you read ron chernow's become and that is the only opinion you have if you haven't read anything elseries and may own-- . >> rose: because there are different opinions on aaron burr. >> yeah. >> rose: some good, some bad. >> and then i also, at the end of the day, the text in the show was my bible. right. i have to play what lin wrote and lin has-- . >> rose: but you have to pour into what he's written what you know and what you've experienced and what you feel. >> and what i-- and what i believe, you know, as far as what my job is as a performer. you know, that's another one of those things that this is intersected. it's come at the right point that i'm ready to-- there's a certain amount of vulnerability that this show requires of me that i was not ready to embrace at any other moment in my life. there's a certain amount of honesty that if i'm doing my job right, i bring to the stage every night. and that is you know, that comes with time. >> rose: this play hamilton, this musical, people are talking about it as changing the american musical theater. >> you know, i'm a spiritual guy

you read ron chernow's book and that is the only opinion you have, if you haven't read anything else.e there are different opinions of aaron burr. >> yeah. >> rose: some good, some bad. >> and then i also, at the end of the day, the text and the show is my bible, right. i you have to play what lyn wrote and lyn has -- >> but you have to pour into what he has written what you know and what you have experienced and what you feel. >> and what i believe, you know, as far as what my job is as a performer, you know, that's another one of those things that this has intersected. it's come at the right point, that i'med where to-- there is a certain amount of vulnerability that this show requires of me that i was not ready to embrace at any other moment in my life. there's a certain amount of honesty that if i'm doing my job right, i bring to the stage every night. and that is, you know, that comes with time. >> rose: tell me who aaron burr was. >> i think quite simply, aaron burr was a soldier. he was a father, a husband, a lover, a friend, a murderer. a politician. you know, i think he was a

relationship between humans and the precipitous loss of species in "the sixth extinction," and ron chernow's biography of george washington. president obama is also reading three novels this summer, "the lowland, ""all that is" by james salter, and this year's pulitzer prize winner for fiction, "all the light we cannot see" by anthony dorr which looks at the lives of multiple characters in nazi-occupied france. and that's a look at what's on president obama's reading list this summer. >> of you have responded to our question what are you reading this summer. kathleen posted to our facebook wall: >> send us your summer reading lis. tweet us, @booktv, post to our facebook wall, facebook.com/booktv, or e-mail us, booktv@c-span.org. >> sunday, september 6th, booktv is live with leadership cheney -- lynne cheney, the former second lady and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute, on "in depth." mrs. cheney has authored a wide variety of books including biographies, novels and books for children. her most recent book, "james madison," is an account of the life of the fourth president. o

and ron chernow's biography of george washington which won the pulitzer prize in 2011. president obama's also reading three novels this summer, "the lowland, ""all that is by james salter, and this year's pulitzer prize winner for fiction, "all the light we cannot see" by anthony dorr, which looks at the lives of multiple carriers in nazi-occupied france. and that's a look at what's on president obama's reading list this summer. >> jonathan kozol remembers the life of his father harry who self-diagnosed his own alzheimer's disease next on booktv. >> tonight i'm delighted to introduce jonathan kozol, acclaimed writer and tireless advocate for poor children, educational we educational equiy and integrated public education. for 50 years he's worked among the nation's most vulnerable children. his books, as you well know, include "the shame of a nation," "amazing grace," "savage inequalities." he received the national book award for "death at an early age" which chronicled his first year teaching in the boston public schools. he's received the robert f. kennedy book aware,