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it was refreshing. and everything wonderful perception that so many of us think of her as mysterious but you made her seem as normal as blueberry pie and many aspects. getting a sense of them in that town where they grew up, one of the great pleasures for me is there was a story for of them, on a drive to every property we drove by, the story of a family that lived there and a feud that had started three generations earlier and the way it had been patched over and all the stories that lurked in that landscape and i also would just try to get a sense of what it was like for them growing up their end being the one listening to those stories they had and alice, their mother s sister who sounded like quite a character. whenever there was an and dallas story didn t take long before i heard most of those that time or two. it was welcome hearing about them more and they grew up as a lot of people of their generati ....
life affirming story. reporter: clay had cancer four times over 17 years. i was his care giver and we had a lot of wonderful times we move from new york to california. he started life over again doing that magazine program at the university of california berkeley s journalism school. we had students who were a new generation of journalists to come to our house all the time. it was a wonderful period. twice when he came back to new york and had to retire, his body began to slow down, as this is toward the end. i was ruminating. this was the smallest kitchen of the many kitchens of my life. it was unusually hot for june. standing on top of the refrigerator has to be small silicon steel the ceiling. i was telling a story with mushrooms because the chinese speak highly of boosting the immune system. i still can t give up. could he have left already? once the hospital bed was dated at our apartment everything changed. we no longer sleep beside each other. we occupied dif ....
it s been wonderful being with you again, lucinda. spent thank you so much, dan. you are amazing. you are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you, for coming. [applause] you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. first let s just start with your name and the title of the book. anne wilcox, with p. j. wilcox. the name of the book at west point west point 41: the class that went to war and shaped america. how did you come across this project is? my husband and i were working with the general on his memoir and he invited us to 73 union at west point. he was in the class of 1941, which was the last class to graduate before the u.s. entered world war ii. we went to the reunion and we start hearing stories of other officers that was classmates that were just astounding stories of closing the bulge in the bow of the bulge, and other historic incidents in world war ii the ....