History and destiny. And we all know history, its what happens, but destiny is what must happen, this is true, i cannot believe this is happening by father was struck by lightning, his father, my grandfather, im not joking was struck by lightning, that means dont stand next to me in a rainstorm. Last week i was totally my son the story and telling him, my dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning and hes like oh my gosh, we can be struck by lightning and as he said that i make you wont be but sure, yeah you might be, this is true, my son and my family, my wife or my kids were taking the amtrak train from new york city to here to washington, d. C. To this event and the train was struck by lightning, my son texted me and he said youre not going to believe what happened tonight. Destiny, thats what were witnessing, you will see them coming in late but this is destiny, a couple of things i will say that we cant do any rows in the country, first of all where is jim, jim s
[applause]. Getting a fun, one because youre in the front row and you are chaos people. Two, weve got cspan here lets hear it for cspan. [applause]. We live cspan. Washington dc metro area. All the viewers of cspan, i think are in this room right now. We love you. And the regular viewers as well. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple of other things. First i am going to tell you about the different between history and destiny. And we all know what history is of what happened. But destiny is what must happen. And this is true pretty cant believe this is happening. My father, he rested piece he was start by finding predict my father, was struck by lightning. The main still stand next to me in a rainstorm. It must become selling my son the story. And telling him, listen. My dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning pretty so my gosh, we could be struck by lightning. As the senate, we wont but sure you might be. Tonight, and this is true. My son, and my wife
But what do i get . Induce a sense of the supreme so sacrifice in a very precarious position. We really could have won in 22 countries that that momentum was more than blind devotion it was adjusted quest for heroism or mythology but there was a belief it was complected some thought they were fighting for the union some thought they were fighting to free of the slaves some thought both but there was that kind current belief that it was different from many different perspectives it was this supreme selflessness for a cause greater than themselves that really struck me in almost all the research i did host the book is imperfect union. Thank you for being here guest thank you. Book tv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. Tweet us, twitter. Com. book tv or post comments on our facebook page, facebook. Com. book tv. This is book tv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Hears primetime lineup. Tonight starting at 7 00 p. M. Eastern pulitzer prizewinning journalist co
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