william faulkner says the only subject for the novelist is human heart in conflict with itself.hat harper lee is saying, giving this permission for this book to be published, atticus finch is a man who exemplifies the full southern iteration, the human heart in conflict with itself. a man who said, my primary principle is equal protection under the law for everyone and no special privilege for anyone. and yet, when his daughter comes home from new york he tells her we don't want them in our schools we don't want them. harper lee was not -- is not free of her own prejudices. in both of these books, the picture of white people who are not part of the managerial apple and class i looked down upon as totally worthless, unredeemable rednecks. charlie: great to have you here. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ charlie: charles kaiser is here. he lived with a family in france. three of the siblings were active members of the french resistance. the family never discussed their wartime experiences with anyone for 50 years. his new book, "the cost of courage," recalls their story of herois

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is in the southern cannon and will remain there along with writers like flannery o'connor and william faulknerwelty. charlie: you can put this book solidly as a piece of southern literature. howell: absolutely. charlie: tell me about harper lee. why did she stop? howell: that's very interesting. i been reading the two best biographies we have about her and they are incomplete, because she would not give complete access. apparently she was so traumatized by the deluge of fame that hit her in 1960, 1961 when the book came out, and when alan for cool of both the film rights and made it into this magnificently successful film which made her even more famous, she did not like the celebrity and according to the biographies, she formed an almost passionate dislike of newspaper people. she thought they were, as she put it, bad modern practitioners of a formerly honorable profession. we can speculate why she reacted so adversely to a level of adulation that other important writers relished, or at least learned to tolerate. there has been a lot of speculation about that. some of it completely erroneous.

william faulkner said the only subject for the novelist is the human heart in conflict with itself.t harper lee is saying by giving this permission for this book to be published, atticus finch is a man who exemplifies, in the full southern it iteration, the human heart an conflict within himself, a man who said my primary principle is equal protection under the law for everyone and no special privilege for anyone. and yet when his daughter comes home from new york, he tells her, we don't want them in our schools, we don't want them -- and, you know now, harper lee is not free of her own prejudices. in both of these books the picture of white people who are not part of the managerial affluent class in these small towns are looked down on as totally worthless, unredeemable red necks. >> rose: great to have you here. >> thank you charlie. >> rose: howell raines. back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: charles kaiser is here. his uncle henry was an american soldier, lived with a french family for a year after the liberation of paris. three of the families siblings andre, christian and

you can see the clear skies through prince william counties and faulkner county and other areas. we're seeing the cloudy areas stick by especially through southern maryland. we'll keep temperatures into the upper 80s one of the coolest days of the work week. here are a couple of showers brewing, we'll continue to track the afternoon thunderstorms on the futurecast coming up a bit later. >>> montgomery county police want to know who vandalized the controversial statue in rockville. it featured a confederate soldier on the grounds of the county courthouse. it happened sometime this morning. someone spray painted the words black lives matter on the statue. county executive already said the statue will be moved exactly where is unclear. >>> parts of kings street in alexandria are closed because of a water main break. traffic is getting by in 1 westbound lane on park center drive. an eight-inch main ruptured this morning probably because age. if all goes well, the repairs should be completed by the evening rush hour. >>> a disturbing story out of urbana. a northern virginia man stabbe