i want to talk about the personal characters of sarah and lawrence. my son had sarah and lawrence as teachers. they offer a wonderful and loving alternative to child-care. it's difficult for working parents to find good child care and at a time when working familis are booing pushed out of our city, we need to look at this and take notice of a good quality educational environment. thank you. i think they will be a benefit to the neighborhood. thank you. >> i'm going to call three more cards. [ reading speakers' names ] >> i am here to urge support of the polka dot school. i have known sarah stein for several years. that is where i saw firsthand the talent that sarah stein embodis and how she works with her children and the challenge of really wanting to learn really thrives. we followed sarah to polka dot preschool and my younger son attended throughout his years there, who just started kindergarten. and i attribute fully to sarah stein and polka dot that they were both ready for kindergarten and thriving within an immersion program within the san fran

she graduated bolt, she has an mba, she went to sarah lawrence. i'm a foster kid. it's kind of a miracle, what my daughter experienced by her hard work. and she was forced to move to oakland a few months ago, because she's been priced out. well, i wanted to give you a little historical information about what it's like to be an aids activist in 2013. what i noticed in '89, and i don't think any of you folks, sitting there, were here in '89 -- oh, you were. okay. i don't know how old you were, but my land lady was a small time realtor named greta from skyline. she owned quite a few properties. she decided what a great idea, i'm going to take advantage of the fact that no one is willing to rent to people with aids. i will. she kicked out people left and right, including me. and tripled the rents. they were happy to have her. no one else was willing. she took advantage. that was in '89. and so i'm an unhappy native. i'm embarrassed of the city. i love this place for almost my whole life. i'm very, very ashamed of san francisco, and the politics. thank you. >> chair wie

she discussed her early days at sarah lawrence college where she established the first women's history graduate program in the early 1970's. >> when i proposed to teach a course in women's history, they said, who needs it? we are a woman's college. everything we do is women's history. and i said not at all because you are always telling it from the male point of view, from the mail days -- from the male gaze at women. despite these hundreds of years of discrimination and oblivion, women persisted that they have a story. and we had to win every step of the way. we had to win the right to tell it. so rule number one, nobody gave us anything. >> feminist historian gerda lerner died wednesday in madison, wisconsin. she was 92 years old. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. >> i am juan gonzalez. welcome to our listeners and viewers. we begin today's show with the new congress, the most rivers in the nation's history with a record number of women and minority members. the house now has 81 women, 61 of them demo

>> guest: well, i taught at columbia and sarah lawrence college. i was for a year at the university--i'm sorry--at the american academy in rome, the rome prize. so that was where the bulk of it was actually completed. and oxford, mississippi, where i was a writer in residence. so i've toted around a lot of papers for a lot of years. c-span: faulkner does come up in your book. he used to live there in oxford, mississippi. >> guest: yes. c-span: does he--does his writing have any impact on your own? >> guest: well, as a southern writer--i mean, i sort of write mostly about north carolina and what that means. and i think flannery o'connor said it best when she said, 'nobody wants to be stalled on the train tracks when the dixie special comes barreling through.' i mean, his sort of influence is hard to ignore when you're--when you're dealing in that whole territory. c-span: did you make new friends in this endeavor that you still are in touch with? >> guest: oh, yes, oh, yes, many. and the event of a book coming out has sort of helped me rekindle and r

sarah? of publishers marketplace, looking for lawrence wright's, going clear, scientology, hollywood, and the prism of police, anes suppose say on scientology, and of course the looming tower. some of the books bob is looking forward to is the king years, ross perot, my life, al gore, the future, and a couple other books, mcchrystal, my share of the task, and dick cheney on coronary disease. sarah and bob, we appreciate your time today on book tv. >> you don't always find many newspaper editors embracing investigative reporting. the point we have seen is it's actually economics. it's the discomfort that investigative reporting causes in a newsroom, because it's troublesome. it's that more than the economics. if you're going to ruffle the feathers of something powerful, that gets them complaining to the publisher and stories are legion about those things happening. we were fortunate through the '70s and almost all our career to work for people who were really strong and upright in that area and let the chips fall where they made.

sarah weinman of publishers marketplace is looking for going clear, hollywood and the prison is an exposÉ on scientology. and, of course, lawrencewrote the looming power. some of the book's bob minzesheimer "usa today" is looking forward to it is the king years, ross perot, my life, al gore, the future. and should also point out a couple of the books that are coming out, general stanley mcchrystal has a book coming out, my share of the path. and dick cheney on coronary disease. his book is also coming out in 2013. sarah weinman of publishers marketplace and bob minzesheimer of "usa today," we appreciate your time today on booktv. >> sarah kilborne recounts the crew of her great-great-grandfather, william skinner, a textile manufacture in the mid-19th century. the author recalls skinner's immigration from london and his career ascendancy from a worker and a silk mill to the owner of his own factory, the mill village, skinnerville. in 1870 for a dam burst near skinnerville and destroyed the town and forced william skinner to rebuild. this is about an hour. >> thank you, bill. and thank you for your support of "american phoenix." a