the way until the time that ray bradbury got married to. i wrote about it in the american conservative a month or so back if you want to check that article on line about ray bradbury. also right about him in "blue collar intellectuals". when it came time for him -- she graduated high school in 1938. came time for him to go to college. the tragedy was he couldn't go to college. one of these rick santorum guys -- guys rick santorum was talking about. he couldn't go to college. the money to do so in the depression, rather than go to college ray bradbury went to the library three days a week. he did this for years, he read and he read and he read. at 18 years old ray bradbury had a better understanding of education than our society does all these years later. today is all that piece of paper. we give you that paper, that paper and so on. ray bradbury could have cared less about the diploma. all he cared about was learning. one of the things i love about ray bradbury is when people ask -- he is the only blue-collar intellectual who is still aliv

so poor that ray bradbury and the brother shared a pullout couch in the living room all the way until bradbury got married. i read about that in the american conservative i also write about him in blue-collar intellectuals. but the point* is when it came time to graduate high-school 1938 to and go to college, the tragedy is he could not. just like rick's santorum was talking. he did not have the money. it was a depression. rather than go to college you went to the library three days a week. he did this for years. you read and read and read. it struck me at 18 years old he had a better understanding of education and then our society does all of these years later. today, all people care about is that piece of paper. they could care less the learning and the education that comes in between. ray bradbury could care less about the diploma. he cared about the learning. one of those intellectuals that is still alive where did you go to college? the proud alumnus of the los angeles public library. that is wonderful. my voice needed that. the common denominator denominator, lowe's, minh intell

there's a great biography of ray bradbury but not a lot out there. i hope the very least with "blue collar intellectuals" to spark some interest in figures who haven't gotten there do and i hope i have given them their due in this book. thank you for coming out. [applause] >> booktv has 150,000 twitter followers. follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on booktv, marwan bishara talks about revolutions that made up the arab spring. he argues the uprisings have a long history that has been largely ignored by the media in the west. this event was hosted by georgetown university center for contemporary arab studies in washington d.c.. >> ladies and gentlemen. good evening and welcome to the central cities. i am prof. of history and director of the center and i am delighted to introduce our distinguished speaker, marwan bishara, senior political analyst of english. marwan bishara is a familiar face and voice to you as

did yoever read the book by ray bradbury called fahrenheit 4? yes. that 451 is what? that's the temperature in fahrenheit degrees at which paper burns. that was about a book-burning book, yeah? watch this, gang. fire city. that thing is burning up. look at that all right. okay. why with the wood but not with the metal? neighbor time, neighbor time. okay. what would be the answer, gang? heat transfer is-- most of the energy here went to what, the paper or the metal? metal. the metal. how much was left in the paper? none. and before i can get the paper up to 451, i've got to make that very, very good conductor back there at 451, too. and that takes a lot and lot of energy to do. and so you didn't see the paper ignite. it never got to 451. this is considerably more than 451 degrees, considerably more. when i wrapped it around the wood, look the wood is all scarred now. look at that. you saw the paper light up why? because i didn't have to heat up all the wood to 451, just the surface. see? just the surface. and it--right up easily. but around--on a piece of meta all the