, is "fort ticonderoga: key to a continent" and it was written by a director of fort ticonderoga in the 1960s. it's going back in the path a little bit but still the preeminent book that provides a history of fort ticonderoga attended my last book which is unrelated to my district but i tried and i'm interested in books of powerful women in the united states history, and i was walking through a bookstore, i saw the autobiography of helen keller, the story of my life. that was published quite a long time ago but when i was in middle school i remember reading a miracle worker in my english class so i'm looking forward to reading her story of her life. >> booktv wants to know what you're reading this summer. tweet us at booktv or you can post it on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 poor in new york city and one of the things we like to do when they come up to new york is to talk with authors and get previews of the books that come out in the fall. joining us now, pulitzer prize-winning author stacy schiff, her newest book coming out in the fall i

. >> i was are ready in the navy, i did several years as a hospital and this is ticonderoga which was involved with the golf in 1964. after i left active duty i went back and finish my degree but while it was going on i saw what was developing in vietnam and i know is going to be the biggest issue of my generation. i had a question with myself, should i go question mark as i redid my time and a lot of people in my class, my peer group who were very supportive of president johnson and they were all for it, but let the other guy go but that really did something to me and as a hospital corpsman, i had a comradely with the marine corps under ticonderoga and i put all these things together and on top of that i met a young woman, and we decided to get married. that's patty. we decided to get married, it it was a question of waiting for me to come back with patty possibly be in the widow at age 22 and we talked about that, we had a lot of pro and con discussion about it with friends and family and we made the decision. i got married in my dress

really did something to me and as a hospital corpsman, i had a comradely with the marine corps under ticonderoga and i put all these things together and on top of that i met a young woman, and we decided to get married. that's patty. we decided to get married, it it was a question of waiting for me to come back with patty possibly be in the widow at age 22 and we talked about that, we had a lot of pro and con discussion about it with friends and family and we made the decision. i got married in my dress blues. >> frank mcadams were you supportive of the war when you volunteered in the marine corps question. >> i was very supportive of it, so were the members of my class, the 42nd officer candidate class. mike class lost 44 killed over there. i often wondered what some of those young men could've done for their lives how they survive. >> how long were you over there. >> 12 months and 23 days days. >> what did you learn? >> i learned that war is hell, like the man said. sometimes the wrong people and up running things which put me into a moral to mende dilemma with my company commander. he's the m

army surplus mummy sleeping bags into the back of the car, and we went off to places like fort ticonderoga or gettysburg or valley forge. so from the time i was a kid, i always had the sense that history is something that happens to real people in real places. and, in fact, i have a souvenir from going to gettysburg in 1963, and it was the centennial of the battle, of course. and it's a small wooden revolver. and i remember standing in that field being about 9 years old at the time and knowing something extraordinary had happened here, feeling that this was the hallowed ground that lincoln was talking about even if i didn't really know the gettysburg address then, that this was a special place. and i kept that, i still have that souvenir gun on my desk. i keep it to remind me of that feeling that i had standing there in the summer heat when i was a kid and knowing that history is something real that happens in real places, and it's about what we feel and see and smell, and it's not just about memorization. i came to this book which is a story of six narrative accounts of six battles that s