author robert wilson is editor of "the american scholar". he joins me now. welcome to you. >> thank you, great to be here. >> brown: this is an interesting case where the work is so famous yet it turns out there's huge gaps in what we know about the man and many myths about the work. >> absolutely. brady -- it's interesting, because brady was so commited to history and to recording history through his photographs and yet he left very little trace of himself and he knew so many of important people and events at this time and he had this sort of zelig-like existence where he was always off to the side. >> brown: what is clear that he's a photographer we know but i think what you're painting a portrait of someone, we'd call him today a entrepreneur, right? a businessman. and as you say, a mast over promotion. >> absolutely. one of the ways in which i was able to find out a lot more about brady than i expected to is following the advertisements and he would like his neighbor across the street in broadway when he was in new york, p.t. barnum. he was a great maste

was really robert wilson living incognito with timothy leary in atlanta for reasons i obviously could not fathom. he wondered whether the collapse of the new left was caused by foreign intelligence agencies dosing organizers with a substance causing heart disease there after maintaining control over its them by means of a microwave device capable of instantly halting a pacemaker. in 1990s he believes he was the product of a society breeding/environmental manipulation experiment. in the midst of this the real wilson cut off correspondence with for lee. was hard, he said years later, to communicate with somebody when he thinks you are diabolical mind control agent and you are convinced he is a little bit paranoid. he continued to write sometimes with which and self awareness and sometimes not. c-span the last few years of his life working at menial jobs in atlanta and selling trinkets on the streets. was a chaotic conclusion to a chaotic wife, darkly poetic stage for a man who worshiped parents. you know, he told hill in one of his more lucid moments, if i realize all this was going to

. >> on booktv robert wilson recalls the life of civil war era photographer mathew brady. the first war to provide a photographic history was the civil war, thoroughly covered by brady and his team of photographers to to over 10,000 photos. this is a low under an hour. >> a great honor to be in this book store. a city of institutions. this is one of the great ones. it is so wonderful to see it thriving under bradley, and i hope continued to thrive for many years to come. give a nod to one person in the audience, my friend pat ferguson who read a wonderful book when under your civil war, freedom rising, you don't know what is right, you should. i hope is for sale here somewhere. it occurred to me to write about mathew brady if you years ago as i was finishing the but the book about clarence king. scientific surveys of the west. and timothy o'sullivan is becoming important photographers, the first time photography had been used this way as part of a scientific expedition. and a protege of mathew brady. they met on staten island where brady had a home in the 1850s. and in a s

. >> now on booktv, robert wilson recounts the life of civil war era photographer mathew brady. the author reports that the civil war, the first work to provide a photographic history, was thoroughly covered by brady and his team of photographers, who took over 10,000 photos. this is a little under one hour. >> thank you, bradley. it's a great honor to be in this bookstore, the city of institutions. this is one of the great ones. and it's so wonderful to see it thriving under bradley, and i hope will continue to drive for many years to come your i just want to say, give a nod to one person in the audience, my great friend, pat ferguson who wrote a wonderful book about washington during the civil war called freedom rising. it's a book i really relied on in writing this book. if you don't know the book, you should. so i hope it's for sale here somewhere. [laughter] it occurred to me to write about mathew brady about eight years ago as i was finishing the book about clarence king. after the civil war, king led one of the great scientific surveys of the west, and wo onee people he a

one point he became convinced a coworker at the sunshine floral come to me with robert anton wilson could'vebeen incognito with timothy leary and atlanta for reasons i obviously could not fathom. he wondered whether the collapse was caused by foreign intelligence agencies dosing organizers with a substance causing heart disease thereafter maintaining control by means of a micro device capable of instantly halting a peacemaker. by the 1990s he believed he was the product of a virgo society reasoning environmental manipulation experiment. in the midst of this to the real wilson cut of correspondence with horribly. it was hard to communicate with somebody when he thinks you're a diabolical mind control agent and you're convinced he's paranoid. then they continue to write, sometimes with wit and self-awareness, sometimes not. he spent the last two years of his life working menial jobs and atlanta and selling trinkets on the street. it was a chaotic conclusion to a chaotic life of a darkly poetic state for a man who worshiped. you know, i'm one of his more lucid moments as they release all of thi

think about the four movie compelling players, and drew lock, robert given iii, cappernic and russell wilson. they were multi-sport agent le me hand you what has been marked as let's who came from very stable, two-parent, middle-class homes. >> that's exactly the kind of player the n.f.l. thinks they could lose with this next generation and the sport could be driven to the sort think where it becomes like boxing was, something that the poorest of the poor did as a way to claw their way out of poverty. the nvm wants to prevent that from happening because from a p.r perspective, it's just not a good look. >> dave, thanks for being with us. dave zirin is the sports editor at "the nation" thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >>> i am john henry smith. the new college football landscape where business from tradition is about to claim another stored rivalry. notre dame and michigan will stop playing regularly as the irish move to the acc, qb gardner wore the number for the last visit to the big house. high schoolsman winner 21 took guardners past. 61 yards. gardner may have put

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robert has written a lot about this and wilson has written a lot of about it. the scientists did not see the point of the nagasaki bomb. and i think oppenheimer didn't either. but i think he did -- he went to his death defending the hiroshima bomb. sorry. i think there was a -- yeah. you started with comment with the diverse nature of this personality. >> yeah. >> and you didn't spend too much time on that throughout the history. at the end of this, were those really merely the languages and the writing were those means to the end that he went to? were those things he could have become happily if he hadn't found the manhattan project? >> yeah. good. i had took himself seriously as a young man up until halfway through his study at harvard. when he suddenly abandoned his short story writing, and concentrated on physics. nevertheless, a long time after that, i mean, his development his interest in hinduism came in the '30s that's when he learned sanskrit. he used to develop a lot of time to discussing hindu literature with charles who was at berkeley who was an ex

robert turbin stopped at the line of scrimmage. we will tick down under 4:00 to go. >> cris: it's been a rough night but for russell wilson, just another -- another step. this young man, remember last year? they were so protective of him. they didn't want him to lose a game. they didn't mind losing with him but didn't want him to be the cause. then he had that huge game in chicago, that double comeback, if you will. from that moment on, they were like, "cut him loose." >> al: the win against washington and almost beat atlanta in the playoffs. spencer ware is the ball carrier. 9-0 in this stadium. grew up in virginia. russell wilson's father played in the nfl in preseason with san diego back in 1980. he actually caught a touchdown pass in a preseason game. his dad, of course, was his hero. he died of diabetes a couple of years ago. his sister is a tremendous high school basketball player. meanwhile, the 49ers right now, ray mcdonald is the guy who is down and he has been in and out of the game all night long. >> cris: it's one thing when you get beat but another when you start losing your star players and ray mcdonald is one of those re

wilson center. congressman, let me start with you. you heard senator robert menendez tell a story about backing down to a bully, his mother telling him to avoid him. after two times avoiding him, that didn't work, he took a piece of wood and he said he was never whacked again. what do you say to that? >> i say it's an interesting story from north jersey, but i'm not sure that i would draw the -- that that would be a reason for taking action with regard to syria. i think my concern with syria is that now that assad has been open, has used chemical weapons against civilians on a massive scale, that if there is no cost to him from that, that he will do it again and again. that will set the kind of precedent where for decades to come, dictators will feel that they can use chemical weapons against their own people. that being said, the text of the resolution that the president sent over to us on august 31 is contradictory to the statements that the administration is making now. >> and how so? contradictory how? >> well, when you look at the resolution, it authoriz

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robert andrews from homeland security investigations. we also have rick maxwell from the fbi. and we have a couple of special agents from the gbi, jesse wilson loving. we have representatives from our dictatorsh district attorneys office. and now i will introduce chief gregory porter, clinton county police. >> good evening. this is a good day. this is a good day for the family, the perez family, but more importantly for ayvani. she is safe. she is safe. i want to thank the community as a whole for supporting the clayton county police department and all the collaboration between the agencies, federal, state, and local, throughout this ordeal. she's been reunified with her family. we currently have two suspects in custody. we're looking at some other suspects, and i'll let the fbi talk about that later. she was recovered at a location in conyers, georgia. the investigation is still active and we're still receiving phone calls as we speak. again, special thanks to the fbi, gbi, hsi, apd, clayton county district attorneys office, and u.s. attorneys office. folks, this is a prime example of community policing, a prime example of collaboration thr

robert lansing who was the secretary of state and would have been fired if wilson hadn't been a stroke, there had bad break, that is another story. but lansing tried to get the cabinet in on it and i think he even made some communications with the vice president, who stayed out of it completely. he simply said no. greeted in the constitution. this is before the 25th amendment actually is not as much of a protection as we think in cases of inability. won't talk about disability this is the inability of the president to do his duties. what does that mean? this means if he were dead the vice president succeeds. this is the one time that we really had a disabled president. how do you deal with it? edith was scared. this was a very scary thing. make it up as you go along. welsh says, david what part of personality or intellect prepared mrs. wilson to take over during his recovery? what skills did she bring to this responsibility she was taking on? >> that is a very good question because she had exactly two years of formal schooling and her whole entire life. she came from a large family and

robert glancing, secretary of state, what years, do you remember? >> well, yes. lancing was the third secretary of state. he came in in late '15 and went almost to the end of wilson's administration. >> you wrote woodrow wilson is a tyrant. thank god i will soon be a free man. what was that all about? >> that was about a couple of things. the first of which was woodrow wilson really was his own secretary of state. and i'm -- i misspoke -- lansing was the second secretary of state. william jennings brian was the first. and brian left basically. he quit because he didn't like the way wilson was responding to it and he thought wilson was starting to get a little too bellicose, a little too interested in our getting in the war. he didn't like that. lansing came in and realized he was nothing more than just a note taker for wilson. wilson used him. and wilson really forged the policy. and lansing went over to paris where one -- well, where lansing, at least, would have thought he c helped negotiate the treaty. he ended up doing virtually nothing. and when ever lansing offered some advice, wilson was not that interested. so lansing really couldn't wait to get out there.

robert sarvis did little more than recite their talking points during the debate. sarvis said neither candidate offers any ideas or solutions to the challenges virginia faces. >>> news 4's tom sherwood will be at the wilsonuilding today when mayor vincent gray introduces his pick to be d.c.'s next cfo. he was the first to report the mayor is choosing this man, jeff dewitt, the cfo of phoenix right now. if the d.c. council confirms him, dewitt will succeed natwar gandhi who held the post more than a decade. the cfo is in charge of overseeing the district's $11 billion budget. >>> melissa mollet following breaking news right now from the live desk. >> that's right. i want to show you a chopper 4 right now over the top of river road here -- this is in bethesda. this is the 8500 block over a vehicle fire, very hard to see exactly what's going on. you can see some police also, obviously some fire trucks. it looks like a bus pulled over to the side of the road. as soon as we get more information we'll pass it along. >>> news 4's danella sealock has news on the prince george's county line. >>> right now for folks traveling northbound 301 heads up north and southbound. you are going to see all of your lanes bloc

robert lansing who was the secretary of state and would have been fired if wilson hadn't had the stroke, there had been a bad break, that is another story. but lansing tried to get the cabinet in on it and i think he even made some communications with the vice president, who stayed out of it completely. he simply said no. greeted in the constitution. this is before the 25th amendment actually is not as much of a protection as we think in cases of inability. we won't talk about disability this is the inability of the president to do his duties. what does that mean? this means if he were dead the vice president succeeds. this is the one time that we really had a disabled president. how do you deal with it? edith was scared. this was a very scary thing. make it up as you go along. on facebook, david welsh says, what part of personality or intellect prepared mrs. wilson to take over during his recovery? what skills did she bring to this responsibility she was taking on? >> that is a very good question because she had exactly two years of formal schooling and her whole entire life. she came

. >> now on booktv, robert wilson recounts the life of civil war era photographer mathew brady. the author reports that the civil war, the first work to provide a photographic history, was thoroughly covered by brady and his team of photographers, who took over 10,000 photos. this is a little under one hour. >> thank you, bradley. it's a great honor to be in this bookstore, the city of institutions. this is one of the great ones. and it's so wonderful to see it thriving