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Think you. Thank you for your support of american phoenix. Thank you for coming out tonight and also cspan and booktv. Is an honor. I am thrilled to share with you american phoenix the remarkable story of William Skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny one question every writer gets when people find out if youre writing a book. Cocktail party or supermarket or on the street, what is your book about . That is a fair question. It is a good one and extremely challenging to answer. You have spent thousands of hours writing thousands of words with a ton of information in your head and the right to one story that includes many others that do have to figure out how to condense the information into a 152nd sound bite of the 10 words or less. I have it down to seven words if you include american phoenix is about. People ask if your book was made into a movie house would you give it . The titanic meets rocky. American phoenix is about in essence disaster and a survival. Disaster of Epic
The supermarket or on the street is, so, whats your book about . Its a fair question, and a good one. And often extremely challenging to answer because you have spent thousands of hours writing thousands of words, you have a ton of information if your head in your head, and youre writing one story, but that one story includes many other stories. And suddenly you have to figure out how to condense all this information, all these stories in a 15second sound bite of ten words or less. Well, ive got it down to three. Well, seven, actually, if you include american phoenix is about. And one of the things that helped me get there was someone asked me, so, if your book were made into a movie, how would you pitch it . And i answers the titanic meets rocky. [laughter] american phoenix is about, in essence, disaster and survival. Its about disaster of Epic Proportions that involved a lot of water and engineering failure, the failure of design that killed a lot of people. And its about survival, t
Out, my share of the path. And dick cheney on coronary disease. His book is also coming out in 2013. Sarah weinman of publishers marketplace and Bob Minzesheimer of usa today, we appreciate your time today on booktv. Sarah kilborne recounts the crew of her greatgreatgrandfather, William Skinner, a textile manufacture in the mid19th century. The author recalls skinners immigration from london and his career ascendancy from a worker and a silk mill to the owner of his own factory, the mill village, skinnerville. In 1870 for a dam burst near skinnerville and destroyed the town and forced William Skinner to rebuild. This is about an hour. Thank you, bill. And thank you for your support of american phoenix. And thank you all for coming out tonight. And thank you and thank you, cspan, and booktv for being here. Its a real honor. And im thrilled to be able to share with you american phoenix, american phoenix the remarkable story of William Skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny. So o
Would have had to spare the burden of athlete ever every expense you would have to incur. This is the first mill that skinner had in skinnerville. Incredibly, it went up six months to the day of the flood. And holyoke . This is in holyoke, yes. And ultimately skinners mill turned into that. This was the largest silk mill under one roof in the world. In 1874, success of this scope was impossible to imagine. As was what it would take to achieve it. In 1874, skinner thought he was at the head of his game. He was 49, he had a wife and seven children, he had a village of about 200 people. This village had grown up around his silk mill that was named after him called skinnerville. He was at the head of the american silk trade at the time. He was bullish on the future, and he believed that silk in this country would become big business, which it did, but in 1874 he was thinking how can i expand my Business Today . How can i make it better today . And he uses it was the biggest room in the wor