visit ncicap.org] ords,"ight on "afterw author sebastian malady talks about the life and times of alan greenspan. he is interviewed by the brookings institution senior fellow of economic study. >> he was raised in the 1930's. he was the child of a single mom . his father left his mother when was only three. he was a distant figure, often unreliable, who would say he was going to come to his family and often not show up. i think this reinforced his tendency to live inside his own head. >> tonight at 9 p.m. eastern on "afterwords." .org for the entire schedule. about 12 million immigrants seeking a new life in america were taken to ellis island for questioning and screening. take ferryans today boats to visit ellis island and see the statue of liberty. on "american artifacts," we visit the ellis island immigration museum. >> this canopy in this spot would have been a place where immigrants would have just gotten off the boat, would have lined up to go in this door and begin their process. what they had with them was virtually only what was important to them. bringing and were entire fami

. >> sebastian maladie discusses the life of the federal former reserve chair alan greenspan in his book "the man wh man who kn. he's interviewed by alice rivlin of the brookings institution and former vice chair of the federal reserve from 1996 to 1999. >>> sebastian, welcome. i'm delighted to be doing this and i think it is a fabulous book. i've known al and greenspa -- an greenspan, it's a complicated man in complicated times and i think you got it right. let's start at the beginning. you wrote about the influence of his parents. can you talk about that on his career choices? >> guest: alan greenspan had an unusual circumstance in the 1930s he was the child of a single mother. his father left his mother when he was only three and then was a distant figure i think that reinforced the tendency that he had to live inside his own head and be introverted and then that was enforced by two things by his mother. first we are talking about the 30s. she worked in a department store in manhattan so he was left by himself in the house with distant grandparents who were from a different, they felt