We appreciate it. Even though sometimes you dont say thank you. Thank you. I will carry on until i drop dead. Hi my name receive linn and im so glad to welcome you to the store this evening and were excited to welcome david barron, hes the author of american eclipse which is why youre is thing here. And were very, very excited because this is a really interesting book where the wild west meets the stars essentially, and if i was reading a little bit about it and about the time and the e and i thought how interesting 100 years ago 99 years ago was the last time we had a total eclipse that went from coast to coast. And it it was right over colorado. But you think about colorado 100 years ago it was a different place. It was known for it was a wild west. You know. Who would come to colorado well they wanted to come because you could stand on mountain and see eclipse better than anywhere else. So all of a sudden california took on a new place in science and a place that was the beginning o
Tree, what kind of tree would you be . It was like a hardhitting interview question. President bush says well barbara, i am not a tree. I am a bush. [applause] and i said i am voting for him. So living life with that gentle, witty human it has been a plus to be around him and embrace my own humility and the importance of character. Elections are about character. The people you surround yourself with their character sticks out. I didnt realize i wrote a book about this until megyn kellys husband said this is a parent book about living with character and surrounding yourself with people of character. So i had worked on many other books. Before i was a White House Press secretary i was a deputy. I always say take a deputy job. You work holidays and weekends but you get to know the boss and learn the job so when there is an opportunity you can step up. I left the white house and i was called upon to work on doing publicity for karl roves book, laura bushs book and i got a call from 43 and
That. The guy who edits president bush, keep him in mind. He knew me and asked if i had a book. And he said what about your stories and he said you tell Great Stories about president bush. And i remembered i took the from the amtrak train and it was in my wallet for three years. All of a sudden i pulled it out and said i have do this. This is my book proposal a. Ripped up piece of paper folded in my wallet for three years. Sean looked at it and said leave this with me and went to this bosses and said we should do a book and they said that book will never sell and if you want to do something political we will help you. I said i am not doing that. I was a little humilitated. And then sean went to another publisher, my publisher. He said what if you did your book here. His team gave him a lot of room to run and he helped me structure the book. I wanted to fill in the gaps of history about president bush and provide mentoring advice to young people who didnt go to Ivy League Colleges or yo
Sort of caught up with him the river was why it was made into a movie. So ive been back to savannah few times it is kind of sentimental being here. So what happened is my publicist told me almost a year ago Something Like that and just as we were making preparations for my book on the oregon trail that there is this think of the savannah book festival. I did not pay much attention at the time because theres so many other things going on but i just assumed it would be the kind of venue like most of my talks were. I go to give a Powerpoint Presentation and i have a nice one, ill show them what the oregon trail actually looks like today and explain how we became the first, my brother and i became the first to cross the trail. After that i do somebody readings from my book and everything is great. So i do not think much about it and then back in november i called out and i said i wouldnt make sure you have a power play presentation ready, my reading, my talk, and they said oh you dont have