Now we kickoff the weekend with a report on required reading for College Freshman. If we dont have enough people go out and find some. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Association of scholars. I am peter wyatt wood, president of the National Association of scholars. In 2009, a young man heading on vacation in mexico picked up and unusually heavy book for his beach reading, and 800 page tome of the life of an 18thcentury immigrant. 50 pages or so into the book the story took possession of the 29yearold. Would emerge from his reading of Alexander Hamilton is now the hottest ticket on broadway, the hiphop musical hamilton. Broadways play is widely noted for many things including its exact fidelity to historical facts. Each bowl must not be Light Reading and the right beach book can kick off a lot of things. As it happens one of the top five most common readings for College Freshman last year was also a book about the obstacles overcome by an immigrant, the considerably sh
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