it starts with -- the whole idea started with pat clark. i had written an article about ron miller, and he is a buckaroo, fourth generation buckaroo, wrote the article for the high desert journal, and she said, let's do a book. i was excited. we started figuring out how to go about it. the first thing i did was to write the story. but then to put it together, i ordered some cow hides from north carolina, and they had the hallmark of what the animal had lived through, some barbed wire scars and bite marks that had healed, and we liked that aspect. so we took the hides one by one and laid them out on a large table, and cut out the leather cover. so, this binding itself is called italian long stitch. we have five signatures, and i'll explain those. the closure is a strap that goes around the side and goes into a little loop to keep it all together. the pages were all hand-torn, individually. it's about 100 pages. and so we took a large sheet of paper and then we actually ripped it to size. so each page has been handled quite a few times. the b

it starts with -- the whole idea starts with pat clark. i had written an article about ron miller, and he is a fourth-generation buckaroo. i wrote the article for the high desert turtle. she said lets you above. and so i was really excited about it and started digging out how to go about it. the first thing that i did was write the story and then to put it together, i ordered some cow hides from north carolina. and they had the hallmarks of what the animal had lived through, some barbed wire commissars come it marks that had been healed. and we like that aspect. and so we cut out the leather cover. so this binding itself is called italian hostage. we have five signatures and i will explain what those are. so the closure goes into a little loop to keep it all together. the pages were hand one individually. it is about 100 pages. so we took a large sheet of paper, and then we actually ripped it to size. each page has been handled quite a few times. in the beginning page is horsehair. and that is the end pages for it. and i want to tell you a

bill clark, pat clark is here, we co-authored bill clark's biography, and bill clark was very close to ronald reagan and bill clark used to tell me all the time that run of reagan's favorite quotes, aside from the washington one, was from lincoln, where lincoln said, i'm often driven to my knees by the overwhelming conviction i have nowhere else to go. i have noy else to go. to the contrary, reagan deeply feeder -- feared what happens to a free democratic society or any society when it scraps religious faith. here's a great speech he gave october 1988, at georgetown. at georgetown bicentennial. i also have the speech in the book. wouldn't think of that one. october, 1988. georgetown. this was a gem. reagan said, at its full flowering, freedom is the first principle of society. of this society of western society, and yet, freedom cannot exist alone. and that's why the theme for your bicentennial, georgetown, is so very apt. learning, faith, and freedom. each reinforces the other. each makes the others possible. for what are they without each other? and then he quote alexis dede tocquevi

pat sajak. he's the dick clark of our time. he doesn't look old. >> absolutely.ntil you get him out of that format, very sneaky, subversive guy. >> and a big baseball guy. >> can i offer a nugget. vanna white did an ver view i think with "time," she has not once in the 20 some years on the show repeated an outfit. >> really? >> new dress every show. >> it's kind of like me. >> i haven't worn this sweater since -- >> yesterday. >> -- yesterday. >>> coming up at the top of the hour, the nba is now trying to force the clippers owner donald sterling to sell his team. but is everybody on board? >> what donald said was wrong. it was ababhorrent, there's no place for race yichl in the nba. it's a very slippy slope. if it's about race imand we're ready to kick people out of the league, okay, what about homophobia, or somebody that doesn't like a particular religion. >> that's mark cuban. >> he's sweating. >> i think he was working out or something. >>> also ahead, something happened in oklahoma that had people exploding online and across the country. very passionate reac

so every one of these illustrations, from drawings -- this is one of pat clark's illustrations. the drawings, the photographs, are embossments and solar plates, various techniques of the printing. eave page -- every page has been handled multiple times. >> an art form in itself, just the book, and it's beautiful to hold to read, to look at, everything about it. and that wonderful dance between the word and the images and the whole book structure. so, it puts it in a format that is handmade, that is not as -- it is an art form. so it puts it into this -- it's going to last forever, and it just has a beauty of its own. so, the advantage is that they can enjoy the beauty and see it printed and appreciate all these different processes that go into creating the art book. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to bend, oregon, and the many other cities visited by our content vehicle, go to c-span.org/local content. >> kevin freeman, what do you do for a living? >> i'm aman manager, investment manager, iwho are you writing books about security. >> guest: in 2008 when the stoc