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up with that title. you ca guest: thats right. "the future and its enemies," which i think is a great title--and a lot of people thing its a great title--is an allusion to a famous book calleo "the open society and its enemies," by karl popper. and what im talking about in the book is the open society, te ver--very much so and yet open society very much so. and yet the -- calling that the future has that ring that is about how we make progress and how we move into the future in a dynam...

all sorts of stuff to publish, and the first one -- i think we published eight or nine clinton books that were best sellers, the first was a book written by a reporter in little rock that covered clinton for the time he was governor and attorney general, shed see him every day, meredith oakley, and she wrote a book -- we called that book "on the make." it was one of the first anti-clinton books that was published. published barbara olson, two of her books. the first was her book on hil...

that preacheded him to quit. >> he did decide for his own reasons that his effectiveness was going to be compromised. >> is this having to do with the fact that some social conserve tives appeared to be publicly going after him? >> well, i dont want to speak for rick, but i will say of course there were voices of intolerance that expressed themselves during this debate. that was unfortunate. >> his job, just because he was gay, would have been the most extreme thing to happen if it wer...

>> woodruff: we have two takes on immigration: from arizona, tom bearden reports on the states tough new law facing a challenge at the supreme court tomorrow. >> i wouldnt object to someone asking me if i was a u.s. citizen. >> i dont think theres any question that there will be vrabel profiling. >> ifill: and margaret warner looks at a new study showing fewer mexicans are entering the u.s., legally or illegally. >> woodruff: plus jeffrey brown talks with sculptor, dancer, and performa...

>> i wouldnt object to someone asking me if i was a u.s. citizen. >> i dont think theres any question that there will be vrabel profiling. >> ifill: and margaret warner looks at a new study showing fewer mexicans are entering the u.s., legally or illegally. >> woodruff: plus jeffrey brown talks with sculptor, dancer, and performance artist nick cave about his wearable art. >> im always sort of looking for a project that i can send in the world. i want to make people think in a magical,...

>> i wouldnt object to someone asking me if i was a u.s. citizen. >> i dont think theres any question that there will be vrabel profiling. >> ifill: and margaret warner looks at a new study showing fewer mexicans are entering the u.s., legally or illegally. >> woodruff: plus jeffrey brown talks with sculptor, dancer, and performance artist nick cave about his wearable art. >> im always sort of looking for a project that i can send in the world. i want to make people think in a magical,...

asking me if i was a u.s. citizen. >> i dont think theres any question that there will be vrabel profiling. >> ifill: and margaret warner looks at a new study showing fewer mexicans are entering the u.s., legally or illegally. >> woodruff: plus jeffrey brown talks with sculptor, dancer, and performance artist nick cave about his wearable art. >> im always sort of looking for a project that i can send in the world. i want to make people think in a magical, fantastical way. >> ifill: tha...

Tunneling. in the early years, state dignitaries were invited to the annual fourth of july activities, where inmates were put on display. on most other days, violence ruled this yard where fights and stabbings were common. even the warden was stabbed to death by a group of inmates during a riot in 1937. originally constructed to relieve overcrowding at san quentin state prison, folsom housed some of the most dangerous inmates of the time. today, its history of a more violent time has not been fo...

>> host: lets talk about writing a book and the differences from writing a column. >> guest: they are totally difference. a column is 800 words, and length is absolutely everything. you start how many words, how many letters, you really have to compress the length so theres a couple things you cant do at that length. first, its hard to tell a narrative story because it tames time to set up, hard to do in-depth reporting because by the time you set up a scene, you ate 700 of your 800 wo...

600 of your 800 words. so a column you just have one idea, and you hammer that idea. i try to do my columns more narratively, try to tell a story, but its really compressed. with a book you can spend a couple years on something, in-depth knowledge and do it in a more narrative forum, more natural thinking in terms of. and you can do a little better of capturing the climate of something with a column its pretty much whos doing what, and its very specific. but i think were actually influ...