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Dakota for over 100 years to my new book from warm center to ragged and takes its title from mister got Scott Fitzgerald who is the author of probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college, you remember that nick karoly was from minnesota. Nick karoly went off to war, this would have been world war i and when he came back, he decided that he thought it would be sort of doll to move back to minnesota. Which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe. And he decided to move to new york and he got mixed up in the roaring 20s. On long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. But in the end, when he sees what happens to many of these characters, he begins to see the old midwest where he came from as the warm center of the world. So that contract is what i tried to draw in my new book, from warm center to ragged edge. In the decades after the civil ....
c-span: why did you do this? guest: i did it because i am a reader of biography, and i whenever i m reading biography, i love the parts about family and i love the letters. and i had read a collection of a n. c. wyeth s letters andnd r theodore roosevelt s letters.c and when i had my own children,l it was a book that i wanted to read. thought, oh, i wonder what other great americans have written to their children, and i wanted to read those letters and ito couldn t find it. and at first, i wanted my fathe to do the book. fs my father is the historian david mccullough.myf mcd i thought that it was a good book for him to do because i wanted to read it. tha and he loved the idea.. but i realized after a while he thought it was a terrificizea e ea, but he wasn t going to do it. so i went to work on it myself. c-span: how did you do it? guest: i first began byt compiling a big list of great americans, hundreds of people. a great list of compiling a lit of hundreds ....