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Computer programmer working in the dying days of the soviet union who wants to smuggle this wonderful game platform out to the west and there is almost a bit of industrial espionage mixed it with the politics of the time in the end of one political system in the end of another and in the middle of it all the creation of perhaps the worlds most copied, imitated, stolen and used video game of all time. Host how did they had ackerman discover this . Guest dan is a longstanding reporter for cnet and he got a hold of the story and interviewed him and there is quite a culture around tetris as you probably know so he has been scouring around the story for a long time and it is really a terrific tale. Host what are some of the other titles you want to share with us coming out . Guest nation books has a wonderful and truly moving book from gary young. Dear young as the reporter on the guardian who lived in chicago for 12 years and he has looked at the deaths of 10 young people on one day in america, 23rd of november 2013 and the thing that links all of these unfortunate people who died is that they are under the age of 19 and they are the victims of gun shootings. Most of them are accidental gun shootings and the point of the book was to look at not the highprofile victims of gun culture and mass slaughters, which we tend to explain away has been active madness, but this awful routine almost normal loss of our young people to guns these young people barely got a paragraph in their local newspapers. He had to search out their lives and their family life and he is greeted a portrait of the circumstances in which they were placed in destiny and he is asking the questions i think we should all ask, where guns are in our culture jerk its a really powerful book. He is himself a caribbean born briton who lived in chicago, so he knows what its like to be a black person in america. He has done a remarkable job interviewing the families of the victims and i think this book will really move minds. Host what more do you want to share . Guest fascinating to me, professor of Harvard Business school is writing a book called why they do it and his focus it focus is on whitecollar crime, the people who have had enormously successful lives who nonetheless cant stop themselves from going one step over the line, sometimes wonder large step. He has built up a relationship with many of these people after they have been convicted from jail, for example bernie made off. Handmade off have exchanged 20 or 30 long written correspondences where they have looked at his motivations and how it was that he came to be a successful financier at one point and then a fraud by conviction at the end of the day he did tremendous damage to a lot of people. Its a really great study of how if you work in a certain time environment, you can effectively shut yourself off from your moral compass. Thats really where this book is going, so its a story of that the towel sometimes they lose track of right and wrong. Host that is a quick preview of some of the books coming out this fall from public affairs. Cspan created by americas cabletelevision companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Afterwards is next, california senator Barbara Boxer discusses her book, the art of tough fearlessly facing politics and life which looks at her life and career in politics. Shes interviewed by senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota. Barbara boxer, what an honor it is to be here with you, one of my mentors in the senate as someone who came into the senate when there was barely a woman to be seen anywhere there and this a book that you have written, the art of tough fearlessly facing politics and life really tells her story of how you got there and barbara levy at the time Barbara Leavy born november 11 1940 from a family of jewish refugees in your own words growing up in the pervasive shadow of the holocaust somehow ends up going from match little place in brooklyn to the United States senate and maybe moves

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