. >> rose: we conclude with author and new york times obituary require richard sandomir, he talked to jeff glor about his new book, the pride of the yankees, lou gehrig, gary cooper and the making of a classic. >> i think i became fascinated about a dozen years ago with the gehrig speech and then i started wondering, why can't i see the whole thing. and then i started getting a little more obsessed with the movie and the speech there and the speech leads to the full movie and the interest in the movie lead me to the archives in beverly hills with everything is laid out, the scripts, the letters, the contracts, everything is there, it is just there for me to pluck out and tell the story. >> rose: war in iraq and richard sandomir when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: bank of america, life better connected. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> after nearly a nine month battle of u.s. backed iraqi fo

richard sandomir writes about the life of the iron horse and the movie that would shape his legacy.atest movie is "the pride of the yankees: lou gehrig, gary cooper, and the making of a classic." i'm pleased to welcome richard to this table. good to see you. the book moves. it is a nice examination of how it came together. what's interesting is a lot of people didn't really know about the speech until the movie came out. richard: i think people were struck by two things, that he would declare himself the luckiest man on earth. and, minimize what he had happened by saying it was a bad break. they were 62,000 people watching the speech but people did not know exactly what was wrong with lou. als was a mystery and you didn't know how long he had to live, whether he would come back to play. jeff: the movie really crystallizes it. it brought that speech, his attitude toward his disease to the mass audience. the years since, we have lost most of what it said. the movie version with cooper delivering the intact speech is the only one we have. jeff: how much different was the speech that co