my house became covered with all things tyco. for a year-and-a-half every surface was covered with all things tyco. at the scene the movie a beautiful mind? some days i would sit down, didn't change out of my pajamas for two three days in a row. it was a bit frightening especially for my family had to survive that. really got into it and because i know he is controversial my research was meticulousness i wanted to be sure i got it right. that was my primary objective, i wanted to be accurate. my first draft of the manuscript i sent to the publisher had almost 1500 end notes because i wanted the information to be cited, any reader could look and see where i got the information from because again i wanted to be the true story. throughout this process, a crazy year, i like to call it, i was eligible for a sabbatical at that time from the university. i could not have completed this project without it. i simply couldn't have done it. it was a godsend for me and a great benefit, one of the great benefits of being the faculty member. is

another big difference between tyco and other corporate scandals at the time is tyco remained a strong company. and ron went bankrupt. worldcom went bankrupt. mobile crossing with a corrupt, tyco remain strong to this day. no one lost pensions. it was a different circumstance that made this case stands out to me and these questions nagged at me for a number of years and january of 2011 was in my office on campus, putting my syllabus together for the spring semester thinking about this case study and i really wish i could figure out what happens here. i was clear the board that day in my office. the most random thing. i would love to ask dennis kozlowski what really happened so i got on line, you can buy anything you want on line, any piece of information is out there somewhere. looked to see if i could find an address and i found an address for a prison in upstate new york, that is where he was at the time. i put together a simple letter, sent it to that address and asked him if he would answer my question. pretty straight forward. what happened? that is what i said to him. what happen

global crossing went bankrupt but tyco remained strong to this day. no one lost pensions so it was a different circumstance that made the case. in january of 2011 i was in my office here on campus putting my syllabus together and i thought i really wish i could figure out what happened here so i was bored that day in my office and the mosat the most random thingi thought i would love to ask dennis kozlowski was really happened. so i got online and you can find any piece of information out there somewhere. it looked to see if i could find an address and i found a prison in upstate new york and it said that's where he was at the time so i put together a simple letter, send it to that address and just asked him if he would answer my question and it's pretty straightforward. what happened. stuck it in the mail and really didn't think about it again. i didn't know if he would open an unsolicited piece of mail, put it in the mail and didn't think about it. three weeks later i walked into the department office and the academic coordinator and said you have a

all of those are tyco.er world music traditions and instruments so you'll see a variety of other instruments as well. >> okay. and the show that you have, you mentioned, franco, the show that you have on friday is a family show. it's something that you all have decided to give for free. you invited a lot of children to come and experience it without charging them anything. what's kind of nice is that you also tried to provide transportation too because you know sometimes there's no such thing as a free thing. >> a lot of presenters will bus in kids for our outreach program and there's nothing like that that happens in san jose currently, so we wanted to try to do that with the help of our very generous board, we're able to do some fund-raising for it, so we're happy to do it. >> all right. we want to hear a little bit of what you have to play. there's just two of you. we were shocked to hear it resonating. you have a couple of seconds to play that and then we'll talk a little bit more. >> okay. ♪ ♪ >> i kno

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. >> catherine kneele is next on book tv to talk about the rise and fall of tyco dennis kozlowski. professor kneele had access to him in the district attorney who prosecuted him, arguing that all the people directly involved in the case in the media have reported on at acted unethically at some point. this is about an hour and ten minutes. >> one of the greatest of ventures in my life began three years ago when i did something outside my comfort zone. at the time it seemed like a very small and insignificant act , but it turned into something really, really important and significant. my adventure has taken me to places i have never been like a hard core new york state prison and up slinky wall street law firm where president franklin delano roosevelt once practiced law

not like when he unleashed on the most famous real estate tyco tycoon. >> donald trump is here tonightnow that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birther certificate matter to rest than the donald. and that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like did we fake the moon landing? what really happened in roswell? and where are biggie and tupac? >> president obama at the white house correspondent dinner in 2011. two years later, it was also at the white house correspondent dinner 2013 when the president saved a special poke in the eye for the top republican in the united states senate. >> some folks still don't think i spend enough time with congress. why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell, they ask. really? why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell. >> president obama does not frequently insult people, but when he does, and he's able to do it in a joking way, he seems to enjoy it. in talk b about mitt romney in 2013, the president almost seemed to enjoy it a little too much. >> you said that he

it's a customer play because walmart is a customer and tyco is a customer and people are excited about waiting for a-10. it makes you wonder overall, jim, whether, you know, it's the rush to the exits. the markets have been so good and this parade of ipos has been really stunning. >> it's the only conclusion you can reach. we can't just be -- i remember 1999, now, remember, 1999 was a long year. a lot of money was made. and then you had 2000. 2000 starts if you want the analogy six months from now when insiders can sell. obviously they sell a little bit. whet the appetite of the growth mutual funds who then have to go in the aftermarket. that's how you get the pop. a growth mutual fund will get 3% and they want to get the position to full and they have to buy it in the aftermarket and they get an average and you the individual investor if you got 100 shares what a great opportunity. ring the register. >>> all right, up next it's, it's "stop trading" with jim. "squawk on the street" will be right back. right back. ♪boots and pants and boots and pants♪ ♪and boots and pants and boots and