Author jeff quinn. You open your most recent book, waco, with this author jeff guinn you open your most recent book we go f with ts from rick perlstein. A far crosscutting motive that defies storybooks simplicity, that is usually the way history happens. I think that quote is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself and its true no historic event happens in a vacuum. Thats the fascination in researching the narrative nonfiction history. I want to read that quote inu u. S. Well and this is from 2021 and in the plea burn times radio. A lot of people no longer want to find nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction books to reflect what they already belie. They want books to reinforce their opinion. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is worse than i thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction for the last several years there are three categories generally representative. T
Welcome to hannity and tonight, former lawyer for Stormy Daniels and darling of the media mob, Michael Avenatti, will join us from prison. Now, apparently, Avenatti Hab J developed a new perspective as it relates to donald trump and americald trumps sysl of justice. Now, were going to hear from him straight ahead tonightl hea but first, anarchy at americast College Campuses. Students harassed, police assaulted, University Grounds littered with antisemitic signs. Chants of death to america, death to israel. And we are hamas. An ham out and far left. A agitators are now disrupting lifegi and spreading hatred all across the country. But your cowardly has little t to nothing to say. Infar away from all the chaos. Joe biden, well, talked about doing work and boots. He also repeated the debunked tall tale about driving a big rig, 18wheeler. And for the second time this week, he asked americans to, second te over democracy. Does he ever know what hes saying . W what hehe then accidentally e s
defies storybook simplicity at a that is usually the way history happens. i think the quote is the most cogent of ever heard. rick does a tremendous job himself and it s true. know historic event happens in a vacuum. it s tied to many other things. and that s the fascination in research and writing on narrative, nonfiction, history. what i read a quote from you as well, and this is from 2021 in the cleburne times review. a lot of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. they want nonfiction books to reflect what they already believe. want books to reinforce their opinions. they want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. if you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction, for the last several years, there s three categories. generally represented. the first books by political commentators who are associated in the public mind with one side or the other, talking about how t
a fog of cross-cut motives and narratives, the complexity that defies storybook simplicity at a that is usually the way history happens. i think the quote is the most cogent of ever heard. rick does a tremendous job himself and it s true. know historic event happens in a vacuum. it s tied to many other things. and that s the fascination in research and writing on narrative, nonfiction, history. what i read a quote from you as well, and this is from 2021 in the cleburne times review. a lot of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. they want nonfiction books to reflect what they already believe. want books to reinforce their opinions. they want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. if you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction, for the last several years, there s three categories. generally represented. the first books by political commentators who are associated in
my goal has always been doing right books that capture the sweep of american history from the final settling of the west to present-day. each of these subjects are something we remember. people tend to remember them in different ways. a lot of the time, they want to miss rather than fact. i have always thought the facts are more interesting than anything that could be made up. let s use manson as an example. what i wanted to do was write about the late 1960 s in america. in terms of a chaotic time, it makes today look peaceful, where we are all living in unison. to write about that era you need someone or something from that era that will make readers want to pick up the book and open it. for better or worse, charlie manson represented a lot about the late 1960 s. the culture at the time. the things people wanted to talk about. the things people got obsessed with. so, i wrote a book about manson. but it s really about the late 1960 s. everyone you named is representative of