Every year booktv asks members of congress about the books they are reading. Joining us now on booktv is representative tom cole, a republican from oklahoma. Congressman cole, weve asked you this question before. Youve always had a large reading list. Whats on your current reading list . Well, i have just finished the splendid and the vile by erik larson, wonderful account of churchill and his family, really in the worst year of the war, the year right after he becomes prime minister, may 10, 1940, literally the day of the german invasion of low countries in france. And then basically what it was like to stood alone against nazi germany until june the 41 the russians are in the war and then obviously by december the 41 the United States is in the war. Its an extraordinary book, so its a wonderful read about a guy that i consider literally the greatest person in the 20th century and the supreme ordeal of a long and brilliant career. And then i have also been reading, i just picked up a
Every year booktv asks members of congress about the books they are reading. Joining us now on booktv is representative tom cole, a republican from oklahoma. Congressman cole, weve asked you this question before. Youve always had a large reading list. Whats on your current reading list . Well, i have just finished the splendid and the vile by erik larson, wonderful account of churchill and his family, really in the worst year of the war, the year right after he becomes prime minister, may may 101940, literally the day of the german invasion of the countries in france. And then basically what it was like to stood alone against nazi germany until june the 41 the russians are in the war and then obviously by december the 41 the United States is in the war. Its an extraordinary book, so its a wonderful read about a a guy that i consider literally the greatest person in the 20th century and the supreme ordeal of a long and brilliant career. And then i have also been reading, i just picked u
I just finished the splendid and the vial by erik larson, wonderful account of churchill and his family in the worst year of the war after he becomes Prime Minister may 10th of 1940, literally the day of the german invasion of france and then basically what it was like to stand alone against nazi germany until june of 41, russians are in the war and by december of 41 the United States is in the war. It is a wonderful read about a guy that i consider the greatest person of the Twentieth Century and the supreme ordeal of a long and brilliant career. I have also been reading, i picked up a great historian by the name of jean edward smith, great biographer. I read his biography grand and eisenhower, by far the best eisenhower biography of a written. He died in 2019. Right now, just got into his book on fdr, the parkland prize which american historians choose as the best book of the year in 2007. It has been around a while. One of those books had been sitting on my bookshelf and i have not
Well, i had just finished the splendid and the vile by erik larson, a a wonderful acct of churchill and his family, really in the worst year of the war, the year right after he becomes prime minister, may 10 of 1940, that really the day of the german invasion of the low countries in france. And then basically what it was like to have stood alone against nazi germany until june the 41, the russians are in the war and then obviously by december the 41 the United States is in the war. Its an extraordinary book. Its a wonderful read about a a guy that i consider literally the greatest person of the 20th century and the supreme ordeal of a long and brilliant career. Although ive been reading, i just picked up great story by gene edward smith, great biographer. I read his biographies of grant and eisenhower. Eisenhower biography by far the great eisenhower biography ever written, and thered been some good ones. But he died in 2019, so right now i had just gotten into what may been may be in
And then to become Prime Minister in the forties of the german invasion weather is like in nazi germany when the they were in the war and the United States is in the war. It is an extraordinary book and it is a wonderful read and then ive also been reading the greatest stories Jean Edward Smith a great biographer with about the freeze the grant and eisenhower but he died in 2019 when fdr with american stories chooses the best book of the year back in 2007. And those that have been sitting on my bookshelf it is a six or 700 page read but we lost smith last year and we have to think about that and then the last book which i have not read yet that was published 2019 so i have been doing that in earlier this summer by accident i got on the bench and then the American Ambassador in the 1930s and then that eclectic and eccentric group and being and not see germany everyone is consolidating power with that truly dark. World history and then also reading a paper called in the cauldron with the