Host of decoded. We all know why you are here and without further ado, lets welcome mr. Brad meltzer. [applause] story we are here and just so you know you all have your cameras out. Cspan is here and you know what that means, we are being watched by all of our Favorite Book nerds. We are all together in one pla place. The joke doesnt work in sports places. I love coming to virginia. Our home and a beautiful place for us where we had our lives here. I started writing here and it is especially important today. Today i is the day my dad died d we mark the day and i know it seems that something sad i love my father and especially i love being in this barnes and noble because my father used to go to the local barnes and noble and is a claim here for brad meltzers new book, hes my favorite author and they would say we know hes your son. My mom would say what do you mean john grisham is in the front window, not anymore. After co we honor my father here tonight. We have a couple of things use
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[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, we are here to welcome the 11th time number one New York Times bestseller across many genres including fiction, nonfiction, childrens, how to use, graphic novels. Erie. So you know all of you have cameras out, cspan is here and you know what that means. All of us book nerds are being watched by all our Favorite Book nerds. We arefinally altogether in oneplace. We have as many viewers as svn right now. That joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington dc area was our home and a beautiful place for us where we had our children here. We had our lives here. I started writing here and its especially important today. Today is the day my dad died and we marked the day and i know it seems like something sad but i love my father and i especially love being in this barnes and noble because my father used to go into barnes and noble and say yes, im here for brad meltzer book, hes my favorite author and the
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David thank you everybody for coming out. This book,alk about the story itself. But i also want to make the point that this period is varied distant and its going , to sound like a time where society was very socialist and was very long ago. But in fact in 1983 the , university of chicago showed in a poll that 27 of americans believed they were in touch with the dead. And this was the National Voting research center, i believe. This wasnt about asking people if they felt they were having imaginary conversations with the dead. The question was do you , genuinely believe that you are in touch with spirits and you are hearing from them . As i mentioned, 27 of the people said that they were which would have translated to about 50 million americans who believe d that they were in touch with the dead. So that was in 1983. The time i am writing about is the 1920s. The other thing i will say about how close that era essentially is, is that when i was a kid i remember there was an ice cream par