Going to have it published. I want to also focus, again, a little bit on Alexander Hamilton. Not just because hes got wonderful musical but because even if your talk, the figure of hamilton, perhaps justifiable moves rather large. As you say, people were obsessed with him, fascinated with him, tell us more about Alexander Hamilton as a founder. Yeah, one of the things the book focuses a lot on the decade after the convention, those first years and i think one thing that people dont understand is how close these enormous egos came to destroying the country and maybe it was inevitable when you get that many brains in one room youre going to have problems. Very quickly on washington on one side hamilton fell and on the other side when jefferson returned, jefferson and madison are all in the same administration and hamilton was more comfortable with the british model. He thought there were problems with the british model but i think it admired the state status and he thought if you were go
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Now we kickoff the weekend with a report on required reading for College Freshman. If we dont have enough people go out and find some. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Association of scholars. I am peter wyatt wood, president of the National Association of scholars. In 2009, a young man heading on vacation in mexico picked up and unusually heavy book for his beach reading, and 800 page tome of the life of an 18thcentury immigrant. 50 pages or so into the book the story took possession of the 29yearold. Would emerge from his reading of Alexander Hamilton is now the hottest ticket on broadway, the hiphop musical hamilton. Broadways play is widely noted for many things including its exact fidelity to historical facts. Each bowl must not be Light Reading and the right beach book can kick off a lot of things. As it happens one of the top five most common readings for College Freshman last year was also a book about the obstacles overcome by an immigrant, the considerably sh
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Copy. Everybody, i have about 300 people to thank and i am going to thank them tonight. However, between me and thanking those 300 people, there is an open bar and lots of sliders waiting for us at joes bar which is an amsisterdam and 83rd street. Lets keep the party going there. I will sign books there that you buy here. I will sign books here obviously. But thank you, everybody for all of the support along the way. You have been incredibly helpful. [applause] our booktv lineup continues in a few moments. Tomorrow night more authors and their books. Starting with steve osborn on the job. And mary sander builder examines jam madisons notes on the Constitutional Convention with madisons hand and a Panel Discussion about politics and democracy later in the night. And one of the panelist will talk about her book in greater detail. Booktv has 48 hours of nonfiction authors. Here are some programs to watch for. This weekend joining us for the 22nd annual festival of the book in charlottesvi