And then to become Prime Minister in the forties of the german invasion weather is like in nazi germany when the they were in the war and the United States is in the war. It is an extraordinary book and it is a wonderful read and then ive also been reading the greatest stories Jean Edward Smith a great biographer with about the freeze the grant and eisenhower but he died in 2019 when fdr with american stories chooses the best book of the year back in 2007. And those that have been sitting on my bookshelf it is a six or 700 page read but we lost smith last year and we have to think about that and then the last book which i have not read yet that was published 2019 so i have been doing that in earlier this summer by accident i got on the bench and then the American Ambassador in the 1930s and then that eclectic and eccentric group and being and not see germany everyone is consolidating power with that truly dark. World history and then also reading a paper called in the cauldron with the tale of the American Ambassador in tokyo. 1931 through 1941 . Ultimately all those from the severance between the United States with the factious and military regime. One of my that this is a different type of political scientist in my view with the studies of congress from the district level up for the states and senators and to read a couple of his books happen to read enough of them and i have read a couple books that was his last book published 2013 and in the earlier book that is just a granular of congress i know what he writes about and it is just fascinating a reminder how often what somebody does in washington it is a reflection of who they represent, their interest and their understanding of the worl world. We have to lose that dimension and a lot of reading this summe summer. Congressman there seems to be a theme and that is world war ii. No deliberate design like everybody else im always fascinated there have been other books also the callaway book of the indian world of George Washington is fascinating me as well. That seminal conflict of the 20h century and and then to understand what they came out of it and to become the after that on we are and how we think the grounding to be effective and the current time. Is there a course in one of those writers are historians write the book you read it . Yes he is a superb writer. Sometimes its like reading a novel. Also noted and then to seize on something to look at more closely we have had a lot of fine biographies and mother andrews most recent and mother andrews most recent take out a year another to had on my bookshelf i can remember the authors name but its actually on churchill in the 19 twenties working as colonial secretary to reshape the middle east to write down the boundaries so i like what he does and how he does things and hes always worth reading. The New York Times correspondent came out with the book one comes out about congress do you almost pick it up . And said one of the smartest reporters out there with confirmation bias what the Supreme Court wars weve seen in recent years is a brilliant work if you understand those troubles to shape capitol hill but also Jonathan Karls book because a White House Correspondent not abc news but on that chose an interesting read. And then on our podcast once or twice somebody like that writes a book i think that is knowledgeable and professional and you want to hear what they have to say because again they say in many cases you cannot talk to and to have a lot of insights into the political field. , sharing a book ideas do you do . Quite a bit. And that will be published regularly your christmas and its the nice a fair and is almost as a book and quite often and have that particular interest and then i will send them a book a young members from illinois one of the greatest guys in congress i was young veteran back then his hair was very short almost like a crew cut. He was still in the resumes and still flies and he reminded me a picture of Donald Rumsfeld have about the same age. A goodlooking guy so i bought the autobiography and said he illinois he is from illinois you have a crew cut he is a crew cut. You should get to know one another. So to send the book so adams is one of the top thinkers in congress on both sides of the aisle National Security issues in military matters to made to combat zones he knows what hes talking about i thought you would be interested in a guy like rumsfeld and also the youngest and the secretary of defense in American History and. What was called to his poor one his time on the floor of the white house. I will have to get that. I just finished chris book of the gatekeepers regarding the chiefs of staff at the white house and figure very prominently. I would be interested to have a more thorough feel. And is a big admirer is a loose cannon biography so will be interesting to get rumsfeld closeup look at president ford. Tom cole thank you for joining us on the tv. Republican from oklahoma. Thank you very much. Because in fact for much of americas early history we were not the global outlier not until the middle 18 hundreds in which americas homicide rate started to emerge from the rest of the world and it never came back to the ground we have been the global outlier 150 years and there are two things that explain why those numbers with mention of the cotton gin more slaves in the United States and as a mechanism for society. And then very early on. And that is a normal mechanism and i was also used in high numbers in the north and violence just became normalize. So in the middle 18 hundreds with the first wave of immigrants if they are fighting for economic space and then there really is a third thing that happens that is the invention of the self repeating handgun that could be used that could be voting every single time. And then quickly spread throughout the United States and those three things the expansion of gun ownership and the entrance of the migrant groups fighting for economic space and that normalization coming out of the expansion of the slave population allstars to move the rates of violence and gun homicide that we never recovered from