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The programs youll see on booktv this weekend. For a complete television schedule. Go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now we kick off the weekend with Nathaniel Philbrick on the relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Good evening. That was good. That was very good. [laughter] thank you all for being here. Im the president of George Washingtons mount ver. No we are delighted to have you for this installment of the ford evening book talks, and i begin by th...

[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Thank you all for being here. Im the president of mount vernon we are delighted for this installment and i begin by thanking the Ford Motor Company for their partnership. Theyve done a great job including this book talk. Im pleasei am pleased to welcor nathaniel. Its his third time. Whenever i do that im struck by the true renaissance man. They have an m. A. Where he was a fellow and an all american sailor asailor at the universite worked as an editor and several books including the passionate sailor, second when and if the parody. He is the au...

Grandchildren call you . This is a huge you are a grandparent what will you call me . I wanted to be granny my mom said my daughter said no she runs reallife she said no. So i said if she tried to say leslie all my mothers grandchildren called her by her name because that is what she wanted i thought it might come out wally summer has been said okay if your lally and i and pop so were lollipop. [laughter] and the grandchildren until very recently were too young to get a but then one day the five yearold said you are a lollipop. [laughter] she will be signing copies of her book right outside. I...

He has won many awards for his work. Navy war won a medal from the 20 12th George Pendleton prize. It was selected for the navys reading list. The forging of the american 2008 Samuel Alito Marston award. In 2018 he received the Samuel Eliot Marston award from the Constitutional Museum for his body of work. For this evening, george will speak to us for about 30 minutes. Then we will invite numbers of the audience to ask questions. Please note that cspan is your taping our author event, so speak into the microphone clearly. They will take this presentation as well as the q and a. We invite every...

Next, George Daughan discusses the importance of the new york waterways and how the british were unable to establish an effective blockade of new england. Arnzen noble hosted this hourlong event. Thank you for attending this author event. George daughan will be speaking about his book revolution on the hudson. in addition to writing books he has also he has won many awards for his work. 1812 a navy war won a medal from the 20 12th George Pendleton prize. It was selected for the navys reading list. The forging of the American Navy won the 2008 Samuel Alito Marston award. The 2008 Samuel Eliot M...