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thanks for being here and there president any we are delighted to have you here for the of book talks and i begin by thanking the ford motor company for their intered partnership in including the book talks series. i personally am pleased to welcome back then bill the third time he has cut back in his many years. i asked because whenever i do that he is seen as a true renaissance man he is from an english did brown university and also duke university where he was a fellow and worked as an editor and wrote and edited several books including up passionate seller sailor. he is the author of mayflower in 2010 he published a book called the last end that was a new york times best-seller was a notable book and has been adapted into a tv series as misspeak rose also a consultant on custer s last stand. so the good news is in published in 2013 bunker hill where he spoke about several years ago and one the new england book award for nonfiction the rights to the book have bee ....
the programs you ll see on booktv this weekend. for a complete television schedule. go to booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. television for serious readers. and now we kick off the weekend with nathaniel philbrick on the relationship between george washington and benedict arnold. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. good evening. that was good. that was very good. [laughter] thank you all for being here. i m the president of george washington s mount ver. no we are delighted to have you for this installment of the ford evening book talks, and i begin by thank the ford motor company for their enduring partnership with mount vernon. they ve done a great deal for us including endowing this book talk series. i am personally pleased to welcome back nathaniel philbrick. it s his third time he s visited mount vernon in as many years. i asked to introduce him because whenever i do that, i m struck by his bone fee bonafides as a true ....
[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. thank you all for being here. i m the president of mount vernon we are delighted for this installment and i begin by thanking the ford motor company for their partnership. they ve done a great job including this book talk. i m pleasei am pleased to welcor nathaniel. it s his third time. whenever i do that i m struck by the true renaissance man. they have an m.a. where he was a fellow and an all american sailor asailor at the universite worked as an editor and several books including the passionate sailor, second when and if the parody. he is the author of mayflower as well as the book many of you know won the national book award for fiction in 2010 if one a new york times best seller and it s been adapted into a tv series and is being adapted in the experience film posters last stand. the good news this evening is the moment in the american revolution. and in the revolution that he spoke about they won the 2013 new en ....
grandchildren call you? this is a huge you are a grandparent what will you call me? i wanted to be granny my mom said my daughter said no she runs real-life she said no. so i said if she tried to say leslie all my mother s grandchildren called her by her name because that is what she wanted i thought it might come out wally summer has been said okay if your lally and i and pop so we re lollipop. [laughter] and the grandchildren until very recently were too young to get a but then one day the five year-old said you are a lollipop. [laughter] she will be signing copies of her book right outside. it think i heard a story about this photograph? as the kids are sitting there quietly reading. obviously we staged a the photo the older one was paying attention in the little one was jumping up and down we could not get them to cooperate so we taped the iphones into the book and put on a frozen and their watching frozen. [laughter] spec tell little secret. [laughter] tr ....
on behalf of the entire staff, welcome it is the pleasure to have you here. it s a pleasure to talk about hustling hitler. if you have noisemaking devices a please turn them off. walter will discuss his book for about 25 minutes on and take as many questions as we can fit into 20 minutes more. we encourage questions. please use the microphone in the center by the pillar. after the q&a please fold up your chair and place it against the bookshelf. thank you. the signing line will be here at the table and books are for sale at upfront where you walked inches and hustling hitler, walter, walter shapiro tells a story about freeman bernstein, vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, car promoter, car chart, writer of worthless ious in one of the con on the nazi government. of course he is his great uncle. although walter does not have appeared to inherited his criminal tendencies, he did inherit a sense of hustling. he covered every presidential election since 1980 which makes 10 ....