Randy roberts has written so many, hes written more than half of our total number, i think. So, we have a lot of experience in the genre and weve been drawn to it and we have an affinity for it in some way or another. Let me introduce the panelists, i will introduce each of you, if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about this genre. We have larry who is a professor of the graduate acting program at school of the arts in new york in the musical writing program. Hes particularly interested in the music of broadway and has written biographies of Richard Rogers and playwrights and in addition to several other books. His most recent biographical work is the documentary film, sammy davis junior, i gotta be me. So, larry, tell us what drew you to this. Hi. I may be a little different from the rest of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So, obviously, in entertainment you are dealing with a public person
I think weve have you here every year since then. We are thrilled to have you. His newest book it was released late may in addition to authoring over 30 books. A columnist and media commentator. And a researcher in the developing world. To the childhood and during the wars centennial. He is working on a novel set during the cold war and is a contributor to the Hoover Institute on the publication or military history in the impact on world affairs. It is terrific, thank you for coming. Many of you would not want to be in this airconditioning you want to be out in the 95 degrees heat. I was also a very bad musician. I was talking about darkness in the new book. In the sense the talk today might have been titled chancellor bill although it has been and is as the latest operational triumph nonetheless that victory was a very expensive one. And i will just give you a couple of fine points right now and then we will do more of the background and the battle. We are at gettysburg after all. The
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Stay ahead of the possibilities of storms on the 4th. Download the nbc washington app. Set your home page to weather. Now to that fourth of july and the show of military might such as weve not seenn decades. Yeah. Bring in the tanks. They arrived in the district today at the request ofid prest trump, and they are being transported by train to the National Mall for the salute to americaju this is one part of the president s grand vision, to makes the 4th a much bigger celebration this year, bt a of these changes mean its going to be a much biggerpa one ryone traveling through the area. Dont you know it. Were working for you with Team Coverage tonight. Adam tuss has new details on why the celebrations will impact air travel. Corey smith and new details on t tanks. Cory . Reporter well, wendy, we knew before today that the salute to america was going to be big. Military flyovers, a president ial speech and these tanks make it huge t just way President Trump likes it, but after talking wit