Criminalized and led to a criminal underground in america. I really had a story of good intentions. A wonderful book one of the best histories of prohibition that ive ever read. Start of independence really is talking about the american the nobody was very great at it. There was that enigma but in terms of the networks that were successful by any country is a wonderful history of the rise of that finance of espionage. Roger black by hugo about the Supreme Court gave us our modern law started out as a ku klux klan member and became one of the justices and the Supreme Court showing that people can grow and he was an incredible justice for the Supreme Court. This writer is the second of two volumes about the road to this union and the american civil war, extraordinary writing and very complex place. There was a lot more complexity and nuance to the south before the breakout of the war than one might have expected between the states and the northern part of some of the states and the deep south in terms of their attitude toward slavery what was happening it was dying out in the border states and northern parts. A documented loss of data. The biography. The western history takes a little getting used to but it kind of debunks the mysticism. Its the anticzar feelings for the revolution or both used to justify that and this goes through the history very carefully because this is the real character. Blood land by Timothy Snyder is an extraordinary book. It was struck by the tens of millions of people who were murdered and succumbed to the policies of these criminals. They actually imposed on the ukraine in the 1930s and it kind of led to the welcoming when hitler invaded in 1941 with the occupation of ukraine because it turned out to be as stalin. Human beings could do. It was a wonderful book by lance morrow called the best years of their life by kennedy, johnson and nixon in 1948. He was reelected to congress in 1948 and prevailing a nickname for the landslide lyndon in a close election. It was in the part of american politics with liberty and the story of interaction between George Washington and the marquis the lafayette. There was a long career after the revolutionary war including a figure in the french revolution until the plant really sour and was imprisoned for a long period of time that it was almost like father and son, highly unusual for washington and a very distinctive and impressionistic relationship. It was is a sort of new history in the world and the importance and ones plate and is now playing in terms of the development of Natural Resources and the revision of the growth in the undertaking fascinating history. It was the rise of the dynasty in great britain. We take it up as longlasting with henry the seventh and Queen Elizabeth the first. So, it wasnt that long but it was those that left an indelible mark. And the two books that im reading today. I finished one is a history of the empire by peter and i have to admit the pros. It was disintegrated after world war i and then a fascinating novel. It is in the concept talking about the condition. It was kind of reflecting on whats going on around them. I am enjoying it a great deal. Booktv wants to know what youre reading. Send your reading list to twitter at booktv port instead ran at booktv or post it to the facebook page, facebook. Com booktv on cspan2. The representative has an extensive reading list whenever we visit with him. One of the books was the university of the scars of independence a look at violence during the American Revolutionary war. Good evening. How are you . Thank you for coming. Im the manager of Public Programs here at the New York Public Library to welcome you to the conversation between holder hook scores of independence. The book is fascinating and for