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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