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 are the responses from craig shirley. the adventures of tom sawyer, april 1865, miracle at philadelphia, the bonfire and the vanities, and lonesome dove. currently, mr. shirley it is rating and of days, i think and grow rich, franklin and winston, and one minute to midnight. a lot of history titles there. but one stood out to me and that was napoleon hills think and grew rich. what is that about? >> this book has been around for 100 years. my grandmother, georgia, first read it when i was a young boy. she read it about 1 million times. it is kind of a similar book to other motivational books. but it is different to. the power of positive thinking by roman -- norman vincent peel, it's similar to that book. it's inspirational. it's about how you achieve success by different means, through spiritual, economic, social, cultural means. it's a book to read just for pleasure and dress to re-energize my thinking every couple of years. and i have read it for many years now. for many years, whenever i hire a new person, i gave them

raig shirley author craig shirley, you have written for biographies of ronald reagan. how did you divide them up? >> interesting question, peter. they were divided up by chapters in his life. mostly political. the first book ever did was reagan's revolution. that was about the 1976 primary

. >> during a recent program hosted by the reagan presidential library, historian craig shirley talkedabout 1945 included the final days of world war ii in europe, and adolf hitler and america's war effort. here is a portion. >> fdr though he failed with the great depression, unemployment in 1945 was the same as 1933, at least he gave the american people hope, he gave the people hope and that was important. he was a capitalist, but he wasn't a committed socialist or something like that, but he was willing to try whatever worked. you know, the wpa or the conservation corps or other new deal programs, but where he was really, really masterful was as a war leader because he didn't interfere. he did what reagan-- i think reagan, i haven't researched enough, but reagan believed, you know, the way to assemble a government, you surround yourself with good people and let them do their jobs. fdr had the same approach for the war and if you think about it, the brilliant men who he had serving in war time, he had eisenhower, nimitz and king and patton and marshall and macarthur and so many other

until then, take c >> host: author craig shirley you've written for biographies of ronald reagan. >>uest: the chapters in his life the first book i ever did was reagan's revolution and that was in 1976 after gerald ford

. >> laura: joining me now, craig shirley, ronald reagan biographer. most recent book, 1945. why would the reagan bribe ask liz cheney to speak? why? >> i have no idea, laura. it's a mystery to me. when i saw that she was going to speak at the reagan library, the first thing that came to my mind is reagan's famous 11th commandment. that will shall not speak ill of a fellow republican. she's made a career speaking ill of fellow republicans, not just donald trump. so why they would have her there, i have no idea. this one is going to leave a mark. i think the reagan library is going to see donations trickle down because of this and attendance trickle down because of this. don't forget, the presidential debates are in a couple years. donald trump is not going to go to the library for a debate. show of unity, other republican presidential candidates will no got to the reagan library to debate either. the debates are over for the reagan library. >> fred ryan that runs "the washington post" is also on the reagan library board. so maybe the foundation board. maybe that's part of the

. >> watch the full program online anytime on c-span.org/history, just search craig shirley or april, 1945. >> it's my honor to introduce our guest, dr. jay patrick mullen, associate professor of history and public history director at marquette university. hi, patrick. dr. ilene chang associate professor of history at sara lawrence college. hi. and from right here in boston in roxbury, hi, suzie. thank you all for joining us, i am so honored and delighted to have you all here. i want to get us started with a background on the loyalists. can you give us a brief background on people who identified as loyalists, what happened to them after the war? patrick, do you want to start us off on this? >> thanks for having us. so, i see that as being kind of three basic categories of loyalists. there are people who wanted to remain neutral in the war, but because they were trading in invitation or british they were determined loyalists. a lot of the native americans wanted to stay out of the war, but they got sucked into it. and there were religious groups, quakers and mennenites who were opposed

raig shirley author craig shirley, you have written for biographies of ronald reagan.how did you divide them up? >> interesting question, peter. they were divided up by chapters in his life. mostly political. the first book ever did was reagan's revolution. that was about the