[inaudible conversations] welcome to arlington vermont on booktv. Located on Lake Champlain about 45 minutes south of the Canadian Border. Its home to the university of vermont and its the states most populous city with about 42,000 residents. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners over the next hour we will feature the Literary Committee including author Willard Sterne Randall on the war of 1812. A lot of people have misconceptions about the war of 1812. They think it was all about the star spangled banner and the british attack on washington and it was not very important like a hiccup in history. It had been a long struggle with the british over trade and writes and basically to take us back so its much more important than the way its taught in school. We begin our special feature in burlington with bill mahers and Jeff Danziger on their book the full monty, vermont in the age of trump. About a month before trump was elected i had openheart surgery and so i was not in great shap