bolÍvar top and how. why in peru in the country where i was born, a president bring brings his illegitimate children up to the balcony without an agreed and sad looking wife decides remapped humans are in perfection and we know about them in latin america as our leaders. as the years passed tb can became known as the george washington of south america. and general lafayette actually gave him that moniker. both he and washington came from rich influential families in both were a relic but apprehensive about marshaling the peace. both resisted efforts to make him king. bolÍvar was very anti-monarchical and it's strange because i still need people to david say, oh, he is the one wanted to be king of latin america. and that is not so. he and george washington claimed to want to return to a private life, but were called instead to shape government and both were accused of undue ambition. there the similarities end because tran-ones military action lasted more than twice as long. the area he covered was astonis

could you comment -- comment on the portuguese influence and the -- that you saw with bolivar? >> when napoleon came in and invaded the peninsula the portuguese royal family got into boats, a convoy of boats and sailed to brazil which was their colony so they transplanted the royalty to brazil and they felt felt -- they kept the portuguese power and the portuguese monarchy going. there is a very different story from the rest of spanish-speaking america. there really is a distinction there and it would be wonderful to actually have a book that compared the difference of the experiences between the brazilian -- quite different and somehow much tidier experience at least in terms of revolution and in terms of governance than the rest of latin america. thank you for that question and bank you once again for having me here and listening. [applause] >> host: this is live coverage of the national book festival on the mall in washington d.c.. you have been listening to marie arana who has written a book called bolivar american liberator and that is what she was talking about. she is th

you've been listening to marie arana who has written a book called "bolivar: american liberator," she's the last of the history and biography tent authors today that we with will be covering. will bring you live coverage again from the national mall tomorrow from the two-day national book festival. the late afternoon rain in washington chased away a lot of the book people this afternoon, and hopefully tomorrow there won't be any rain. so, butoining us on our c-span bus which is parked down on the mall is jeff chu who has written this book, it's called "does jesus really love me: a gay christian's pilgrimage in search of god in america." mr. chu, start by giving us a little bit of your upbringing and your religious history. >> guest: sure. i'm the grandson of a baptist preacher, i'm the nephew of two other baptist preachers, and my family has always been te southly evangelical. we didn't always go to baptist church, but i grew up steeped in evangelical culture first in california, then when i went to high school at a christian school in miami, florida. what was your family's reaction whe

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