mark twain did not write anything. what he did is in some isolated instances, he did provide some editing but very little because he was traveling. this is the time "huck finn" is being written. the story is being told that grant is just about ready because of all the things we talked about, he is just about ready to actually sign a contract with century and company to do the memoirs because he kind of had promised them and all of that. mark twain says he is entering a building in new york city and hears a couple of editors from "century magazine" talking about i think grant will sign. well, who knows? he rushes over to grant's house and says i heard you are going with century, what are they offering you? grant said 10%. twain says they would not give a beginning author that little. i am willing to give you much more. besides, i founded a company, charles l. webster and company. charles l. webster happens to be directly related to mark twain. the whole idea is the company is founded originally so mark twain can find a

he put that in all those stories and because of that mark twain became a good friend and they performed together in new york city 8 a few times and he sold out 5 or 600 theaters. at the peak of his speaking career he was bringing in the modern improvement of $25,000 for one of his performances so one of the best-known authors and entertainers in the entire country. this home is located in the heart of likely square in 1872. james malcolm riley never owned a home. it was built by john come for his family and they lived here, in 1890, at the peak of his career and became part of their extended family so three years after they met they invited him to live in the home with him, he was touring so much he was living in a permanent hotel room in indianapolis. this is the parlor, the victorian living room and they do the entertaining and you will see a lot of musical instruments. riley was a multitalented individual, not only could write and perform poetry but also music. that is his violin on the chair as well. the most important people in indianapolis here including authors like meredith nich

the 3rd arrived just before the 20 minute mark twains on slotting home again to make it 3 nil. off cycles rightly waved away as they get stormed further into the lead. and the swede completed a 1st half hat trick in the 38th minute quite on 7th strike of the it's been his league campaign arriving at the back post to old silver free points for the visitors. asia on fairly matanzas strike late in the 2nd half wrapped up proceedings the french went off the mark in only his 2nd appearance this one is league season. a cool finish from the big man adding to the home side she may be a should. braman fans had seen enough off to make an early start on a christmas wrapping someone will be asking center for a new stuff this year 5 nil the final score braman schooled in their own backyard 5 star might get the points. which brings us to our last match of the day between alex and doesn't go in previous tough fights clash has always been a winner and it's always been the away side. philip march got the party started with a half hour gone so he. and max fehring in the rebound. also rounded out

joel chandler harris also wrote in what he called a southern dialect and mark twain is probably the most famous dialect writer today that we hear a lot about because of finn and tom sawyer, he considered him a dialect writer as well. and in fact because of that mark twain and james whitcomb riley became good friends and actually performed together in new york city a few times and he be selling out theaters every night area and he sold out five or 600 a night theaters and at the p of his theaters career in 1889 he was bringing in the modern about $25,000 a night for one of his performances so he had become one of the best-known authors and entertainers in the country. so the james whitcomb riley is located in riley square built in 1872 and what's interesting is james whitcomb riley never actually owned the home. it was built by a man named john whitcomb is for his family and then they lived here almost 20 years before ever meeting him. they met him about 1890 so really at the peak of his career and they became close friends area he almost famously became part of their extended family so t

huckleberry and thomas sawyer, i went out to hannibal, missouri, where the story was laid, where mark twainund that out there, you see this picture here? in reading the story, it tells how he stepped out of the window and on to the drainpipe, and then took two running steps on the woodshed and onto the fence. if you go out there, if you go into that room, which actually exists, you can do exactly what he said in the book. in other words, it was completely autobiographical. >> there something else i've been curious about. riod piecesg in pe have always been interesting. do you get the actual clothes? >> it can be hard, you cannot get a hold of george washington's hat. but in huckleberry finn and tom sawyer and hannibal, i did get the clothes. it must've been the same kind they wore at that time. i have this old hat here. it is a real beauty. you can get a new hat. sweated ands to be lived in, and this has been lived in. >> that hat is so old and beat up. it looks beautiful. [laughter] the way norman found the models for his covers interested me very much, especially the cover he did for the

i went out to where the story was laid, where mark twain himself was a young boy. on to the drain pipe and then took two running steps on the wood shed. >> yes, sir, i remember that. >> and then jogged on to the fence. well, if you go out there, if you go into that room which actually exists -- >> i never knew that. >> -- you will find you can do exactly what he said in the book. in other words it was completely au autobiography. >> do you actually get the authentic clothes they wear at the particular time that the illustration illustrates? zbrel, y >> well, you do if you can. it is pretty hard to get george washington's hat, but in this case in huckleberry fin and tom sawyer in hannibal i did get the clothes that must have been the same kind of clothes they wore at the time. >> i see. >> i have this old hat here. it is a real beauty. >> i'll be darned. >> you can get a new hat -- >> a new old hat. >> -- and make it look old. it has to be sweated in and lived in. >> that is so old and so beat up that it looks beautiful. >> yes. it is a beauty. yes, indeed. >> the w

hunk of very thin and tom sawyer, went out to hannibal, missouri, where the story was laid, where mark twainthere, you that out see this picture here? tellsding the story, it how he stepped out of the window andon to the drainpipe, then took to rolling step on the woodshed and onto the fence. if you go out there, if you go into that room, which actually exists, you can do exactly what he said in the book. it was completely out of a graphical. -- autobiographical. >> i've been curious about the clothes in. peace illustrations. do you get the author -- in period piece illustrations. do you the actual close? clothes? hard, you cannot get george washington's hat. and tomuckleberry finn sawyer, i did get the actual close. clothes.ual in. hat has been lived >> it is so beaten up and it is so old it looks beautiful. [laughter] the way norman found the models for his covers interested me very much, especially the cover he did for the saturday evening post, now known as the golden rule cover. there were a lot of people in that, over 30 heads, all kinds of people and nationalities. where did they come

huckleberry finn and tom sawyer, went out to hannibal, missouri, where the story was laid, where mark twainfound that out there, you see this picture here? in reading the story, it tells how he stepped out of the window and on to the drainpipe, and then took two rolling steps on the woodshed and onto the fence. tom: yes, i remember that. norman: well, if you go out there, if you go into that room, which actually exists, you can do exactly what he said in the book. in other words, it was completely autobiographical. i have been curious about the clothing in period piece illustrations. do you get the actual clothes? norman: it can be hard. you cannot get george washington's hat. but in huckleberry finn and tom sawyer, i did get the actual have beenhich must the saying that they used at the time. can get a new hat. sweated in and lived in, and this has been lived in. old, and sot is so beaten up, it looks beautiful. [laughter] the way norman found the models for his covers interested me very much, especially the cover he did for "the saturday evening post," now known as "the golden rule" cover

and i think that is the way to do it, mike hunter mark twain said when confronted with the double do withll right. you'll surprise a few enemies the rest. i started amazingor everybody. they said what did you do, did you get abused, finally they realized there's a good part of bipartisan and they can deal with you. next thing you're sitting at a table who were making fun of you and that's where you build bipartisanship and that's the way i did on my own going through my six years in the house of representatives and 15 of the united states senate trying to find out those things that can keep two people together. i never looked at the party, that was the last thing. chuck schumer said some nice things in one nice thing he said is that he liked the kindness part he said i was a kind person. my wife might differ without some other people might differ but i try to be kind and 70 who likes to sit down with. if you cannot get to the problem and sit down across the table with somebody then you have a problem and then you build everything that way so i hope the senate and the congress in the

mark twain said when confronted with a difficult decision, do what's right. you will surprise a few and you will amaze the rest. i try to start amazing everybody. i voted for some things. they sent somebody over from the whip's office. what did you do? did you get confused? no, i didn't get confused. finally they knew they had somebody to deal with. when the partisan people figure out they can deal with you, they will deal with you. that's the way you build bipartisanship. that's the way i did it on my own, going through my six years in the house of representatives and my 15 years in the united states senate. trying to find that little thing that could bring two people together. notwithstanding what party they are in. i never looked at the party first. that was the last place i looked. chuck schumer said some nice things to me. one of the nicest he said to me was i was a kind person. he said i was a kind person. my wife might differ with that. i try to be a kind person. somebody you like to sit down with. if you can't get along with somebody, you can't sit ac

mark twain says when confronted with a difficult decision, do what's right. surprise a few and amaze everybody else. i was amazing, and what did you do. did you get confused. they realize they had something to deal with. good thing about bipartisanship. the first people they come deal with you. next thing you're sitting at the table about the guys making fun of you. that's the way you build partisanship -- bipartisanship and that's how i did it in the house of representatives and 15 years in the united states senate. the thing that could bring two people together. i didn't look at the party, the last thing i'd look at. and chuck schumer said nice things to me. one of the nicest, he liked the kindness part of it. said i was a kind person. my wife might differ with that and other people might, but i try to be somebody that somebody likes to sit down with. you can't problem solve if you can't sit down across the table with somebody and problem solve with and you build things that way and i hope in congress and the years ahead, we've got big problems. we'll start

. >> this one reminded me of a quote from mark twain. i'm sorry i didn't memorized the quote i'm going to paraphrase which you shouldn't do with a wroir as good as mark twain but the essence of what he said was when writing humor you should never try to teach and never try to preach. but if you want your humaner to last it has to do both of those things. this is an image that will last. it does a bit of both of those things exceedingly well. >> it's very good at capturing the fundamental debate about the threat or what constituted the threat in central america in general, nicaragua particularly, reagan always thought that the problem was a communist threat. in fact during the campaign of 1980 he talked about dominos falling in central america, mexico would be next. and the last dom know would be the united states. and in some ways that reflected his policies. also, though, the question always was, to what extent really was the sandanista regime regime a threat aligned with moscow, to what extent it harbored the threats. his understanding

this is the period of mark twain's gilded age. the rise of the corporation and the rise of that. normally don't think about the post civil war years, this was a moment in american history. he time when equality was taken very seriously. i think it's another way to think about it. can i just stop for a moment and invite people to sit down? i would like it if people would sit down. we are confronted with one thi thing, what does equality mean? part of the problem is there's meanings of equality. i wanted to.out, at the end of the civil war, there's one concept of equality that was widespread. that's basically abraham think it's ideal of what lincoln described as equal privileges in the race of life. another way, equality of opportunity. that was a widespread ideal in the u.s. at that time. what's interesting about the postwar decades is the extent to which americans viewed that principal and it's a sham if you don't also have measures to have equality of condition. unless you have measures and equality of circumstances, you cannot have equality of opportunity. that gives equality a

reading one of the articles and the documentary maker ken burns, this is really great, he said mark twainsays history doesn't repeat itself. but this does seem something we saw with vietnam. and it makes you wonder how often is this happening? do we have troops now deployed in areas where they are telling us that they're there for this, and really they're not. kennedy: and things are going great, knows almost the pottery barn doctrine in : palace misquote is saying is like the pottery barn, you break it you own it. but what he was saying to president buses once you go in and you commit troops like this, he was talking about iraq, but the same thing applies to afghanistan. we go in, we blow bunch of stuff up, and were expected to build bridges and schools over there. and one person the report said that's like pumping kerosene onto a dying campfire. it was actually the worst thing we could do. it didn't make anything better for them or for us. >> it so problematic that during those 18 years those issues were raised. it's not like during this time that that voices weren't saying that it was

we discover the habits of other writers and their wives like mark twain wrote most of his in hartford in the third floor office and he would draw a chalk line acrosslk the floor nobody was allowed across the only one was his wife olivia to check his work trying to think of the writer that he was in the twenties was at a soirÉe in new york city with people laughing and food and good times and she is staring off into space finally she yells at him and says james, stop writing. because he was writing in his head. so that's one of the things is that you think about it all ththe time. >> thank you for being with us here today with his newei book martha ball washington. thank you so much for coming in today. >> and through the early 18 seventies where white republicans cause a lot of death and destruction so my book is about how the federal government responded. >> so what man is head of the secret service at the time was named whitley tell me about him. >> he was hard secret service and is the subject of my book we think today as the secret service who protects the president and other dign

in mark twain's travel books were never studied and he was a new yorker.and he deeply influenced me. my early work was influenced of the 1930s and 40s and he was taught -- all of it is great. fitzgerald died at the age of 41 years old and all his books were out in print. so the books i read in high school using the library affected me and i took her question to be that. these were books and they were defiant books and funny books. and i did not realize at the time when they were first published they do not sell very well. anyway my work was that and then went to africa and as i said away from my family and away from the united states with the perspective of the war going on in africa which affected me a lot and i had something to write about, i had a big subject i was in africa when big events are taken place. i could write about that and put myself in the position. the same with joseph conrad. [inaudible] [inaudible] i would say i'm not an angry person but one piece of advice i would give to anyone who's having trouble writing and see things as they are a

mark twain said being a patriot loving your country all the time and your government when it deservesyou don't agree with someone in office, doesn't mean you can't get along diversity and appreciate it. veterans get along so well because we serve with diversity. i served with every color, race, sexual orientation. we came together as brothers and sisters. there is beautiful takeaway going back to that. instead of saying you're conservative, you're liberal we can't get along. pete: i dare somebody to try to say it better than that. >> that is good. people get along. america is not at civil war. not the stuff you read at twitter. america picked new mexico, texas, helped people in florida for the hurricane. we're not going to be civil war. pete: what about the idea that you've got kids being raised, they're told they need to be seen by their identity group. >> the only problem this country has, there is no problem. we have so much freedom, so many right, it is like, we have it so good here that people are trying to find stuff to complain about. >> i think a lot of that is leadership. why

when he accepted the mark twain prize, he took a shot.es calling up black people to tell them they're doing something wrong. he called me up once. he didn't like something i wrote in "time" magazine. i guess now all the calls are coming from a correctional facility in pennsylvania. >> except a statement the cosby team put out which was really pretty brutal calling eddie murphy essentially a hollywood slave. one would think mr. murphy was given the freedom to leave the plantation so he could make his own decisions but he decided to sell himself back to being a hollywood slave. equals the destruction of black men in hollywood. remember, mr. murphy, that bill cosby became legendary because he used comedy to humanize all races, religions, and genders. but you're attacking mr. cosby helps you embark on just becoming click bait. >> cosby's account has like 48,000 followers. which is not very many. and it also spelled dave chapelle wrong. not the most current with it statement. >> and cosby does not really have a lot of people who are going to s

we know what mark twain said about statistics. more on the qiagen story later in the program in about 20 minutes, but just want check quickly on the stock. it is down almost 19%. it was down yesterday on the new york stock exchange by 26% after saying it's going to go it alone. qiagen will remain independent. investors apparently don't love that news, wiping away a fifth of the value of the stock in the first 10 minutes of the session. the deadline for the u.k. to leave the e.u. coming closer and the focus is turning to the next round of talks. and, the resurgence of a threat to the u.k. financial industry. we will discuss that. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to "bloomberg markets." this is the european open. 13 minutes into the session, looking at gains on the majority of indices. 40 of 0.33%.nd cac as the deadline for the u.k. to leave the e.u. comes closer, the focus turns to the next round of talks over the future relationship. the city of london will be a bargaining chip for the e.u., according to a report in the "ti

for instance, mark twain wrote a chalk line. nobody could cross that line, not his daughters, but the only one was olivia to edit his work and i'm trying to remember -- walter middy. >> i would have gotten -- james thermer was in one of the black tie soirees with shchampagne popping and thermer is just staring off into space for ten minute, twenties, 30 minutes and finally she yells at him and says james, stop writing because he was writing in his head and you probably do the same thing and i do the same thing and you have to become the book which means you're thinking about it all the time. >> you got it. >> we would like to thank craig shirley for being here today. and he has a new book called "martha ball washington." we need to go out and buy the book. >> my wife is one of my best editors, as well. >> there you go. >> as the white house debates two articles of impeachment president heads to battle creek, michigan, for a campaign rally and watch on c-span2 and online on c-span.org or listen live with the free c-span radio app

project to raise money is an album of literary productions and brett hart writes something and mark twain and they have some poetry and one of the poems is done by a woman named emma lazarus, and she writes a sonnet about the statue which she identifies that the mother of exiles and it's call the new colossus because she is contrasting if witness the colossus of rhodes, the ancient statue everybody would have thought of at the time and that celebrated a military triumph. and she says this is different. this is not about that. this is welcoming people here as a refuge, and this is what we should be proud of, that we have free country, country of liberty and we're willing to welcome people to it. it gets put on the statue after she is dead. she leaves her poems and she tells her sister, who is her executor, when you publish my peoples make sure the new co'll sunday is at the front, her sister print s it on page 404. seems to have been some family issues going on. but she had a friend, another blue stocking who was a descendent of alex -- hamilton who lobbed to get the poem put on the med st

. >> this one reminded me of a quote from mark twain.i did not memorize so i will paraphrase, which you should never do with a writer as good as him. the essence of what he said was, when you are writing humor, you should never try to teach and you should never try to preach. if you want your humor to last, you have it has to do both of those things. this is an image that will last that has a little bit of both >> things exceedingly well. >> it is very good at capturing the fundamental debate about the threat or what constituted the threat in central america in general, nicaragua particularly. reagan always thought the problem was a communist threat. during the 1980 campaign he talked about dominoes falling. mexico would be next and the last domino would be the united states. in some ways that reflected tips policies reflected his policies. to what extent did it reflect the chronic problems in central america? his >> understanding of the threat did not come from the movies. he was used to playing the sheriff. it came from his education i

mark twain said when confronted with a difficult decision, do what's right. you will surprise a few and you will amaze the rest. i try to start amazing everybody. i voted for some things. they sent somebody over from the whip's office. what did you do? did you get confused? no, i didn't get confused. finally they knew they had somebody to deal with. when the partisan people figure out they can deal with you, they will deal with you. that's the way you build bipartisanship. that's the way i did it on my own, going through my six years in the house of representatives and my 15 years in the united states senate. trying to find that little thing that could bring two people together. notwithstanding what party they are in. i never looked at the party first. that was the last place i looked. chuck schumer said some nice things to me. one of the nicest he said to me was i was a kind person. he said i was a kind person. my wife might differ with that. i try to be a kind person. somebody you like to sit down with. if you can't get along with somebody, you can't sit ac

certainly say that there has been a lot of press speculation of a policy noon the policy noth ones as mark twain is to have repeated the reports are exaggerated and we are currently complying. >> it provides a valuable contribution to the nuclear security at this point. >> it does make contributions to that of our partners. what we are doing right now is undertaking a thorough review of the merits and demerits of the continued participation. no decision has been made to get out. we are going through some trouble. >> so, secretary, in response to a question that i asked, he said any extension would have to take into account new systems and new actors which we understood by his conversation to mean china. now, the new weapons, that isn't such a big issue because you've got to systems that the russian foreign minister has said they already agreed would be covered. the vanguard and the new heavy icbm so this hypersonic. there are two that wouldn't be deployed until the end of the next decade so those we don't worry about much and then there is the conversation that has to be worked out over the plan

samuel clemens, mark twain, grew up in hannibal, missouri, and just across the river in quincy, illinois, lived another larger than life character. curtis lovelace, a small-town kid who wanted to be a star, and, for a time, he was, a football champion for the university of illinois. >> he's an all-american? >> uh-huh. all-american. >> this is what kids dream about. >> right. >> he was living that life. >> absolutely. you know, he -- it was looking like he would go to the nfl. that was kind of a dream of his. >> reporter: then he realized grander ambitions, fighting crime as a prosecutor; serving his country in the national guard, and his community in politics. >> i'm someone who wants meaningful work that's going to make the difference in -- in the lives of people. >> reporter: but it was what happened in this little house in quincy to one person in particular that made curtis really stand out for all the world to see. >> now to continue coverage of the curtis lovelace murder case. >> it was a heated day at the stand. >> right now the defense is presenting its closing arguments in the ca

as mark twain is reported to have said they are greatly extra mutated. >> for the nuclear security at this point. >> it does make contributions to that of our partners and what we are givin doing is undertaking a review of the merits of the continued participation and no decision has been made to get out. >> secretary pompeo, in response to a question i asked said any extension would have to take into account new systems and new actors by the conversation. the weapons are in such a big issue because you have two systems that the russian foreign minister said they already agreed with be covered, the vanguard and the new heavy icbm that they are building. there are two that went int woue deployable until the next decade so those we don't worry about too much in this distance it would be covered so although that sounds manageable it comes down to one system. the china peace that has been raised consistently they have approximately how many warheads? about 300. would you say that as a part of the numbers flex >> i have seen much talk. >> how many do we have deployed? >> i should know that

as mark twain said of his own death, reports of its demise arc greatly exaggerated. >> you believe that open skies is a valuable contribution to the nuclear security at this point? >> it does make contributions to our security and that of our partners. right now we are undertaking a thorough review of the merits and demerits of continued participation. no decision has been made to get out. >> i will just take that. secretary pompeo, in response to -- astion, i asked him question i asked him, he said that the extension of new start would have to take into account new actions. we took that to mean china. the new weapons, that's not such a new -- a big issue. we have two bank systems that the russian foreign says would be covered. the vanguard and the new heavy icbm they are building. there are two that wouldn't be deployable until the and of the next decade. so those we don't worry about too much. and then there is the conversation that has to be worked out over a plan for launched ballistic missiles, a launch from a heavy bomber covering a response from a fighter, it wouldn't be just lik

as mark twain said of his own death, reports of its demise arc -- are greatly exaggerated.senator merkley: you believe that open skies is a valuable contribution to the nuclear security at this point? sec. ford: it does make contributions to our security and that of our partners. right now we are undertaking a thorough review of the merits and demerits of continued participation. no decision has been made to get out. sen. merkley i will just take : that. secretary pompeo, in response to a question, i asked him -- a question i asked him, he said that the extension of new start would have to take into account new systems and new actors which we understood by this conversation to mean china. , that is notns such a big issue because you have two systems of the russian foreign minister has said agree would be covered. the vanguard and the new heavy icbm they are building. so the hypersonic glide vehicle. there are two that wouldn't be deployable until the and of the -- the end of the next decade. so those we don't worry about too much. and then there is the conversation that has

mark twain, for instance, wrote most of his in hartford and was in a third floor office 10 and he drewlk line across the floor. nobody was allowed across the chalk line, not his daughters, the maids. the only want to cross the chalk line was his wife to edit his work. i'm trying to think of the writer, walter mitty. host: now that you said that, it has totally gone out of my mind. , jameshe was a server server, in the 1920's, one of those black-tie soirees with the champagne popping and people laughing and food and good times. he is just staring off into minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes. finally, she yells at him and says james, stop writing. he was writing in his head. you probably do the same thing and i do the same thing. that's one of the things i learned, you are thinking about the book all the time. host: we would like to thank craig shirley for being here and he has his new book "martha ball washington." -- mary ballke washington." we would like to thank all of our guests and viewers this morning. make sure you join us again for another episode of "washington journal" tomorrow at

. >> this one reminded me of a quote from mark twain and i'm i didn't memorize the quote, i'm going to paraphrase it, which you should never do, but the essence of what he said was when you're writing humor, you should never try to teach and you should never try to preach. but if you want your humor to last, it has to do both of those things. this is an image that will last. it does a little bit of both of those things exceedingly well. >> it's very good at capturing the fundamental debate about the threat or what constituted the threat in central america in general, nick ka raug with a, particularly. during the campaign of 1980 he talked about dominos falling in central america. mexico would be next, and the last domino would be the united states. in some ways that reflected his policies. also, though, the question was to what extent was the regime a threat aligned with moscow, to what extent it reflected those chronic problems in central america. reagan's understanding of the threat, i didn't come from the movies. it wasn't because there were good guys and bad guys and he was used to