test test test test cspan test test for that you have written about. my goal has always been doing right books that capture the sweep of american history from the final settling of the west to present-day. each of these subjects are something we remember. people tend to remember them in different ways. a lot of the time, they want to miss rather than fact. i have always thought the facts are more interesting than anything that could be made up. let s use manson as an example. what i wanted to do was write about the late 1960 s in america. in terms of a chaotic time, it makes today look peaceful, where we are all living in unison. to write about that era you need someone or something from that era that will make readers want to pick up the book and open it. for better or worse, charlie manson represented a lot about the late 1960 s. the culture at the time. the things people wanted to talk about. the things people got obsessed with. so, i wrote a book about manson. but it s