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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20130930

So theyll be the last time actually mentioned the book per se, except to say its great to be its great beach reading. [laughter] is really short and all the royalties from this book will go directly to the Alexander Alvis scholarship fund. He is my youngest son still in college. [laughter] im trying to tell a very familiar story, a story that virtually every generation of historians has told before, and each generation has added a new interpretive gloss. Its sort of like another layer of wallpaper across the wall. And in some sense one of my path was to try to strip away the wallpaper and get back to the wall itself. So some of the things i have to say that i think are fresh are fresh because they are not really new, they are just so old they have been forgotten. But given this is one of the more performed plays in the american theatrical repertoire, the plague 1776, i do have something new to say. I think i do, but that is very ....

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