Thatans, rice, sugar thing. At least now they are part of the program, and i am hopeful i have been hopeful ever since that the fruit and vegetable and would begin to organize and organize more arongly to be a part bigger part of what we might call production agriculture in america. We need more fresh Fruit Farmers in america. We need more greenhouses in places around the country. Thing, but at least now they have their foot in the door. Can yout know reduce some of the other things . Yeah, maybe. It is not as much as it used to be, i will tell you that. It is not as much support as there used to be for peanuts, cotton, rice. Of course, tobacco went out some years ago corns, beans, that kind of thing so it is not so much direct payment as it is just support mechanisms out there. Michael thank you, senator. Sen. Harkin ok. Thank you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] here are some of our featured programs coming up this weekend saturday night, the state of the black world conference discussing the impact of the election the author of the book are we there yet, race, obama, and public policy. Melanie campbell, and moderator mark thompson, host of make it ofin. Also roxburgh, mayor newark, new jersey. Together as we get black folks and we have an agenda, we have to understand we have to unite with people to win. The object is to win. We do not want to struggle for the struggles sake. There are hundreds of people that are jailed, beat, that are dead all kinds of things going on. We are not activists and revolutionaries because it is fun. 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Org, and listen on the free cspan radio app. For five years, cspan has traveled to cities across the u. S. To explore literary and historic sites. Next, some of the places we visited in 2016. Our cities tour is an American History tv and book tv exclusive. You can watch more of our visits cspan. Org citiestour. We are at Lakeview Cemetery in cleveland, ohio. We are organized in 1869, shortly after the civil war, and today we will take you to the James A Garfield memorial. The first thing you will notice when you come to the james a. Garfield memorial, you will walk up 20 steps, which represent the 20th president of the United States, and youre coming into a terrace area that surrounds a conical building that is 180 feet high. This is made of sandstone, which comes from this region, actually, and as we go inside, you will notice that the architecture is very churchlike. It will remind you, hopefully, of a european charge. Now, this architecture is known as byzantine, romanesque revival. It was very popular in the victorian era, and this is an extremely high victorian example of this particular kind of architecture. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, born here in northeast ohio, a place known as moreland hills, and he lived in mentor as an adult. His early life was tough. His dad died as the result of a fire when he was about 18 months old. He was raised by his mother, and they were really, quite frankly, in poverty. They often did not have enough to eat, but he was a smart kid. He read a lot, and he was a voracious learner. The way he pulled himself out of that situation was through education, but he actually worked while he was in school, and he did all kinds of handy jobs, cleaning, building, those kinds of things, even working on the canal boats in ohio. He was clumsy, fell overboard many times, had to be finished out of the water, fished out of the water, but he was going to do anything to get a good education. He was a very smart man. He went to Williams College here in ohio, and when he first got to williams, he was made fun of because he was such a country boy, and here he was in this east coast school. It was a little more sophisticated, and the other students, the boys at that time were making fun of him, a little bit, what he was wearing, but they quickly changed their tune with him because they could see that he was smart, and he had a lot of charisma. He was a good speaker, and a persuasive speaker, so in terms of belonging to debate clubs and things like that, he quickly made friends with people. Quick in front of you is a little bit in front of you is a little bit larger than life statue of president garfield. The marble for that statue comes from italy, and this statute shows president garfield standing in front of his favorite chair in the house of representatives, about to give a speech. Interestingly enough, president garfield formed the 42nd ohio. He went off to fight the civil war, and quickly rose from the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to major, and during the course of the civil war, president lincoln came to garfield and said look, i have more generals and i know what to do with. I need you in washington. Did, he went to washington and serve nine terms in the house of representatives. His statute is seven and a half feet high. That is how people felt about him. He is bigger than life. It is pretty impressive. You just dont see that with the president s memorial anywhere in the country. On the outside of the building there are 5 class relief basreliefs. One of them shows garfield as a teacher. Another shows him as an orator. Another shows garfield taking the oath of president at his inauguration. The final one shows the martyred president lying in state. When the building was built, the building was can colored. It got the years blackened through pollution, and interestingly enough, because of basever material that itd canade out of, get black, but it shows him at various stages in his life. He one a number of very significant battles. James garfield was an abolitionist. He didnt believe in slavery. He didnt want the Southern States to secede from the union. He fought hard for those causes. In 1880, James Garfield was helping his friend john sherman get the nomination. But the republicans at the convention could not get it together to be behind anyone candidate. It took 36 ballots to get a nominee, and James A Garfield was not really running for president of the United States, and his name was called out at the convention. Somebody yelled out, what about garfield . He became the nominee and said, wait a minute, i have to talk to my life wife, and he had to get word to her that he had been presented as the nominee, and she said yes, for him to go ahead, it was an honor to serve the country. And she would support him, but she wasnt really in favor of it. She did not seek that high of an office, nor did he. Because they were the kind of people they were, they wanted to serve the country in any way that they could. He accepted the nominee and obviously he was elected to be president. He only served for 200 days. He was very popular in the country and people liked him and believed in him, and he was a very strong leader. He had a lot of charisma and a lot of people were willing to get behind him and follow him. This was during a time when the country was very divided and the south had been decimated by the war, not to mention the north, and families had lost loved ones. He was really the first leader to come around and hold the country together. He took office in march and he was shot on july 2, 1881. He was shot by a man named charles gouteau, a disgruntled office seeker. He was delusional and probably today would have the label of psychotic. He believed that he should be an garfields cabinet but he also believed he should be the president of the United States. After the shooting, when he was in jail, he felt that he would become the next president of the United States. If anything happened to garfield, that Charles Guiteau would take office. President garfield was shot at a railroad station in washington. At first, he was doctors were searching for the bullet and his back and they couldnt find it. They even brought in Alexander Graham bell at one point, who had this very crude metal detector that he was trying to find a bullet and all that was coming up were signals being picked up from the springs in the mattress that were metal. So they couldnt get a reading on where the bullet was. As it turns out, the doctor was looking in the wrong pathway. He didnt believe in microorganisms or bacteria, and he kept putting his fingers in the wound and it was getting more and more infected grade garfield died as a result of infection, not specifically for the bullets. Today he would have survived, with medicine today. Shortly after he was shot, in his Recovery Time he went to the new jersey seaside in hopes of the fresh air and being out by the ocean would help him get well, but it didnt. After several months of agony, he died on september 19, 1881. After president garfield died, people got together and formed a commission and raised money through donations and completed this building in 1890. This building is a mausoleum. A mausoleum is a giant tomb. Except this doesnt look like a mausoleum ism supposed to look like. At that time there was a popular idea that color and decoration were entirely out of place in a memorial, and nothing but cold, white marble, black lines, and general gloom should pervade such an interior. You can see that the architect threw out that idea and instead of making this a gloomy place, he made this one of the most colorful interiors in the world. There are some Amazing Things in this room, but one of the most Amazing Things is right up there in that beautiful golden dome. There are four winged angels up there the represent the four points of the compass and that was to show that all parts of the country were mourning the death of the president. Down below the angels are red and white stripes from the American Flag and around that circle are 40 wreaths that represent the 40 states and territories that were a part of the United States when garfield was president. Then, around here is another outstanding work of art, and allegorical funeral procession where people from all walks of life come to pay their respects to the president. It took over 200,000 pieces of stone to make up that mosaic. In september 1881 when he died, he died in new jersey. The mayor of cleveland reached out to his family, presumably lucretia, his wife, and suggested that the president be brought back to ohio. The family agreed because during his lifetime, he had requested and expressed a wish to be buried at Lakeview Cemetery in cleveland, ohio. At that point in time, a committee of several leaders in the Cleveland Community was formed and a Garfield Association was formed. That was a committee of individuals that were taking on or spearheading the assignment of how to put together a fitting memorial for garfield and also raising the money for that memorial. They selected a site at Lakeview Cemetery that was the highest bluff in the cemetery. Because it was the victorian period and a lot architecture was tall and vertical, they had a vision of something 180 actually, their initial vision was about 200 feet high and it came down to 180 feet high. They talked to several architects and selected George Keller out of connecticut to be the architect for this building. It is interesting because a lot of people think the federal government would have built him this memorial, but that was not the case. Back in that time that was definitely not the case. So what ended up happening was they went out to everybody in the United States and raised 135,000 from individuals, from schoolchildren, people in all 50 states, and even some people from france and england and canada gave money to his memorial. The total cost of the memorial was about 225,000. And 135,000 came from individuals sending money on their own. It was pretty impressive, that shows how deeply people cared for him. He died in 1881, but the building was not dedicated and he wasnt entombed here until 1890. Immediately after his death, he was returned to washington, d. C. , where he laid in state for a period of time, then he was brought back to northeast ohio, where he was also laying in state. And then he was interred in a tomb here, private mausoleum, where he remained for a period of time where they were raising money and building the memorial mausoleum. Im told that when he was in this mausoleum, it was under armed guard during that time. When you go downstairs, you are going to see a site i tell people they will never see again the rest of their life, because most president s are buried in modest circumstances, most president s are buried below ground. Of the president s above ground, downstairs is the only president ial casket on full open display. Its quite an unusual site and probably never will be repeated again in history. Besides the president ial casket downstairs, theres another casket of president garfields wife, lucretia, who survived 37 years after he was assassinated and then in one of the urns are the ashes of president garfields daughter and her husband. Katherine because the memorial is on a high bluff, and some days you can see 40 miles of lake erie shoreline in either direction, this is a place where James Garfield in his final resting place is overseeing all the territory he served and represented. His home and all of his constituents are here. The site is very meaningful in that way. Cspan is in the mile high city of denver to learn about the cities literary culture. We visit a bookstore established in 1971 which became a denver institution. When you talk to folks who work in publishing here or in writing in any way, shape, or form, 80 of them have worked here. Everybody involved in letters in denver. About ahave been here year and in the first week we had president jimmy carter visited us, we had hillary clinton, david mccullough, nathaniel philbrick. Lots and lots of authors. Owning a bookstore has been a dream most of my working life, and we tried a couple of times we looked at a couple of different options, and nothing worked out right. We figured, go big or go home. Tattered cover came into being. The deal was announced in march of 2015 and it was the number two story on the tv news, front page of the denver post. The next day the denver post saying what aal treasure she is and named us by name and said, basically, dont screw this up. Welcome to denver. The process was a twoyour process. Joyce formally retires july 1, 2017. We are right now in the middle of it. Incremental. Every month we learn a little more, take on more responsibility, and get involved in different parts of the store. This year we are fully functioning as members of the management here. Inside in anuilt old theater, ran for about 20 years or so, was an abandoned building. We took it over about 10 years ago and turned it into the next location of the tattered cover. Haveis the room that we for our bigger events. 200, 220 seated people. If there is no presentation and it is just assigning, we snaked the line throughout the store and can get as many as they want. We come with publishing and book industry experience. I have a very Broad Perspective of opinions from a number of angles, and still everyday is like taking a sip of water from a firehose. So much to learn, such a convex organization complex organization, that we are learning all the time. Tattered cover was started in, i think, 1971. Joyce bought the store at the end of 1973, start of 1974. Joyce just as a master bookseller. The store quickly caught on an expanded, extended. In a lot of ways joyce really invented what has become modern brickandmortar retailing. If you look at tattered cover, you see grass fixtures in the dark wood. The original barnes noble superstores were modeled on this. 4 occasions. Three largeformat locations, stories like this one, and a tiny store in union station, and in partnership with another company have three stores at the airport. The location is the largest. Our offices are here. The selling space is on the order of 20,000 square feet, plus another 4000 to 6000 square feet. We have, depending on the time of your and what we call per diem staff, folks who work on call, about 150 employees. So i recently learned that every time i give a tour i say if there is ever an apocalypse in denver, you want to be in this building. In the last couple days i learned that this building was built in 1950, and this was actually built as a follow nuclear bomb shelter. This is the best place to come. Offices are in the bottom level. We have central receiving. Everyday day the books come in here and get taken out to different stores. Our Computer Team is down here, our financial team. This open area is where we do all our returns. Once the books have been on the shelves for a while and havent sold, we can send some of them back to the publisher and that is where this happens. These are all ready to go. We have books that arent ready to be on sale yet. We wait for tuesday as the release date. Sometimes we have carts waiting to go out. This is where all the books come into first and are received, entered into the computer, divided up into the different stores. Down in this corner we actually have a working, functioning workshop. It has big power tools and saws. We build new bookshelves, fixed old bookshelves, stained wood. Lots of tinkering happens here. In this area over here, this room in here is opposite the door that leadsd right now leads right out to our events area. Author out this door, chairs set up, microphones. Easy in and out. Very accessible. Every day is another challenge that is often not connected to selling books. [laughter] whether you are dealing with a staffing issue or the physical space, a pipe burst, you might be dealing with different kinds of customer issues. We spend so little of our time at the ownership level dealing with the books. And i think we kind of knew that coming in. But there are days when im like, boy i just want to sell books today. That is the most fun part of the job, to talk to people about books. Im really buys talking about tattered covers importance to literary life in denver, but we are the beating heart of denver. We are Gathering Place for writers groups. We are Gathering Place for publishers. I really believe that we are vital to denvers literary scene and as i said, i think we are the beating heart of it. You askedd, but if people they might say the same thing. Did anybody want to come and my d they came iin the orders from the head of the klan. They came to kill the whole family. My husband was a civil rights activist in hattiesburg who worked to get africanamericans registered to vote. First of all, he was at shady grove church. He led sunday school and sang in the choir. ,e owned a Small Grocery store he grew commercial cotton. We planted as much as seven acres of cotton. Sr. , was onernon, of the founders of the branch of the naacp. At that time it was definitely an underground organization. He felt having the opportunity to vote was the pathway hopefully firstclass citizenship. Blackshad places couldnt go, whites could go. The quarter house was the only place they had bathrooms for black people. Colored was black people, white was white people. Even the water comes sidebyside, they had the white cotton in the black fountain white fountain in the black fountain. Colored fountain is what they called it. Here, theys south of would go up and pay their property tax and pulled tax and my dad did that religiously. He would go to the Voter Registration office to register, and the registrar would refuse to let the register. Consequently, people just paid the poll tax. He push for black people to be able to vote. The i think 2 or 3 days before they came and killed him, the announcement was that people would be able to pay the poll tax and wouldnt have to go to the courthouse. Anybody who didnt have the money, he would pay it for. 2 banks he had already done business with them he was able to borrow money from some other source. Time theree, by the , she wouldy threats sleep the last part of the night because we knew it wasnt safe for 2 people at the same time. They were sleeping in shifts. My dad was on active duty protecting the very people who wanted to take their life. I didnt find out that until my dad lost his life. Guns in theways house, but when i came home, i came home and my dad said, hey, dont walk in front of a window at night. Even though they pulled the curtains. He told me why. There was a gun in every room. We were hunters. That didnt bother me. That was the first time i was introduced to that level of fear. 1965, we end of stopped getting threats around christmas 1965, and we went to sleep like the other people. The house was on fire, there were shooting in the house. By that time, vernon was returning we kept loaded guns and he yelled to me to get the children out. Set both facilities a fire at the same time and while they were burning, they were shooting into the flames to make sure if the flames dont get you, well kill you. I got betty out of her bedroom. Of and ithe window was my shoulder pulling the window up. I turned around to get betty and the window fell down and i couldnt get the window up again. I hit the window so hard with my shoulder that i fell out. Burned on both of her arms and honor for head. And on her for head. He got burned real bad. By the time my dad got outcome he had stayed inside too long. By the time he got out, he inhaled too much of the fumes and his respiratory system was pretty well parched. Vernon, betty, and i went to the hospital. Betty was crying because she was scared. We called dr. Jones. I were both talking to see about betty. Betty was crying. He left betty and worked on vern and came back and worked on betty. They put them in t same room in the hospital. And i thought he was getting better, but everybody else was saying vern was not getting better. , along i arrived here with the grocery store, about 100 feet from the house, it was still smoldering. Hed already passed away. And there were lawenforcement, spectators, newspeople covering the site. My dad was a highly respected man. The reaction from the community was surprising. Im sure it was a white population, because it was hostile. Marchers the Community Came to our defense. Vern, theappen to kind of life he lived, we know it can happen to us. They laid aside their fear and said, hey, we got to do something. We have the leader of the naacp, and brother charles, he came down and organized a march. Through the black neighborhood to the courthouse. After that, the black community began to make demands. In the black community put together a boycott that was successful. The demand the community have that they would hire blacks. Most time they were quite experience. How could you have experience when nobody would hire you . President Lyndon Baines johnson, he sent a telegram to my mom and family expressing his regret and condolence to the family. They went to prison but didnt stay there long. 1998, he died in in prison. It was terrible because i had to take the witness stand and testify for the grand jury to indict him. I was the leadoff witness every time to i dont know how many times, about 75 times i took the stand trying to get something done. Thehat i hope is that things that we expense extreme that we experienced in this country, our country, will not ever happen again to anybody. For those of you that want real estate programs like house hunters and so on typically find flyers with homes looking for an open concept floor plan, plus the stainless steel appliances and Granite Countertops in the kitchen. As you look in the late 1800s, homes, it is inevitable they dont find the open concept. And yet here is a moment created in 1908 that had all those characteristics, the fluid feeling. We are in southeast grand rapids, michigan and a private residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908. We are told today it is the most comprehensive the restored prairie style home. Frank lloyd wright was very 1908ssful architect in when he was commissioned to build a house for himself, his wife, and what they hoped would be children. He was a local clothing merchant. The store was located in downtown grand rapids, and he was very successful as a merchandiser, as a marketer of items. And was nationally recognized, for example, for being the first displayed clothing on wooden hangers in original setting. He was very progressive, very successful financially, and those were 2 characteristics that were important if you are going to be a client of flank worried right. Frank lloyd wright. Having that nature, having developed the thick skin that the early adopter has to have as they are doing things that havent been done previously, was an important consideration. He wanted hisod home built and was a wellestablished neighborhood in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Today it is known as the Heritage Hill historic district, about a quarterwhile wide, a milelong, encompasses about 1200 residential properties. It was deep in the residential neighborhood in the early 1800s late 1800s and early 1900s. If your business was successful and you had a successful profession, this is where you wanted to live if you could possibly do so. Most of the architecture was very traditional, Northern European architecture. Clearly this house do not reflect that architecture and he was reacting to aspects of other architecture that he felt was inappropriate. The neighbors response when the home was under construction was what was that . It is easy has to make fun of when you look at it, starting with the fact that you went all the way to chicago and hired as hotshot architect and did not even know to put the front door on the front. A philosophical reason for doing this. It was about privacy. If the neighbors did not understand the concept and the philosophy, it was a very strange house. Designed the home, he had several principles that were important. It was a place of tranquility and serenity. It was not a commercial structure where you would hang up the shingle to encourage people to visit you. Rather, it was a place that you could retreat to at the end of a busy day, or that you could invite friends over and socialize in the serenity and truck quality of your own residence tranquility of your own residence. In contrast to neighbors homes that would have a large sidewalk, a large private sidewalk that would lead you to a very obvious front door, wright talked his primary tucked his primary guest entry into a little alcove. Home, it opened up a great deal, could be very spacious. One area would flow into the next. We are in the living area which really flows very fluidly from the welcoming space, for i was standing just a little earlier where i was standing just a little earlier. Behind me is the southern exposure. Wrights instance what has done is take advantage of the fact that if dissatisfied to rapids, if the sun is going to shine in grand rapids, it is going to come from the south. Defying the convention of the period, he wraps his glass into the ceiling. Overhead you notice what looks like a natural skylight. In fact, they serve that function also. Placestion, wright between the exterior glass and interior decorative glass that you see so that early in the morning, late at night cloudy or overcast days, he had this wonderful soft, ambient light that is part of the space. It is all very, very fluid transition from one area to originallyther than said that a rigidly subdivided floor plate that guests would experience in the home. We are in the dining area, and this to me is one of wrights Magical Creations also. In this instance, the architecture that surrounds the dining space actually becomes very recessive. It is just kind of there. Is important as the conversation you are enjoying and the food you are enjoying good what he does is the overhead chandelier that tends to want to call attention to itself, he instead replaces it with light on the four corners of the table, and now the focus becomes who am i eating with and what kind of food are we experiencing together. And what is most amazing about it is that everyone gets a good seat at the table. You have perhaps been invited by a host or hostess to sit there. If it was in the chairs they gave the if it wasnt the chairs that gave you did he want site, you might have felt that the person who got the view to the exterior got the better see. Every seat at this table gives you the opportunity to have a view to the outside. If happens to be on one side of the table, you have a full wall of glass, the windows behind me. If you happen to be sitting on this side of the table, a loving ural of hollyhocks, one of wrights favorite flowers. In the same Color Palette is the balance of the home. If the lewdly blends in and brings the outside inside, but adjacent to and have sidelines to the exterior windows as well. We always like to be connected to the outside. Designs that as a very significant feature of this space. The second level of the house contains family bedrooms and bathrooms as well as staff bedroom and bathroom. All spaces where you fully expected have privacy. In those areas the walls go to and connect with the ceiling to provide the level of privacy. Wright wants to make sure it is not become a box followed by a second box followed by a third boring box. He pushes up into the attic to increase the volume, increase the sensation of spaciousness. As a go down the corridor, narrows the corridor, produces the ceiling height. It becomes claustrophobic for color guests taller guests, which is wrights intention. And then as you go down the corridor the space opens up again. In addition to connecting the inside and the outside, from the standpoint of the visual experience, it also helps the expand light helps to the feeling of the space. In the master bedroom, as an example, you not only pushes out the windows but has perpendicular sidelines so you have the 180degree panoramic view. Some might look at the space and say that instead of pushing out the window, while they push out the floor, too . The reason he didnt is he did not want to fill it with more stuff and it would diminish the experience of the panoramic view down the street. If you were to retain Frank Lloyd Wright as her architect, first of all, you would have to have a wonderful revenue stream and it would have to be continuous. You would also have to be progressive, because your house was going to be very progressive. The third was always at odds with the first 2 you have to be very compliant. You had to say, ok, frank, here is my checkbook. Do what you think is best for me. If you look at the first level of the home, for instance, there is no added to our on the home. No additive art on the home. Wright felt the entire structure was a piece of art, and anything that your mortals would add would diminish it. However, he was a realist and realized you might want to express yourself occasionally. On the second floor in a very limited number of locations, he designs picture frames and says, ok, this is where it can go. Express yourself. But it has got to go in that size opening and hang in that spot on that wall. Meyer may moved into the home in 1909, and that that time they did not have children. They adopted and infant daughter in 1914, a son in 1916. In 1917. Passed away may remarried widow from chicago who had two children of her first marriage. They chose to expand the home. The expansion was not designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. They added 15 of the Square Footage of the house, added additional terms, staff less formal living space. May lived in the home until 1936, when he passed away. Early 1940, a buyer acquired the home, rezoned multifamily, and the third owner came and live here from 1945 through 1985 to 1985, acquire the home for the specific purpose of restoring it, bringing it back to what it represented in 1909 when the family moved in. You might walk into the house and say it looks different, and it does. But the more important thing is to understand how would lives how it lives, and how it can help support, how it can help experience that the family would have living in this space. It is not a museum in the traditional sense, in that you have to stay on plastic runners and where for these and stay behind velvet ropes. It is a home. We would hope that you could with some imagination understand and feel how a family could live very comfortably in an environment that is intended to help shape and support and reinforce their experience and their intent. Ive been collecting rare books for the past 30 years. I decided to relocate to provo after selling my bookshop in dallas can which also sold new books. Years, book 15 stores that sold new books have really suffered, with the advent of ebooks and everything going digital. What i found is the interest in rare books has increased. In my shop right now there are about 1000 books, but in the inventory there are about 5000 books. I wrote it books through here and i specialize in 4 different areas. I specialize in older bibles, bibles from the past 500 years. Being in utah, i specialize in early mormon books, classics of literature, early American History. One of the items i enjoy re bibles or religious texts that belong to will no historical figures. Being in utah, one of the more popular im popular items is Brigham Youngs copy of the book of mormon. It is in a nice protective clamshell, but this is, according to family tradition, this is the copy of the book of mormon that was on the gum young Brigham Youngs nightstand when he died. If you open it up to the title page, you can see Brigham Youngs signature. I enjoy early American History, and this is really one of the most important books printed in 0, and it is an original copy of Thomas Paines common sense. It was printed in philadelphia, the printer is robert bell, and if you go there today, it says here is where common sense was printed, january 9, 70 76. It is like a pamphlet. Ewntogether, quite rare sw together, quite rare. It has an interesting story because thomas paine went to ll to have this printed and he wanted the proceeds to buy soldiers mittens. After it went through the printing, they had a falling out and thomas paine lower the price and said anybody can print it. That is one of the reasons that book is so well known and printed and has the dissipation of the highest saturation of any book printed in america. In the pastfind year is a bible that belongs to the man who wrote lord of the rings. Tolkiens copy of the bible. I have a nice protective case for it, but he had a simple bible. Printed in 1947. He was in the middle of writing lord of the rings. Towas writing it from 1947 1954. You see his signature in the front. Is thatt interested me he annotated this book and made comments in the margin. Here on the last page of john he is making comments in greek, comparing it to seven different versions of the bible. He is making this is a better translation of the original greek. J. R. R. Tolkiens bible, the one he had while he was writing lord of the rings. Just to the thousand books here are worth over 10 million, and there are books that are worth over 1 million apiece, although i have books as low as 100. That is kind of the starting level for the books that i have. What i enjoy so much about the rare books, its the hunt, it is a treasure hunt. It is finding them, and also realizing that these older books, they are different. I have a different feel, a different look, often a different story, depending on who owns the books. That is an added story within a story. This is the Perfect Place to keep these books, because it is fireproof, humiditycontrolled, and there is no uv light. This little book has a big story, but if you are looking at it, you see that it is latin. This is something that could be overlooked unless you understand what the symbol is. This little book has a great story, but you have to know history. You have to understand the history of this time period to understand who owned this book. You almost have to do detective work. Now, to determine who owned this book, you look at this, and when you see this, you see a crown, so that exceeding royalty. You go, ok. Ok, that is french royalty. Why do you see the two sides . This is because this person was married. This would be a queenq cop queens copy. The king at the time was louis xvi. This is the seal of marie antoinette. If you know what Marie Antoinettes seal looked like, you would identify this. There are few of her books that survived private hands because when she was executed, her libraries were absorbed into the French National library for this wouldve been a little book she carried with her, and she would have had more than one. This is something that each year they were given new copies, so she would have had a few and would have given this copy away. That is why it is currently not in the French National library. Finally, another fun book i have , shakespeare book, quite rare. Inkespeare died in 1616, and 1623, his complete works were first printed. In 1632, 1634, 1685. Only about 200 of these copies have survived. There is maybe 1000 copies in the world. Of those thousand, the vast majority, over 90 , or individually owned. I have a portfolio, 1685 fourth folio, 1685, and even before you open the book, you know the book has a story to tell. Stunning binding. But it is the complete works of shakespeare, 1685. I have it open to romeo and juliet. I will continue to collect books for the rest of my life. I have had people ask me, when are you going to retire . What are you going to do . Im already doing it. I cant think of anything i would rather do than travel around. People ask, do you read them . Absolutely. You never know
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