that will be published soon. and i think the conservative should listen to some of the organizations on this matter. and two the lord leaving himself and wait for the publication of the evidence and then let us by all means have the debate that is this very on what further measures we can take. we know and had to be intervened upon. and we know also that a series case review will reveal what has happened. >> prime minister tells us to wait for the publication for the review. the point is the review is not going to be published. of course, i know there are argument on both sides about full publication. but isn't the argument kipping and save. the fact is the publication of summers has not led to the action. in the case of baby peter, the summary was found to be completely inadequate. it wasn't worth the paper it was written on. the prime minister should consider this, we fused murders by mental health patients into published in full. they manage to have the correct amount of anonymity. why do we treat murderers by

that will be published soon. i think the conservatives should listen to some of the voluntary organizations on this matter, and to lord laming himself, and wait for the publication of the evidence. then let us by all means have the debate that is necessary on what further measures we can take. we know that doncaster had to be intervened upon, and we know also that a serious case review will reveal what happened. >> the prime minister tells us to wait for the publication of the review, but the review will not be published. of course, i know that there are arguments on both sides about full publication, but are they not tipping in favor? the publication of summaries has not led to action. in the case of baby peter, the summary was found to be completely inadequate. it was not worth the paper it was written on. the prime minister should consider this -- reviews into murders by mental health patients are published in full and they manage the correct amount of anonymity. why do we treat murders by mental health patien

publish by harper team an imprint of harpercollins publishers.s a love note to you, our five authors. we adore your books. we hope during these national book award celebrations enduring this past month that ufl their admiration and our pride in you as representatives of the extraordinary young people's literature being produced today. and that said, the 2009 national book award for young people's literature goes to phillip hoose for claudette colvin bubba's by melanie cooper books and a division of farrar, straus injure row. [applause] [applause] [applause] it is heavy. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> this is unreal. i thank absolutely everyone in the room, the four judges, the national book foundation. i thank my brilliant, brilliant editor, melanie, one of the great editors and the history of children's literature. i thank all my colleagues and for our straus and giroux, simon bowden, lauren walsh and jennifer dor, elizabeth cairnes, so many others. i thank my wonderful wife, sandy sane jorde to listen to every word many times. i thank my w

those books and set up a publishing company called uncrowned queens publishing and we decided that it was time that we tell our own story and that is what we did through the uncrowned queen is institute. when i called garrey it was the same, look we've got a deal for you. if you publish this book we would like you to we need you to publish it inside of 30 days and that must have been a crazy statement to make because we know in an academic press you're going to have two months at least of review and maybe six months later you may not be notified that the book was accepted and media a year later you may not still be ready to publish and we thought we needed to do an effort to support the new first lady that we really wanted to be able to do this book in at least 30 days if not a few days more and it turned out it was 34 days as barbara mentioned. the publisher said, i mean, if you had seen as the month of november at least beginning after november 12 through december 1st you wouldn't have recognized us. [laughter] it was a crazy seem. he asked me if we could get a schedule, so i drumme

if you publish this book, we'd like you to, we need you to publish it inside of 30 days. and that must have been a crazy statement to make. because we know that with an academic press you're going to have two months at least of review and maybe six months later you may not be notified that the book was accepted and maybe a year later you may not still be ready to publish. and we thought that what we needed to do as an effort to support the new first lady, that we really wanted to be able to do this book in at least 30 days if not a few days more and it turns out it was 34 days as barbara mentioned. the publisher said -- i mean, so if you had seen us the month of november, at least beginning after november 12th up to december 1st you wouldn't have recognized us. [laughter] >> really, it was a crazy scene. we tossed the editor -- the soony press guy asked me if i could give him a schedule and i drummed up a schedule what it would look like if it would work. we had an idea if the press had said for, we're not going to publish you, then we were going to take out a loan and we

it's not only for adults it's for a publisher who is completely who publishes these so i'm working on this book can we talk about it, can you tell me what direction i should take, what is the size of the picture and she's that know you are free to do whatever you want and i said it's very difficult to be free like that. i would like you to tell me when do you need it, how big is it and all of a sudden i am thinking because i can do whatever i want and i am not used to my whole life and told what to do so i am pretending like yes -- i would like to have some sort of guidance what i'm doing and she said no you are an artistic genius, you do whatever you want a by thinking this is already what they told me you do whatever you want. it's difficult to do whatever you want like you have two kids -- >> some ways freedom candian in prison and as well. >> it can be very difficult. i don't think it is in prison and but it's difficult. like with my kids if you grew up in it you can handle that much better than if you introduced it later on because then you say negative free but it must be inside

he has just published a few papers about it and more in the pipeline. one of the things that he found published a few months ago in the national academy of sciences. monks practicing 20, 3 40 years on a regular basis can show patterns of sink crow anyization in regions of the bra inthat are impossible for novices to do. huge differences in the way these people can actually regulate brain function across the entire surface of the cerebral cortex. baseline gamma activity patterns. >> yes. >> the monks have it? is that an advtage to their way of life? >> well, at this point in time, the only thing we can say is that they are showingatterns in the brain that have never been seen before by neuroscientists and hasn't been postulated that they could do that. >> where is the center of the human brain. there is no center for meditation, and for many any other things. like there used to be thought to be a pain center. pain a very somatically based center, it is distributed across many different domains, including the limb big system. how about the left prefrontal

i think i would prefer to self publish this book.it's a little bit -- in the book i refer to myself as a political activist. self-publishing is part of the political activist process. so i would encourage those out there, if you're passionate about it, you got to go for yourself. you can't wait. >> was a plague like this, in your view of? >> i think it's someone who stays involved in current events, and his boisterous about a. i have 20 people at a time coming up to my booth and a talk loud enough for the people around me to hear, to bring them in. they can disagree. that's fine. there's a book out called the slobbered love affair. i read the book. is a good book. it's about two or three chapters of my book. is about that dick. might book is this big. i talk about how the media loved obama one day but the next day, no. you've got to deal oocyte. for goldberg i would say you've done a great job on your book but there's much more detail than just the part where the media loves him. the american people loved him. i don't know so much if

so actually becoming a bit of a minister publisher now.a short, 40000 were theses that would be extended into books. >> when you say 40000 words, how many pages would that be and how quickly are you turning the surround? >> is going to to be some 80 page book because my view is anybody like him books are almost a new magazine. so many magazines are going out of business. so little room, it takes for the contemplative kind of writing and scene setting and all things that make a great book are really kind of a little bit and identical to the hot medium of just online. at the same time people are having less and less time to sit with a long leisurely magazine. it's almost the ideal kind of in between thing, it's this tremendously intense, powerful, smart book that you can read on a long train journey or a long flight. but it's satisfying. is only one. the humbling is a very good example. is only 80 pages but in one terrific and tends, very sort of engage read. you get the full experience. it's exciting and i think that's kind of an interestin

so do profits and losses at publishing houses. but not, apparently, talking about books about abraham lincoln. and ethical american event's 200th birth day is being marked by an inundation of new lincoln books the likes of which few of us have ever seen. between 1865, and 2009, 14,000 titles and 2,000 juvenile books on lincoln have been published. launching a new biography of lincoln in 1922, former united states senator albert j. beveridge denied that the last word on lincoln had already been written by arguing that the first word has not been penned. to day the first words are still being written. lincoln books emerge with ever greater frequency. one a week, as every generation seeks to discover lincoln for himself. in some ways the past two decades have been a golden age of lincoln scholarship. theodore roosevelt complained frequently that his times had denied him greatness because he could not preside during world war i. a man has to take advantage of his opportunities, he said after leaving office. but the opportunities have

think it should've been published in any case. fortunately she was not one of the academic reviewers in my book. the issue as it was presented itself in europe was in fact, not a religious prohibition, but was always a question of islamic phobia. when i spoke to secretary general of the osc, he said depiction was never the issue that these pictures are islamic public, for sure that was what most of -- so effect on the part of muslims it was highly secular complaint that the complaint that these were blasphemous and showed the sort of things that infidels will do, it emerged at a much later stage and the conflict. they emerged only when a violent rioting broke out and with the religious, some religious authorities, became involved. but mind you, even the middle eastern villages authorities never at any point issued about the cartoons. it was instead an issue that became the subject matter for the manipulation of extremists and by that time, the protests became directed not really against the denmark, but as part of an anti-western

he turned out to be a native historian who had published a work on naval operations during the cubanmissile crisis that had a few pertinent pages on guantanamo. files were in the unsecure area where he worked. that is now my book that he would not be there if this chance encounter had never happened. the main argument of my book, briefly stated, is that from 1898 to the present, guantanamo has endured, in large part, because it serves both cuban and american nationalistic purposes that had made it both a point of friction and appoint a diplomatic compromise. the longest period of friction began shortly after fidel castro came to power, and began railing against the u.s. military presence in southeastern cuba. which at various times he has described as an entry listed anachronism, and as an illegal occupation of cuba territory. most of latin america history have some knowledge of castro's hostility towards the base. but what is generally not known is that from the early 1900s to the present, guantanamo has also been a sight for diplomatic accommodation, compromise, and cooperation. th

i had a major problem finding a publisher when we finished. they said that it was too long. well, this is what it looked like, 885 pages. it's just too long. i said i can fix that. i'm going to go through review and in that with 910 pages. [laughter] negative turned to my good friend, joe galloway and said i need help. he gave me a reviewer and we got it down to this. i am happy to say i will be talking with a publisher about doing stuff he promised he would consider depending how book this nixon and how well this book went to publishing this on a restricted number that i could give to friends, libraries and folks like that. we have not discussed that yet the we are working on it. the other problem i had, the title was too long. as you may have read the title of this one "autobiography of by the grace of god, only in america the autobiography of lieutenant general julius becton, jr., obviously that is a mouthful. to make a long story short, in a mashaal that is my story. thank you for being here, thank you for inviting me and i am prepared to respond to questions. but alread

, predecessor of my publisher, harpercollins. trotsky finds this very distasteful. he drags his feet about taking it on but ultimately he decides that he has to do it because he needs to protect himself from trotsky's this assassins' so we have a situation he is writing a biography of a man who's trying to have him killed very interesting. trotsky gets off to a fast start with the biography in 1938. but the work becomes bogged down not surprisingly when trotsky reaches the part of the story where stalin and trotsky face off in soviet russia after 1917. she just can't write this chapters. he gets serious writers block and also his health begins to fail. the return of a mysterious illness that plagued him critical moments in the struggle for power in the 1920's, lethargy high blood pressure extremely high blood pressure, loss of appetite, not the fever, the fever that characterize his illness in the 1920's does not return to read this entire situation, the pressure for funds, the health concerns, publisher literary agent on his bac

these are publishers. get the publishers. without them there would be no book. >> head of manufacturing, stephen driver. he is the one the got the plan schedule. >> great, great. i appreciate that. you really went on overdrive. often.en do you do things that >> it is fun when we do. it is fun to see it all come together. >> it looks so good. thank you for could did you guys do the design? >> yes. >> really nice. >> bach talked about the concept. >> bob had a great concept. >> her name is on the back. she did the c design. >> great. nice. >> the interior was mine. there is a lot of people who put this together. >> this was a portion of the booktv program. you can view the entire program and many other booktv programs on line. go to booktv.org, type the name of the author or buchan to the search area in the upper left-hand corner of the page. select the "watch link." now you can view the entire program. you might also explore the "recently on booktv" box or the featured video box to find recent and featured programs. >> abigail

that will be published soon. and i think that conservatives should listen to some of the organizations on this matter. and to lord leavy himself, and wait for the publication of the evidence and then let us, by all means, have the debate that is necessary on what further measures we can take. we know that doncaster had to be intervened upon. and we know also that acer's case review will reveal what has happened. >> the prime ministells us to wait for the publication of the review. the point is, the review is not going to be publishe on both sil publication. but isn't the art of tipping in favor? the fact is the publication of summary has not led to the action. in the case of baby peter, the summary was found to be completely inadequate that it wasn't worth the paper was written on. the prime minister should consider this, reviews into murders i mental-health patients are published in full. they manage to have the correct amount of anonymity. why do we treat murderers by mental-health patients more rigorously than

library is don't get four volume books published at the same time, they get multi volumes published over 70 years and who can blame them? that is not the same problem. you talk to senior librarians ranting about google, they spent time redeeming google by trashing their staff. all the people we employ are incompetent so why should we worry about google? that is a deeply disturbing thing. even more disturbing in some ways because when we say google -- i have a solution now. we are coming up with the happy truck. organized by libraries, it will redeem all of the errors that google made and all the failures the library had in the first place. what you read about the happy trust is no worry, pain-free solutions, you can rely on the expertise of librarians. on the one hand they want to trust their staff who they say is incompetent and incapable and let google do it. we are so brilliant we will save the day. you can't have it both ways. are they incompetent or brilliant or somewhere in the middle? finally i have gone on too long, my apologies. not all but some, a scholarly small mindedness, bi

actually, some of the material that is in there were published autobiographies.also found the langston hughes papers at yale in the library and read them. >> how long did he stay in russia? >> just over 18 months. >> communist the whole time he was there? >> absolutely, yes. part of arthur koestler's charm, -- what makes him impressive is the degree of every ideology that he pursued. when he was a zionist, he was an impeccable zionist. he dug down to the roots of zionism. when he became a communist, he did exactly the same thing. he became an absolute expert. he had an amazing way of assimilating books and ideas. i was rather amused to read one or two of the skeptical reviews when he was in the ukraine in the early 1930's when there was a famine and he ignored it and pretended it was not there. it was arthur koestler who pointed this out later in life. he understood that he had been blinded with his enthusiasm. you can regard this as a defect or a virtue. once he entered into something, he was blind, in many ways, to its defects. >> we are in the middle 30's and

anything canada published. [laughter] it is not the case so today we are here to celebrate something very fortunate to that looks and not like this can be published, that they cannot suppress it can be published by amazing press is like city lights and we can hear the voice directly and some of the greatest is living in the u.s. today, some of the greatest intellectuals and i'm proud to introduce one of them out. please welcome howard zinn. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. we thank you, alex thune, thank you whoever you are what who applauded. [laughter] if you didn't applaud, thanks anyway. when alex was is from and back some pages a book on movie street and they are responsible for this and i want to thank them why they're struggling, i hope he doesn't mind me saying this, but they are. they're struggling little bookstore and a new support michael struggling little bookstores. i think that sign we need to direct people more to bookstores and to libraries away from television, away from the newspapers. i sa

her career making book publisher in 1957. and what i do when the bug as i return to these very well-known novel and i show how deeply we david boas understood the political text. >> here i want to focus not so much of the luminaries but the rank-and-file, the libertarian movement or american right. but what impact did she have on those people whose names we do not remember today? the metaphor i like to use is rand was said gateway drug to life of the rights. i to set deliberately because there is a feverish ms. and intensity to reading ray and that david alluded to that the singular and unique and an important part of her appeal. this is part of what day quote from the book is from a young fan that said "about one months ago i noticed how much i was talking about your books to my teachers and classmates. as a result of my enthusiasm i have lost two friends. [laughter] i am beginning to realize how an important these people are. [laughter] what i want to stress is this type of encounter with rand, and this the platt mini -- ma

i published it in "the republinw republic."gned in gable the reasons why -- resigned and gave all the reasons why. but as a gesture to the soviet union and old loyalties, he agreed to keep the letters secret. >> how did you find it? >> i founded by a rather roundabout route. i was in -- i found it by a rather roundabout route. i was in israel, and in one of the archives, and i forget which one it was, an artist said that there are some of his papers in moscow. i asked how he knew that. he did not tell me at that time. i believe he already had some of them in his own archive at that point. arthur koestler was captured by the french police as a communist. he was jailed by the french for several months in a concentration camp. the french confiscated his papers. in fact, the confiscated -- they confiscated "darkness at noon." his english girlfriend helped translate it back into german. there was this-a large collection of papers -- there was this stash of a large collection of papers that were taken back to berlin. they stayed ther

that came out of that these events as i recall with tony blair, the prime minister, was publishing an intelligence-based dossier that explained why he believed iraq was a curt serious and credible threats. and then lots and lots and lots of detail and virtually serious every point within the dossier was getting some sort of attention. we did not see it and did not plan our communications around that particular point. >> i think jonathan powell will send you an e-mail on the 19th of september. what would be the headline in the standard on the day of publication? what we wanted to be? what did you want it to be? >> what did i reply? >> i don't know. >> by then, i know that we have and maybe i have her reputation about worrying and obsessing about headlines. they never did for a very large. that is in the downing street because i reached the point of

it is hundreds of pages all published. the 12 page review coming out after a case like edlington the. the first four pages of our profits. it is really eight pages her could do we stop everything? of course, not. but would it be a spur to further action with more responsibilities stake in? absolutely yes. that is why we will publish these reports of the future. >> on the same point* does this mean you back to the liberal democrats to amend the children and families bill to achieve the same goal? >> if there is opportunity to put pressure on the issue to the legislative program, yes. absolutely we will work with anybody to make sure that happens. what we have said you have to do with the bulk of the structural deficit in the parliament. it is a substantial figure but the point* i am making today is about early action or part of any plan passed to make a start in 2010 and is in sight the government cannot go into hiding. it looks like they will have to grow it. >> to montgomery broker david comeback kid you join twitter? [la

it was published 100 years later etc.so what we have done in a way with this great step forward is push it back into the past partly because the effective copyright always but also a naivety and you say this to dan clancy that is where the library and sent us so google should think nothing about it. so finally, and i've gone on too long but let me say a couple points why is it difficult to criticize this project. one thing it is great. it's absolutely wonderful. i would hate to be without and one of the worrisome things about the settlement under the department of justice guidelines is it wants to push us back to this did you for an awful lot of books but anyone who has a a snippet of view the fault all books will go back to that is disastrous and the way don't necessarily support the settlement that is one reason we should think about it. it is free. i have this problem when i criticized the measure are all these people giving the labor how can you come along and criticize it is likely to high school bake sale and saying

simpson can get published, anything can get published and it is not the case so tonight we are here to celebrate something very very fortunate that books like this can be published. the power of governments cannot suppress can be published by amazing press is like city lights and me can hear the voice directly of some of the greatest statesmen living in the united states today, some of the greatest intellectuals and i am proud to introduce one of them now. please welcome howard zinn. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you alex. and thank you however you are who applauded. [laughter] if you did not applaud, thanks anyway. alex is from back pages books, right here on monday street, and they are responsible for this and i want to thank them. i hope it doesn't mind my saying this, but they are a struggling little bookstore and they need support like all struggling little bookstores, and i think that we need to direct people more to bookstores into libraries away from television, away from the newspapers. i say away from television even though i know there is a television camera focu

but now more and more of the papers of these women have become published in the whole feminist movement has become part of our lives so it seemed like a very logical thing to do in many ways and a possible thing to do, and then, barbara, had this marvelous supplies. this book for me has been one surprise after another and the biggest surprise was the opening. i think it is one of the best opening site ever had for a history book. i've discovered by sheer accident as you often do when you are doing research that george washington wrote in a letter to a woman named sally fairfax in 1759 she was the wife of his good friend in a way not his best friend his good friends neighbor george william fairfax, this letter words was published in the new york herald that was at that time in 1877 when it was published it was the biggest newspaper in america and they called it a washington love letter and nobody could believe that it was real at first and then people who knew a little bit about washington's life and so forth durham been very interesting biography published, they discovered he had writte

that i've written is that they've had a much longer shelf life than the years in which they were published. just this past week i posted a whole new batch of the same kinds of hate mail that i called attention to in "unhinged." it's never ending and certainly a bottomless source of fodder for an author and a writer. >> host: as we were discussing right before the show, your children could not read this book because of some of the e-mails that you have printed. [laughter] are these e-mails you received? >> guest: yes, yes. and what is striking, and i made note of this in that book and have since made note of it, you know, as i talk about the response that i provoke as a writer, as a public, very public conservative is that so many people are willing to sign their actual names to these missives and to these ad homonym attacks. i've talked about this, you know, on the book tour trail and certainly on college the book tour when trail and certainly college campuses when i talk to young people. i think there is a special kind of animus the left has for the women conservatives and minority conser

we publish in 2007 the white paper, the care that matters. and we set out to transform the prospect of children and young people in care. we have made some progress. there is an increase in educational attainment. we have better outcomes for care leaders. but at the same time we must move faster to close the gap. and that's why it's important to recognize that public expenditure has been necessary in this, and it has doubled since 2000 on the nee children in care. that is what we have tried to do to help those children. >> nick clegg? >> i would also like to add my expressions of condolences to the families and friends of the distinguished editor of the sunday mirror who died in an explosion, and of course also to the family and friends of his injured colleague. as the prime minister said, news has been coming in of the terrible earthquake in haiti. all our hearts go out to the many, many people who will be so terribly affected by the natural disaster. and i'm grateful for what he said about the government humanitarian response that mr. speak

can you tell us what "communications reports" is. >> would been publishing since 1974 publishing the fcc and congress of the states on telecom policy, everything that affects carriers that are now becoming providers. >> host: mr. cohen coming you mentioned before the end of the due or concerned about the concentration of power in the fact two-party raised red flags i guess from your perspective on the comcast-nbc potential merger? >> guest: yeah, right. were concerned very particularly about a linkage of content and then i worked together. so again, it's not our world. we get that so we get to be in a world wherein and have respect to others. you know, we could say the deal we distinguish between content and the pipe and we do not want to have a connection. so for example, right now there is huge differences in price points in terms of delivering content. right now in terms of the cable companies, unfortunately particularly comcast, we have a lot of respect for them and members there, but we'd be very worried about what happens to content they don't know versus content they do loan.

i think most of it was published. anyway, so that's the -- we then had a discussion of whether any of that could be used publicly. while the decision wasn't made then i think there were further discussions about that. at that stage we didn't really know how that was going to be done the commission that a certain point the cic to do a paper on iraq and the issue of concealment, obstruction, intimidation and general messing around in the inspection process historically as well as currently. they started to work on that and produced a paper which i think was then discussed and fine. i made a number of changes i think the title, i made a number of textual changes. it went around the system and all that -- >> when it went around the system didn't go to jic? >> well, it went -- it went -- answer to that is i don't know. there were representatives of the jic at the meeting who discussed it. in the decision was made on -- i'm trying to remember which visit to america this was. i think this was the one in would it be february

it got so bad that the "washington times" published an editorial that said this. in part. how ridiculous could things become? this ridiculous. if workers need to hammer a hole in the wall of -- to install wiring and cable for internet access, the work creates a fire code violation. when a janitor moves furniture into the hallway to clean and buff the floors in a classroom, the work creates a fire code violation. etc. and as far as the judge was concerned, any fire code violation required the school be closed. on the positive side however, we recruited partners for all of our 160 plus schools, partners being mom and pop shops, interests, business, individuals, to come in and help the principal to be available to him or her. i had six schools, the last six have a partner. they're all east of anacostia. i went to see doc cook and some of you may know doc cook from the pentagon. doc, i need some help. he was the mayor there. i don't believe this. the last time that happened -- the last time that happened, i found colin powell sitting in front of me. he said give me that phone.

in 2007, we published the white paper "care matters" and we set out to transform the prospects of children and young people in care. we have made some progress with placement stability, there has been an increase in educational attainment and we have better outcomes for care leavers, but at the same time we must move faster to close the gap. that is why it is important to recognize that public expenditure has been necessary in this and it has doubled since 2000 on the needs of children in care. that is what we have tried to do to help those children. >> mr. nick clegg. >> i want to add my own expressions of sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of captain daniel read from the royal logistic corps, who tragically lost his life serving in afghanistan on monday. i also want to add my expressions of sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of rupert hamer, the distinguished defense editor of the "sunday mirror" who died in an explosion on saturday, and of course to the family and friends of his injured colleague, philip coburn. as the prime minister said, as news is coming

and then announced it was passed the ongoing debate and deliberation and then publish the dossier of. >> we have this morning of 45 minute claim in the dossier heating up a new frenzied and very big headline story is. and as you said in on the butler committee he established that this was not as a result of briefing by you, but never the less frenzied happened. >> there was a frenzied than at the time of population -- publication. >> sirloins freeman refer to a huge headlines on the front page of the evening standard and. >> and headline is not a frenzy. >> well, let's not split hairs over this. a number of newspapers covered in this in a very germanic way. would that be a very fair --? >> when i talk about a frenzy, when newspapers are all chasing the same story, the television and radio talk about a 24/7, that's what a frenzy is. >> well, the 45 minute claim attracted some very big stories in a number of newspapers, i don't have to characterize that one way or another. did you take action then and to dampen down the speculation? did you get on to those papers to correct the misrepre

seuss and world war ii which was published roughly 10 years ago. on jury has now uncovered a new treasure trove of dr. seuss kerr to mount -- cartoons from pm the world war ii archives and the new book is bringing those wonderful cartoons and illustrations from this moment of the second popular front. andre schiffrin has been the editor for more than 50 years. first up the ante on -- 82 books but the mre publication and of dr. seuss is a political education a coming 10 days of rage in paris and new york where he presented one of the chapters at a seminar roughly a year and a half ago. i am also pleased to note that andre, about the same time, donated a wonderful archived document. the pre-editorial wife life as looking for student for industrial democracy which provides a very interesting window into the birth of the new left. andre will be joined by paul milkman. he teaches english in the new york city school system and has a ph.d. from rutgers university. andre is going to say a few words to give some context to the buck. paul will then time been

seuss in world war ii which was published ten years ago. andre schiffrin has uncovered a new treasure trove of dr. seuss cartoons from world war ii archives. this new book is bringing those wonderful cartoons and illustrations from this moment. andre schiffrin has been an editor for 50 years. as founding director of the new press. his most recent publication before dr. seuss is political education: coming of age in paris and new york. one of the chapters at a seminar year and a half ago. i am pleased to note that andre schiffrin at the same time donated a wonderful archive, and editorial, worked with industrial democracy which provides a very interesting window into the birth of a new life. andre schiffrin will be joined tonight by milkman, author of a new deal and journalism, the story of p.m.. paul teaches english at the new york city school system and has a ph.d. from rutgers university. andre schiffrin is going to say a few words to provide some context to the book. then andre schiffrin will rejoin the conversation and all of you will j

this book was published in 1984 so it's been 25 years ago. and at the time that it came out i remember there was a tremendous amount of media attention, and also it was a very controversial book. it was one there was a tremendous amount of discussion about it. so that's what brings us here today. let's go first to that issue. what was it about the publication of this book, the thesis that you're putting forth? what was it that garnered so much attention and so much controversy? >> the story of the "the transfer agreement" is the story of the pact between the zionists and the nazis that was launched in the first weeks of the third reich in 1933. it began in the spring of 1933 and was consummated in august of 1933. most people don't know that when hitler came to power, the jews actually fought back and they fought back hard and they fought back immediately. hitler came to power on january 30, 1933. the first concentration camp was actually opened up, a series of them between march 8 and march 10 of 1933. the anti-jewish laws followed shortly th

in 1985 they published an article getting right with lincoln. this explored american politicians and everyone else to square their own position with what they thought would be lincoln's position on the matter. they were drawn to his leadership. and measured their success by that which lincoln would have approved. and in 1974 "time" magazines asked who were the greatest leaders? lincoln's named appeared most frequently. c-span's 2009 presidential poll released the past president's day has abraham lincoln's first as he was in the last c-span survey in 2000 and today in 2009, 200 years after his birth, we as well lincoln authors are still trying to connect and get right with lincoln. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much more, with judge williams. hearing that means the person remained alive as long as their name was spoken and remembered. so in coming here tonight and in hearing those profound remarks from judge williams, we are keeping alive not only the memory of abraham lincoln but the persona of abraham lincoln. our next speaker

when i published my book the libertarian reader which is a collection of classic writings on liberty from the bible to milton friedman and beyond and wanted to include a couple but the high priests of her estate would not allow that. they would not allow ayn rand appear in a book with a libertarian in the title. but anyone who believes in individual rights, free enterprise and limited government is a libertarian and ayn rand certainly did. as i said once to and ayn rand fan who didn't want to read knit was a libertarian quote another great woman of the 1940s, but you are, blanch, you are. she had a major impact on the libertarian movement in two way is. first is just a numbers. has any libertarian book sold as many copies as atlas shrugged? made the declaration of independence if you consider that a book. it was selling 200,000 copies a year. ayn rand has brought more people to libertarian ideas than anyone else in our time. and the passion, the people who read ayn rand and got the point didn't just become aware of costs and benefits and incentives and trade offs, their passionate ad

and so really got me on my way towards, the first book that speed to my publisher published, they publishedll of my books and have been extremely supportive over the years. and then "culture of corrupt obviously the most commercially successful. also i think the most active list of any of the books that i have written because what i have told people across the country as i got on the book tour is i don't want this to be a book that just sits on a shelf. this is information to be used and people are. and it is finding relevance pretty much every day of week with some new story involving corruption of one of the team obama members. >> host: after your first book did regnery come to you or did you go to them? >> guest: here's how the process when and it's an interesting story. but when i first came up with the idea of a speaker, i didn't know anybody, had no established washingtonof the conservatives scene. but i have started writing syndicated columns or creators syndicate which has been my civic it ever since i got the start as a columnist. david limbaugh had just started up fare as well. so

>> we have been publishing since 1934, everything that affects carriers. >> mr. cohen, you mentioned that you are concerned about the concentration of power and you have already raised red flags, from your perspective, on the comcast-nbc potential conflict. >> we are concerned about that language of putting contact -- content and that work together. -- content and network together. the ideal world would distinguish between content and the pipe. right now, there are huge differences in price points in terms of delivering content. right now, in terms of the cable companies, particularly comcast, who we have a lot of respect for, we would be very worried about what happens to content they do not own versus content they do on. our concern is what happens to the content with this merger, not so much just what happens to the jobs. if a higher and higher percentage of content is owned by a company that accesses homes, what happens to the democracy issue as we move forward? there are ways for that murder to work. -- for that merger to work. >> you were talking about the

five years after they were first published, the danish attack shows the original cartoons still have the power to incite violence. sheila macvicar, cbs news, london. >> glor: two students from the same school, both killed, both in frightening ways only months party. for the city of chicago tonight, more evidence of violence on the streets there, especially among teenagers, is not over. randall pinkston has details. >> reporter: the grainy image from a convenience store surveillance cam rafs another sad reminder of the violence that has claimed dozens of students in each of the past three years. wednesday night police say a gunman shot 16-year-old fred couch in the back twice before getting away. this later murder marred a promising trend for chicago. in 2009, there were 453 homicides, an 11% drop from the previous year, but that does not ease the pain of victims episcopal families. >> that's my baby, and i'm hurtin, you know, and it's not right. >> reporter: fred couch was the 18th student killed in chicago since september. he came from the same school that 17-year-old darien albert

and i posed the question, if lives were at stake, would you publish a story? and his response to me, which shocked me, was that's not my job. that's not my problem. and do you think it's because of reporting like that that has contributed to the negative perception of the media in recent years? >> are you asking specifically whether as a reporter i have a responsibility to judge the impact of my story when it's published? >> well, that and do you think -- that mindset that has contributed to the negative perception of the media today? >> yes, of course, it has contributed to the negative perception. alas i'm old enough to remember the time when a vice president named spiro agnew who was the first vice president for richard nixon did a series of broadcasts attacking television news. and he was the first to give that idea of the media cachet, the media -- that word that embraces everything from journalism to public relations. and he also conveyed the impression that the people in the media were really a special, elite group of northeast intellectuals. he didn't

then on to his professional career as a journalist, editor, publisher and author. but this isn't just another autobiography. this is also a biography of the newspaper industry over many, many significant decades. and the book describes that almost industrial process of producing a newspaper over really the best part of the last century. now, all that in one way vanished but the book is decidedly not an obituary for print journalism. mark twain said i'm not an editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that god will not make me one. [laughter] harold evans is 14-year tenure as the editor of the sunday times and for a year as the editor of the daily times of london. produced work of really extraordinarily high standard. in 2001, journalists named him the greatest british newspaper editor of all times. [laughter] >> heçgz championed what yesterday's review of the book in the "new york times" called a crusading style of journalism in which he and his paper afflicted the guilty and championed the innocent. and people of my generation who got i

he won the pulitzer three times including 1964 after he published the defining cartoon on john kennedy's assassination, lincoln at the memorial weeping. many of her block's cartoons are etched in our memory. this generous book that haines has produced contains many of herlock's drawings and excellent explanatory text. the narrative gives us a historical context for the cartoons especially for people who weren't there and didn't live this period. i think they will enjoy this. for those of us who did live the period the book helps us to remember and relive the times. we were talking before we came out and i was saying one of the things the book offers is the chance to -- the realization that there have been other bad times in american history when people were really acting in x ways to one another and herblock's cartoons are so evocative. he wants to talk to us about this. i think this book will endorse and hopefully be used to teach history classes. college professors -- makes it easier for college professors to give a book of cartoons to their students. i think that we owe haines a great

of our -- "the intimate lives of the founding fathers" this book, end this incredible book just published within the last couple of weeks the influence of women in the shaping of our history, with men who were the mothers, wives, daughters, a nd friends of the founding fathers, washington, frankli n, adams, a hamilton, jefferson, madison , a very different women. enormously interesting providing material for the rebidding stories of the founders as we mentioned before in our conversation, it is six bookspan one. with all you have done in your career, we're at a new level of writing about american history and history in general. we're all products the bar associations and those who have made our history and consequently have reached a level of interest as historical characters were books. must we researched and written about within the context of their lives. their marriages comment liaisons', all of the association's. they do not exist -- exist in a vacuum. you say far from diminishing the men and women and examination of there intimate lives will in large them for our time. with your per

government -- we published reduced to the u.s. government on a periodic basis -- we published reviews. that was to ensure that we live up to the standards. when we formed over 11 years ago, there was only one commercial registry and won registrar. we were support to it -- supposed to create a system. there are now over 900 registrars. since we have created the echo system, the government says we have accomplished that, now we should be responsible to the world to be accountable and transparent with how you help to administer your part of the ecosystems. >> joining me is chris roads, a technology reporter for "the wall street journal" in new york. >> i greater than greater thanican is going through an international -- i note that ican is going through a process where the part of the domain name to the right of the dot will be in non roman characters. why is ican doing that now? >> there has been -- when the at internet initially got design, there was a big debate about whether it should support international scripps or just latin b