whitman." he's the author of beneath the american renaissance in the age of emerson and melville, and i certainly found that that s word, subversive, came up quite a bit in his analysis of "uncle tom's cabin "and its impact. and david is the author of faith and fiction, so when you see this list of books, you begin to understand how much he may -- how often he may have run into stowe and uncle tom's cabin in his other work. his latest book that we are talking about tonight is "mightier than the sword: uncle tom's cabin and the battle for america," which as i mentioned will be released by norton on june 14th, stowe's 200% birthday. also released that day will be a new, modern version of the splendid edition of "uncle tom's cabin," an absolutely gorgeous document that you have to wait until then to get. so, please, join me in welcoming david reynolds to the harriet beecher stowe center. david. [applause] >> thanks very much, katherine. um, what i'm going to do is just comment for 15 or 20 minutes

author of walt whitman, a cultural biography, e-book with a straightforward title, walt whitman. he's the author of believe the american renaissance the imagination and the age of emmerson and nels will and i found that that word subversives came up quite a bit in his analysis of ongoing tom's cabin and its impact and to david is the author of fifa fiction the religious literature in america. when you see the books we begin to understand how much -- how often he may have run into stowe in his other work. the latest book we're talking about tonight is "mightier than the sword" come on call tom's cabin and the battle for america which is as i mentioned will be released june 14th, stowe's 200th birthday. also released by oxford university press will be in the modern version of the splendid addition of an uncle tom's cabin, an absolutely gorgeous document you have to wait until then to get so please strangled the link david reynolds to the harriet beecher stowe center. david? [applause] >> thanks very much, catherine. what i'm going to do was just comment for a 15 or 20 minutes intro

meg whitman is weighing in on california's new budget, which has state democrats firing back. >> whitman, who ran the most expensive campaign in california history to the tune of $180 million, has kept a low political profile, until this wednesday, when the former ebay chief said brown's budget is "a political budget without a road map to real reform, like we know california really needs." the state democratic party chairman down played the comments. in a statement released today, burton said he would like to see whitman's version of the budget saying, beyond immediately adding 40,000 people to up the employment roles had the people been dumb enough to elect her." >>> it will be a tough weekend for many military families. in the south bay, instead of fireworks and a barbecue, jean, this sounds very interesting. >> reporter: the fourth of july can be a difficult holiday for military families with loved ones in a war zone. now an effort to honor those families has special meaning. >> it goes both ways. i'm happy, i'm proud. and then i'm sad. you know, she's not here. >> reporter: they are

henry david thoreau. >> walt whitman mets with henry david thoreau once.ir meeting had been arranged for them in brooklyn by mutual friends. thoreau is on details of discovering a work of his own. >> then they went for a walk. >> this is, rated -- this is commemorated in these two books. you find in walt whitman's copy about his signature a brief note that says, imad -- i met him in brooklyn on such a such a day. he seemed in good health and talked about the book that he was doing. i gave him a copy of my "leaves of grass." >> he was searching the collection to prepare some items for exhibition. >> i found this second edition of walt whitman. i thought, that is really terrific. henry david thoreau's handwriting. it is still a very important -- when i turned around and noticed a book sitting in the middle of the walt whitman collection. i said, what is this? i discovered this very grandiose signature and this package and it took a minute for me to realize that sitting across from each other and the shells of the library of congress were actual books that ha

starting with meg whitman. she's back and she's blasting away on jerry bombs budget. we checked in with chronicle reporter and a former mayor for what's up with me. >> well, my reaction is that meg whitman has been away, apparently, in therapy for the six months. she has in release. >> it seems like a first mission she is doing is she has teamed up with mitt romney, and she is firing at jon huntsman, former governor of utah. basically, what is going on here? >> she's a finance chair for mitt romney, yet she is criticizing jon huntsman for being a career politician. that got them very upset. as the waves will be made here. he is a native of palo alto. he's a guy who is a good communicator. we've met with him here in san francisco. >> he's not the only one hitting the california circuit. we have the texas governor, mr. kerry. >> a series of behind closed door meetings with california republican legislatures. >> keep in mind, rick. the governor of texas now has the reputation of being the one governor who has steered his state in such a way that it has been the job growt

. >> reporter: he lost his job as a caterer, then his home and living in a whitman walker shelter he says he even had sex with a woman there who was hiv positive. >> but i did that because i thought i was positive and who else would want me? >> reporter: then in 2005 a friend suggested he try holistic healing at the abundant life clinic in southeast where they discovered he was actually hiv negative. the results were confirmed by a third round of testing at johns hopkins. he and his lawyer launched a lawsuit, but it was thrown out of court twice because the law said you could only sue if you had been in physical danger, but last week the d.c. court of appeals expanded that law to include emotional injury and gave the green light to sue. >> there's going to be consequences and you are likely going to suffer and if it's foreseeable and you placed your trust in a person of a particular expertise, there should be redress. >>> there was a statement the court of appeals issued an opinion that in over 60 pages discusses why it has decided to change the law. the opinion demands committed att

ann whitman described november -- thursday november 1st, 1956 as another day of great crises. terman adams called this, quote, the worst week that eisenhower experienced in all the years i worked with him at the white house. the this morning the president was besieged with rumors that the soviets were planning to deploy aircraft on syrian bases. and ike asked the chairman joint chiefs of staffs whether the russians might have flipped some atom bombs to the egyptians. eisenhower cancelled all campaign events except the one scheduled for philadelphia that night, november 1st. ann whitman recalled that the typewriters had to go to the train to complete the speech in time. in philadelphia, in convention hall, ike looked out at 18,000 partisans who came fully expecting arousing campaign speech. instead, he launched to what a columnist called a high level speech by a man who spoke not as a republican partisan but as president of all the country. l. or there will be no peace. the president concluded, we believe that the power of modern weapons makes war not only perilous but preposte

and whitman recalled that the typewriters have to go to the train to complete the speech in time. in philadelphia in convention hall, ike looked out at 18,000 partisans who came expecting a rousing campaign speech. instead, he launched into what columnist called a high level speech by a man who spoke not as a republican partisan, but as president of all the country. eisenhower stated that the nation had pursued a pass of honor by staging against the use of the force in and egypt. the united states, he said, cannot and will not condone armed aggression no matter who the attackers and no matter who the victim. we cannot in the world any more than in our own nation subscribe to one for the become another law for this long, one law for those opposing us and another for those alive with us. there can be only one law or there will be no peace. the president concluded we believe that the power of modern weapons in the war model literalists but preposterous and the only way to win world war war iii is to prevent it. eisenhower and completely drained by four days of unrelenting crisis. he

s whitman walker clinic faces a lawsuit from a man that was wrongfully told he was hiv positive. he lived with it for five years before learning it was a mistake. >> overthat time the man says his life completely unraveled. roz plater has the story. >> reporter: terry hedgepeth's nightmare began in 2,000 when he discovered his girlfriend was hiv positive. he went to the whitman walker clinic to be tested and the clinic doctor told him that he was hiv positive. >> i was a total wreck. i was in a bad shape mentally. from there they sent me over to george washington university hospital. i spent time there in the psych ward. >> reporter: he was in and out of psych wards the next five years. every few months he would go back to the clinic for testing and would be told that he didn't need medications because his viral load was low. >> i walked to the hospital in the hope that the sniper would shot me. it sounds silly but that was what i was happening for the at the time. i was in that bad of shape. >> he lost his job as a caterer and lost his home. he had sex with a woman that was hiv

henry david thoreau. >> whitman met with thoreau once.eeting had been arranged in brooklyn by a mutual friend. whitman had published a second edition of "leaves of grass." thoreau is on tail of discovering a work of his son had not been selling well. >> they went for a walk. copy ofnd in whitman's for wrote a note that says, i met thoreau in brooklyn, and we had a lovely walk along the water. he seemed in good health and talk about the work that he was doing. i gave him a copy of my "leaves of grass." and he gave me this. and i found this second edition of whitman with a box that said "thoreau's copy." handwriting is very faint. it is when i turned around and noticed k thoreau but, that is when i opened to discover this very grave diaz signature and a long passage, and it took a minute to realize that sitting across from each other in the shelves of the library of congress were the actual boscs that had exchanged hands between wegman and for road that day. they were there, waiting to meet each other again. >> what did that mean to you? >>

meg whitman was also called to jury duty during the campaign. she spent two days at the courthouse before she was dismissed. let us not dismiss meteorologist christina loren. >> spoken like a wise man. good morning to you. that goes for all of the men in my life. all two of you. we're looking pretty good this morning. one is my pug, the other of course scott mcgrew. low pressure to our north, mild conditions. on shore flow for today. that will be the case for tomorrow as well. then things start to change as high pressure regains control of our weather pattern. you see all of that subtropical moisture surging up from the south. that is monsoonal moisture not yet impacting the weather pattern. it will. give it time. i think by thursday into friday it will get pretty muggy especially in the south bay, even the east bay valleys, then downright hot as we head toward this weekend. yeah, one of those weekends where you probably want to make indoor plans like hitting the movies. 56 in livermore, 58 in hayward, 56 degrees in oakland. if you are waking up

and whitman was saying the real warping the war that he had seen in the union hospitals in washington, the squalid war, the war of human suffering and wounded and dying men. but i think if anything, we tend today to focus more on that war of squalor, more on that sort of shared experience of north and south living through the horrors of battle. i think that's true in the civil war series. and i think that can sort of be -- it so powerful, so compelling, and it's so simple that it can sometimes mask from complexity. >> and it was that squalor that drew matthew brady and the other photographers to the war, the endless stacks of bodies. and it's hard to capture and photograph, in a sense the glory and the idealism spirit and there was idealism, but one of the great pleasures of studying and writing about the civil war era is that you do have just these incredible letters come incredible photographs, incredible music. when people talk about the assassination of civil war era for us today i think went to give a certain amount of credit just to that stuff, that incredible legacy that we hav

whitman had already produced the second edition. thoreau is on tail of discovering a work of his son had not been selling well. >> they went for a walk. >> we find in whitman's copy of for wrote a note that says, i met thoreau in brooklyn, and we had a lovely walk along the water. he seemed in good health and talk about the work that he was doing. i gave him a copy of my "leaves of grass." and he gave me this. and i found this second edition of whitman with a box that said "thoreau's copy." thoreau's handwriting is very faint. it is when i turned around and noticed k thoreau but, that is when i opened to discover this very grave diaz signature and a long passage, and it took a minute to realize that sitting across from each other in the shelves of the library of congress were the actual boscs that had exchanged hands between wegman and for road that day. they were there, waiting to meet each other again. >> what did that mean to you? >> it is a recognition of time and an important moment of american poetry where books exchange hands

you may recall brown's opponent last year, meg whitman, was also called to jury duty.nt two days before she was dismissed. giants host a special baby shower for 300 expecting moms. the giants will honor the participants of the giants baby contest. all of the women are trying to deliver their baby closest to august 1 at 7:45 p.m. the date and time marks the 9-month anniversary of the giants world series win. the winner will receive a $2,000 gift card a brick at at&t park and announcement in newspapers and official certificate signed by the giants. the contest, what they need are some diapers. wasn't your typical wedding yesterday. sarah brown married her long time boyfriend randall blake. blake is a combat medic in the army serving a year tour in afghanistan. so the couple got married over the phone. blake's mother stood in for him and a retired chief petty officer performed the ceremony over the form. >> randall, do you vow your love and devotion to sarah? >> i do. >> in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, and whatever life may bring. >> i do. >> i now pro

when meg whitman threw her hat in the political ring with record-breaking campaign for california governorbought into front-runner status largely on the status of her professional accomplishments and more impressive wallet. by multiple accounts like many of hur successful male counter parts he success came as a price and her home life suffered. why is that more qualified than a woman who might not have ricin quite as far as fast because she was biz investing in her children and in the case of balk maub, other people's children, too. male candidates it can be fascinating what pass for relative experience? tom delay worked in pest control. a lobbyist jost but i'm going going to make it. his successor den e hastert was a high school wrestling coach. not meaning they weren't qualified and also not that michele bachmann is qualified for the nation's highest office but i am saying if herman cain can be considered a serious contender for president base on a record of running several pizza joints why shouldn't a woman who not only worked as a lawyer but manage add home raising more than 20 childre

christine todd whitman, the republican e.p.a. administrator under george w. bush estimated that the needs of our nation's aging water infrastructure topped $6 0 billion. yet within the f.y. 2012 promings bill, the majority cuts the clean water state resolve involving fund, a primary source of federal investment in the nation's wastewater infrastructure by $1.4 billion compared to f.y. 2010. coupled with the severe cuts under s.r.s. and h.r. 1, the attacks clean water in the clean water cooperative federalism act passed earlier this month, the republican majority has made it clear that they place no priority, none, on preserving clean water or creating jobs. in terms of job losses, the cuts in the f.y. 2012 interior appropriations bill, when compared to 2010 funding levels, would eliminate over 39,000 direct construction jobs throughout the country and countless additional jobs in the industries and small businesses that support the wastewater construction industry at a time when many small businesses and construction sector are struggling to recover. furtherm

gretchen: bernard whitman, democratic strategist, and anthony holm are my guests to duke it out overs, guys, for a friday. good to see you both. >> good to see you, gretchen. >> thank you for having us. gretchen: bernard, can you answer speaker of the house john boehner's question, where are the jobs? >> well, if i had a crystal ball, i'd probably be reelected president three or four times. i think we need a three-part plan. obviously, the job numbers are disappointing, but we can do three things immediately. the first is while we certainly have to rein in the deficit, we've got to invest in industries where the payout is going to be greater than the investment. the first one that comes to mind is construction, the president mentioned that. there are a million construction workers out of work, that's nearly double the unemployment rate nationally, and what we ought to do instead of the republican plan which is to gut infrastructure spending by a third which would throw another half million construction workers out of work, we ought to pass the obama jobs plan there which would provid

we have the manuscripts of walt whitman. try it one day. when asked to submit a bio, something we do now with all those we invite. peter wrote chairman, insurance, philanthropist, father, and grandfather. ralph nader rough justice advocate, founder of many citizen groups, maybe also provocateur. ted turner wrote chairman, united nations foundation, philanthropist, environmentalist, con sers vaitionist. it's with great pleasure i welcome the three of them to this stage. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you very much, paul. thank you very much for coming this evening. this is a unique format in the sense that these two are my billionaire heros. they are in the book, and thaifl jumped out of the fictional narrative to be here today. i want to thank you for performing so brilliantly in my fictional narrative. [laughter] they were bold and brazen and were pioneers and actually extending a lot of the things they have wrote and talked to me about. i didn't la baht news them and start anew. ted was always a renewable energy advocate, and h

we have the manuscript of walt whitman. when asked to submit a bio and seven would go something we do now with all the people we invite, peter lewis wrote, chairman, progressive insurance, philanthropist, father and grandfather. ralph nader wrote justice advocate, founder of many citizen groups. maybe also provocative. ted turner wrote chairman, united nations foundation, philanthropist, environmentalist, conversationalist -- conservationist. is with great pleasure that i welcome the three of them to this stage. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you all for coming this evening. this is a unique format in the sense that these two are my billionaire heroes. they are in the book and it jumped out of this fictional narrative to be here today. i want to thank you for performing so brilliantly in my fictional narrative. [laughter] they were bowled. they were bracing. they were pioneers. and actually extending a lot of the things they have written and talked to me about, so i didn't start the new. ted turner was always a re

think of somebody like walt whitman who wrote his own book reviews in the 19th century or someone like mark twain who very much understood the consult of the america personality. all authors knew how to play that. >> the media is an important component. >> the media is an poarn component in american li literae right fro from the very dining. we have no aristocracy the way the british did so writers did need to play to the general public and the media and an important part of that. i think hemingway did get trapped in the role that he created for himself here in key west writing for "esquire" magazine, the man's man, the hunter and fischerman. that wasn't necessarily about who he was at all. if you look at his art, "the sun also rises," the protagonist, for instance, has had a wound, renders him impotent. his books were a lot about the traps of masculinity. it makes it very difficult to age gracefully. >> how did he get the nickname "papa"? >> his first son, when he was a little boy in paris, called him that. and it just stuck. with all of his friends. he was a great teacher. a wonderfu