start 200 years ago across the border in kentucky, says lincoln scholar dale ogden.as lincoln's early life like in kentucky? >> he was born to a subsistence farmer family. his father actually was more of a carpenter than a farmer. >> in 1816, when abe is seven, thomas lincoln moves his family 100-miles west to the indiana territory, the same year it becomes a state. >> what brought them to indiana? >> it was a lot easier to prove ownership of your land than it was in kentucky. the other reason was that indiana was a state where slavery had been made illegal. i think thomas was just intrinsically opposed to the idea of slavery. >> the lincoln family settles on 160 acres in what's now spencer county, 150 miles south of indianapolis. here thomas lincoln becomes a sought-after cabinetmaker. >> he built beautiful furniture, and that was a very valuable skill on the frontier where there wasn't a whole lot that had been previously built. >> he often presses abe into service. >> the idea was, of course in that time, the father would pass on his skills, his occupation to his

doubt that it's changed very much over my lifetime now you describe beauty as a scarce resource but ogden is canyon is very too i mean you point out in your book that most people are sound way around the average somewhere around the middle 1000 make a beauty by is this phenomenon of discriminating or privilege ing people based on their looks. fairly infrequent because if we are all around the average who is discriminating against whom well not everybody is average i mean typical things like for.

doubt that it's changed very much over my lifetime now you describe beauty as a scarce resource but ogden is canyon is very too i mean you point out in your book that most people are sound where around the average somewhere around the middle 1000 make a beauty by is this phenomenon of discriminating or privilege ing people based on their looks. fairly infrequent because if we are all around the average who is discriminating against whom well not everybody is average i mean typical things like for example in the u.s. when these studies are done perhaps one 3rd of the people are rated as above average of whom a small fraction are rated as gorgeous and about a 6 the rate is below average so we're talking about the top 3rd in the bottom 6 which is half of the entire population so it's not a rare thing but it is scarce in the sense that people value it and are willing to pay for it but i think you're also make a point in your book that for the large by them there are some differences internationally some countries are more generally to assessing looks than others but you make a point that for