And solemn. Were they that side. Many read in their diaries of all the funny things they were doing and they have to do this for nine minutes or whatever. And theyre trying to get the dog in the picture which is a ghostly canine blair. So was changing very quickly. But the passages i read about, it was moving incredibly quickly. Im wondering how you adjust your talk about the book to us versus other audiences. That is a great question. I wanted to give a reasonable amount of substance regularly to this one and i didnt change the core of the talk but a few things that were obvious about the vetting that you already know scribbling all over this in the hotel room. Very hightech. So i tweaked it a little bit and also every talk that i give, i was in connecticut the day before yesterday, that kind of thing. Every time i sit down and say, well, that was a dumb joke or whatever or those types of things occasionally i will free associate and say, i like that, i will add that. One more questio
You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Here are some programs to look out for this weekend. Weekly Author Interview program, the relationships in the financial and political world in all president s bankers. Military historian ed oz we returned to germany but offensive on americas east coast in 1924. And former assistant attorney general john you organizes International Law little effect on the behavior of powerful nations. Watch these authors and many more this weekend on booktv on cspan2. And for the full schedule of authors and books visit us at booktv. Org. Michael sims recount Henry David Thoreaus education and have the budget is writing career which included his fathership of walden. Offer reports the harvard graduate who built a cabin on Ralph Waldo Emersons properly where he lived and wrote for two years was more than a recluse he is often remembered as. This is about 50 minutes. The bottom
Francisco. 1860 San Francisco has mature d and it is isnt the tough town as before. You have the brothels but they are further back and all of the same activities are happening but they are more discreet. And the rampant lawlessness you can read about in books where you here about the australia ducks and thugs is fantastic reading but by this time that has mostly passed so i would not say it plays an enormus role in their work. Is there a top research that you did for this book . I would say 75 happened at the bay cliff at berkeley. It was invaluable. There is such good scholarship around mark twain. You can go see his letters and correspondence so when it comes to researching twain it is straight forward. With the other characters i had to dig deeper into archives because their work isnt as widely known so that was more detective work which i enjoyed. I was here in San Francisco, oakland and a couple collections on the east coast and in los angeles but i was mostly in berkeley. Any ot
When you write, you cannot sit down to write a bestseller. In fact you should not thing about that issue at all when you sit town to write. What you should do when you sit down to write is write what you find interesting and follow your own curiosity. When i was writing tipple point i never tried to imagine how the book would sell. I wanted to write something that was cool and i was interested in and my friend would read that my mother would like. Read more of the conversation and other interviews from our book notes and q and a programs. Now available as a fathers day gift at your Favorite Book seller. Michael sims is up next with the adventures of Henry Thoreau a young mans unlikely path to walden pond. He spoke in massachusetts at the concord bookstore for a little less than an hour. The bottom line is i like to type. Thank you very much come forking out today and i was wondering if it was going to rain on me and i was thinking i should not be worried about that because it is Henry
Support of gun rights, its not a good thing to word the questions in particular way. Id like you to answer to that, please. Lets keep it brief because, basically, saying that you okay. So i did not word any of our survey items to get a particular response. They were worded to address a policy, what the policy did and what its purpose was. So ill end it at that. Okay. Next question. Im the maryland state leader for the well armed woman, and i believe in the training as well. And my big question to, you know, all the politicians, all the people and even you four up there is really can excluding emily, because i know she knows but really, do you really think, do we really think that criminals are going to obey the laws . Laws are good. Laws do help. But criminals do not obey laws. So my question is simple, and i know youve all heard it a million time, do criminals obey laws . They do not. Sure. Id love to take that one. Actually ive been told we only have three minutes left, so lets each