the story of jack nelson, for those who don't know, is the story of news reporting in the latter half of the 20th century. if you look at his career starting off, he was born in talladega, alabama, just across the state line, moves as a child to biloxi where he starts peddling newspapers. he was a newspaper boy. an honorable way to begin. that's how i got my start. of. [laughter] he gets his paris job at the daily herald -- his first job at the daily herald down in biloxi/gulfport. just purely serendipitously, it's where i got my start, okay? [laughter] he portrays himself quite openly as a very gullible reporter, and i certainly hope that when you've bought the book and you've had a chance to look at it, you'll be as entertained as we were by some of his early stories of falling for ruses and having great faith that everyone was telling him the truth. as you find out later, they weren't always telling the truth. of course, he then begins to develop a reputation as a very tough, hard-nosed investigative reporter which gets him beat up a couple of times and sends him fleeing to the atl

story. the united states master the relationship between illicit trade in war before we tacked to conflict commodities, blood diamonds and so on. after all, how can george washington supply his troops but that massive smuggling of gunpowder since we actually had no domestic capacity. one of them is in fact john brown at brown university who sought gunpowder at exorbitant prices to george washington of course i'm insane or charging us these prices come up with no choice because of extreme circumstances. john brown emerged the richest men in rhode island because he was such a profiteer. fast forward to the war of 1812. most people to remember this war. not only important, one of the main reasons the united states failed to annex canada as it turns out we were more interested in trading of them fighting them. they were quite intertwined economically, not so enthused about fighting. the british troops in canada were greatly dependent on the smuggling to keep troops of either would've been a much

we haven't got any stories. actually we've got no experience. wait! i've got a story. i had an experience. you? yeah. actually i've never told you this before but in my younger days i used to work in a kimono shop. you did? yes. and 8 years ago i went to the house of the samurai to sell kimonos and the samurais name was,uto,gotomosh. but when i arrived only the samurais wife was home. sam ris wife? i bet she was gorgeous! oh, yes, she was very sexy, beautiful lady and she invited me into the back room and served me sak . go on! go on! well i stayed there all afternoon. talking and drinking saki and suddenly she looked at me and said, mr. kimono man, come closer. closer. and she looked me right in the eyes and said, i think i'm falling in love with you. i am! i love you. i want you. i need you. then she started taking off her kimono. she started to take off her - what happened next! calm down. i can't. i'm just so jealous. wow you must have had a wonderful night together. you think so? yeah. actually, no. no. just because right as i was kissing her. samurais brother sud

this is like the story, but is true. there is a lot more to the story.avis: what the make of the fact s he puts in the state' out a couple of albums, and they go nowhere, but in south africa he sells half a million albums? they love him in south africa. of all the places in the world, why did his music had told there? the times are pretty tumultuous here as well. people always say the good old days. these were not the best times for people of color in this country. how could it not catch on here, but it took off like nobody's business in south africa? >> it was obeyed. -- it was big. it is so strange this happens. it is so hard to explain. one thing is he was not hurt at all in america, because anyone who hears it immediately understand. he is very accessible, but if no one hears it, it never starts. tavis: why did it not get hurt? why did rodriguez not get hurt in the -- heard in the states? >> if you would have sold 1000 copies it would have started. they told him rodriguez does not work. you need to change your name. robert zimmerman changed his name

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is that a political story?lly except you know, we're ten years away from the russian revolution. to me if you want to sort of explore political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal. because that's something that no one can deny. whatever your supposed politics are, left, right, if you put it in a human connection most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in the way they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. >> brown: some of your stories present the contemporary strangeness of life by taking us a little bit further into the... further into the future and taking something happening now and pushing it even further. so it almost has the quality of science fiction at times. other of your stories and i see more of them in this collection feel more right of the moment, realists. >> right. brown: humane in a way. i've been married to my wife paula for 25 years. we have wonderful kids. it's been a really rich life. i start thinking, is there a way to get

and make up positive stories about guns.or instance,: did you know that four out of five dentists recommend that you own a gun? [laughter] or that abraham lincoln actually died from -- [laughter] join me from standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. let the cdc know they can take our ignorance whenthey they [c] >> stephen: welcome back. thanks very much. [cheers and applause] nation, as you may know, on thursday pope benedict will be stepping down. and as television's foremost roman catholic i'll have full coverage of this story in pope watch: 2013678 i'll be on the ground live from rome to cover the story up close and papal. this wednesday il papa will give his last public audience and circle st. peter's square in the pope noble salute the enormous crowd. naturally, the jackals in the media are take advantage of pope's exit to strike with new scandal rumors. >> blackmail sex scandal. allegations involving the catholic's church. >> allegations involving sex, prostitution and blackmail. >> a secret network of gay

after story in the book also in stories of the wisp. blowers talked about you know and that that sense of attachment to ideals . that you mentioned whistleblowers. who whistleblowers are. it seems like in the united states the obama administration has prosecuted six whistleblowers. from the george washington administration until the end of the bush administration the entire collection of prosecutions of whistleblowers. anti-government whistleblowers or people. the total number of people prosecuted was three by every previous administration combined how have things changed for whistleblowers. well you bring up a very very important fact and by the way those those are national security whistleblowers and that actually relates to something larger which are which is another theme of the book you know it's easy to admire whistleblowers when they blow the whistle on someone else's crimes or someone else's fraud when their distance from daniel ellsberg oh the vietnam war of course what a hero ellsberg was not a hero in too many people in the s

this is another story.ise companies are covering themselves because the law states they are the ones that are responsible. so it is carnival cruises, and everyone who owns them whatever legal entity it is, they are the ones who are on the hook, they are on the hook in federal court a hundred percent. if it's easier for the person who is suing to bring it to the state court there are exceptions where you can bring it to the state court as well and they will have to proof, the plaintiff, the passengers are going to have to prove that this fire was caused by negligent, in othenegligence. if somebody snuck into the engine room and blew up one of the engines or intentionally started one of the fires, then the cruise ship has a legitimate defense, but if it's just based on lack of upkeep, lack of maintenance, then they will have a case, the plaintiff will have a case, but fred is right, the tickets for these cruises are usually pages long, and they describe the limits on liability based on your injuries. jon: las

so you had time to find the story, to think about the story. nows that a not is a say we aren't doing a good job today. it's not to say it's not fun but it's not the same. demands are constant, i talk to you 1:00 my time in the middle east and come straight off that and bang i have to dot evening news. that's stimulating and it's fun and we're doing it well, i think, but it's-- there was a time when you could, you could disappear. you could pretend you were henry morton stanley if you were covering africa and that doesn't exist any more. >> rose: the other thing is you do it in a minute and a half box, you tell us a story generally in a minute and a half. >> yeah. >> rose: but what i love about being at cbs, for me, is that you guys are storytellers, that's what you are. >> that's basically what a journalist job is. but there is a challenge to a minute and a half. >> rose: absolutely. >> how much can you get in here and how much information can you provide, how well can you do this and the beauty, the fun of television is that you've got pictur

tell us about this story? >> well, the story came about. i read an article that said how all of jesus' disciples were brutally murdered. i didn't know that. john was the only one who survived and went on to write the book of revelations. everyone else was stoned, hanged, courthouse fewed and died horrible depths. came up with a concept of having a modern-day cereal killer killing modern day clergy as the martyrs and he's cruise fighting them and stoning them -- crucifying them, stoning them to death and approaching a sermon. >> uh-huh. >> at the same time, and as the copies investigate the crimes, they -- cops investigate the crimes, they realize the priests were pedophiles, thieves, hypocrites, not the lofty characters they presented themselves to be. you have the serial killer who like hanibal lecter. >> right. >> and sometimes you are empathizing with him and torn. >> even though he's crazy and dangerous. >> absolutely. >> there is some truth. >> exactly. and even though they look good, there -- . >> exactly. >> and you have all the dich

fundamentally right the dorner story is a local story, mostly. but it was getting national attention. so, it was both. the presidential story was a global story. this is, this is o.j. on steroids. i mean, wve been here before. >> tleferance, of course, made to bill clinton's 1997 state of the union which was split screen. okay, local story jane hall, national attention. why is that? >> well, i think some people try to portray him as some sort of rob robinhood and while we're in the midst of a serious debate of gun control that amount of coverage glorified this man publishing his manifesto. i agree with frank, newspapers won't have to choose as much as cable does. they can split the screen. if they had split the screen, they would have been saying christopher dorner, a murderer, is equal to the state of the union address by the president of the united states. that would have been pretty awful. >> although in the hours before president obama spoke, a lot of split screen and paul farhi is there an argument that the shootout, the manhunt, the fire wa

is her story is about ordinary people, we all have these stories and our families and we shall try and dig them up. so first thing is to try to talk to the older people in our families because we often way too long. don't wait. don't wait. collect those photos and talk to people. collect those records in boxes and old folders somewhere. there are great pools where you can find records and documents from your desktop. ancestry.com is a subscriber service which has a fee. familysearch is free. if you know where your family is from you can go to your local courthouse and search for a property records, vital records, birth certificates, marriage certificates. 4 african-americans, many people have fought it is hard and difficult to do and it is because african-americans do not appear in the census until 1870 and people say what about letters and journals and i say slaves were barred by law from being able to read and write and newspapers at the time didn't chronicle marriages and birth and things like that but even so it is difficult. from 1870 on, the census is a great fool and you can fin

how did the story stay buried? >> demon and i discovered the story, i thought it was very important. the impact that these women and on what we wearan impac .oday the story rises to the top in certain parts but it never comes full circle with models playing the big roles. tavis: i don't want to make you overtly political, but what does this story say to us, and guide us? tell me what the message here is for the tragedy today? i noted fashion week is going on as we speak. this is not my area of expertise but i watch a little bit of everything and i still don't see the number of african american models on the cover of magazines. i don't see them to the extent that they ought to be. what is the unfinished business in this industry given what we know? >> the unfinished business is to show people that all races can be beautiful. all people can be beautiful so you need to use the people that can make your clothes look the best, regardless of color. there should not be a blueprint for what a model can look like. you can a

didn't believe his story about having no memory.ain and specific at trial. as for the janitor jerry trump, the judge was convinced that jerry trump committed perjury at the initial trial. lied about seeing ryan, but he said it's unlikely it would have changed the jury's decision had they known the truth. in the same way he found out his son had been arrested for murder, bill ferguson learned ryan's fate from a reporter. >> she says, i just want to know if you want to make a comment on judge green's ruling? i'm thinking, what? what ruling? she goes, you know, oh, my god, you don't know, do you? i go, no. >> that was it. >> yeah. >> finally, i got hold of my dad. he was trying to hold it together, but even his voice cracked, you know? that was the worst sound i ever heard in my life and the most difficult thing i ever heard. >> then you were locked down? >> yeah. it's just at that moment you feel so empty and so alone. and hopeless, you know? >> kent heightold's family all along fought ryan's attempt to overturn his victory. kathleen

story broke now interesting we had that story there's a whistleblower story in that in that a soldier named joseph darby took the cd full of those photographs and forwarded them to the pentagon criminal investigation unit and that triggered a set of acts and decisions that eventually led those pictures to be shown across the world and across the united states darby. a hero if you believe that that torture and the behavior there is squarely against american values in the constitution darby. cannot return to his hometown afterwards when he's outed for this because he's receiving threats he and his wife there have been no medal of honor as far as i know given to any of the people during the bush era who there were such people who refused to torture who did say something who in guantanamo refused to go along and i tell one of those stories at the end of my book about a lieutenant colonel darryl van de velde who had a crisis of conscience in guantanamo but those people did not get on or did not get fed and they still haven't actually. we should know their names and i hope that in writing t

one final story. a couple months ago, two months ago to be exact, i got to do a uso tour, and they brought me to skate good two other undisclosed military locations to entertain the troops. when we first went and assad you're going to meet the troops and spend time with them and do book signings i was so honored to be asked. you can't tell nip where you're going. this is kuwait, up disclosed military location, and then the made t-shirts for the tour and on the t-shirts were all the locations we were going and it was like, this this crack security in charge of our live? so i can't tell you where i went unless i'm wearing that t-shirt and then you'll see where we went. but obviously honored to go over there. the best part is as we got there, the week before our tour, the international thriller writers sends five authors to entertain the troupes and we were the third group and weightright before we got there the troupes had just seen the ultimate champion guys, cage fighting. the dallas cowboy cheerleade

everything out there tells a story. that's why i'm here. because i'm looking for stories. i'm looking for these same kinds of stories that i find in the desert. i came to hear straight from grace cathedral today where i walked into the cathedral and i took off my shoes and walked on the maze that's right in the front, in the center. and i don't know if you've ever been to this place. you have to stop in and walk this maze because it is very much like what it's like to be out in the desert. where you start walking along and you see where you are going eventually. you see the center spot and you know where you are going to be, except you are going away from it and then toward it and then away from it and all the way around it and then away from it again and back toward it. that's what it's like walking out in the desert in the deep cliffs, in the dunes where you want to go there but there's not a route from here to there. if you had a gps it wouldn't really work because it would point a straight line from here to there because there's a cliff face and to get down you have to

he was able to tell the story and lay it out in 13 stories, this mystery with a lot of reveal. the fun part is there was a big reveal every week. >> were you instantly drawn to it, or did it take some time to figure out this was the vehicle to return to network television? >> like everything, my life has always been a surprise, and i was surprised. i had been developing a series that was going to be a cable show, and that did not go. six months later, my manager says, i like this. i could not stop reading. i thought, abc wants to take this kind of risk, i would love to be part of it. i have not seen anything this big on television. what made it risky to you? >> the visuals had to be great, and there is a ticking clock of storytelling that you have to be true to every week. for me, it is risky, and it sells very different. it has been eight years doing very realistic medical drama, and this harkens back to nazi germany, modern-day conspiracy theories. every episode we are in a different country. it felt incredibly ambitious. argue there iscould always a risk in deciding to take

story.orning, savannah. if you have a kid good at running, might be on their school's cross-country, a kids triathlon. this story is about two young girls who are way beyond that. they are running races meant to challenge adults. in a sea of runners at the championship in hawaii, there are two you wouldn't expect, little girls from texas, kaytlynn welsch is 12, her sister heather is 10. it will take an enormous amount of endurance and grit to withstand these 12 miles but the welsch sisters are up to the challenge. they are two of the fastest and youngest endurance runners in the country. so fast, they usually outrun the grownups. >> do you like racing against grownups. >> sometimes but when they say the bad words, we'll be like -- >> when you pass them? >> yes. >> do you get mad when people pass you. >> we don't say cuss words. >> their dad is their coach. >> at the start they are still up there fighting with each other or doing something silly. then it's time to start the race and they are

is th a political story? really except, you know, we're ten years away from the russian revolution. to me if you want to sort of explore political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal. because that's something that no one can deny. whatever your supposed politics are, left, right, if you put it in a human connection most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in the way they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. >> brown: some of your stories prent the contporary strangeness of life by taking us a little bit further into the... further into the future and taking something happening now and pushing it even further. so it almost has the quality of science fiction at times. other of your stories and i see more of them in this collection feel more right of the moment, realists. >> right. brown: humane in a way. i've been married to my wife paula for 25 years. we have wonderful kids. it's been a really rich life. i start thinking, is there a way to get

. >> history is stories. you know? and so i really enjoy thinking of different ways things could have gone or perhaps are going at the moment. >> yeah. >> but that's what's so interesting to me about the elections now is that you pretty much the candidates are doing what i'm doing. doing stories. because that's the thread that connects all of this stuff. and they tell stories about how they see the past, what they think the future is. and you vote for the person whose story you like the best. >> right. >> and that's the way it is. and so telling a good story, one that tries to -- you know, reflect things kind of as they are, not as the wayú you think they should be or could be, but really try to make an effort in a journalistic way to do that i think is a great art work. >> of course, when you look at the you tell stories or i do listen to them, i might hearing is true. is that a mistake, actually? maybe i should say it the other way. i have less faith going into it that their stories are actually true. i wonder how yo

the books and alphabet for them to write down their stories, they advance their stories.hey did rock art and told their story through their families and pass them down from generation to generation. even today the native people believe that the most sacred stories should only be passed down by word of mouth. another important influence on our literature and culture of course or the spanish are ruled in santa fe for more than two centuries. and the first piece of literature to emerge from this arrow was actually written by a spanish officer who came here with the conquistadors and it is his first-hand account of the settling of this country and this part of the world and some of his famous battles. the title of the epic poem that he wrote was -- which simply means the history of new mexico. it is the earliest first-hand account and it was published in madrid in 1610. the original copy is here in our history library that is part of the museum of new mexico. now the third dominant culture are the americanamerican s who came here. remember santa fe was spanish for more than 2

i mean, there are stories, and then there are really impactful stories.lown away by a story, but that was it. unbelievable. the power of love on many different levels. we'll be back. septic disasters are disgusting and costly, but avoidable. the rid-x septic subscriber program helps prevent backups by sending you monthly doses right to your door so you will never forget to maintain your system. sign up at rid-x.com. >>> welcome back, everybody. time for "the mix." we want to get to something that is oh, so interesting. apparently, there's a 20-year-old out there named mark who is in a relationship with 15 inflatable animals. there he is. he's going to be featured in tlc's "my strange addiction." and the dragon is like a wife to him, apparently. but apparently he keeps a pure and nonsexual relationship with these objects. he admits he spends less time with his toys and more time with actual humans. but yeah, that's that. >> wow! there's a joke in there somewhere, but i have to get to this breaking news this morning. they're saying a new study is out saying

they can do it in a way to tell the human stories. human stories are key. we can use the human stories to tell the story about the structural problems of poverty in the country so it has more than just a human interest quality. it could lead to change. it could lead to hearings. politically, it has resonance. millions of people are now squeezed in the middle class. they are feeling a check or two away from near poverty. there is more openness to think hard about what has happened in a country that is the richest country in the world. this is where we try to reset the and narrative -- reset the narrative, the idea that america is. . it is not broke. our priorities are broken. there is a misplaced obsession with debt and deficits as the national emergency of our time. that has driven the story line inside the beltway. we did a story on how the austerity cost rules washington. it is a portrait of think tanks, philanthropists and others who have framed in a way so it is hard to tell an alternative story. that has shifted a little because of new voices and force

it will be different stories. but the oppression of our voices have been for so many, many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of asian american was maxine kingston. i read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. before her there were few. there were some but didn't make that economic splash. they were never read in a large way. maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. my generation of writers came in and we heard stories of women and men and the family of a different generation. a lot of us had been writing about that because they were silenced for so long. i am involved with the book prize. it's a pacific rim book prize in which books come from asia and all over the pacific rim. in the last 11 years it's been a prize we read so many books that have come from

here is a story from cnn this week. iran says it decoded and released footage from a year of a strong that was down more than a year ago. we have been talking about defense issues. defense secretary leon panetta's farewell ceremony is today. c-span will be broadcasting a live 3:45 p.m. eastern time. you can catch it on c-span. learn more about on our website, c-span.org. michael is our last call. salt lake city. democrat. caller: what is a drone? i think people have some sort of misconception about it. it is a remotely highly vehicle, controlled by humans. not much different than if you had an f-16 flying over circling around. more than likely there is somebody on the ground identifying the target. somehow they have to identify the target before they make a strike. so, the either have somebody on the ground or electronic intelligence to find that out. also, like killing bin laden -- they could have used a drug to do that. what is the difference? they still killed him. i think people have a misconception about how remote

my favorite story of the day.furniture store say the free advertising is worth it. in a promotion, gardner's furniture said if a raven oechened either half of the super bowl by returning the kickoff for a touchdown all the furniture sold between january 31st and 3:00 p.m. sunday would be free. >> and of course, jacobi jones returned the second half kick, 101 yard for the score. that means some 600,000 dollars worth of furniture is completely free and up for grabs. just in case, gardner's took out an insurance approximately see to cover most of the costs. wow. >> imagine the manager of the story watching the opening of the second half. oh, dear. >> backing up. >> triple. >> led them up. >> wow, $600,000. smart to get the insurance policy. >> oh, my goodness. you know what this happens every year. always some kind of car dealership says i will give away every car in my lot. >> that's right. >> then they end up you. see them end of the whole thing. going, i had no idea one of the two teams was going to win. >> that's

story is coming up. chaos and confusion that's how some libyan activists paint the situation in the north african state two years after it was first engulfed by the bloody revolution for a bad drabble zee venture to achieve their goal of toppling the long time leader daffy but all i know is so few voices hailing the demand the jimmies of a dictator artes and his and now it has been finding a. former gadhafi has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet what back to you is impossible to imagine a future for libya we could definitely still be in power he must go. well gadhafi is long gone and we don't need to imagine but can take a close look the revolt which began in benghazi was followed by an eight month nato bombing campaign costing thousands of lives and left libya torn apart drowning in conflict and suffocating in stagnation still rich in oil libya economically is a mess despite rampant unemployment and an overwhelming housing crisis huge construction projects are on hold and

. >> his story didn't make a lot of sense. >> do you want to start the story again? >> what do you mean? >> tell the truth. that was a lie. why did you lie, thomas? >> i don't like to be in trouble. i talk to a lot of people and meet a lot of people. >> come to find out, thomas had done this before, even sent naked pictures of himself. >> the reason you september this pick as someone who identified themselves as a 14-year-old girl. >> i had those in my loft. when i send a picture -- >> that's appropriate? >> no. >> to send to a 14-year-old girl. i am into young girls. i like them better than older girls. >> younger like 19, 20. that's what i meant by that. >> are you into sex? what was the biggest blank you have had? she says she's only had one. you talk about the size of your penis. >> i'll be honest. i meant everything i did say on there. i'm a person, i don't like getting in any trouble. >> how could you expect not to get in trouble by setting up a date after a sexually charged conversation with a girl who said she was 14. how could you expect not to get in troubl

who was telling the story? one thing we can clear about the start i can comfortably used the word we. but the plural there are some genuine things we want to see together for advice book a larger structure is written in the third person who tells stories about our work with each other. in sections of the book is a complicated little stricter but i and we end of day and whoever think it works. tonight we will be faithful to the structure by leading passages in both modes with a recollection the first part of a call for the atlantic when i was an editor follow the first chapter in the beginning and then we will go on from there in. >> i just want to tell you a little story about this book. in 40 years of working with someone you come up with habits and towards the end of the book we write the bad reviews. i was especially good at this. it's a kind of magical thinking the notion if you thought of all of the bad things someone can say then it's already been said. the public didn't always work and the notable locati

those stories were not racially based stories. this i learned from the book, i never knew this, i learned it from jean patterson. the last story jack covered for the constitution was in little rock when eisenhower had the federal troops out and they rear desegregating send central high school. as jean patterson said at a memorial service jack was never the same after that. the common theme running through the stories about corruption in government or state officials, incompetent doctors, the movement, what he really did and what i would like to do in washington is battle injustice and expose it. he found in justice, whatever was, and exposed it. started when he was 22 and went to the time that he died and you know there is an old myth shattered by this book by the way, when i arrived at the constitution, both cuts and wrote about this, it was gospel truth and we believe that, jack did not stay at the atlanta constitution. the management would not give you a $5 raise. that is stated as true and as president carter pointed out he wa

it comes back to the story, story. when you have that overwhelming force that is the nature of story, the technology is just supporting that. always supporting it. never going past it. and that's where that balance comes in. >> reporter: speaking of balance, what's it like for bay area tech types to hobnob with the hollywood elite? >> walking by. like, i'm sorry. you step on someone's foot. oh, that was daniel day-lewis. oops. that was your dress i stepped on. we were trying not to get hurt ourselves on the carpet. >> reporter: hollywood should get used to us because pixar has become a powerhouse. and the pixar machine continues to roll on. they've got another film due soon. it's called "monsters university." you can expect to see that one in theaters june 21st. reporting at pixar headquarters, scott budman. >> it's a great mother/daughter movie. merida. >> i'll rent the movie. >>> and angus. >> you are a movie reviewer, jess. current temperatures starting to drop. 39 in santa rosa. 41 in livermore. a little milder in

. >> reporter: she published her novel "slammed" a love story with more sexual tension than actual sex. taboo relationship set against poetry slams. we talked to her among fans. >> i tried agents and i got a lot of rejection letters about how i should change it to third person, take out the poetry, maybe -- >> oh! >> no. >> the book was out and i was getting rejection letters after it hit the "the new york times." >> reporter: as she's getting turned down by publishers and agents she made it to the best seller list, she made it on to the list five months after being a christmas present to mom. >> every day my sales increased by one or two until eventually it hit the top 100. >> reporter: the demand for new adisability books has boosted by mature themes, the stories often involve young lovers finding their way flay complex world. >> i look at you, i know you're scared, you act like you're not but you are. i know you now, we've been doing this. >> you don't know me. >> reporter: like the hit hbo show "girls" plenty of high-intensity relationships with relatable characters. chock full of

really your story. it is a lot of people's story. >> a new pbs documentary premieres tonight telling the story of how women have shaped the united states over the last half century. we will speak with the film's executive producer betsy west. as protests grow in the west bank over the death of a palestinian man inside an israeli prison, we speak with two co-founders and that is for peace. one is palestinian, the other israeli. they reunited after the deaths of their daughters. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. details are slowly emerging on the allegations against u.s. special operations forces that prompted afghan president karzai to order the removal from wardak province. afghan officials said they have received complaints for the past three months that u.s. forces have arrested nine people who have since disappeared. one afghan villagers said her son was taken away and later found dead. >> my son was taken in his

immigration stories, the story that comes up multiple times, and all of a sudden, the story of the wind sing america becomes the story of a terrified america. in that we begin to see exactly what separates the two americas. immigration and worry about immigration is as old as america itself. one of the first great american best sellers, book by maria monk, it was an account of catholicism. priest did terrible things, murdering the babies that were produced and etc. i was stunned to read in peter's book that despite all of those various forms of horror of immigration, it wasn't until the 1870s that it became a question of borders. and it became a question of borders about the 1870s. they tried to resist prostitutes, lunatics, idiots, people of moral rectitude and all around the dispute began of the chinese immigrants. mexicans, no problem at all. they could come and go as they wanted because they wouldn't stay forever and in fact, the great late chinese smuggling was to pretend that they were mexicans. how things change. the immigration story is kind of a deal to america. when did it tri

quick story. was at gracie mansion, which is the mayor's house in new york city, and he with a female deputy mayor was standing on the front porch and they were gazing out at the east river, and a rat ran across the lawn. and the deputy mayor screamed. and he said, don't think of it as a rat. think of it as a squirrel. he saw things the way he wanted to see them, not the way they were. and he pushed toward that vision. and he was able to tackle very thorny issues, particularly in this town. the issues of pay. the issues of cuts. getting the budget under control. he did eventually balance the budget when it was ridiculously out of whack. he did that in a few years and got the city back on firm financial footing. but it was a tough time. very tough time. >> he called himself a liberal with sanity. and he was always against social engineering. in fact, chuck, he used to say, why does new york always have to be number one in welfare and medicaid and -- couldn't we be number three and number four and b