Host Rachel Louise martin the story you tell in your new book, a most tolerant little town, centers around clinton tennessee in the 1950s. Where is that and describe what it was like . Guest clinton is right on t appalachia. Tains that make it is about an hour north of knoxville and it is right on the gateway to coal mining country. Host if you and i were there in the 1950s what kind of a community would we find . Guest it was an interesting place in the 50s. It was very mixed up about itself. On one hand it was a small rural southern appalachian town full of coal miners and farmers and local business people. But it was also 7 miles from oak ridge, which was a secret city built as part of the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb and it was also about seven miles from nora stamm. Norris dam. So while it was isolated and small it was also very connected. In 1956 it was the sort of place that oak president ial candidates felt like they had to go and Campaign Even though there
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Outside from mount tam looking down at San Francisco with the rest of the bay looking really nice. Weve got those clear skies for sure. A little bit of sprinkle activity to our north up in your recap, but not so much towards the bay. Thats exactly where its going to stay. Well to our north said nothing going on our direction. Today is a consistently dry day. It is a cool start, though. Redwood city as well as petaluma down at 49 degrees right now. Same for you in santa rosa. So definitely get that extra layer ready to go this afternoon. It will be back down to the shorts and tshirts as we see 70s and even some 80s for more of our inland areas on that full breakdown. Still to come, all right, john, thank you for that. Moving on a wednesday. Maybe youre traveling into the city this morning just under 22 minutes to make that right. Not seen accidents or hazards on the bay bridge. Our san mateo bridge has been a busy one, though. 32 minutes traveling for a 80 to 101. A little difficult get
The planes pilot managed to eject himself but was killed in a subsequent ground fight russian Syrian Government planes have been targeting rebel fighters since december with more than thirty killed on saturday alone the u. N. Says some one hundred thousand civilians have been displaced by the violence Stephanie Decker reports from the turkey syria border. Oh. This is a russian fighter jet shot down by opposition forces. I mean remember the pilot manages to eject but he didnt survive. There are. These syrian fighters its a huge symbolic victory. Russian the Syrian Government have intensified their bombardment it province over the last two months Government Forces a slowly capturing territory in the south what is the last remaining syrian province under full rebel control. Theyre inching closer to the city of socketed which lies on a strategic road linking the northwest all the way to the capital damascus territory that is now almost fully under government control. And in syrias complex
I think we need no introduction or at least robert caro who i hope you have read all of his books and as enamored of them as i am. We are here because we are enamored to talk about writing. Not so much the subject matter per se but why writing matters. And we both feel, as im sure you do, that writing matters quite a bit. How it matters, is really a task for the writer to come to terms with. How are you going to get people to read, to turn the page, to be as enthralled with your subject as you are. And you know mr. Robert caro is working on he has a master of the enthralled. We thought we are talking a little bit about that. Recently and hope you saw this, there was recently a interview with bob and one of the things i thought was so wonderful about this was bob talking about certain working methods. And one of the things he said reminded me of walt whitman. And that, if you read whitman, one of the things you know about that exuberant poet is that he uses lists. Once william atalked a