there is no upton sinclair house. there are no other upton sinclair's dollars. as far as i note there is just me. many, many people and organizations and symposiums and houses there you can visit. of course it is been my dream to establish and upton sinclair al's been hoping that we have eventually a homeland in my idea every room would be an exploration of a different one of his works or life projects. he founded the california aclu and was arrested for reading the bill of rights. that was one thing. he wrote the first children's book with an ecological message. it is about why it -- wind their redwood should be saved. it was made into a movie. it was a wonderful success. he was a genius at using popular culture and should draw attention to his progressive ideas which is something that we can all learn from. the san francisco mime troupe was interested in his work. one of his biggest supporters, a german guy that with the troupe and mentored them in his life. i convened a symposium on upton sinclair 1995. there were only about four. there were only about four.

there is no upton sinclair house, there are no upton sinclair scholars. as far as i know there is just me. that is rather shocking because many many people have organizations and symposiums and houses you can visit and of course it has been my dream to establish an upton sinclair house. i hope out of this book and whether publicity i can get we have eventually a home. my idea, every room would be an exploration of a different one of his work for different one of his life projects. he founded the southern california aclu. was arrested for reading the bill of rights to striking lobbies in san pedro. that was one thing he did. he rode the first, i think it is the first children's book with an ecological message. he wrote see nomobile about why the redwood is to be saved. was made into a movie for children with walter brennan and the kids from the married cottons movie. was a wonderful success. he was a genius at using popular culture to draw attention to his progressive ideas and that is something we can all learn from. the san francisco mime troupe was inte

upton sinclair said i had to go back to reality.] and he was headed even the single tax colonies and one called fair hope there were experimented in subjects and he tried the mob was a huge believer not in the isolated nuclear family and loved to have people around him to eat together and talk together. there was no wife swapping. [laughter] but he talked about setting up forms is out communities are factories but to have meals. he could not have those ideas if he had not visited all these places but the fact he asked california to experiment is what they would drop. but it will have to help a little bit. that is the argument. whatever help is that much the state does not have to pay for. is not. but one other reasons the men did not do chao of caring is but based on the series and was about women sharing the work forever reason. this is the only cheers year so the cooperative child rearing was posing concerns about the harm it might cause the sinclair believes a children's program was the most answer aspect. how vague eight in thei

upton sinclair is so famous, only famous for the jungle. that is where the story ends for most people. where your story began is how he became famous. my publisher may be used the term celebrity intellectual. that wasn't my idea. it is true that he kind of invented the idea of being a celebrity, like matt damon, like michael more, who stands for something. who says all right, i know i am famous. you are going to listen to me talk about this. he did that with the local strike, he invented the idea of picketing the corporate headquarters of rockefeller in new york city with black armbands to protest the massacre at ludlow. he also invented investigative reporting in chicago with the jungle. so much more i would like to say about him. i hope you will read my book. i hope you will join me in helping not have them disappear from memory. he has a lot to teach us, whether it is the politics of food, one of the central issues of his life, and very ardent temperance crusade arabic as he was a child of an alcoholic. and i think as chris said you coul

and the story of upton sinclair is essential to most to have 20th century in a way that i think these days is forgotten, to say the least. and lauren, i've had the pleasure of knowing her for a while. i first met her doing her history on napa valley history. we're really honored to have her here tonight. i do want to read a brief introduction to her so you can hear about that. ..

the arts and such and of course at shotgun wedding appears in the writings of sinclair lewis. he needed a name for a forced wedding in arra setting so shot gun wedding made it in. i tried a bunch of words. i probably tried about 100 and only two have stuck to the wall. maybe authorisms was created for this one. there's a phenomenon in english called the contrastive focused reduplication. that means if you say was he talking about a book or a book book meaning is he talking about a physical book or an e-book or is he talking about grass or grass grass meaning the difference between marijuana and lawn clippings. so one time i called these world words. i completely knocked it out of the dictionary. in the newest edition of the oxford gets in there as a form of speech, go word word. tonight if you go and send some mail or some male male, e-mail. another one i created with the help of some dictionary people was the noun or adjective for a person or a place of where person comes from. someone from liverpool or washingtonian or hoosier for someone from indiana. that seems to be stick

when i was doing research on this book, i found that sinclair lewis would invent words, and then he'd send off letters to merriam-webster, and the letters are in files up there, and he'd come up with a word, one of his great words he thought he had created was titoaltarian which were the dries during prohibition, and then he had a robber baron that gave a lot of money to good things, and his favorite was kiplingo which was for rudyard kipling. and, of course, kipling had some really amazing words. one of his is the horrible racism which was carried for many years white man's burden. that was kipling, and that was his example of how, the kind of person he was. but on the brightest side, he invented the word with rookie which was a corruption of recruit, and recruit didn't rhyme for him, so rookie went in instead. but the thing about lewis was sort of to his chagrin, the two words he is credited with, there's, of course, babbitt, a character for a sort of philistine with money and no appreciation of the finer things in life, the arts and such, and, of course, shotgun wedding first appea

today, we know general jeffrey sinclair is going to plead guilty to lesser charges and not sexual assault kind of message do you think that sends? >> well, it sends the wrong message and it underscores why we have to take it out of the chain of demand. because the argument floor abannan doing the sexual assault charges have to do with undue influence. well, we don't want undue influence on baffle of the victim or on baffle of the assailant. we want an independent, individual within it to make that assessment. both as an attorney or versus. if we do that we'll have cases come forward that should be heard. why is it that only 5,000 cases of the reported, of the 26,000 that aren't record, of the 5,000 reported only 500 go to court-martial and only 250 are convicted. >> well, talking about pbwc, you come back here and this is something very close to your heart. why? >> well, i founded it 25 years ago. so this is a big year for us, the 25th anniversary of the professional business women of california. the conference now boasts more than 25,000 participants as actively involved in pbwc. every y

. >> here with some great guys is meredith sinclair. >> hey, girl. >> hello. >> memorial day is alwaysmes. we're going to start with the y'all ball. each take one. they're lightweight. they're for 3-year-olds and up. and they're fun to play with all by themselves but we created a futch game. -- fun game. the hoops have water to weight them down. then we put points on these balloons. you're going to challenge your kids. >> i see. >> y'all ball. >> i like that. >> that's adorable. >> oh, these are dangerous. >> the unofficial start to summer means the unofficial water blaster time. and nerf has come up with this one. maybe we should shoot the balloon target. and you're just pumping action. and it sprays three -- >> that's enough. done. >> it's always the hair. >> what's this? >> the next thing is ring sticks. now here's -- you're each going to take one. what you do is, take things like swords. you put your hands through. and two at a time. and then -- >> what do you do? >> one person swings it and you're going to catch it. >> you need two. >> oh, separate? >> get it, hoda. >> oh, yeah. a

then at 7:45 p.m., lauren -- [inaudible] talks about the many political causes taken up by upton sinclairer his life including his unsuccessful run for governor of california in 1934. at 9 p.m. eastern, burton folsom is on "after words." mr. folsom details the best and worst government investments and bailouts from the days of george washington through today. at 10 p.m. eastern, barbara ehrenreich talks about her quest

i sit in awe of our next distinguished guest, amber sinclair.orld over as the first woman to bring wine to book clubs. [ cheers and applause ] amber. amber, do you even know what chapter of "the goldfinch" you're on? oh, no! they already gave you wine! be comfortable and have a great time, amber. we look forward to your book clubs. it is truly -- [ applause ] -- truly an honor to welcome this next individual to our studio audience. archduke harold willfred billingsworth vi is here. archduke -- [ laughter ] -- harold willfred billingsworth vi is widely regarded as the poorest man on earth with the richest sounding name. [ laughter ] let's check back in with that walrus, huh? oh, there he is! [ roars ] oh, i clap for you. [ applause ] i clap for you. just big fat ball of thick, wrinkly skin and some whiskers. he's a good fellow. next up, rachel klein is here. rachel is the carrier of the first u.s. case in 200 years of highly contagious black plague. [ laughter and applause ] she has a rare form of the disease that can be transmitted simply by bre

nation gomez her family gave thumbs-up as sinclair haskell not satisfy her late daughter and will be all. principal was very compassionate and said he will get together with other principles for other schools weather and tragedies and come up with the way to properly memorialized the graduation ceremony but not taking the oath focus off the russian class. 18 year- old killed in a car crash in san jose earlier this month all the district had planned to remember her with a cap and gown on empty chair at graduation next week a mother wanted something more. she deserves it shoes taken from us she graduated and received a credit of getting her diploma. the afternoon district insisted reading popular since name might reopen wounds on campus and have a negative impact on commencement at the family mounted a campaign on facebook t- shirts made and march in the fall off a sadistic relented pledging to revise policy and honoring the family's wishes. he said she did have a very compelling story with her winnings ability and how she's struggling kept within shoes success story needs to be honore

and the general sinclair case there was in fact a negotiated agreement that was agreed to by both parties before trial but the convening authority cut off negotiations and in fact under political pressure evidently made the case move forward. many say the commanders need to own this issue. the truth is the status quo isn't making them on this issue. so this first amendment is quite simple. it basically is very similar to legislation introduced on the sun aside by senator gillibrand which has been cosponsored on the house side by my colleagues. it basically provides that all nonmilitary serious felonies be taken out of the chain of command and that a chief prosecutor in each service would have the discretion on whether to prosecute a serious nonmilitary offense. a jagged or in 06 or higher outside the chain of command would convening carry out the court-martial. >> the gentlelady's time has expired. any other? mr. turner. >> mr. chairman i speak in opposition and with all due respect i appreciate the hard work on the issue of sexual assault that ms. speier has contributed. this review was

then at 7:45 p.m., lauren -- [inaudible] talks about the many political causes taken up by upton sinclair over his life including his unsuccessful run for governor of california in 1934. at 9 p.m. eastern, burton folsom is on "after words." mr. folsom details the best and worst government investments and bailouts from the days of george washington through today. at 10 p.m. eastern, barbara ehrenreich talks about her quest as a child to find out the truth and we wrap up tonight's prime time programming at 11 p.m. eastern. iraq war veteran phil clay discusses his collection of short stories about soldiers' experiences at war and back home. that all happens next on c-span2's booktv. >> booktv continues with eric schmidt and jared cohen. the two talk about the updated edition of their book, "the new digital age," in which they discuss nsa spying and current state of internet security. this is about an hour and ten minutes. [applause] >> thank you. well, it is really exciting to be back at the computer history museum with my good friend, mentor, colleague, eric. >> schmidt and my friend, jared

a lot of time our mount tam cam are joined sinclair's are to this monday carried looks nice.f it feels nice. scene and a 50 degree temperatures with zebras are to begin the week and then things turned hot on us over the course of the next three to four days barry decides what is through the current excessive heat watch when in fact for tuesday and wednesday for the entire bay area. the only exception will be ride along the coast line where even dare to it will also be warm parent and afternoon highs bay area ride in the upper 80s and 90s. and some of the hot spots could reach 100 degrees by wednesday buried there will be in very weak sigrid at which will offer some relief bringing our temperatures back down to the 6 this is your of in the hills. for hill he may not cool down much beyond '70s which might be uncomfortable during over nine hours delays for a few days. the spare the air alerts and smog alert of course than to the uncomfortable with her death by the tuesday and temperatures wednesday temperatures. london san francisco 89 tomorrow. if an for wednesday jumping up to

sinclair said it best, it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends onte sets the context why we have some of the discussions we have. i kind of steer clear of that. the science is clear, 97% of us that publish and speak on the science have known this for a while. there's a lot of noise out there, but i try to stay focused on the signal. >> michelle, as we mentioned, this report was released by the white house. is there any indication that there was any sort of political intervention with this report? >> i think that the detractors out there will say, look, this was commissioned by a white house, by an administration that has an agenda to advance, especially in president obama's second term. but these are scientists who when asked, will stand behind the science of what they're doing. and for every detractor out there, of course, there's a response not only from the administration, but from the scientists themselves, pamela. >> all right. michelle and marshall, thank you both. >> thank you. >>> the offer is on the table. but the question remains, is the u

mounds view today's 71 we'll see a high of 72 and sinclair similar conditions and the east bay as well later on say i keep the preconditions from fairfield 76 in any act upper 60s for san leandro and hayward a slight downtowns of his coaching with a high of 63. in terms of what's happening at a seven there on the day forecast shows perhaps on cell weather as it began next week. to do have an approaching area of low pressure spilling from the this of the northwest coast and expected to drop south and could bring a few showers and north bay as early as tomorrow. with that we're looking at the possibility of thunderstorms for the north bay as it hinted tuesday about the models still in a disagreement right now. we don't of all the dynamics are really lining up after this occurs. a treasury bills as we head into wednesday thursday impasse that temperatures will jump up back in the '90s as we head into next saturday >> : what about the show you should never be attempted ever the striver who missed all signs has decided to off the freeway by going the opposite direction. so first assessment

god operation is still underway according to clear sinclair minister he says the army have taken control of a training center in the city during the night fighting erupted when an armored column earlier blocked by the protesters tried to break free the soldiers reportedly first started shooting in the air and then at the people who tried to stop them here's what an eyewitness told our clean up. crew surrounded them now and. in the light been turned off on the nearby street shorts are being heard across the city signal rockets light up the sky and from time to time people see the ukrainian army shooting at everything that moves right now. that are the major target for killers forces as the nearby city of slovyansk go which is a major hotbed of dissent and saw an assault on friday the army then reportedly managed to take down several of the protesters road blocks artie's policia is in the city is there for us to pull out tell us what's going on where you are. well the city remains on edge with residents waking up to a very nervous saturday morning the city center is still in the hands of a

jimmy duranty, grand premier wouldn't even allow sinclair to because he didn't have a tuxedo. there's so many stories i could tell. the mac this country was dealt on people who have immigrated to this country. some of the michael, some illegally. in my case they came in with a documentation and no ability to get a job for an education. when i first came here into the united states in the late 80 between mexico and the united states and coming into the valley to work with micro karmarkar. it was no challenge to find a job. they were pulling weeds at the same hand. do .. and then on thursday, it's back to the west coast for an event at easel in brentwood, california where steven press feel talks about the 6-day war between israel and its arab neighbors. and that is a look at some of the of the programs book tv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to our website booktv.org and visit upcoming program. >> for this must book tv book club join other readers to discuss it calls you back, an odyssey through love, addiction, revolutions, and healing. former gang member turne

they wouldn't even allow sinclair and because he didn't have a tux ego. there are so many stories i could tell. >>> when the islamic revolution hit, they were cut off from the west in part because of religious reasons. they had problems with using dead bodies and because the west shortly after imposed sanctions and they didn't have the resources, technolog the technoe infrastructure to continue with this deceased organ donation. so they decided to focus on living donations. so the simpler sort of old-fashioned way of dealing with the transplant shortage. and this wasn't as irrational as you may think. because pd-90% of people that need organs or kidneys, so they focused on the largest part of the organization that needed help. while we focused on everybody. and we focused on finding the technology that we could to keep the organs viable and transfer them quickly and do everything we could get the to get them frm cadavers. this makes sense because like a person with risk of the kidney if you could get a cadaver. but if we went into different directions, ir