Pretty much lived eitherwith each other or within a stones throw of each other their whole lives. Swing died very young, he was 38 years old from a brain tumor and it may have been, when you think about it that he was able to produce so much in that short life. Hundreds and hundreds of pieces of music. I wrote was the kind of studious one. I would say when he skipped school, he would go talk to the teacher and george was the, you know, the effusive one and they really were artful and i think george never got married, i redid and his wife described that relationship as just unusually close. There were four kids in the Gershwin Family but those two were fluid and i think it was just very difficult for the restof iras life because he lost his brother and best friend. Any other questions . Yes. How did this affect your thoughts about yourself . Good question. So it affected me, oh, well and after being the person that to some degree told my story as darwin. So reading about darwin and his struggles, i identified with him as a writer. He was a perfectionist. It took him 20 years in part because he wanted to picture every cross, he wanted to check everything, he wanted to be prepared for what the critics were going to say about it and have a chapter ready to go that sort of talk back to what they might say so darwin as a writer with the stress and anxiety and the headaches and nervous stomach aches, i can identify with that under stress trying to produce something that can be very personal. To some degree, like some of the readers have told me and in ways i took solace from that, not that i know i would want anybody to struggle but to know that we are in this community of human beings who do havethese various , you know, behaviors or things that make them go and sometimes make them want to crawl under a rock and all that stuff can affect us. It made me, i came to it with much sympathy because ive covered Mental Health and i understand how these conditions can affect people and i came out with even more determination to really speak openly about it and start conversations and let people be honest so there can be change for the better in helping people individually. Theres a question back there. In your research and writing process, did you focus on one person and get it all together, did you do all your Research First and writing . The question was about the research and writing process. That i focus on one person and finished that and move on . I wasnt really able to do that as much as i might have liked to because of just tight deadlines and trying to get everything organized and line up. So as i was working on the first few which included marilyn monroe, some of the first, they were not in order when i wrote them but they happened to be the first couple of ones in the book. I was looking for who else was going to make the cut. There were moments when i had to put everything aside and write and get a draft done and there were moments when i was doing a juggling act with some reporting on one person and then researching another were doing interviews about einstein one day and Howard Hughes the next. In some ways that made it exciting. It allowed me to make connections i might not have otherwise made if id been working on one at a time. And it made it challenging in a good way. And at some point, we took a vacation, this was august of a couple years ago and i had a big deadline, i was supposed to turn in six chapters and we went to north carolina. We rented a house just off the internet and walked in and i knew i was going to have to work this whole week because i had to get these drafts in good shape for editing so i brought everything with me, i had a huge file box in the back of the car with the bathing suit in that corner but most of it was the files and then we would walk into this house and it was as if it was made for this. There was a beautiful corner room with these huge trees. The beach was off in the distance and it had a big desk with a chair and a light and it became my workstation for the week and, people talk about writers retreats and getting away and it really, when i didnt have all the notes around my desk and all the stuff i am used to seeing, it gave me aclarity of thought , having, i got out for a little walk but mostly i spent that week in this beautiful setting and allowed me to i think accomplish and write in a way i wouldnt have at home so it was a combination really of all of that and i think its a real journey during the book project, it was my first book and it was very different from doing shorter stories and its a learning curve. That you sort of work your way through. Colleges are wonderful and the final result is a sense of satisfaction that you dont get from, you dont quite get from other kinds of stories. Anyone else . Thank you so very much for coming. [applause] this is book tv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Heres our primetime lineup tonight. Beginning at 9 pm eastern on tvs after words program, being capital Founding MemberEdward Connor discusses income inequality with greg mayhew who served as chair of the council of economic advisers during the george w. Bush administration. At 10 pm you will hear from documentary homemaker can burns talks about the american presidency and finally we wrap up our sunday primetime lineup at 10 30 p. M. With julian guthries report on the privatization of spaceflight. That happens tonight on cspan2s book tv. After the spread of the cotton gin in the late 1790s, the cotton trade exploded. The us exported half of 1 million tons of cotton in 1800. It was exporting 2 billion pounds by 1860. Cotton represented 60 percent of what the us was exporting to the world and it was 40 percent of what was going out of new yorks harbor it was a huge deal. The next biggest commodity was i think tobacco that was less than 10 percent. So cotton threads tied new york and the south together, i believe, in a long and codependent relationship. The cotton south, plantation south and new york city grew up together. The explosive growth of the cotton plantations straight across the south was largely funded by new york banks because thats where the banks were so course you came here for your funding. The new york merchants supply the planners with everything from the pianos in their parlors to their file shares to the close they put on display. New york not only shifted the significance first of cotton but new york harbor was where those ships came back to fill european views and that made new york important to washington dc where or Washington City as people called it back then. It had a big impact on the federal government because the government learned large portions of its revenues from the Customs House in new york harbor, there was a b. Where the entire federal budget was coming from the Customs House in new york city. Now wasnt just the bankers and shipping magnates who profited from cotton in new york city. The thousands and thousands of workers who directly or indirectly were profiting from crops, dockworkers obviously but also shops, people in the shops, people who worked in the hotels and the gambling houses and restaurants and brothels, there were lots ofsoutherners and they would come up from this summer and treat new york city as their home away from home. Everybody was in various ways dependent on maintaining the cotton trade. Which means we saw it in their best interest to maintain the plantation system and slavery. New york workers also figured that if the 404 Million People enslaved in the south were suddenly set free, they would all come flooding up north to take their jobs. The irony there is that the 12,000 blacks in new york city, the exact opposite was going on. White workers took their job from them, froze the unions so there wasnt really going to be a problem, white guys fighting for their jobs against black workers. So because of cotton and because of those guys and that long and Enormous Economic tie to the cotton south, the majority of new yorkers, not all new yorkers but the majority were prosouth and antiabolition. They were in effect what people call copperheads at the time, northerners back to the south. Its worth mentioning that new york was a major northern hub of the Transatlantic Slave Trade so that would have a direct effect on the country because slaves are being brought into the United States by that point but there was still a Huge InternationalTransatlantic Slave Trade and shipped out of new york we are picking people up in africa and taking them to these places in cuba and brazil and places like that. Congress declared that piracy which was a hanging offense as early as 1820 and everybody turned a blind eye. It was an open secret that new yorkers were investing in slave ships and profits were enormous. Many, many slave chips were kitted out in new york harbor and saved out of new york harbor out of a high of the harbor masters. If they were caught, the slave ship captains which didnt happen very often by the way because us had like a dozen ships. And the atlantic is pretty big. But if a slave ship happened to get caught which didnt happen often and brought back to new york to trial, it was very rare for this to get convicted, more than half the time they never made it to trial. They just allowed to better detail. Judges and juries were notoriously lenient with them. They were convicted and sentenced to anything they would be sentenced to four months in jail. And in the whole long history of the new york involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, only one slave ship ever paid for it and that was because he had the bad luck to get caught when lincoln was in the white house and the civil war had started so the politics has shifted. Watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Election night on cspan. Be part of a National Conversation about the outcome. The location of the Hillary Clinton and donald trump Election Night headquarters and watched victory and concession speeches in key senate house and governors races starting live at 8 pm eastern and through the following 24 hours. Watch live on cspan, on demand or listen to our live coverage using the cspan radio app. President ial candidates Hillary Clinton and donald trump have written several books, many of which outline their worldview and political philosophy. Democratic candidate lori clinton has written five books and in her most recent title hard choices, she remembers her 2008 president ial campaign and her time as secretary of state in the obama administration. In 2014, book tv spoke with secretary clinton about the book and you can find that interview on our website. Published in 2003, living history is secretary clinton account of her time as first lady while still in the white house, she released a Childrens Book about letters written to her family pets and also authored a Coffee Table Book about life as first lady. And in her first book, it takes a village, she argues zaidi shares responsibility with parents or raising children. Republican president ial candidate donald trump has also written many books, his first several titles released in the 1980s and 90s are accounts of his business transactions and real estate companies. In the early 2000s, he released several financial selfhelp books and his two most recent books, time to get top and crippled america he writes about politics and outlined his vision for american