there is no figure like studs terkel with an oral history. a small field, a field that has very little respect within the academic life but which represents a popular approach to history that is product salons, that exceeds any other historians grip of the quotidian life. >> liz well knows, and talk about this liz, one of the great things about studs, studs was a trained actor before he started doing oral histories. he fell into different radio shows and was really good at that and he was the most mechanically inept human being in the world. most or all historians would go in and say, please let's talk and just sit there. studs would-- >> he would always say one of his grated vanishes was that he was inept. and then one of his amazing stories, just i love this story, tells of a woman in public housing. amazing, this story, and public housing and he is interviewing her and her small child is after the interview, or before the interview is messing with the tape recorder and then they have the interview and the boy goes back to the tape recorder

i learned an awful lot from studs terkel and the thing i learned to do best is how to be curious and a way that left space for the person curious about and i hope that your book helps us learn better. thank you. studs was as other panelists know him at it closer level fabulous personality and you could hardly think of not looking at him when you are in the same room as him, but just the idea that you have raised that he ceases to be the standard of attention by his own determination and the other person has the kind of space, that is the remarkable thing. let me connect with one more matter. frequently there are these breakthroughs in communications and mosul frequently but it's happened the last few centuries and most often there is a period of ten or 20 years when all kind of so-called amateurs come in and like the first newspapers were the first radio station thank you the retial was taken over by the monopolies or the first days of live television when studs had studs' place on local chicago and to the local degree about the webbs' well and by throwing comics and we go through ea

and a look at the graphic adaptation of the studs terkel's "working. later, stanley greenberg on advising bill clinton. he is interviewed by mary matalin. live sunday, and death with bill a years, university of illinois professor and former underground member. his latest, "race course against white supremacy." for a complete schedule of this weekend's programs and times, go online to "book t v.org." >> calyces been funded it? >> from public television? the >> donations. >> federally? >> contributions from donors. >> 30 years ago, america's cable companies treated c-span as a public service. no government mandate, no government money. >> topics that today's state department briefing include the trial of two u.s. journalists in north korea. the assistant secretary for public affairs speaks with reporters for about 25 minutes. >> i thought that that red sox signed was permanently banished. >> absolutely not. we have some outstanding coverage. it is a fine tradition. taking over robert to as from the evil empire of which we will not talk about. good mornin

printer's row festa this one features comic book writer harvey pekar and paul buhle on the late studs terkel's book, working. >>> guy mcpherson is a professor at the university of arizona and author of living with fire. professor mcpherson, is there policy? >> particularly if a lousy enough flexibility for considerable variation how we treat places on the landscape. so, excuse me, yes, we still have policies that are broader but enough to encompass all acres but there has to be enough latitude so that we recognize california is not the desert is not counted for forest. >> what are the benefits and negative sides of fire breaking out into summers of the west? >> sure. the benefits include advantages to any number of species that involved in the presence of periodic fire. and for most ecosystems in the west united states, fire was a prevalent and frequent occurrence on a landscape, so all species and fire prone systems devolved in the presence of periodically this catastrophe as we like to call it these days, without fire they go extinct as some point so fire is great if we are interested in mai

rights and sojourner truth, the mob and counterfeiting, and a look at the graphic adaptation of studs terkel's working. later on "after words," stanley greenberg who is interviewed by mary matalin, former assistant and counselor in the bush-cheney white house. and live sunday on "in depth with bill ayers, and his latest is "racecourse against white supremacy ." he will take your phone calls. for a complete schedule of this weekend's programs and times, go online to booktv.org. >> earlier today, president barack obama held a joint news conference in germany with chancellor angela merkel. later they visited the buchenwald concentration camp. his next destination is france with stops tomorrow in paris and normandy. the president's speech to the muslim world in cairo, egypt, continues to generate global reaction. we'll show that speech again this sunday at 10:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span. herbert allison is president obama's nominee to be the next tarp administrator at the treasury department. his senate confirmation hearing before the banking committee runs an hour and 20 minutes. >> the commit

printer's row festa this one features comic book writer harvey pekar and paul buhle on the late studs terkel's book, working. >>> guy mcpherson is a professor at the university of arizona and author of living with fire. professor mcpherson, is there a national fire policy? >> their ase actively in national fire policy developed during the clinton administration and it's largely been abandoned however. what we currently have is a very fractured set of disconnected policies that don't hang together very well so we have something called the national fire policy but we don't pay attention to it. >> is it a good thing in your view to have a national fire policy? >> particularly if a lousy enough flexibility for considerable variation how we treat places on the landscape. so, excuse me, yes, we still have policies that are broader but enough to encompass all acres but there has to be enough latitude so that we recognize california is not the desert is not counted for forest. >> what are the benefits and negative sides of fire breaking out into summers of the west? >> sure. the benefits include advan