audience asking you name the literature that you would recommend today of any book at all quicksand curb monegan said "midnight in the garden of good and evil." what does that feel like? >>c-span: beyond words. that is a great thorough. somebody said when the book came out, it was on the best-seller list and how you feel? >> i feel wonderful. you can only feel so good and nice things have been all along. and i feel as good as i could possibly feel but actually i spent seven years doing this taking a long time the friends would say will you ever finished the book and after a while the people in savannah thought i really wasn't frightening one. 88/teenine there was no book and there were rumors i really wasn't right to one hour is becoming an eccentric and supposedly i was writing one by relevant wasn't writing it really. there was some pressure. so now i did spend the seven years and has been received very well i don't feel that i wasted a moment that it was well spent. >>c-span: how did you live financially? >> guest: i wrote a column every month and by roche annual reports for corporations. tha

#1, if anyone thinks it was osama bin monegan simultaneously running that international war on terror is some now with his demise everything will be fine that is naive. we have terrorist cells all over the world and people who want to do very, very bad things. psychologically taking him out does have a positive impact but more importantly the growth of democratic movements in the middle east river very significant but asking about afghanistan might you did not change the day before he was killed or after. we have been there 10 years. i was in afghanistan a couple of months ago. it is an enormously complicated and difficult situation. you have a country that is terribly poor and underdeveloped. do know how much education the average police officer today has? the zero. functionally illiterate. i went to of place with the hope they will leave the the third grade education the taliban was strong their men the marine corps write beside the and those people selling vegetables i did not see one woman. i did not see one at one been on the street midafternoon. they were behind closed doors. an

in this e-mail here, someone is complaining to walt monegan, the public safety director she eventuallyed legislator saying she was spotted with trig in a car not wearing an approved car seat, and the governor writes back that this complaint is ridiculous and i have never driven anywhere without a car seat, and she says, who is it? who is that legislator complaining? and this is one discussing whether she is going to participate in the "fitness" magazine, and i will do it if there is something cool like hiking with trig in a jogger and backpack. and this is a funny one from her lieutenant governor who is now the governor writing, senator stevens was stuck in juneau calling me this morning in an effort to see if he could charter the governor's plane and sarah palin writes back, doesn't he know that i don't have a plane? she sold the plane, remember? and a lot of mundane issues, and as she said on the sound bite on fox news, a lot of things that nobody thought would be released to the public, but they are in the interoffice memos, et cetera, but there are so far nothing that we don't alre