. >> booktv continues with nancy rubin stuart. ms. stuart recounts the lives of revolutionary era women. peggy shipman and lucy flucker, wife of george washington's chief of around tillty, general -- artillery, general henry knox. this is a little under an hour. >> it's a pleasure to be here in this historic place, and, well, i guess the ghosts of history are here visiting us tonight. people often ask -- now can you hear me now? louder? okay. still not projecting. try again. people often ask me how it is that i wrote an 80,000-word book, and i'm going to the give you two words why. one of them is curiosity, and the other one is coincidence. curiosity because i knew from the earlier book that there were two and a half million people who were alive during the american revolution. now, i'm sure that you can name at least five, maybe ten people, men, who were involved in -- significant figures in the revolution. can we try? >> george washington. >> josh adams -- john ad also. >> hamilton, hancock. both adams, john and sam. >> daniel morga