here's the responses from craig shirley. ntures of tom sawyer, 1865, katherine drinker bolin tom wolf the bonfire of the vanities and larry mercury lonesome dove. currently mr. shirley is reading james swanson's end of days. napoleon hill's think and growd rich, f john beauchamp's franklin winston and michael dobbs one minute to midnight. a lot of history titles there, mr. shirley. one stood out to me that was napoleon hill's think and grow rich. what is thatat about? >> that book has been around for 100 years. my grandmother georgia turned me onto it as a young boy. it is kind of a different two, it is inspirational but how you achieve success with your spiritual means, your economic social means. just to re-energize my thinking every couple of years now. when i hire a new pr firm i gave them a copy of think and grow rich because he is so much useful information. >> another book you chose your rereading cs lewis' the screwtape letters, why? >> i love cs lewis. he proved that you can be spiritual and be a libertarian. and his

here's the responses from craig shirley. ntures of tom sawyer, 1865, katherine drinker bolin tom wolf the bonfire of the vanities and larry mercury lonesome dove. currently mr. shirley is reading james swanson's end of days. napoleon hill's think and growd rich, f john beauchamp's franklin winston and michael dobbs one minute to midnight. a lot of history titles there, mr. shirley. one stood out to me that was napoleon hill's think and grow rich. what is thatat about? >> that book has been around for 100 years. my grandmother georgia turned me onto it as a young boy. it is kind of a different two, it is inspirational but how you achieve success with your spiritual means, your economic social means. just to re-energize my thinking every couple of years now. when i hire a new pr firm i gave them a copy of think and grow rich because he is so much useful information. >> another book you chose your rereading cs lewis' the screwtape letters, why? >> i love cs lewis. he proved that you can be spiritual and be a libertarian. and his

[cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> craig shirley, what did you hear?know, it'ss interesting that that speech is so, so important, reagan's political future. first of all, i wasn't there in 1976. it was destroyed in a tornado some years ago. i was actually working my way through college. she was working for the campaign and told me repeatedly many times talking about it, she said it was the most thrilling give reagan give the speech and -- butt i wrote the book. and he was standing next to a supporter from florida and after reagan gave the speech, she muttered, oh, my god, we've nominated the wrong man. the kansas city convention was -- 1,130 delegates for the nomination and ford won the nomination only by 50, 60 delegates and reagan only lost itos by 80 something so it was very slim and very narrow and there's been accusations of the year of hankie-panky and the new york delegation and it was pretty clean as far as i could tell. but there was accusations much so that officials were called and administered lie detectors and one police officer said that

craig shirley? >> guest: i think we should put barbara on. >> caller: good afternoon to you. mr. shirley i've heard rumors and suspicions that when president reagan was running for office jimmy carter had representatives talking to the iranian leaders and did not release the hostages because it would aid him when election time came around and i wondered if that was true and if you could shed some light on that. just go thank you. a good question. there is no evidence. there've been several books and wants his last name was summed up in the book. he met with george bush and representatives of the ayatollah to keep the hostages in iran during the 1980 campaign. nothing could be further from the f truth. george bush didn't -- he was in the united states the whole time and no representative reagan or anybody from the military or the cia said that. these are conspiracy theories made up and it's entirely untrue. i will tell you i interviewed bruce langdon [inaudible] he said the reason we were released are ronald reagan was a reins were terrified of reagan. they were terrified that reag

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. >> host: author craig shirley you've written for biographies of ronald reagan. >> guest: