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welcome to the daily show, my name is jon stewart. we have a show for you tonight. our guest tonight a man name michael wallis, author of a new book called david crockett, that's right, david. (laughter) >> what mr. crockett preferred and actually he didn't wear a racoon tailed hat, he wore a ca ron pelt chappeau. they gave me the sen ten-- sentenced uttered every four years. our top story tonight is in a mark es, eye watch. the iowa straw poll which is the subject of indecision 2012, corn poll edition. the iowa straw poll is, of course, the early august to the very predictive precur...

i told carla your secret, and we're going to help you. we're going to rally everyone in this hospital to stop that board from forcing you out of your job. are you in on this, too, perry? nope. first time hearing it, and i couldn't care less. he'll get there. mm-hmm. >> august 11th, 2011, from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central welcome to the daily show, my name is jon stewart. we have a show for you tonight. our guest tonight a man name michael wallis, author of a ...

>> frederick law olmsted is remembered for designing new york city's central park, but justin martin looks at his life as journalist and abolitionist. also in washington, booktv stopped by a book party for juan williams' latest, "muzzled." and inside the world of "the pirates of somalia." sign up for booktv alert, it's weekend schedule's in your inbox. and up next on booktv, michael wallis recalls the life of frontiersman david "davy" correct. crockett. it's about an hour. >> thank you so much. it's great to be with you. and it's wonderful to come into a city where there's rain. [l...

crockett, that's right, david. (laughter) >> what mr. crockett preferred and actually he didn't wear a racoon tailed hat, he wore a ca ron pelt chappeau. they gave me the sen ten-- sentenced uttered every four years. our top story tonight is in a mark es, eye watch. the iowa straw poll which is the subject of indecision 2012, corn poll edition. the iowa straw poll is, of course, the early august to the very predictive precursor to january's wildly nonpredictive iowa caucus. (laughter) the idea is presidential candidates set up tents. in those tents the candidate offers to pay an indi...

for west. he is the author of "johnny appleseed: the man, the myth, the american story". he spoke at urbana university in ohio for 45 minutes. >> i am the director of the johnny appleseed society. we are located for this program in the johnny appleseed educational center and museum at historic bailey hall at the university. we are here to listen to howard means talk about his brand new book, he has written a biography of john chapman and is here to tell us all about it. the name of the book is "johnny appleseed: the man, the myth, the american story". so i welcome howard. [applause] ...