i also know that you are on the panel with ken burns just a few nights ago. do you see any census in which your book has a different emphasis than ken bors -- ken burns civil war? >> yeah, i do love and help my book does the same thing the way that ken really uses individual stories to talk about history. he has this one of the readings of letters, and he makes you here those people's voices and live their experience. i love that, but i think to burn the series, there's some source of tragedy and suffering that so many civil war books have, but that can sort of color our understanding of the war to the point where it obscures so much else. it did end up being an awful tragedy, but people didn't know at the time that was how it was going to turn out. and i think, you know, walt whitman famously said the real war will never make it into the history books. and whitman was saying the real warping the war that he had seen in the union hospitals in washington, the squalid war, the war of human suffering and wounded and dying men. but i think if anything, we tend tod

> stephen: before you go, i just want to say that everyone knows you are the narrator of several ken burns documentaries. >> yes. >>. >> stephen: and you narrated seabiscuit, i believe. you have a lovely voice that is calm and comforting and it has gravitas and i was hoping to have you read a couple things with your voice and gave them the -- give them the kind of gravitas they deserve. >> sure. >> stephen: you can start with that one right there. >> my anna kopbda don't want noneless you got buns hun. [laughter] >> stephen: david mccullough, thank you so much. >> i don't know what that means. >> stephen: neither do i. the book is "

> stephen: before you go, i just want to say that everyone knows you are the narrator of several ken burns documentaries. >> yes. >>. >> stephen: and you narrated seabiscuit, i believe. you have a lovely voice that is calm and comforting and it has gravitas and i was hoping to have you read a couple things with your voice and gave them the -- give them the kind of gravitas they deserve. >> sure. >> stephen: you can start with that one right there. >> my anna kopbda don't want noneless you got buns hun. [laughter] >> stephen: david mccullough, thank you so much. >> i don't know what that means. >> stephen: neither do i. the book is " [ man ] i love you guys. i mean, just, you know, the whole heist thing. all right, let's do this. all right? before my wife changes her mind. go. [ male announcer ] movies right when you want them. watch unlimited tv episodes and movies instantly, all for only 8 bucks a month from netflix.

> stephen: before you go, i just want to say that everyone knows you are the narrator of several ken burnses. >> yes. >>. >> stephen: and you narrated seabiscuit, i believe. you have a lovely voice that is calm and comforting and it has gravitas and i was hoping to have you read a couple things with your voice and gave them the -- give them the kind of gravitas they deserve. >> sure. >> stephen: you can start with that one right there. >> my anna kopbda don't want noneless you got buns hun. [laughter] >> stephen: david mccullough, thank you so much. >> i don't know what that means. >> stephen: neither do i. the book is " ♪ come on everybody come in for a great time at olive garden. for just $10.95 enjoy our new pancetta and parmesan-filled carbonara ravioli with pan-seared chicken. or with sauteed shrimp for $12.95. at olive garden. for $12.95. at 1800contacts, we deliver every.... ♪violin musical theme ....brand right to your door, that's right and order from us and you'll also... (sound of doorbell) save money. brands door money (sound of cash register bell) that's just how we do it. fre

ken burns told me every time h ran the film as he was editing his dumentary heouldburst into tears. every timee showed that last... with the actors talking about what happened >> the truth is even as i was finishing the book the last couple months of it i couldn't bear the knowledge that he was going to die. i've lived wit this man for ten years and suddenly he was going to be gone. >> rose: to love shakespeare was part of the nature of this man? >> huge. nora and i talked about this when we were working on the book because she did a lot of research on the theater part of the book. think about what shakespeare... first of all, he memorized shakespeare. he could talk with aors, he could make all the moves the actors did. he knew it as well as any profession knew shakespeare and shakespeare's writing about tragedy and betrayal, wars, all the things he's dealing with. those huge themes are shakespearean, so he's loved him from the time he was a child. itas said when he got a copy of shakespeare's plays he couldn't eat or sleep heas so excited. >> but i thin the reason he was at ur amer