an author to talk about her bodyor of work this month is yale professor historian and author joanna freemanhor of affairs of honor 2001. alexander hamilton writings and edited the essential hamilton in the field of blood is the most recent bookit last year violence in congress and the road to civil war. she'll be with us for another hour and a a half here are the s there's the numbers, we're going to put those on the screen. participate in our conversation this afternoon, 202 is the area code, 742-8400 for human time zones, 488201. if you live in the mountain and this time zones, we can also take your comments via social media, were going to scroll through our different only addresses. facebook, twitter, etc.. remember book tv is the essential part of that if you want to get a comment to us . how did you get interested in this mark. >> how did you get interested in this. >> it was partly the bicentennial. it was everywhere if you are old enough to remember this. it was everywhere. bicentennial tv commercials every day the reporter dispatch had a bicentennial moment. i would cut out all the