want to welcome you to our new home. we are so honored and thankful that you are here, but we are not here for us. all of you probably know brian from his job hosting fox and friends. [applause] it is the most popular morning cable news show on the planet for 213 months and two weeks and four days is that right? yes. you might also know him from his nationally syndicated radio show which is almost 150 radio stations across the country and talkers magazine named him one of the ten most important talk radio hosts in america and became coming at this, everybo everybody, between tv and radio companies on the airwaves for six hours a day, five days a week. and yet, he s found the time to write a string of new york times best-selling books, george washington secret six, thomas jefferson and the tripoli pirates, andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans, all tole multiple of his books have reached over 2.5 million around the world, which is fairly impressive. mpese are jus
this week is full schedule is available on our website, book tv.org. good afternoon. delighted to see you all here this afternoon at the history stage of the 2018 national book festival. welcome. i am the director of publishing at the library of congress. before we welcome our next speaker i would like to ask you to take a moment and spend it with the device in your pocket or on your wrist, whether it is your phone or your watch for your camera, anything that makes noise. if you could take a minute and ask it to be silent, that would be terrific for all of us here. thank you. you may not know that the manuscript division in the library of congress has the official papers on 23 us presidents. the andrew jackson collection alone includes more than 26000 items dating from 1767 to 1874 including 13 volumes of his military papers. researchers and writers come into such primary source material often discover little-known facts or new dimensions in historical events. these discove
we are pleased to be joined on our set by fox and friends cohost an author brian kilmeade. brian kilmeade s third book is andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans .dri should say third history book. just coming out on paperback. mr. kilmer- - what was the war 1812 about? arwe thought we were being disrespected in trade. they were trying to say they were british subjects and one of none of our merchant ships were safe. the british never felt they really lost the revolutionary war. they weren t getting out of middle america. they were radicalizing in america s of you a lot of the indian tribes. arming them and harassing them, stopping americans from moving westward. so there was a sense that we needed to get our pride back. it pushed madison into taking on britain in my view from some of my research, the view was they are so busy fighting napoleon. they won t want a war with us. they will realize what we want to have a quick end. man, did they want a war with us. they
anything that makes noise. if you can just a commitment ask it to be silent, that would be terrific for all of us here. thank you. so you may not know that the manuscript division of the library of congress has the official papers of 23 euros president and andrew jackson collection alone includes more than 26,000 items dating from 1767-1874, including 13 volumes of his military papers. researchers and writers who dip into such primary source material often discovered little-known facts for new dimension in historical events. these discoveries, whether shared in books, documents, podcast or movies, keep us connected history that continues to shape our nation today. history really comes alive in the works of talented storytellers like brian kilmeade, fellow best selling author jon meacham speaks of his gift for narrative and intuitive feel for great stories. indeed, ryan s latest book andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans has received heaps of praise from a long list
richard: it s my childhood come to life. like a marionette show. also, before i forget, this is the first time my mother has attended one of my readings. and today is her 83rd birthday. richard? richard: happy birthday, mom. so i m going to tell you today about pirate coast. this is my new book and about thomas jefferson and the first marines and the secret mission of 1805. he had no troops. he had no backing. but he pulled this mission off. this was america s first covert operation against state-sponsored terrorist. right. we have a little bit of a parallel today. when you hear those stirring marine lyrics i usually think of marines, weapons over there had, amphibious launches. it was a covert operation by one man and a marines. it was a rogue operation. this is the story i want to tell you about. you have to know a little bit about the time period to get into the sense of the story. you know how we re on an airplane today and we might complain we don t get two bags of