robert rogers is held as the father today's elite special forces. he was not only a wilderness where the north america's first or the playwright and authentic celebrity and john has reconstructed his life and exploits in this book. he puts together a group of hand-picked soldiers chosen for their backwoods setting and encourage insurance and i find remarkable for campaigns during the french and indian war. i have a series of questions to ask john to guide us through the book. starting off who is rob rogers and why should we be interested in him today. >> thank you henry and i want to make one quick aside and never miss an opportunity to flag our magazine. this is american heritage, we're celebrating our 60th anniversary which you'll remember this is susan '70s when it was hard back and white and without it. we brought back to life a couple years ago and a happy to say in this issue serendipitously we have an excerpt from jim's book so get this but still buy his book. [laughter] you may be wondering why with some of the reporting have done and why c

and here's this whole canny robert rogers. nathan yell hale's commander that he had just left had been taught by robert rogers. robert rogers, you know, everybody knew but nobody knew what he looked like. there was no paintings. probably on purpose from his point of view. so anyway, he's sitting at this tavern, and hale comes over. he's this young kid, and rogers goes, yeah, you know, and he starts -- pretty soon hale spills his guts, and they kind of talk about, you know, life and commiserate, and rogers says, why don't you come back to this other tavern tomorrow night, i'll introduce you to some of my friends. because, of course, rogers can't kind of arrest him without some cooperation. so he comes and, you know, and then he, again, spills his -- hale spills his guts to this assembly of rogers' friends, and you can hear the boots of the red coats momming in, and -- coming in, and they take him away. after that rogers kind of loses faith. i'm not sure he was ever really that, you know, that interested in fighting on the side

tragic history of the lost colony of roanoke" and john ross "war on the run: the epic story of robert rogersnd the conquest of america's first frontier". that starts now. >> midafternoon. my name is henry, an affiliate fellow at the virginia foundation for the humanities. welcome to the festival of the book and welcome to the small special collections at you virginia harrison institute. i will give a very brief introduction and then some of introductions. we are -- i should also say the virginia foundation is the producer of the virginia possible of the book and if you wish to help us to keep this a wonderful festival going there are two ways to do it. you can make a tax-deductible gift to the festival and, please, let our virginia legislators know that you have attended and that you're interested in seeing this continue because i'm sure that many of you know the difficulties that we just want prepared and at the and, please, fill out your reader evaluation forms, those are very important to us. also at the end of the event we will be selling books a

gates and mara, despite robert gibbs a denial was her goose cooked at this point. >> i think she made a fatal mistake but just, i think, it should be said that what desiree rogers and the first lady did, with the white house and the social events and bringing american culture into the white house and connecting the white house with the people was really extraordinary and great and should be commended for that and it has been an exciting year, for them with all of the events they've had at the white house and she did all of those parts of her social secretary job really, really well and now, she did one thing really poorly and it cost her her job, in large part. >> chris: let me ask you about that, because you hear in all of the accounts, that the knives were out for her, in the west wing, beyond just this one event. >> she has a very high profile, definitely had a high profile. generally, social secretaries, should be, you know, in the background, never, as in the front as this firsts lady and she was an unusual pick in the first place, she was a big corporate executive and powerhouse on the chicago scene before she came but i think it is the -- if the salahi i

. >> robert, and the democratic -- in the 22nd district of texas, it was won by a young african american, quiche or rogers, who had -- keisha rogers, who had as the first item on her agenda the impeachment of president obama as -- because of the health care bill. what does this say to the president about the general mood with regard to his program? >> i cannot read anything about the general mood of the country except to know the general mood of the country is that they want democrats and republicans to work together to get something done on health care. we know what happens if we walk away. people get letters were their health insurance goes up 40%. -- we are their health insurance goes up 40%. -- where their health insurance goes up 40%. parents are on the phone listening to somebody say, we will not cover your child because it is based on a pre- existing condition. that is what happens. even as we are so close, that is what happens if we walk away. >> is the white house concerned about the comments from -- to u.s. energy companies that they may suffer a diplomatic row between the u.s. to god i have not