Relationships between the writers and offers a valuable look at postcivil war west coast and provides the kind of perfect medium for the development of bohemia. It is a rich feast of history that really unwinds many different threads. Both of the writers and the city that helped host their exploits. Ben is the author of another book, the counterfeiters paradise, which is published by penguin press, and his writing has also appeared in the San Francisco chronicle, and hes worked at lathams quarterly. It is a delight and a pleasure to have him with us. Welcome, ben tarnoff. [applause] thank you for that introduction. And thank you all for coming out tonight. I should tell you, i have a little bit of a flu, so if i get a little warm or if my voice gets a little froggy, youll have to forgive me. Mark twain, when he was here in the 1860s in San Francisco wrote a very funny sketch called how to cure a cold, and one of the cures was to rub mustard all over your chest. So if things get to that
So i wouldnt say it plays an enormous role in their work. Any other questions . Im sure the research into this was enormous and the many sources but if you could i mean is there the top three or four that come to mind as sources of research that you went to for this book . 70 roughly of the book and it was just invaluable. The twain stuff. There is such great scholarship around twain. You can go to marc twain projects. Org and see all those letters from i think until 1881 and they are wonderful additions of his correspondence so when it comes to researching twain its actually ready straightforward. I think these other characters i had to dig deeper into the archives because their work securely Charles Warren stoddard are not as widely known. That was a little bit more of the detective work which i really enjoyed but the bancrofts had most of it. I was in l. A. At the huntington. I was here the San Francisco Public Library and the oakland Public Library and a couple of collections on th
He helped me understand the tragedy that happened in the judicial process and theres no way anyone can give a through understanding of what has happened. But they were explaining thhey s with the stock market and i thought, what a story. So became a book in any magazine piece. But the real thing was this young man who is part of this entire Financial System. Host we have jim frystem. Host we have jim from dubuque, iowa. Caller thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. Theres an obvious manipulation of the gold and silver market where they are following this on behalf of possibly the government. This is certainly a local market system. Guest first responses i have no idea, but the second response is theres an observation, as one who has been watching the commodities market and the Foreign Exchange market over the last five or six years, and that is that it is amazing how much manipulative activity has been going on or accusations of it. And it raises the question. Has this a
That inspired him and all of them are buried in it is veryunl cool. And so my goal was christmas and i have until next spring is ae t very bad enabling sort of thing. So my goal is to come out next fall. So if anything there is a way that has been checked to see playing the older retired Sherlock Holmes next year. So things like that. This is one of my famous variations and yes, also i will mention his bicentennial is three years from now and then it gold stamps and so you have to survive in the real world bu. The timing for things he already wanted to do. Litt and it could be mondayret afternoon, probably nowry originally it was there having r lunch and watching the fireworks and theyre going like this forc nine minutesha or whatever they are trying to get the dog in of this picture which is a ghostlyn canines where thats changing very quickly. Refo and it happened in the early sot 1842 and not quite three years ie the announcement of theov invention. So was moving incredibly quickly.
I think the question is for you. [laughter] which one was it for . I dont honestly know. Sounds like something he would have said. If you missed not just the fight against White Supremacy but how it is shaped so much the modern world and our economy and nation say, so forth, others have allowed us to see just how deep it cuts. And dubois of course was part of that. He said many times in many context that the problem is the problem of the color line. That is using you dont understand the 20th century. There are things you can understand and i suppose a lot of blues in beethoven. But in general as you try to understand the social world, it just seems to me its sort of a nonstarter, and the sentry i was looking. Now, one should say that, you know, there are moves forward, steps forward and steps backwards but clearly it isnt bending the word justice. I think it is Getting Better over the long haul and they get worse in various ways. Dubois also had this in mind, a question have been wrest