documentary film, which i made with some of the producers and directors who worked at the philadelphia inquirer, which aired in philadelphia on the are public broadcasting station and then a few weeks ago on cnn. we have had a pretty broad tour of the media. >> so now it has its own website. >> black hawk down.com. >> is a promotional vehicle at this point. but it will put you back to the original newspaper series and it's more than just the text of the book. it includes interviews with the soldiers and actual pieces of the videotape that was shot during the battle, radio traffic during the battle, graphics, maps, photographs, it is an amazing example of what you can do only on the web. >> i was very interested in your book to her. how many cities have you been to >> los angeles, then colorado springs, i went to l.a. at about midnight. >> you spent today in denver? >> yes, denver and before that i was in chicago. then i was in actually in l.a. for a couple of days. and it's been a different city every day. with the book tour, in addition to the big cities, we go to a very obscure places as well

>> the newsroom of the philadelphia inquirer. it was interesting. weere bothhired >> guest: we actually write on the same day. >> caller: the same day, yeah. e first-year. >> host: who teamed you up? >> guest: someone at the paper, the paper and recently changed ownership, and he was very interested in projects, investigative projects, enterprise journalism, and he thought that the two of us who were newcomers might be able to work together. somehow or another ordains that this would happen. very often that does not work in journalism. sometimes they don't like to work together, but we tried to experiment. so far so good, as they say. >> host: why did it work for so long? >> guest: we think it worked because a similarity of work ethics. we both love to research and report. in effect, we both say that means we are of sound mind. nighter it means we like to -- nighter one likes to ride because that also means we are sound mind. similar work habits. i think a belief down deep of fairness in government and some case private interests and not always trea

the philadelphia inquirer included a big glossy color photograph. i take it over my bed. i don't know what it was because i was too young to understand. i don't know what it was the was so captivating. he has always been discreet source of inspiration. i also have always known that he was human. he had his own frailties, floss. he did not always to the right thing, not always as courageous as he should have been. but to me the thing that is most great is not that he had so many great quantities but that he was able to overcome his own inherent limitations. when he was a boy his teachers said there was not really anything special about him intellectually. he could not ride it all. he almost never spoke. you could tell back then that he had this determination. he did not know what it was. he wanted a little different. it was not until after he finished college and went to the seminary just outside philadelphia, it was not until the end that his vision for himself as a leader and a civil rights activist really jelled. it was also not until then that he stopped hitting a peop

. >> cleveland plain dealer, philadelphia q inquirer, "los angeles times," they will watch this era closelyat is the first and most important thing to be watching as he takes charge? >> i think he'll be looking to see what he does in terms of new revenue sources number one. and the extent to which he is going to stop the cutting. and he sees areas where he probably needs to invest but he doesn't know enough about that yet. >> the other thick tether thing trying is post tv. >> and he was impressed by the innovation taking place. >> so should cnn see the "washington post" as competition? >> i don't know that cnn necessarily should, but i think all across the country, those news organizations that are learning how to convert themselves to digital, the post isn't a newspaper anymore, we're a multiplatform news organization. and that does mean we're competition for television and i think especially for local television news. >> what's the one they think you're most looking forward to or fearing for the next step?th you're most looking forward to or fearing for the next step? >> only thing i woul

the philadelphia inquirer included a big glossy color photograph. i take it over my bed. i don't know what it was because i was too young to understand. i don't know what it was the was so captivating. he has always been discreet source of inspiration. i also have always known that he was human. he had his own frailties, floss. he did not always to the right thing, not always as courageous as he should have been. but to me the thing that is most great is not that he had so many great quantities but that he was able to overcome his own inherent limitations. when he was a boy his teachers said there was not really anything special about him intellectually. he could not ride it all. he almost never spoke. you could tell back then that he had this determination. he did not know what it was. he wanted a little different. it was not until after he finished college and went to the seminary just outside philadelphia, it was not until the end that his vision for himself as a leader and a civil rights activist really jelled. it was also not until then that he stopped hitting a peop

>> you begin at "the philadelphia inquirer." how long? where did you go? where you know, ? >> we left in 97? we were there between 70 and 97v posts were connor on and so we've teamed -- were out the net "time" magazine for 10 years and now "vanity fair." >> host: james, give us a quick history of the awards you to have one. >> guest: to that we won two pulitzers 75 and 99 in national awards at "time" magazine it is unusual for people to win in both categories because net magazine are the equivalent of the others so most of the major journalism awards over time we won i believe round 50 began to that comes back. >> host: welcome to booktv. co-authors james steel and donald barr let. of the authors of eight books we will show you in just a minute. we will get to your calls quickly but right now here are there books beginning 1979. empire. 1985, forever more. 1982. america what went wrong? ninety-four, ameritech, who stole the dream? said great american tax dodge how it is killing fairness in destroying the income tax of what came out in 2000. how health care became good busin