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c-span: dan baum, author of "citizen coors: an american dynasty," what do people get with this book? >> guest: they get--they not only get the story of this very odd family. these people are very odd ducks indeed. they--they get kind of a history of the 20th century. and this was a family committed--is a family committed to the idea that the 20th century was basically a bad idea, and they were going to do everything they could politically and in their business life and in their personal lives to stop the 20th century from happening. and they lose; at the end--at the very end of the c...

>> couric: and good evening, everyone. with less than a week now before the midterm elections, voters appear ready to show incumbents the door. in a cbs news/"new york times" poll out tonight eight of 10 likely voters say it's time to throw the rascals out. now, voters often give congress bad marks, but still like their own representative. not this time. well over half say they want someone new. that's bad news for the majority democrats, and so is this: in house races, 46% of likely voters plan to choose the republican, only 40% the democrat. chip reid is just outside the office of ...

is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: and good evening, everyone. with less than a week now before the midterm elections, voters appear ready to show incumbents the door. in a cbs news/"new york times" poll out tonight eight of 10 likely voters say it's time to throw the rascals out. now, voters often give congress bad mark but still like their own representative. not this time. well over half say they want someone new. that's bad news for the majority democrats and so is this-- in house races, 46% of likely voters plan to choose the republican. only 40% the democra...

this election as a referendum on president obama, 22% say they'll vote for a house candidate will be a vote for the president, but 32% say it will be a vote against him. and two years ago, independent voters played a vital role in president obama's victory, but this year, 47% of independent voters plan to vote republican in the house elections, only 32% plan to vote democratic. now, the white house says the way to turn this tide around, if they can at all, is to get the president out there on the campaign trail to fire up the democratic base, especially young and minority voters, so ...

and people are -- especially grown-ups, especially middle-aged grown-ups. this book if it is skewed in one direction it's probably more male than female but it's also fairly old. the youngest person is probably now 40. so there's not a young people because it starts in 1965 and i wanted these characters all the way through. but by the time people are 50 they are full of all kind of disappointments and contradictions and, you know, interesting stuff to write about which is not as a people your age are not full of interesting complications. what i am saying is you start asking people r...