rally around and love that s really saying something, isn t it? i think it is. i think reading to kill a mockingbird is an experience that millions of us have in common. you can ask almost to a person they will tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing and how they felt when they read this novel. and you did that. i spoke to a lot of folks, including oprah winfrey, a number of famous authors in their own right and asked them to recall their favorite parts of the book. you made a documentary of it as well. we ll show a little of it as we talk. not to dwell on this, i m just wondering, since you have looked into the history of this book, to kill a mockingbird has liberal idealistic themes, the character atticus has there been a time when thought this book was when conservatives thought this book was trying
when you think about the great american novel mary from this book to the great buy to hug finn and of mice and men does this top them all? it certainly out-sells them all. i have yet to find another novel that means this much to so many. because it is about so many different things. it is about tolerance and prejudice and love and lonely and childhood and parenting. i don t think there are many other novels that you can talk about that have this much for so many in the book is called scout, atticus is and boo. i enjoyed going through it and looking through the documentary as well. thank you for helping us celebrate the publication of this great work. pleasure, just like reading the novel, thank you. he s only a teenager, but he s struck again and he s one of the most wanted people in america.
that courage is a man with a gun in his hand is that you know you are licked before you begin and you guinea way and you see it through no matter what. you rarely win, but you do. that idea that sort of doing what s right, being strong is not always easy, but worth doing that is such a great lesson for all of us to be taught and to remember. yeah. i think that was a scene where atticus was taking to him about their neighbor who had been trying to quit her morphine addiction and he was explaining to him sort of what had happened. what i is really instructive about the novel is it doesn t preach. it tells a good story with unforgettable characters. an a total absence of piety and preaching. i think that s one of the reasons so many respond to it the way they do. reading this book as a father, i have a new perspective on it.
southern lawyer standing up against racism to defend the truth. i still get chills watching that scene. joining us is the author of a scout, atticus and boo. also producer of to kill a mockingbird i m so pleased to talk to you about this book. in this time when we can barely agree on things from health care reform and how to fix the economy. here is a book that we can all
hungarian tourists just identified this week and sent 35 others in the water wednesday. police trying to figure out how that crash happened. he 50 years ago tomorrow, can you believe it, something happened that forever changed the literary world and added a new book for all high school students to read many to kill a mocking bird first released. what the author thinks about the impact her book has had. i think a got an a. new trouble for hollywood bad boy, mel gibson caught on tape screaming at his ex-girlfriend. a profanity-laced racial tirade. gibson made his mad his girlfriend had breast implants. that s the nice part we can talk about. the story and the fall-out is coming up.