Thanks for being here and there president any we are delighted to have you here for the of book talks and i begin by thanking the Ford Motor Company for their intered partnership in including the book talks series. I personally am pleased to welcome back then bill the third time he has cut back in his many years. I asked because whenever i do that he is seen as a true renaissance man he is from an english did Brown University and also Duke University where he was a fellow and worked as an editor and wrote and edited several books including up passionate seller sailor. He is the author of mayflower in 2010 he published a book called the last end that was a New York Times bestseller was a notable book and has been adapted into a tv series as misspeak rose also a consultant on custers last stand. So the good news is in published in 2013 bunker hill where he spoke about several years ago and one the new england book award for nonfiction the rights to the book have been acquired by Warner B
Published by a traditional publisher and that average age is 37 years old. So, i will tell you, bill, you are skewing the numbers very much. Bill walker grew up in knoxville, tennessee and went to the university of virginia for his undergraduate and masters and went off to teach at College Teaching at the university of new orleans and at Lamar University in texas. Then he went into the administration to be a Public Information officer, associate Vice President for Public Information. He was at Gettysberg College and Virginia Tech and finished up his work at william and mary. I first met him in a class on Woodrow Wilson world war one and i know some people in the audience were in that class and other classes like it. As he told the stories of world war i and specifically making thosef o those of us that live in wilsons birthplace understand the meaning of that man and world war i. He talked about the research he was doing for his book in the classes and later on i would see bill around
I havent finished the book. I started reading about and a little of it. Next one, the desire of the nations was highly recommend to me on political theology. Obviously, thats probably the issue of our day now with isis and the debate over our constitution, the role of the judeochristian tradition, how does islam fit into this conversation. And so the desire of the nations karthik most of you probably know, islam, the jewish tradition and christian, we all used to have a nice conversation about aristotle. The conversation is possible but it requires unity of thought. Aristotle is one nice place to be. Theres plenty of it. I think we need urgent some of our brothers and sisters over in the hotspot the reformation might not be a bad idea and the like but which would be a good idea. So those are some of the things ill be reading about in the book. Next one more contemporary, extortion i Peter Schweizer. Its been around a while. I read it a few years back but im going to give it another loo
[inaudible conversations] booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. Well, first of all, thanks to cspan for all you do on this front. Its very Important Service you give to the country. My folks are watching this. My kids will get a kick out of it. I hope they see their picture behind me. Ive got a pretty extensive reading list not only for the summer, but over the next year. I thought id start off with prayer for people under pressure by jonathan aiken, written by a former member of the english parliament, so he knows a little bit about pressure, and i thought i could learn something from him. Troublesome young men by lynne olson has to do with the rise of a small band of conservatives in the parliament during the churchill period and kind of motivated by im a member of the House Freedom caucus. We have 40 or 50 great folks that are trying to solve some of the fiscal problems. And just kind of represent the people more closely, do
This evening, Siddhartha Mukherjee. In 2001 with the Pulitzer Committee priest the emperor as inelegant inquiry at once clinical and personal. Well, hes done it again in his new look, the gene which tells the story genetics by weaving science and social history with them personal narrative about his own relatives. I said recalled in the knowledge that, it it was so physically and mentally exhausted after al gore that he had to write another book, but the gene turns out to be a natural pairing with emperor, if sort of prequel he calls it in that it focuses on biological normalcy before it being scared distorted in the malignancy of cancer. If youve ever wondered how much of our lives is determined by her jeans versus how much depends on external environmental factors, you need to read sids new book. But dont expect a simple answer because i do it here in a minute, it is complicated. A word about the past, as far back as just a couple decades ago, he was always distinguishing himself. Th