broader definition of corruption. you want to say something about the nature of corruption? >> it's quite complicated. i will quite simply and add a few other complications. winning by corruption basically is something very, very simple, but i branched out from the. i made any exchange of public goods for private favors. and that became the kind of thing that railroad would do favors for congressman, and congressman would grant them charters, grant them subsidies, grant them that help them against rivals, all of these things but essentially this is what americans most feared in the 19th century. this is due in the years after the civil war, this delay jacksonian element and they thought the republic is going to fault because, in fact, private interest or going to

do they see hemingway continuing to be popular and becoming as classic a writer as a mark twain?econd question would be. when hemingway was alive, how did he feel the adaptation of some of his books into films, what was his reaction to this? was he favorable with how hollywood treated his novels and do you think he might have still been happy with them or not today? some of them become film? >> on the mark twain question, susan beegle, you and i were just talking about this culture of celebrity. again, a biographer of him suggest that had in the 20th century, he was about as famous as mark twain had been a century prior. do you agree with that? his persona and as well known as he was? >> absolutely. again sh the public followed his adventures. because he had been a journalist himself, he really knew how to make a good story right from the moment when he got off the boat, when he came back from world war i. you know, as a young man, 19 years old, newly wounded in the war. he had a story when he got off. he wore his italian-tailored uniform and a cape and walked with a limp and kne

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>> my response was, you know, it happened to mark twain so i quoted mark twain's comment, that rumorss death demise were greatly exaggerated. >> let's move back to when you were last in my studio. because we had -- >> it was only yesterday. >> it was a great interview. crystal was with you and everything seemed absolutely happy. there seemed no reason why this wasn't going to be a great hollywood wedding. you very kindly invited me. i was looking forward to it and everything else. what happened? that's what everybody wants to know. the first television interview you've given. what went wrong? >> well, you know, that is the number one question. and i don't have an answer for it. i really don't know what happened. i think that in time, the rest of the story will play out. but -- we took a trip to london -- i think the real problems began a couple of months before the wedding was set. when we were talking about -- when the lawyers got into it. we were talking about the prenup and et cetera. and we went to london about five or six months -- weeks before. and things did not seem quite the

mark twain wrote an honest congressman is somebody who thought. friendship is about royalty.and might be in a bad cause, but many are getting to run the railroad and the worst thing you can say about somebody is there a traitor. the worst thing as treason and for them, they carry over that kind of ethic, which is one satanism into business relationship and that's how the whole thing operates. they have friends who are politicians. they have friends who are judges. they have friends who are business men. if friends who are bankers. if you want to understand the late 19th century, and friendship. and they don't bribe each other. bribery is failure of friendship. it's an ad hoc purchase and you can't count on it. a friend can be counted on and know they'll be rewarded later. and that's how the kind of intersection of business of politics comes about. these guys will serve a year or two in congress. they become corporate employees. they become lawyers and move back and forth. get paid off. they are taking care of, that they have to bribe somebody raises the whole issue of the bus

i am reminded of things that mark twain said, perhaps, in the famous novel he did the charlie, the gilded age. america has no native criminal class, except for the united states congress. i think another one was i'm once met a congressman who was in so be. why do i repeat myself? and there is more than little of that flavor in your book. maybe you want to sales something about what you mean by corruption, a word that appears is not on every page, certainly with high-frequency. his notion of corruption, i think, was the corruption of the body of politics, politicians are for sale, the definition of an honest congressman was on a was when he was what he would stay bought. it was the corruption of the political realm in particular. you have some of that on your mind, but as i read, you have an even broader definition of corruption. something about the nature of corruption. >> quite complicated. i will start simply. what i mean by corruption basically is something very, very simple. a branch staff from there. i met in the exchange a public good for private favors. and that became the kind of

most think it was mark twain but others believe it was actually ernest hemingway. it goes something like the coileddest winter i ever spent was a summer in san francisco. it certainly is true. look at our live cbs 5 weather camera looking towards mount diablo. we do have the low clouds and fog, the fog, the marine layer even pushing inland at this hour. quite breezy, as well. socked in at the coast and the bay where the current air temperature only stands at 60 degrees in san francisco. marine forecast does call for the low clouds, patchy fog to push into the bay. here we have your pinpoint forecast right now. let's look at how you stand for tomorrow. looks like we'll have more of the same. a mirror image with the low clouds and fog penetrating the inland areas at least a good 60 to 75 miles. drizzle tonight through tomorrow morning's commute and barely any clearing at the beaches during the day. currently, our air temperature stands at 60 in san francisco and up to 74 degrees at the delta. but the winds are coming into play. out of the west at 17, some gusts as st

context of my own book, politically correct speech codes and how inappropriate it was given the fact mark twain and -- samuel clemens wrote it with the power of that word intended. i wanted to take a look at what the sanitized text looked like. i picked up that book and it is sitting on my desk. and then there are two books. i am trying to remember their names. and opportunity to help out authors i am reading. lawrence block is a mystery writer. i think it is called a drop of the hard stuff. it is a mystery novel. lawrence block is to me a terrific mystery writer. that is of the top of the my list. if i wasn't here i would read lawrence block. he is terrific. and george pellicano writes about mysteries in washington d.c.. has a new book coming out. his wife told me about it because she exercises where i go. i am looking forward to that. he has seen its on streets i travel every day. >> tell us what you are reading this summer. send us a tweet at booktv. >> july was a busy month in publishing news with the liquidation of borders and there has been an update with the google book settlement. sarah

book, sort of politically correct speech code and how inappropriate it was given the fact that mark twain, samuel clemons wrote it with the power of that word intended. so i want to just take a look at what the sanitized, if you will, text looks like. i've picked up that book. again, that's sitting on my desk. and then there are -- there are two books. i'm trying to remember their names. it's such an opportunity to help out our authors that i'm reading. but one is a book by lawrence block who's a mystery writer. and i think it's called a drop of the hard stuff. it's a mystery novel. and lawrence block is to me just a terrific, terrific mystery writer. that's actually at the top of my list. if i wasn't here tonight, i'd go read lawrence block. yeah, i think lawrence block is terrific. and then george, who's a mystery writer who writes about mysteries that are set in washington, d.c. has a new book coming out. his wife told me about it because she exercised at the same y i go to. i'm looking forward to that. you know, he has to -- he sets scenes on streets that i travel every day. i want to

its was the until the age named by mark twain it was not meant to be a complement it was meant to be extravaganza in the politics were fascinating in so many things in researching the book that has run that day's resonance today i don't go into the book so much but like to point* out the first further controversy when per field was running for president. good luck trying to get a book about chester arthur published. the rumors of design is that hot he was born in canada and his mother was the iris mann and father was canada. but the story went when she was pregnant, she went back home to quebec and had the baby there which if true meant chester arthur was not an american citizen because neither parents were and not born in the united states. we do not have the long or short form birth certificate. they put his name in the family bible and then tune was born in vermont i guess that was good enough to hold the title. grover cleveland was elected four years later always fascinated me for the fact what everybody knows, he served two, nine cassettes -- of nine consecutive terms it he won

context of my own book politically correct speech code and how inappropriate it was given the fact mark twain wrote it with the power of the word intended. i want to look at the sanitized text so i picked up that book and is sitting on my desk. there are two books. i am trying to remember their names. and opportunity to help authors i am reading but what is called -- by lawrence block called a drop of the hard stuff. it is a mystery novel. he is a terrific mystery writer. that is at the top of my list. if i wasn't here tonight i would read lawrence block. and a mystery writer who writes about mysteries in washington d.c.. his wife exercises the same place i do and i am looking forward to that because he said scenes on streets i travel everyday. >> tell us what you are reading this summer. send us a tweet at booktv. >> jason ryan sat down with booktv when we visited charleston to check out the city's rich literary culture. up next an overview of mr. ryan's book. >> a major federal drug investigation in the 1980s that caught -- these were unique smugglers. they were non-violent and college-educ

. >> no, not always but most often we stay in a motel the louvre because that's where mark twain stayed, that's where hawthorne stayed and f.b. morris stayed. and it right in the heart of, as you know right beside the louvre on one side and the royale on the other side. and we look up on the opera house. it's exactly the view at the sheets in the back of the book. >> charlie: oh yes, yes. there you go. >> yes. and that image is tak from a postca that my mother bught back from paris when she was sevenyears oldin 1970. it was in ou aic. >> charlie: let me just touch on something you talked about. number one, when you decide this, when u say i found my subject, what's the next step for you? >> the form. what's the form of the book. once i have the form, then i'm ready to go. >> charlie: what's form mean? >> structure, the architecture. where does it begin, how does it end, where does it ends, what are you going to leave out. you can't put everything in. every work of art, a painting, nothing is in it by accident. and at best nothing's in the book by accident. but ao what's not in it is not

he tweeted the rumors of my death are, as mark twain observed in a similar situation, greatly exaggerated much alive and kicking. >>> around the world with zain verjee from london. good morning, zain. the hacking issue will not end. new developments, rupert murdoch and his son, the former editor of the "news of the world" now being called to testify to parliament. there's stuff going on in the united states. what's the update? >> they are being called to testify in parliament. the big story today is that the political parties are all going to get together, go to parliament and they're all agreed to support a motion that rupert murdoch, his bid to acquire bskyb, the cable operator here, should not go through. that is really rare, ali. it's not legally binding. who knows if he'll care or take notice. the other big story making news here is that the senate commerce committee chairman jay rockefeller is calling for an investigation saying, look, if "news of the world" was hacking u.s. citizens and 9/11 victims. he says this should be taken seriously and there should be an investigation. the b

i said in my book at that time federal government is the zoning board mark twain said before god createdreated the school board for practice. [ laughing ] >> sean: very good. perfect line-up. why are conservatives in hollywood scared to death to identify themselves as conservatives? are they going to be punished in your profession? >> yes. >> sean: you have seen it? >> it depends on how far up the pecking order one is. if you're in a position to do something for the corporate structure they will leave you alone. if you aren't, it is likely that -- the least you are going to get shunned. you may get fired. it is just true. >> sean: unbelievable in is an excellent book. i just got into reading it today. i'm going to finish it tonight that's how good a reader i am. continue the great work and i admire all you've done. >> thank you so much. >> sean: roy williams is here to talk about how he's helping our brave men and women in uniform. he was nervous to sit down with me. why did i make his hands a little sweaty? >> plus, brad paisley is here to talk about his latest album. also his take on w

center, the home where harriet beecher stowe spent the last two decades of her life right nearby to mark twain. such an incredibly rich environment here. and i've done research here, and i truly appreciate everything that the stowe centers has done, and this is such a great year to come to the stowe center in hartford. the 200th anniversary of the birth of harriet beecher stowe whose anti-slavery novel, "uncle tom's cabin," created such an uproar that lincoln reportedly called her the little lady who made this great war. possibly apocryphal, that statement. i happen to think it's true from the research i've done, but a lot of people were saying very, very similar things about that novel other than abe lincoln. and it's the ideal moment, it's also the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the civil war, so it's the ideal time to reconsider stowe and her role in igniting the civil war and influencing world history right up to modern times. although "uncle tom's cabin" is vaguely associated in most people's minds with the civil war, some historians have said it had only minimal influence on the po

morgan and mark twain. and edwin lived in this club which was really a monument to his greatness to the end of his life and he left all of his paper there is. >> rose: all of his letters and everything. >> everything. and his father's papers. burned nothing. and perhaps he should have burned some thing (laughter) >> rose: well we should take note of the father. the fath is julius booth. >> corct. rose: who had come here from england. >> y. >> with his mistress. >> rose: without announcing to his wife. and then she comes later. >> exactly. >> rose: these were interesting people. >> when john wilkes booth was ten years old and edwin was 14 and the wife from england with avenging fury and announces to all of baltimore that julius booth is an adulterer and his ten american children are all illegitimate she proves this in the courts. it is a scandal. and john wilkes booth has to stay in baltimore and basically defend his mother's honor or, as his father says, answer charges of bastardy on the street of baltimore

mark twain give it that name. it was not intended to be a complement. to gild was to be extravagant, necessarily extravagant. the politics are fascinating. there were so many things in researching the book and that i talk about that really have resonance today. a don't go into this a much, but i like to point out that the first birthday controversy actually took place in 1880 when garfield was running for president. his vice president was chester arthur. by the way, good luck trying to get a book about chester arthur published. if you think cleveland is tough, what you do the tester author, but the rumors of the time with that chester arthur had been born in canada. his father was an irishman. his mother was a canadian court from quebec who integrated -- emigrated to vermont. the story when when she was pregnant she went back, and had the baby there which if true would mean that chester arthur was not an american citizen because neither of his parents, you wasn't born in the u.s. we do not have the birth certificate, long or short form. they just put hi

stowe senator, where harriet beecher stowe spent the last two decades of her life right nearby mark twain. such an incredibly rich environment here and i've done research here and i truly appreciate everything that the stowe center has done and this is such a great year to come to the center in hartford, the 200th anniversary of the birth of. beecher stowe whose antislavery novel uncle tom's cabin created an uproar that lincoln had reportedly called her little leedy beneath the great war. it's possibly apocryphal that statement. i happen to think it's true from the research i've done, but a lot of people are seeing similar things about that mall full of verve and a lincoln and it's the ideal moment and the 154 moment of the old brick of the civil war so it's the time to reconsider stowe and her role in uniting the civil war in demint history right up to the modern times. although local tom's cabin is seceded in most people's mind with of the civil war some historians said it had minimal influence on politics behind the war but this ignores the tremendous power of the public opinion in ame

a literary classic that we can borrow from our beleaguered colleague mark twain is a book talked about but no one has read. there's an ominous resonance in twain's word it points up a second and subconscious modification is not getting people to read them because whatever you call this new hybrid it's not the adventures of tom sawer or huckleberry fi in, n by mark twain. their arguments frequently interchanged readers for the audience and audience for the word market and the word market for numbers. in this case an initial print run of 7500 hard covered copies that was up 10,000 after the controversy boosted preorders. such is the desperate state of literature in america that we must bastardize a book in order to sell it and wrap our censorship and history in things like enjoy, education, and authenticity offer the sake of earning a few more dollars that will enable us to keep on going for a few more years and publish a few more books. in addition of lolita in which dolores hays is 21 rather than 12. crime and punishment which they yell boo instead of cracking their skulls open with an