went from perfect father and hero and fair object of dignity to a racist by the time he grew up or are these two separate books about two separate people in two separate realities? charles, you first. you ve got it reversed. go set a watchman was written in the late 1950s and went through the hands of a very experienced liberal editor in new york. it was reworked and atticus bodies forth as a hero and a very strong protagonist whose moral centeredness makes him a collosas in that book. last word? mr. shields is right. that kind of white southern man absolutely was the normal in the mid- 50s in alabama. and, remember this is a state that wanted to close their public schools rather than integrate them.
from the book written by lee. now, all of a sudden this twist. the image of him as this honorable crusader being turned on its head thanks to a new novel from harper lee. go set a watchman depicting atticus as a racist later in life. what does it mean outside the literature to what atticus finch meant to our society. let s bring in angela to discuss. so here is my first thing. what do you think would knit these two images of this man together in a way that makes sense? time. first of all, i m so excited. as a writer and lover of literature i cannot wait until tomorrow when the book comes out. what we see is what happens between the 30s and the 60s and really brown. the case of brown and desegregation. what really happens and this
film the character of atticus finch was considered the greatest of all time. for many we will be atticus frinch the alabama lawyer who stirred a conscience of a nation. the harper lee follow-up is go set a watchman . it s revealed that he is not a hero at all but he s a racist so why the revisionist literature. joining us right now is the executive director of the black sphere and race pimping. i don t get it. to kill a mockingbird, one of greatest movies and books of all time and now we ve got this version which apparently she wrote first, according to stories that i read. she wrote that first and the
guy. now the lapd now investigating and searching for the driver. investigators call it the most wreckless driving they have ever seen and that is something saying. and pluto is ready for its close up. nasa spacecraft new horizon is set to become the first probe to do a fly-by around pluto. it will get closest to the icy planet on tuesday. they expect to release the best pictures wednesday. the new horizon probe traveled 3 billion miles to get to this point. finally pluto getting respect. 55 years after to kill a mockingbird controversy over harper lee s next book go set a watchman. the new book picks up the story of scout, the young girl who narrates her adventures. lee wrote the follow-up to the
process and when she came back from the north and her eyes are opened to the reality that her father is not will this upright moral fair and bamlanced human being but in fact has beliefs and feelings that are out of touch with her home life look it s a work of fiction. i ll probably have a glass of wine and just enjoy it on the couch like i do now. kyle, what is your take? i think what you said a moment ago is very much it. to kill a mocking bird is the book that you read when you re growing up. this might be the book that you read when you re grown. the first book is very much a book about atticus finch and about this one incident which curiously tom the defendant into kill a mockingbird is acquitted has been acquitted in go set a watchman, one of the other differences here. that s right. i just think that this is going to be the book that we read when we re grown and it s