life? daryl: chuck berry had a very profound impact on me. the man was a genius. not many people can say they played a song that invented a genre of music. chuck berry did that. we would not have rock n roll without chuck berry. when i first heard chuck berry, i fell in love with that music, and when i saw him, i changed my career trajectory. i was going to be a computer programmer. back then, computers were of course twice as big as this room. or an espionage agent. each one was pulling at me with equal force. i was immobilized and i was trying to figure out how to do both. back then there was no way. today you can through cyber espionage. but, i saw chuck berry somewhere along the pathway as a kid and said, that is what i want to do. it was chuck berry and another fellow, elvis presley, i saw him, too. they had made millions upon millions of people happy with their music. they touched them without even knowing them. that fascinated me. i thought, i want to be able to bring
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a t. he grew up like that. we always had a mother and father to whom we could go. he did not. he grew up not knowing what real deep personal love was. he had not had feelings like that before. i cried writing chapter one. i just felt so sorry for him. and yet, he would become the most brilliant general in the world. host: why? professor robertson: his tactics and the deception. even more than that, jackson was fighting for god in this war. i think it makes him a very unique individual. he searched throughout his young adult years for a safe, and he finally found it after he went to lexington, virginia. he became a presbyterian, not really. he became a calvinist in every sense of the word. he dedicated his life to god. and indeed, although it may sound evangelical, god was his heavenly father. he became the father that jackson never had. everything he did was for god. he gave thanks to a glass of water. knowing this was a gift from heaven. when the war comes, jackson concludes
is the secret. persistence. brian: how do you pick your books? laurence: it is a stupid thing to do. i should choose an area and keep at it, but i wanted to do something much different. experience different lives. when you write a nonfiction book, you are thinking back in somebody s life. i want to piggyback on as many lives as i can. brian: of the 15 books, which one sold the most? laurence: the kennedy women, by a longshot. the number two new york times bestseller. it was my agents idea. a book about a multigenerational book about women. nobody had ever written a multigenerational book about women. so, to put women at the forefront just totally changed things. brian: what about the kennedy women do you most remember and what did the audience want to hear when you talk to them? laurence: it was a book i suggested that you do not have to be a woman to love the kennedy women. because it was a book read by women. i mean, women of that generation women read that book and the