this project is a gave me access to the under known that part of mark twain's life. we think of the man in the white suit with the white hair on the cigar but that's is part of his last decade with his best work behind him. but the tweet of might story is of '20s and '30s he did not conceal his extreme emotions under the grandfather for a side he is vindictive, angry, vindictive, angry, vengeful, competitive and filled with anxiety about monday and fear for the future and convinced he will end up in the poorhouse and surrounded by these other young writers in san francisco fed embolden him to literary richard a.. san francisco was a great place to be. there is no fighting with the:stand the draft is not applied west of iowa and kansas you can wait out of more. with the commercial center of the far west and is sustained the class of professional writers including twain. it is also very urban that is by far the biggest city west of st. louis and that population is very cosmopolitan. chinese, europeans from all different countries countries, america, australi a, and dav

i wanted to ask you how did you get involved with mark twain in all of this? i read mark twain when i was a teenager and i read tom sawyer and huckleberry finn. i never read king arthur or the innocents abroad but i read essays and i knew mark twain was involved in many different things like the imperialist league. so i was curious where -- it's an excellent book. i deeply appreciate -- >> i always wanted to write about san francisco to you i was fascinated in california history and i have a sense we had a vague sense that he spent time here but we aren't really sure how much time. and it turns out as i learn more about how much time he spent at how formative those years had been i realized that is the story that i wanted to write and you mentioned the anti-imperialist league i think it is better known to us that we think of in our minds i wear to me this was a stranger in a kind of fascinated me that these emotions were closer to the surface and to see him in this kind of embryonic phase where his emotions are a bit more extreme and the fundamental aspectend

we follow the lives of mark twain, charles warren stoddard is the new wave of literature that would leave a permanent mark on the american literary canon. then the portrait beautifully captures the complexity of the relationship between the writers and it offers a valuable look at the post-civil war west coast and provides the kind of perfect medium for the development of bohemia. the bohemians is a rich history that really kind of unwind is many different threads. both of the writers and of the city that helped to host. ben is the author of another book to counterfeiters. nice by penguin press and writing also appeared in the san francisco chronicle and he worked at the court early. it's a delight and a pleasure to have him with us. welcome ben tarnoff. [applause] >> thank you for the introduction and overview for coming ouall of you forcoming o. i should tell you i have a little bit of a flu so if i get four or more my voice gets foggy you'll have to forgive me. mark twain when he was here in the 1860s in san francisco wrote a very funny sketch how to cure a cold in one of the recommend

but how did you get involved with mark twain? i've read mark twain when i was the teenager and "huckleberry finn" and tom sawyer never takes arthur or innocents abroad but his essays i knew he was involved in many different things. it is an excellent book. i deeply appreciate it. >> for b i'll always wanted to write about san francisco fascinated with california history. many of us have the vague sense that twain spent time here but not how much. it turns out that as we learned more about how much time he spent here that was a story i wanted to write. talk about "huckleberry finn" or tom sawyer but that twain is better known to us where as this one to be was a stranger that the emotions were so much closer to the surface to see him in this embryonic phase where the emotions are a of a bit more extreme the aspects of this style come together. the california context was up plus. any of their questions? >> i appreciate you being here. i have a question about stoddard. given that sam francisco bashing of gay-rights and literature and

eastern with ben tarnoff's account of mark twain's life in san francisco in the 1860s. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> now joining us on booktv is author richard minister. richard miniter. what do you write about? >> guest: i write about things that interest me. this latest book is about the navy seals, but it's a little bit different. it's about the culture of the navy seals, what makes them different, you peek people. i mean, the united states navy has spent millions of dollars trying to discover how a navy be seal is made, you know, what makes some people go through basic training, and what makes 70% of people fail? they looked at demographics, ethnicity, family backgrounds, they looked at religion, and they found that fun of that matters. some of the most successful navy seals grew up in wealthy suburban homes, some grew up on food stamps in public housing. some were white, some of the most distinguished were black, jeh johnson, some are hispanic, some are asian, some are native born with. many are foreign born, and in this book i have a story about

leading off tonight, as mark twain once said, never let the truth stand in the way of a good story. for republicans, the story has always been a simple one. the affordable care act isn't working. it's a disaster. it's the worst legislation in the history of america. it's even been compared to slavery. it's the narrative that's whipped the base into a frenzy. the only problem, the truth. despite a disastrous launch last fall, the president announced yesterday that they shattered their original enrollment goals. 8 million people have signed up. gallup says the number might be closer to 10 million. the mix of young and old is just about right. the law is costing less than even congressional budget office thought it would and the rise in health care costs all over the country is slowing. it's pretty clear the law is working and doing what it was designed to do, which is help people. as the president told republicans yesterday, it is now time to move on. >> they still can't bring themselves to admit that the affordable care act is working. they said nobody would sign up. they were wrong

the winner of the nobel prize in 1982, his appeal was worldwide, drawing comparisons to mark twain and charles dickens. through novels and short stories, gabriel garcia marquez introduced readers to latin america, which he described as "a source of insatiable creativity full of sorrow and beauty." his 1967 novel, "one hundred years of solitude," sold 50 million copies in more than 25 languages. "love in the time of cholera" was made into a movie in 2007. >> what is between us is nothing more than an illusion. >> reporter: garcia marquez pioneered the style known as magic realism, the blending of the popular with the miraculous. he was an early supporter of cuba's fidel castro, and politics forced him to leave his native colombia in 1981. he spent the rest of his life in mexico. last month, though battling cancer and dementia, he greeted a crowd that had come to celebrate his 87th birthday. ♪ ♪ >> pelley: four years after the b.p. spill, has the gulf recovered? we'll dive to the bottom of the sea. and a surprise announcement from the clintons when the cbs evening news continues. >> pell

name is ken tray, and i do so after teaching in the classrooms for 25 years in this city at mark twain continuation high school and the high school and the school that i started at, balboa high school and i told some people the other day. on the streets as we were marching to defend the teachers who were facing eviction, that the best decision that i made was in 1985 when i became a teacher. we are grateful for the work and the contributions to the community and i left my notes out and the enthusiasm on the sidewalk, but a few people have noted, recently, an article in the new york times. and which was based on a study, of growing the disparity of every single metropolitan area in the united states and it focused on the city in seattle but, guess what? it took note that the greatest disparity, and it used the terms and the new york times used the terms, not radical, labor agitator but there are growing disparities between the have, and the have, nots and now, tonight, the elected board members and we are speaking to you because you represent the people of our town. >> and tonight, you

mark twain famously said to not create war so that americans with learning geography. we told us will never go to war in ukraine but for the to having formed opinions. he would help to know some facts about the country. in washington. abhishek and parking. according to a blessing to problems and these pictures are of russian involvement in the process in eastern ukraine should have been saying that people occupying government buildings were also involved in operations and chuan checked into permanent seats and the marquis and have found these images tonight nation's security and cooperation in europe at the picture was actually founded the us state department spokeswoman jiang yu is the key on to the nature and cannot repay e in the photos that had been again in international media on twitter and publicly available it is that there are individuals to a visibly appear to be tied to run the setup publicly at countless number of times i let you all drive the conclusions yourself as to whether these are individuals who look similar or not to bother. you keep calling it be

mark twain famously said to not create new words so that americans with blair and john we hope you will never go to work in ukraine but for the to have informed opinions. it would help to know some facts about the country. in washington and then a second parking on the nuclear deal the seizure of manhattan skyscraper. the recent on relations between iran and relax. the building is owned by a foundation promoting iranian language and islamic culture. federal authorities claim though at the front to conceal the country's assets but iran says the move is a violation of religious freedom. she's real or not and has the story. he is a city full of skyscrapers but the seizure of that particular one i think that you're the one right behind me. hahas was trying to raise doubts over america's justice system and commitment to religious freedom. the c thirty six storey building was largely going by the hour the foundation of persian and islamic cultural center what's prosecutors seized the building last year cleaning the foundation was being used to shield and conceal iranian assets in violation of

mark twain famously said to not create or so that americans would learn geography of the cult us will never go to work in ukraine but for the to have informed opinions. it would help to know some facts about the country. in washington. i'm sick and parking. in just to recap the ukraine's acting prison ordered the resumption of the military crackdown on dissent in the country's southeast. this is the nt government move there remains strong with protesters calling for greater autonomy from tm self defense fighters now in control the local security service and police station in the town of chronic course it was the first to face covered troops after kiev launched a military crackdown last week diplomats from russia or ukraine us and eu at what a roadmap to peace. protesters across the southeast to bake in the administrative buildings the thing i keep eyeing for weeks. but peace deals were little consolation to the nearby tightness of the us where funerals were held for activists who died in a shootout over the weekend. locals bleeding pro kiev radicals members of the reit sector after fo

. >> the first grain of the film was a book, a wonderful book, mark twain's diaries of adam and eve.s was a book that jim was inspired by. he passed it to me. that was the first thing that sparked the interest in the couple. the curmudgeonly, grumpy adam. stomping around the garden, saying i have to name all the animals. she is a space cadet. they are completely unalike, and yet they are a pair. >> you have had those kinds of relationships. >> i am >> i am lucky. i really have. >> what about the vampire aspect? that is about to give the centuries of relationships? >> you are suggesting naming out really be vampires? >> i'm not suggesting anything. i want to see why jim wanted to make a movie with vampires. >> you will have to ask him. i would suggest there is something about vampires being outsiders, they are loners. they are outside. >> does that resonate with you? >> occasionally, when i am not sitting at this table. [laughter] but i am in very good company. i can tell you that. >> you do see yourself as a kind of -- outside the mainstream. >> i would posit there is more than one m

. >> and mark twain said there are lies and damn lies and statistics.and describe that turn. but the president has deported and has instructed the justice department to do so. but more than any president since the reagan amnesty. he has people say here. >> congress could stop them if they wanted. >> yes. >> they could rewrite the laws that strip him with his discretion. this congress doesn't do anything when the president pushes the envelope. they just look the other way. >> thank you. >> huge section on the country on alert for tornados and that alert could last for days. >> first of april. this is that accept, right. >> 911 call an operator imagined she would never receive. and her reaction when she saw that the person she needed help was someone she knew way. stay on the line and tell you what to do next. >>> moments ago jay carney says they have hit their number. a number that's been debated for several months. a number that was laid down in late 2013 by secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius. they say they are at 7 million with th

mark twain said a long time ago that if you've read -- if you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. if you read the newspaper you are misinformed. you read the paper, you know that i resign from the department of public health in january abruptly and in a controversy. in fact, i resigned from the department to run for congress. that road to congress is circuitous. my father was a sergeant in the air force. i was the fourth of eight kids. i was severely burned at 15 years old. i decide i want to become a doctor. i was the fourth of those eight kids. that was a pretty high goal to achieve. my dad gets reassigned back in san antonio texas. i leave home at 16 years old. i am listed in the army -- i am listed in the army at age 18 years old. i got degree in nursing. i got a masters in education. i did go to medical school and fulfill my dream. would you want to run for congress? when i talk to people in iowa, even at the department of public health, what i hear is there is no one standing up for the little guy. look at me. i am the little guy. i am standing up. me --hey tell they are co

eliot and mark twain and the best-selling cookbook written in st. louis. i like to refer to the first sentence as the greatest sentence in american literature. stand facing the stove. but also as part of the lecture i always tell people that one of the -- the greatest self-help book ever wherein was written by a missourian who always identified him as a missourian and that's dale carnegie. born in a small town in northwest missouri and is buried in an increasingly not so small town of belton just to the south of us, part of our suburbs. dale carnegie was a true missourian, and walt disney a true missourian, and jesse james, true missourian. they were all in one way or another into self-fulfillment, and steven watts writes this wonderful genealogy, starts with benjamin franklin and moves through purveyors of self- develop who were so port in american culture, and comes to dig -- dale carnegie, and ends the book with oprah winfrey. you think about the direction that the destiny of self-development goes from self-control, with benjamin franklin to self-esteem

leading off tonight, as mark twain once said, never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.republicans, the story has always been a simple one. the affordable care act isn't working. it's a disaster. it's the worst legislation in the history of america. it's even been compared to slavery. it's the narratiha

mark twain famously said god created war so that americans would learn geography we hope the u.s. will never go to war in ukraine but for the public to have informed opinions it would help to know some facts about the country in washington i'm going to check on our team. according to the u.s. state department they speak chose prove russian involvement in the process in eastern ukraine washington's been saying that people occupying government buildings were also involved in operations in georgia in two thousand and eight and what has sent these images to the organization for security and cooperation in europe these pictures landed the u.s. state department spokeswoman jen psaki under fire during her last briefing but we see in the photos that have been again international media on twitter and publicly available is that there are individuals who visibly appear to be tied to russia we said that publicly accounts number of times i want you all draw the conclusions yourself as to whether these are individuals who looks. more or not to other events is that if you call it evidence do you

in words of mark twain, history may not repeat itself but does tend to rhyme. 2014 is playing out everydterm year, since 1930. strong q1, weak q2, possible weak q3 and strong q4. what we heard from the president sounds like things will heat up in washington. that will add to more concerns about what is happening in the country and we're going to see more probability in the marketplace. liz: when you say heat up, you mean pushback against republicans. we had that old battle we've had to deal with the past several years. when you talk about history rhyming with the broader market, again during midterm elections we tend to see a little bit after correction and then a comeback. drew kanaly, what do you do as investor what you know history has shown in the past and what you know might be coming? >> we say around here, shelter in place. you will want to hang in here this year and you will see this kind of volatility. these pullbacks will be buying opportunities. you are in a secular bull market in stocks. you're in a secular bear market in bond. money is going to continue to make that rotatio

different and these two are really different, the first grain of the film was a wonderful book, mark twain's diaries of adam and eve," fictional or not are the original "the diaries of adam and eve," and a book jim was inspired by when sarah driver, his sweetheart gave it to him, he passed it to me and that's the first thing that sparked our interest in the couple. you have this very curmudgeonly crumpy adam stomping around the garden saying, wednesday, i've got to name all these animals. and she's this space cadet saying, oh, the stars! and wanted to knock them out and put them in her hair. they are completely unalike yet a pair. >> charlie: you've had those kind of relationships. >> yeah, i'm very lucky. >> charlie: you really have. yeah, i really have. >> charlie: what about the the vampire aspect of it? is that to give the centuries of relationship? is that what's need bid the vampires? >> you're suggesting they may not really be vampires? >> charlie: i'm not suggesting anything. i'm just saying why did jim want to make a movie using vampires in the story? >> well, you will have to ask h

mark twain later credited john hayes pike county ballots for having been the inspiration for the voice of some of his characters, for instance huckleberry finn. so he has this marvelous, you know, relationships with henry adams and as part of the circle of washington and literary insiders. so he has a tremendous life outside of lincoln mendes covered beautifully. so i really do admire his book. so yes? >> you said that they had determined that this would be fact based, not just anecdotal. still what extent is there writing used at that time and still used today for research? six. >> extensively. he was a beautiful rider, but mostly a kind of short story writer and essayist. i would not say that their prose style was particularly gripping. in large sections they basically just "letters. if you look at the ten volumes, i would estimate offhand that three or four volumes is just direct quotation. they had notes on the side of the book the sort of side of the stores instead of foot notes. there was listed. that was basically until 1947 how most people were able to access. they had to do it

. >> well, look -- it was mark twain who said lie can get halfway around the world while the truth isn its shoes. that is part of any strategy in this thing is to get the damning allegation out there before it can beep d disproven. if the public doesn't have access to information it is much easier to do that. so, you are right. in the irs case. left, right, center. everyone looked at damning facts. this is a problem. within weeks people saw this is not exactly what we thaw it was. daryl issa kept going with this the way he kept going with benghazi and, with fast and furious. that's been the pattern. the irony. there actually has been some bit of a smoking gun found. by democrats in the senate. looking into department of homeland security inspector general. daryl issa was busy pursuing a phony irs scandal he apparent leap missed that one. >> he may find politically this doesn't add up to much. he got head leans out of it. don't know what the priorities are at this point. dana milbank gets tonight's "last word." >> thank you, ari. >> i am in for lawrence

leading off tonight as mark twain once said, never let the truth stand in the way of a good story. for republicans, the affordable care act is work, it's a disast disaster, the worst legislation in the history of america. it's even been compared to slavery. it's a narrative that whipped the base into a foaming at the mouth frenzy. the only problem -- the truth. despite a disastrous launch last fall, the president announced yesterday they shattered their original enrollment goals. 8 million people have now signed up. gallup says the number might be closer to 10 million. the mix of young and old is just about right. the law is costing even less than the congressional budget office thought it would. and the rise in health care costs all over the country is slowing. it's pretty clear the law is doing what it was designed to do, help people. as the president said the other day, now it's time to move on. >> they still can't bring themselves to admit that the affordable care act is working. they said nobody would sign up. they were wrong about that. they said it would be unaffordable for

mark twain famously said god create war so that americans would learn geography we hope the u.s. will never go to war in ukraine but for the public to have informed opinions it would help to know some facts about the country in washington i'm going to check on our team and just to recap ukraine's acting president ordered a resumption of the military crackdown on dissent in the country southeast this as the anti-government mood there remain strong with protesters demanding greater autonomy from the capital. self-defense fighters now in control of the local security service and police station in the town of kramatorsk the first to face government troops after kiev launched a military crackdown last week diplomats from russia ukraine the u.s. and the e.u. outlined a road map to peace that called on protesters across the southeast to vacate administrative buildings they've been holding for weeks peace deals that were a little consolation in the nearby town of slovyansk or funerals were held for activists who died in a shootout over the weekend locals blaming pro kiev radicals members

i think of him a little bit as a statistician named mark twain suffered fools and i'm going to call the spade a spade and find the numbers to measure and he was one of the driving forces of the made a snapshot of employment. he is a man in the right time because you have a confluence of other factors in particular 1920 and 1921 we have a recession as sort of locking people for a loop and politicians saying how can we measure how bad it is when we don't know where we started from and then of course you have the great depression and this seems to push you on that desire to understand just what we are losing or how bad it is. >> guest: he was eight jailed professor sort of thinking about the prices and what we now call inflation. so there have been some work done before the great depression on what's going on in this thing we call the economy. until the early 20th century i can say with any confidence if you use google that is anything printed on the database and you can find the frequency where things were used if you type in the words economy until the 1930s plot lines and then about 193

i think of him as a little bit of this is dishing that mark twain. ornery, suffered not at all and was kind of them going to call a spade a spade and find the numbers to measure it kind of guy. he was one of these sort of driving force is that we need a snapshot of employment patterns to prevent it dismissed from taking it out. >> host: he's also a man in the right time because you have this comp on other factors in particular, 1929 and 21, we have this recession that three people for a loop. politicians say and how come you to measure how bad it is simply don't know where we started from. and of course you have the great depression. this seems to push you very much this desire to understand just what we are losing. >> guest: a few things in this. people like irving fisher was a yale professor whose interest did in thinking about prices in what we now call inflation. but there has been some work done before the great depression on what's going on in this thing we now call the economy. nobody used the word economy until the early 20th century. the onl

mark twain said about william a. scoundrel in the history of the united states senate, and that's saying something. >> w.a. clark was a man ahead of his time. >> we're actually spending more money than the copper kings spent. >> we are. >> montana went first. we passed by citizen initiative because our state legislature wasn't going to pass it because they were bought and paid for. by citizen initiative we were the first state in 1912 to have maximum limits. and now citizens united has told us in montana that we need to be bought by the copper kings and the kochs of the world. i don't agree. and until we get this big money out of politics, we are a democracy for sale to the highest bidder. >> so, this of course set the table for guys like brian schweitzer and jon tester who don't come from money, regular guys out there, regular folks to be able to be in public service which i think is terribly important. give me your 30-second take on 7.1 million and the conservative outrage takes place at their claim to be phony num

finally we have mark twain who said, "20 years from now, you'll be more disappointed by the things youow out the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. catch the trade winds in your sails. explore, dream, discover." nice, but a little long-winded. let's see his original draft. "yolo!" [ laughter and applause ] that is much, much better. this has been "famous quote first draft." we'll be right back with daniel radcliffe! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ first you get hit by psoriasis. and now you get hit again. this time by joint pain. it's a double whammy. it could psoriatic arthritis a chronic inflammatory disease that attacks your joints on the inside and your skin on the outside. if you've been hit by... find out more about psoriatic arthritis. take the symptom quiz at doublewhammy.com and talk to your doctor. when la quinta.com sends sales rep steve hatfield the ready for you alert, the second his room is ready. you know what he brings? any questions? can i get an a, steve? yes! three a's! he brings his a-game! the ready for you alert, only at laquinta.com! the cold wind, and the pollu

i think of him a little bit as if a statistician matt mark twain, ordinary and was a kind of i'm going to call a spade a spade and find the numbers to measure kind of guy. he was one of these driving forces of we need a snapshot of employment and the nature of employmenemploymen t patterns to prevent big business from taking it out of the unions. >> host: he is also a man in the right time as well because you have this confluence of other factors in particular 1920, 1921. we have this recession. it is sort of knocks people for a loop. you have politicians saying how can we measure how bad it is some we don't know where we started from and then of course you have the great depression. this seems to push very much this desire to count and understand just what we are losing or how bad it is. >> guest: people like ethelbert stewart were around in 18th century and irving fischer was a yale professor who was in the season thinking about prices and what we now call inflation so there have been some work done before the great depression on what's going on and this thing we now call the economy

who said that, mark twain?rence between and eugene fama, having penned a week with him, is not any concrete difference about portfolio diversification. it is what jean does not say. what i have never heard him say -- maybe he has, but he does not refer to psychology or sociology. he does not think there are fads and fashions. they be he doesn't bring them up. it is not in his genetic profile to ever bring up something like that. when i look at markets in the real world, i see fads and fashions and i feel skeptical about them, especially if they are related to traditional measures of overpricing, and i want to downgrade those things in my portfolio. that is not in eugene,'s vocabulary. -- eugene fama's vocabulary. gene.an play the role of it is a combination of being riskier and not perfectly rational markets, which are fads and fashions. i wrote my dissertation for gene on the success of the price income strategy, which he was kind about, and it is hard to justify that one. maybe one day we will, but to justify

mark twain famously said god created war so that americans would learn geography we hope the u.s. will never go to war in ukraine but for the public to have informed opinions it would help to know some facts about the country in washington i'm going to check and. delving into the ukrainian crisis gets harder not only for politicians but for journalists as well i don't website you can see the per your account of a russian journalist who was forced to this means by the ukrainian soldiers he was trying to interview at a military checkpoint lined up all insights into how journalists are being treated in the country like along dot com. to other stories now more than ninety percent of syria's chemical weapons have been removed from the country and the last remnants of the deadly arsenal are expected to follow by the end of today most of the chemical stockpiles are loaded on ships to be later destroyed in international waters the deadline set for the thirtieth of june the body overseeing the process has praised damascus for accelerating its toxic elimination efforts lately he has wanted

mark twain famously said god created war so that americans would learn geography we hope the u.s. will never go to war in ukraine but for the public to have informed opinions it would help to know some facts about the country in washington i'm going to check on . neil before the ukrainian army or get out a russian journalists forced to leave by the same ukrainian soldiers he's trying to interview what i'm going to treat point find out more on my doctor. more than that ninety percent of syria's chemical weapons have been removed from the country and the last remnants of the deadly arsenal i expected to fall by the end off today now most of the chemical stockpiles are loaded on ships and later destroyed in international waters the deadline set for the thirtieth of june. body of seeing the process has praised damascus for accelerating it's toxic elimination efforts made in here's what the special coordinator of the joint un mission have to say. we've always enjoyed constructive corporation of the authorities significant investments have been made of time effort technical level the po

mark twain famously said god created war so that americans would learn geography we hope the u.s. will never go to war in ukraine but for the public to have informed opinions it would help to know some facts about the country in washington i'm going to check on . why the latest developments in ukraine's arrest of ease now were yet another self-defense checkpoint was attacked one activist was kidnapped and several injured and around a dozen attackers were reportedly dropped in by helicopter they are believed to be either teves national guard or radicals from the right sector nuancing movement and that's as the army maintains a blockade in the area as graham phillips now reports. so we hear about a sixty kilometers to the east of recent years that the amscot what we can see here is the israeli army of so oppositions they've got these almost vehicles paul to cross the road we've got to here we've got to further down the road and this is very unusual to be granted this kind of access to filming in fact we're just be told to stop now so access in and out of the city is permitted but th

many of his fans compare marrero to charles dick ens and mark twain. nobel prize. his most celebrated novel "100 years of solitude" sold 50 million copies worldwide and was translated into 25 languages. but his entire body of work is praised for being accessible yet poetic and very profound. >> there's something about his -- the ease of his prose style, an effortlessness. he's a masterful storyteller. >> garcia marquex contemplated themes of love and loneliness. he wrote after man contemplating an unrequited romance. he had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. >> this is the greatest moment in my life. >> the film version gave mo moviegoers a sense of garcia marquex's literary style including the use of magical realism, scenes of fantasy told in a realistic manner. >> on one level magical realism was an attempt to evoke a particular world view, the world view of people who believe that miracles can happen. >> garcia marquex rubbed elbows

mark twain later credited john hayes pike county ballots for having been the inspiration for the voice of some of his characters, for instance huckleberry finn. so he has this marvelous, you know, relationships with henry adams and as part of the circle of washington and literary insiders. so he has a tremendous life outside of lincoln mendes covered beautifully. so i really do admire his book. so yes? >> you said that they had determined that this would be fact based, not just anecdotal. still what extent is there writing used at that time and still used today for research? six. >> extensively. he was a beautiful rider, but mostly a kind of short story writer and essayist. i would not say that their prose style was particularly gripping. in large sections they basically just "letters. if you look at the ten volumes, i would estimate offhand that three or four volumes is just direct quotation. they had notes on the side of the book the sort of side of the stores instead of foot notes. there was listed. that was basically until 1947 how most people were able to access. they had to do it

remember what mark twain said, steve?uppose you are an idiot, suppose you are a member of congress -- and i repeat myself. he has been dead. caller: thank you --host: thank you for the call. you sound terrific at 85. this from twitter -- host: our focus this morning, sunday morning political talk shows do they still matter? we are basing it on a piece that got a lot of attention this past monday called "meet the pressure." michelle malkin weighed in on her column, calling it "missing tim russert -- tim russert." "david gregory is a phony. the second answer, he is a jerk. no amount of brand therapy consulting can fix him. tim russert was highly respected on both sides of the aisle. he did his homework, did not pull punches, enlightened the audience conducting -- conducted real interviews. tim russert was a decent man with so many warm eulogies across the idealistic divide attesting to that. from our facebook page, more of your comments. host: our next caller is jeff sellersville, republican line, good morning. www.c-span.o

mark twain famously said god created war so that americans will learn geography we hope the u.s. will never go to war in ukraine but for the public to have informed opinions. it would help to know some tricks about the country in washington i'm going to check on our team. on the heels of a nuclear deal the seizure of a manhattan skyscraper threatens the recent thaw in relations between iran and the u.s. the building is owned by a foundation promoting the iranian language and islamic culture federal authorities claim though it's a front to conceal the country's assets but sharon says the move is a violation of religious freedom archies more important i have the story. manhattan is a city full of skyscrapers but the seizure of that particular one on fifth avenue the one right behind me has caused iran to raise doubts over america's justice system and commitment to religious freedom you see the thirty six story building was largely old by the alvey foundation a persian and islamic cultural center u.s. prosecutors seized the building last year claiming that the foundation was being u