[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, we are here to welcome the 11th time number one New York Times bestseller across many genres including fiction, nonfiction, childrens, how to use, graphic novels. Erie. So you know all of you have cameras out, cspan is here and you know what that means. All of us book nerds are being watched by all our Favorite Book nerds. We arefinally altogether in oneplace. We have as many viewers as svn right now. That joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington dc area was our home and a beautiful place for us where we had our children here. We had our lives here. I started writing here and its especially important today. Today is the day my dad died and we marked the day and i know it seems like something sad but i love my father and i especially love being in this barnes and noble because my father used to go into barnes and noble and say yes, im here for brad meltzer book, hes my favorite author and the
Up next on booktv brad meltzer weaves together historical accounts of Benedict Arnold and artifacts associated with the revolutionary war general in his new fictional thriller. [applause] here is where we have fun tonight. We have kids in the front row and that means chaos. Lets hear it for cspan. I love cspan. There is no better crowd than the washington metro area. All the viewers of cspan are in this room, and watch on a regular basis so we welcome everyone to cspan but a couple other things we will do, first i will tell you about the difference between history and destiny. We know what history is, it is what happened but destiny is what must happen. This is true. I cant believe this is happening but my father was struck by lightning. His father, my grandfather, i am not joking, was struck by lightning. That means dont stand next to me in a rainstorm. Last week i was telling my son the story. My dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning, hes like oh my gosh, we ar
Stake in the future and feel like your family will have the future here. What has happened in europe has not happened and thats our challenge. Our challenge is here and i think we have started to turn that corner. We are desperate for some Creative Ideas but you are right. Host karen very few people in United States nobodys topics more than you. You started with one timeout and now with the federal courts. Its a phenomenal book and i highly recommend it to everyone. Thank you for joining us today. I really enjoyed the conversation. Thanks a lot. Guest thank you very much. Up next on booktv brad meltzer weaves together his accounts of Benedict Arnold and artifacts associated with the revolutionary revolutionary war general and his new fictional thriller. [applause] we have fun for a couple of reasons. We have cspan here. [applause] i love cspan. There is no better media and the area. Viewers of cspan are in this room right now. We love you and watch you on a regular basis. We welcome ev
Lightning. I said dont stand next to me in rainstorm and last request telling my son the story and telling them listen my dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning and hes like oh my we could be struck by lightning and i would say we wont be but sure, we might be. Tonight, this is true my son and my family, my wife and my kids were taking the amtrak train to washington d. C. For this event. And theyre trained was struck by lightning. My son texted me and hes like you are not going to believe what happened tonight. [laughter] destiny people, so you will see they will come in running late but this is destiny. A couple of other things which we can do anywhere else in the Country First of all where is jim day . I want to say thank you to jim. Jim, stand up on second. This is jim who does so much work for lego versions of me and all these other things but i love you, thank you for all you do. [applause] fine gem if you want a sticker of a lego version of me. Jim has them.
I like to thank our sponsors and the mississippi folk festival for inviting us all here today. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] up next on booktv can train to raise together stories of Benedict Arnold and the revolutionary war general in his new fictional thriller. [applause] we are going to have fun tonight. One, weve got kids in the front row and that means chaos, people. Weve got cspan here. Lets hear it for cspan. No better than the washington d. C. Metro area. The viewers of cspan are in this room right now. That means the regular viewers of course. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple other things we do nowhere else and we are going to do here. First i will tell you about the difference between history and destiny. History is what happened, but destiny is what must happen. This is true. I cant believe this is happening, but my father, may he rest in peace, was struck by lightning. His father, my grandfather, im not joking, was struck by light