guest: i went to middlebury college. c-span: in... guest: vermont. c-span: ... middlebury, vermont. guest: yes. c-span: and when in your own family did history become interesting to you, or biography? guest: oh, my whole life. my father started writing history before i was born. his first book came out the year before i was born. so history was just a part of life for us. and i'm the youngest of five children. and at the dinner table every night we would talk about our days, and then we would hear what was going on in the building of the brooklyn bridge or what was going on in the panama canal that day in dad's work. so i really have had it with me all my life. c-span: and what are the four other children in the family? guest: my sister, melissa, is the oldest. she's a mother of three children. by brother, david, is a teacher. he teaches english. and my brother, billy, who's a carpenter. and my brother, jeff, is a lawyer. c-span: and you've been working with your dad for how long? guest: for 12 years. c-span: what do you do for him? guest: i'm a lecture agent. and i started when dad