i highly recommend james mcpherson to anyone. i always keep several books going at the same time. whole second area that i work on continuously are diaries of texans during the war between the states and in particular i found this one. i can't recommend this one highly enough. it's hard to find but it's -- it is a soldiers letter to charming nellie and he's a wonderful writer. he does a great job of writing in technicolor. wonderful personal anecdotes of texans in the war. you can see on the cover the lone star which is a great deal to me. i am a passionate jefferson/libertarian. i want the government off my back, out of my pocket and out of my life. and that's what the lone star stood for. i collect these worn by texans and the army of republic of texas and the war between the states so i had a particular interest in fascination with texans and texas history so i'll be reading a lot of texas history as well. i'm doing a lot of times studying the coming generational storm. this is a particularly important subject for all of us as americans to pay attention to because the comptroll

i am finishing this book, i highly recommend james mcpherson to anyone. i always keep several books going at the same time. a whole secondary i work on continuously are diaries of texans during the war between the states. in particular i found this one. i can't recommend this one highly enough, it is hard to find, but it is a soldier's letter to charming nellie, he does a great job writing in technicolor, a wonderful personal anecdote of texans in the war. you can see on the cover the lone star which means a great deal to me personally. i am a passionate jeffersonian republican/libertarian and believe passionately in an individual's right, i want the government off my back, out of my pocket and out of my life and that is what the lone star stood for. i collect the stars won by texans and the army of the republic of texas and the war between the states, some had a particular interest and fascination with texans, texas history, i will be reading a lot of texas history as well. i am studying the coming generational storm, this is a particularly important sub

one i'm working through right now is james mcpherson's book on lincoln's role as commander in chief during the civil war, which i have found particularly relevant to the debate going on today with the outrage by liberal about george w. bush's use of interrogation of these killers at guantanamo, which has saved lives in fact. dropping a cat pillar in a box with a terrorist is not any idea of torture and frank live its a choice of diking a guy's head in water and saving the lives of americans, i would dip the guy's head. and abraham lincoln exercised incredible power in his authority as commander-in-chief, which is what frankly george bush has done, president bush took his role as commander in chief very seriously and used the very broad grant of authority given to the president by constitution to interrogate these killers and find out what they're up to and save lives, particularfully los angeles, for example. there would have been thousands of degrees in downtown los angeles but for the interrogation of those toy yosts. lincoln suspended habeas corpus, arrested americans for speaking out i

>> you mentioned earlier that james mcpherson is coming soon. in his wonderful book battle cry of freedom, he argues that in a war, as long as the civil war, there wasn't the turning point, but there were several turning points. that is true in the revolutionary war as well. there were 5 or 6 turning points. my first -- first pitch to battle of the conflict, was absolutely crucial because it demonstrated to the americans that they could stand up against british regulars. i think the naval in gauge and when benedict arnold built a navy for america and slowed down the british so that when the british tried to evade in ticonderoga in the fall of 1776, as they had been slowed to the point that winter was setting in, so they had to postpone the invasion until 1777. that year gave the americans time to get ready for that invasion. washington's campaign in trenton and princeton, between christmas of 1776 and january of 1777 was absolutely crucial, not only saved washington as commander of the continental army, but was a victory that enabled another arm

like james mcpherson or somebody going to a civil war battlefields and taking notes if. >> are you left-handed? >> i am. obama is left-handed and clinton was as well. bush 41 was as well. >> what does it mean? >> we are a tribe. >> last question, who named to the book "wilderness warrior/" >> i did. my wife, i bounced the ideas off of. she may be the originator. i had a list of 10 of them. because roosevelt is seen as a warrior, a wonderful scholar named cooper, for roosevelt he liked to have fights about everything he believed in. he was very bullish. he was a warrior trying to save while america. so the title kind of came naturally. the subtitle has the word "crusade" in it because he was a crusader for this. to confront roosevelt on wanting to save the grand canyon or grandverdwind cave or mesa verdu better be strong, because he knocked everybody over. i don't know any president as bold as him. his eucharist factor was so high, you cannot comprehend it in the modern political spectrum. if nothing infuriates me more when i read like when people say bill clinton is like theater roosevelt. fee

drafts are writing at the sites because i'm bringing, it's like being a civil war scholar like james mcpherson going to the battle and takesing notes. >> are you left-handed? >> i am. obama is left-handed and clinton was left-handed and bush 41 was left-handed. >> what does that mean? >> we're a tribe. >> who named it wilderness warrior? >> i did. i was looking hard for it. my wife i bounced these off of. she may be the originator of it but i would write a list of like 10 of them and i think it's because t.r. is seen as a warrior, a wonderful scholar. at university of wisconsin, there was a great book called the warrior and the priest. his sense about being a warrior wasn't just the battlefield. he liked to have fights about everything that he believed in. he was very bold. he was a warrior fighting to save wild america. the title came enrollly and the subtitle has the word crusade in it because it was. he was a crusader for this. it wasn't just -- to confront roosevelt on wanting to save the grand canyon or mesa verde or wind cave or the bird refugees in florida was an act of you better be st