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And for whatever reason, i did this time see a story, and the reason for seeing the story is that every book, particularly in history, has what i like to call scaffolding, which is the structure that holds everything together and makes sense of it. This story has so many elements to it that there is no obvious scaffolding beyond the fact of the chronology, from 1939 to 1945. But within that, what do you do . And the second time around, i saw some scaffolding. Not all of it. It sort of evolved as i went along. But im very grateful to peter for being so persistent because at the end, i ended up ...

When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art,...

>> well, thank you very much for that warm stirring welcome. i really appreciated. and beth and timothy, and all of my friends in philadelphia, it's a wonderful opportunity to be back in philadelphia, at the philadelphia museum of art, one of our nation's great, great museum treasures to how fortunate for you all to be members of this fine, fine place. "saving italy" is a magnificent story, one i'm really excited to share with you. and it all began for me in 1997. i had moved to florence with my family and i was walking across a bridge one day, the only bridge in florence not destroy...

>> my book is about educational activism. i was interested in telling her story because she was a very important person in the civil rights movement. she was also important before that. she was nearly six years old the citizenship education program, it seemed like i'd gone into researching this and the further i got along, i talked about what she had done. what did she do that have prepared her to do this. and what does this tell us about the deeper roots of the movement and the women's roles in it. then there was her schools which had primary site of women's activism. looking at th...

you practice the english? what's make you more encouraged to learn english? >> survive. you have to be desperate. you will, you're already in america. and let me tell you, english is much easier than chinese. [laughter] >> thank you. because i'm working for 12 years all the chinese committee always seem, i'm working for the chinese newspaper. as a reporter, too. spent i think the most difficult thing for you will be try to stay away from chinese community. that's what i deny myself for so many years. because i know if i didn't speak english i would never be independent in america. >>...