scott fitzgerald.ous house that is said to have inspired it. >> reporter: just yesterday morning on the north shore of long island, new york, a magnificent old home was knocked do the ground. yet this is not your ordinary teardown. this is is a house with a storied past. >> the lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile. jumping over sun dials and brick walks and burning gardens. >> reporter: you can almost hear the echos of better days, so beautifully captured in what many consider "the" great american novel, f. scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby. lure has it that this house, called land's end, fired fitzgerald's imagination. >> exciting. people in town think it's exciting. they come by by boat. they look at the house. they say this is the great gatsby house. >> reporter: built by a newspaper editor in 1902, the 21,000 square foot house in the village of sand's point hosted the likes of winston chump hill and albert einstein. it's said the grand parties caught fit

scott fitzgerald. >> for those of you not sure what we are doing we are finding a point in this book,he big one. >> line 26. >> see the word stop? how many p's are in the worst of? >> two of them. >> really? stopp? that is a first edition. when the word stop business spelled that is a point on the word first. hold on to the book. >> the point is when it's misspelled? this one is not, he says. >> two p's, i'm sorry. >> three p's. i'm sorry. unfortunately that is an early reprint and only a reading copy. >> what about the second one, larry? >> the second is called one will buy wendell willkie, 1943, limited edition called by any chance? >> look on the title page. does it say published by george m.a.c. limited edition called? >> simon and schuster 1943. >> and is it the green binding? >> it looks black but the title on the binder is in green and it's signed by wendell willkie. ischemic is it signed as a limited edition or just across the title page? >> its assigned to an individual >> who is the individual? >> henry stern. >> it's your only hope, larry. we are rooting for you. >> he has

the state senate leader scott fitzgerald said recently during an interview on fox news, quote, if we win this battle and the money isn't under the auspices of the unions, certainly when you are going to find is president obama is great to have a much more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of wisconsin. and in an e-mail solicitation on a fund-raising letter, excuse me, that he sent out, he was making the pitch that republicans should be supported because they faced on the big labor's bully tactics and democratic walked out on the senate to break the power of the unions in wisconsin once and for all. this sounds a lot like a broad political fight to try to defeat your opponent to try to defeat the advocates for the working families, and i guess i'm sure you have a good answer to this question, but i'd like to know if you agree with the statements of your state senate leader scott fitzgerald and how you would address the concern of many of us that the reason that you have $2.1 million being spent on behalf of your candidate for the court, the reason that you have grou

the state senate leader scott fitzgerald said recently during an interview on fox news, quote, if we win this battle and the money isn't under the auspices of the unions, certainly when you are going to find is president obama is great to have a much more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of wisconsin. and in an e-mail solicitation on a fund-raising letter, excuse me, that he sent out, he was making the pitch that republicans should be supported because they faced on the big labor's bully tactics and democratic walked out on the senate to break the power of the unions in wisconsin once and for all. this sounds a lot like a broad political fight to try to defeat your opponent to try to defeat the advocates for the working families, and i guess i'm sure you have a good answer to this question, but i'd like to know if you agree with the statements of your state senate leader scott fitzgerald and how you would address the concern of many of us that the reason that you have $2.1 million being spent on behalf of your candidate for the court, the reason that you have grou

the state senate leader scott fitzgerald said recently during an interview on fox news, quote, if we win this battle and the money isn't under the auspices of the unions, certainly when you are going to find is president obama is great to have a much more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of wisconsin. and in an e-mail solicitation on a fund-raising letter, excuse me, that he sent out, he was making the pitch that republicans should be supported because they faced on the big labor's bully tactics and democratic walked out on the senate to break the power of the unions in wisconsin once and for all. this sounds a lot like a broad political fight to try to defeat your opponent to try to defeat the advocates for the working families, and i guess i'm sure you have a good answer to this question, but i'd like to know if you agree with the statements of your state senate leader scott fitzgerald and how you would address the concern of