mark twain thought it was too gothic and was always very critical. but nonetheless it's one of a kind. in this exact building we had the secession from louisiana from the union. one of the the famous governors was attempted to be impeached here. union troops occupied it during the civil war. it was actually -- the interior was really destroyed from from an invertant fire that the union troops were cooking inside and caught the building inside and sbroid the interior. i wanted to point out to you the famds what we call the umbrella. umbrella because of the beautiful color scheme of the glass that we have done after the building was burned in the civil war. it laid dormant about 20 years. when it was rebuilt many of the elder legislators remembered how dark it was in the old state capitol and insisted that the architect build in magnificent glass dome, supported by this post down the middle. that's why we give it the famous name of the umbrella. if it's a sunny day or cloudy day you can see the change in the glass. it's a magnificent focal point right

and, you know, mark twain had always had a big problem with it. he didn't like it. he thought it was too european or too gothic, so to speak. and always very critical of it. but nonetheless, it's one of a kind. in this exact building, we had the secession of louisiana from the union. one of our past governors, huey long, was attempted to be impeached here. union troops occupied it during the civil war. and it was actually -- the interior was really destroyed from an inadvertent fire the union troops were cooking inside and it caught the building on fire and really destroyed the entire interior. i wanted to point out the famous, what we call the umbrella. umbrella because of the beautiful color scheme of the glass that we have that was done after the building was burnt in the civil war. it laid dormant for about 20 years. and when it was rebuilt, many of the elder legislators who had served or was aware of it remembered how dark it was in the old state capital and insisted that the architect build this magnificent glass dome that is supported by this post down the mi

>> mark twain obviously was very prominent in 1878 unfortunately he was not in america at the time. he was in europe are really hoped he had been but he was back below that after that he cannot with a can netiquette yankee that has a key point and i don't know that eclipse the moreth important the story that he tells where his characters trying to escape by predicting it goes away 50 had an almanac that told him it would have been bin he was really inspired happened to christopher columbus end having trouble with the native inhabitants. columbus had an almanac that said if you don't help me with what i need to do i will turn them into blood red and sure enough that have been so that is more the inspiration but he also could have been inspiredir even though he did nazi it. i will stick around to sign books. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

in the dathe dayyou were born and to ft why what is our purpose and then i was told when we had mark twain here he didn't really say that. in this day and age with all the things that are going on a. so that is why i wrote this bo book. you will share your story come its family community not giving up, believing in me and believing in myself. i grew up not even knowing what it was and i was living in it everyday with piano lessons and building bicycles handprint trucks and all these different things. and i think one of the things that's going to help us in the civilization is when we realize we are on this small marble together technically working together as one of civilization. but from the vantage point of the international space station, when station,when i look out ova and see my hometown from space is only 240 miles up from dc to new york. having these moments where i'm flying over virginia where it's one of my crew mates looking down my loan is probably eating down there and it shows you how connected we are as a people and then flying over afghanistan and looking down seeing how be

and, you know, mark twain had always had a big problem with it. he didn't like it. he thought it was too european or too gothic, so to speak. and always very critical of it. but nonetheless, it's one of a kind. in

you've got fog hanging in there staying true to mark twain's famous quote. now, for hundreds of thousands of people heading outside in golden gate park, the fog adding a bit of a chill. the music festival, headliners this year metallica playing tonight -- the music hasn't been a favorite for those living nearby, though. parking and traffic also a concern. they're beefing up services this week to accommodate the crowd. i'm proud to say the video we saw earlier sent in by my son, jack. >> looks good. and we're seeing a little drizzle storm. the way the weekend is starting, if you're going to head outlet tomorrow, downtown san francisco expecting temperatures in the upper 60s. music festival forecast hour by hour tomorrow, low clouds, misty skies. a bit of mid--day clearing, we think, around san francisco. bupdal up in san francisco. as you can see the fog clearly across the top of the golden gate bridge. the source of all that cooling. 50s there. earlier mid-80s in liver moore. cool temperatures outside to go along with the jazz fest you're seeing in downtown

and mark twain once said he could tell it like but -- the first presidential biographer, the first investigative reporter writing about presidents because the cherry tree story, he courted an anonymous source. he implied it was - so he had a source. the point of the story is really not the george washington couldn't tell a lie but he was saying that you lived in a house where if you told a lie did not have the fear of getting west. as you get into american history find these things. and we do not know everything that we think we know. and some of the things we think we know is wrong. and i did my part to try and set the record straight. their individual stories, 450 but hopefully come to the end and you get a sense of the country of who people are. so with that, should we - one other person since c-span is here, the -- fact checked the book for me. bob castillo, he is with - i may change after change after change. i was looking at the book today and there was something that wasn't in the advice that i wanted there. so we do a second printing i am going to put you guys do it again. [laughter] i c

i believe, lieve -- well, mark, first i want to a te mark twain, who was member of the antiimperialist nobody remembers this, his writings on american activity were very good. he said, capitalism is all about cheating people and i would also ike to point out that the americans need to listen to saying about t is time.publicans at this he thing is capitalism is just a bad economic system. which l based on profit, eans that someone is doing extra to provide that profit and makething does not have to a profit. if public service businesses need to sustain themselves, that includes, of course, making people, but there are questions that are just not discussed now. i think the first thing we need money out of our elections in the united states maybe follow the english model of limiting campaigns and giving every candidate equal time. think, why aren't the insurance companies in the loop at all?al care they have no real reason to be taking.xcept for profit they are not medical, they don't provide any service. be there. need to and who is going to deal with this d. shortage in country, which w

he became friends with mark twain, partly because he recognized the same life story in twain. it extended, this friendship between grant and nast with at least one visit by the grants to nast's home in new jersey, much later after grant left the presidency and he was returning to the united states after his world tour. when sally nast, through thomas nast, asked the grants what would they like to have for dinner, the president replied, if they knew how sick he was of going to fancy banquets with little birds they would give him something more substantial, and they did. they served the former president corned beef and cabbage and they said he liked it. you know, i think all hostesses like to believe that their guests enjoy the dinner that they are served, but in this case maybe he did. so he had this real-life interaction with grant and he had this emphasis in his work on grant and who grant was and what grant meant. but the war provided other figures, too. for example, abraham lincoln, who nast positioned as kind of an eternal father to the nation's best impulses, a man who re

mark twain supposedly once said that history never repeats itself but it does rhyme the same could be said about capitalism almost ten years after the last financial crisis the same forces that brought our economy down in two thousand and eight are again rearing their ugly heads but this time instead of subprime housing loans it's subprime auto loans that have some observers talking about the next big banks to meltdown joining me now is richard wolfe visiting professor at the new school co-founder of democracy at work and the author of numerous books including capitalism is crisis deepens essays on the global economic meltdown richard wolffe professor wolfe welcome back. thank you glad to be here it's great having you with us so as i mentioned there are now real concerns about the subprime auto industry the our auto loan industry which is now worth about twenty six billion dollars and then started to see delinquency rates that we literally have not seen since the housing market crash what do you make of what's going on here. well i think the evidence is mounting as you say indeed on m

mark twain said, i'm a better man than george, he can't tell a lie, i can but i won't. the moral of the story was written by mason, the first presidential biographer and as far as i know the first investigative reporter writing about presidents because the cherry tree story he quoted an anonymous source. he implied that it was an aunt so he had a source. the point of that story really isn't the george couldn't tell a lie, he grew up in a household where as a little boy accused of something, he could tell the truth without the fare of being whipped. as you get in american history, you find these things and some of what we think we know is wrong and i would -- i did my little part to try to set the record straight and there are individual stories, tom, says, 454, but hopefully you come to the end and you get a sense of this country and who people are and so with that, should we -- should we -- one other person since c-span is here, there are probably errors in it, far fewer than there would have been, bob castillo, i made change after change. i was looking at the book tod

>> mark twain, yes obviously he was very prominent back in 1878.he unfortunately wasn't in america at the time of the eclipse committee was in europe today i hoped that he had seen it or commented on it. i think it was a little bit after that he came out with king arthur's court which had the key plot point between the solar eclipse and i don't know whether the eclipse of 1878 inspired him at all. i think more importantly the story he tells where his sister is trying to escape predicted that the sun would go away but he knew that because he had an almanac that told him that the eclipse was going to happen. that story was inspired by what happened to mr. for columbus and that is a truth story that when he was in the west indies and was having some trouble with the native inhabitants, he, columbus, had an almanac that told him a lunar eclipse was going to happen and he said if you don't help me with what i need to do, and i forget the details, i'm going to turn to the above blog read and sure enough it turned to blood red and then he brought it back

we have done the lincoln log cabin, the mark twain house, historic cemeteries and rare book rooms and the documents. we did the pt barnum posters. they were deteriorating and needed to be saved. we have done all kinds of different projects to raise the money because history matters. it matters a lot. once it is gone, it is gone. we cannot let it be gone. it is the report and where we -- it is very important where we come from. where we come from is where we are going. it is linked. they are linked. we take that very seriously. my novels, i'm trying to bring awareness. i've done a wide range of things and the smithsonian is my latest example. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> coming up this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, tonight at 10:00 eastern on real america, the u.s. office of war film "why we fight: the battle of china." >> three fax the never must be forgotten. that never must be forgotten. china is history.

mark twain didn't really say that. figuring that why out. and as as a society in this day and age all of us figuring out why we are here that's why i wrote this book. it's a family community not giving them believing in up believing in me when i didn't believe in myself as a journey of the steam education. i grew up not even knowing what it was but i was living every day. all these different things. i think one of the things that will help us as a civilization is when i realized that we are on the small blue marble together would always see this happening every day from the vantage point of international space station when i look out over virginia and i see my hometown from space to an and 40 miles up the distance from dc to new york not that far really. going around the planet every 90 minutes. and having these moments where i am flying over virginia. it shows you how connected we are as a people and then flying over afghanistan and looking down to see how beautiful it is but knowing what is happening down there. from that vantage point it

>> mark twain and obviously he was very prominent back in 1878. unfortunately he was not in america at the time of the clips. he was in europe. i'd hope it seen it or commented on it. i think it was after the clips of 1870 that he came out with a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court. that is a key point total solar eclipse. i don't know if it inspired him at all. more importantly the story he tells in connecticut yankee were his characters try to escape from trouble by predicting the sun will go away but he knew that any abdomen i could told him the clips is going to happen. those inspired by what happened to christopher columbus. that's a true story that when columbus was in the west indies and having trouble he had an almanac that told him that a lunar eclipse is going to happen. and he said if you don't help me with what i need to do, and i forget the details, i'm going to turn the moon a blood red and sure enough, the moon turned to blood red and then he brought it back. there was more the inspiration but he may have been inspired by the

stories reported there and get retweeted and then they bring on a life of their own and there's a mark twain line about the lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. it even works today. >> host: let's go to jack in shelby north carolina, nggood morning. >> caller: good morning to both of you. my son took two tours in iraq andafghanistan , came out and obama hold all our troops out. i just wonder did the media ever say one thing good about trump? he didn't vote, he's a candidate the past election that had to do, i would vote for trump. i don't know how many millions of dollars these people are making writing all these books, it looks like they could say one good thing about the man instead of just downgrading him. i'm an older veteran and i don't watch the news because i don't believe anything they say and it's all against trump, democrats and everybody else. i don't know what kind of president would ever have a chance to make it both of them. i'd like everybody else to make millions of dollars off of it, i shouldn't need the money. >> dmillions of dollars book wr

>> i think it was mark twain who said history doesn't repeat, it rhymes.e rhythmic patterns. yes, there's tension. if there was a military confrontation between the united states, south korea, japan on the korean peninsula, it would be worse than the cuban missile crisis and it would be a catastrophe. it's not the cuban missile crisis now. we don't have icbms stationed 90 miles away, the continental united states is not threatened. >> how do you know that? the thinking is one of their missiles can hit the mainland of the u.s.? >> i don't want to trivialize the threat at all. take the guam issue. they've been threatening guam now for years. they have intermediate range missiles that could probably reach guam. have they perfected a reentry system, could they cause damage? i don't want to trivialize the threat. on the other hand, i don't want to exacerbate it and create the kind of panic to some degree that was reflected in the president's rhetoric yesterday. now is time for reassurance, it's time for cool, cool, calculated moves and a possible strategy. in l

that dick gregory, the iconic activist and entertainer, had passed, i thought about the words of mark twain two most important things in life is the day you are born and the day you find out why you were born. dick gregory found out why and never deviated. from the height of his entertainment career, he became i civil rights activist, stood up with martin luther king, was in jail in the early days of the civil rights movement when entertainers and people that had been able to perform in clubs with the rich and the wealthy and the white could not do it, dick gregory was one of the few that could, but he gave all of that up to fight and become the civil rights icon that he was. he knew why he lived. he never stopped. because even the next generation, those of us that were 20 or more years younger than him, he fought with us. i met him when i was 16 years old, just three or four years in the movement myself. i used to have a poster of him at home in my little bedroom. when he ran for a write-in candidate for president and all the way through he and martin were going to jail, all the way to jus

many of you have probably seen this character before, mark twain, of course the famous american play write and he had many quips during his life, but one of them that he said is the coldest winter i ever spend was a summer in san francisco. this is one of his jokes. if you have ever been to san francisco, you know this sometimes to be true. he said this reportedly about the bay city. july 1916, though, seemed a little different. the air was pretty mild, the summer weather had turned very fair and pleasant. fair and pleasant, the local weather forecaster by the name of t.r. reed who wrote for the san francisco chronicle predicted only a light wind for july 22nd, 1916. so it had settled into a very pleasant summer. and there was a great deal of excitement surrounding the city that july. for lots of reasons, but san francisco in many ways was a far cry from the city that it had been with the famous san francisco earthquake a decade earlier. this was a famous moment in 1906 that many of you have probably heard of and the city had kind of rebuilt itself since 1906 and in the previous deca

mark twain. of course the famous american play write and he had many quips during his life. one of them that he said is he said the coldest winter i ever spent was a summer in san francisco. one of his jokes. of course if you have been to san francisco you know this to be true. he said it about the bay city. july 1916 though seemed different. the air was pretty mild, the summer weather had turned very fair and pleasant. local weather forecaster who wrote for the san francisco chronicle predicted a light wind for july 22, 1916. it had settled into a pleasant summer. there was a great deal of excitement voursurrounding thaty july. for many reasons. san francisco was a far cry from the city it had been with the famous san francisco earthquake a decade earlier. a famous moment in 1906 that many have heard of. the city rebuilt itself since 1906 and the prooefrs decade. in fact so much so the city had just had a world's fair. and hosted one in 1915. as a celebration of this revitalized city. and there were lots of other things happening in the city. you can see this gentlemen this

mark twain never lived in an era of twitter. it's even worse today. host: jack in north carolina. good morning. caller: good morning to both of you. my son did two tors in iraq and afghanistan. i just wondered if the media ever say one thing good about trump? vote for either candidate in past elections. if i had to do it over i would vote for trump. i don't know how many millions of dollars these people make in writing books. it looks like i can say one good thing about the man. -- older veteran -- i don't watch the news because i don't believe anything they say. trump.l against the democrats and everybody else. i don't know what kind of president because they never have a chance to make it. i would like to be able to write a book like everybody else and make millions of dollars. i sure need the money. host: tevi troy, millions of dollars? [laughter] i would like to thank them both for their service to his nation. i barely make thousands of dollars off my book. book writing is a labor of love. it is not a lucrative endeavor except for a very small subset of the authorial community

mark twain used to say, when you with a fool, you've got to be careful, because people won't be abletell the difference. same thing goes for trading this kind of bombast. havingwhy i think toughly worded statements like what secretary mattis put out is but donald trump popping off at the mouth about fire and fury is not helpful in any way, it's not tough. it's inconsistent. it's lashing out. itis there a possibility will get their attention? like normal language, like strategic patience will not? >> i think that the statement you saw from secretary mattis they where he described sheer capability of -- the united states has to deal with theh korea, that will get chinese attention as much as what donald trump says. >> interesting you said the chinese. it will get the chinese attention, rather than the north koreans. >> more so. yes. and that's -- >> like it was directed to the chinese rather than the north koreans? >> no. both.k it was directed to i think that mattis and the administration is genuinely concerned about the north koreans carrying out a provocation in the near term and th

realistic, even cynical such as ambrose biers and those who did not take part in the fighting such as mark twain, they come out of the civil war with a much darker view of the world and yet custer represented to americans that he's still keeping the flame alive for the -- for heroism, for individual heroics, for the romantic chivalric ideal. so this image that he creates, yes there's vanity involved, absolutely, but he becomes a household name around the time of gettysburg because he represents something americans felt was slipping away at the time and they write about him in these terms, the press loved him not just because he was good press but this is the individual hero that every soldier who enlisted in 1861 thought they would be and by fighting on horse back mostly against other horsemen in clashes that involved lower numbers of troops, lower levels of firepower because, again, usually using carbines when they deploy on foot, you have horse soldiers that reduce the force by a fourth, you have less artillery involved and when they fight in mounted formations they close it quickly and so tha

mark twain used to say when you argue with the full, you have got to be careful, because people won'tle to tell the difference. the thing goes for bombast. that is why i think having toughly worded statements like what secretary mattis put out today is fine, but donald trump popping off at the mouth about fire and fury is not helpful in any way. it's not tough. it is inconsistent. it's lashing out. charlie: is there a possibility it'll get their attention like normal language like strategic patience will not? jake: i think the statement you saw from secretary mattis today where he described the sheer capability the united states has to deal with north korea, that will get the chinese attention as much as what donald trump says. charlie: interesting you said it will get the chinese attention rather than the north koreans. jake: more so, yes. charlie: you think it was directed to the chinese rather than the north koreans? jake: i think it was directed at both. i think secretary mattis and the administration is genuinely concerned about the north koreans carrying out a provocation in the

there was also the famous jackayman captain immortalized by mark twain in "roughing it." there was also possible confusion with other jacks, such as check for million or, as we saw earlier, texas jack, another frontier scout and actor who was a member of buffalo bill's show, though he predated captain jack in the show. , a google search of up the jack will turn billy joel song of the same name or disney's captain jack sparrow , and they will turn up more often than jack crawford adding to the differences between the two is that despite bill'sbeen bills j, -- bitternessd his seems pettiness and ungrateful, much the same as doc harvard whose legacy is not unlike crawford's. opinion, there are at least two major differences that can explain it bill's fame and jack's lack thereof. the first is bill's ability to promote his image and career. more popularlyp as branding. i think we have a panel tomorrow on the people that the -- that bill surrounded himself with. the second and possibly more important is captain jack's view on alcohol and temperance, about which he would take e

he became friends with mark twain because he recognized the story between them. it resulted in one visit to the grant home, after grant had left the presidency and he was returning to the united states after his world tour so when sally nast, through thomas asked what would the grants like for dinner, the president replied if they knew how sick he was of going to fancy banquets they would give him something more substantial. so they served the former president corned beef and cabbage. they think he liked it. they said he liked it. i think all host ess like to believe their guests enjoy the dinner. but in this case maybe he did. so he had this real life interaction with grant and this emphasis on his work. but the war provided other figures, too. for example, abraham lincoln who nast prosituationed as a father. a man who desired peace in the midst of war and a resolve against all odds to ensure victory but also integrity, all of the things that lincoln articulated as goals of the war. nast believed in them. lincoln came to represent as well approve of some of the