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half a century of writing in 14 books in print and no one had ever written a biography. i wanted to find out who was kurt vonnegut the author of these books that suddenly became so popular, so suddenly. you know, he was out of print, as i say in the prologue in the mid-60s. by 1970 he had a body of work that had been resuscitated from the ash heap of literature. god bless you missed -- mr. rosewater, sirens of titan, mother night, cat's cradle, works before he had been just somebody who wrote paperback books that ended up in drugstores and bus stations next to mr. lefty and conan the...

georgia. winds as strong as 200 miles per hour ripped through towns. at least 37 people are dead. as many as 17 million people were impacted by the storms. scores of injured people waking up in hospitals this morning. their homes and the homes of their neighbors gone. people now picking through the rubble to find anything they can salvage. president obama is offering federal assistance in the areas battered by the storms. in the little town of west liberty, kentucky, the town felt the full force of a tornado's 1 135-mile-per-hour winds. it leveled building, uprooted trees. cnn evers ...

franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum. wait a second. i would like to welcome you to the eighth annual roosevelt reading festival. i would like to welcome c-span's booktv which is broadcasting this program this morning. franklin roosevelt planned for the roosevelt library to become the premier research institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. the research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this year's group of others reflects a wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these others's works at bo...

[laughter] she didn't want to make her debut, she was afraid she wouldn't be popular. her mother had been one of the great beauties of new york society, and apparently when eleanor was a little girl, her mother said something like, well, you better be good because you certainly aren't beautiful. and eleanor did not have good memories of her mother, the love she got as a child came from her father. but then, of course, he was a desolate individual who die inside a drunken stupor, a fire involved at the home of a mistress. and he was a disgrace to that side of the family. .. >> this bo...

>> a fox urgent a small plane crashes into a home in central virginia. tim what happened? >> first i want to tell you he have scary pics to go with this. it happened in central virginia, luis is a. a 1981 cessna twin engine crashed into a home on jefferson highway. it caused a fire. incredible tape. the pilot, according to the virginia state police, died. but there was a person home but they were able to escape. the flames are due to the fact the plane just filled up with fuel at the freeman field. there are 148 gallons of fuel on the plane. no word on the exact cause but they're interviewing ...