Transcripts For CSPAN2 Summer Reading With Representative Randy Hultgren 20170723

Capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. I love this time of year for so many reasons but one of them is having a Summer Reading list and things that i can focus on, things i wanted to read through. A couple things i finished, i highly recommend, just finished a lincoln by ron white. A biography of one of my favorite people, its hard not to be a huge Abraham Lincoln fan but this is so much new information i didnt know about so i enjoyed a lincoln. Growing up in chicago, huge cubs fan, just finished s wavelike opportunity in a really fun story about the last hundred and 80 years of struggle for the cubs to finally win the world series last year and walking through literally game by game of the world series. It was a fun read, when i couldnt put down and i also finished the book recently by eric taxes call if you can keep it. Really referencing that question Benjamin Franklin had walking out of Independence Hall of selfgovernance is all about and what do we have to do to protect our liberty and this great that we enjoy so those are three things i just finished. Getting into a couple other books, i just started center mike lees book written out of history which is a really interesting book a lot about many founders who we kind of forgotten about or have a little bit of misinformation about and ive enjoyed that even though im a few chapters into it. Its something ive enjoyed. Another one that im reading is 30 but no importance, its called called locust effect by gary hogan whose head of International Justice mission, idm. They do a lot of human rights abuses, political persecution and also Human Trafficking and the locust effect talks about how those who are poor and in poverty situations have a much higher likelihood of violence being a part of their life, impacting their life. More powerful coming and taking them, their children, their belongings, their home, their property. Very upsetting but so important for us to recognize this is going on today and time back to the book i started is a reminder that theres more people employed today and when Abraham Lincoln was president so we need to be engaged, informed, we need to be aware of whats happening and then we can make a difference by knowing that its happening not just around the world but in our own backyard. Ive got chicago, ohare just outside my district and its a half, unfortunately for Human Trafficking so we need to know what we can do to fight back against that. Im also reading through the book of romans in the new testament and just amaze all the great information thats in there as well so a lot of Different Things im working on but these are some of the ones im excited. Tv want to know what youre reading, send us your Summer Reading list by a twitter book td or instagram book otv or posted to our facebook page, facebook. Com book td. Book td on cspan two. Television for serious readers. Tv takes hundreds of other programs through the country all year long. Heres a look at some of the events we will be covering this week. On wednesday we will be at barnes and noble in new york city where Bloomberg Businessweek Senior National correspondent Joshua Greene reports on the 2016 Political Partnership between steve bannon and donald trump. Later that night we had to the next president ial library in yorba linda california for former u. S. Navy seal robert neil will discuss some of the 400 missions he participated in including the killing of osama bin laden. The rescue of captain Richard Phillips and the attempted rescue of marcus luttrell. On thursday we will be at the Historical Society of boston massachusetts where Mark Schneider will recount the life of former massachusetts representative gary stein, the first openly gay member of congress. Thats a look at some of the events book td will be covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on tv on cspan2. Author alan all the is our guest on book td, his latest book year it is, if i understood you, what i have this look on my face . My adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating , mister alda, i read your book. And i hope you can help me understand this, the couple of themes that run through your book. Number one, its the. Why is that theme of your book