and simon schuster is talking to me about another book on obama. maybe we'll write a comprehensive book on obama after a couple years in office. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you very much. >> host: well, there's a new worldwide community gathering to read a book. and it's called one book and one twitter and the organizer is jeff howe. mr. howe, explain to what one book one twitter is. >> guest: well, in a sense it's a global book club. but the inspiration was really not book club. which twitter has a few of and they're really wonderful. as the big reads that we've seen over the last 10 years. the first one being nancy pearle's what if everyone in seattle read the same book. where in 1998 where all of seattle read russell banks ea east -- bank's one sweet here after and there's a case where they read to kill a mockingbird and the sorts of connections that drew. and i was reading about that in a course -- i'm a fellow this year at harvard. and i was taking a course in social capital with robert putnam, who, of course, wrote bowling

-- [laughter] >> just been turned to the true untold story of bonnie and clyde, published by simon & schuster in 2009. he is currently working, decide to switch sides and go with the law after seeing what happened to bonnie and clyde. is now working on wyatt earp. and at the end of the table is hampton sides, who did not go to the university of texas. but did barely crawl through yale university. [laughter] >> and it acts within the paper. i didn't believe it until he showed it to me. he is from memphis where he was born and raised. he's had a very successful career in journalism. is editor at large with outside magazine, which i know many of you read. his book, ghost soldiers in 2001 about the but and network and a i wrote rescue attempt in the philippine campaign was made into a motion picture. and, of course, his blood and done, the story of kit carson and america was published by doubleday in 2006 has been an enormous success. at that sort of resurrected the name of kit carson and american history. hampton is now, he was it in santa fe. he phoned kit carson west and south i it did for a w