on that list, david marin us with his latest, biography about the native american athlete jim thorn. it's entitled, passed by lightning, which was jim forbes native name. also on the list is jack davies is the bald eagle, about how the bird became americas national single, and stacey schiff i with a piece by the los angeles times for a best book of 2022. her most recent, the revolutionary samuel adams. here is a portion of the recent author top by stacey schiff. >> samuel adams is an extraordinarily astute, very enterprising and ingenious americas first politician. he's a bit of a political operative, he is an 18 century downwardly mobile, brilliantly educated double graduate of harvard who has an obsession of politics. and has a tremendous sensitivity to rights and liberties being infringed. which we can talk about where that comes from. and he has at his disposal to rather unique qualities. one, he is a tremendously fluent pen. in fact, he first comes to prominence because he is largely burnishing other friends pros. they can give their pages to adams to be, is they put, it burnishe

conferencing with jim jordan who is a very powerful force who was actually has been in the last few weeks trying to rally the troops in favor of kevin mccarthy whereas historically he's kind of been a thorn in the side of past leaders, so they're obviously trying to figure out what the next move is, but the point is that there is no speaker of the house right now because you need 218 and not even hakeem jeffries got that. but it is such we were talking as we were watching, this is -- be careful what you wish for. >> yeah. >> because he placated this small group because he felt that that was what he needed to do to get him to the speakership and it did not work. in fact, it blew up in his face. >> just to bring people up to speed as to why we were interested in the fact that jim jordan, who is set to be the new chairman of the house judiciary committee, why that was an interesting moment, john king, is because if you look at the vote tally, 212 for the democratic leader congressman jeffries, 2034 for mccarthy. 10 for congressman andy biggs who no one thinks will ever be the speaker of the house, but then of the nine for others and might be time for our graphics people to add a banner for