[applause]. >> getting a fun, one because you're in the front row and you are chaos people . two, we've got cspan here let's hear it for cspan. [applause]. we live cspan. washington dc metro area. all the viewers of cspan, i think are in this room right now. we love you. and the regular viewers as well. we welcome everyone to cspan. but there's a couple of other things. first i am going to tell you about the different between history and destiny. and we all know what history is of what happened. but destiny is what must happen. and this is true pretty can't believe this is happening. my father, he rested piece he was start by finding predict my father, was struck by lightning. the main still stand next to me in a rainstorm. it must become selling my son the story. and telling him, listen. my dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning pretty so my gosh, we could be struck by lightning. as the senate, we won't but sure you might be. tonight, and this is true. my son, and my wife my kids were taking p.m. track train for this event and their train, was struck by lightning. [laughter]. my son texted me and he said you're not going to believe what happened tonight. [laughter]. destiny people. you're going to see this and other people coming in but they're coming in late pretty full of other things. he wants the country, first of all where is jim dave. want to thank you jim. senate one second. he does so much more for history. [applause]. he does so much work. i love you. thank you. so find jim if you want a sticker in the lego version of me. >> so when you need him, he is your man. he's like a drug dealer of stickers. [applause]. dave got one freedom good pretty thank you. it does look like me. so this is yours. so now, here's a look for someone to think. amy, raise your hand place. so this is amy. there was a couple of years ago, my history teacher contacted me saying she was sick. and she needs a kidney or she might die. i would put on my facebook and amazingly, people actually said, your brad. changed my life, the love of history. could you donate a kidney to save her. in the fall of the people, cannot believe volunteers. there was one person is in a brad, i did hear from the teacher. i never heard back. and he said oh you will hear back, don't worry. she is really busy. but for whatever reason, i took that e-mail and i forwarded it. in one fell through the cracks. and that person we missed was amy. i would happen was, when they got the e-mail, they contacted her in the millie back and they said deep not going to believe it, that woman you sent us. she was a match. so was it six months . just six months ago, and became down to florida where i live in amy gave her kidney to my history teacher. i'm going to - baffle actually d in the finally checked for the original e-mail. it went to spam it was gone forever. so history and destiny. amy who gave a body part to a stranger. come on people. [applause]. go donate a body part to a stranger then you get to be first in line tonight. just telling you. anybody donates. this can right here. this kit has a championship game tonight. he said he is skipping his game mother wanted tell the story. [laughter]. the world series. his new tonight, he is skipping it be because he wanted kent to come here for the book signing. in a small said that his dad is the coach of the team. data so mad tonight. [laughter]. 's son is here tonight with mom coming to the front of the line. let's hear from the skin. [applause]. do you hear that applause. cheering and applause. and then this year from the national archives . know someone is here. in the back of the will raise their hands. but they are sorry. i know who they are. thank you to my friends who for from the national archives per unit he said they're coming. so thank you everyone. into my wife and my kids who face finding to get here. if you want to be a better person, amy and you kenny, then you have to kind finding predict and if you do you also get to come to the front of the line. so let's talk about destiny and history. this book was written by myself and mr. goldberg. the people said or did the book ideas come from and to me, a good idea is a living thing. and someone told me that a good idea, that if you don't do it, eventually someone else will do it. and that terrified me. i did it for five years stepping into that i know what to do with it. they kept sticking with me. i got we have to figure this out because going to keep going. point have to do the story. it started for me, when i was in the national archives i was in with the call the treasure vaults. the treasure vault was where they kept all of the good stuff, not open to the public. that took me into the back room they head be the sheet of paper the look like a paperback book if you turn it sideways hard and on the sheet of paper, was an oath of allegiance the charge washington gave to his top members of the military design rated solemnly swear that i will never betray the united states. and he never been . number one is the top corner. and and four and five. number five, was signed by a guy named benedict arnold. and in that moment, benedict arnold is a name that we call each other. toby and addict are knurled. it's almost like a curse word for people to love. but in the moment, these are names, it was a decorated officer who fought for this country. and was rewarded and promoted it was part of that inner circle with george washington. he was a real person. on the sheet of paper. i just couldn't shake that. and then i heard the story. it really cracked the book open. was the last moment between benedict arnold and george washington, among the most heartbreaking in u.s. history because they were tear friends. there were like the in the revolutionary setting. what was happened, when benedict arnold betrayed washington, is one of the only times the george washington has ever seen crying. in the image of george washington the father of our country crying. then i heard this detail. benedict arnold wrote a letter and alexander hamilton did not deliver and rapport song but he didn't deliver this letter from benedict arnold to george washington. in this letter from benedict arnold he says three things. yes for three things from george washington predict one, don't know my wife she did not know i was a traitor predict to recent don't tell the staff. and three ended know either . three, one of the craziest moments. he said, do me a favor, can you cite place and be my baggage and my belongings. as like putting a knife and back of george washington predict and he basically said hey can i have myself. [laughter]. and then the amazing part is that to this day, nobody knows what was in that baggage the george washington setback to benedict on all the freedom he gets in the back. and nobody knows what was in that baggage. i do not want to run chapter 85 that off also secrets. you will see my theory predict i cannot shake that idea. so half a decade, i gotta figure out how to do this idea. this format todd goldberger michael ryder on this book. and when you purposively us to write this book, you need to somebody was worse than you predict someone who is as good as you would someone who is better than you. that is your choice. and to me, i was like i know who i am thinking. i want the guy who was better than me. i can do something that i think that i cannot do and accomplish things. anton is an amazing, and they said, the mystery writer paired up with a thriller writer. for the most part, they're just going to give me more product. i want somebody who can do character like nobody is ever seen before. and i said, i found a literary writer buried i found todd. he killed the character. and where love is that, a wonderful book, six months after we were working together the book that dominated predict book of the year. stephen king. in my publisher was like who are you working with pretty nice and i know, he is a killer. trust me. what i love about this book and how it can be received great reviews it got predict is because todd and i really together did something neither of us alone can do. i always knew the opening scene of the spoke. she sits on her father's lap, and here's a story for the first time pretty gruesome story. she here's a story that at six years old, her dad has today's conspiracy tv show. [laughter]. i'm writing books books unless i read the people. he tells the stores that in the revolutionary times, he says that this body when it was found, they open the the body, they did an autopsy. there was a block of wax they contain something in the kind of in the wax. and there is a priceless book. a book that belongs to benedict arnold. this little six -year-old girl says, tell it again. she's different than everyone else. she's the kind of girl that puts her hand on the stove birds in the next day she was a different hand on the stove and burns it just to compare the pain. different than all of us predict the book opens up and hazel wakes up the hospital. she's for now, 30 years old into a 70 is in the hospital. she has no memory. she finds out that her father is dead. and the fbi tells her, the last person that her father was seen with, they found dead and when they can open his body, they found the hazel of her first memory she could recall, as they can about the belong to benedict arnold . in the moment she realized that the stories dental work, as a little girl and truth to them. and warnings to them. they have advice to them. they were all just for her. almost like a training of his daughter. all of these years. and from there she finds guns that are in your house pretty she does know how they got there. it she finds scars on her body and cannot recall those buried and she quickly realizes that only by thought something was america's you figure out who killed her father. and also who she really is pretty she is the mystery of this book. to me and has a great plot but at the plots, is the character. and harry hazel is the character. she has no memory and can't remember people she met. she has emotional memory loss. since don and nisha braided and one it's a major but she has emotional memory loss predict the people she most connected to she has forgotte . if she can wa bar and she doesn't know if that person is someone she was in love with her worst enemy. she meets people and she was thinking oh my gosh, trouble again pretty she has this moment pretty she can restart her life. i love that is a character rated her character because everything becomes an adventure in that moment . everything is new. about a moment. your buddy take a moment and ourselves in the head with a hammer. start over. of our lives anew. but pick out a really nice hammer. and what i loved about it is that if they are perfectly this idea that she had carried into the ground for is benedict arnold. well think of him as a bad guy in the store. based on the bad guy, he's like all of us. he's a complicated guy. we are all not good, we are not bad. we are all complicated pretty and i realize that hazel, she saw this life that she is to have. it was also good and she had ascended sudden chance to be good. she is to be benedict arnold on sundays good and some baseband. judge like some of us and we are all amazing and we are all terrified. we all braved and we are all cowards. in some of us all in the very same day. that is who we are as people. and i realize, and this character, and in the slot, not just for hazel but the stories of benedict arnold and what it means to be good or bad. the fun of is that real history, and i always love that stuff. when i was researching this book. have a great source of the hammer ended in the describe right now. that's right, look around people. show each other and judge each other completely. [laughter]. so here's one of the things that i found when i researched book. i met this military intelligence officer. where is the best intelligence come from. in one of the things that he said to me was this is a true story. years ago, there is dictator who paid the united states. hated us to their hearts into the bones. and no one no one news this dictator, one of the top lieutenants was actually secretly working for the united states. he was actually spy or america. i was like why. do they pay money. and they said no for the very best reason of all. because of family. what happened is one of his top lieutenants had a sick child trade who needed medical attention but only the united states could give. and so we give this young child medical attention in exchange, this testator, gave us information about terrorists and weaponry out of the hands of extremists. help us with the financial mitigation. no one knew about it . i didn't make it up. it happened. in love that the books filled with details like that. the house of secret opens and you get two weeks for hazel and explore this world. and you get to explore who she is. as she good or is she bad. get to explore benedict arnold. obviously, that is really with the book starts. but i would love to do is answer questions about the book. that's also the fun. and i can tell someone here has lots of questions. because she's trying to my attention the entire time. you can ask anything you want pretty can ask about the thrillers, the research. but it will take about one thing that i need to say here, thank you to all of you who, every time. the stakes of questions. we will explore more research. please braided. guest: . [inaudible]. >> so the question is did amelia ehrhardt lego set amount. so if you not seen this pretty you are laughing now. so this is, well i'm going to show you something. this is amelia ehrhardt braided lego sets. we had someone build it for us. here's the thing and i will put it on tv so america can help us. lego loves this idea. in the city become a brand cannot star wars or marvel. right. [laughter]. and i said i don't need you to tell me that. i understand that i know it very clearly. so we would love for you to put this on our idea webpage. 10000 people vote for it, will consider making it. the how i met your mother set was made this way. if you put the words, so right now we this. 2000 people. and i can see this crowd is over 200 people here. so we better be at least by 2500 people tomorrow. he put lego million ehrhardt braided will be the first thing becomes up. go to the page, give the think when that you give to all of the marketers and vote. the point of this is to give my kids a real hero. i love when they play with star wars all of those things. but i also love that i can give my kids a lego set. a real hero. when do and elbert einstein set in the taken set. how great would it be if we can aspire our kids with real amazing toys to play with. [applause]. you guys got good. please lego's go vote. guest: . [inaudible]. >> now everyone wants their own lego sets braided she wants and susan b anthony. eleanor roosevelt . i love this. this is what you what you want your kids to ask. i'm telling you i love that. george washington right . on this is what i want to do. this one-to-one america to do. trust me, tell your dad, if you love me you will go register tonight. [laughter]. and if you don't register and vote, you don't love me dad. you say those words and watch what you get. other questions. guest: on the inner circle, you had scavenger hunt that you cited in the book. to have future plans for doing something like that. >> i love hiding things in all of my books. i can't do a tv show called decoded without playing that's pretty one of the things we should talk about is kind of conspiracy. suffers a few things. first on this question. so the book the inner circle, open secret code in there. and if you crack the secret code of the tendon in the pages of the inner circle, there is a reward was there. and if you got to it, you found it, the reward was hidden and not telling you where in america it was hidden but you got it. it took four years before someone finally cracked it. and jim day, sitting here, is the first person of our years cracked it. areas. [applause]. now jim also loves a good little code. so jim also was kind enough to put it back. it is out there. it is still there. it is hidden for the taking. if you want the treasure, it is hidden in the pages of the inner circle. i promise you jim although tell you where it is. but it is still there. i will not tell you anything else that i've had been over the years. in the kids books. i am hidden in every book. >> i saw the aspirated. brad: he saw that's right. look for the guy looks like me. there are so many things in the kids books that you will never find braided i highlight number 27. guest: . [inaudible]. brad: and i do it in the next kids book. so what else do i hide child. [laughter]. i will say, there's lots of fun things in the books. in november 27th is very symbolically special to me. let's talk about conspiracy. here's the thing. right now, i hosted a show conspiracy tv show. these to be something that was really a french thing. they were on the french braided you sit in the garage in the quarter. like you loved comic books, you are in a french book. like once a month, and no one really cared about you. that's how san diego started. [laughter]. i'm not even joking. and and every screen television. in the same thing. with conspiracies. their now mainstream. and now, donald trump talking about ted cruz's dad. and now i think she's going to release records. if she's elected to predict the two main candidates are literally talking about major conspiracies. they're not just springsteen's anymore. what's happened and what i love and what we do in the house of secrets buried within the fun person writing the book for one of the main characters hosted a conspiracy tv show as i get to expire when like to host that show. and the fun of it for me as i realized over time, the people tell me secret . tell me secrets. and at that moment, homeland security has brought me in, the president of the united states is . be letters. george w. bush wanted to come and spend a week with be in houston . people from fort knox sent to me. they want to talk to me about if there was real all in fort knox anymore. and whether lawyers, the family of john wilkes booth who shot abraham lincoln track me down. and send me, this amazing moments. everyone knows he read any history book, after 12 days after lincoln was shot, the john goldsmith was killed. this is family and they said they shot the wrong guy. he actually escaped them the proof and they want to hear the story. they asked me if i wanted to nice and, yes, i want to hear that story. and so to me, i love the people tell me secrets. went to a private luncheon the white house and braided and the presence private dining room. i write thrillers for a living. because i hosted a tv show. i realize i am the perfect spy. i am. [laughter]. and the more i insist in the more you laugh. in then the more you will say maybe he's telling the truth. and that's just what i want to thank. and then i have the perfect cover because i can go anywhere everybody just thinks i'm doing another fundraiser for another thriller. and i say i would not use that i did my next book. so the house of secrets, else on the other side we work on this. what happens is when the conspiracies become. and you have candidates talking about them, as a true industry of conspiracy. that's over now. and people regularly do its . they do it in the most always. governments always out to get you. but it's been about the hardest thing about for the american people. why did try to tell you the story of all, the true story. i remember when we first started filming decoded, one of the producers said the list back to have the shows like this, the more scary people like it. that is the industry of conspiracy. the vasectomy. we will never do that show . never want to be a part of that show. but you will see what you read, the house of secrets, you will see what it is like from the inside of what he does like to be one of these people gets to host a conspiracy tv show. because of that, people come to me. holy grail and an event. all of these amazing things just because of the job i had read and i love that i get to do that read and obviously coded secrets and all of those things are forever part of this project all of the projects i work on. yes. guest: . [inaudible]. brad: i'm not sure what the question is. she said she likes things, i watch things adult like i don't know why. so she says that right after talk about my own television show. [laughter]. you're moving to the back of the line today. [laughter]. so questions tv shows and movies. so let's talk about that. so for those who love the code and lost . you love doing lost history. it did everything it was supposed to do. it really did. so happy with the writings in the performance. only issue was that the cable channel, and h2 which is what we are on, history channel. actually got changed over to a different network. the just change the channel and they regretted it braided we still love working with history channel. we looks like we will be filming is special at the end of the year. so hopefully you will have something back soon. as for movies and things like that, i can't say anything but let's say that if have my fingers crossed for something really excited to announce about the house of secrets. soon. really excited for that one. how is that for a mystery. [laughter]. guest: can you tell us how you got started with storytime. brad: is anyone else, i love a good story. anyone follows me on facebook for you to be started realizing, that they rolled the doubt on everyone's facebook page, live video. you can put anything on facebook. you can show your dinner. you must see that. but we can tell stories predict nine-member on sunday nights, it was like a family night for me. in lieu of that idea that on sunday nights, you can bring back a lost art of telling stories. so we used this technology and adjust on facebook and at 8:00 o'clock on sunday, i would just read stories to people. i think the first time we had it we had 200 people watching than the nighttime 300 people watching. and by the time, eight week period, there was 2000 people watching live and when we were done we had 100,000 people would watch the video when it was finished. to the point where we had the captain underpants himself, came to my house. he said this is what you do. he's like the wayne's world history. he said there with me. my sons favorite book is captain underpants. and over 50000 people. it was incredible. this amazing thing. we plan on doing more storytime. and found was someone so famous, it is insane. i won't say who it is. but it was someone i can't say whether it was current surpassed but in the white house. and it is the funniest storytime i promise you will ever see. and we are just editing it and putting it together. we want to save it for a special moment. so check on facebook page you'll see it. guest: how you go from writing for yourself to . brad: patty go from just writing for yourself and then to an publishing the book. i will say you that when you start writing, you don't ever imagine you will will sitting seer and cspan will be here. and 50 of your closest friends will be here. just right because you have a story to tell. he is so pure. it is so beautiful. and i started writing because of the job i went to did it work out pretty to move myself to boston. the weekend got to boston my mentor took me under his wings. and i thought oh my gosh i wrecked my life. i did what any of you would do. i'm going to write a novel. [laughter]. the most logical thing i could think of. i just wanted to tell my story for myself. in the first novel got me 24 rejection letters. there were only 20 publishers like a 24 rejection letters. [laughter]. maybe twice to make sure i get the point. but i fell in love with the process of writing. numb boys or find another liniment keep doing that. you should go to my website . put advice on there for people to want to write to publish the book. all you have to do is get one person to say yes. one person tells you yes. when an insured you are a published author. and your job is to find that one person. and located 24 rejections. i always look at that experience as its objective. whatever you do with your life. whether you are a teacher or doctor or a work in the military. whatever you do, don't let anyone tell you know. if you love it keep doing it and then you will submit its and you will find someone who will say yes and your job is just to find them. but keep going. and keep going and keep going. other questions. yes. reporterguest: . [inaudible]. brad: yes . guest: and he went to michigan pretty. brad: so the first one is, do you kill yourself in their book because you are a character. it kill myself. i did. i totally dead. i had the opportunity. the character, you will see in the house of secrets what happens to the character was supposedly me but really has nothing to do with me. but the fun part of writing a book for you have a job, i'll look at her. [laughter]. at that time my favorite part is that person can totally call attention to her. so i love that we get to do when you do something like that is you really do get to put myself in this world under the microscope. and the fun part. to become so obsessed with the conspiracy. when you are in the business of the stories, every once in a while you have got to solve one. because we don't, the audience think you are full of it. so once in a while bring a truth in effect in a solution. and if you don't, they eventually lose faith go smiles. so that is the ultimate carrot. when watergate happened. every dream and every nightmare that ever been had about the government. was suddenly real. all of that became true. it was like water and sunlight for every other or story that would come out after that predict to me that is the interesting part about conspiracy. even those fiction and a thriller in the house of secrets pretty dutiful that the parts. i went to michigan, no one is in favor of the disaster. but it will tell you the one of my greatest moments in my entire life took place just a couple of weeks ago. because i had to go back. in ann arbor, michigan. university of michigan. thank you to the back. they asked me to deliver the commencement address. i can't already give a speech before. because when i was 22 years old, living in washington dc. my mentor eli siegel giving that job and who hired me. he actually was a speech writer. and he hired me as a speech writer. in one of the first speeches that he asked me to work on for him was his commencement address at the university of michigan law school. and so there i was, but i was 24. twenty-four years old. and i was back there and 46 years old. in all those years later. i think this is actually like a really good imparted think that i need to say. one of the hardest things in the greatest risk that you will ever taken your life is admitting what you want pretty we know what we want but when we admit it. because of the deal, you might not get it pretty might fail . ... ... take so much snapping finger at me was like serve me. because we work there for so long i told her the managers of the store measures one snapping her finger. she's like a bit within one second part she said no i will you will serve me now. as mammon you're rude like that i'm not going to serbia. she her fingers some more inset i what to see the manager but i said i will get the manager for you. can i help you? [laughter] and she says you're not the manager. i said i am. i said were still not going to serve you you are still being rude to everyone. she said you are going to work at this miserable ice cubes arm for the rest your miserable life. and i said ma'am if i'm here for the rest of my miserable life you are still never getting any ice cream. [laughter] right? i used to tell a story and laugh at that didn't bother me. but as i sit there and i should say here, it totally bothers me. if it me feel like my life would be like it was going to be small and had a really rough time with money. it felt like i was never going to succeed. maybe for like my life was limited and somehow someway. even though that's irrational. wasn't about wanting money or wanting success or anything like that. it was the fear of what my dad which was real problems that were going to be brought on. and i was terrified of that. i realize that in that moment when i knew my fear i also knew that that fear it drove me. it drove me to succeed, drove me to do everything and it's the reason i'm here today. not to prove some lady wrong but it was my rocket fuel. went to me, so important to say and you will see it in the pages of the book. it's really right there in the book. it is for all of you, your greatest weakness if hardest correctly is your greatest strength. so find what scares you and let it be a rocket fuel. i'm for that part of the story, as when i got to the end of the speech actually went in and looked back and found the speech that my mentor he eli when i was 24 is old here in washington d.c. attract on the speech. and i wanted to see, this is the speech i added words that he may or may not have written. i couldn't even a member. the truth is i have no idea when i wrote this speech what mines i wrote or didn't right that's completely lost to history pride when i did find was a line at the end of the speech that said this. to all of you are sitting here today that i hope in 33 years from now, that one of you is lucky enough to be sitting up here and giving the speech. and whoever it is in this audience it's a pure giving that you are just that, you're lucky. and i was reading the speech. i was in my office crying because i was like oh my god he is talking to me. i could have written the lines and by was like talking to myself. it was like a time machine. and i think, i feel i can into leave you with this part it's the perfect ending. but i feel here today in this town where i started writing for the first time i feel so lucky to be here. i thank you for supporting me with the kids book. i thank you for supporting me with the thrillers. it means so much to me i'll take one final question will go from there. >> who is your historical figure you most identify with? and why? and who was a historical figure with sentries, millennium, you are most inspired by? >> the question is of historical figures who do i identify with and who inspires me? really that's her kids book line prayed that is with the core of it is. my values, for those who don't know this book i was tired of my own kids looking at reality tv show stars and loud mouth athletes and thing and that's a hero. i said there are so many better heroes for them. but i am a millionaire heart, i am abraham lincoln. i am albert einstein i am jackie robinson. we did i am lucille ball because i wanted my daughter to have an entertainment hero that wasn't just famous for being thin and pretty. and the football fans not it's okay to be different it's spectacular to be different. i am helen keller when she goes blind the pages of the book go black. this is how i see the world. cover your ears, here is i fear the world. and when she learns to read to put real braille in the kids book. sit fill these dots this is my name my name is helen. it says what is your name on the real braille alphabet is there in the book part i love it helen keller never stopped. each is not about a personal date when it's born but a moral lesson part and to me, helen keller says i will note no limitations or amelia ehrhardt says i have no or albert einstein always, always always be curious, those are my answers that's who i admire. abraham lincoln is the one part he is the one for me. he's one that lives up to the hype every time. his book as i will always choose kindness and i will always speak up for others. >> this is what it says but at on the front, the most important part of the book is not what is on the front. most important is the moral lesson. the front so right on the back pretty speak my mind i speak for others. that is something to aspire to for our kids. i will tell you that in september we are doing i am george washington. then i am jane goodall which i'm super excited to do. [applause] and it's weird because i will tell you this. the house of secrets would a lot of george washington but when i did i am george washington like i'm putting the cool stuff in the kids about. we say to the kids there's no cherry picking up her don't give them this information. we also tell them, put this in the whole page this is out george washington used invisible ink for the secret code name with 711. but do we really need to put this thing on? i was like we totally need to put this in here. and i read these books to my son. we get to that part and he's like oh my gosh invisible ink that is so cool part i said i know tell my editor it is so true. [laughter] seventy get to i am george washington you'll see the invisible ink we did do it. i wanted to see if we could do it in the book. we got somebody has to figure it out. i promise you if i said out some and we'll figure it out for us. maybe one copy one magic copy how awesome would that be nothing it did happen comes it could happen. after that were going to be doing 18 of these now. so they will keep coming. [applause] with that said i'm not going to tell you were working clearances right now. it is the best person that comes after george washington james goodall. i can't wait to share with you. i just had to get through clearances because there are so many things to be cleared. i promise you think this is our level of nerdy, with that said, thank you for everyone coming tonight. and i really, really, really appreciate you supporting the house of secrets buried in thank you for c-span for hosting us i really appreciate it. [applause] stomach don't move just yet, it really quickly can we give them one more round of applause? he is so awesome. weeknights this month we are featuring book tv programs of a preview of what's available every weekend on cspan2. tonight, starting it 8:00 p.m. eastern ear times journalist stuart report on a girl scout troop that was started for girls living in a homeless shelter new york city. sparked the creation of similar troops around the country. and then american interest contributing editor tara burton offered her thoughts on why some americans are moving away from traditional religion. later, erika barnett looked at addiction in america with her struggles with alcoholism. joy book tv on cspan2. [background noises] >> ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentle. we are all here to welcome the number one bestseller across many genres including fiction, nonfiction, children's, how-to's, and graphic novels. he helped tod