[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] on facebook cspan history. Next author s. C. Gwynne discusses the american and the leadership of parker. Recorded at the savannah book festival in 20, this program is a little under five minutes. 45 minutes. 45 minutes. S. C. Gwynne hello. Thank you for coming by one to talk this afternoon how i came to this book or how the book came to me which sometimes is a simultaneous event. How a connecticut yankee public career in journalism and failed attempts at fiction suddenly decides he wants to be a historian. But not only that he wants to write about comanches and the great plains which is as far from connecticut as the frozen moons of jupiter. I will not bore you with the details of my literary past but to put it as briefly as possible i had my little epiphany in the spring of 1970. I had just been admitted to Princeton University and i was traveling there for a weekend where you see if you want to go there. It was a glorious day in america