know, he satirized all the custom house cohorts and told that he had been fired in no uncertain terms, so the first part of the book created kind of scandal that s not scandalous to us anymore today, and then, of course, the second part of the book seems shocking, it s a novel about adultery. how dare you. c-span: we are out of time. this cover is what? guest: that is a wonderful portrait of nathaniel hawthorne that actually hangs in a club in new york city. and it was taken it was done of him when he was about 46 years old. (unintelligible). c-span: brenda wineapple, our guest, hawthorne: the life. thank you very much. guest: thank you. .. host: tonight we re speaking be at telephone with journalist and right 39 u.s. spent the last 28 years on pennsylvania s death row we re also joined by two distinguished scholars from princeton university dr. cornel west father of many books authored dr. patricia fernandez kelley from princeton university department of sociology.