>> there's not a roebling company now. how they managed through the depression it did affect them but it was the family firms that got swallowed up by the huge conglomerates so they held out for much longer than they often do and if you ever find yourself near trenton new jersey i urge you to visit the museum and it's a different site of the mail and it's really lovely and it's a beautiful sight. whilwhile shenzhen lost, just st by his father and he wrote about that. >> he was traumatized by his father. when he was an older man in his 50s and then in his 70s, washington sat down to write a biography of his father. it should be said that washington really admired his father and believe his father was a great man. he was a great man. he was one of those giants of the century that had written things other people didn't have. he had extraordinary energy and drive and inventiveness. he built a whole industry from nothing and washington admired this tremendously which is why he sat down to write a biography of his father but the

emily roebling washington's wife was a truly remarkable woman. when he became very ill in the 1870s, the episode i wrote to you was the beginning of his sickness he got much sicker than that in 1873 and 75 he thought he would die. he didn't. he remained in control of the bridge but emily was his extraordinary amanuensis helping him going down to the bridge site. during the politics washington didn't really like any way himself and wouldn't have been good at. she was an astonishing woman in her right and she met him in the civil war which is also a fascinating period so i thought i would tell you a little bit about their meeting. so, they met not long after the battle of gettysburg. that was in july if the team 63. in very late november and early december 1863, general meade made an attempt to strike at the right flank of the confederate army in the field fortifications prepared in the little valley proven to be a match for the union army as washington himself along with genital wart in his commander officer discovered personally at the break of d

the old man, john roebling, built his first bridge in pittsburgh.o it connects, no doubt about it. the teacher who really meant more to me in many ways than any other of the whole chorus of great teachers was vincent scully at yale, who taught the history of architecture. art and architecture but mainly architecture. i was, as were thousands of students over the years he taught, swept off my feet by his lectures. unbelievable. he made it possible for you to see in a way you had never seen before just by showing you what he saw, what he could translate from the visual image for you into the english language. and he was a genius. is a genius. he is still living. brian: were you a straight a student? david: no, i horsed around a little bit. yes i got a lot of good grades. i wasn't very good in physics. i was a very good in the subjects taught by teachers i thought were boring. it is too bad, but i did fine. i graduated with honors. i was given a lot of awards. i loved to paint. i still paint. my enthusiasm was divided between writing and painting. stil

the 19-year-old bought a scratchers ticket on the road in pass oh roebls and one just over a half millionew days you later she played a scratchoff ticket in monterey county and that one was worth $100,000. >> announcer: now your accuweather fork with drew tuma. >> a return to more average temperatures as we start out the new week tomorrow. and then we're going to see another trend to warm us back up by the weekend. live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you tonight we have mainly clear skies. a lack of fog along the coast right now. we'll have some patchy fog filling overnight tonight but we'll show you that picture outside. a live look from our camera tower showing a nice-looking shot of san francisco. good visibility right now. just some very comfortable temperatures. in fact, numbers, especially inland, are some 10 degrees cooler right now than we were this time last night. so we are cooling off. the heat is easing inland. concord right now 65 degrees. the same right now in san jose. at this hour, 59 that current number in san mateo. 57 in novato. fairfield checking in with a temp

and women, abigail adams, emily roebling, the wife of the owner of the brooklyn bridge and catherine right, the sister of the wright brothers without whom i don't think they would have succeeded. she has never gone adequate credit for that and i hope my book does that and brings her to the point where she is recognized as not only having been important but interesting and admirable as a human being. >> host: i'm interested in how history gets revised over the years, there are people seen as heroes and then perhaps don't fare as well in historians eyes, they can come back in there is a renaissance etc.. how do you think john kennedy is bearing? >> very well but i also think we are only a point where we can start to pass judgment. truman said you have to wait 50 years for the dust to settle. it has been 50 years and he will begin -- it is not just who went before him but who has followed him and how does he compare and what are the consequences of decisions he made or didn't make? we need to look much more at the importance of decisions presidents didn't make that were as important as

her congressional work on social programs and at 11, erica wagner recalls the life of washington roebling, builder of the brooklyn bridge. all happens tonight on c-span2's book tv.>> book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading the summer. >> i have an aggressively reading list for this summer. we have a monthly book club which holds all of us accountable to read more in my congressional office and later this week we will be talking about janesville which is the story of janesville wisconsin and how they adapted after losing a general motors plant. the book is interesting to me because the first time i ever talk to seek orion after i won my election, he asked about the gm plant and indiana which is in my district. because many of those jobs in janesville left wisconsin and came to fort wayne indiana. >> also gave, i grew up in a very blue-collar family, my dad worked at a factory in the automobile industry and how communities like ours in janesville, other communities and the rest of that to this changing economy, the modernization of the economy,