if i know they know more about i try to stay thoreau. having spent up close time with him for two years as i said i tend to call them henry. the book is a very close up personal almost novel like look at his early years. in my novel like i don't mean anything sexual at all. very textured and detailed and a lot of dialogue from the primary sources. so throughout the book i call them henry. no doubt i will fall into the. so i need to start a properly with the quotation by ralph waldo emerson who said of his old friend, he was free and strange your and the one thing i keep coming back to was henry was very, very strange and that was the exciting part of this, was the personality and character in getting that on paper. at times it felt like i was wrestling five guerrillas into one little bitty cage and it worked but to me when i look at the book it almost vibrates with the tension getting all those personalities into the same boat. a lot of people come down on one side or the other or feel they ought to. city, a thoreau idolater or acolyte o

so it is a work of very thoreau- like meditation all scientific based essays. >> another author you have coming out this fall. >> a physician in north carolina. this is his second work. his first book was a collection of fiction short stories. this is non-fiction. it is a 11 shorts stories about being a doctor, the challenges of our residents. he is a great doctor. he trained many. he gave up riding in order to practice medicine. he would take it to the extremes of life, showing you what it is like in the emergency room, and an intensive careward and the challenges of the doctor faces to all with extraordinary language. >> our declaration, what is that? >> our declaration is actually coming out in july. daniel allen is a leading philosopher and scholar at the institute for advanced studies at princeton. she feels that we don't know what the declaration of independence is about. we have never studied it. she has done courses on a for adult students call also a talented undergraduates. she says that the declaration is as much about a quality as it is about personal liberty. she has also di

a century after thoreau, we had rachel carson and silent spring.fter that, edward abbey, the writer who has become the kind of, one of the stars of environmental literature in america. and since nearly the time of russo, we've also been harangued by the mall news i can'ts. 1798, thomas -- [inaudible] published his essay in which he said population growth is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce sustenance for man. 1968 paul ehrlich at stanford university, still at stanford university, came out with the population bomb, a book which was published by the sierra club. ehrlich claimed, quote, the battle to feed all of humanity is over. in the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death. consider this statement from the sierra club on nuclear energy, and it has been the sierra club's policy since 1974, the group said it will remain opposed to nuclear pending, quote: development of adequate national and global policies to curb energy overuse and unnecessary economic growth. i repeat, curb energy overuse and unnecessary

court room, family members cursed and shouted as defense lawyers said that no rescuers, no matter how thoreaucould have saved everyone on board. even the appearance of the crew was enough to upset some relatives. why are they allowed to sit comfortably on chairs, one shouted? l.ey should be made to knee this is likely to take several months, and even judging actions tantamount to murder, there are concerns about whether they will get a fair trial. bbc news, south korea. >> now, to the world cup, where a boisterous home crowd was. 0-0 match.o to a belgium rallied back from a one goal deficit to beat algeria, 2-1, and everyone in america is still celebrate in the u.s. win last night. for more on all of the action, i spoke to in brown in rio de about how those in brazil were disappointed by the results of today's game. >> well, they were, but on the other hand, they are still partying at the copacabana beach where they watched it. fans were screaming on the beach, some of them actually in the water as they were watching the game. all along the beachfront, traffic was stopped. everybody was on th

so that becomes a form of patriotism and the legacy of henry david thoreau, martin king , a rich tradition. a beautiful smile. >> m not certain if this is from du bois. if you don't understand white supremacy everything else would only confuse you. would like to find out if you can explain that and, is that relevant to the? >> it sounds like some plan that he would have said. if you missed not just the fight but how it is shaped in the modern world of our economy, nation states, they'll tell us to see just how deep cuts. of course he is part of that ban the taxes it is the problem of the color line. that's a letter saying you don't understand. that things you can understand without thinking about what's the premise it, i suppose. >> a lot of blues. it. >> in general, if you are trying to on the stand the social world it seems to me it is sort of a nonstarter unless -- now, if one should say that there are booths level where it and back or did. and so getting better over the long haul worked before we go to the next question, he has this in mind. a question he has been wrestling with all of

thoreau, dispassionate, objective analysis needs to take place. he might be found guilty. you have to get to what the sentence would be. with the fact that he served five years at the hands of captors factor in? you absolutely know that it would. it may result in no punishment. one way or the other, you can be fairly confident that he will not be at the army -- in the army at the end of this period of time. the question is, how will he get out? by administrative process? will he be allowed to retire and collect backpay? will he be court-martialed? i don't know. host: robert, democratic caller. caller: i want to know what happens if sergeant bowe bergdahl had died in the hands of the taliban and this administration not have gotten him out? what kind of scrutiny would the administration be under then? alreadyf all, they have convicted this man in the court of public opinion all over the media. they convicted him of treason and howg a traitor could he have a trial in this country at this point? excellent questions. talk about the political blowback the administration is getti

temperate represents lots of the iconic locations throughout the united kingdom cathedrals castles thoreaucies and all the rest of it. that coach we are going to see a lot more in the future is if you like a mobile museum of british tradition going back a thousand years. talking about the long tradition we have lord chamberlain now. as i mentioned earlier taking the imperial state crown from the royal gallery into the roving room because of course they now know the queen is on her way and it's not a long run. down to parliament square so a few minutes ago and the crown being taken to the room in preparation. nick. >> is tom whether he was comfortable with the ceremony and it's interesting we have just gone through a moment of projection is that political class. not by every but choosing not to vote for any of these three main parties in the u.k.. we heard from the s&p who said we want to put this all behind us all the ceremony. what is interesting is people don't seem to be rejecting this particularly. back in the mid-90s there was new labor. does it mean putting this behind us and doing s

thoreau, dispassionate, objective analysis needs to take place. he might be found guilty.ave to get to what the sentence would be. with the fact that he served five years at the hands of captors factor in? you absolutely know that it would. it may result in no punishment. one way or the other, you can be fairly confident that he will not be at the army -- in the army at the end of this period of time. the question is, how will he get out? by administrative process? will he be allowed to retire and collect backpay? will he be court-martialed? i don't know. host: robert, democratic caller. caller: i want to know what happens if sergeant bowe bergdahl had died in the hands of the taliban and this administration not have gotten him out? what kind of scrutiny would the administration be under then? alreadyf all, they have convicted this man in the court of public opinion all over the media. they convicted him of treason and howg a traitor could he have a trial in this country at this point? excellent questions. talk about the political blowback the administration is getting now

[inaudible] >> i like the version, cumbersomcummerbund -- out mentd about timing again, henry thoreau, his bicentennial of his birth is three years from the. this book comes out this year, the next year the paperback. so you have to survive in the real world it -- suggested that the timing for things you already want to do. i have no idea of how long i've been talking to it could be monday afternoon for all i know. we are good? >> we can go on a little longer. >> two more questions, thank you, sir. [inaudible] >> it varied enormously but originally it was along the everybody was a little blurry. there are pictures, they finally get the kids to sit there like this can people go everyone looks so sad and solemn in the 19th century. whether that's adequate you read in the diaries of all the funny things to think that having lunch and watching fireworks and ago set for the voters and had to go like this for nine minutes or whatever. the dog in the picture, just a ghostly blur. so it was changing very quickly at the time, but the passage i read about the death of emerson's son waldo, that